Disclaimer: I don't own Glee :(
-Marley's POV-
So it's been a few weeks since sectionals and I think that the Glee club might be starting to maybe forgive me?
Well don't sound too sure about it
Oh be quiet you. I know what I did was wrong and that we lost sectionals because of me but now that Glee club is back on and we have a place to practice, things are a little better. We're all singing again and the others have dropped the clubs that they had joined after sectionals, and I am especially happy right now because we only have a few more days left of school before Christmas break!
I've always loved Christmas since I was a little kid, the tree, the lights, the snow, all of it. There's just something about Christmas that makes you feel happy and lifts your spirit. Even though we don't have much money, me and my mom have always made Christmas time special. We usually get a small tree, hand-made stockings and we use candles for Christmas lights. To some people this may sound not Christmas-y at all, but to me it's perfect.
Although this year, my mom told me that we can't get a tree, not even a small one. When I asked why she said that she had spent all of our money for Christmas on my therapy sessions. That just made me feel even more guilty than I was before, gosh I'm ruining everything, first sectionals and now I've ruined Christmas for me and my mom. I don't even need a therapist, I'm fine!
Marley you are clearly not fine! Haven't we had this conversation before?
I am fine now! I swear I am
Oh yeah?
Yes
So you're fine now?
Pretty sure I just said that
Marley how can you be fine so fast?
Two words conscience. Kitty Wilde.
Of course, why did I even ask?
Kitty has been so unbelievably sweet these past few weeks. When everyone ignored me she was there, comforting me with her soothing words and holding me close. She didn't ignore or abandon me like I had thought she would, she stayed by me and protected me. For the first few days she was quite distant and quiet, which made me feel guilty knowing that I was the reason she was acting so weird around me. But then I found out the reason she was acting so strange is because she blamed herself for what happened, it killed me that she thought all of this was her fault. It was in no way her fault, it was all mine.
After she had told me that and we had a talk, she went back to normal. When she agreed to helping me bring back Glee club, I was ecstatic. I knew I couldn't do it on my own because no one would listen to me, but if I had Kitty she could get everyone to meet up and listen to what we had to say.
Luckily our plan worked and now the whole Glee club is back and happily together again. Apart from a few strange glances at me, everyone seems to be acting normal again and we are all happy again, mainly because of Glee club but also because it's nearing Christmas.
However, something strange is going on with Kitty, it's like everyone else is happy but her. Sure, when she's around me she seems really happy, as do I. But whenever someone mentions Christmas, she goes quiet and doesn't look excited like everyone else. My first thought was that it had something to do with her mother, but she had never acted this way when her mother had done something, not even when she had hit Kitty did Kitty go quiet and not speak to anyone, she acted as she usually would. So I don't think the cause of Kitty being all sad is because of her mother, it has to be something else. But what?
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As I rummage through my locker aimlessly, I keep wondering about why Kitty isn't excited for Christmas break, Christmas is the best time of year! How could she not be excited? I'm shocked out of my thinking when someone appears beside me and leans against the locker next to mine. I look at the person who had interrupted my thinking to see that it was Jake.
"Oh um, hi Jake" I say surprised, he hadn't really spoken to me since sectionals and to be honest I didn't really mind that he wasn't bothering- I mean talking to me.
"Hey Marley, so uh how are you doing?" he asks holding his backpack strap and fiddling with it, I'm a little confused as to why he is asking me this or even talking to me in the first place, I think Kitty had made it pretty clear that she didn't like him bothering me.
"I'm fine, thanks for asking" I tell him nodding my head once before turning back to my locker and pretending to move things around, hoping that he'll just leave me alone so I can think about why Kitty is acting weird.
"No problem, so uh I was wondering, are you free Friday?" he asks me with his signature smirk that truthfully really annoys me, I stare at him for a second, wondering if he really just asked me out again when I said no the first time and him and Kitty almost ended up in a big fight. I quickly try to think of an excuse.
"Actually I-I have this…thing" I tell him lamely and he stares at me in confusion.
"A…thing?" he asks and I just nod at him, not trusting myself with words.
"What kind of thing?" he asks again and I cringe internally, knowing that I would have to try and come up with a convincing lie.
"Uhh, it's a uh…therapy thing!" I slightly yell, smiling inside that I had come up with a convincing lie for once. He looks startled for a second from my abrupt yelling but then sighs and surprisingly starts to smile. I just turned him down, he shouldn't be happy.
"Alright, some other time then" he says smirking again and before I have the chance to answer he is turning around and walking away from me down the hall. I sigh frustrated and slam my locker shut.
"Whoa girl, what's with you?" I hear a voice behind me say and I turn around to see Unique standing there with a teasing smile on her face. I sigh and fully turn around to rest against my locker.
"Nothing it's just…Jake asked me out again" I tell her, closing my eyes and resting my head back against my locker. I hear Unique groan.
"Ugh, again?! Man that boy cannot take a hint" she says and I hum in agreement.
"I know, I just want this week to be over" I moan and she laughs slightly as she walks toward me, so only I could hear what she was saying.
"Would this have anything to do with a certain blonde cheerleader?" she mocks me and I open my eyes to turn my head and look at her.
"…Maybe" I smile at her as she giggles. The bell goes off, signalling third period and me and Unique make our way to our classes, still giggling together.
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-Kitty's POV-
Ugh when will this day be over? In fact when will this week be over? Actually no, when will Christmas be over?! Now I know you're probably wondering why I hate Christmas time, most people love Christmas, I used to be one of those people. I really did used to love Christmas, loved everything about it but now I hate it.
The reason why is because my dad died around Christmas time, and ever since Christmas has never been the same. Actually I hadn't had a proper Christmas since dad's death, no tree, no lights, no stockings, no presents. I can't remember the last time someone gave me a present for Christmas, because it's just me and my mother now. She manages to get even colder around Christmas and I try to stay away from her as much as I can. Which means I spend Christmas either hiding in my room or sitting in the meadow and my Christmas dinner would usually be a sandwich from some convenient store. It sucks but I'm not complaining since I know a lot of other people have it harder than I do.
Besides now I have Marley and this will be our first Christmas together, so it's not all bad. Come to think of it, where is Marley? I haven't seen her all day.
I begin to walk down the hallway when the bell for third period rings; I sigh and turn around heading for the gym. I haven't been there in a while and since it's the last week of school, why not get a little work out?
…
I've been in the gym for around a half hour now and once I changed into a red and black McKinley tank top and some basketball shorts, I started to work-out on random things in the room. I've mainly just lifted weights the whole time, truthfully I really like working out, it helps me clear my head and sometimes let my anger out when I'm stressed.
When I lift the bar up and rest it on the two bars beside me I let out a breath and sit up slowly on the bench.
"So are we gonna do this or what?" I hear a voice say to my right and I turn my head to see Jake standing there looking irritated. What is he talking about? And why is he bothering me?
Maybe if you talk to him you'll find out
Yeah…right
"What?" I ask him confused and he groans and crosses his arms over his chest.
Geez someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning
You got that right
"Finn told us to talk to each other remember? Might as well get it over with" he tells me and I internally face palm. Jesus, I really don't want to talk to him but if it's for Marley then…I guess I have to.
"Alright then what do you wanna talk about?" I ask him leaning forward and resting my elbows on my knees, looking up at him as he just stands there. Why is he just standing there? It's kind of uncomfortable having to look up at him like this.
"…I dunno, you come up with something" he says to me, looking frustrated and like he really doesn't want to be here. Hey I don't want to be here either buddy but this is for Marley so suck it up and would you please just sit down?!
I sigh irritated and smack my hand down on the bench, tapping the space next to me. He seems to get what I'm suggesting and sits down next to me but not too close.
"Umm okay…why don't you tell me something about yourself?" I suggest and he scoffs.
"Why should I tell you something about me?" he asks and I drop my head down, running my fingers through my hair frustrated.
"Because this is for Marley and if we don't sort whatever this is between us then we'll keep disrupting Glee and if we disrupt Glee then Marley will be sad and I hate it when Marley's sad so would you please just tell me something?" I ask, bringing my head out of my hands to look at him. He's glaring at me which just makes me even more frustrated and I glare at him right back. After a few seconds he sighs.
"Alright fine, what do you wanna know?" he asks me, both of us having stopped our glaring and are now just facing each other with no expression. I think for a moment because I really couldn't care less about anything Jake had to tell me but we had to do this so I had to think of something.
"Uhh…when Finn told us to talk it was superheroes week right? So why don't you just tell me your weakness, y'know what's your kryptonite?" I ask and I saw him thinking for a second before he scoffed and stood up.
"That's stupid" he tells me and I groan and stand up to face him.
"Well tell me something so we can part ways and you can go on with our life and I can go on with mine" I tell him sternly, god I came in here for a work-out not a frustrating conversation with Jake Puckerman.
"Ugh fine…" he pauses for a moment before turning around and walking to his locker, he opens it up and looks like he's rummaging through it, while I just stand there confused, having no freaking idea what he's doing. After a few moments he closes his locker and walks back up to me in two long strides, he looks pretty nervous which confuses me even more. He lets out a breath and hands me a folded up piece of paper, I raise an eyebrow at him before taking it and opening it up. I don't bother reading what's written on there and bring my head up to look at him disbelievingly.
"Seriously, a note? What are you five?" I ask him sarcastically and he starts to look annoyed again.
"Look would you just read it?" he asks me and I shake my head, holding the note back out to him.
"No, tell me yourself. Come on be a man, tell me face to face" I tell him and he sighs before looking around the room, looking anywhere but at me. But after a few seconds he raises his chin and looks me in the eye.
"My whole life I've never felt like I fit in. Not anywhere" he tells me and looks away. I cross my arms over my chest as I look at him curiously.
"Why?" I ask him and he turns his head back around to look at me again.
"I'm half white, half black, half Jewish…and just in case I forget, someone always reminds me" he sighs and looks down, I stare at him for a moment and for once I feel a little bad for the guy. He starts to shuffle uncomfortably since I don't respond to what he said.
"So what's your kryptonite?" he asks me and I sigh and look down, after a few seconds I shake my head slightly.
"Y'know what forget it, this whole thing was stupid" I mumble and push past him to my locker, ready to escape from this conversation before his voice stops me.
"Dude you just told me to be a man so are you gonna be a man or just walk away?" he accuses me and I rest my hands on the locker doors leaning forward slightly with my head down. I almost tell him that I'm not a man but decide against that, not wanting to cause another argument.
I think about what he said to me and wonder if I should tell him my kryptonite, I mean he was brave enough to tell me his and he looked like he was being honest so it's only fair I tell him mine right? If he can do it then so can I. Come on Kitty, be a man.
"I don't know if I'm good enough to do anything" I admit to him and look at him and surprisingly he's not glaring at me for once, he just looks a little confused.
"What do you mean?" he asks and I turn around to rest back against the lockers, looking straight ahead, not being able to look in his eyes.
"I'm not…smart. People think I am but I'm not, I mean I study so hard but whenever it comes to the actual test, it's like my mind goes blank and I can't remember anything. Sure sometimes I get a good grade but that's just out of luck, I didn't know the answers I just randomly scribbled in A, B, C or D. I'm stupid" I reveal and lazily turn my head to look at him to see a shocked look on his face, I let out a breathy chuckle before turning back around and speed walking out the room before he could get another word in.
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Jesus Christ I can't believe I just told him that, now he'll probably spread it around the whole school. Tell everyone that I'm an idiot who's so stupid she has to rely on luck to pass a freaking test.
Oh my God Marley doesn't even know about this and now I've just opened up and told Jake one of my biggest secrets! Wait, what if she leaves me? What if she realizes she doesn't want to be with some dumb kid?!
Holy Christ are you that delusional?
I don't even know what that word means
Oh my God, listen Kitty Marley loves you, she's not just gonna leave you when she finds out about this!
Yeah, you're right…Please be right!
I carry on speed walking down the hallway and to my locker; I open it up and grab a spare blue, black and white hoodie and some jeans, since I'm still in my gym clothes and the clothes I had been wearing are back in the locker room where Jake is. I walk over to the bathroom and into one of the stalls to change.
Once I'm fully changed, the bell for fourth period goes off and I sigh and stalk out of the bathroom heading to my locker to grab my books, still hoping to God that Jake doesn't tell all the students of McKinley about my kryptonite.
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When the bell goes for lunch I rush out of the classroom and head for my locker. It's been a few hours since Jake and I had talked and I don't think he's told anyone, not yet. I say yet because I've been nervous and scared as hell wondering if Jake is going to tell my secret. God, I'm such a scared-y cat.
More like a scared-y Kitty
Not the time
Fine, I'll just annoy you later
Oh God, please don't!
Before I can carry on arguing with my conscience I feel a tap on my shoulder and it feel to heavy and rough to be Marley so I turn around and am surprised to see Finn standing behind me with his hands in his pockets, looking kind of nervous. I raise my eyebrow at him, wondering why he was here.
"Hey Kitty, could you come with me for a second?" he asks me and starts to turn around slowly starting to walk down the hallway, me following close behind. I'm still confused as to what Finn wants, I did what he asked, and I talked to Jake. What more could he want from me?
We walk for a few minutes, neither of us saying anything before Finn stops in front of some random classroom. I keep staring at him confusedly and he puts his hand on the door knob and turns it. Just before he opens it he smiles at me, almost reassuringly, this only confuses me more.
Once inside I see a middle-aged woman with short brown hair sitting on a chair in front of a table with stacks of paper on piled up on it. She smiles at me but I don't smile back, still confused as to why I'm here.
"Kitty this is Dr Richards, she's going to talk to you about some things" Finn tells me and the lady sticks out her hand towards me and I hesitantly shake it, starting to get nervous. What does she want to talk to me about?
"Hi" I mumble to her and she just has that weird smile on her face, which to be honest doesn't look very genuine at all.
"Hello Kitty, please take a seat" she tells me and I slowly sit in the seat across from her, my gaze flicking down to the stacks of paper on the table. I hear a door close behind us and turn around to see that Finn had walked out, leaving me alone with this Doctor lady.
"So Kitty what we're going to do today is just go through some tests, nothing too major don't worry, it's just to see how you're getting on okay?" she tells me and I find myself not being able to speak when the word 'tests' was mentioned so I just nod slightly to her. She hands me one of the papers that were stacked up in the pile and I realise that it's a math test, it's an eighth grade test so it shouldn't be too hard and I start to really wonder why I have to do a test meant for eighth graders.
"Okay Kitty you have 20 minutes starting from…now" she tells me and I flip over the front page to see the first question. As soon as I read it my mind goes blank and I forget everything to do with division. I read the question again and still nothing. Come on Kitty this test is for eighth graders! You can do this just focus…what do you do with division again...wait what was the question? Ugh, why is this so hard?!
I run my fingers through my hair frustrated and move on to the next question. This ones to do with shapes…wait a second how do I find the angle to that? Do I divide something? Times something? Jesus Christ what's wrong with me?!
20 minutes later and I had only completed 5 questions out of 15, God that's not even half! I sigh and hand my paper to Dr Richards, she seems to be studying me carefully and I begin to wonder if she had been doing that the whole time. She quickly scans her eyes over the paper and puts it down on the table. She looks up at me with a smile which starts to make me confused again, is she happy that I failed or something?
"Okay Kitty you did good, now I want to try one more thing before you can go okay?" she asks me and I just nod my head, feeling like she was talking to me like you would a six year old.
"So I'm going to tell you some information about something and then I'm going to ask you some questions about what I told you, sound simple enough?" she asks me and I just nod my head again, I know she's trying to help but could she speak to me like I'm my own age?!
She told me some information about Henry VIII and I tried my best to listen to everything she said, but when I tried to process one thing she went straight on to tell me about another thing, I couldn't keep up with her! Then she started asking me questions about what she just said and I racked through my brain, trying to remember something, anything! But I couldn't and my attempts at answering her questions were all wrong, except for one which was just telling her what the Kings name was. Come on a five year old could do that.
When she said she was done I let out a sigh of relief, I felt like I was going to cry about what just happened, and I was not going to cry in front of her. But I guess she didn't exactly mean it when she said we were done, because she then proceeded to tell me what was wrong with me.
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When I stepped out of the classroom I saw Finn waiting for me, standing by the lockers.
"Not a brain tumour is it?" he asked me, probably trying to make a joke and I was grateful that he was at least trying to lighten the mood; I let out a breathy chuckle leaning against the wall looking down.
"No…I'm slow…and I may have test anxiety" I tell him, almost choking on my words from trying my best not to let the tears fall and I'm doing a good job so far. I look up to see him standing with his mouth open, not knowing what to do or say. I don't blame him; I wouldn't know what to say either. When I carry on talking I try to keep my breathing under control but it's hard.
"Y'know what it's like? To have a real secret identity? Not like Clark Kent's or Peter Parker but to know inside, you're not who everyone thinks you are…my whole life it's been, 'Kitty just needs to study more…Kitty needs to try and apply herself…work harder, focus, get it together'…but inside Finn I knew they were all wrong, it didn't matter how hard I focused or-or how hard I worked, I was stupid. And if anyone ever found that out, if they knew the real me…I'm-I'm sure it's gonna kill my mom, I mean she was a freaking lawyer Finn, how's she gonna feel about having an idiot for a daughter?" my voice breaks and my breathing comes out in pants.
"I'm sure your mom's gonna love you no matter what" Finn tells me and I chuckle humourlessly at that thought, she doesn't even love me now, how is she gonna feel about me when she knows that I really am just some stupid kid. I go to lean my back against the locker, turning my head to the side to look at Finn as I start to speak again.
"Dude you learn to process all kinds of things when your six…when your six, that's first grade and they separate you into these groups, they don't tell you that's what they're doin'…but everyone knows who's in the smart group and who's in the dumb one…you think a six year old knows that her mom's gonna love her no matter what?...I've been carrying-I've been carrying this secret around my whole life Finn, all this time" I tell him shrugging helplessly as my eyes start to water and I turn my head to look away, Finn brings his hand up and places it on my shoulder.
"Well you can put it down okay? Because the only secret is that, your brain works a little bit different than everyone else's, that's it kay?" he tells me shaking my shoulder lightly and I sniff once before turning my head back up to look at him.
"They're gonna start having study sessions for me, help me focus and work on my test anxiety…I'll start working with the special teacher every day after Christmas break" I nod my head, accepting that this is what I had to do. I had a problem and now I'm gonna fix it, I lift my back off the lockers and punch Finn in the shoulder playfully, smiling a little.
"Hey thank you, thank you for helping me Finn. I owe you" I tell him gratefully, nodding at him and he looks down for a second before lifting his gaze to meet mine with a half-smile.
"Actually you owe Jake" he tells me and I'm shocked at first, but then it all makes sense. Jake must have told Finn, and that's how Finn found out. Wow.
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I make my way over to Jakes locker, planning to thank him when I see a few jocks talking to him-no not talking, teasing.
"Oh Jake I have a really good black joke and since you're half black, you can half listen" a guy in a knit hat mocks Jake and claps all his friends hands, I see that Jake is affected by what he said but trying not to show it so I march over there and put my best glare on, directing it to the stupid head jocks. I know from experience how annoying they could get.
"Hey back off Jake" I tell them sternly and the guy in the knit hat scoffs looking at me disbelievingly, I see Jake turn his head to look at me surprised, but I don't look back at him, instead focusing all my attention on the stupid head jocks.
"Haha you can't tell me what to do-" before he can finish I grab hold of his jacket and slam him into the lockers next to Jake. The knit hat guy looks pretty scared for a second which makes me smile.
"I said, back. Off. Jake" I tell him once more, shoving him more into the lockers and he nods his head vigorously. I let him go and he scurry's off with all of his other stupid friends.
"Why'd you do that?" Jake asks me and I turn to him to see him looking at me curiously, I smile at him a little.
"Thanks" I tell him, ignoring his question. He smiles a little and nods his head understanding what I meant; I turn around and walk down the hallway going to my last period. I wonder how fast the news about me being stupid will spread.
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When the final bell rings I'm relieved that this long school day is finally over, it's been filled with too much drama and emotion and the worst part of it all is that I haven't seen Marley all day! I miss her like crazy and the news about my…sickness shall we call it, has spread like wildfire. Almost everyone in the school knows, most of them keep throwing me sympathetic looks when others just ignore it and try not to look at me, probably uncomfortable. Yeah, it's a little bothering but I know that this will only last for another few days, then another piece of gossip will come along and everyone will start to rave about that.
I spring up from my seat, gathering my books and walking out the classroom and heading down the hall to my locker. When my locker is in view I see a tall, blue eyed brunette standing beside it looking all cute. I smile widely and walk the rest of the way to my locker, when Marley sees me she smiles brightly and greets me with a hug.
"Hey you" she mumbles into my shoulder and then pulls away, even though the hug didn't last long it was still what I needed right now and it's made me feel a little better.
"Hey, how's your day been?" I ask her and open up my locker putting my books inside.
"It's been okay, I've missed you though" she tells me biting her lip which makes me smile, aww she missed me! She's so adorable.
"I missed you too Marley" I tell her honestly and then turn back to my locker, rearranging my books.
"So um…I saw what you did for Jake, that was really sweet of you" she tells me smiling and I start to wonder if she knows about my…problem yet, it seems like everyone else does so I'm guessing she knows too.
"Yeah well…it's not fair how some people treat him just because he's a little different" I explain to her and she nods in agreement. I close my locker and lean my shoulder on it.
"I still don't like him though" I tell her playfully which makes her giggle, it's true I don't like him but I don't hate him anymore, I guess I'm on my way to liking him, I'm just not completely there yet.
"I know" she giggles and I chuckle softly with her, her laugh is contagious. After a few more seconds of laughing she slowly stops and turns serious, and I can see a little bit of sadness in her eyes which makes me nervous.
"Kitty I…I know" she tells me biting her lip, I know immediately what she's talking about and sigh, looking down.
"That I'm stupid?" I ask, but it was more of a statement than a question. I feel Marley's arms wrap themselves around me and she buries her face into my neck as I weakly hug her back.
"Kitty listen to me, you are not stupid okay? You're not stupid" she tells me and I can hear her voice crack a little. I hug her tighter to me and relax in the comfort of her arms.
"We're gonna get through this together okay? I'll support you through all of it, all the sessions and everything" she tells me and I smile into her shoulder, relieved that she's not just going to ignore me or worse leave me and also touched that she cares about me so much.
"I love you Marley" I whisper to her so only she could hear me; I feel her arms tighten around my neck as she sighs happily.
"I love you too Kitty" she whispers back, and I smile even more. Maybe this day won't be so bad after all.
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-Marley's POV-
Wow, today has been very eventful. At lunch when I was standing by my locker, I saw Jake getting bullied by some jocks, I would have went over there but before I could Kitty came up and slammed one of the jocks into the lockers. To say I was surprised would be an understandment, last time I saw Kitty she hated Jake's guts and now she was standing up for him, nevertheless I thought it was incredibly sweet of her.
But then people started acting weird in my next period, the kind of weird when there's brand new gossip and everyone's talking about it weird. I normally don't care about gossip and try to ignore it because usually it's just made up rumours that aren't true. But when I heard Kitty's name, curiosity got the better of me.
I asked Unique if she knew anything about it and she told me that Kitty had gone to this special woman to talk, I was confused by what she meant but that was all cleared up when Unique told me about Kitty's 'problem' as everyone's calling it. I felt so bad that Kitty had to go through this alone all this time and she had been so supportive and comforting to my situation when she had had one of her own. Now it was my turn to be comforting and support her in her situation, I know that this must be really hard for her right now and I'm going to be there for her through it all.
Once school was over I walked as fast as I could to Kitty's locker, making sure I got there before she did so I could talk to her. I got there a few seconds before she did and I managed to put a smile on my face and talk about some other stuff before I talked to her about her…'problem'. When she called herself stupid, I felt like just breaking down right then and there and just holding her tightly in my arms…and I did just that.
When we finished talking I asked Kitty if she wanted to come over to my house for a little while, she agreed immediately and this brings us to now where me and Kitty are lying on my bed and just holding each other.
"…so now I have to see the special teacher every day after Christmas break" Kitty finishes telling me about what exactly happened with the 'special teacher' and Finn and how Jake had told Finn about her 'kryptonite'. I sigh and cuddle more into her.
"Well if seeing her is going to help you then that's good right?" I ask her because she makes it sound like a bad thing.
"I guess but, I just feel so…dumb, I mean I'm gonna be learning things people usually learn when they're six Marley" she sighs and I bite my lip and lean up on my elbow, looking down on her. She looks so sad and it kills me, I put my hand on her cheek and caress it softly, smiling at her.
"Hey, it's gonna be fine okay?" I tell her and after a few seconds of looking at me she finally nods her head and smiles a little. I lean down and press my lips against hers, trying to cheer her up. It seems to do the trick since a few seconds later we're basically making out. Her hands on my waist while both mine are on her cheeks, pulling her closer to me as our tongues dance together in sync.
"Marley sweetie do you and Kitty want some hot chocolate?!" my mom calls from downstairs in the kitchen, Kitty sighs and pulls away, much to my disappointment.
"Every single freakin' time" she whispers and I giggle at her.
"Do you want some hot chocolate?" I ask her, she laughs softly and nods her head.
"Sure" she said softly and I lean in to give her a quick peck on the lips before replying to my mom's question.
"Yes please mom, that would be awesome!" I yell back and my mom tells us to come downstairs. I'm a little disappointed that me and Kitty had to break our embrace but it's okay since we get my mom's hot chocolate, it's delicious and it makes it feel like Christmas even more! Oh hey that reminds me, I have to ask Kitty why she's been so sad lately and acts like she doesn't like Christmas.
"My mom makes the best hot chocolate, you're gonna love it!" I tell Kitty excitedly and tug her down the stairs with me as she laughs softly.
"I'm sure I will" she smiles and I smile back as we step into the living room where my mom waits with 3 cups of hot chocolate on the table in front of the couch, it was cold outside so my mom had put the fire on. With the snow outside, the fire lit and the hot chocolate it feels like Christmas already!
"Thanks mom this is awesome!" I tell my mom and sit down next to her on the couch, Kitty following and sitting next to me. My mom smiled and greeted Kitty while handing us our hot chocolate. Kitty takes a sip and her eyes widen.
"Oh my god, Mrs Rose this is amazing!" Kitty tells my mom and she laughs.
"Thank you Kitty" my mom says smiling widely and I take a deep breath because I was about to ask Kitty why she acted like she didn't like Christmas, I wanted to know so I might as well ask her now but I hope I don't make her upset or anything, she's been through enough today.
"I told you she made the best hot chocolate. So um, I want to ask you something" I tell Kitty turning to look at her, she takes a sip of her hot chocolate before putting it down on the table and giving me her full attention.
"Yeah?" she asks me when I don't say anything else, my mom just watches us quietly.
"Well I've noticed that whenever someone brings up Christmas you go all quiet and you don't seem too excited for Christmas like everyone else is. Why?" I ask her hesitantly, she looks down and sighs.
Dang it Marley you made her all sad!
I didn't mean to! I hate it when Kitty's sad, you know this
Of course I know that, I'm you. Just make her not sad
I think it's a little too late for that conscious, I've already asked her!
Okay umm then listen to her answer?
You are no help!
"I-I don't like Christmas because my dad…he died around Christmas. And it hasn't been fun since, in fact it's been terrible" Kitty tells me and I feel horrible for asking her in the first place and also because she doesn't like Christmas. Christmas is supposed to be filled with happiness and joy, not with sadness and grief. I bet Kitty's mom doesn't make it easier either. Before I can say anything, my mom talks to Kitty.
"Oh Kitty, dear I am so sorry that that's what Christmas is like for you and I am truly sorry to hear about your dad, that's just horrible. Listen Kitty I would be happy and wouldn't mind at all if you wanted to spend Christmas with us, even Christmas eve too if you want and I'm sure Marley wouldn't mind either" my mom tells Kitty and I turn to look at her with a smile forming on my face, did my mom just say that my girlfriend could stay with us for Christmas? That's so awesome!
"Are you sure Mrs Rose? I wouldn't want to impose" Kitty says politely but I can see in her eyes that she really wants to stay with us for Christmas. Aww she's so cute!
"I love your manners; of course you wouldn't be imposing Kitty! Marley and I would love it if you could spend Christmas with us" my mom smiles and Kitty smiles and breathes out a little chuckle.
"Well then I would love that Mrs Rose, thank you" Kitty smiles brightly and I almost squeal from excitement. Me and Kitty would be able to spend our first Christmas together! Man, I just know this is gonna be the best Christmas ever!
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A/N: Sup guys, so Kitty's not as smart as everyone thinks she is huh? So I'm sorry that it kinda took me a while to update, I've been pretty busy and life has been sucky but I'll try to write more now! Except that the next couple weeks are filled with end of year tests which means I'll be busy studying for a while, I'll try my best to fit writing in there too but it may take a little longer than usual, sorry!
Thank you so much for all the reviews, and please keep em' coming! I love all of them and I would love to hear what you all think of this chapter! Bye for now :)