A couple weeks passed, Marley was getting ready for school for the first time since her mothers death, it was hurting Marley that she was nearly being forced to go to school while she was still in the stages of mourning, but as part of her deal with the state, she needed to go to school, and not miss any days or else it's the group home for Marley Rose. The funeral for Millie was a small one, few friends gathered for it, Santana was the one who made the arrangements on Marley's behalf. The state found her a job to help pay bills, sadly since Marley is a minor she can't stay in the household much longer, she is going to be relocated to an apartment closest to McKinley High. The only bright side to this other than her getting her own place, was the fact that once the house was sold, all the money that was made goes to her strictly for utilities until she turns 18.

Santana on the other hand was hunting for an apartment, even though she was still technically living in New York with Rachel and Kurt, the Latina felt it was time for her to have her own environment. If only her mind was focused on herself, ever since Millie's funeral it seems that Santana had Marley in her thoughts every second of of each minute. On few occasions crying, she assumed that it was due to an overflow of emotion that she has been feeling over the course of the past few weeks, holding in her raw emotion for Marley's sake. Santana knew it wasn't what Marley needed, but at the same time she felt that Marley didn't need to see Santana cry over someone she barely knew.. But Millie indeed knew Santana better than she(Santana) knew herself, that was something Santana had admired about Millie.

Marley was walking through the halls of McKinley, they felt empty to her, even though there were kids doing their own thing, one person was missing. She wasn't ready to go back to school, she wanted to lock herself in her room and cry a lot more than she has been lately. Marley sat against her locker, wrapping her arms around her knees, started to tear up for a few moments when she looked up and saw Jake.

"I heard about what happened, are you okay?" Jake asked as he held his hand out for Marley to grab.

Marley swatted his hand away, then stood up glaring at him angrily. "Oh NOW you ask me how I am doing, how about when I really needed someone over the past few weeks? Or how about when I had to bury my fucking mother!" Marley had tears going down her cheeks, her lower lip pushing against her upper lip as it began to quiver. "Why now do you care? And not when it truly mattered Jake?" she asked before turning away from him to walk away.

Jake lightly grabbed Marley's wrist "How do you suppose I would have approached you Marley?" his voice was soft, curious, different than Marley's ever heard. "No matter what you would have pushed me away.." Jake expressed as he moved close to Marley, wrapping his arms around her shoulders. "I am sorry Marley.. I-I really am.. I won't hurt you again.. Please.. Take me back.." his voice went from soft to shaky.

Marley look over at Jake with serious eyes, then shook her head. "Jake we've talked about this before.. I can't forgive you for what you did.." she said as she turned around and looked at him in the eyes. "I don't even know if I CAN love right now." Marley sighed. "Everything just.. Sucks now Jake.. What I need right now is someone to be there for me.. But as a friend.." she confessed with a deep sadness in her voice.

"M-Marley.."

Marley quickly backed into Bree, she then turned around with a scared expression on her face. "Bree.." she exclaimed as she moved back a couple steps then ran past her, so fast that the hat Marley was wearing fell off.

Bree raised an eyebrow then looked at the fallen hat "She really needed someone.." the Cheerio spoke, her hair was let down for once, and her emotion wasn't like her typical self.

Jake glared at Bree for a few seconds. "You have joked about Marley's mom, multiple times before she died. If memory serves correct, wasn't it you who said that you would be amazed if she lived through 2013? Congrats Bree.. She died at the end of 2013, might as well claim yourself as a murderer now." Jake sharply snarled at Bree before walking away to his class.

Bree slowly walked to the hat, picking it up and started to frown at the sight of it. When no one was looking, she hugged the hat tightly. "I'm sorry.." she softly admitted before walking to her locker with the hat.

Santana sat on her bed, exhausted from running around Lima in hopes to find an apartment before her parents come home from their vacation. But so far no REAL luck, this was really bumming her out, especially since she has been too busy with helping out Marley, that she barely made any time for herself to relax. Santana decided to turn on the T.V in hopes that something good was on, and to her luck a show she used to watch a lot as a child was playing.

"Hey between Joey and I, none of us has had a relationship that lasted longer than a Mento."

Santana chuckled a bit at the T.V, watching Friends made Santana reminisce back when she was in McKinley, times were much simpler back then. Before graduation everything was perfect, Rachel had Finn, Quinn either had Sam or Joe, Tina had Mike, and Santana had Brittany. 'I wish it was still that simple..' Santana gazed at the ceiling, pondering at what she should do with her life, especially since she kept jumping from Lima to New York as if she was a flea trying to figure out if it wants to bite a dog's ass, or it's head.

All Santana wanted to do at this point was sleep, her eyes slowly closing, her body contently drifting into a slumber when..

"I can't change, even if I try, even if I wanted to."

Santana quickly sat up, picking her phone up to see who was calling. It wasn't in her contacts, she reluctantly answered "Santana Lopez, what's up?"

"Yes, you came by about 4 hours ago, it's the manager of the Center Oaks Apartments."

Her heart beating a bit fast "Yeah I did come by, why do you ask?"

"We got a two bedroom apartment available for you after all, sorry for the mix up during your visit. New receptionist."

Santana immediately got on her knees, bouncing on her bed in an exciting manner "Is it still $658 a month?" she asked while crossing her fingers.

"Yes mam, we can fill get everything filled out at your earliest convenience."

"F-Friday, I will come by Friday." Santana hiding in as much of her excitement as she could.

When they hung up Santana bounced from her knees to her feet, jumping around on her bed. "I'm getting an apartment! Fuck yeah!" she exclaimed while hopping. During her hoping around and her singsong of "I gots my own place." she slipped on her blanket causing her to fall down, her upper half hanging from her bed. "..Shit, that's why mom said not to jump on the bed.."

Santana readjusted herself and got off her bed "I need to get some boxes.. Even though I don't have much stuff here." she said while scratching the back of her head. "Why do I always get the urge to do something else when I watch T.V?" Santana questioned as she turned the T.V off.

Marley was walking back to her house after school, it was boring for her, and very lonesome. She just wanted to walk through her front door and see her mom making supper, like what she used to do when Marley came home late. Sadly this wasn't early 2013 anymore, Marley was literally all alone in this world now, and she barely had a place to call home. As soon as she entered the house Marley pressed a button on her answering machine.

"You have 2 new messages. 1St message.."

"Marley, this is Joan your case worker, I am happy to announce in case you didn't find a place that we found a group housing location just for you. You will live with a couple other people, you will also have your own room, and it's close to the school. Please call me back so we can talk about this. Thanks, bye."

Marley sighed and shook her head "I don't even want to move.."

"Next message.."

"Hey.. It's Bree. I am not good at this kind of thing, especially since I have never really felt sorry for anything in my life. But.. I am sorry. So, so, so.. Sorry, and I know I may not of had anything to do with your mom dying, but I joked about her dying from a heart attack when she was alive, I never wanted God to take her from you though.. I just.. I just..."

"There are no more messages."

The young brunette frowned at the last message, she felt the pain, the sadness that Bree expressed in the voice mail, it saddened Marley quite a bit. Marley walked upstairs thinking about what Bree said, it was rather unexpected since it was established many o' times that Bree hated Marley and Marley didn't take kindly to the other.

Marley looked over at the empty room that used to belong to Millie, memories started to play in her head from when they had first moved.

Marley had finally finished unpacking her boxes, she felt good about how she had her room set up, she felt even better about being the new kid at McKinley High. She couldn't wait to start a new life, this time hoping to stick around for longer than a year without getting severely bullied. Marley's excitement was too much for her to handle alone, as it caused her to not be able to sleep for some reason. So she decided to check on Millie, and potentially bug her for a few minutes.

"Mom?" Marley called out as she swung herself around the door.

Millie looked over at Marley from her bed and smiled "I take it you're excited, I don't blame you."

The hyper girl nodded and jumped onto her mother's bed, looking up at Millie "How do you think we will do at this school? You think it'll be better than before?"

"Well Marls, it has to get better from here, we don't have much options and I can't afford for us to move when kids at school are following us home and tormenting our daily lives.."

Marley slightly frowned, keeping her eyes on Millie.

Millie smiled a bit and nodded at Marley "It will get better, you are going to be the envy of all your peers. I promise, you are going to make a lot of friends."

"D-Do you mean that mom?" Marley asked with such hope, her eyes sparkling a bit.

"Well not if you don't get any sleep hon. I have to get up early since I am the lunch lady, which further means you get to go to school extra early. At least until we get a bus schedule situated."

"Alright, I think I can go to sleep now. Thanks mom." Marley got off the bed, walking to Millie to give her a tight hug, then a kiss on the cheek. "Night mom."

"Night love." Millie patted Marley's head gently.

Marley had just finished up her shower, she wrapped a towel around her chest then cleared the condensation that formed on the mirror. Marley gazed at her reflection and noticed the bags under her eyes from lack of sleep, the stress lines on her forehead even though they weren't that visible, the redness in her eyes. Marley was indeed a mess, and she wanted to fix that but she did not know how, she knows that dealing with the loss of her mom will be difficult, she won't ever be over it but she needs to try to live with her life.

"I've got the eye of the tiger, a fighter, dancing through the fire!" Marley's phone began to ran which knocked her out of her micro trance, she walked over to her phone and picked it up.

"Hello?"

"Hey girl! Listen, there is a party going on this weekend, I know you have been in a funk honey. But that's why you gots yourself this fine piece of chocolate as your bestie. You're coming with me and I won't take no for an answer." Unique spoke with grace in her voice. Marley always loved hearing from Unique, she always knew how to make Marley feel loved.

"Well, I may have work this weekend. But I guess I could party a bit, it would get my mind off of things." Marley spoke as she slid her panties on, once they were on she tossed the towel and looked around for some night clothes to wear.

"I promise Marley, it will be us two fine divas taking control of everyone and everything around us." Unique spoke out causing Marley to giggle.

Marley slid on some pajama pants as Unique continued on about her week, on occasions Marley would set her phone down so she could either dry her hair, or put on a night shirt.

"So darling.. How are you feeling? We haven't talked a whole lot since the funeral." That question.. Marley couldn't answer fully. Honestly she doesn't know how she was feeling, with the state riding her, her hours at work, school, everything wasn't sitting with her as well as she would hope.

"Sweetie, I don't think I can answer that without rambling on for ten years. I am slowly getting used to the idea of my mom being gone, very slowly but I know that I need to live my life.." she spoke while kicking her feet up in the air out of boredom.

"Do you need me to come by tonight? We could have a little girls night, or something."

Marley smiled a bit "No, I will be fine. Thank you for asking, it really means a lot that you're willing to be there for me."

"Oh any time hon, you just gotta give a shout and I will come a running. Ya hear?"

"Yes Unique, I hear ya.. Good night."

They hung up, Marley turned off her lamp and sat her phone on the nightstand then she pulled up her blanket and looked up at the ceiling. Her mind now on the party towards the weekend, she was questioning what to wear, what to do at the party. 'A party huh.. Well then.. It could be good.'

"Oh god Santana.. I should be the one paying you.. What's the occasion doll?" Jane softly asked with slight forms of lust in her eyes. Jane was a call girl, a high class call girl whom had a sweet spot for Santana. Normally she wouldn't go for women unless she gets paid top dollar, but with Santana it was different for her, and that kind of different was enough to get her.

Santana slowly slithered up towards the other woman, placing a gentle kiss against Jane's neck "I am getting my own place.. Tomorrow actually, that's why this room is filled with boxes. I wanted a celebratory fuck, since I am too awesome to not get one."

Jane bit her lip partially while giggling softly "Congratulations are indeed in order, so what do you want to do, because knowing you.. A simple fuck isn't all you want.. What does Ms. Lopez want to do with me while she has me?" she asked as she ruffled Santana's hair for a few seconds.

Santana lightly bit her lip and sighed softly "I want love while I have you.. Maybe going somewhere to spend time together?"

Jane looked at Santana with sad eyes and shook her head slowly "You know the rules San.. Nothing public, as nice as it would be, I am not romantically linked with anyone. But we got things here to entertain us for the night, if you'd like we could cuddle up and watch a movie. That much I'd be willing to do that isn't entirely sexual."

Hearing that made Santana a bit sad, she wanted more with Jane it seems, if only for the night. It seems that she was looking for a new girlfriend in Jane, and who was Santana to not? Jane had all the makings of a romantic lover, Jane wasn't short but wasn't freakishly tall, at least for Santana's standards. Jane was very mature, then again Jane was in her late 20's, but Jane had a different form of maturity that Santana has yet to place her finger on. Santana's mind had wondered this following question..

"If the age gap wasn't so big.. Would you see us together? Romantically?" Santana softly asked as she sat up, leaning against the headboard and gazing at the wall for a few moments.

Jane raised an eyebrow, sitting up on her knees, she placed one hand on Santana's cheek and gave the Latina a deep, but sweet kiss. Just as Santana was going to kiss back, Jane broke the kiss while keeping her face a short distance from Santana's "It's not the age gap honey.. If I was certain about my financial state, believe me you would be all mine in a heartbeat. I wouldn't care if you were 20, or 40. I would make sure Santana Lopez was the face I woke up to every morning.. You are the only client I have that is a woman, and that I feel anything close to romance with.." Jane expressed, Santana looked away from the other woman, nearly forming tears. "I am 28 years old San.. I have a bit of ways before I can say that I am okay for settling down.. But by the time I am willing to settle down, you may have someone for yourself. I accepted that the first time we had sex.." Santana was still looking away, few tears went down her cheek. "Honey, I will make a promise to you.. When I am done with school, and I land a great job.. I will quit being a call girl, just for you.. Then we can have that first date."

Santana looked at her, feeling a hint of relief that Jane would not only say such sweet things to her, but to promise something like that. "I would love that.. If I am available, then I would love the first date.." she said as she locked pinkies with Jane, then tilted her head to continue kissing the call girl.

The next day blew through fast for both Santana and Marley. Santana dealing with the movers, along with meeting new neighbors. Marley having to deal with work which was strangely better than the previous days she was working, all the young girl could think about was the party. It was the first party she really has gone to, Marley hasn't had the luxury of being invited to a lot of outings outside of school. Santana was hard at work with setting up her new apartment, smiling at everything within her apartment. It wasn't the best looking place, but with a woman's touch, and a good amount of can do attitude, Santana could turn her apartment from a shit-hole, to a work of art.

Saturday night hit Lima, Marley had one arm linked with Unique's as they approached a familiar house to Marley.

"Wade.. You never said it was at Jake's house.." she said while gazing at the house with worried eyes.

Unique looked at Marley for a few seconds then back at the house "I honestly didn't know, I got the invite in my locker so I figured it'd be something fun to do. We could go back and have a sleep over at my place."

Marley shook her head and continued towards Jake's house, Unique followed the brunette into Jake's house, and there were kids galore. A lot of drunk students, dancing, and making out. This kind of party was in a way making Marley uncomfortable but at the same time, she felt obligated to stay. She sat down on the couch that didn't have any kids making out on it, Marley watched as everyone else had a good time.

Some time has passed, Marley was actually dancing for once, sadly her partner was a bit too drunk for her liking, and her partner just so happened to be Ryder, his breath reeked of a cherry scented alcohol. Marley did her best to avoid any eye contact towards Ryder, when he finally asked something.

"M-Marley, why won't you give me a chance?" he asked in a drunken stupor, leading him and Marley towards a room.

Marley was reluctant to go in to that room but Ryder had a bit more dominance than Marley could handle. "Because, I was with Jake, and you never shown me that you were interested in me til it was too late.. Also your breath is rancid.. Maybe we should get you home or something." she explained while trying to move away from Ryder.

"You're wrong.. I always loved you I tried telling you.." he looked down while gripping Marley's shoulders. "Many.. MANY times.." he shook Marley while pressing her against the wall. "I need you to see that.." Ryder looked into Marley's eyes, his were bloodshot red which startled Marley a lot.

"N-No that's fine Ryder.. You need to get some- mmph!" Marley trying to reason with the drunken jock but was interrupted by a forced kiss.

Ryder was not holding back with the kiss, forcing his tongue down Marley's throat, tracing his hands against her chest. Marley was too scared to stop him, she felt powerless under Ryder's grasp. He pushed down Marley's pants and panties which caused her to dig her nails defensively into Ryder's shoulder as tears were going down her face, Ryder pulled back and looked at what he was doing, his lips formed into an evil smirk as he picked up Marley, then slammed her down on the bed.

Marley trying to scoot away from Ryder, unknown as to what she can do outside of talking him out of what he was currently doing. "Ryder.. Ryder listen to me! If you go ahead with this then I won't believe that you love me.." she said while reaching out towards her pants.

Ryder's eyes widened as his left hand swung across Marley's face "You whore.. Don't you move.. I need to get myself ready.." he spoke as he turned away to leave the room.

Marley quickly pulled out her phone, holding one hand on her cheek and was doing her best not to make any noise that may attract attention. She sent out a text to Santana, explaining what was going on and the address of the party. After she sent the text she quickly pulled her pants up and looked around for a quick way out of the room. The door opens..

"What the hell are you doing Marley.." Ryder softly asked as he shut the door behind him, he stalked Marley's movements as she tried to avoid Ryder at all times. "I told you.. Not.. To.. MOVE!" he yelled as he shoved Marley against the wall, causing her to cry out in pain. "Now.. I am going to show you my love.."

Marley shook her head as Ryder pulled her pants down once more, he moved one shoe off of her to remove one leg from having any clothing. Marley trying to push him away with as much strength as she could muster, she was beginning to lose all hope that anyone would come to her rescue. Ryder pushed his pants down past his thighs, lightly teasing the tip against Marley's area. Just as he was about to thrust in, the music in the background stops, and distinct yelling is heard.

"Where the fuck is she!"

Marley's eyes lit up a bit, she knew that voice from anywhere. Ryder let go of Marley and quickly pulled his pants back on, he then left the room again to see what all the commotion was about. Marley put her pants and panties back on, then ran out of the room forgetting her shoe, she was bumping into various people as she left the house, and to her luck, at the end of the street was Santana's car, Marley ran towards the car only to remember that Santana was looking for her. Marley thought it was safe enough to walk back, when Ryder out of nowhere pressed her up against his car.

"Where do you think you're going.." he said while kissing at Marley's neck, Marley once again froze at his kisses, her whimpers were of pain, and she felt too weak to try to stop him when..

"Get the fuck off of her!" Santana with all her strength pulled Ryder off of the smaller brunette, her face was a whole new kind of angry that even scared Marley quite a bit. "Who the fuck do you think you are mutton chops? If Marley says no, that should be it. It should NOT have been an incentive for you to try and fuck her!" she yelled which alarmed Ryder. Santana moved to Marley and checked her face for a few moments. "He got you pretty good hon.."

Ryder grumbled under his breath "Get that whore away from my car then.." he spoke which further angered Santana.

"This is your car? This right here?" Santana asked, Ryder nodded. "Well you might be a bit cold on your drive home." she announced before clenching her fists, and in one quick and hard swing into the driver window of Ryder's car, making the glass break upon impact.

Ryder's eyes widened as he backed away from Santana, he dropped to his knees and shivered a bit "What the hell! Why would.. Oh my god!"

Santana grabbed Ryder by the shirt "That will be your fucking ribcage if you ever harm Marley again, you hear me!? Do you fucking hear me!?" Santana was on a rampage, she lifted her fist up getting ready to punch Ryder when Marley pulled Santana back and latched on to her.

"Santana let's just go!" she cried out in pain.

Santana looked down at Marley for a few seconds then nodded "Y-Yeah.." she spoke as she turned to walk to her car. Marley quickly followed, she was the first to get into the car, and buckle up. It was safe to assume that Marley wanted nothing more to do with that party.

Santana and Marley weren't too quiet in the car, in fact they were talking about what went down at the party, and what needed to be done about the various moments. Suddenly Santana pulled up at a drive-thru for a Burger King, before she pulled over by the speakerbox Santana looked at Marley.

"I can assume you are sorta hungry, right? So what do you want?" she asked in a kind register.

Marley lightly bit her lip and looked to the side "I am not that hungry, you don't need to spend any money on me.." her voice was quiet, also hoarse from her crying and screaming at the party.

Santana sighed "Honey, I am spending money on you, it'll be easier if I know what you want." she explained to the brunette.

"Please.. I don't need anything, can we just go home or something?" Marley asked as she hugged her knees.

Santana slowly nodded and drove out of the drive-thru, ignoring the fact that she had yet to eat since she woke up. That familiar silence filled the car on their way to Santana's apartment, Santana was mainly focused on how she could keep her promise, sadly she was drawing many blanks. They made it to Santana's new apartment, Santana looked at Marley once more, remembering what had happened the last time they were alone in the car together.

Eventually they made their way inside Santana's apartment, Marley was hugged against Santana as they walked which was why it took them a little bit to get inside. Marley was thinking about the exact moment Santana came to help her, she liked the idea that her mentor would do such thing just for her. As Santana set her on the couch to brows her kitchen, Marley couldn't help but observe the movements of the Latina woman. "Okay.. I think this maybe my overstimulated mindset talking.. But Santana looks hot.. Like really hot.." Marley shook her head from any form of attraction towards Santana. Marley wouldn't truthfully be into Santana right? Santana was a great person to Marley, but last she had checked, one; Marley is straight, and two; Marley is underage. But maybe.. It wouldn't hurt Marley to at least attempt.. The brunette got up and walked to Santana, slowly. Santana slightly gazed at Marley and smiled at her.

"I need to get some groceries I know, but make yourself at home. If you can find something to make yourself, by all means go ahead and make it." Santana explained as she turned to reach a cup.

Marley quietly gulped a bit and clenched her eyes shut "Try.. If there is a spark, then I think you got something Marls." She regained some confidence, as Santana turned around Marley cupped her mentor's face, giving Santana a deep kiss.

Santana's face lit up as she set her cup down, unsure as to what she should do. Marley gently moved Santana against the counter, lightly gaining some dominance against Santana. The younger woman tilted her head during the kiss in case Santana would return this kiss, Marley's heart was beating fast at what she was currently doing. She didn't want to stop kissing Santana, she liked how her mentor's skin felt in her hands, the way their lips meshed together. Marley felt enough sparks to power a damn power plant, this was actually happening to her. But sadly.. Santana wasn't kissing back, but that didn't mean much to Santana, if anything.. She was enjoying this kiss, Santana was doing her best not to tremble, Santana slowly placed her hands on Marley's arms as she finally broke the kiss.

Both girls were looking at each other, breathing softly and blushing. Marley looked at the floor and started feeling guilty for what she had done, the risk she had just put Santana through.

"Santana.. I am so sor-"

Santana quickly placed one finger on Marley's lips "Shut up.." she demanded as her finger slowly traced from Marley's lips to her chin, gently lifting it up so they could be eye to eye. "Jake.. Cheated on that.. Marley, that kiss.. Fucking amazing." she expressed while waving her free hand towards herself as an attempt to cool her off.

Marley's face lit up even more as she covered her mouth with her hand, she was trying to contain her excitement from that kiss. Her eyes out of the blue was scanning Santana's body carefully, but stopped at Santana's right hand. "San.. You have a lot of cuts on your hand. Was that from you punching out Ryder's window?"

Santana looked at her hand and raised an eyebrow "I guess so, I was too pissed to even notice that." she admitted then looked over at her pupil. Santana observing the worried look on Marley's face "I would do it again, if it means protecting you." Santana said with confidence.

Marley moved closer to Santana, lifting up her injured hand and softly kissed the cuts that were on it "Santana.. I am just happy you're in my life right now.. Out of the blue when you came back to Lima, things somehow were better, even though my life has been shitty lately.. It's always you to be the one to keep the darkness at bay." she confessed then leaned against Santana, wrapping her arms tight around the Latina's waist.

Santana couldn't help but giggle at how adorable Marley was acting "Okay you are tired as fuck, let's get you to bed." she said while walking with Marley into her room, once they got in, Santana laid Marley down on the bed.

Marley wanted to stay awake but she couldn't help but be tired, with the night she was having, it was a no brainer as to why she was tired. Santana covered up Marley and then held onto her hand. Both girls keeping smiles on their faces, Marley slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep. Santana watched Marley sleep for a little while longer, not wanting to leave her side but Santana has some needs to, those needs were a nice cup of whatever beverage she has in her fridge.

Marley slowly woke up as morning hit, she looked over on the other side of the bed seeing that Santana was not there. Seeing this caused Marley to sit up in slight fear, she never stayed with Santana before, she was in a different home environment after all. Feint singing could be heard from a different room, Marley got out of bed and followed the sound. It got louder as it was Santana singing in the kitchen, and it looked different now than it did last night. It had groceries in it, and some appliances inside it. Marley wasn't gonna question it, but she enjoyed Santana's version of Monster by Eminem, mainly due to Santana singing the verses. In the midst of her singing Santana smiled at Marley, she lifted one hand waving her finger towards her. Marley walked to Santana nervously. Santana gave Marley a quick but tight hug then spun around to go back to her cooking.

"S-San? What got you in such a good mood?" Marley asked as she rubbed her eyes.

Santana set the stove to simmer then turned towards Marley "Well, I have been thinking about this all night. And you can say no if you want to, but I feel as if it would be best if you said yes." she explained then bit down on her lower lip for a few moments. "Close your eyes."

Marley smiled a bit then closed her eyes, awaiting what Santana would have in store for her. Santana put a bead necklace around Marley, with a key in the middle of the beads, the key had a little rose decal on it.

"Open them.."

Marley opened her eyes and looked at her necklace, a smile formed on her face as she lightly lifted the key to get a closer look at the decal on it. "Santana this is amazing.. But what is this for?" she asked, adverting her attention to Santana.

"I want you to have that key, I made a promise to take care of you no matter what.. So anytime you need somewhere to go, or if you just feel the urge to raid my fridge. You have a way to gain access." Santana said as she placed one hand on Marley's neck, gently rubbing it.

Marley smiled a bit more than before, pulling Santana into a hug "Thank you.." she whispered as she tightened the grip, making sure she didn't squeeze too hard.

"You're welcome.. Also, that second room I have is yours.. I will try getting my parents to help me get my old mattress in that room, that way whenever you stay the night you have something comfortable.." Santana explained while wrapping her arms around Marley's waist, resting her head against the brunette's shoulder gently.

Marley looked at Santana with a raised eyebrow then smiled "San.. Could I live with you?"

Santana pulled out of the hug and nodded "Yes, thank you for actually understanding where I was going.. I would love having you live here." she said with a smile on her face.

"Thanks again San.. Also whatcha cooking?" Marley looked over at the stove with curious eyes.

Santana walked over to a cupboard, pulling down a couple plates "Eggs, Bacon, Hashbrowns, and I have sausage patties in the oven that should be ready shortly." she sat the plates down and began to serve the food on each plate. "I wanted to make sure I fed you good today.. After all, Auntie Snixx takes good care of her darlings." Santana winked at Marley, causing the brunette to blush.

"I-I am her darling now? Better than just being a roommate at least!"

A/N: Ah, this chapter was a bit entertaining for me to write. But of course I liked this or else I wouldn't upload it haha. Anyways, you all know what to do. Much love.