Hey so the song Marley sings is sang by The Crystals.
The song is good. I mean it's a bad message, but the song was pretty good (Goodness, you know what I mean!) I suggest you go listen to it.
He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) ~ The Crystals
4: It Felt Like A Kiss.
Friday morning Ryder came into school early to finish a project in the library. He was hoping Marley would be there as he knew she usually was because of her moms job. But he found the library bare of any teenage soul.
He felt bad. After his pizza thing with Marley, and taking her mini golfing, Jake called him and yelled at him. "Dude, she's my girlfriend…what are you doing?"
"Jake relax.. She was upset about something and I wanted her to be happy, since she wouldn't tell me what bothered her."
"She's fine, she's just upset with me about something. Did she tell you anything?"
"No—"
"It was about me, wasn't it?"
"Does it matter—"
"DUDE! Tell me if it had to do with me."
"Maybe…she was upset about whatever it was that she told you on Tuesday."
"Oh shit…like you don't already know." Jake hung up the phone.
Ryder came into the school hoping he could find Jake and see if he was cool down from last night's anger speaking. He found no one, neither Jake or Marley…so he went to the library to finish his project.
Several hours later Marley was in the bathroom putting her concealer on her face once more before leaving for her next class Health. And not the physical gym class health that people mistake it for, but Hormonal Education Awkward Lessons disTurbing Hell. Also known as Marley's blushing red beets class.
She sat in the seat in the middle with the movie player next to her. The teacher was talking about relationships this month of the semester and was showing several different movies about abusive relationships. Marley's seen those films enough to know things.
And yet, in another case, she still had bulimia even though she'd seen the health films related to that problem.
She ignored half of the video, knowing the stuff already, and about twenty minutes into the film she went to the bathroom. Inside the bathroom, alone, she looked in the mirror at her reflection. Her face was as faint as the expression image of her body, almost languid as her cerulean eyes articulated.
Her phone beeped. It was a message from Jake.
I'm sorry about last night….I've got a surprise for you tonight, come to my house at 8.
Flowers, she said to herself. Just like always. Peonies to be exact.
Marley opened the door to the hall and checked to make sure no female was in the hallway, for a possible chance of entrance. It was bare. She closed the door and went back to the mirror and glanced at herself once more.
She lifted her shirt up to where her bra was and looked at the bruises on the side of her body and on her stomach. She knew she had some more on her back, including some the size of a sneaker kick. If it weren't for her concealer than the red mark on her cheek would be shown as well as long sleeved shirts to cover the deep marks on her shoulder blades from being grasped and shaken.
If it weren't for her allowing Ryder to kiss her, this wouldn't happen.
If it weren't for her going to get pizza and playing mini-golf with Ryder, this wouldn't happen.
If she had just given into Jake's sexual desire either on Valentine's Day, or the past few, this wouldn't happen.
"It's my fault. I did all of this to him…and I get this. I've just got to keep him happy."
He hit me
And it felt like a kiss
He hit me
But it didn't hurt me
(Back flash to Jake and Marley in her room the night she told him of the hallway kiss. Jake screaming at her, Marley sitting there scared to death)
He couldn't stand to hear me say
That I'd been with someone new
(Marley walking down the hallway, passing by happy couples holding hands and kissing, still singing) ((that magical glee moment when they sing in the hallway and nobody notices))
And when I told him I had been untrue
(Back flash to Jake's fist hitting her repeating, knocking her down and kicking her back)
He hit me
And it felt like a kiss
(Marley opens her locker and finds peonies in there with a happy face card, reading I Love You.)
He hit me
And I knew he loved me
(She turns and finds Jake, talking to a teacher but he glances over and winks at her then heads back to the teacher).
If he didn't care for me,
I could have never made him mad
But he hit me
And I was glad
(In the choir room, Marley is sitting on a stool with her eyes facing the ground, avoiding eye contact with everyone in the room. Only a few eyes are fixated on her curiously, the rest were just listening to the song.)
Yes, he hit me
And it felt like a kiss
He hit me
And I knew I loved him.
(Marley wraps her arms around herself)
And then he took me in his arms
With all the tenderness there is
And when he kissed me, he made me his
Everyone in the room was silent for a moment, after Marley finished singing, unsure what to say, until Brittany spoke.
"I knew it. Chris Brown was in this school, I saw him in gym class the other day." She said.
"Brittany that's Chris Lemon, not Chris Brown." Artie corrected her.
Finn, still sitting, clapped that small clap. "Uh great Marley, uh…why'd you pick that?"
Because I stupidly listened to Miss Pillsbury after Sectionals, telling me to let out my feelings through song and right now I'm hurt. I'm hurt because I hurt someone I loved. Sorry. I meant to say Love. I love Jake, not past tense of the current. I love Jake and I deserve this treatment for my actions. Right?
"Marley?" Finn asked, getting her back to the room. "Reason?"
"Uh after The Crystals sang that song, though a lot a people protested the song..because of it's message that this girl stayed in an abusive relationship….um, it's been used as an example to show how a person feels in certain situations. And that, uh, if people work together…crystallization-ish…it can stop." She sounded lame but somewhat convincing. When nobody said anything she felt as if they were getting suspicious so she added, "Look you said we needed a song by today! So I did a song that symbols crystallization sang by The Crystals!"
"Meow." Kitty said, arms crossed. "Somebody's got a catty mouth."
"Shut. Up. Kitty!" Marley said, eyes narrowed on the Cheerleader. "At least it was better than your fucking song about drugs."
"Marley, relax, it was a good song." Sam said. "Wait, Kitty's song was about drugs? Semi Charmed Life is about drugs?"
"I thought it was about a Golden Girl. Like Rose or Sophia." Brittany said, thinking everyone was speaking about The Golden Girls. "Why can't it be about all four of them?"
"Someone who's dating someone and singing this song is kind of odd." Kitty stated. She turned to Jake and smirked, "Anything happening behind closed doors Three Nipples."
"No," Jake said, trying to hide his anger towards Marley. "It's just a song she picked for the assignment."
"Well I think it's odd." Sugar noted.
"It's not odd, it's part of the fucking assignment!" Marley screeched at the top of her lungs, everyone in the room leaned back in shock. "What!?"
"Marley, calm down!" Unique said. "It's just odd, that's all."
"Still better than Kitty's song about meth." Marley muttered.
"I heard that Boob-and-Ass-Less." Kitty said.
"And I've heard that insult name ten times this week, you trampy, floozy, street walking hooker!"
"Marley,calm down, Kitty's just being a bitch like always." Blaine said. "Want some water?" He held his water bottle up.
"Are you hating the song I picked for the assignment?" Marley questioned.
"No it was good!" Finn said quickly, startled by the girls sudden anger, "It.…made sense in that way, uh, good job."
Marley felt, though, that everyone was giving her an odd suspicious look. She got up and took her backpack and said, "I've got to go now my cousin Ben is outside waiting for me—"
"Marley wait a sec—" Finn said.
"I promise him I'd be out after I did my assignment." Marley said before she turned and jogged out of the room. "Sorry Finn!" She called behind.
Marley got down the hall and near the front doors when she heard someone call after her. She turned and found Ryder jogging towards her and telling her to wait. "What?" Marley asked.
"Are you okay, Marley?" Ryder asked. "You seemed off edge today."
"I'm fine." She said.
"Have you slept good for the past few nights?" He asked. She nodded. "Eaten much?" She shrugged. "What's that mean?"
"Kind of, not really. It's just that I start eating and... things come up and I stop."
"Marley, you're beautiful." Ryder said. "You're already thin, you don't need to lose more weight."
"Not that just... Jake things." She said. "Look I'm fine, alright?"
"Okay." Ryder said as he opened the door for her. "I know for a fact your cousin Ben isn't in Lima today, he's in another city."
"How do you know?"
"You told me during our golf-game yesterday." He smiled. "Come on I'll walk you home."
Marley walked home with Ryder, where they talked and laughed about various of movies they've seen lately. When Marley got home she grabbed a glass of milk and a plate of peanut butter crackers and went to her room. Her mom was sleeping in her room so she wouldn't be bothering Marley. Marley kept getting texts from Jake throughout the night.
I SAID I WAS SORRY! DON'T SING THAT SONG IN CLASS!
I'm sorry.
MARLEY! ANSWER YOUR FUCKING PHONE!
I'm sorry.
MARLEY! IT'S EIGHT FIFTEEN, GET HERE IN THE NEXT TEN MINUTES OR I'M COMING OVER!