Disclaimer: Still don't own Glee :(
-Kitty's POV-
These have been the best couple of days of my life, and it's all because of one Marley Rose. I can't believe she got me something, I figured she wouldn't since she didn't really have any money but to my surprise she did get me a present and the fact that she made it herself made it all the more special. I'm so happy that Marley liked her necklace, I'd been wondering around jewellery shops for hours, trying to find something that suited Marley. When I saw the necklace I immediately thought of my bright eyed girlfriend and purchased it along with the other one I got for Mrs Rose.
But unfortunately all great days have to come to an end at some point, which is why I'm standing in the Rose's doorway and being hugged by Marley in a tight embrace. Mrs Rose had already bid me a sweet goodbye and gone to the kitchen to give us some privacy which I was grateful for. As soon as she left Marley had pulled me into a big hug and we had stayed like this for a few minutes now, but Marley showed no sign of letting go any time soon. I gently pry her arms from around my neck and create an inch of space between us so I could look at her.
"Okay, I really should go now" I say smiling playfully at her as she sighs deeply, clutching my shirt in a tight grip.
"Noo" she whines and I laugh at her softly before taking her hands and bringing them out of their grip. She makes the most adorable pout I've ever seen in my life and I swear she could make anyone do anything with that pout.
"Yes" I have to force myself to look away from that cute pout and lean up to place a soft kiss on her forehead.
"Don't pout at me like that" I mumble against her head and pull away to see that the pout had thankfully been replaced by a faint smile.
"I'm sorry, I just don't want you to leave" she says and I melt at how cute she is, I sigh and place both my hands on her cheeks caressing them softly.
"And I don't want to leave but you know that I have to" I tell her looking deep into her baby blue eyes, after a few seconds she nods slowly but still looks a little sad. I lean in and kiss her softly; it was only meant to be short but as she started to kiss back I couldn't stop, her lips were so addictive, she was so addictive. After a minute of softly kissing we pull away slowly, looking into each other's eyes smiling brightly.
"So I'll see you soon?" I ask her, my thumb stroking her cheek softly as she nods happily.
"I'll see you soon" she said as I force myself to pull away from her completely and walk out the warmth of the Rose household. I turn around and wave slightly to Marley as I walk down her street, once she's out of sight I fully turn around and make my way to the meadow, not quite wanting to go home just yet.
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I've been walking around the meadow for an hour now, thinking.
Bout what?
You should know, you're me
Whatever, come on tell me what you're thinking
Since when are you so interested?
Since you've been walking around aimlessly for an hour, I'm bored! So just tell me already!
Fine, I've been thinking about Marley-
Like that's not what you do all the time!
Shut up and let me finish
…Sorry
So, I've been thinking about Marley and my father, the night he died is only a couple days away and I'm never really…okay when that day comes. It's like I lose my mind and I keep having flashbacks to that night, I can never think about anything but that night. The fight, my father, the crash…and how it was all my fault.
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-Marley's POV-
So needless to say, that was the best Christmas of my life. I was sad to see Kitty go but I knew that she had to; otherwise her mom might get angry and do something that I don't even want to think about. But I was even more sad then usual to see Kitty go because times are about to get rough for me and my mom. It's a couple days away from the day that my dad left us and it's never an easy time, so I guess I kind of needed Kitty right now. I sigh heavily and walk over to flop down on the couch next to my mom.
"What's wrong sweetie?" my mom asks me and I lean into her side as she strokes my hair softly.
"I miss Kitty" I pout and I hear my mom chuckle slightly, making me a little confused.
"Sweetheart she only left a few minutes ago" my mom tells me, I lift my head up from her shoulder and look at her with my eye brow raised.
"Mom I missed her as soon as she stepped out the door" I sigh again and snuggle more into my mom. We sit in a comfortable silence for a few minutes before my mom decides to break it.
"Marley I know that…day is coming up and I understand that you wish Kitty was here with you right now" my mom smiles at me sadly and rubs my arm soothingly.
"Yeah I do…but I understand that she can't" I say sadly, my mom nods at me and kisses my forehead, hugging me a little tighter. It's times like these where I'm really glad that I have my mom and I can't help but wonder if me and my mom would be this close if my dad hadn't of left us, I mean it was him leaving that made me and my mom have this close bond because all we had was each other. So in some ways I guess it was good that he left, otherwise I wouldn't have this kind of bond with my mom.
"It sucks though" I mumble after a few more seconds of silence, my mom laughs a little.
"Yeah, it does suck" she agrees with me and I crack a smile as we softly laugh with each other.
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I'm starting to get worried and a little scared. Kitty hasn't been responding to any of my texts or calls for two days, today is the day my dad left me and if I couldn't be with her, I at least wanted to text her but it seems like I can't even do that. I'd left her multiple voicemails and none of which had she responded to. I'm starting to go crazy because I have no idea if Kitty is okay or if anything has happened to her, my thoughts immediately go to her mom and if she had hurt Kitty again.
Marley come on don't think like that, Kitty's probably fine
Then why hasn't she been answering my texts?!
…I don't know, but there has to be a better explanation for this
Well I'm going to find it
I quickly walk out of my bedroom and pick up my coat on the way out, I need to make sure Kitty's okay. So I head to the one place I knew she'd go if she weren't home, the meadow.
As I walk down the cold street, I pull my coat closer around my body shivering from the freezing weather. I look around to see my street lit up with Christmas lights people hadn't took down yet, it's getting pretty dark out so I walk a little faster, I never did like being on my own at night so I hope to God that Kitty is in the meadow. She told me that she sleeps there sometimes so there's a chance that she could be there now.
It takes another 10 minutes but I finally reach my destination and walk through the gap in the big bush to come face to face with the familiar looking meadow. I breathe out a sigh of relief, feeling safe here, like nothing could get in and harm me. I feel a small smile pull at the corner of my lips as I think about all the wonderful times me and Kitty had had here, this was our place.
I shake my head out of my thoughts and walk across the length of the field, my eyes searching around the darkness of the big space for Kitty. Having no luck, I decide to try in the woods, not wanting to think that Kitty was at home with her God awful mother. I hesitantly walk through the dark forest and see how creepy all the trees look at night, with their weird twisty branches. I take in a deep, shaky breath as I force myself to walk further into the woods. I cautiously go deeper and deeper until I come across a small river and I see a dark silhouette standing next to a tree, looking out at the light of the moon.
I step closer and accidently snap a twig in the process, making the silhouette turn around in surprise. I smile in relief when I see that it's Kitty but when Kitty furrows her eyebrows and doesn't smile back, I begin to get confused and worry starts to build up in me again when I vaguely make out some tear stains on her cheeks.
"What are you doin' here?" Kitty asks confused, I take another step towards her.
"You haven't been answering any of my texts or calls, Kitty I'm worried about you" I tell her concerned and walk even closer to her, stopping once we're a couple inches away from each other.
"I'm sorry, uh you don't need to worry about me" she says softly but I don't believe her.
"Kitty if something's wrong, you can tell me" I tell her and I can see her trying not to cry so I quickly move forward and wrap my arms around her as she breaks down, crying into my shoulder.
"It's my fault" she croaks out and I rub her back soothingly, shushing her softly.
"Sweetie what's your fault?" I ask her when she makes no move to say anything else; I feel her take a deep, shaky breath before she answers me.
"My dad died because of me" she mumbles into my shoulder and I gasp softly in shock, pulling her closer to me and trying to keep my tears at bay from how defeated my girlfriend is right now.
"Kitty what are you talking about?" I ask her disbelievingly, how could she think that it was her fault that her dad died? She sniffs and pulls away from me, wiping her eyes roughly while I look at her concerned.
"I didn't tell you the whole story" she says running her fingers through her blonde hair and started pacing a little.
"Well then tell me now" I tell her softly and place my hands on her upper arms, stopping her from her pacing. She's breathing heavily and after a moment of standing there, calming down she nods her head slightly. When she hesitates to say anything I nod at her encouragingly, she sucks in a deep breath and starts to speak.
"Okay, so it started off just like any other night, mom and dad were fighting and I was hiding in my room somewhere…but this time I didn't stay in my room, I couldn't take it anymore, I couldn't listen to them fighting again…so I climbed out my window and ran, I just ran away like a freaking coward" Kitty bites out bitterly and walks backwards a few steps, out of my hold.
"You're not a coward Kitty" I tell her sternly, she shakes her head looking at the ground, away from my gaze and carry's on with the story.
"I ran for an hour until I realised that I had no idea where I was, I got pretty scared and called my dad and asked him to come pick me up…when he did he told me not to run off like that…we were driving over the bridge when…" her voice cracked a little and her breathing becomes shakier and quicker, it was taking everything in me not to hug her right now, but I knew that she needed to get this out so I stood silently, watching as she rested some of her weight against the tree and told me about what was probably the worst day of her life.
"It was a drunk driver, the car just drove into our lane and crashed right into us…and dad had no time to react or even try to swerve out of the way…I…I woke up in a hospital a few hours later and the doctors they were…they were confused that I was even still alive, they said that the crash should have killed us both but nope…just my dad…Marley if I hadn't been so stupid to run away, my dad would still be here and my mom wouldn't blame me for what happened…God, it's all my fault, it's all my fault" Kitty had started pacing again and running her hands through her hair, with tears streaming down her face. I stand there for a second, gaping at her before my instincts kick in and I'm quickly moving forward and wrapping my arms around her shoulder, pulling her as close to me as possible.
"Kitty listen to me, it is not your fault" I mumble into her shoulder, trying hard not to cry at how defeated my girlfriend was right now. I feel Kitty shake her head against my shoulder.
"It is Marley" she muttered and I place both my hands on her cheeks and pull away from her, so we're now looking into each other's eyes.
"Kitty I know how you feel, believe me I do. The night my dad left, I was so confused; I thought that we were happy together…but we mustn't have been if he chose to leave, and I blamed myself, I thought that I must have done something to make him go and leave like that. My mom tells me that it's not my fault but when I ask her why he left she never has an answer…I blamed myself for so many years but then I realised that it wasn't my fault, it was never my fault…it was my dad's…and Kitty listen to me, this isn't your fault either okay? It is not your fault" by the time I finish, we're both in tears and I pull Kitty back into me and squeeze her tightly as she clings on to me.
"I love you so much" she chokes out and I let out a breathy laugh, I will never get enough of hearing her say that.
"I love you too Kitty" I mumble into her neck, wrapping my arms tighter around her. I breathe her in and close my eyes, feeling a big weight having lifted off my shoulders from finally talking to someone about my dad and I am so glad that that someone was Kitty.
…
Once we had calmed down and stopped crying, we started to talk about our dad's, reciting the good and some of the bad memories we had of them. Kitty wanted to show me something and before I had finished agreeing she pulled me gently out of the meadow and onto the street. We walked for around 10 minutes, me questioning where we were going and Kitty not telling me, before Kitty stopped in the middle of an empty road and gestured cutely to the big space.
"What?" I ask her confused, she moves forward and grabs my hand pulling me onto the road with her. I look around nervously for any cars; Kitty seems to notice this and laughs softly.
"Marley don't worry, cars hardly ever come down here" she tells me assuredly and I bite my lip and look at her.
"Hardly?" I ask her unsure, she smiles at me and shrugs. Next thing I know she's on the ground, lying down with her hands on her stomach, looking content.
"Kitty what are you doing?" I giggle at her; she looks over to me and raises an eyebrow playfully.
"I'm lying down?" it comes out more of a question than a statement but it makes me giggle, she smiles charmingly at me and pats the space next to her.
"What if a car comes?" I ask hesitantly, but moving to lie down next to her anyway. I rest my head back on the cold concrete and try to get the least bit comfortable as I feel her shrug next to me.
"We die" she says bluntly and I gasp, smacking her on the shoulder grinning as she chuckles and brings her hand up to rub her arm where I had hit her. She rests her head back again and looks up at the stars, her chuckles dying down as I begin to fidget nervously, my head continuously turning to look around for any cars coming.
"Marley just relax okay? No cars are gonna come down here, just relax" she mumbles and I turn my head to the side to look at her, she looks peaceful staring up at the stars. I smile at how adorable she looks, happy that she's doing okay now after that talk in the forest. I look up at the stars above us and sigh at how amazing the clear night sky looks right now.
"My dad used to bring me here all the time when I was a kid, we would look up at the stars and he would always tell me that each star had a story, kinda like how a humans story is their life…can you imagine that? I mean there are billions and billions of stars in the universe, and each one has a story" she turns her head away from the stars to look at me, her words make me smile brightly.
"Wow, that's amazing" I whisper to her, she nods her head at me starting to lean closer, bringing her hand up to brush a strand of my hair out of my face, keeping her hand on my cheek.
"Not as amazing as you" she whispers, closing the gap between us as I blush at her sweet words. I kiss her back eagerly but softly as I bring my hand up to clutch at the collar of her leather jacket. Our lips move together in sync, and I can feel the love through the kiss, which only makes me want more. I press myself more against her, tugging her even more closer to me, bringing my free hand up to come through her silky blonde hair. I feel Kitty's tongue softly run over my bottom lip, asking for entrance which I happily give her. As our tongues meet, I can't help but let out a soft moan and I hear Kitty sigh in content as our tongues continue to dance together.
We're abruptly brought out of our moment by a loud honk of a horn, we pull away only to see a car coming towards us pretty quickly. Kitty pulls me up as I shriek loudly and we sprint off the road onto the pavement, I press myself up against the wall as the car drives further down the empty road. I pant, still pretty scared and look over to Kitty to see her bent over and holding her stomach while she laughs hysterically.
"Why are you laughing?" I ask her bewildered, as she keeps laughing hard. We could have just died!
Oh come on, no you couldn't
Yes we could have! The car was coming really fast!
No it wasn't
Okay, for once could you just agree with me?
Hmmm…nope, sorry
Ugh!
"You should have seen your face" Kitty laughs and points at me, I slowly ease myself off the wall that I had my back pressed against and pout at her.
"Kitty come on, we could have died" I tell her when her laughing had calmed down a little but she was still chuckling softly.
"But we didn't" she tells me grinning; I continue to pout at her. She sighs and walks forwards slowly, her smile never leaving her face though.
"Come on Marley, don't pout" she begs me and I have to force myself not to smile, she places her hands on my cheeks and leans in giving me a soft peck on the lips. When she pulls away I'm not able to contain my smile and she chuckles again, leaning up to kiss my forehead.
"Come on, let's get you home" she says softly against my forehead as she pulls away, I nod and link our hands together as we turn and start to make our way down the empty street.
…
It takes about 20 minutes until we reach my house and when we do I ask my mom if Kitty could stay the night, since it was getting pretty late and I didn't want her walking home on her own.
Are you sure that's the only reason?
Okay fine, that and I really want Kitty to stay over!
I knew it
We decided to have a little snack before we went to bed, which brings us to now where me, Kitty and my mom are sitting on the couch and talking while we eat some sandwiches.
"So Kitty, how have you been these past couple of days?" my mom asks Kitty taking a bite of her sandwich and Kitty swallows her food before answering.
"I've been alright, how about you Mrs Rose?" Kitty asks politely, smiling at my mom. I let my mom and my girlfriend talk and finger the rose pendent hanging from my neck, looking down at it and smiling brightly, remembering how Kitty gave it to me on Christmas. The day Kitty had left my mom and I had talked for a long time about how sweet Kitty was for getting us such a beautiful and expensive gift. I still have trouble believing how lucky I am to have such an amazing girlfriend and mom; sure I don't have a lot of money but I don't need or want any of that as long as I have my mom and Kitty. I'm so happy right now and nothing could change that.
"You done eating?" Kitty's soft voice brings me out of my thoughts and I look at her to see her pointing at my empty plate that my sandwich had been on; I smile slightly and nod my head. She smiles softly and picks up my plate, stacking it on top of the two she was already holding, I'm guessing that that was hers and my moms. She gets up from the couch and starts to make her way out of the room.
"Thank you Kitty!" my mom calls out smiling, as Kitty walks into our kitchen.
"No problem!" I hear Kitty yell back and I giggle slightly. My mom turns back around and looks at me with a wide smile, I furrow my eyebrows a little, confused.
"What?" I ask her and my mom shakes her head and chuckles slightly.
"I'm so happy that you've found Kitty honey, this is the first time that you've ever smiled or laughed on this day and I have Kitty to thank for that, I'm glad you have her" my mom smiles at me, I reach out and wrap my arms around her shoulders, giving her a big hug.
"I'm glad I have her too" I smile into her shoulder, we pull away after a minute and my mom sinks back into the couch, sighing happily.
"Oh, for once this day hasn't been filled with bad memories or sad surprises" my mom says relieved and I have to say that I am too. I open my mouth about to say something else when I hear a knock on our front door, I furrow my eyebrows in confusion of who that could be since we hardly ever get any visitors and Kitty is already here. My mom seems to be thinking the same thing, looking at the front door confused.
"Hmm, I wonder who that could be?" my mom muses and I shake my head, still a little confused.
"I don't know" I mumble and another knock on the door brings us out of our wondering and I shake my head slightly, starting to get up off the couch before my mom can.
"I'll get it" I tell my mom as she smiles at me gratefully, probably because she doesn't have to get up now, she does look pretty tired today. As I walk towards the door, another knock is made and it starting to get frustrating now.
"I'm coming!" I yell loud enough so that whoever the person was outside could hear me. As I finally reach the door I place my hand on the handle and push it down, opening the door. My eyes widen when I see who is standing there on my porch.
"Dad?"
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A/N: Sup guys, sorry for the wait, I have been studying and I also went to my first comic con which was awesome! Okay so I have one week of big, important exams and then I will be able to update more! Yay! Soo first, sorry about the cliffhanger xp but I really, really hope that you liked this chapter and I would love to hear your thoughts on it and maybe what you think is going to happen next ;)
karley4tw: Hello :) I'm really glad that you're liking my story so far and I hope that you liked this chapter. I was actually thinking about doing something a bit like you suggested, weird right? Also, that must have been a very awesome dream you had and I will definitely take your idea in to consideration ;)
Thank you so, so much to everyone that has reviewed, I really love reading them and it makes me write more, so thank you. Please, keep them coming and review! I really would love to hear what you all think. Bye for now :)