Hey readers :) thank you so much for the lovely response you gave me after the first chapter! I'm glad people are intrigued by the story. Here is chapter 2!

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Ryder drove to school the next morning with an extra enthusiasm. He would have been looking forward to today anyway because, after the initial taster session yesterday lunch, today was the first day of the official football try-outs for new recruits to the Titans, which would last for the rest of the week every day after school, and he was looking forward, as a senior and the team's vice captain, to laughing at the hopeless freshmen wannabes make fools of themselves on the field. Yesterday, however, had given him an extra thrill.

He couldn't actually remember her name, as he hadn't been paying attention in Miss Holliday's English class until he had seen her, but he couldn't wait to examine her beautiful face and smoking body again. He had made a vow last night that he would not rest until he had successfully gotten into her pants, and he'd be damned if he screwed things up and had to allow his best friend a shot at the prize.

He pulled into the school's parking lot and into a bay, and reluctantly dragged himself out, knowing that, before the potential fun to be gotten out of this day, his first lesson of the day was Math, and unless she was in the same Math class as him, it would be a chore, to say the least.

Unfortunately for Ryder, she was not in his math class, nor was she in any of his classes up until lunch, but he wasn't panicked. He knew that at the very latest he would see her in English class again tomorrow, and besides, she may be particularly hot, but in the grand scheme of things was no big deal; just another pretty girl he was going to 'do and ditch', nothing major.

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Ryder spent the majority of lunch hour in the cafeteria, loudly boasting to Jake and the other jocks about the things he was going to do to the mysterious, beautiful new girl when he seduced her. With ten minutes to go, they were shooed out by a new lunch-lady, who was somewhat overweight, and glared particularly hard at Ryder, evidently having heard his claims about the 'new girl in 12th grade'.

"Boys, you know the rules, you've been here longer than me. Cafeteria closes ten minutes before the end of lunch break." The jocks guffawed, making lewd comments about her weight whilst dragging themselves out as slowly as they could, taking great delight in being as annoying as possible.

As the boys wandered into the corridor to go to their lockers in preparation for their next lesson, Jake noticed someone out of the corner of his eye. Out of loyalty to his best friend, he tapped Ryder on the shoulder and pointed in the right direction, and Ryder noticed her. He grinned smugly back at him and swaggered over to the girl, who was searching pointedly for something in her locker. He tapped her on the shoulder, and she spun round with a jump.

"Hey, sorry I didn't mean to scare you," he started. "Let me introduce myself, I'm Ryder Lynn, I play on the school football team, I think you're in my English class." He gave her a crooked smile, which she weakly returned.

"Um…nice to meet you. I'm Marley. Marley Rose." She looked down and bit her lip shyly.

"That's a pretty name, Marley," he replied, leaning against the locker and raising his eyebrows. "So you're new, right? How are you liking McKinley?" Marley looked back into her locker, avoiding eye contact. She knew from yesterday's lesson and from the fact that he was a stereotypical jock that he was almost certainly bad news, but she couldn't deny the fact that he was ridiculously good looking. She decided that if she didn't look at him, it wouldn't bother her.

"Um, it's ok thanks. I keep getting lost, but apart from tha-"

"Oh well, I can help you out with that- what class do you have next?" Ryder cut in, sensing an opportunity to impress.

"Spanish, with Mr…Schuester," she replied, checking her timetable to make sure. Ryder was elated at this discovery; that English was not the only class they would share this year.

"Awesome-me too!" He grinned, before putting on his chivalrous act. "Do you wanna walk there together, since we're both headed there and you don't know your way round yet?" Marley smiled genuinely.

"Thanks. That would be very helpful." She felt her spirits lift. Maybe he wasn't such a Neanderthal after all. Just at that moment, the bell rang, signifying five minutes until the start of their Spanish class. At that moment, Ryder noticed the new lunch lady exit the cafeteria door and head out towards the garbage area carrying a large black bag. He sniggered quietly. Marley, who had also been watching, looked at him quizzically.

"What's so funny?" She asked him, suspecting she already knew the answer.

"Oh nothing…That lunch-lady's new too. Someone had better tell her she's not allowed to eat the food she serves…" he laughed nonchalantly. Marley looked instantly hurt.

"Hey, you can't say things like that!" She shouted at him angrily, bursting furiously out of her shell. "That's really mean! You don't know anything about her. You don't know what her life is like."

"Whoa…" Ryder replied, taken aback by the shy girl's outburst. "It was just a joke-"

"Well it wasn't funny!" Marley glared back at him.

"…she's just a lunch-lady-" Ryder attempted poorly to justify, before she interrupted him.

"She's just my mom!" She paused to let it sink in, and Ryder's jaw dropped. "I'll find our Spanish class by myself." She said sadly, slamming her locker shut dramatically and marching away from him. Ryder groaned. He wasan asshole, and he knew it.

"Marley…" he started, watching her turn the corner at the end of the corridor. "Marley!" he began to jog after her, his long athletic legs catching up with her very quickly.

"Leave me alone." She said with a roll of her eyes, when she realised who was hovering behind her.

"Marley I'm sorry. I'm an idiot. At least let me walk you to Spanish class to apologise."

"I'm fine thanks," she spat out sourly.

"Really?" He asked. "Cos you're kinda going the wrong way." She stopped, and turned around, all the while avoiding eye contact with him.

"Trust me Marley, I've been at this school a hell of a lot longer than you. I promise you, Spanish is literally the complete other direction." She sighed. She didn't want to give in to this handsome yet immature boy, but she had been late to enough classes for her liking in her first two days at McKinley.

"Fine," she conceded. "But don't bother talking to me again after." Ryder sighed, offering Marley his arm to hold on to on the way Spanish, which she refused with a look of disgust, so he had to settle for letting her follow him to Mr Schuester's classroom in awkward silence and distance.

As Ryder sat in Spanish, he told himself mentally that, yes he had wasted a chance at getting laid, but that was it, she was nothing special. Jake could have his try now, he accepted that. As Mr Schuester droned on about the conditional tense, he felt his phone buzz in his pocket. He smiled as he saw it was an online message from Katie. See, Ryder thought. Leave emotion to this girl, and physicality to some easy cheerio. I don't need Marley Rose. He opened it, and eagerly read it under the table.

"Hey babe. How's your second day of school going?" He smiled at her pet name for him, and replied.

"Boring. Do u realise weve been talkng for a year now? cant we meet to selebrate?"

He grinned as he pressed send. Katie was very coy, but he hoped he would be able to meet the pretty blonde in person soon. He waited anxiously for a reply. When it still hadn't come after ten minutes, he checked again. She had gone offline. He sighed in frustration and frowned. He really liked Katie, but he hated the way she always let him down. He had been using other girls for sex only rather than a proper relationship because he had been waiting for her, which in his opinion, was a good example of fidelity, but she always avoided the idea of meeting him. It unsettled him to say the least. At times, he even wondered why he put up with it when there were nice girls like Marley around who he could meet every day; not that she was an option any more.

It was only then when he realised that he was staring at her longingly from across the classroom. She turned her head slightly and they made brief eye contact. She looked sadly at him, and something strange happened. He actually felt bad. Partly because he had upset her, but, even weirder, partly because she was upset at all. He tried to shake the thoughts from his mind and concentrate on Spanish, but it was a futile cause. There was something about her. Something that meant he was not going to tell Jake it was his turn, at least not yet, and not while Katie was ignoring him. He would start afresh.

Oooh cryptic! How do you think Ryder's going to approach Marley now, and how is 'Katie' going to complicate things?

Hope you enjoyed chapter 2! Any comments or ratings, good or bad, are appreciated! Updating might take longer from now on as I'm starting the move to France tomorrow(!) and will then be thrown into French university studies, and I dread to think how much of my time it will take up, so I'm sorry if I'm slow with updating either of my stories!

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