Kitty Wilde was not the biggest fan of musicals. She could take them or leave them, really. However, Kitty did enjoy one above the rest- Little Shop of Horrors.
It wasn't that she had a thing for plants, or sadism, or anything. She understood the deeper meaning of both the play and 1986 movie versions- how dark ambitions could make one give up their true desires.
That sat deeply with Kitty. Ambitions and success were their own drugs- people got a high over winning, even if the prize was useless, or worse, detrimental to them. Seymour almost lost his love to a fucking flower after all, and even then the plant was in their yard at the end.
So when Finn invited Rachel Berry to help him host a glee club meeting, and decided that given her specialty, having a musical week for the glee lesson would be best, Kitty chose Somewhere That's Green.
Going over the song, she decided to skip the first verse- too many mentions of the sadistic dentist, Orin Scrivello.
Although, there was another reason. In this verse Audrey sings for her love for Seymour despite dating the dentist. For Kitty, that hit a little too close to home.
Vintage Puckerman was great. He had dreams and goals in addition to the spontaneity, and had just enough sweetness to cut the arrogance that came with being a bad boy in high school. And all that meant that she wasn't on a one-way trip to being a Lima loser.
But, if she was being truthful, when she sung the lines about cooking like Betty Crocker and looking like Donna Reed, she wasn't picturing Noah taking care of the garden outside their tract home.
And it hurt like hell to string him along, it did. She tried to make it up to him by constantly sifting through his notes on his screenplay and giving recommendations, but still she felt guilty.
She wasn't sure if the object of her affection fell in the 'Ambition' or 'Love' category, really. In this instance she could feel real feelings: joy, curiosity, hope, but the desire to do what she wanted, when she wanted gave her pause. What she had said to Noah was true- she was used to getting her way, but this seemed like more.
It was scary, that's for sure. If these feelings were real, then she was in trouble. She would be responsible for breaking up a number of relationships- hers, Jake's and Marley's and the brother's fledging family reunion. As much of a bitch she was, and she was one in spades, she didn't have it in her to take away someone else happiness for her own. Spite was easy, making someone else feel as bad as she did, easy.
But when eating dinner together or watching the kids play Howdy Doody (note to self: get kids toys from this century) she didn't need to think about how she would be thinking about him, and what could have been.
Because Marley was too sweet. If she had managed to exacerbate the girl's eating disorder, than what would happen if she came up to her bearing her heart instead of her fangs? Would Marley make the best choice for herself? Kitty had her doubts.
Coming to the final part, now in front of the current glee club, the band, Finn with his gassy infant look, that she had come to recognize as his attempt at being neutral, Rachel, looking pleased as punch to have corrupted a new generation of kids on musicals and finally Santana, watching her with a knowing look, every time her eyes stayed a bit too long on Marley, managing to keep her pronouns straight and avoid saying she instead of he, she blinked back the fast coming tears.
Far from skid row,
I dream we'll go
Somewhere that's Green