Hello all! I missed writing Ryley so when this idea popped into my head the other day I simply had to write it down :) I hope you enjoy the first chapter! Please give me a quick review to tell me what you thought.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything remotely related to Glee.
Ryder Lynn walked off the football field and towards the locker room with an arrogant stride in his step, following his best friend, the school team's quarterback Jake Puckerman, who had left several minutes earlier. However, before he could get there, he had a microphone and video camera shoved into his face by McKinley's answer to Perez Hilton. He sighed; Jacob Ben-Israel was a nerd who needed a slushy in his face as soon as possible, but Ryder understood that social media exposure was vital to maintaining his popularity, so obligingly let the curly haired gossip conduct his interview.
"I am currently with Ryder Lynn, Titans' football player, notorious womaniser and according to my online poll conducted last month, the second most popular guy in school: Ryder," began Jacob, turning towards his interviewee who was winking to the camera, "how does it feel to be back at McKinley on the first day of your senior year?"
"Well JBI," Ryder replied, running his hands through his tousled, floppy hair, "I'm looking forward to another year of success on the football team, and er, to seeing all you ladies I've been missing over summer vacation." He raised an eyebrow and bit his lip at the camera, believing he knew exactly how to play it. JBI continued his interrogation.
"What are your plans for after graduation?" Jacob continued.
"I'm looking for a football scholarship, but if not, I'll definitely be outta here regardless, I'm not a Lima loser, I'm big time-"
JBI, deciding that, if the 'jerk' was going to continue bragging, might as well brag about something more 'interesting' than college, interrupted with a juicier question.
"-excellent…and can you confirm or deny the rumours that you and Jake Puckerman bedded Cheerios Kitty, Marissa and Celeste and possibly more on separate occasions during the summer break, and that you personally have been romancing a mystery online lover?" Ryder looked down and smirked boastfully.
"Well Jacob, I don't like to talk about my personal life on the camera…" JBI looked pointedly down the camera lens as it zoomed in on him for dramatic effect.
"We'll take that as a YES! And one last question," he said, looking up at the tall football player as the camera zoomed back out, "what do you make of the speculation that you, your sucked up to best friend Puckerman and your cronies are only popular through infamy, because the entire student body aside from the bleach-blonde-bimbo-Barbies on the cheerleading squad thinks you are good-looking, yet interminably obtuse assholes?"
An important thing to understand about Ryder Lynn was that he easily snapped, and he snapped now, shoving the camera and recording equipment away from him and punching the admittedly irritating, yet perhaps correct, resident school blogger square in the face several times, not stopping until Coach Beiste pulled him off and shoved him back onto the field to do laps for the rest of lunch break as punishment.
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Later on, in the last class before the end of the first school day of the year, when his detention was over with, Ryder was sat in English, which he knew would be his favourite again this year, not because he was good at it- he was in fact very poor, as he was with many classes, and counted the days when he managed to scrape C's in it as good ones, but because, as with last year, he got to sit next to Jake, and the two would spend the entire hour every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday this year, just as they had enjoyed every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday last year, enjoying the view which distracted them from whatever Miss Holliday was trying to teach them; that being Miss Holliday herself, a surprisingly 'out-there', exceedingly attractive teacher who always dressed in short skirts and tight tops. Both Ryder and Jake were convinced that she was a 'cougar' and 'up for it' and were both determined to conquer her before graduation (although they both knew deep down that this was all talk and bravado and no action...literally.) Whilst they weren't eyeing up their educator, they were messing around and chatting when they should be paying attention.
"Bro, what the hell happened earlier? I heard you tried to beat the living crap outta Jacob Ben Israel," Jake inquired in a whispered tone, as Miss Holliday droned on about symbolism in MacBeth.
"The freak was annoying me." Ryder offered by way of explanation. "Did he interview you too?"
"Yeah," Jake replied. "I like to give him the time of day- he's my fellow Jake and my fellow Jew!" He 'joked'. The two boys giggled obnoxiously.
"You didn't say that last semester when you threw him in the dumpster every day for a week!" Ryder laughed, making, it had to be said, a valid point.
"Well that was "Throw JBI in the dumpster every day for a week", week…" his best friend laughed, less than eloquently.
"BOYS!" Miss Holliday yelled from the front of the class. "Can we pay attention please instead of disrupting you and your fellow students' learning? You are making a lot of noise back there."
"You'll be making a lot of noise when I…" Jake muttered under his breath. Ryder snickered loudly.
"Excuse me Mr Puckerman?" Miss Holliday enquired, eyebrows raised, knowing that the boy had probably said something rude.
"Nothing, Miss." Jake replied, while Ryder tried and failed to control his laughter.
"Ok, if this is how it's going to be, I think we might need to change some seating arrangements." Miss Holliday said coolly, with a flick of her straight blond hair. The boys were just about to wildly protest the suggestion when there came a brisk knock on the classroom door. Miss Holliday called for its source to come in, and Miss Pillsbury, the school's doe-eyed guidance counsellor opened the door, with someone behind her.
"I'm sorry to interrupt your class Miss Holliday but I have a new student here who I think is meant to be with you right now? I found her in the corridor, she got a bit lost," Miss Pillsbury chuckled. Miss Holliday reopened her class register and scrolled down for any student who might not have been present at the start of the lesson.
"Ah…yes. I have a Marley Rose here who's not marked in for this period?" Miss Pillsbury affirmed that this was the correct student, and left the room, leaving a girl standing timidly in the doorway.
"Welcome Marley, don't worry about being late to class, it's your first day at a new school; you're bound to need a little time to get your bearings. There is a free seat…" she trailed off, scanning the classroom, "…there." She finished, her eyes falling on an empty chair right in front of the two boys' table. Ryder, who had as usual, not been paying attention for the last couple of minutes, looked up to examine the new student and made brief eye contact with one of the most beautiful girls he had ever laid eyes on. Tall and slender, her face was partially hidden by the shadow projected from her grey newsboy cap, but from what he could see, she was exceedingly, naturally gorgeous. She dressed much more conservatively than most the girls he was usually interested in, but for some reason, the hint of mystery that allowed intrigued him even further. Her long brown her fell curled quite a bit below her shoulders. She wasn't fake or cheap like the cheerio girls he would sleep with- she was classy. As she took her seat directly in front of him, he could think of only one word to describe her-
"HOT!" whispered Jake down Ryder's ear, causing him to jump. Ryder turned to his best friend. Nope, he thought. Quarterback here isn't getting first chance at this one.
"I call dibs on her!" He whispered back. Jake looked at him, with an expression of extreme annoyance and disappointment. "Rules are rules…" Ryder murmured, smirking triumphantly, as if the girl was some sort of possession, or object to be won as a prize.
"Fine," replied Jake. "You get the first try. But if you screw things up I am so in there." Ryder nodded in agreement and shook his hand to formally seal the arrangement.
"Mr Lynn and Mr Puckerman you are on your last warning, if I hear one more peep from you this lesson I will split you up for the entire year and make you share your little conversation with the rest of the class, would you two like that?" Miss Holliday asked in an exasperated manner. Marley Rose turned around to frown at the two douchebags who were interrupting what had already been a stressful lesson for her, getting lost and being late and all.
"No Miss." The boys answered in unison. Their teacher nodded and got back to Shakespeare, and they fell silent.
For the rest of the lesson, Ryder Lynn did not stare up Miss Holliday like Jake did- he spent the entire time stealing glances at the new girl whenever she slightly turned her head, all the while dreaming up fantasies of the various ways in which he might woo her into bed.
There is the first chapter, I hope you enjoyed it- I know Ryder is a bit of a misogynistic doucheface at the moment but in all honesty as season 4 went on I think he was turned into more of a 'bad boy!' Besides, who knows, maybe Marley will bring out the soft side we know and love- you'll have to keep reading to find out :p I can't promise how quick the updates will be as I have another story going which I'm very invested in and I'm kind of…moving countries(!) next week! But I will try to update very, very soon, hopefully in the next week, as I am excited about this story and have a load of ideas for it :)
I would really, really love if you could drop a quick comment below, especially as it's the first chapter- pretty, pretty please?
Love Lauren :) xxx