Crazy Girl

4. Hard Knock Life

"So where do you wanna go for lunch?" Jacob asked Marley as he backed out the parking lot.


"I don't know, I haven't really been out." Marley said putting her head down.


"I know a place Downtown called Moe's we can go to. They make the best cheese dip in the world!"


Jacob drove Downtown to Moe's inside of his Mercedes. He wasn't filthy rich, but he wasn't broke either. Unlike Marley, Jacob got everything he asked for either by buying it or earning it.


They arrived at Moe's about 15 minutes later and sat down by the window. Jacob and Marley had small talk before ordering some nacho chips with cheese.


"So how are you?" Jacob asked Marley in a concerned tone.


"Fine."


"I have a younger sister and she's always told me when a girl says she's fine, she's lying."


"I'm great!" Marley said fake smiling.


"How convincing." Jacob said sarcastically.


Marley slightly smiled.


"You should smile more. You have a nice facial structure..."


"Uh..Thanks."


It was very awkward between the two. They said nothing until their food arrived.


"Enjoy!" The waiter said smiling and walking away.


"Marley?"


"Yeah?"


"Can I ask you a question?"


"Sure." She whispered.


"How are you holding up? You know after the incident at Jasmine's party..."


Marley remembered going home and cutting herself because of what happened. She didn't want to tell Jacob about it so she lied once again.


"I'm great. I'm past that."


"Are you sure?"


"Yes. I'm sure." She said unconvincingly.


Jacob knew Marley was getting upset thinking about what happened. He stopped asking her questions. Instead they made small talk about things in school and things like the news.


"Have you seen the vine of the girl doing the 'Hot Cheetos and Takis' dance?" Jacob asked laughing.


"No."


"Hold on!" Jacob said pulling out his iPhone 5.


Jacob clicked on the 'Vine' app and scrolled down his timeline until he found the dance. He played it for Marley and she couldn't stop laughing.


"See! I knew that would make you laugh Marley!"


It was getting late and Marley and Jacob had missed the rest of school. She didn't care what her mother would say. She had an amazing day and wouldn't let anyone ruin it for her.....


"It's getting late. I think I should take you home now." Jacob said paying for the food leaving a tip for the waiter.


Marley didn't want to go home. She was having too much fun. But she knew it had to end some time.


Jacob had drove Marley to her house around the corner.


"Have an amazing night Marley! I'll see you later." Jacob said smiling.


Marley smiled back and walked up to her front door.




Marley wasn't surprised to see random men in her living room. It was a usual for Marilee to bring men inside of the house.


"This is Marley. She will be pleasuring you tonight." Marilee managed to slur out.


Marley looked at her mother like she was insane.


"I will be doing what?!" Marley yelled.


"You will take them in your room and you will let them have their way with you. We need money to pay the rent and you're the only way I can get it."


"You can't do this to me!"


"You're right I can't. But they will."


Both men stood up and grabbed Marley by her hair dragging her to her room.


After several hours of raping, beating, mutilating, and robbing Marley of her innocence both men left. But before they did they handed Marilee $30.00.


"You let them do that to me for 3 hours for 30 measly dollars?!"


Marley was furious.


"I needed a fix. Shut the fuck up and quit bitching you ungrateful excuse for a daughter."


Marley ran into her room crying harder than she has ever cried before.


This was way worse than her almost rape at Jasmine's party. Both men had ruined Marley's life and stole her innocence from her. She wailed in her room not looking around at the mess they created. They had done terrible things to her. Things that you'd never guess.


45 minutes later and Marley was still in her room wailing.


Marilee had called her supplier and gotten her a fix. By now Marilee was high and didn't want Marley to blow it.


She'd had enough of Marley's constant crying and went into her room to confront her.


"Shut the fuck up kid!" Marilee yelled at Marley.


"You let them do that to me so you could go and get high for an hour and then nothing! All of that for nothing!"


"Listen you little bitch, you do what I say because I am your mother! I brought you in this world and I will take you out!"


"Do it! I'd rather be with grandma then your sad ass excuse of a mother!"


Marilee was livid by what Marley had said.


"You're an ungrateful bitch! Go kill yourself!" Marilee said reaching on Marley's dresser grabbing her hairbrush and throwing it at her.


The hairbrush hit Marley in her right eye. She screamed out in pain.


"That's what the fuck you get!" Marilee said slamming the door.


Marley ran into the bathroom and looked at her eye. It was bleeding and she assumed Marilee had busted a vessel. She ran cold water on a rag and rung it out. She went to touch her eye and it hurt. She yelped but covered her mouth quickly. She was afraid Marilee would come back.


30 minutes later Marley realized her eye was starting to swell. She ran her bath water to soak in the tub. She made it extra hot so that it could cleanse her body and the steam could relax her.


Before Marley got inside of the tub she reached inside of her medicine cabinet for her razor and cut herself three times.


One cut for the first man that raped her.


A second cut for the other man that raped her.


And a third cut for the pipe they used to mutilate her.