DISCLAIMER: obviously, none of these characters are mine (apart from Chad, Lacey and the girl dressed as Wonder Woman). All rights to the people of Glee, I guess.

A nervous week of Ryder constantly panicking had gone by. He had actually been invited to a house party – and not only that, but he had been invited there by Marley Rose herself. There were times when he had pondered if it was all a joke, but the boy was too completely over-the-top in love with her to even care – even if it was a scam, he thought he'd be privileged to have his heart crushed, if the person who was crushing his heart was none other than Marley Rose.

He got out of his car sheepishly, much like how he had done when he went to tutor the brunette for the first time a week before, and brushed nearly-shaking hands down his costume before ringing the doorbell, hearing the loud bass-line thumps of a popular song even from outside. This was going to be wild.

A very provocative Kitty Wilde opened the door, ironically not dressed as a cat. She was wearing a revealing nurse costume, with her hair cascading and framing her face (which Ryder thought was a bit overdone with makeup), holding a red plastic cup filled with a questionable liquid as she looked him up and down.

"Do I know you?" she asked him, twiddling her hair with a perfectly manicured finger.

"Uh-um… my name's Ryder. Ryder Lynn?" he tried to jog the small blonde girl's memory.

"Nope, still not ringing a bell… wait. Aren't you in Glee Club?" she asked, looking slightly disgusted that someone had invited such a loser to her party.

"Um, yeah. I usually wear glasses." Ryder replied, pointing to his eyes, which now had contacts in so he wouldn't come off as a total nerd.

"Huh…" Kitty smirked, "and who invited you?"

"Uh… Marley." Ryder hesitated, worrying that anything he said could sink him to the bottom of the polluted ocean that was McKinley High School. Kitty looked at him questioningly, but nonetheless, called Marley to the door over the large thumps of whatever monstrosity was playing on the stereo. When Marley came to the door after flirting aimlessly with a guy dressed as a fireman, she too did not recognise Ryder.

"Why can't I remember inviting you?" she pondered, Ryder's mouth still wide ajar from seeing her Halloween costume. She was dressed in a black bandeau bra with a black leather jacket, the sleeves rolled at scrunched up, accompanied by a short black skater skirt. She also wore black high heels so she was now the same height as the boy before her, only the black/gold eyeliner across her cheeks (masquerading as cat whiskers) and pink kitty ears peeking out from her glossy brown tresses giving any tell as to what she actually went as. Marley had pulled the 'sexy black cat' card this Halloween.

"Uhm… I um… it's Ryder. I'm wearing contacts- I usually wear glasses?" he tried to jog the provocative brunette's memory, and Marley looked him up and down before nodding and smirking in reply.

"Oh, yeah, I remember you now," she said, winking subtly in Kitty's direction as the blonde girl offered a smirk back. Then turning back to the boy before her, she thought out loud, "You should wear contacts more often, honey. You look H-O-T hot!" she exclaimed, looking him up and down before pointing at his costume, "What's with the grandpa clothes though?"

"Oh, um…" Ryder started, looking down at his brown buttoned shirt, a dark green vest covering it. "I'm Chandler Bing," he began, but gave more details when both girls before him looked confused. "The sarcastic and funny one from Friends?" the girls grinned and giggled before telling him they remembered now, and they welcomed him inside, Kitty going to talk to a half-black jock named Jake Puckerman.

Marley lead him in with her perfectly manicured hand and brought him to a table filled with red and blue solo cups and various vodkas, liquors and sodas. She spun around and looked at him through her very long eyelashes, telling him he looked like he's just seen an old lady get mowed down by a tractor, and he chuckled it off nervously, saying he had never been to a house party with so many popular people before.

"Hey, relax, honey. I'll pour you a drink." He seemed a little questionable about that, and then she asked, "what, have you never had alcohol before, Not-So-Four-Eyes?"

"Oh no, I-I have some on New Year's and at weddings and stuff…" he stuttered, causing Marley to raise her eyebrows.

"I'm pretty sure that's the exact line that Sandy said in Grease when the Pink Ladies asked her that. Come on, I'll start you off slow – vodka and Sprite, okay?" he nodded slowly in reply. She poured the boy the drink, tossing in a generous amount of booze, and gave it to him. "And, by the way, if anyone ever makes fun of you at this party, I'll make sure it won't be a problem, alright?" Ryder smiled softly at her and nodded again.

He sniffed the drink and crinkled his nose up, before taking a swig, and then another- maybe it was just the idea of living on the edge, but he could have downed the drink right then, it was so good. Marley smirked.

"Don't drink it too fast – we wouldn't want any accidents to happen now, would we?" she chuckled somewhat darkly and took a glug of her own drink before taking him around the house, the loud beat of the music and the flirtatious and hardly-meaningful conversations accompanying them.

Ryder felt like a lost lamb at this party – he felt like Bambi, surrounded by roaring creatures and gunmen. Everywhere he turned in this house, he saw people. Jocks, jocks, morons, sluts, drunkards, animals. He heard drunken slurs flirting with each other, fighting with each other over the thump of the music, people making out with others they had barely even met. He felt outnumbered; he didn't belong in this crowd. 'But hey, it could be worse', he thought, 'at least I'm not wearing my glasses'.

Marley stopped in her tracks and looked before her, noticing a small group of people sat in a circle, a beer bottle spinning and them cheering. Her eyes lit up as she let a look of mischief take over her features as she dragged Ryder into the circle. A jock, who he believed was called Chad, called out on him.

"Dude, who brought this nerd?" he giggled, "Go back to your own habitat, loser!" he aimed his insult at the geeky boy himself, taking a loud slurp of his drink. Seconds later, Marley was whispering something in his ear. Obviously now petrified, moments later Chad shook Ryder's hand, apologising. Ryder couldn't believe it. Firstly, a jock actually apologised to him, and, even better, he was about to play Spin the Bottle with a girl he had been hard-core crushing on for years.

A jock made the choice to be the first to spin the bottle, and everyone listened as he lay down the ground rules (guys couldn't kiss guys, but girls could kiss girls, and the kiss couldn't be longer that ten seconds- and if you're wanting more, just "Get a room"), when the bottle landed on a girl named Lacey. She was an attractive girl with red hair, but she wasn't Ryder's type. She and the jock leant in and kissed, and soon after everyone kept playing. As the game descended, Ryder had kissed a blonde girl, but she tasted of cheap liquor, so he didn't exactly enjoy it.

About halfway into the game, Marley finally spun the bottle and it landed on Chad. Chad quickly obliged and kissed the smaller brunette eagerly, proceeding to stick his tongue down the girl's throat, making Ryder and other witnesses uncomfortable in a matter of seconds. Marley broke the kiss and slapped Chad in the face, causing everyone in the circle to 'ooh' sassily, and Chad to exit the game in a drunken rage. Marley took a long swig of her drink before spinning the bottle again. It spun around slowly, and it landed on him.

'Ew, do I really have to kiss that dork? His lips probably taste of potato salad. Awh, he's turned bright red, that's cute. Better get this over-with before his mouth gets filled with saliva.'

Marley leant in first awkwardly with slightly blurred vision due to her half-drunken state. Everyone in the group watched intently as Ryder looked at her – she was so beautiful. He leaned in quickly and closed his eyes, and she did the same, hesitantly. She held his chin with her soft hand and trimmed pink nails, and closed the space between their mouths quickly. Thoughts were swirling around both teenagers' minds at a heart-racing speed. Marley was surprised to find that his lips did not taste of potato salad, and they were actually quite soft. She was also surprised that someone so dorky and uncool could be such a great kisser – and the kiss was actually… nice. It was simple. It was sweet. It was considerate. And soon, she wanted another, when-

"Time's up!" a completely wasted guy in the circle called. Marley abruptly pulled away from the Bieber-haired boy before her, turning a bright shade of crimson, which she was glad to see that no-one saw. But Ryder did.

Ryder was over the moon, he didn't even care if it was a game or if people were watching or that it didn't happen how he had dreamed it would have so many times before – she kissed him. On the mouth.

Suddenly, he was interrupted of his thoughts when a girl dressed as Wonder Woman, her hair pigtails, dragged him up to the dance floor. Marley, as she witnessed this event, tried to read Ryder's expression. He looked shocked that a girl had whisked him off to dance, but he chuckled nonetheless and danced with her to the music. Marley was officially in a rage – she didn't know why, but she had never been so angry over a guy before. She stood up, downing the last of her drink, and slurred, "This game is boring. Later, losers."

She went over to the dance floor, and grabbed the hand of a random guy, who quickly proceeded in dancing with her amongst the camouflage of the dim, purple lights and the drunken slurs accompanying the thumps of the music. She kept looking over her shoulder, over at Ryder. He was having the time of his life dancing with the other girl. 'God, she's such a whore.'

Then, the next time she looked around, the girl was taking both of Ryder's hands and was dragging him away, the boy before her eagerly following. Marley stopped dancing, her eyes glaring, her feet moving to their own accord. She swatted her way through the drunken guys hitting on her, and made her way through the crowd. She didn't even know what good it would be to her if she found him – what was she even planning to say or do when she saw him? She stumbled through the twists and turns of the house, turning circles and dead ends as if she was in a maze, when she turned a final corner and found them.

And they were kissing. And the girl looked as though she had her tongue in his mouth. And Ryder looked shocked yet intrigued and happy about it.

For some reason which she wasn't known to yet, Marley's utopian world, where everything was perfect, finally caved into what can only be described as a nightmare.

Dun dun duuuun! Chapter 4 is complete :D so I would love it if you told me what you thought of this one – the costumes, the ending, the kiss, the girl, Chad… whatever you want. And, if you want, tell me what you think is going to happen! I want to see your guesses. Did you like what Ryder went as to Kitty's party as much as I did? I basically had to add in something to do with Friends, since it's my favourite programme, along with Glee! Plus, I'm not really familiar with geeky comic book superheroes, and I thought that a geeky obsession with Friends is something that hasn't been done before. Besides, he's her lobster!

Right, can we talk about Movin' Out?! Ryley went on a date! I was so freaking happy though. I understand that Marley needed a little bit of space and that the whole love-hearts-on-the-Instagram-photo thing was a little bit creepy, but awh, GET THEM TOGETHER ALREADY! An Innocent Man was amazing, and My Life was kind of insensitive… I kind of wanted Jake to backflip onto his face, hahahaa. But seriously, Marley, you can't resist Ryder for too long, right? He's loved you since he first set eyes on you and sure he jumped in a bit too soon but he's been waiting for you to come around for so long! Stop being a bitch, k? k. Anyway yeah, my Ryley heart kind of went into cardiac arrest. I need them together, nowwww!

But, for now, so long!

-Beth :P