Giving it All Away

Double Date

Hey guys! Thank for reading, voting, and commenting! Also, a favor, if you know any other Ryley shippers, or even Kartie shippers for this chapter, please share this story with them! Since I'm on an 11 hour plane flight, this will be a very, very long chapter (at least for me). Now that I see after I'm done writing, it's actually the longest one. Please refer to the picture above that I made in Polyvore for images of their outfits for their date. Thanks for everything!! Bye, and please enjoy the story😘😘! By the way, I would've written this chapter like Artie's not in a wheelchair, it would be much much easier, but it's too late now. If there are any plot holes or grammatical errors, sorry!

Marley POV
It was embarrassing to show Ryder my body. But I had been going to therapy for anorexics and bulimics, and I had learned to be more proud of my body. Of course, all he had done was accidentally see me, and hugged naked, and made out, but we hadn't sex or anything yet. I wasn't ready for that.

I also had to admit to him that I was doing therapy for my bulimia, which was still not cured yet. I had made friends with an anorexic girl named Emma, who basically lived in the hospital with an in and off relationship with a boy with one leg named Leo (yes, totally taken from Red Band Society- love that show!), and she came over to my house to hang out sometimes. Even though she was like, a year younger than me. I am 16, a sophomore, almost a junior, and she was 15, a freshman. (Sorry if these ages don't match what I had written before or how old they were the year they did Glease!)

"Ryder, can I talk to you?" It was Tuesday, and he stayed over on Monday, and he just came after school to hang out today.

"What's up, Babe? Something wrong?" he asks me.

"I need to tell you something. Can we go to my room?" I was dressed in my oversized black sweatshirt, sports bra, and some gray yoga pants.

"Yeah, sure. Want me to make you some peppermint tea?" he asks, knowing how my I love my peppermint tea.

"It's okay. Let's just go," I take his hand and we walk upstairs. When we get in my bed, I finally tell him. "I've been going to therapy for my bulimia, and I go every Wednesday, when school ends early. And every other weekend of every month, I stay at the hospital. I still have bulimia."

His eyes look at me sympathetically. "I don't care, Marley. I love you so much, I'll even go with you. But, I have a secret that may not allow me to come with you. I have special sessions because of my dyslexia. Every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday. So Wednesdays, I can't come with you. But I would love to help you out," he puts his hands on my shoulders and looks into my eyes.

"Thank you, Ryder. I know English isn't your best subject, but it is mine after math, so I can help you whenever you want. I love you, Ryder."

I kiss him on the lips. "You done with your homework yet?" I ask. "I still have two subjects, math and history."

"Yeah, I only had a few classes today. I'll help you, I think I'm ahead of you in those, so I'm pretty sure we can finish fast," Ryder offers.

"Thank you! I'm so bad at history."

We sit in my kitchen/dining room and do my homework for about 45 minutes until I'm done. Just as we are about to go up to my room, I get a text from Kitty. Kitty Wilde? Texting me on a Tuesday? I would expect her to be at Cheerios! practice or making out with Artie or something. Whatever she texted must be important.

sexykittycat: Hey Mar, r u & Ryder busy 2nite?
marleyrose123: Nah, why???
sexykittycat: double date w/ me & Artie? New restaurant called Down 2 The Bone
marleyrose123: I don't like eating...
sexykittycat: that won't be a problem... Oh yes it will... It's a frickin restaurant, Marley! How do u & Ryder usually do dates? You've gone to a restaurant w/ him, rite?
marleyrose123: well, Breadstix, but... You should know better than anyone that I'm insecure about my body image. I have bulimia!
sexykittycat: sorry, but come! It'll b funnnn
marleyrose123: fine, I'll ask him if he wants 2 come
sexykittycat: yay!! love youuuu
marleyrose123: u 2