Hey guys! So I wrote this a couple of months ago in May, but just kind of been waiting until the correct time to upload this! This is all written, pre-written, so I already know what is going to happen, I guess you can say!
So part of this is a teeny bit inspired by The Outsiders. If you have ever read the novel than you'll guess what I am doing at the start of the story and the end of the story. And if you HAVE NOT read the novel you can either go read it yourself (aka: Cheat) or you can still read this and see what inspired me. (I suggest you go and read it though).
Sorry that this first chapter is kind of short, but things get better in writing.
I'll remind you all in the start of some of the chapters. I have never taken drugs in my life, nor do I ever plan to take drugs. I'm against them. I'm literally just basing the drug-taking stuff from movies and how the characters act when they are high.
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1. Bio Of Me.
My name is Marley. Marley Jane Rose. I was born September sixteenth in 1997 to my mother, Millie, and the man who said he was my father, James. I was named after actress Marley Shelton after Mom and Dad went on a date when she was pregnant with me to see that movie, The Sandlot and Mom loved the name Marley. I guess my middle name is suppose to be a play on my father's name, James. Jane, James, Jane, James. Like take out the 'S' and take a curve away from 'M' and we get Jane. It was kind of a weird thing.
My father left my Mom and I when I was three and a half. I barely remember him these days but Mom says I have his clear blue eyes. That's about it. It wasn't until I was thirteen when this girl I went to school with, Connie, and her group of friends, came up to me and Connie started to tell me that her father is a cop and that he had recently had to send a drug-addict to some mental home. I remember her cold, cold words too.
"I think his name is James Rose. My older brother snuck into Daddy's office and found information on this James guy. James has a daughter about my age and her name is… I think… Mary. She's probably just as addicted to crack as her Daddy is." Now of course the way she said it, she said it in a way that was directly towards me. She knew I was the girl James had.
Crack Baby was my name. It got so bad that I came home crying one day and Mom said I didn't have to go to that school and I could transfer to another school. Well I don't know what happened but that school also found out about my father and after a month and a half of bullying, Mom and I moved from Cincinnati to Lima.
I was home schooled for a year before going to another school as a freshmen. Mom went to work and I went to this online site that offered it free for a year. After that I went to the new school. I was fine, but all the kids found out about Mom's job as the lunch lady and I was teased and had no friends. I didn't tell Mom so I just dealt with it all year. Mom found out by the end of the year and she found another school I could go too. McKinley High.
The school is wonderful. Except for the jocks and cheerleaders. Mom encouraged me to join the Glee club and I auditioned. I got in. I made some new amazing friends and finally felt like I began to fit in. Like I was finally normal now. They made fun of Mom but stopped and realized what they were doing and who they had become (they had won 2012 Nationals) and didn't like it so they stopped. But this girl, Kitty, continued to tease me.
There was this kid name Jake that I use to like. He was a bad-boy and I was attracted to that. He dated Kitty then broke up with her because she was picking on me. If I remember correctly around that time we were putting up a showing of Grease that I met Ryder and we hit it off pretty well. Kitty got into my head and made me think I was fat and I became bulimic. Ryder found me puking and stopped me and helped me stop. We hit it off some more too!
Of course we had a date but he had to cancel it for a dyslexic doctors appointment. Kitty got inside of my head and made me think Ryder didn't like me. So I became that terrible person. That terrible person who has a re-bound guy and goes after with him. Jake was my victim. God I feel stupid now, but at the time I felt happy a guy was happy with me. Ryder was sad, but he wanted me happy so he dealt with it. Jake and I dated and I felt completely happy.
But that's when the happiness began to go downhill. Things happened that lead me here today.
My name is Marley Jane Rose.