Giving it All Away

Night In

Yay! I'm on that seven hour bus ride (ugh, I'm so nauseous😲), so long chapter (good news!)!! They go a bit farther in this chapter, so warning...

Marley POV
After school on Monday, we decided to stay in and have a date. I can cook, and so can Ryder. We wanted to cook for each other, and have a mini-contest type thing. My mom was a cook/lunch lady, and raised poor, she knew she wanted me to be able to cook if she was going to be away a lot. At the age of 5, I usually made breakfast and dinner for me and my mom, as she was tired from the day at school. It was usually just made of leftovers Mom was allowed to bring home from school, but at least we got free food.

When it was my turn to cook for Ryder, I took some rice, added cheese, carrots, and peas, sprinkled chives and Parmesan cheese over the top, and BAM! A risotto was born. I also made some glazed carrots and peas with the leftover vegetables. Ryder made me spaghetti and meatballs (frozen meatballs and canned tomato sauce 😓), my mom's specialty. But since they are my mom's specialty, I had tasted better, so we both decided I had won.

After a day full of studies, two tests, Tina rambling on about Mike Chang, Artie and Kitty making out all over the place, cooking for Ryder, 6 subjects of homework due the next day, and a Glee club meeting in which Brittany demanded all solos for Regionals, I needed to relax. I decide to brew some peppermint tea to make me more relaxed.

"Ry-Ry. I want to cuddle," I walk over to my boyfriend. He is sitting on my couch, watching Friends. I sit on his lap and wrap my arms over his neck and give him a quick peck on the lips.

"I want to watch Friends, Marles. (Side note- pronounced Mar-uhls) We can cuddle laaattteeerrr.

My bottom lip curls out and my eyes look sadly at him. "But, Ryder. I want to cuddle. C'mon, you're leaving tomorrow. I have exams soon, and I won't have much time to be with you. That makes me sad, because I love you," I say, using a baby voice and clinging tighter to him.

"I love you too, Marley, but Ross and Rachel are making the story line really interesting." He leans down slightly to kiss me on the lips, but he quickly adjusts his focus back to Friends.

"I can easily go back to Jake, if he knows I want to cuddle," I say. His eyes widen, but when I kiss him, he looks reassured, and refocuses on Friends.
"Well, what about this?" I lean up and kiss him from the bottom of his long chin up to his mouth. I keep the kiss lingering on his lips and he kisses me back with more passion than I intended. "C'mon, Ry-Ry, I want to cuddle! We can watch a Hunger Games marathon! That will make me very happy," I smile.

"Well, if you're happy, and if you're willing to kiss me like that, I guess Ross and Rachel can wait, and we can watch KatPee's journey from them getting raped to Katniss' revolution," he Eskimo-kisses me.

"Girl, first of all, it's reaped, not raped, that is very inappropriate, second, Katniss doesn't get reaped, she  volunteers for her sister, and third, it's not KatPee, it's Peeniss," I say. As soon as I realize what I said, I cover my mouth and bury my head in Ryder's chest.

He laughs at my embarrassment. "Ha, you said "Peeniss"!" he laughs and points to me like a little kid would.

"Shut up! Let's just watch, I have them on my laptop. We can go to my room and watch. Actually, I'm going to go take a shower, and you can watch the rest of your Friends episode, okay? And then, we can go cuddle and watch Hunger Games," I decide.

"Okay! I am more than happy with that plan! I'll take a shower after that, is that okay? I went and picked up and dropped off some clothes at my place when you were doing homework, so I have pajamas for today, and clothes for tomorrow," he says.