"Will you go on a date with me?" that was playing in Santana's head for a few minutes before she had opened her mouth to answer. "Marley.. You know I can't accept that, you are still a minor, if people who knew us, saw us.. I could get in serious trouble.." she said with a sigh, this made Marley tear up because she knew it was true. Santana gasped at Marley's tears shaking her head "Marley don't cry I-" the Latina was trying to cheer Marley up but got interrupted "N-No, I see how it is San.. So don't bother trying sugar coat it.. I think you should go.." she told Santana beginning to sob, Santana nodded then walked out of Marley's house with tears going down her face. 'Great fucking job Santana, you befriend possibly the most beautiful girl in Lima, and she actually wants you to go on a date with her, and you turn her down."
Days had passed, then weeks and Santana has not heard from Marley, she sees the shy brunette in glee club but that is the extent of it. What is worse is when Santana encounters Millie at breadstix and has to lie to her about the relationship between the two, it wasn't fair that Marley couldn't be happy but Santana really needed to think about herself, if age wasn't a severe issue then Santana would have accepted the date and possibly more from Marley if offered. Santana couldn't take another second of not hearing Marley's voice, the Latina picked up her cell and dialed Marley's number hoping she would answer, sadly it went to voicemail "Hey, this is Marley Rose, if you are hearing this then I am not able to talk or forgot to pick up. Leave a message at the beep" the Latina sighed then started to talk "Hey Marls, it's Santana, I just wanted to see how you have been feeling, I missed talking to-" She heard a knock at the door and looked over at it "Call me back, bye." she hung up then walked up to the door to answer it.
"Do you have any idea what time it is... Marley?" Santana's shock was enough as it was indeed Marley at Santana's door, and even more shocking news, Marley is drunk and the "Beer-dar" that Santana has could detect a high amount of it. "Hey S'tana.. You know, you are such a prettyful person.. And I love you for that.." the drunken brunette said in between breaths, Santana slightly giggled at Marley then lead her inside to sit her down on a chair. "Marley, does your mom know you are here and really drunk?" Santana placed her hands upon the arms of the chair preventing Marley from getting up, all Marley could do was stare at Santana's eyes all dumbfounded. "Ya know you gots eyes like a kitty cat, it's SO cute!" Marley said with an exaggerated sounding voice, the Latina shook her head and held her nose "Marls, you smell like alcohol, I am gonna take you home, okay?" Santana said as she left to look for her keys.
While she was gone Marley stood up and stripped down to her underwear and danced as if she was shot in the head, when Santana walked out to her she dropped her keys and gasped "Marley what the fuck are you doing?!" seeing Marley that exposed made Santana blush and slightly aroused but she intentionally ignored it to help the brunette get her clothes back on. Marley took the clothes and threw them over Santana's couch then pressed up against the Latina "Come on San, don't you want to Fff.." Marley was trying to talk but kept holding the "F" sound in a certain four letter word she was going to say, but before she could finish her sentence Santana interrupted the brunette "No, I don't want to sleep with you Marley. It's wrong, even more wrong that you are drunk. Look I don't know who the hell you think you are, ignoring everything I have been trying to say to you over the past few weeks, avoiding me at school." she went off on Marley for ignoring her, which was not something that Santana liked doing.
Marley scrunched up her nose and gripped onto Santana's shirt "Excuse me? Who the hell do YOU think you are for breaking my heart, lying to me about how much you care about me, turning me down when I asked you out, is it because I am not like Brittany? Am I not pretty enough to be your girlfriend you bitch!" Marley screamed out punching Santana's shoulder crying loudly. All Santana could do was stand there and let Marley do what she did, in a way Marley was right about everything except the Brittany part, and the her not being pretty part, and while Marley was crying Santana held onto her and rubbed her back. "Marley... I didn't know... I am sorry okay..?" she was trying to calm the brunette down but she had passed out in Santana's arms. Santana picked Marley up and carried her to the bed, Santana sat her down on it then moved over to her closet to find pajamas for Marley. Once Santana found them, she put them on the unconscious Marley, after she did that she tucked her in gently then walked out into the living room to pick up all of Marley's clothes. As soon as she cleaned up the place she sat down on the couch and thought about what Marley had said, it hit Santana really hard to hear Marley in so much pain over her, Santana was too tired to ponder about it so she fell to the side and fell asleep on the couch.
The next morning Marley got up with a massive hangover, she whimpered a bit in pain as she got off the bed stumbling out of Santana's bedroom. "Ugh, where the hell am I, and why am I wearing pajamas..?" The hungover brunette said while looking around and noticed Santana asleep on the couch. "S-Santana?" Marley checked to be sure it was Santana and not a drunk illusion, Marley smiled at how peaceful Santana looked when she sleeps, she dropped to her knees scooting closer to the sleeping Latina and gazed at her face noticing the dry tear marks on her skin, and the little bruises on Santana's shoulder. "D-Did I cause that..? Oh my god.. Santana.. Wake up.." Marley said with worry in her voice. Santana heard Marley call her name, which made her wake up slowly "Marley.. are you okay?" she said quietly assuming that Marley had a hangover, the brunette nodded slowly then latched herself onto Santana crying into her shoulder. "I'm sorry! I am so sorry!" She yelled against the Latina's shoulder, Santana had her lip bitten trying to fight tears that were trying to show.
A few hours had passed, Marley went home agreeing that her mom doesn't need to know how drunk her daughter was, and that they talk more about what happened a few weeks prior to this day. Santana fell to her knees by her bed and cried into it, all of the issues that had happened over the course of the night before and that morning really got to Santana but she tried to keep a blockade of some sort to prevent herself from crying around Marley. "Is it because I am not like Brittany? Am I not pretty enough to be your girlfriend you bitch!" was what flashed in Santana's mind as she screamed out "You are pretty Marley! It has nothing to do with Brittany! You're damn near perfect in every way! It was never you! Oh god!" She kept crying out punching her bed while crying into it, this was the first time she had cried this hard over anyone, Marley should feel special you would think right?
Meanwhile at Marley's house, the brunette was laying on her own bed looking at the ceiling with tears going down her face "What should I do.. It would only be a date.. Nothing else.. Unless she actually has feelings for me.. In which case.. Ugh I am so confused!" she yelled out with an irritated voice, this alarmed Millie and caused her to walk over to Marley's room "Marls are you okay dear?" she moved to Marley's bed seeing the tears on her face. "It's just, I wanted to go on a date with Santana, I wanted to know if I was into girls or not, but I think Santana has feelings for me which is why she isn't accepting my offer.. I have not been this confused at all up to my knowledge." the frustrated brunette flung her arms up letting them hit the bed, that alone made Millie giggle at Marley's confusion "Marls I have seen you puzzle over a lot of things as you grew up, but never once did I see you have this much confusion over anything or anyone, hell you were able to pick between Jake and Ryder with much more ease than you are figuring Santana out. I think maybe you have feelings for her, I wouldn't blame you really, she would be the one to make you turn to a lesbian." Millie giggled a bit, hearing that made Marley turn red "Mom!" she yelled in embarrassment at how right she was at what her mom had told her. "Hon, I think out of anyone I could picture you with and staying with for a long time would be Santana, now the question is, do YOU picture yourself going out with Santana more than once?" The cheeky mother asked as she walked to the door, but before she left she turned her head slightly towards Marley's room "You know, the legal age of consent is 16 in Ohio, also if it was just you and Santana, I would approve her dating you. She is a good kid like you are." Millie left the room to go back to her own, leaving Marley laying on her bed even more dumbfounded and confused than usual.
A few days go by, which would seem like hell on Santana. All she thought about was the fight her and Marley had, it was damn near killing her on the inside, the Latina thought it would be a good idea to have an outing with Kurt and Rachel since they were there for her during her struggle with Brittany the first time. She waited a bit for Rachel to pick her up since Kurt was already at the club, but Santana was bored with partying, she just wanted to be with Marley and because of the fight there was an assured distance between the two, this made Santana more sad than she ever was. Rachel finally came to Santana's door to see her sitting against her own door. "Santana, ready to go? Kurt is getting us 3 discounts for drinks, I figured we'd have a couple then spot out potential one nighters if you know what I mean." She laughed a bit, but her laugh was a bit broken since she has yet to get over Finn. Santana just shook her head then went downstairs to Rachel's car, the diva followed Santana closely with concern about her.
At the club Santana sat in the back stirring her drink with a straw slowly, just gazing at it as if it was a book, or a hot model. Kurt was dancing his way to Santana and tried to pull her up "Come on Santana, dance with Mr. Hummel." Kurt said with laughter but quickly stopped his laughter when he saw the look on Santana's face, which made him get serious "Okay seriously San? You've been stirring that drink for the past half an hour, is it not good? Let me taste it." Kurt grabbed it and took a sip out of it, he was shocked as to what Santana ordered "Is this Pepsi? That doesn't sound like you hun." He said as he sat across from Santana, and just looked at her for a few seconds. "This was Marley's favorite soda.. I ran into her at the convenience store a few blocks from my apartment, she looked so scared.." the Latina giggled at the memory she had "It was cute, so innocent, so curious, and I took all of the good features of Marley, and flushed them down the toilet because I was scared. Scared of how other people would react at her and I being together.. Me! The crazy bitch who doesn't care what people say about her.. I am scared Kurt! I think I may like Marley more than a friend, you know how hard it was for me to admit my love to Brittany when we were in school? McKinley isn't a good school when it comes to gay students, Marley shouldn't have to go through the same shit you and I went through!" tears were streaming down her face, she was broken by the young brunette's words. Kurt quickly grabbed the Latina's hands and gently rubbed them "Santana, we aren't kids anymore, Marley is a beautiful woman just like you are, there should be no reason why you two can't solidify a relationship and make it twice as beautiful. That's what I did with Blaine, and I missed him more and more when he and I were split up. I am glad that him and I are together now, so you should go to Marley, Miss. Lopez, and you should go right now, otherwise I am gonna have to have Rachel drive you out of here with her bragging." Kurt and Santana laughed a bit then she got up nodding slowly.
Santana walked from the club to the convenience store to pick up a Pepsi for Marley, and a Cherry Coke for herself, after she did that she walked over to Marley's house in hopes that she is home, once she got to the door she knocked on it, Millie was the one who answered and she was smiling a bit "Well Santana, how may I help you?" she asked allowing Santana to come inside, Santana looked around for a few seconds. "Where is Marley?" Santana asked with a bit of worry in her voice, Millie gasped a bit then frowned some, hugging Santana "Marley, is with Jake now.." she said with a massive amount of regret in her voice, this made the Latina lean on Millie as tears streamed down her cheeks. "Marley is in love with you San.. Don't give up on her, please.." Millie let go of Santana to look at her, Santana's eyes were slightly sparkling with tears "She's not in love with me Ms. Rose.. Otherwise she would be here, listening to me confess how much I love her.." Santana placed Marley's Pepsi on the coffee table, then quickly ran out the door.
What was Santana to do? Her heart got shattered in a similar fashion that Marley's did, little did Santana or Millie know, Marley was not with Jake, she was at Santana's apartment cooking for the Latina. After an hour of slowly walking, Santana made it to her apartment, she could smell something behind her door. "W-What the hell?" she softly said as she unlocked the door and opened it to see Marley at the stove wearing a chef outfit, Santana was shocked to see Marley cooking. "Marley, why.. What... how... Okay, come here please and pinch me to make sure I am not dreaming, I just came back from your house crying because you got back with Jake." she explained to Marley as she shut the door behind her. Marley walked up to Santana and gave her a quick peck on the cheek "I told my mom that I was with Jake to throw her and you off guard, I knew that you would have went to Kitty's house if I said I was there, so I lied about Jake because I knew you'd end up here, and just in time too, I just finished dinner." Marley explained with her lip slightly bitten, she turned to the stove to turn it off, then looked around for a couple bowls.
As much as Santana wanted to freak out on Marley for what she did, she had to smile at how smart the brunette was, and how cute she looked in her chef's outfit. "Well.. I could use some good eating then, but next time please don't scare me like that." she asked as she sat on the floor close to her coffee table. Marley nodded and carried the bowls over to the coffee table, then placed them down. "Santana, about when I asked you out.. I am so sorry that I reacted the way I did, I understand why you turned me down.." She said as she took a bite, hearing what Marley said made Santana sigh softly "No Marls, you don't understand why, I realized that if we casually dated it wouldn't be a big deal generally, except for in the eyes of the kids at McKinley.. Kurt and I faced a lot of turmoil because him and I are gay, the only difference is that he had a boyfriend there who backed him up, Britt didn't back me up much, especially since she was mostly with Artie, and when she was with me it wasn't like her and I actually were lovers, it felt as if we were still just best friends who kissed, and on occasion fucked. I was more in love with her than she was with me, that is why it broke me when her and Sam got together. If it wasn't for you, I don't think I'd ever get over her.. I can't always protect you from the bullshit that the heartless kids at McKinley will end up doing to you, that is why I couldn't accept your offer to go out on a date.." Santana said with few tears dripping.
Marley stopped eating the ramen that she made for her and Santana, then crawled do Santana as if she was a baby animal, which is how cute Santana thought she was. "San.. I don't care what other people think, I don't care what the kids do to me, I just know I care about you and how ready you are.." Marley got up on her knees to gently shove Santana onto the floor, then she removed Santana's jacket and started to kiss the bruises that are on the Latina's shoulder. "I am so sorry for hitting you, getting pissed at you for trying to protect me, coming to your house in a drunken stupor, for damn near everything wrong that I did. The last thing I consciously would want to do to you is hurt you, to me you are like an amazon that I can actually be close to.." Marley laid against Santana gently gripping onto her shirt, the comments that Marley said made Santana blush but also smile. "Okay.. I will go on a date with you, anywhere you want, but I get to pay for it." Santana told Marley which made the young brunette squeak in excitement.
A/N: So how is this for a chapter 2? I think I did a pretty decent job with this. Well, Review/Favorite/Follow and all that jazz. Time to brainstorm about chapter 3.