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Chapter 4

Ryan woke up early the nezt morning to the ringing of his phone. He groggily reached over and grabbed the phone off the nightstand.

"Hello?" he said. It was Marissa. There was lots of worry in her voice. He could tell she'd been crying.

"Ryan, something's wrong. I'm bleeding and I know this isn't normal. I need to go to the hospital," she said. Ryan couldn't see her but he knew that she was crying again.

"Ok, I'm coming over and I'll take you to the hospital," he said as he immediatly hung up the phone and ran out of the pool house to the car.

Ryan pulled up at Marissa's house, and she ran out to car. They hurried to the hospital and went through the emergency room doors.

"Name?" asked the lady at the front desk.

"Marissa Cooper," she rushed. "Thi-"

"I need you to fill out these forms," she lady handed her a thick packet of papers.

"Excuse me," Ryan said. "But this is a really big emergency."

The nurse looked at Marissa.

"I'm pregnant and I'm bleeding and I know it's not normal," she told her. The nurses expression changed and she said something to one of the other nurses behind her. "Go with her," she said to Marissa. "You need to fill out these papers as best as you can without her," she said to Ryan. Marissa rushed off with the other nurse and Ryan sat down in one of the hospital chairs trying to fill out the papers.

It had been a while and Ryan hadn't heard anything about Marissa yet. He was really starting to get worried, despite the fact that he already was really nervous. He walked up to the front desk.

"Did you hear anything about Marissa Cooper yet?" he asked. The nurse didn't even look up.

"No, I haven't and I'll let you know when I do," she said coldly. Ryan sat back down in the same chair he'd been sitting in for a while.

Finally the nurse called him up. "Follow me," she said as she led him to a big hospital room with a window. Marissa was laying in the bed, looking out the window. Ryan ran up to her.

"What happened?" he asked. "I was waiting out there forever I was so worried!"

"Well..I'm going to be ok, and so is the baby, but..." her sentence trailed off.

"But what?" Ryan's expression changed slightly.

"But they had to notify my mom that I'm here, so now she's going to know that I'm pregnant," Marissa had tears in her eyes. A few started to fall down her cheeks.

Ryan wiped them away with his thumbs. "She had to know eventually," he said softly.

"I know...but...I just don't think I'm ready for her to know yet, and now I don't even have a choice." They both looked to the hallway as they heard high heels clacking through.

"Which room is Marissa Cooper's?" they heard Julie ask. Then they heard the heels getting closer.

"Pretend your asleep," Ryan whispered and Marissa followed his instructions. His fingers were intertwined with hers.

Julie entered the room to see Ryan with her. Her face gave it away that she was not happy.

"You," she directed toward Ryan. "You did this. You did this to her. It's all you fault. You are the reason for all the problems in this family." Her voice was raising despite the fact that Marissa was supposedly asleep.

"First of all, I agree with you on one thing. Yes, this whole pregnancy thing, well it kinda is my fault, but it takes two people to make a baby, so I didn't do it by myself. And second of all, your family problems are not my fault. Whatever goes on with your family has to do with your family. The only person that I have an effect on is Marissa, so you can't go around blaming me for all of you problems," Ryan said. He was starting to feel confident. After all, he had basically just told Julie Cooper-Nichols off.

"W-well..." was all that Julie could say. She was pure speechless. Am I really going to let some teenager who has been ruining my life talk to me that way? Julie thought to herself. But what am I supposed to say? I've got it! "As soon as the abortion goes through, your out of the picture for good. My girls and I are moving away. Far, far away."

"Abortion?" Marissa yelled from her bed. Her face was getting redder as the minutes passed by with her mother in the same room as her. "Who said anything about an abortion?" Marissa was yelling at her mother. Tears streamed down her face. She couldn't even believe her mother would stoop that low. I mean, she knew that her mother was cruel and evil and controlling, but this was it. This was the last straw. Now that Marissa was pregnant, she wanted her mother out of the picture. No way was her mother going to control her life and the life of her unborn child.

"Well, dear, you couldn't possibly be thinking of keeping this child. I mean you two are clearly not ready for such a big responsiblity," replied Julie. Her direction was more towards Ryan than Marissa.

"Mom, that's it! Get out!" Marissa yelled. "Get out! Get out! Get out! I don't want you to ever come near me again. This is my life and our baby, and we are keeping it and I'm moving out!" Julie's jaw dropped.

"You are not!" she shouted back. "I make up the rules, darling." She said snobbily. "You are my child and I'm not going to let some trashy teenage boy take you away from me!"

"That's it! I already told you to leave and that it the LAST time you insult Ryan or me ever again. If he's just some trashy teenage boy, then I'm just some trashy pregnantteenage girl," she said as she glared at her mother evilly. That just put the icing on the cake for Julie Cooper.

"You know what? Fine! If you want to throw your life away with this (pointing to Ryan), BE MY GUEST! But don't coming crying to me when you have no money andso many STD's that you don't know what to do!" Julie said as she stormed out of the hospital room.

Marissa's face was red hot and her eyes were like small flames beginning to cool.

"Well that went well," Ryan stated sarcastically.

"Actually, I think it did," Marissa told him. "At least now we don't have to worry about my mom bothering us for a while."

"Yeah, the only thing we need to worrying about is where your going to live."

"Well, for now I'm staying at Summer's and I'm sure she won't mind if I staya little longer," Marissa told him.

"But you can't stay there forever. And when the baby comes, your gonna need me thereto help take care of it, too," Ryan said.

"Really?" Marissa's voice perked up. "So you think we should live together?" she asked excitedly.

"Yeah," Ryan said. Marissa was so excited that she hugged him. She just hoped that everything would work out and so did Ryan. Marissa was now finally happy. Hmm, I'm starting to think getting pregnant wasn't such a bad idea, Marissa thought. She smiled.

"What's so funny?" Ryan asked.

"Nothing," Marissa said back. "I love you."

Ryan kind of blush and said, "I love you too."