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-Kitty's POV-
It's been a week since I've apologized to Marley and I am so glad I did. When we had pulled away from our hug she gave me her phone number and I gave her mine. Ever since then we've texted every day, and I'm no longer crushing on her, I'm starting to really really like her and care for her.
In fact I like her that much I think I'm going to take her to my 'secret place' today, after school of course. I've never took anyone else there before but I trust her and I want to share this place with her.
When I go there and sketch, without even realizing it I start to sketch Marley Rose instead of my usual sketches of the field. There are sketches of her smiling, concentrating and sometimes just her looking bored. I draw her how I remember her facial expressions in school that day, and in every single sketch she looks so adorable and cute.
Kitty?
What?
You are falling hard for Marley Rose.
No I'm no- ok maybe I am.
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-Marley's POV-
I've had the biggest smile on my face since last week when Kitty apologized, seriously it's like someone put a hanger in my mouth or something, I can't stop smiling I haven't been this happy in a long time, who am I kidding I've never been this happy before!
I mean Kitty is just something else, she's funny she can make me laugh with just one text, she makes me feel good about myself and she's surprisingly a really kind and caring person, and I can see that she does care about me.
My mom noticed the change and is really happy that I'm happy, I can see that she's wondering what changed to make me so happy but she doesn't ask, she says that knowing I'm happy is enough for her it doesn't matter why. I love my mom.
I open up my locker and I piece of paper falls out, I bend down and pick it up and realize it's a note, written in neat handwriting.
Marley
I have something I want to show you, meet me in the auditorium after school? – Kitty;)
If it's possible my smile just got bigger, and I turn my head to the side to see Kitty at her locker a few spaces down from mine, she's looking at me expectantly probably waiting for an answer so I nod at her and smile. She smiles widely back at me before closing her locker and walking down the hall when the bell rang.
Wonder what she wants to show us?
I don't know but I'm kind of excited
I quickly make my way to first period, all the while thinking about what Kitty is going to show me.
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-Kitty's POV-
I'm in my last period and instead of listening to my history teacher drone on and on about the history of medicine, I'm really nervous about showing Marley my secret place. It's not that I don't want to anymore cause I do, it's just I'm worried about how she'll react when I show her and tell her everything. Oh did I forget to mention that I'm going to tell her why it's my secret place which includes telling her about my father and how my mom hates my guts? Well yeah I'm gonna do that.
I don't know how she'll react, if she'll comfort me or not know what to say or just leave me completely.
Kitty don't be an idiot, Marley's the most caring person in the world she's not just gonna leave you.
Yeah…Yeah you're right Marley would never do that.
Of course I'm right.
I'm still nervous though. Why can't my history teacher shut up, I'm trying to think about Marley here!
Finally after what felt like hours but which was really just 20 minutes, class had finished and I'm on my way to the auditorium to meet Marley, every step I take my nerves increase and before I know it I'm in the auditorium and I can see a cute looking Marley Rose sitting on the stage waiting patiently. When I close the door behind me she looks up and smiles brightly and all my nerves disappear.
"Hi Kitty!" she says to me happily, this girl is the cutest thing ever.
"Hey Marley, how was your day?" I ask, genuinely interested in if she had a good day today.
"It was good thanks for asking" she smiles cutely "so what did you want to show me?" she asks me eagerly, trust Marley to get straight to the point. I chuckle a bit.
"To show you I'd have to take you there is it alright with your mom if I borrow you for a couple hours?"
"Oh it's a place you want to show me? And yeah of course my mom won't mind"
"Ok good, we're gonna have to walk there though since I don't have a car, is that alright?"
"Yeah Kitty that's fine" throughout the whole conversation the smile never dropped from her face and I suddenly realise a smile had formed on my face too. I reach my hand out towards her and without hesitation she takes it in her own. Her hand is really soft and warm and both our smiles just got brighter.
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Around an hour later
Throughout the whole walk to my secret place, our hands stayed interlocked and occasionally swinging back and forth in-between us, we talked and laughed the whole way. It was perfect, just like her.
Ew, don't get all mushy Kitty.
Hey Marley makes me mushy, I can't help it!
When we reach the bush that you walk through to get to my secret place I turn towards and tell her this is it. She looks around confused and I chuckle slightly at her.
"Not her Marley, it's through that bush" I point towards the bush behind me and her mouth makes an 'O' shape as she nods in confirmation. I lead her through the bush and when we get to the other side I see the familiar sight of trees and grass and little hills scattered everywhere, with the orange glow of the sun. Marley gasps and her eyes widen.
"Kitty, this is… Beautiful" she says in awe. She turns to me and smiles brightly when she sees me looking at her instead of the amazing sight in front of us.
"How did you find this place?" she asks me, and I softly tug her hand with me so we walk towards my favourite big tree.
"It's a long story" I tell her as we walk over one of the tiny hills.
"We have time" she smiles at me and I just look at her for a few seconds before turning to look at sunset.
"Alright long story short, my father died 5 years ago and when he went away it's like my mother did too. We get into fights and she doesn't care about me anymore. One day I was walking around after my mom and I had a fight and I found this place, and I've come here ever since" I tell her quickly and when I said about my father dying she abruptly stops us. When I've finished telling her everything she has tears in her eyes that are threatening to spill.
"Oh no Marley don't cry because of me" I beg her as I wipe away a tear that drips down her face. She closes her eyes and pulls me into a tight hug.
"I'm s-so sorry Kitty, that s-sounds so horrible" she chokes out.
Dammit, you made her cry!
I didn't mean to!
I know, but come on fix it!
"Marley please stop crying, look at me I'm fine see" I pull away from her and gesture to myself as I smile slightly at her. She sniffs a little and half smiles at me.
"Now enough with all this emotional stuff, I wanna show you something" I tell her as I nudge her playfully. She giggles slightly as I say 'emotional stuff', I've decided Marley's laugh is now my favourite sound and want to hear it more.
I softly pull at her hand again to lead her towards the big tree. Once we get there she's fully stopped crying now and I'm glad, I hate seeing her cry. I gesture to the big tree throwing my arm up in an exaggerated motion and smile cheesily at her, she giggles again.
"What?" she asks cutely, still giggling.
"This tree is the very tree I climb every time I come here to sketch" I tell her, forgetting that she doesn't know that I like to draw. She looks at me in awe.
"You draw?" she asks me.
"Err yeah, a little" I reply sheepishly.
"That's so cool Kitty! Have you got any of your sketches with you now?" she asks me eagerly, I look at her amused and remember I have my notebook in my backpack with all my sketches in it.
"Actually yeah I do" I smile at her and take my notebook out of my backpack and hand to her hesitantly, wanting her to think my drawing are a little good but afraid if she hates them. She takes the book and smiles at me before looking down at it and slowly opening it, the first sketch is of the field when the sun was setting. She looks at it with her eyes wide her mouth parted slightly, I stare at her expectantly.
She looks at me and releases a small breath "you drew this?" she asks in amazement.
"Yes, I know it's not that good but-"
"What?! Kitty are you kidding me, this is amazing" she cuts me off. A wide smile forms on my face and I feel so much relief that she likes it.
"Really? You like it?" I ask her still unsure.
"Kitty I love it! It's so good!" she tells me like it's the most obvious thing in the world. I gesture for her to sit down against the tree next to me, and she does. For the next 10 minutes I watch her as she looks through my sketches of the field with a concentrated look on her face. Each one she says is really good.
When she turns the page for the 5th time, the sketch isn't from the field this time. It's one of the times I sketched her. My eyes widen in panic and she gasps and looks at me with an astonished look on her face.
"Kitty? Is that… Me?" she asks hesitantly, as if she's not sure what she sees on the page is actually her. I freeze in my place.
You're screwed!
I know, why was I so stupid to give her the notebook?!
I don't know but you've been sitting here for a few seconds staring at her and it's starting to get weird.
Oh god, what do I do?
Say something you idiot!
"Y-y-yes that's you. Marley I'm so sorry I didn't mean to-"
"Kitty why are you apologizing? This is so amazing! I look beautiful" she cuts me off with a small smile on her face. She looks surprised when she says she looks beautiful, and before I can stop myself words come stumbling out of my mouth.
"You are beautiful Marley" I tell her with complete honesty, she snaps her head to look at me, I expected her to be creeped out but she was… Smiling.
"You really think so Kitty?" she asks me and bites her lip, my eyes automatically go down towards her soft lips and I nod slightly, forcing my head to move back up to her eyes.
"I know so" I say softly and she brightly smiles at me and blushes.
"Thank you Kitty, that's really sweet" she says bashfully. I grin at her and slowly take the notebook out of her hands and put it back in my backpack. I take her hand and pull her up effortlessly. I look up to the tree not letting go of her hand, and an idea pops into my head.
I look to her and smile widely, she smiles back hesitantly wondering what I'm thinking.
"You want to go up?" I ask her slightly excited. She looks up at the tall tree unsurely and then moves her head back towards me.
"You mean up the tree?" she asks with a little fear in her voice, I look at her and nod my head. She then starts the shake her head back and forth.
"I'm sorry Kitty but I can't go up there because I can't climb trees and I… I'mafraidofheights" she mumbles really fast I didn't understand what she said last.
"Marley sorry I didn't quite catch the last part, could you say it again, this time a little slower?" I ask her politely because she does look quite scared and I don't want to make her uncomfortable. She takes a deep breath and looks at me shyly.
"I'm afraid of heights" she tells me and blushes, quickly looking down. I don't understand why she's so embarrassed, lots of people are afraid of heights, me not being one of them. I guess that's something we don't have in common then.
"Hey Marley… Marley look at me" I tilt her chin upwards and she hesitantly looks at me and I just simply smile at her, this seems to make her relax a little. "It's alright, lots of people are afraid of heights there's nothing to be embarrassed about" I tell her softly and when she starts to tilt her head down again I softly take both her cheeks in my hands to keep her looking at me, I smile at her assuredly and slowly she smiles back, blushing a little from me holding her cheeks. She's so adorable.
"Listen, I understand you're afraid alright. But I really want to show you this, so Marley Rose will you climb up this tree with me so I can show you the incredible view up there?" I ask her and she looks unsure and looks back up to the height of the tree again and slowly shakes her head once again.
"Kitty I can't, I'll fall" she tells me, with a hint of fear in her voice.
"Hey, no you won't. I'll be with you the whole time Marley. If you fall, I'll catch you" I reassure her softly, my eyes not leaving hers. I can see in her eyes that I've almost convinced her because her lips pull up in a little, cute smile.
"Do you trust me?" I ask her, half playfully and half serious. She giggles and looks at me smiling for a few seconds before she nods.
"I trust you Kitty" she tells me softly. I smile at her once more and take a step back from her. I look to the lowest branch on the tree, low enough for Marley to just be able to put her foot on it.
"Okay then Marley deep breath" I tell her playfully, because I can tell she's nervous about this, I take an exaggeratingly deep breath as she laughs and takes a deep breath as well.
"Alright, put your foot on this branch here" I instruct her as I pat the lowest branch. She puts her foot on it and I hoist her up by the waist and tell her to grab on to the nearest branch to her. She squeals slightly when I lift her up not expecting it and I chuckle at her.
"Oh shut up you" she says to me playfully, which only makes me laugh more. After around 5 minutes we're halfway up and Marley accidently looks down and starts to panic slightly. My arms around her waist securely, I know she won't fall but it's just to make her feel safer.
"Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh" she mumbles slightly whilst shutting her eyes tightly trying to calm herself down.
"Hey you're okay Marley, you're alright" I tell her, she looks at me and I smile at her, the corner of her lips turn upward slightly.
"Come on Mar, you've come halfway already in just around 5 minutes, you're doing so great, just a little bit higher and it'll all be worth it" I promise her, the smile never leaving my face while I subconsciously tighten my grip around her waist. She relaxes and a big smile appears on her face as her eyes flutter slightly as she looks up at me.
"What?" I ask her softly smiling.
"You called me Mar" she tells me like it's something amazing.
"Yeah, is that ok?" I ask her a bit unsure on how she'd react to the nickname.
"Yes Kitty it's ok, I've never had a nickname before, I like it" she smiles at me and tilts her head in such an adorable way; it makes me want to kiss her.
"Well then Mar" I say 'Mar' a little loud and she giggles.
"Are we going to continue climbing this tree?" I ask her. She thinks for a moment until she nods her head, the big smile still there on her cute little face.
"Yes" she says determined. I laugh at how she can make something as simple as climbing a tree sound so hard.
It takes us another 5 minutes, and along the way Marley made sure she didn't look down again so she wouldn't freak out again, but we finally get to the top and sit on two thick branches next to each other. Marley has the biggest smile on her face and starts laughing out loud, which makes me laugh with her.
"We made it Kitty!" she shouts like it's a great accomplishment, I carry on laughing with her because she is just too cute. Its then she looks out in front of her and gasps loudly, seeing the glow of the sunset highlight the field in an orange colour.
"Oh my… Kitty it's so beautiful" she says in amazement as she can't take her eyes off of the sight in front of her. Whereas I can't take my eyes off of her. The light is hitting her face making it look like she's glowing, and in this moment I've never seen anything more beautiful in my life.
"Yeah it is" I mumble still looking at her in awe, but I'm not talking about the field of course, I'm talking about her. She turns her head towards me and she catches me staring but she doesn't turn away, in fact her head inches closer towards mine.
Our eyes stay connected, occasionally flicking down to the others lips. Our noses touch softly as I close my eyes. Our lips are millimetres apart now and if one of us lean forwards another inch, they would be touching. I decide to be the one to lean forward and slowly our lips meet in a soft kiss.
-Marley's POV-
Oh. My. God. We're kissing!
Yeah I can see that, well I can feel that haha
Shut up, I'm trying to enjoy my first kiss!
…Sorry
This is so amazing, I can see fireworks. Kitty is a really good kisser, I knew I felt something for her and now my feelings for her have times by 10. One of her hands is softly pressed against my cheek and one of my hands is pressed over her chest. This is such a perfect moment, and I never want it to end.
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A/N: They kissed! Yay, next chapter Kitty will meet Mrs Rose, hmmm I wonder how that's going to go? xp
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