Anything but Ordinary

Marley Rose

There.

She was finally able to take courage to write her name on that paper to enlist for an audition to join the Glee club. Immediately the brunette took the cell phone to take a photo and send it to her mother since she had told her to do it as proof that she had actually done it and had not lied to her.

Marley's mom kept hiding the truth that she was the girl's mother because she believed that this way her daughter would be more accepted. Who would want to socialize with her knowing that she was poor and on top of that her mother became the center of attention for high school bullying?

No one.

Marley didn't know how much longer she was going to put up with her schoolmates' meanness. There was a limit to everything. Even if it would cost Marley's lifelong dream, which was to sing, she needed to do something about it because there was first the welfare of her mother, who did her utmost to give her a decent life. If there really was an award dedicated to the best mother in the world, Marley wouldn't doubt for five seconds that her mother would be the winner. She really couldn't think of anyone else who was a better mother than that woman and felt more than honored to be her daughter.

But, first of all, nobody had warned Marley that her life was about to become one of those typical novels in which the main character is always confused by the typical bad boy and by another one who fits the descriptions of a good boy.

"Oh, shit. Sorry", When Marley turned to leave, she collided with a boy who hadn't noticed her presence, causing her notebooks and folders to fall to the floor. "I'm Jake by the way" he smiled as he handed her things.

He wasn't her type but, there was something attractive in the way he carried himself that she had only just noticed that day. He looked sure of himself and comfortable in his skin. It caught her attention and made him so much more attractive than she'd previously thought.

He was just sexy in his own way.

"Marley", she offered him a shy smile.

They continued to smile and look at each other for a few seconds until Marley reacted and left. Marley couldn't get that boy out of her mind for days.

But that wasn't the end of it. That had just been the beginning of a big problem for Marley.

She always laughed and even joked about it when she saw those cases on TV where the girl/boy was afflicted because she/he loved two people at once. And well...

Later she met Ryder Lynn.

Yes, he had an aura, but his appeal was about so much more than that. He was really a great guy. He was intelligent, they could chat about anything for hours, he was funny as hell, and he was a really down-to-earth guy. She'd enjoyed his company every day, so this built her interest over time.

What Marley didn't know was that her head and heart were starting a war for those two boys and between them too.

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"Welcome to New Directions!", Will Schuester's happy voice echoed over and over in her head.

To say that Marley immediately fit into that group would be a gigantic lie. Why? For several reasons.

First, on the day of the New Directions auditions, Marley sang "New York State Of Mind", which shocked the Spanish teacher and the others with her talent and... to the surprise of the applicants to "The New Rachel", Marley's talent became something dangerous for them. There was so much tension and competition between them that Marley began to suspect if all the good rumors she had heard about the Glee club were ever true. In the end, she was accepted into the choir, which filled her with joy and excitement.