Chapter 7 – Authentic

"Hey Girl" Unique leans against the locker next to Marley's.

"Hey" Marley greets her.

"And that lost look on your face?"

"It's nothing" Marley shrugs before giving Unique a small smile.

"You're lying again. Is Jake being mean towards you again?" Unique asks.

"No, Jake is nice, too nice." Marley sighs and looks at her shoes.

"That means you're falling in love with him aren't you?" Unique beams.

"Yeah, I think I am" Marley smiles back.

"That's great, now you have a boyfriend. Even though he's a womanizer" Unique shrugs.

"Unique!" Marley frowns.

"Sorry, no dissing on the BF or soon to be, girl code I know." Unique nods.

Kitty walks up to Ryder "I hope you're ready to win this afternoon in glee club"

"Of course, I am." Ryder smiles

"Good, cause I'm in it to win it. Not Marley and that stupid boy of her is going to win this competition" Kitty smirks, folding her arms.

"Of Course" Ryder nods.

"Come, let's go practice that song some more in the auditorium" Kitty takes his hand and leads him toward the auditorium.

"Haven't we got all the moves and words right to a T?" Ryder sighs.

"Yeah, but we can be more perfect" Kitty explains, slightly irritated.

"Yeah, we could be" he says as they walk into the auditorium.

"I just want this glee session to pass quickly" Unique says to Marley who is sitting next to her in the choir room.

"Why?" Marley frowns

"Cause Barbie and Ken is performing" Unique shudders.

"Maybe they'll be good."

"Or maybe they'll be as fake as their plastic counterparts."

Marley laughs "We'll just have to see" making Unique frown.

"Where's your boyfriend?" Unique looks around the room not seeing him.

"Probably just late" Marley shrugs but she is a little worried.

"What's new" Unique scoffs.

"Leave my boyfriend alone" Marley says irritated.

"Someone's touchy" Unique noted before Finn came into the room.

"Okay,guys. Today is the last duet before the winner is announced. So without further ado, Ryder and Kitty" He claps his hands for them before sitting down.

Kitty and Ryder enter the room.

"Hit it piano man!" Kitty yells and Brad frowns deeply at her before he starts playing.

Ryder,Kitty, Both

I need to feel your heartbeat
When you say you love me
I don't want to hear it
If it's something that you don't mean

If I had to leave you now
There would be an empty space
It doesn't matter any how
You can take your things
And go your own way

And there's two more lonely people
In the world tonight

Baby, you and I
Are just two more lonely people
Who gave up the fight
Yeah, wrong or right
Well you know my heart is aching
You don't have to break it
If love don't change your mind
Then there's two more lonely people tonight

I don't want the pictures
I don't want your sympathy
We don't have to be friends
We don't have to be enemies

In my head I break it down
And I'm absolutely sure
That you and I could work it out

Or we could kill the lights
On what we had before

And there's two more lonely people
In the world tonight
Baby, you and I
Are just two more lonely people
Who gave up the fight
Yeah, wrong or right
Well you know my heart is aching

You don't have to break it
If love don't change your mind

Then there's two more lonely people

Well, we got something special
That should be enough
Nothing is predictable
When it comes to love
Maybe lately baby
It's been a little rough
But if you walk away tonight

We'll be two more lonely people
In the world tonight
Baby, you and I
And just two more lonely people
Who gave up the fight

And there's two more lonely people
In the world tonight
Baby, you and I
And just two more lonely people
Who gave up the fight
Yeah, wrong or right
Well you know my heart is aching
You don't have to break it
If love don't change your mind
Then there's two more lonely people tonight

When they reached the end of the song, everyone claps hands and Ryder and Kitty kiss. When Marley sees that she becomes very jealous 'I have Jake, so why should I be jealous?' Marley shrugs.

"Wow, that was amazing guys" Finn walks up to the front. "And the prize goes to…" Finn holds up the envelope with the prize "Marley and Jake! Hey where's Jake?"

"Here I am" He says as he walks into the room. Marley walks up to the front and takes the envelope and smiles broadly.

"How could they win? We were so much better than them" Kitty shrieked.

"Well, Marley and Jake performed a lot more natural than you and Ryder. They showed us yet again that we don't have to have over choreographed moves to have a great performance." Artie stated.

"Yeah, Artie is right about that. Well congrats Marley and Jake!" Everyone but Kitty clapped their hands.

Kitty stormed out of the room but Ryder didn't even bother to go after her.

"Why were you so late?" Marley asks Jake when they walk out of the choir room.

Jake looked all around him except at Marley "I… didn't want to see their performance. It would just have annoyed me."

Marley nods "I also didn't want to watch real life Barbie and Ken perform. Their performance lacked depth and mostly annoyed me."

"See why I didn't want to be there" Jake nods in agreement.

Marley takes his hand "Well, it would've been better with you there and then I wouldn't have needed to look at them"

"I'll remember that in the future" Jake smiled back at her.

"Thanks" she gave him a kiss on the cheek.

A/N: This is not becoming a Jarley fic. There are too many of them anyways.