I'm not very good at making long, where-in-the-world-did-it-come-from insults that are usually on Glee, but I hope the insults I'd made up in this chapter are sarcastic enough, haha. I wish Gina could talk like Santana, though it's a far cry.

CHAPTER FOUR

Glee club is dismissed for the day. Everyone walks away in groups; the seniors, discussing their upcoming performances; the newbies – Jake, Marley, Kitty, and Unique – talking about today's performance. Only Gina is seen walking alone, keeping her eyes on the floor.

She is wondering about what Marley and Jake would sing on Glee club tomorrow when she feels a tap on her shoulder.

She turns around to see herself face-to-face with Ryder Lynn.

Gina frowns immediately. "What?"

"Can I, um, talk to you?" he says awkwardly.

"You're talking to me now," Gina says.

Ryder groans. "I swear, you can be quite unbelievable," he says. "Just… a quick word? I want to ask you something."

"A quick word, Elmo face. Spill it out before I change my mind."

"Elmo face?" Ryder repeats in disbelief.

"I said spill it out."

Ryder shakes his head, giving a little smile. "Dude, I don't know if this works in Indonesia, but man, your attitude's not going to get you anywhere," he says. "Especially with Jake."

At this, Gina freezes. "What do you mean?" she asks cautiously.

Ryder knows he's hit the right spot. "Look, it's hard for me to understand people's emotions because my brain kind of works differently, but there are two expressions in the human face that I know well enough to identify each time I see them." He raises two fingers. "A, when someone is pissed off, and B, when someone is in love."

Gina starts to blush, hard. Ryder watches her expression with some kind of amusement. He's right. He's been right all these times!

"Look, Clark King Kong Kent, I don't know why you're making wild accusations about me falling for the Pucker-whore when I have only known him for three days, but I'm giving you a warning." Gina threatens.

Ryder chuckles. "You're not going to do anything to me," he says. "You can't. I'm like, twenty pounds bigger than you. Besides, you've known Jake for more than three days. You've been in this school for over a month, haven't you?"

Gina turns silent again. All expression of anger disappears from her face. She stares up at Ryder curiously. "Do you have a psycho third eye or something?" she wonders out loud.

"No, at least, I don't think so, but I'm just smart enough to notice you the moment I saw you at the choir room," Ryder says. "I've seen you around. You're even in some of my classes. I remember you, Gina. You were that quiet girl sitting at the back row of my History class, the one with the red face whenever someone calls Jake's name." He grins. "Am I right?"

Gina shrugs, still not going to give up her defense. "I don't have any feelings for Pucker-whore," she says. "He's just an idiot, like you."

"Dude, I know," he says. "That look on your eyes whenever you see him, the way you seem to blush and tremble whenever he's near. I know that look, man. The way you look at Jake, it's the way I've been staring at Marley for the past seven months."

Gina stares into Ryder's deep eyes for a long moment. Those eyes seem sincere and kind. They're kind of beautiful, too. Ryder does have a certain charm coming off him. He's like that guy in the background you don't really notice until he says something that sweeps you off your feet.

Finally, she sighs. "Fine, I'll give you that, Elmo face," she says. "Yes, I'm pathetically crushing on Jake Puckerman. Happy?"

Ryder grins again. "Quite," he says. "I just don't understand, why the attitude, though?"

Gina crosses her arms in front of her chest. "You don't get to have all the answers in one shot, Elmo," she says, with a little smirk on her face. "You'll just have to do your homework again."

Ryder lets out a laugh. "Fine, fine, I'll dig in a little deeper into your precious secret life," he says. "In the mean time, I have an idea."

Gina raises her eyebrow in question.

Ryder stretches out his hand to her.

"Come and do a duet with me."

So… one secret revealed! Is there anything else Gina is hiding…?