Chapter 1

The Day after the Grease performance…

Unique walks up to Marley with an irritated look on her face.

"Something wrong, Unique?" Marley asks as she closes her locker.

"Follow me" Unique takes Marley's hand and walks to the choir room.

"Why did you drag me to the choir room?" Marley asks confused.

"It's more private" Unique looked around.

"Yeah, so what's wrong?" Marley frowns in confusion.

"Kitty Wilde. Listen to this recording." Unique handed her the phone "Just press play"

Marley takes the phone, scoffs a little and presses play, the recording starts to play

…'I can't believe she's so dumb to believe that she gained that much in one night' Kitty chuckles and some girls do too.

'I can't believe you would sneak in at night just to sew her dress tighter.' One girl said.

'Well a Head Bitch has to do what a head bitch has to do.' Kitty said non chalant…

Marley looks like she is about to cry and Unique pulls her into an embrace. "How did you record this?"

"I was in a bathroom stall when she started talking about you." Unique explained.

"What does she have against me that she is so awful towards me?" She starts to cry.

"Just that you have the hearts of the hottest guys in this school that unfortunately she is also into." Unique explained

"How is that my fault?" Marley sobs.

"It's not, forget about her. Kitty is just a screwed up bitch who thinks she can do and have what she wants." Unique frowned.

"Yeah, well. That bitch deceives and hurts me at every turn possible." Marley continues crying.

"It'll be okay Marley." Unique tries to calm her down.

Marley wipes away the tears and pulls back "Yes, yes it will be. We're going to get back at her." A sudden determination in her eyes as she smirks.

"Unique is 100% behind you Honey" Unique also smirks "Just tell me what to do and I'll do it. Someone has to knock that bottle blonde off her pony."

"We shouldn't do something obvious. We should drag it out. Make her suffer." Marley continued and Unique frowned "You don't seem so sure anymore" Marley asks as she looks at Unique.

"No, no. It's just that I'm afraid that the real Marley will get lost in the process" Unique frowns a little worried.

"Why'd you think that?" Marley frowns.

"Cause in order for you to hurt her… you'd have to stoop to her level meaning that you will become like her and lose all that is great about Marley Rose." Unique looked down.

"Well, we can't do nothing" Marley shook her head.

"What will destroying her bring? You satisfied that you are able to hurt her like she does to you? I know for a fact that you won't be happy about it" Unique looked her straight in the eyes, glaring at her a little.

"How can you know that?" Marley countered but she knew Unique was right. They had to find a way to get Kitty back without stooping as low as she does.

"Cause we've been friends for a while and you're just too nice to be like that." Unique folds her arms and looked at her in a superior way like she just won this argument.

"But then what should I do?" Marley asked feeling hopeless.

"Date Jake or Ryder?" Unique suggested. Hearing Ryder's name made Marley smile and Unique noticed it. "and from that look on your face it seems like you like one of them" Unique smirked.

"No! I don't" but Marley's blush said otherwise.

"You can lie to anyone else but not to me Honey. Unique knows and sees. And I see that you like either Ryder or Jake. So who is it?" Unique asked.

"Okay. It's Ryder." Marley smiled broadly.

"From that smile I can say it's more than a crush?" Unique looked at her wanting to know more.

"Yeah… There's more" Marley smiled more and looked away.

"Girl tell, tell, tell me." Unique begged.

"Last night… Back stage… We…" Marley blushed heavily.

"Yeah?" Unique looked at her with eager eyes.

"We kissed" Marley smiled.

"And?" Unique enquired

"And what?" Marley countered.

"How was it? Are you two going out now?" Unique smiled.

Marley pretends to zip her lips and lock it and throw away the key and started heading towards the door.

"That's not fair" Unique moaned.

"You don't have to know everything" she smirked walking out into the hallway. Unique followed after her.

"Please tell me, I won't tell anyone. We're best friends. You can't keep such deets from me." Unique countered as Kitty passed them, she stopped and looked at them.

"She doesn't want to tell you how much weight she gained?" Kitty faked gasped "Don't worry soon you won't be the biggest in that sorry excuse for a club" she said smirking and walking off. Unique glared at her.

"I'm going to kill her. Her fat jokes are really getting old." Marley looked mad.

"Calm down. Don't give into her and give her the satisfaction that she gets to you" Unique puts her hand on Marley's shoulder.

"You're one to talk" Marley shook her head.

"Yeah, but I think it's the best way to get her back. Ignore her." Unique shrugs "Best offence is a good defense. She'll go mad if we ignore her." Unique smiled.

Marley nods "By the way, I thought your parents said you're not allowed to be Unique at school?" Marley looked puzzled.

"Yeah, but I told them that keeping me from being who I am, is the main reason kids commit suicide when their parents tries to force them to be who their not." Unique looked annoyed.

"Wade! You threatened your parents with your death?" Marley looked shocked, she only used wade when she was mad at him.

"No! I didn't tell them that." Marley sighed a sigh of relief. "I change into Unique at School and back to Wade at the end of the day. But that was the plan I had in my head." Unique looked down.

"Well, your parents are wrong for keeping you from being yourself." Marley agreed.

"Well, it wouldn't have been a problem if it wasn't for Coach Sue"

"What did she do?" Marley frowns.

"She sent a kid to bully me and then report it to my parents. I wasn't bullied in this whole time I was at McKinley, except for that one moment. The jock even came up to me and apologized. She paid him 100 bucks to bully me." Unique looked disgusted.

"There's something off about her. But I would maybe bully someone for a 100 bucks. That's a lot of money just to bully someone" Marley looked down.

"I would've done the same" Marley looked up. "But let's face it, We're never going to be paid to bully someone." Unique sighed.

"True. We are too victimish to be bullies." Marley also sighed.

"How was the kiss with Ryder?" Unique tried again.

"It was amazing" Marley tried to cover her mouth too late "You tricked me"

"How else would I get anything out of you?" Unique giggled.

"You didn't have to know" Marley blushed.

"So are you two dating now?" Unique asked.

Marley sighed "No, I don't know. He disappeared after the show."

"Girl, go find him then!" Unique exclaimed.

"I'm scared that the kiss didn't feel the same to him as it did to me" Marley frowned and looked down.

"Nah ah, go find him and find out before it drives you insane" Unique said in a serious tone.

"You're right, I'll go find him" Marley smiled "Later Unique" she waved as she walked off.

"Later" she waved back and walked away.

'Where could Ryder be?' Marley was walking through the hallway when she bumped into him.

"R- Ryder"

"Marley, I was just looking for you" He smiled at her as he steadied himself.

"Yeah?" Marley replied rubbing her shoulder.

"Yeah. I wanted to ask you…" Ryder didn't complete his sentence.

"Ask me what?" she said shyly.

Ryder lost the guts to ask her "…If you completed the math homework?" He groaned internally.

Marley shook her head a little "Oh yeah… Uhm… I did it. You can borrow it if you want to"

Ryder smiled "No, it's fine. I have to go." He stormed off. Marley just frowned looking at him walking away.

"Looks like someone's hiding something." Unique walked up to her.

Marley jumped "What do you mean?" Marley blushed.

Unique tisked "He's got it bad for you" he smiled.

"You're imagining things." She looks away.

"Then why would he be so shaky?" He asks.

"I don't know." Marley shrugged.

"Boys are only nervous around girls they like." Unique stated.

"Or he just doesn't like me like me." She countered.

"If he didn't like you then why would he have kissed you?" Unique shook her head.

"Because he felt sorry for me" Marley tried to sound sure of herself.

Unique shook her head and slapped Marley "Get a grip! Ryder likes you! He kissed you cause he liked you and if you think otherwise than you really are a fool Marley Rose…" Unique was jabbing her finger at her as she talked.

"Stop poking me" Marley tried to block her poking.

"Then stop being a coward and go to Ryder. Tell him what you think about him. If he doesn't feel the same then Unique will console you but if he feels the same way…" Unique smiles

Marley nods "You're right. I have to do this" Marley smiles.

"You go girl" Unique snapped her fingers.

"Thanks for believing in me Unique" Marley smiled.

"A pleasure honey" Unique smiled back.

Marley walks off to find Ryder. She looks in the Gym, in the auditorium, in the choir room, in the halls. She finally stops at the football field. She sees Kitty with him and as she approaches them, they kiss. Marley stops in her tracks, frozen, tears threatening to spill from her eyes. She turns around and runs. Ryder pushes Kitty off of him and chases after her.

"Marley, please! It isn't what it looks like!" He yells after her.