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81: Facility and Truth.

I had another smoke before I went to bed and then I had one when I woke up in the morning. Of course when I did come back to my room Ryder was already there with a questionable expression on his face. "Where were you?"

"Outside." I said as I walked closer to the bed.

"Doing what this early?" He asked. He took a deep breathe, then his eyes grew wide. "Oh no, not again!"

"Yes." I muttered.

"Have you seen those commercials with the girl at the store and she rips off her face to pay for her cigarettes? The kid who pulls his tooth out to pay for the cigarettes? Or that commerical with the guy who pulls out his fake teeth?"

"I know I know. But..." I said. How could I explain this?

Ryder sighed and said, "Whatever. That's not too important now. I have something to tell you."

"What?" I asked as I sat back on the bed. He didn't look to happy; bad news I assumed. "How bad?"

"Hmmm not good." Ryder said. "I managed to get a hold of Winnie the other day, she's really glad you're okay.'

"Oh that's good! How is she?" I smiled.

"Not good. Long story short, her now ex-girlfriend ratted her out on the drugs and she's in deep shit for being in care of an underage minor while in position drugs. Then they had to check you out to see if you were given any drugs or taken on your own and they found a couple of people that know you and Lark that told on you. It was all undercover cop business too."

"Oh shit." I muttered. "Then what?"

"They got in contact with your social worker, who get in contact with your therapist. Marley, remember you said you started smoking to get rid of the anger and pain you felt after Sectionals?" He asked and I nodded. "Then the same with the weed and other drugs, sort of?"

"Well...yes." I said. "And the drinking."

"Well your therapist believes that was your way of coping with pain and anger and feeling bad about yourself."

"It... sounds about right."

"Well Minnie overheard your social worker and your therapist talk and this is the deal breaker she heard." A deal breaker? "You'll have to do this in-patient rehab facility for three months starting in September. If you do good than you're going to live in a good home, and I know who's home that is, as a foster child and you'll have more group support on the Saturday from 8 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon, then Sunday activities from 10 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon."

"What about school?"

"You'll be given homework assignments from the school to the facility so that you stay on top of work." Ryder told me.

Now the bad one. "Glee Club?"

Ryder sighed. "You'll probably miss sectionals, since you'll be in the facility from September until the end of November, but I asked Finn who asked to Mr. Schue about Regionals and Mr. Schue is more than okay with you coming back into Glee Club. He's excited you'll come back."

"I'm excited to come back to Glee." I said. "What facility?"

"I'm not sure exactly, I don't know too much." Ryder said. "I just want you to get better Marls." He said as he caressed my cheek.

"I wanna get better." I told him softly, feeling his hand. "What about Lark and Minnie?"

"Same thing, but Minnie is moving to another town to re-start all over. Lark is doing the same thing as you, but when he's done with his three months than going to a sober home."

"Oh, okay. Who's house am I staying at?"

Ryder laughed. "So many questions. I'll let you know later."

"But—"

"Shhh. You'll know soon enough, Marls." Ryder told me. "Now, how about we get breakfast."

I wanted to know who I was staying with, but I trusted Ryder with knowing who I was going to live with. Maybe Unique? I hope not Kitty, that actually would just be a nightmare. I doubted Tina would welcome me into her peaceful home full of range and besides she and Brittany are going off to college in the Northeast at M.I.T and Brown University. Who was left?

Ryder managed to take some of my old clothes from Lima and brought them to New York. Lima Marley was so sweet and innocent, not like the trash I've been wearing. I put on a floral skirt with a blue shirt and yellow cardigan, tied on my brown boots and Ryder and I left for the hospital cafe. Disgusting food.

Cardboard pancakes, plastic bacon and a green smoothie that looked like vomit later I had half the shit eaten. I forced it down my throat so that Ryder didn't get annoyed. Damn I needed a cigarette.

"Hey, do you mind if I take a leak?" I asked.

He chuckled. "You sound like a guy. You're the first girl I know to use that expression. Go ahead." He said.

I got up and went to the women's restroom down the hallway, out of the view of the cafeteria. I walked further down the hallway and got outside. I looked around for someplace to have a smoke and when I saw where some others were smoking and finishing up their cigarettes, I pulled out a cigarette and a lighter and as soon as I sat down on a bench I put the cigarette in my mouth and began smoking it.

It didn't take too long before I felt a tap behind me and when I turned I saw Ryder. "Using the outhouse?" He asked.

"I...farted." I said, trying hard to not giggle. "And it...stank...so I came out here." I said.

"Whatever." He said as he sat down next to me. "Nice butt."

"You haven't seen my butt in months." I said.

"You know what I mean."

"Yeah I know." I said, having another puff. "I'll be done in a minute."

"Take your time." Ryder said as he stood up. "I'll be back in a few minutes."

I smoked for another five minutes before throwing it on the ground and stepping on the cigarette. I got up and followed into the same direction of Ryder to look for him. He was back in the cafe poking at his food. I joined him and asked, "Are you okay?"

"Fine." He said bitterly.

"You're not fine."

"Well I'm not too happy you're still smoking." Ryder told me. "You smell like nicotine all the time."

"I can't stop smoking. It takes years, Ry." I said.

"I know that." Ryder said. "But you smell like shit half the time."

"Whatever." I said. "Wanna go watch a movie?"

We went back to my room and watched a movie on TV for a bit. I had three more cigarettes during the run of the four hour movie and by the time it finished we had to go get lunch.

Hours later Ryder left when visiting hours ended, we kissed but I felt annoyance on his bitter lips. Not surprised, his girlfriend keeps up with her smoking habits.

Oh so Marley is going to a facility to work on her habits (So a sequel should happen for that, yey) and Ryder is back to being bothered by her smoking.

Update: Those who have been reading Brother's and Sister you might have noticed I deleted the story. I didn't like the flow of the story anymore and I came up with back stories for the OC's I created. So I have decided to re-write the story in a way that I like it and that I believed you will too like it. I'm not sure when I'll get to re-writing the story, but I promise I will get back to that as soon as possible.