Hello lovely people! :D
This was originally meant to be a one-shot, but I was re-watching Dynamic Duets and Thanksgiving, and Kitty's drink the damn juice scene just made my Karley feels run wild so BOOM multiple chapter! :)
A/N: The Italics mean that they're flashbacks and/or thoughts.
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee :( If I do, Faberry and Karley would be canon already.
Enjoy! :)
The whole room is spinning.
She feels like her head had just been in a pinball machine. Her throat feels as though she had swallowed a load of sand, and her lungs hurt with every cough. Her nose is completely blocked by snot, and the phlegm at the back of her throat is making it really hard to breathe properly. On top of that, she's running a 102° F fever, and the fact that her body is aching all over made the situation even worse.
Kitty is sick. Terribly sick.
"Ugh dear mother of Jesus..!" Kitty groaned in frustration.
The girl had woken up in the middle of the night hacking up some nasty lung butter and never stopped sneezing and coughing since. She had never felt so miserable aside from that time when she developed a very bad ear infection and ran a fever for a couple of days..
"This could NOT get any worse." Kitty tossed and turned in her bed, but soon gave up the idea of going back to sleep when she failed miserably at finding a comfortable position. The blonde reached over to her night stand and grabbed her cell phone, checking for any missed calls or texts. The clock on her phone showed that it was already 4:06PM. Wow, I basically slept through the whole day. Kitty thought to herself.
Kitty had protested when her mother called in sick for her earlier that day.
"But Regional's is in two weeks! Coach Sue would kill me if I skipped practice!" Kitty whined from the bed when her mother put down the phone.
"But dear, walking around with snot running down your nose is unladylike", her mother crooned. "Plus, you wouldn't be able to do much cheerleading in that condition anyway." The older blonde said, setting down a glass of water on Kitty's night stand.
"Just rest for today okay honey? The more you rest, the sooner you'll get better." said the woman as she kissed Kitty's forehead.
"But-"
"Rest dear, rest" said her mother as she exited Kitty's room.
Recalling the conversation she had with her mother earlier, Kitty was glad that she listened to the older woman's advice and stayed home for the day. Afterall, She could've fell from the cheerleading pyramid and break her talent if she went to practice with her brain all groggy and dizzy from the cold.
After replying a text from her co-captain, who asked Kitty whether she could make it to Monday's practice, the cheerleader heard her mother calling from downstairs, "Katherine dear, someone is here to see you!"
Marley Rose clutched her flower themed binders close to her chest and cowered slightly when she saw Phil Lipoff making his way towards her with a slushy in his right hand. She considered turning around and making a run for it, but decided that the jock would've caught up to her before she could even say Barbra and douse her in more slushy for trying to run away.
The brunette shut her eyes tight and bit her lower lip. She tried to hide her face behind her binders, bracing herself for the bone-chilling hit of a purple slushy facial that was about to ruin her outfit again.
Marley waited for the cruel coldness to hit her, but it never came.
She snapped her eyes open when she heard someone screaming behind her. Marley turned around and gasped in surprise when she saw Jacob Ben Israel drenched in the purple icy drink, shivering from head to toe.
"Ooh right in your ugly face! You like that facial Jewfro?" Phil laughed derisively as he walked past the two teenagers; leaving the poor boy to squirm in pain from the burning sensation in his eyes and Marley staring at the scene in shock.
When Jacob looked at Marley's direction, the tall brunette snapped back to her senses and walked away quickly with her head bowed down to avoid making eye contact with anyone.
When she made it to her locker, Marley let out a breath that she didn't know she was holding. Oh. My. God. Marley couldn't believe it. She felt like she had just cheated slushy facial much like the way Gary Busey cheated death. Okay, maybe that's a little exaggerated. But that's just how she was feeling at the moment.
The beautiful brunette was snapped out of her little bubble when she felt a pat on her left shoulder.
Marley turned around to see Jake looking at her with concern.
"Marley you okay? " asked Jake as he moved beside Marley to make way for one of the jocks. "I was calling your name, but you just kept walking and staring at the floor."
"I'm sorry" Marley apologized sheepishly. "I almost got slushied."
"What? Are you okay? You don't... look like you got slushied." Jake said in confusion.
"I'm fine, I almost got slushied. But I didn't" Marley said gleefully, and then she suddenly realized something.
Today's Friday, this means that Marley Rose had not been slushied for a whole week. A WHOLE DAMN WEEK.
"I hadn't received any slushy facials this week." She blurted out.
"Hey don't jinx it!" Jake said quickly and covered Marley's mouth with his hand, in hopes of stopping her from saying anything more.
"Okay okay take your hand off, you're gonna get drool all over your hand." Marley joked.
"If it's your drool then I don't mind" Replied Jake with a cheeky smile.
"Eww gross!" Marley laughed and swatted the boy's hand away.
"Well I have to get to English class now." Marley said as she closed her locker door.
"May I have the honor of walking you to class My Lady?" The boy said as he held out his hand and bowed, mimicking an English gentleman.
"Why of course My Lord." Marley curtsied and took his hand, deciding to play along but laughed when she heard herself speaking funny old English.
They walked down the hallway and stopped at a door which had a sticker that said 'English is fun' on it. After bidding Jake goodbye, Marley went inside the classroom and took her usual seat, which is a few seats in front of where Kitty usually sat.
Speaking of the blonde, Marley hadn't seen her all day.
After the brunette fainted during Sectional's, Kitty seemed to have stopped throwing mean remarks at Marley and her mother. At least not in front of the blue-eyed girl; and the slushy attacks that Marley used to get daily had dwindled down significantly.
Although Santana said that it was Kitty's fault for making her pass out on stage, Marley never blamed the cheerleader. She remembered seeing the worry in Kitty's hazel eyes when Jake and Ryder carried her into the choir room after their first song. Kitty looked like she was about to have a heart attack or just drop dead when Marley refused to drink the juice that Blaine had offered her.
"Drink the damn juice!" Kitty yelled, worry and guilt written across her face.
Marley was happy that Kitty had actually cared for her, even just a little bit.
When Kitty told her that she wanted to be "friends", Marley's heart swelled with joy.
The raven haired girl was still smiling and giggling at her spaghetti when she was eating dinner with her mother. When Millie Rose asked Marley what's making her so happy, the singer just beamed at her mother and said that the gorgeous and popular cheerleader had befriended her. Her mother couldn't be happier; and Marley was practically skipping down the hallways at school for the next few days.
But Kitty stopped talking to her after Sectional's. The guilt-ridden cheerleader had gone to Marley's house several days after their performance to apologize.
"I'm sorry." Kitty said softly, not meeting Marley's eyes.
"Santana was right, I was a crazy evil bitch to you. You have every right to hate me", she fidgeted with her hands.
"You've never really done anything to me, but I took advantage of your kindness and I made you-" Her voice cracked a little towards the end of the line.
"Kitty..." Marley frowned. She reached out her hand and touched Kitty's arm, "It's not your fault-"
"Yes it is!" Kitty yelled a little too loudly and threw her hands in the air, attracting the glances of a nearby elderly couple whom Kitty assumed were Marley's neighbors.
"For Christ's sake Marley, I altered your Sandy dress alright? I made it two sizes smaller so that you couldn't fit into the god damn dress." Kitty confessed in one go, she just couldn't take it anymore, not with the guilt eating away at her soul with every passing day.
Marley flinched, the hurt in her eyes made Kitty's stomach tie in knots.
"Why'd you do that?" She asked a few moments later, her voice soft and timid.
Kitty opened her mouth to say something, but stopped before the words came out. Tears began to well up in her eyes, blurring her vision. Kitty lowered her gaze and stared at her shoes. There was a long pause before she sighed dramatically and looked at the tall brunette again, "Because I was jealous."
Marley's heart ached when she saw Kitty's eyes glistening with tears. Those beautiful pools of hazel flashed with anger, guilt and… sadness?
"I was jealous of the relationship that you had with your mom," Kitty said.
"My parents never loved me the way your mom loved you, they only cared about my trophies and certificates so that they can show them off to their colleagues and rich ass friends." Kitty said through gritted teeth, she reached up to wipe away a stray tear that fell from the corner of her eye before continuing, "They weren't affectionate like your mom, hell, they wouldn't even talk to me for three whole days when I got a B- in History last week!" Kitty half-yelled, sounding exasperated.
"And you were just SO happy all the time, even with all the insults and slushies, you still walk around with that big smile of yours like none of it even happened, it just makes me so...envious." She finished, her voice weak and small.
Marley gawked at Kitty, her brain going into overdrive. "Wow," She let out, "I don't know what to say."
Marley felt sympathetic towards the girl, but she was just blown away by all the information that Kitty was shoving in her face and couldn't come up with anything decent to say.
"Look, I just- I'm really sorry for all the shit I put you through okay?" Kitty said, her voice wavering and broken as tears poured down her cheeks, smudging her makeup a little. "I just wanted to m-mess with you a little, but then things got out of h-hand and I really, really like you and-" Kitty stopped abruptly. She clasped a hand over her mouth, realizing that she had said too much.
Marley blinked twice and stared at the tear-stricken blonde. "What?"
Kitty looked like she had stopped breathing and was about to pass out right on the spot. But she quickly recomposed herself and wiped her tears vigorously with the back of her hand.
"F-forget what I said, I'll n-never bother you again okay?" With that, the petite blonde left hastily without looking back, leaving Marley bewildered and confused as hell.
After that, they barely even talk anymore. Kitty ignored Marley's gaze when they past by each other in the hallways and looks away almost immediately when they make eye contact in the cafeteria. The only time they had spoken to each other this week was during Glee rehearsal on Wednesday. Kitty had asked Marley to pass the music sheet to Tina, and that was it.
This is so frustrating! Marley sighed as she adjusted her newsboy cap. Why is Kitty ignoring her now? She didn't even get to give the blonde a piece of her mind.
Marley was glad that the name calling and slushy attacks had stopped. But she missed watching Disney DVDs and singing along to every single Disney song with the beautiful blonde on Friday nights. Marley didn't like Kitty very much at first, but after hanging out with her for a while, Marley had to admit that she had grown to adore the cheerleader.
After English class, Marley continued to sneak glances at Kitty's locker every passing period to see if she could catch a glimpse of the girl. She even went to sneak a peek at Cheerios practice before Mathematics in hopes of seeing Kitty, but the petite blonde was nowhere to be found.
It wasn't until later that day, Marley overheard the cheerios saying that Kitty was absent.
"Kitty is absent? Why? Oh my God is she hurt?" Marley asked worriedly.
The cheerios jumped a little, clearly taken aback by Marley's sudden appearance, "I don't know, she's probably sick or something. Why do you care anyway food truck?" Said the cheerio in the neck brace, she shot Marley a dirty look and walked away with her teammate.
Kitty is sick... so that's why I couldn't find her anywhere. Marley thought as she walked back to her locker.
I should go visit her, that's what friends do. Marley thought to herself. "We are friends... right?" The girl wondered aloud and bit her lower lip in uncertainty.
Marley's train of thought was interrupted when she heard the bell for last period ring. Realizing that she had not gathered the things that she needed, the brunette hurriedly grabbed her books and dashed to History class, making a mental note to tell her mother that she will be visiting Kitty after school.
There goes the first chapter! What do you guys think? Do R&R and let me know if there's any mistakes or if you have any ideas for the story. Thank you! :)