A/N : This a new story that falls in between that of the a bit of the last chapter of 'Runnin' Back Home To You' - and it did not take me long at all; and maybe because it's been ready waiting on my computer for a while now!
So the story is called "Irreconcilable Differences" and the idea came to me; mainly due to the fact that Melissa and Blake who played Ryder and Marley in Glee, have now divorced in real life; and I have never really done that of a divorce story that I have actually gone ahead and published on here.
And since I know people would not be wanting me to divorce Mikki and Blaine in "Everywhere You Look" - I am therefore doing a divorce story within the scope of the spin off from "EYL" and where Mikki returned to South Carolina and married Sebastian in "Runnin'", and have it that Marley and Ryder are the ones who are divorcing - I hope that makes sense, as it does make sense in my head and where I see this falling into all that of the stories that I have on here.
So this is a divorce story - so there will be some angst in it; but there will also be that of a happy ending to it as well, as I have it all planned out on ending and it will be a nice one.
So if you do like what you read, then please drop me a review of a fave/follow on it. I should quickly mention that like always any character you see that are from Glee, I do not own; but any that you don't recognize belong to me and can't be used without my permission.
Thanks for reading,
Love always,
KJ xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
FLASHBACK - JULY 2017
"We are gathered here today in the face of this company, to join together Ryder and Marley in matrimony; which is an honorable and solemn estate and therefore is not to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly, but reverently and soberly. Into this estate these two persons present come now to be joined. If anyone can show just cause why they may not be lawfully joined together, let them speak now or forever hold their peace" said the celebrant.
Marley and Ryder look towards their guests to see if anyone was going to object to their marriage and no one stood up.
"Who gives this woman to be married to this man?" asked the celebrant.
"We do" said Midge and Eric Kapowski, as they stood at the altar with her.
"Thank you" said Marley, quickly kissing each of her parents, and Eric shaking that of Ryder's hand also, went and sat down and the celebrant looked at Ryder and Marley.
"Ryder, do you take Marley for your lawful wedded wife, to live in the holy estate of matrimony? Will you love, honor, comfort, and cherish her from this day forward, forsaking all others, keeping only unto her for as long as you both shall live?" asked the celebrant.
"I do" replied Ryder, with a smile to Marley and then the celebrant nodding his head looked at Marley.
"And Marley, do you take Ryder for your lawful wedded husband, to live in the holy estate of matrimony? Will you love, honor, comfort, and cherish him from this day forward, forsaking all others, keeping only unto him for as long as you both shall live?" asked the celebrant.
"I do" replied Marley, with a smile at Ryder.
"Now I am going to ask Ryder and Marley to recite the traditional vows that they have chosen to take today" said the celebrant and Ryder took Marley's hands and looked at her, and Marley smiled at him, as she entwined their hands together.
"Ryder if you want to repeat after me" said the celebrant and Ryder looked at him and nodded. "I Ryder David Evans take thee Marley Rose Kapowski to be my wedded wife"
"I Ryder David Evans take thee Marley Rose Kapowski to be my wedded wife" repeated Ryder, looking at Marley.
"to have and to hold from this day forward" said the celebrant.
"to have and to hold from this day forward" repeated Ryder.
"for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health" said the celebrant.
for better or for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health" repeated Ryder.
"to love, honour, and cherish, 'til death do us part" said the celebrant.
"to love, honor, and cherish, 'til death do us part" said Ryder, smiling at Marley.
"And Marley, if you would like to repeat after me" said the celebrant and Marley nodded and looked at Ryder with a smile.
"I Marley Rose Kapowski take thee Ryder David Evans to be my wedded husband" said the celebrant.
"I Marley Rose Kapowski take thee Ryder David Evans to be my wedded husband" repeated Marley.
"to have and to hold from this day forward" said the celebrant. "to have and to hold from this day forward" repeated Marley.
"for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health" said the celebrant.
"for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health" repeated Marley. "to love, honour, and cherish, 'til death do us part" said the celebrant.
"to love, honor, and cherish, 'til death do us part" repeated Marley.
"Now I ask that the best man to present the rings for Marley and Ryder to exchange" said the celebrant.
"Rings?" asked Sam, with a laugh and Ryder and Marley looked at him.
"Kidding guys, kidding" said Sam, with a smile and got the rings out of the inside of his tux jacket.
Ryder shook his head with a smile and Marley somewhat glared at him but with a small smile as Mikki shook her head and smiled at Sam and looked to him mouthing "You're evil"; and Sam looked at her and nodded with a smile, as the celebrant took the rings from him, and then handed the one for Marley to Ryder.
"Ryder as you place this ring upon Marley's finger, repeat after me 'With this ring I thee wed. Wear it as a symbol of our love and commitment'" said the celebrant.
Ryder looked at him with a nod and smiled as her took Marley's left hand. "With this ring I thee wed. Wear it as a symbol of our love and commitment"
"And Marley, as you place this upon Ryder's finger, repeat after me. 'With this ring I thee wed. Wear it as a symbol of our love and commitment'" said the celebrant, as she took the ring from the minster and she took Ryder's left hand.
"With this ring I thee wed. Wear it as a symbol of our love and commitment" said Marley, placing the ring on Ryder's finger and they entwined their hands once more.
"May this couple be prepared to continue to give, be able to forgive and experience more and more joy with each passing day, with each passing year. Ryder and Marley, are now beginning their married life together, we hope that they may have loving assistance from their family, the constant support of friends, and a long life with good health and everlasting love. In so much as Ryder and Marley have consented to live forever together in wedlock, and have witnessed the same before this company, having given and pledged their life, each to the other, and having declared each other by the giving and receiving of a ring, I pronounce that they are husband and wife" said the celebrant to those who were gathered and then looked at Marley and Ryder.
"You may now seal the promises you have made with each other with a kiss" said the celebrant, and giving him a nod, Ryder then pulled Marley into his arms and kissed her.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the loving couple, Mr and Mrs Evans."
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PRESENT DAY - APRIL 2019
When she got married nearly two years ago, it was easy to think that one day she would have a child or even maybe children; after all nothing was ever said prior by either of them before marriage about not wanting to one day have that be a part of their lives.
But after last night, and telling Ryder that it was indeed a good time of the month for her and knowing that at the age of twenty seven and having a stable job that she was ready to start a family; only for him to want to continue using protection, Marley then slowly began to realize that the man she had vowed to spend forever with and looked to raising a family with, didn't want to have children at all.
Sitting at the kitchen table in their apartment, Marley was sitting in silence, thinking back to their wedding day; eating her muesli, when Ryder walked over to the table and sat down also, grabbing the other bowl that was there and pouring some into a bowl for himself and then drowning it in milk, and just every so often glancing up at his wife as he ate.
Marley looking down at her bowl as she ate, heard Ryder sigh loudly and his spoon clatter to the side of his bowl; and she quickly glanced up meeting his eyes.
"Marls, are we even going to talk about this?" he asked.
"What is there to talk about Ryder?" asked Marley, as she put her spoon into her bowl also. "I think you made your feelings pretty clear last night, you don't want children"
"And you're making a huge deal out of it" said Ryder, looking at her.
"A huge deal?" asked Marley, with a laugh. "I'm sorry, I never realized that having children was off the cards for us. You could have maybe told me this before you asked me to marry you, that you were never wanting this for us"
"I didn't know you wanted them" replied Ryder. "You didn't exactly say to me that was what you were thinking when we got engaged or ever before"
"Safe to say Ryder, most people do think that once they marry they will have kids" said Marley.
"Okay yeah maybe" replied Ryder. "But like I said to you last night, I just don't want that at all"
"And why is that?" asked Marley. "There has to be some reason as to why you feel this way"
"I just think the world now" said Ryder, picking up his spoon to eat again. "Isn't the same one we grew up in, and I don't think it's a great one to raise children in"
"So that's the only reason then?" asked Marley, with a laugh. "Because that is just beyond absurd, a child raised with love and guidance is going to be the same no matter who they're parents are, the factor of the world we live in shouldn't play a part at all"
"What about the costs then" said Ryder. "From birth to maybe age eighteen or even beyond sometimes, it's a lifetime of money that we will spend"
"Again, done out of a love for someone that is part you and part me" replied Marley.
"I can see we have very different views on this" said Ryder. "But I'm sorry Marls, I just don't want children ever"
"Great, well thanks for letting me know that before we married" said Marley, with a dry laugh. "It would have been nice to know that about the person I was vowing to spend forever with"
"I'm sure without children, we will be just as happy" said Ryder, with a smile to her as he stood up and went and put his bowl into the sink. "Happier probably, because we don't have to constantly worry about someone else"
"Yeah, sure" replied Marley, as she finished her muesli not meeting her husband's look.
"I'll see you tonight Marls" he said, walking over to her and placing a kiss to the top of her head.
"Uh huh" said Marley, and nodding her head also. "Bye"
"Bye" replied Ryder and left their apartment to head to his first job for the morning.
Trying to hold back the tears as she finished off her muesli, Marley knew that in her heart she really did want to have children and she couldn't even believe that Ryder didn't ever want to have that with her, because she'd seen him with Puck's children and also he had met Amelia; Mikki and Sebastian's daughter, and there was never any indication that he didn't want that in her eyes; but she guessed looks could be deceiving and it was wrong for her to just to assume that it was something her husband wanted.
Finishing up her own breakfast, she stood and went over to the dishwasher and opened it, placing her bowl inside and spoon; and then with a sigh picked up that of Ryder's and placed it in as well.
"Guess all he wanted" said Marley, in a somewhat bitter tone to just that of herself. "Was a maid to look after him, because heaven forbid he can't do anything for himself"
Closing up the dishwasher with a loud thud, she then went over to the sofa and grabbed the laptop that she had left sitting on the coffee table the night before; and went on to her Facebook, seeing one of the first posts being from Mikki; and a photo of Amelia, with the little girl clearly having had enjoyed that of a meal with it being smeared all over her face and also top as well, and captioned Clearly this kid is a Smythe, messy eater that's for sure!; and a reply back from Sebastian, that read, Babe you're a Smythe too now. Or have you forgotten that? And clearly our daughter gets her appetite from you!
Marley laughed as she also saw the next reply from Jeremy. Got to love a girl who loves her food. Maybe I will challenge her one day to who can be the messiest eater!
And a final reply back from Mikki, that said Don't you dare Jeremy Smythe! I am not having you teach my daughter your very bad eating habits – do we need to remind about pancake! And of course I know my last name, Sebastian! :P But I have seen photographic proof to know that you and your brothers were extremely messy eaters growing up!
Marley laughed having heard about the whole Jeremy thinking it was a challenge and stuffing a whole pancake into his mouth, and she could also see that he'd liked the comment as well.
Smiling to herself as she too typed in a reply, Gorgeous little girl regardless of the mess she has made. I'm sure you and Seb still love that precious little angel, cause I know she is definitely loved by her Auntie Lee Lee. As she hit enter on the post she couldn't also but help tear up a little knowing that she was now never going to be experiencing the joy of being a mother.
Thinking for a moment as she looked at more stuff from friends on her newsfeed, she then opened up another browser and went into Delta Airlines and typed starting destination as San Francisco and journey end as Columbia, South Carolina; along with that of Monday a few days from now, to that of Monday the following week as being return date, and waited for the flights available to load; she picked up her cell phone and went through contacts before connecting a call to Mikki.
"Hey Lee Lee" came Mikki's voice after that of a few rings, and Marley smiled; missing her siblings all who were now back over living in South Carolina and her being the only one that was now living on the other side of the country, which meant that catch ups were not that easy to organise.
"Hi Mik" replied Marley, with a smile to herself as she arrowed down on the page looking at the flights that were available for a short little needed trip to see her family. "So I was wondering if it's okay for me to come and spend a few days with you there"
"Yeah of course" said Mikki, on the other end. "You know you and Ry are always welcome here"
"Well actually it'd just be me" replied Marley, as she clicked on a flight option for Monday evening which would then see the flight arriving the next day in South Carolina. "He has work still obviously, and it's spring break for me; so kind of want to make the most of it"
"Okay yes rub in the fact that you still get holidays that none of us normal working people do" said Mikki, with a laugh and Marley couldn't help but laugh also as how relaxing it was to talk with her older sister.
"Yes I will" replied Marley, still with a laugh. "But is that okay with you? I don't want to put you and Seb out or anything"
"It's no trouble at all" said Mikki, on the other end of the phone. "You are as said, always welcome here"
"Okay well I will organise the flight and then send you through the details of when I'll be there" said Marley.
"Sure, what time you looking at getting here Leesy?" asked Mikki.
"Umm, well the flight is Monday night and gets to Columbia the next day, so it will be there by eleven thirty" she replied as she clicked on that one and went to the next lot of flights for return back to San Francisco.
"Sure that's fine" replied Mikki. "I'm on mornings over break so Simone can have the holidays off with her kids, so I am finished by about eight thirty and get home about twenty minutes after that, and then Seb leaves for work. So eleven thirty is fine with me to come and get you from the airport"
"You don't mind doing that?" asked Marley.
"I'm not going to be having my little sister catch a cab" said Mikki, with a laugh. "Don't think such nonsense stuff"
"Okay, well once I have booked the flights" replied Marley. "I will send you through all the details just so you have them as well"
"Sure" said Mikki. "Look forward to seeing you Leesy. Miss not being able to see you"
"Yeah same here" said Marley. "It's strange at one point three us were over here and you were back home, and then we were all over here; and now three are back there and I'm the one who is over here on my own"
"Yeah, weird that huh" said Mikki, with a laugh. "I'll let you book your flights and I will see you in a few days"
"Yeah okay, love you Keeks" said Marley, with a smile as she looked at the details for a return flight. "I'll see you soon.
"Yeah you will" replied Mikki. "Love you as well, Leesy. Bye"
"Bye" said Marley, and ended the phone call and placed her cell phone back down; then went and got her credit card from her purse and put through all the details for booking her flights to and from San Francisco, California to Columbia, South Carolina; and then sent through all the relevant information to Mikki, before she headed out for the rest of the day for some much needed retail therapy.
End Note: Thoughts on this new story!? And where you possibly maybe see it heading - whilst there will be happy endings in it; I can say it will not be that of reuniting Marley and Ryder at the end of it.
But it will be more so that of them finding what they want with another - and like I said I have it all planned out as to what will happen with that.
Thanks for reading, and I will hopefully have some of the other chapters on other stories updated soon as well that you might be waiting for - just with the issues that faced Fanfiction the last week has meant that I have held off on doing updates for them all, so that people would be aware of when new stuff was on here!
Love always,
KJ xoxoxoxoxoxoxo