Marjoreece Oneshots

Flirting

(Reece's pov)

"Oh you look very nice today Marjorie," I hear a parent say. It makes me stop dead in my tracks.
"Uhm... thanks?" I hear Marjorie reply. Why didn't she shut him down? Why thank him?
"I'm free tonight. You want to get some drinks? Someone needs to treat you right."
"No thank you. Parents and staff are not allowed to mix outside of the nursery," Marjorie tells him. Why didn't she tell him that she is married? Why is she not shutting him down?
"Maybe we can break the rules?" The parent suggestively asks. I now storm into the office, fed up of hearing this and I don't want this to go on longer.

"She's married. Get out," I tell the parent.
"Whoa there. Steady on," the dad laughs.
"Excuse me?! You are flirting with my wife okay? So I can say whatever I want, and you need to get out now before I do something I will regret, and you'll regret not leaving sooner." I get up into his face.
"Reece," Marjorie says, pulling me back.
"Okay, I'm going." The parent scarpers out the office.

"Reece, what the hell? You can't threaten a parent like that at all," Marjorie says, confused by my actions, but also having to take into her manager position.
"He was so obviously flirting with you, and you seemed to enjoy it," I spit out, directing my anger towards her.
"What? Flirting? Are you insane? He was just being friendly, and even then I shut him down. I was going to properly tell him off when you stormed in," Marjorie explains.
"Yeah right. You just love the attention. Poor little Marjorie never got any attention since she was as kid, and now she's all big and grown up, she just loves the attention, can't get enough of it," I mock her.
"Reece? What-?" I can sense the hurt in her voice after I said that, but I'm too riled up to come down and apologise.
"Go stuff yourself Marjorie," I tell her, being mindful of my language, no matter how angry I am, I will never swear at her. I storm out the office, leaving her alone as I climb into my car and just start driving. Where? No clue. Just anywhere but there.

(Marjorie's pov)

He left. He left like that. I can't believe he said that to me, he attacked me by using my own screwed up childhood against me. I can't believe it.
"Marjorie?" Autumns's voice pulls me out of my daze. I look to her with tear filled eyes, trying to blink them away.
"You alright Autumn? Something you need?" I say, trying my best to smile. She doesn't respond, instead walks over to me and pulls me into an embrace.
"It's okay. I know, you're okay," she whispers into my ear. And I crumbled. I broke down into tears in her arms, my whole body shaking into hers. My knees go out from underneath me as my sobs get harder, but Autumn is there to catch me, gently lowering us to the floor to sit, still holding me tight.

"Marj? Can you look up at me?" Autumn softly asks. I do as she asks. She wipes my tears away with her thumbs, smiling down at me. "There you are. What are you feeling right now?"
"Hurt. He really hurt me."
"I know sweet, I heard him. I'll be having strong words with him later. But for now, what can I do to help?" She asks.
"Just don't leave me alone? I don't want to be alone again," I tell her, and she reassuringly nods at me.
"I'm not going anywhere until you ask me to."

*

We must have been sat there for a while, my head against her chest listening to her heartbeat, whilst she just sat with me in comfortable silence, because before we knew it, Char was knocking at the door.
"Hiya guys. I don't know what's entirely happened, but I've made sure people have steered clear of the office since I saw you two in here earlier. I just wanted to let you know that it's like almost 7, the nursery closed half an hour ago. Mia's here for me now, but I'm the last one, all the rooms are clean and ready to go. I'll see you two after the weekend," Char quickly explains, rushing off before me or Autumn could thank her.

"Shall we get you home then Marjorie?" Autumn asks.
"Yeah. I think I just need to sleep. I'll deal with what will happen with Reece at another point," I say, standing up and helping her up off the floor.
We walk to her car, she offered to drive since I can with Reece this morning.
It doesn't take long before we are sat in my driveway.
"You want me to come in with you? Just in case?"
"I'll be okay. Thank you for today Aut, I would not have gotten through it without you," I pull her into a hug.
"I'll always be here for you, you're my sister. Text me if you need me," she says as I climb out the car.

I wave to her as I unlock the door, waving again as I shut it.
I turn around, leaning my back against the front door, and sliding down it till I'm sat on the floor. I take a deep breath, trying to keep my emotions at bay. This is the first time I'm alone with everything.
Did Reece really mean that? Was he just lashing out? I don't know anymore, my head is a mess, I can't think.
I stand up, realising I can't spend the night sat by the door. I make my way upstairs, not wanting to do anything but collapse in bed, sleep to forget about everything.

I open the door to the bedroom and the first thing I see is Reece asleep on the bed. Of course he would come home. I must have been so exhausted from everything that I didn't even register his car being here.
I smile, he looks so peaceful, and he looks comfortable. I resist everything telling me to go cuddle up to him, and instead I close the door and walk down the hallway to the spare room, closing myself off in there.
I crash on the bed, not even bothering to get out of my work stuff, I can do that tomorrow. I let my eyes close as I drift off into sleep.

*

I wake up to hearing noises by the window. I sit up quickly, looking over there but there isn't anything. But I can't shake those noises. It could be my imagination, but they sounded real.
I move as quickly as I can out that room, heading down to the bedroom. I open the door and see Reece still in a deep sleep. I crawl into bed next to him, trying to get comfortable without waking him up. I'm tossing and turning for a while before I feel myself being pulled into someone.
"Settle," Reece whispers. I feel myself get comfortable, my body against his again. I cuddle up into him, and it doesn't take long for me to fall back asleep.

*

"Marjorie?" Reece's voice wakes me up. I slowly open my eyes and look up at him. We were still cuddled together, he hasn't let go of me yet.
"Hi."
"Why are you here?" He spits out, and I can't tell he's still annoyed. He lets go of my waist, pushing himself out of bed.
"I originally slept in the guest bedroom. But I was hearing things so I came in here. You pulled me into you to settle me," I explain to him, sitting up and pulling my knees into my chest.
"Well, I was clearly half asleep then, because I don't want your cheating behind near me," he says.
"Reece!" I yell, causing him to stop and turn around before he leaves the room. "Please, talk to me. Like properly talk to me about it. Don't leave me alone, please don't leave me alone," I beg him, my voice fading slightly as I get more upset and desperate.
"Okay."

He sits down at the end of the bed, facing me still.
"Marjorie. It hurt me when I heard that dad flirting with you. But you didn't tell him you were married. You sounded friendly back, which in his mind gave him the go ahead. It angered me that he thought he could flirt with you, and that you didn't immediately shut it down," Reece explains to me, the anger that was in his voice is now replaced with calmness, his words no longer an attack against me.
"Okay, I understand you feel that way, and I can see why. However, I didn't shut him down straight away because I was trying to be nice about it. Before you say anything, no it wasn't because I liked the attention. It was because with these men, you never know how they will react when you say that. So I was shutting him down gently so I could avoid a whole drama, okay?" I explain back to him, and see him nodding.
"Really? Are we that bad?"
"Not all of you at all. But I just wanted to be careful, I didn't need any more drama, I already had a morning full of Mandy chewing my ear off," I laugh, trying to lighten the mood.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry about what happened, and what I said. That wasn't fair of me, and I'm really sorry," he apologises.
"It's okay. It hurt me at first, it really did. I sobbed in your sister's arms for practically the whole afternoon, just sobbing about how much it hurt me. But then the more I thought about it, the more I realised that you probably didn't mean it, that you were just angry and stuff." I smile at him.
"Yeah, but still, I am so sorry gorgeous. I didn't mean a word of it at all."
"It's okay baby, but what isn't okay is I haven't kissed you in forever. Get up here and kiss me you dope."

He crawls up the bed, hovering just above me, not letting his lips touch mine.
"Reece, stop being annoying," I pull him in by the collar, connecting our lips into a passionate and gentle kiss. "Love you," I mumble against his lips.
"I love you even more," Reece says as he rests his forehead against mine.
"Nope not possible," I giggle, kissing his lips again.