Jake and Marley pulled up to Quinn and Puck's home, which was a mansion to Marley. She felt nervous, she was scared that they would call the police and send her back to Nick.
Jake saw Marley's expression and gently grabbed her arm. "It'll be okay, you just have to tell them about Nick. Unless you aren't comfortable with that, then we can stay at a hotel."
"No, I'll be fine. I just don't really know how."
"Tell them like you told me."
"That was easy though, you didn't judge me."
"And they won't either, just trust me on this."
"I do trust you. I just- I-I'm scared."
"Don't be, Quinn will be your best friend in a week."
Jake got out of the car and came over to Marley's side, opening her door.
"Puck said that we can stay in the guest house so we'll take our bags in there after we talk to him and Quinn."
"O-okay. Will you be with me when I tell them."
"Absolutely."
Marley grabbed a jacket before getting out of the car, trying to cover her stomach she pulled the zipper up half way to where her shirt ended. Her bruises blended in with her tan, since they had turned a yellow shade. The cuts on her arm looked like normal scrapes, the cut on her face had almost healed. But, she was still afraid that they would be able to see them. She followed Jake to the door. He knocked and a man that looked older than Jake but not as old as she had expected came to the door.
"Jake, it's good to see you." Puck pulled Jake into a hug.
"You too. This is Marley." Jake gestured to Marley and Puck looked over at her.
"Nice to meet you Marley, my name's Noah but I prefer Puck."
"Nice to meet you Puck."
"Come in, Quinn is waiting with Beth in the livingroom, it's just to the left "
Marley walked in first and once she was out of earshot Puck turned to Jake.
"She's hot, are you sure that you two aren't... together?"
"No we aren't, let's go before she gets scared."
Jake and Puck walked into the livingroom and saw Marley sitting on the couch and Quinn across from her with Beth on her lap they were talking, but it was still awkward. Jake walked over to Quinn and Beth, they both gave him a hug. He walked over Marley and sat with her.
"I see you've met each other."
Quinn looked at Jake and smiled. "Yes, we have."
Puck took a seat with Quinn, there was a silence for a moment until Jake cleared his throat.
"Marley?"
"What?"
"Do you want to tell them?"
"Y-yeah. Can you just give me a minute I'll b-be right back."
Marley walked out of the room and they all heard the front door shut.
"Is she okay?" Quinn seemed concered for Marley.
"She'll be fine, let me go talk to her."
Jake walked out of the room and went outside, he saw Marley standing by the car with her back facing him.
"Marley, are you okay?"
"I'm scared Jake." Marley turned to him and she had tears in her eyes.
"Of what?"
"What if they send me back to Nick? I-I can't go back there, I'm lucky to have gotten away twice. Next time, he'll kill me."
"Marley, they will no send you back. You just have to them, they'll be more than happy to have you stay here with them."
Jake took Marley's hand and guided her back into the livingroom where just Quinn and Puck were, Beth was probably in her room playing, Jake and Marley walked over to the couch and sat down again.
"I'm sorry." Marley said as she looked down.
"It's okay, Marley." Quinn said in a comforting voice.
"I don't really know where to start, this all goes back to Nick." Quinn and Puck gave each other questioning looks and Jake jumped in.
"Nick is her step- father."
Quinn nodded her head and Marley continued. "My dad died when I was 6 and we didn't really have much money. When I was 8 my mom starting dating again and she met Nick, he was great at first. He was nice and gave me toys and things, but once we moved in with him he became controlling. The first time he hit my mom I was 10, after that he started hitting her more and more. When I was 13 my mom told me that we were leaving, but Nick came home before we could go-"
Marley started silently crying while talking about her mom and Quinn and Puck just sat there with Beth with sad looks on their faces.
"Marley, do you want to stop?" Jake asked as he rubbed her hand
"No. He killed my m-mom in front of me, and she told me to be free. So that's why I left, because after she died he hit me almost everyday. When I finally graduated early I left, that's when I met Jake."
"How exactly did you meet?" Puck asked as he looked at Jake.
Marley spoke up. "I was walking, anywhere away from Nick and it started raining so I went under a tree. After a couple hours the rain stopped and Jake pulled up and offered me a ride."
"Interesting." Puck said as he tilted his head. Jake gave him a look that told him to stop talking.
"Marley and I went through Kentucky and into Tennessee, we stayed there for a while then we went to Virginia. After that-"
Marley interupted him. "After that we went to Pennsylvania and back to Ohio. I wanted to say goodbye to my mom one last time since it was the anniversery of her death and because she never really had a grave I would always go in the backyard by her garden. When I went into the house Nick was there, and he hit me and he kicked me over and over. I think he would've killed me if Jake wasn't there."
Jake could see anger in Puck's face. "What kind of a man hits a women and a child? I want to kill him."
Marley looked at Puck. "Jake already took care of him, even though I don't really remember since I was slipping in and out of consciousness."
"What did you do little bro?"
"I beat the hell out of him, then I told him if he ever laid another hand on Marley I'd kill him."
Quinn had a few tears streaming down her face as she walked over to Marley giving her a hug.
"Marley you can stay here with Jake as long as you like."
"Thank you Quinn."
"No problem, dinner should be ready in about twenty minutes, why don't you and Jake get settled in the guest house? I put some fresh blankets in there and if you two are ever hungry there's plenty of food. I make dinner every night so I would like it if you both joined us."
Jake spoke as he stood up. "Thank you both, we'll be back in for dinner."
He grabbed Marley's hand and took her outside. Quinn turned to Puck and hugged him.
"That's so terrible, Puck."
"I know."
Quinn pulled away and gave him peck on the lips. "They totally like each other."
"I know, she seems really comfortable around him."
"Are they together?"
"Jake told me no, so if they aren't it's just a matter of when. I can see he really likes her. She seems like a sweet girl."
"She does, I like her. I think she'd be good for Jake."
"I like her too, let's go get ready for dinner." Quinn walked to the kitchen with Puck.
Jake walked with Marley into the guest house and put their bags down. When you walked in there was a kitchen and open living and down the hall there were two bedrooms, a bathroom and a room to hang out in. Jake showed Marley the rooms and she chose the one he thought she would. It had a big window that the sunlight came through in the morning. There was a window seat at the window. The room was white and lavender, there was a large flat screen tv mounted on the wall, Marley loved it. Jake and Marley unpacked until it was time for dinner, then they went into the house to eat dinner with Quinn, Puck and Beth.