Chapter 4 – Places
Marley is on her way to her locker when Ryder passed with Kitty by his side, hand around her waist.
"Hey" He smiled friendly at her.
"Hey" She greeted him politely.
"Stop looking at my man, circus fat!" Kitty sneered as she pulled Ryder with her to walk faster.
Marley just felt annoyed at Kitty, the sadness not as much. 'She already got what she wanted from me. Ryder. Why can't she leave me alone now? I never did anything to her. First she wanted Jake, and that hadn't lasted long before she sat her sights set on Ryder and took him just like that.' Marley stared bitterly in her direction.
"That was unnecessary, Kit." Ryder said glaring at her.
"Why are you mad at me Rydey? I haven't done anything wrong" She pouted and made puppy dog eyes at him.
Ryder glared at her before softening his features and smiling at her, deciding to drop the subject. "Let''s just get to glee club" He shrugged and while he wasn't looking she smirked her evil grin…
…I'm not performing with that self centered, arrogant wheelchair riding jerk. No one tells Unique what she should and shouldn't do whilst singing and dancing!" Unique ranted towards Marley.
Marley sighs "What did he tell you to do… or not do?"
"He told me I shouldn't sing so high and that it will make us lose this competition and that he should have most of the lines in the song. Unique… Sing… to… High… Unique lives for the high notes. I told him I'm not singing with him anymore and he couldn't agree more." Unique glared sideways.
"Well I for one want to win that breadsticks dinner for two. So I'm gonna give it my all when we perform" Marley had a glint of excitement in her eyes.
"You go girl. Too bad you have to go with that sleazebag Puckerman to Breadstix's" she frowned.
"He's actually not such a jerk as he seems to be sometimes." Marley smiled.
"I'd have to see that to believe it. All when he's nice is when he wants to get in a girl's pants." She said nonchalant.
"I'm done talking to you about this. Let's get to glee" Marley wanted to change the subject of dissing on Jake.
"Yeah, Finn will be disappointed that you and Artie don't want to perform together." Marley said as they reached the Choir room.
"Yeah, he's just going to have to deal with it." She shrugged before they took their seats.
"Okay guys, today Artie and Unique is going to perform their duet" Finn looks at them and Artie raises his hand. "Yes Artie?" Finn frowns.
"Due to a mutual disagreement between us, Unique and I decided it would be best not to perform." Artie said nonchalant
"If someone just listened to any of my ideas then maybe we would have had a duet, but no… you have to be a stereotypical man and be a control freak" Unique glared at him.
Artie frowned "I'm not the one throwing a hissy fit about everything" he countered
"Excuse me?!" Unique exclaimed
"You heard me girl" Artie said superiorly.
The anger flared up in her. She got up and stood in front of him "You controlling sexist" and slapped him hard before sitting back down. Finn looked dumbfounded at all of this, more than half of the club looked at Unique that way. Some shook their head at Artie.
"Can't let a girl have a say, Artie?" Tina said bitterly.
"You called me Stupid, what did you call her?" Brittany said in the same tone.
"I didn't call her anything…" Artie murmured.
Unique, Brittany and Tina started yelling at Artie.
"Enough guys!" Finn yelled angrily and that shut them up. "We're here to enjoy and sing music, not bite each other's head off"
"Finn has a point" Marley continued. "If you want to fight go outside"
"Can't have the jocks, wants the teacher now?" Kitty said looking at her with that pretend shocked face and Marley blushed.
"Kitty stop it" Jake said looking at her with piercing eyes.
"Obviously Finn can't have Rachel anymore so now he's replacing her with the new Rachel." Kitty pointed out, smirking.
This struck a nerve with Finn "Kitty, out of the choir room now!" he yelled as he pointed to the door.
"Well, we're done for today anyways so I'll go" Kitty smiled before leaving the classroom.
Finn looks at his watch "Well we're done for today, we'll see each other same time, same place tomorrow." He said as he walked out the room.
"Marley wait up." Jake said as he saw her start to leave the room.
She turned around and looked at him "Yeah?"
"So we're still going to practice at your house this afternoon?" He asked
"Yeah, by the way… Do you maybe want a lift with me to my house?" She blushed as she asked him this.
"Will your mom mind me riding with you two?" Jake asked.
"She leant me the car today, she's feeling sick and didn't come to school today. So I'll be driving the car, you trust me?" She said half teasing, half shy as they started walking to the car.
"I'll be sure to buckle up and hold on tightly" He smiled.
"I promise to not ride too rough" Marley offered seeing as Jake was sounding a little scared.
"Oh please, we Puckermans aren't scared of nothing" He bragged and Marley gave him a light shove from the side.
"Yeah except for certain blonde head cheerleaders" Marley countered as she got in the car and unlocked the passenger's door.
Jake opened the door and got in "Yeah well… blonde head cheerleaders are the Puckermans' kryptonite" He laughed
"I'll remember that when I need to blackmail you" She smirked before starting the car and driving off.
…
Kitty and Ryder got out of the car.
Ryder looked up at Kitty's house and was dumbfounded "Woah!"
"Maybe if you could lift your jaw off the ground we can go inside" Kitty smiled at him.
When Ryder snapped back to reality, he started walking "Big house you have here"
"I haven't noticed" Kitty said with a eye roll as she unlocked the front door.
"Your parents not home?" He gave her a suggestive grin and raises a brow.
"No, they're both working till late tonight" She bit her lip, smiled at him and opened the front door.
Once they were inside, it was as if Kitty had a sixth sense. The next moment Ryder plants a kiss on her palm as she blocked it from her mouth. She tisked "There will be lots of time for that after we figure out what song to sing as a duet" she smiled "Come, let's go to the exercise room" She grabbed his hand and led him upstairs
"Don't you have a music room?" Ryder looked quizzical as he followed her.
She opened the door "You can't dance in a music room, silly" she smiled walking inside.
"Oh, so we're going to dance?" Ryder smiled.
"Of course, we'd kill the duet if we do" Kitty smirked walking over to the ipad docked on the side of the room. "Hmm…" she scrolled down the list "Let's try this"
Ryder looked over Kitty's shoulder "I love that song"
Meanwhile…
"I'm just saying that us singing that song would be cheesy" Jake complained as they walked into her room "Nice room"
"Thanks and come on, let's just try the song before you decide" Marley begged him.
"Okay fine, but if I'm right, you're paying for the milkshakes." Jake agreed.
"Deal" She put a cd in the player and pressed play "Here we go, you ready?"
"Let's do this" Jake faked a game face.
She pressed play.
…
Kitty and Ryder start to dance to the song
Kitty, Ryder, Both
Yellow diamonds in the light
Now we're standing side by side
As your shadow crosses mine
What it takes to come alive
It's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny
But I've gotta let it go
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
Marley and Jake are dancing around the room pretending to be in love or so they thought.
Marley, Jake, Both
Shine a light through an open door
Love a life I will divide
Turn away 'cause I need you more
Feel the heartbeat in my mind
It's the way I'm feeling I just can't deny
But I've gotta let it go
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
…
Marley and Kitty, Jake and Ryder. All four
Yellow diamonds in the light
Now we're standing side by side
As your shadow crosses mine
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
We found love in a hopeless place
Kitty and Ryder were laying on the floor when the song finished and started kissing.
"Let's go to my room" Kitty moaned.
"Sure" Ryder said quickly picking her up and taking her to her room, bridal style
He laid her down on the bed and climbed on top of her. She quickly switched around with him.
"Kitty likes it on top" Kitty smirked before Ryder pulled her into a forceful kiss. Kitty reciprocates the kiss and Kitty starts to pull of Ryder's shirt.
"I thought we're not going to do that?" Ryder moaned between kisses.
"I changed my mind" Kitty smiled into the kiss. As did Ryder as he started removing her shirt and kicking off his own shoes. As the clothes starts to get less, Ryder suddenly feels awkward and freezes and Kitty halts also.
"Something wrong?" She asked staring into his eyes.
"We shouldn't be doing this, I know I wanted to. But it feels wrong" Kitty rolls off of him. They both started to get dressed.
…
Jake was holding Marley in a leaning embrace. Both of them looked into each other's eyes and both started getting red in the face. He pulled her back up and smiled shyly.
"That was a really good duet. We'd definitely win the competition with that song" He smiled brightly at her.
"I told you, now you owe me some milkshake. And I'm in the mood for it… now!" She smiled picking up the car keys smiling and Jake nods smirking. He follows her out of the house and into the car…