Hello! I'm trying out this new story-consider this a pilot first chapter? I've had this idea for a while and decided I needed some humour after the initial sadness and shock of recent events. As for now, ships are open to ideas, so please give me feedback on that and the story in general! I hope you enjoy :)
Ps. I don't own Glee or the Freaky Friday idea!
One spring Friday, after school, on two opposite and very contrasting sides of Lima, Ohio, two very contrasting teenage girls were getting ready for a party.
In a large house in an affluent neighbourhood, Kitty Wilde was curling another golden lock of hair, when her phone buzzed. She grabbed it quickly and was disappointed to find that it was sadly just an event notification for tonight's 'loser-fest', as she called it.
Am I really about to put myself through Tina Cohen-Chang's birthday party? I only joined Glee Club after the musical to get Jake back from Marley's manipulative 'poor little simply adorkable nice girl' clutches, I did not join to prance around singing about my feelings and I most certainly did not join to go watch Harujuku girl blow out her candles at some lame party with no alcohol, and half of frickin' Asia watching us, she thought to herself, irritably.
Yet here she stood, curling her hair in preparation for it like the 'good Christian girl' she was, ready to selflessly put her New Directions team spirit ahead of her Friday night enjoyment.
It had better be worth my while. If Marley pisses me off with her moping and whining, or even worse, dares to look hotter than me, I am going to cause a riot, to say the very least.
About an hour later, she was finishing getting ready and surveying her own reflection in the mirror. Her tiny shorts showed off her slim, athletic, cheerleader's legs, and her low cut top oozed sex appeal. She looked hot, and she knew it.
On the opposite side of the town, in the infamous Lima Heights neighbourhood, Marley Rose was also putting the finishing touches to her light, modest make up, and straightening her long brown hair. In all honesty, Marley was nowhere near rough or hardened enough for Lima Heights, but with a part time lunch lady's salary being the two person family's sole source of income, it was the only area they could afford a house. Santana Lopez, a former resident of the area, had given her some handy tips on looking out for herself when she had mentored her in Glee club before sectionals, but Marley still found it hard to deal with the frequent sirens and general noise of delinquency keeping her up at night.
Marley was dreading this party. Jake would be there, and he hadn't really wanted to speak to her since they had unofficially broken up a month ago. Jealousy had gotten the better of them both in the end; she had grown tired of his incessant flirting with any female within a 50 mile radius, particularly her biggest enemy Kitty, and he hadn't really ever forgiven her for allowing Ryder to kiss her after Valentine's day, believing that she would rather be with him.
In Jake's defence, Marley definitely still had strong feelings for Ryder; they had been texting more frequently than before, but given that her best friend Unique had also fallen for Ryder's boyish charms, and proceeded to catfish him, that Ryder and Kitty may or may not have had a small thing, (Kitty clearly got off on going after guys she was interested in) and the fact that she and Jake were technically only on a break and she still had feelings for him too, meant that it was all a tangled web, and she preferred to throw herself into homework, song writing and Glee Club matters, trying (with little success), to ignore boys, for the time being.
Just after 7pm, both girls arrived at Tina Cohen-Chang's house, blissfully unaware of future events, and wholly preoccupied with the present- the awkwardness of seeing their former flames, coupled with the fact that neither of them really got on with their host, Tina; Kitty thought she was just boring, a slightly less irritating, less man-stealing version of Marley, and Marley knew that Tina still blamed her for their, in hindsight, irrelevant defeat at sectionals and was resentful at the amount of solos she had seemed to have secured in her first year in the Glee club. In truth, they were both only guests because Tina felt she should invite the entire New Directions out of politeness.
Kitty surveyed the room as she entered. As she suspected, half of Tina's extended family were here, looking slightly bemused at the group of noisy teenage misfits crowded in with them in the Cohen-Chang home's living room. She rolled her eyes as Tina handed her a cup of clearly non-alcoholic drink. She smiled as she saw Quinn Fabray, her one time mentor and full time idol, across the room. It seemed as though quite a few of Tina's graduated friends had returned to Lima for the festivities.
Yeah- if standing in a room making awkward conversation whilst a bunch of old people stare at us can be called that…
Kitty had to look twice at who she assumed was Tina's grandmother, an elderly woman who was staring at everyone really weirdly. In fact, she was just about to ask what the hell was up with her when Jake Puckerman came towards her with a swagger in his step.
"Hi Kitty. Surprised to see you here."
"Hi Jake, what did you say? I can't hear you in here!"
"I said-," Jake started, raising his voice and leaning towards her ear, "-that I'm surprised you showed up."
Kitty made a face at Jake, indicating that she still hadn't heard him, so he gestured to her to follow him out of the main room and into the quieter hallway, which she gladly did, sensing an opportunity.
This did not go unnoticed by Marley, who was busy was explaining her guy drama to Santana, who, despite, her sexuality, was still a million times more experienced with boys than she was and therefore always gave good advice. She told her friend that she would be back and went into the hallway to stake a claim for her (sort of) man.
Marley winded through the guests and out of the room and sure enough, found Jake and Kitty flirting by the stairs, giggling intimately, Kitty's hand playfully stroking Jake's arm. Marley considered herself –quite truthfully- to be a bit of a shy wallflower, but at times like these, a little boldness was necessary. She approached the pair and interrupted their conversation.
"What's going on?" She asked cautiously, not wanting to be too immediately confrontational. Kitty, however, was never concerned about that, and turned to Marley to immediately give a sarcastic reply.
"Oh let me guess, Honey Boo Boo's jealous cos her ex-boyfriend's talking to her prettier, bigger chested, all round superior, hypocritically disregarding the fact that she has been making all kinda moves on Ryder and, like with Jake, taking him away from HER in the first place. Correct?"
Marley was riled by Kitty's comment, and was not gonna let her shyness get in the way of defending herself.
"Look, I did not steal anyone from you, ok. All I asked you was 'what was going on'-"
"Oh please!" Kitty interrupted, also incensed, wondering why on earth everyone except her and perhaps Tina were blind to Marley's dark side. "Jake broke up with me at the start of the year, for you. Ryder told me he stopped being interested in me cos he was so hung up on his catfish, but guess what, a couple weeks later, once again, he's all into you. Are you spotting a pattern here, slut?"
Marley's jaw dropped in shock, and Jake put his hands up, starting to talk before Marley could find a fitting retort.
"Girls, enough! This arguing has got to stop! Why can't you two just get along? I'm honestly not interested in either of you when you're acting like this." For a split second, both Kitty and Marley turned to scowl at him, momentarily united in anger against him, so he sighed and slipped past them both. "Fine!" He conceded. "I'm going back to the party. You two can sort this out yourselves."
They both glared at him as he walked back into the living room, before turning back to face each other, Marley having now gathered her composure after being slut shamed for the first time in her life.
"You know what, Kitty?" She asked, her voice shaking with anger, "you can call me a slut all you want, if it makes you feel better about the fact that you are both Jake and Ryder's SECOND CHOICE."
Marley spat out the words and immediately felt a sharp, numb pain across her left cheek as Kitty promptly slapped her across the face. This really was a night of firsts- being an only child and a nobody at school, she had never been slapped before, either. It was like a slushy, she thought, but not as cold. Overcome with fury, she raised her right hand and was just about to return Kitty's favour, when-
"COOKIE?"
The two girls looked around, and were both puzzled to find the same strange woman with the piercing stare, looking back at them, a creepy smile plastered across her face. She held out a tray before them, which held nothing but two small fortune cookies.
"This isn't really a good time." Kitty raised a sarcastic eyebrow back at her, but the lady was persistent.
"No, good time!" She replied. Both girls were about to affirm that no, it actually wasn't, but the woman, sensing this, started shouting at them in Chinese, and they both accepted that to get her to go away it would be best to just take one each, but, when they did, she remained, still smiling. Marley and Kitty looked back at her in bemusement, before Marley caught on, and whispered to Kitty.
"I…think she wants to watch us eat them…" Kitty nodded back and they cracked them open.
"Read!" Shouted the woman, before the girls could take a bite.
"Okay!" Shouted Kitty irritably, before mumbling under her breath "freak". In all honesty, the woman was severely creeping them both out, so they both inspected the pieces of paper inside.
"Out loud!" Persisted the woman. Marley sighed, cleared her throat and, still shaking from anger, read her message.
"A journey soon begins, it's prize reflected in another's eyes. When what you see is what you lack, then selfless love will change you back."
"Good." Was the strange old woman's reply, and, once she had insisted on watching the both eat the cookies, finally left them alone together. Kitty looked confused.
"Mine said that too…what does it mean?" she said to Marley. "Ugh, whatever!" She was just about to go back to find Jake, when the ground jolted violently.
"Holy crap!" She yelled, having to grab onto a side table to stop herself from falling over. Marley held onto the bannister for dear life and they waited in panic for the ground to stop shaking. Luckily, after a few seconds, it stopped. Kitty turned to Marley.
"Was that an earthquake? In Ohio?" Marley looked back, eyes wide in shock and terror.
"I don't know!" She replied. "Shall we go see if everyone's okay?" Kitty nodded and they went back into the main room, and were shocked to find that the party was continuing as if nothing had happened. No drinks had been spilt, nothing had smashed, and everyone was chatting and dancing, just as they had been before. Kitty and Marley exchanged looks. They were severely creeped out. Marley stopped Sam as he walked passed.
"Didn't you just feel that earthquake?" Sam looked back in amusement, but, on seeing their earnest expressions, realised that this was a serious question.
"Earthquake? Have you two snuck in some wine coolers or something?" He laughed and walked off, leaving the girls to the realisation that they seemed to be the only ones who had felt anything.
"Okay." Kitty started. "Let's just get on with the party and pretend that…earthquake…never happened." Marley nodded and started to walk back to Santana, but was promptly yanked back by Kitty on the arm, who started talking again, menacingly.
"This is NOT over, bitch. And if you ever dare to suggest that I would be second choice behind you, again, I will end you." Marley frowned at Kitty, before pulling back her arm from her grasp and going to re-join her friends.
At this same moment, Tina Cohen-Chang was approaching her grandmother.
"Hey…so what were you saying to my…'friends'?"
"I give them fortune cookie." She replied. Tina was confused.
"Why?"
"They were fighting, very bad." Her grandmother explained. "Fortune cookie good for fighting."
Tina sighed and shrugged her shoulders. My grandma is weird, she thought.
The party ended at about 11:00pm (super lame, thought Kitty), and by the time the clock struck midnight, both girls were asleep in bed on opposite sides of the town, blissfully unaware that, for the second time that night, a major event affecting only the two of them was occurring.
When Marley began to awake the next morning, she immediately noticed how comfy her bed seemed to have gotten over night. As she started to become more alert, she realised that that was not the only thing to have changed. When she sat up, she discovered she was definitely not in her own bed, but worlds away from her bumpy mattress back home. She looked around to find herself in a bedroom she recognised, but did not belong to her, having been here for an ill-fated sleepover earlier in the school year.
Why am I in Kitty's bedroom? How the hell did I get here? Was I drunk last night? Did someone spike my drink? Why would I be with Kitty?
Marley's head was full of questions she simply couldn't answer. She looked around for Kitty, but she definitely wasn't in the room. In a moment of panic she wondered if, considering she had spent the night in Kitty's bed, and potentially had her drink spiked, if, for some reason, that might have happened, and checked to make sure she wasn't naked. She wasn't, in fact, she was wearing an outrageous silky pink nightdress, and her body, well, it wasn't hers. She ran her hands over her obviously bigger chest, and noticed that her hands didn't look like her hands, either. They were smaller, and the nails were perfectly filed and painted a garish pink. At this point, a rather familiar feeling of nausea filled her senses, and she scrambled over to the full length mirror on the other side of the room.
And that was when Marley Rose screamed louder than she ever had in her entire life.
Her hair was blond.
She was a good few inches shorter.
As she had suspected, her breasts had become visibly enlarged.
And the face. Even through the bed hair and the expression of both fatigue and terror, she knew that face.
She was Kitty Wilde.
…And the worst thing? When she pinched herself- which she did, hard- it didn't go away. It wasn't a dream, or a hallucination. She was in Kitty's body!
…So where is Kitty, and where is my own body?
Marley thought to herself, then wondered…just maybe…
She rushed over to a bag by the bed, which she recognised as the one Kitty had had last night. As she found a cell phone she could only ever hope to afford right now, and punched in the number to her own phone, it all began to dawn on her that, if she was stuck in Kitty's body, and house, then maybe the same thing would have happened to the real Kitty. She waited a long time, growing increasingly impatient, for Kitty to answer her phone.
This was because, at that moment, Kitty was still soundly asleep in Marley's bed. She was awoken by an unfamiliar ringtone. She brushed it off, still half asleep, but when the phone rang for a third time, she answered it with a snap.
"Who is this?!" Her eyes widened as the words left her mouth. She sounded really weird, not like herself at all. And that was when she began to realise that, like Marley, she was not in her own bedroom. She was in a bedroom smaller than her ensuite bathroom back home, in the most uncomfortable excuse of a bed she had ever been in, even beating the one in Noah Puckerman's Lima University dorm, and that was saying something.
"It's Marley…" the voice on the other end of the line replied, only it didn't sound like Marley, it…it sounded like her. Kitty brushed it off, for now determined to work out where she was.
"Where the hell am I, boobless?" she retorted, trying as hard as she could to push the fact that she sounded rather like the brunette herself, to the back of her mind.
"You're in my house…except it's technically your house now, because you're technically me…" Marley, if it really was Marley, was making no sense.
"Don't play games with me, man stealer," replied Kitty, becoming more and more concerned, "why am I in your house, and also, you call this dump a house? What the hell do you mean, 'I'm technically you?'"
"Kitty…" the voice replied. "Go and look in the mirror, it's kinda small, by the little window."
Kitty reluctantly did as she was told.
"JESUS, MOTHER OF-"
As she looked at her reflection, Marley Rose looked back.
There is the first chapter-please give me any comments to indicate whether you liked it or not. Thanks! xx