My first Glee flick, kind of excited about this. This is for sure a two shot.
A/N: Google "Strapless animal print and chunky stone bodice party dress) to find the dress Marley is wearing. It's the first picture that comes up. The original color is turquoise, but I made it a different color to match her eye color.
Takes place two/three months after Sectionals.
About two months and five days after Sectionals almost everyone in the group got over their loss and forgave Marley. While most **cough cough Tina and Artie ** were still pissed at her, them knowing that she shouldn't of listened to Kitty, and some pissed at Kitty for letting her anger out on Marley... Marley was still upset about how she made everyone lose.
She tried not to stick her fingers down her throat again, but after a week after Sectionals, she started again. She began taking all these leftover laxatives she had in her bag. She found a "friend", not Kitty, an outside friend who bought some laxatives for her too. One dollar a piece, ten dollars in total. Sometimes fifteen dollars. She'd wake up at two in the morning, go outside, down the road and puke. A bit extreme, but she do anything so that she wouldn't get caught.
Everyone kept an eye on her. Emma told Marley to visit her at least once a week after school to see how she was doing. Marley did, and managed to keep herself active so that nobody suspect a thing.
Marley weighted herself every morning to keep track of her weight. Her weight before everything at 115, a perfect weight for herself. Between the first night at Kitty's and Sectionals she lost twenty five pounds. Being at the weight of ninety, she was almost on the border line of being diagnosed with bulimia She told herself she stop her bulimia when she reached a weight where she knew she wouldn't get fat.
Between the two months, Marley lost weight. First she was 90, and she was down to the 76-80 pounds line. She bones were thin and brittle, but since it was January she always had long sleeves on. Same with pants too. Dresses she wore were long and she wore a cardigan.
Her breath smelled bad, due to the puke. She took a half a bottle of strawberry breath mints after every purge. Her hair was thin and weak, and her body reflected it's weakness.
She didn't care though. She was still passing classes with A's and B's, she still sing at Glee club and she still ate (just puked it). She was just the same as always.
In February, Sugar was holding, once again, the Sugar Shack dance at BreadSticks. Marley was both excited and nervous. Since she got a job that paid pretty good she, plus with what her Mom said she'd pay, could buy this new dress that she saw the other day at the store. But worried she wouldn't fit in the dress.
Marley decided to head to the store after school and give the dress a try. She told her mother, who said it was fine and lend Marley some money for dinner and bus.
After school and catching the bus to Lima Mall, Marley found herself inside of DEBS and looking around for the dress she had found a few weeks ago with her mother online.
After about twenty minutes she found the dress. It was a cerulean knee length and strapless. The stunning party dress featured a shoulder baring strapless silhouette, sweetheart shaped neckline, chunky stone bodice, ruched satin empire waist, super luxe mesh skirt in a fit, flare a-line shape style and an eye catching animal print designed fabric. Marley loved how it matched her eyes, it was knee length and the style of it. The price was a bit high, about seventy dollars, but Marley would have just enough to but the dress.
Marley went to the changing rooms and put the dress on. Her bra straps showed, but she didn't care. She added the earrings she had brought along, as well as the necklace she was going to wear. The silver angel wings hung beautifully while the silver, ringtone heart shaped necklace wrapped up the outfit real well.
Marley gazed at herself for a long time in the changing room mirror. She could see a little bit of her bones, but not enough. If anything she still saw herself as not losing the weight. She kept glancing at herself, spinning around in the dress, and posing. She then realized she forgot her camera. Her mom wanted to see what she looked like in the dress.
Marley, figuring her bag was still at the dress rack, left the room real quickly and walked over rapidly to where the backpack was. She picked her backpack up and began to head back to the changing room when she heard someone call her name.
"Hey Marley."
Marley, knowing who it was, decided to pretend she didn't hear Ryder's voice and began heading back to the changing room. She got back into the room, took a few pictures of the dress she was in, and changed back into her jeans and flannel shirt.
When Marley came out of the dressing room, her backpack on her back and the dress she was going to buy tomorrow in her arms, she didn't even notice Ryder standing in front of her.
"Hey Marley," Ryder said.
"Oh, um... Hey Ryder." Marley greeted.
"I called for you, didn't you hear me?"
"Um, no, I'm sorry I didn't." Marley stated. "I was just busy trying on a dress for Sugar's party. What are you doing here?"
"I work here, well not here." He laughed. "I work over at that store they opened a month ago. The California Sun."
"Wow, that's cool. I work at the Bath and Body works store," Marley commented. "Since I've been working there, my mom says I come home smelling like different fragrances. My favorites are Warm Vanilla Sugar, Midnight Pomegranate and Strawberry Sugar."
"You working now?"
"No. I was just shopping around. You?"
"Dropping off a few things. I work tomorrow from five to nine."
"Me too, five to ten actually. But I get a break at seven." Marley stated.
"Come on, I know this great place we should go too." Ryder placed the dress on the rack of pink dresses and took Marley's hand, dragging her out of the clothes store.