Glee S5 AU
Episode 9
Random Partners


Storylines:
Unique and Kitty: The two struggle to find a suitable song
Sam and Marley: Sam relates to Marley's situation with Jake
Aylin and Ryder: Ryder gets annoyed with Aylin's consistent flirting


Unique jumped onto Kitty's bed. It wasn't too unfamiliar to her, she had slept over at Kitty's place before. Unbeknownst to her, this was the exact place where Marley began to nauseate herself.

"Well, it's not like our voices don't go together," Unique cried out, "we've sang plenty of songs together before."

"Not alone though," Kitty was leaning downwards, staring at her computer. She had neglected her chair and was standing in such a position that her butt was staring straight at Unique.

Unique leaned back to lie down on Kitty's bed. It was much softer than her own.

"How about," Unique lifted a finger, "Diamonds by Rihanna. I mean, we would rock that song."

"I hate that song."

Kitty continued scrolling through the songs in Unique's folder. All the songs she had recommended, which was just 4 songs to be precise, had been shot down by Unique. But Unique felt the same way too. Kitty had scrolled through her songs about five times and still had not conceded into choosing any.

"This is hopeless," Kitty slammed her Mac book shut and finally takes a seat on a chair.

Unique got up from her position and frowned. They've been at this for about two hours and they still could not find a song to sing.

"Why did Finn have to give us the first day," Kitty swirled around in her chair, "Mr. Schuester would put all the seniors first and us at the back. Or at least Blaine first."

"Oh, stop whining, Mr. Schuester's moving to New York soon. And we won't be seeing anymore of him soon," Unique said, "so stop your lust for him."

"Oh, how about Crush?" Kitty had a stroke of inspiration. She had always loved that song, and think that they could do it justice.

"The song? Hell no, it sucks."

"This is exactly why this week's theme is stupid. Unexpected pairs," Kitty sighed, "they don't duet for a friggin reason."

"Speaking of crush, how are you and Artie?"

Kitty threw her phone towards Unique, giving her the authority to sift through her messages.

"Nothing much, to be honest," Kitty said humbly, "not much to tell, not much to hear."

"What about after graduation?" Unique placed the phone down carefully on the bed, "I can't imagine being in that kind of situation!"

"You haven't even dated before."

Unique scowled at her, which then turned into a pout.

"I thought Ryder would've given you a shot," Kitty pulled the scrungie off her hair, letting it flow down gloriously.

Unique rolled around in the bed, "Nah, he wouldn't even give me a shot. Can you blame him though?"

Kitty shook her head, an answer Unique had expected.

"This is a waste of time," Kitty finally said, opening up her bedroom door. "You can show yourself out."

"Oh, the hell? You ain't kicking me out, girl."

"I am. Deal with it," Kitty sat back down and opened her Mac book. She closed the files she had on and passed the thumbdrive back to Unique. She then began doing her own thing, a sign to Unique that Kitty had already given up.

"You know, after throwing that Slushy to my face at the start of the year, I think I get at least a chance to be rude to you," Unique argued, "so I ain't moving."

"I thought being your friend is already more than a pain in that department. Can't that be counted as being rude?"

"I didn't force you to be friends with me," Unique grabbed her chair, "so you can stop acting like you hate me."

Kitty moaned, "Well, at least you're not one of those untouchables in school."

"You classify people in school? Wow, Kitty that's so..." but Unique trailed off, thinking about what Kitty said. "Oh my god, what about Untouched?"

"The song? You like that song?"

"You don't?"

"Of course I do," Kitty got up and faced Unique, "You want to sing that? We can totally do that!"

"Right on, girlfriend!" Unique held out a hand to hi-5 Kitty.

Kitty stared at Unique and took a deep breath. "Don't ever say or do that again."

Unique took a step back and raised out her hands in defeat. "You're the boss."

"Oh, no duh," Kitty closed the tabs on her computer and searched for Untouched on YouTube.

Glee

"How about Apologize by Maroon 5? Or any other song..." Sam pondered over the songs he could remember at the top of his head, "What songs did you listen to as a kid?"

"I don't know..." Marley mumbled.

"You've been really down this whole time," Sam pouted at her, "still angry about Jake?"

"I don't get why I still care about him," Marley threw her head backwards, stretching her fingers into the air and she hung her head back. "I know all this complaining is getting very old, but I just can't stop thinking about him."

"Don't worry, it's just a phase."

"But, I do want to think about him. That's the problem."

"That's part of the phase," Sam assured her, placing his guitar onto the ground, resting it on Blaine's desk. "Trust me, I've been there before."

Marley laughed, for the first time since she entered Blaine's house, "is everyone in Glee club that adulterated?"

"Only the special few. I was even used as a beard once."

"Oh, yes!" Marley's giggles pierced the air, it was so sharp and loud, which was surprising for a girl that shy, "Santana told me about that."

At that moment, Blaine's head popped up at the door, "Sorry, guys, mind keeping it down?" Blaine had a phone in his hand, and he seemed pretty annoyed.

"What's with him?" asked Marley.

"He's talking to Sugar," Sam widened his eyes to express his fear, "you know how it's like having to stubborn people together."

The joy was sucked out of Marley's eyes, and she silently agreed with Sam on his point. Sam looked sadly at her. Just knowing what she's going through brings pain to his chest.

"You know, Finn told us to move on," Marley sighed, "I don't think I can do that. Jake seems to already have."

"Oh, no, he hasn't," murmured Sam.

Marley looked at him inquisitively.

"He still likes you in that sorta way, I'm sure you do too. Just don't think about him for awhile. I'm sure you'll get over him."

"Is that what you did with Quinn?"

"Exactly how much did Santana tell you?" Sam scowled. Changing the subject, Sam got Marley back on track to finding a song for their duet. They have quite a lot of songs they like. And that was the problem, there was too many songs to choose from.

"How about Billy Joel?" Sam suggested.

"Yes!" Marley's eyes lit on fire. She had always loved singing his songs. But that only led to more songs to ultimately choose from.

"Wow, that is a whole lot to choose from," Sam said while adding four more songs to their list.

"It was always hard to pick songs with Jake..." Marley pursed her lips together, "I'm glad I got you."

Sam backed away from her, scared of the thought. She had to reassure him that there was no feelings there.

"You're like a brother to me."

Sam smiled, and took a long hard look at the list. He took out his pen and started cancelling out a few. After a half hour, they still have ten songs to choose from.

"This is exhausting," Marley commented, prepared to give up. But there was just nine more to cross of.

"Why don't we just sing each one of them and see which one suits us best?" Sam shrugged his shoulders. Marley didn't seem to have a problem with that, so they chose a random one off the list first. Sam picked up his guitar and they started singing.

Sam
I'm wasting my time
I got nothing to do
I'm hanging around
I'm waiting for you
But nothing ever happens and I wonder

Marley and Sam
I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree

"Sam, Marley," Blaine popped into the room.

"What?" Sam looked up, slightly annoyed that Blaine had interrupted their practice.

"Sugar and some New Directions members will be here soon. Some can't make it but, at least it's better with most of you here."

"Wait, why?" Marley was taken aback.

"Tina just walked past Vocal Adrenaline at the mall. She talked to Jean Baptiste."

"What?" The two shouted together.

"Apparently he recognised her, they're coming over now."

Glee

"Hey, Blaine, got your text," Finn said, he looked just as confused as everyone when he walked through the door.

Sugar followed swiftly behind Finn, as if they had been walking to Blaine's house the entire time together. She munched on her apple, and continuously complained about Blaine using this as an excuse to discuss the duet face to face with her.

"Geez, we're not performing so soon, just chillax," Sugar threw her apple at Blaine. Disgusted, Blaine quickly flung it into the rubbish bin.

Sam, Marley, Ryder, Aylin, Tina, Sugar and Finn had arrived at Blaine's house. Unique and Kitty were busy preparing their duet, and Artie and Joe seemed to be MIA, possibly for the same reason. Jake had declined the invitation no matter how many times Blaine pestered him to come.

"Okay, since this is everyone selfless who bothers coming," Tina started.

"Don't be rude to them, I gave them a task, it's only fair they would want to complete it first," Finn smiled at her, trying not to get on her bad side, but still he felt that he had the responsibility to defend them.

"Whatever," Sugar croaked, "if they aren't here, but I am, they are just so lazy."

"Finn's right, I'm sorry," Tina stuttered.

Sam looked at her in bewilderment. She had never backed down from an argument so quickly before, yet alone apologized when she was wrong. Many around the room seemed to have felt the same, as they returned the same expression.

"So, what did you see? Or would you like us to wait for the Ice Age to start again?" Sugar took another apple out of her bag and started rubbing it with her hands.

"Well, as you know, Unique has told us that Vocal Adrenaline would be staying here for awhile, but it's not just awhile," Tina paused for dramatic effect, "they're staying here until Nationals start."

"What? Why?" Blaine burst out.

"It's not all that surprising if you think about it," Finn thought aloud, his hand carefully rubbing his jaw. "They would want to scare their biggest competition."

"Biggest competition?" Aylin gasped. She had not realised until now that she was among National winners. "Oh, gosh, this is so cool."

"So, what? They can stay here all they want, it's not like it's going to matter," Ryder commented.

Tina sighed, "You're not getting the point. Four years ago, Vocal Adrenaline targeted us as enemies during Regionals, and they beat the crap out of us. We don't want that position again."

"Yeah, but Jean isn't Jessie," Finn said, "we'll have a chance, we just don't have to give in to their threats."

"You mean, don't watch them perform, right?" Marley asked.

Blaine raised his hand to get attention. "We just don't have to pay attention when they try to intimidate us at all these public places. It's like they are choosing spots most people would go to so that we would actually see them."

"In other words," Tina carried on, "don't get out of your house."

"What?!" Ryder screamed. He then murmured a 'sorry'.

"You guys didn't see what I saw," Tina said worriedly, "if it was any of you there instead of me, you would be freaking out."

"They were that good huh?" Ryder buried his head in his hands.

"This doesn't matter," Finn spoke up confidently, he took a look at the anxious faces around the room. "We're just as good as them. They can throw anything they want at us, we are stronger than that. Because we know we are better. We're National Champs, guys."

"So are they," Sam whispered to Marley.

"Tee, could you, give us more details about them?" Blaine was curious about them now. He's usually the only one who will really evaluate the enemy. Even Mr. Schuester don't do that. But Blaine always feel that the New Directions overestimate themselves, they had to put in a lot of effort if they want to win.

"Well, Joe and Sugar were right," Tina said, with Sugar giving a little bow, "three leads. That Jean guy was singing most of the song though. And he's a total jerk."

"We've never met one who was nice, anyway," Sam sighed.

"Why are they being so passive about their intimidation though?" Aylin asked. She immediately regret asking, because the others just stared at her, confused. But then they began questioning it as well. And Aylin's question seemed to have cast everyone in a dome of worry.

"Holy crap, she's right," Tina gasped, "they weren't so passive the last time. They came into our auditorium and scared the crap out of us."

"And threw toilet paper everywhere..." Finn grabbed his head, annoyed by the memory. "Look, they can't do that again, and we've overcame it before, we can overcome it again."

"Firstly," Blaine, now being the most anxious one, said, "you, Tina and Artie overcame it, not us. And second, you lost after that, right? Wouldn't we lose now?"

"Our aim is to get to the top 5, guys," Finn said. "Don't worry about the competition, just do the best you can, do it well, and do it great."

"What?" Sugar expressed her annoyance at Finn's utterly ridiculous words.

"They are trying to beat us, we are trying to win, or at least get into the top 5," Finn said, "So, why care about them?"

"Because they're our arch nemesis!" Sam blurted out.

The conversation seemed to go round in circles after that. Finn was trying to calm everyone down, but everyone still seemed worried about Vocal Adrenaline. It's true that Vocal Adrenaline has it out for them, but despite trying all he could to get them to ignore Vocal Adrenaline, Finn could not stop them from discussing about them. Tina and Blaine seemed most worried about the trio leads, because it was new. The rest just seemed like they think they don't have a shot at first place anymore, and the idea of coming in the top 5 is slipping away.

Tina continued recounting her encounter with Jean Baptiste. By the sound of it, she hated that guys guts. "He's a freaking bully," she said. But that's expected, what's the point of being nice when you're trying to scare the competition? By about 7 pm., most of the members left the house.

"Is it always this bad when it comes to your meetings," Aylin joked, clinging onto Ryder's arm as they left the house.

"This was one of the few, I guess," Ryder laughed along. "Hey, have you thought about a song for the task?"

"I have many, but you should choose," Aylin said, hugging Ryder's arm tighter.

Ryder began feeling uncomfortable. Aylin had been clinging onto him ever since they began partners.

"You know, we could just ditch the assignment, do something more... you know."

"No, I don't."

Aylin continued talking to Ryder in weird ways, making Ryder more uncomfortable than he was already. She kept talking and asking questions in such a manner and tone that made it seem like she was making a move on him.

"Erm, Aylin?"

"Yeah?"

Even her 'yeah' sounded so seductive that Ryder couldn't bear to open his mouth again. But he had to.

"Why do you keep acting this way?"

"Acting like what? I'm like this all the time."

"That flirtatious huh?" The words escaped his mouth before he could stop it. But Aylin didn't seem to care about the words at all.

"Why not? It's fun." Aylin shrugged, she had finally stopped saying everything in that seductive tone. Which made Ryder feel at ease, but the fact that she's talking normally also scared him a little.

After walking a while more in silence, Aylin started again. Ryder held his breathe in, he didn't want to tell her to stop because she was new to New Directions and didn't want to scare her off. But there was just a limit he could take.

"Could you stop that, please? I'm getting kinda grossed out."

"Holy crap," Aylin stopped walking, "it's not working on you, is it?"

Ryder looked at her with a confused look on his face.

"The flirting and the throwing of self to you... and then playing hard to get to mess with you afterwards," she explained, as if it was plain obvious.

Ryder felt even more confused, "why would you do that?"

"I don't know, it's fun to mess with guys, you know."

"Really?"

"They mess with me all the time anyway, may as well get back at them," Aylin walked off, at a quickened pace that made Ryder run a bit to make up the distance between them.

"What do you mean?" Ryder asked her.

"Nothing, just nothing," Aylin groaned, "if it doesn't work on you, I'll stop it. I still have Jake for that anyway."

"No," Ryder grabbed her arm so hard she spun around, "What do you mean they mess with you? Like... ra...?"

"What?" Aylin laughed, "no, don't be stupid!"

She then began struggling to get free from Ryder's grab, giggling along the way. Ryder felt like she was reverting back to the flirtatious Aylin, so he let go immediately.

"Oh, come on, you're no fun," Aylin giggled, poking him in the ribs and then continued walking far along. "Come on, don't lag behind, slowpoke."

Ryder groaned and followed her. Although he should be thinking about the song they'll be dueting, he couldn't stop thinking about Aylin. He wants to know more about her. She's just putting up a front, like how he did when he couldn't accept the fact that he was dyslexic.

"You can tell me anything, Aylin," Ryder coughed up, "we're friends."

"Where is this coming from?" She choked on her own laughter. But it was a nervous laughter. She could tell that Ryder was trying to dig deep.

"We're partners, we should start getting to know each other more."

"Okay, wise-ass," Aylin poked him again, "so, tell me about yourself then."

"I'm dyslexic."

"What the hell is that? Some kind of guy disorder?" She let out a loud laugh, her ignorance was nothing but a rope around Ryder's neck. If she didn't know what dyslexia is, then he can't possibly make her relate to him.

"Don't look so upset. I shouldn't have kid about it. Sorry," Aylin smiled at him, and then the two laughed for a bit. "So, dyslexia huh. You can't read anything?"

"It's just hard to."

"But you're fine with it now?"

"It took a while. Finn helped me through it."

Aylin sucked in her cheeks, realised how ridiculous she looked and then stopped. She whistled a low note and then proceeded to stop talking altogether.

Ryder didn't try pestering her about it anymore, so he just stopped the conversation right there and then. But right before they parted ways, Aylin turned to him, "How about Please Don't Leave Me by P!nk? It'll be awesome to sing." Ryder simply nodded and was left to ponder why she chose that song out of the blue.

Glee

Kitty and Unique
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
Been going crazy from the moment I met you

Kitty
Untouched, Ah

Unique
Untouched, Ah

Kitty
Untouched, Ah

"Woah, that was awesome, girls!" Finn cheered, which was followed by claps from the others. Some, especially Tina and Blaine, had a bit of bitterness in their applause. They were both really competitive, and although they were supportive of their fellow New Directions members, they wanted to win badly.

"Okay, Ryder, Aylin, you're up," Finn gestured the two to take the floor in the choir room.

"Go, Aylin!" Artie shouted, trying to encourage the new member of New Directions. Aylin smiled nervously back as everyone else joined in to cheer for her.

"Nervous?" Ryder teased her.

"Anxious," she replied back.

Aylin
I don't know if I can yell any louder,
How many times have I kicked you out of here
Or said something insulting?

Aylin and Ryder
I can be so mean when I wanna be,
I am capable of really anything,
I can cut you into pieces,
When my heart is broken.

Ryder looked to Aylin, who seemed to be focusing on the words. She was good at the singing part, but her acting needed to be brushed up. She's singing without any real emotion, it felt too forced. Of course, he wasn't the best judge, but if he could sense it, everyone else would too. But she seemed to be really trying, and halfway through, she finally started sounding genuine.

Ryder (Aylin)
Please, don't leave me, oh
Please, don't leave me (don't leave me)
I always say how I don't need you

Aylin
But it's always gonna come right back to this
Please, don't leave me

And just when she finally sounded her best, her most emotional, she suddenly stopped singing altogether.

"Aylin, you okay?" Blaine asked. Finn went up to her and began to console.

"I'm fine, I'm fine, sorry," claimed Aylin, who began to laugh to ease the tension. But her laugh was fake and everybody could tell.

"No, let's just start over," Aylin tapped Ryder on the shoulder to show that she was alright. Or, pretended that she was alright. "Can we start over?" she laughed again, this time more convincingly.

Finn stared at her, considering the situation. But he's not Mr. Schuester and he doesn't really know how to console people the way his mentor does. So, he had to let it go on for now. "Sure."


Storylines: Michellie next episode, heck yeah. BTW this Aylin is just a character, with wayyy exaggerated traits from Aylin herself and different stories. Not Aylin herself 3 cause I shouldn't write about real people nor know how to. Plus, I couldn't think of any other names so~ All reviews are appreciated, if you would care to drop one. Haven't gotten any for a while.

Songs:
Lemon Tree by Fools Garden sung by Marley and Sam
Untouched by The Veronicas sung by Kitty and Unique
Please Don't Leave Me by P!nk sung by Aylin and Ryder