So all day I've had the song Love Child stuck in my head. Both Glee version and The Supreme version. I just made the idea of that song into this.
Song: Love Child
Singers: The Supremes.
(Can we just take a moment realize that is kinda the theme song to Marley's life? Almost)
"Have you ever had a song that defined your life?"
Marley Rose laying on the couch listening to her favorite all-girl band of the 1960's. Diana Ross and The Supremes. It was a pretty warm day outside and since she was on Summer vacation she had nothing else to do. Her mother was out working at Breadstix and wouldn't be back until later that night.
Marley had one song on repeat though. The song she was listening to she had listened to over and over again as a child and never understood the lyrics until today. She loved the chorus of the song, but the rest of the song was now making more and more sense to her.
It just made her depressed.
The door knocked loudly. She got up from the bed and walked over to the door, opening it to find Ryder standing there with a large tub of ice cream in his hands.
"What's this?"
"I know you don't have AC and your living room fan kind of sucks sometimes, so I thought I'd keep up cool by eating ice cream watching that very annoying Disney movie."
"My Frozen dvd!" She exclaimed, remembering it as birthday gift from one of her Glee friends. "I forgot about that movie..come on it."
Ryder walked in and placed the ice cream in her freezer as Marley ran upstairs and grabbed her movie. When she returned down she found Ryder sitting on the couch with his head positioned closely to her radio.
"This song is on repeat," He said. "I guess you like this band."
"It's Diana Ross and The Supremes," She told him. "And... I just like this song."
A little over thirty minutes later during the middle of the movie Marley got lost into her own mind. Ryder noticed and asked, "What's wrong?"
Marley asked, "Have you ever had a song that defined your life?"
He gave a confused expression. "A song that defined my life?"
She nodded.
"No... I don't think so. Why?"
"That song that was on earlier... Love Child... it's my song." She told him. "That song defines my life. I mean listen to the lyrics, the song defines me." She then sighed. "I'm a bastard."
"What!?" Ryder exclaimed, startling her a bit. "Wh—no! No your not Marley! Don't say that, that's not true!"
"But it is Ryder! My parents had sex before marriage, had me and then my father left me. I'm a bastard baby."
"Marley Rose, stop saying that." Ryder said. "You are not a bastard baby...your not even close to that. Your far from that. You were a wanted baby... your mom wanted you. And your wanted now, we love you. And your beautiful."
"That song stills defines me." She muttered.
"Marley... you may have similarities to that song in your life, but that song is not you. You are not that song, that song does not define you. Ever. And you are not a bastard baby."
She grinned at him. How Ryder could always make her feel better she didn't know, but he was amazing and so kind. They say a girl looks for a boyfriend and husband like her father. But her father wasn't around and she didn't need to be told twice how terrible of a father he was to her. Marley had Ryder. The kind of guy she wants her sons to be like and her daughters to look up to.
"I believe you." She smiled. "Thanks."
Ryder grasped her hand in his. "I want you to promise me right now that you will never ever have that thought in your head again. Ever. Not even a small idea."
"I promise I won't." She smiled. "Thank you."
"No problem."