I'm Wide Awake

When Marley finds out that Jake cheated on her things change.

The Truth

I couldn't believe what I was hearing from him. He was blatantly telling me that he cheated on me with that slut Bree from Cheerio's. He was telling me in front of the entire Glee club because he couldn't handle the pressure and the guilt anymore?

It was horrifying and humiliating which is why I ran out of the choir room to wherever my feet would take me.

Marley Rose, the good girl, the innocent one, the one with the fat mom who was the lunch lady, the girl who ruined sectionals first round for the new directions.

Tears poured down my face as my feet pounded the floor and when my vision cleared I realised I was out of the school and on some dirt road.

I was still close to the school because I saw a few familiar faces and when I looked closely I saw that it was the stoner kids who usually ditched classes to smoke a few blunts.

I didn't want them to notice me so I turned around but it was too late because I heard one of them call me.

"What are you doing here?" The one guy asked me, he looked completely out of it and he was holding a small joint.

"Do you want?" He offered but I shook my head, "Well don't tell anyone we're here got it?" He stated and I nodded and he went back to his friends.

I didn't leave them because thoughts were racing my mind, innocent Marley, good girl Marley, virgin Marley… When I thought about that part I felt tears trying to escape my eyes because that is the main reason why Jake cheated on me. I told him he could but it wasn't intentional I never thought he'd actually go do it I thought he was different.

"Hey…" I called to the stoner kids, wiping my eyes. "give me that…" I said, taking the joint and taking a drag. I coughed my lungs out but didn't worry about because I took another drag.

My world was lifting and I felt much lighter.

"Take it, we got plenty." The guy told me and I looked at the joint.

"Aren't you part of that singing club? The only other girl asked me and I shrugged because here I didn't have to be Marley Rose here I could be anyone I wanted to be.

"We're ditching and going to Gary's house dude, want to come?" She asked me and I looked back at the building called McKinely high school and looked toward the two guys and girl and nodded.

"Cool, I'm Kendra." She said and then introduced me to the two boys, "That's Gary and that's Dan." She pointed to them and I smiled, "I'm Marley." I told them and they nodded.

"Come on…" Gary stated and he pulled out a box of cigarettes and offered one to me. I took it and held it up to the lighter he was holding.

In the back of my mind someone was telling me to stop what I was doing but I didn't want to listen to the voice because I knew this way I could never feel the way I felt before and I could feel different.