𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 | s. lopez + b. pierce

Eight

"Give her some room!" Iris snapped, pulling a few of the underclassmen away from Marley as they helped her get to the choir room. "She needs space."

"Breathe, girl, breathe," Leilani said, one hand ghosting Marley's back.

"Does anyone have anything she can eat?" August worriedly asked.

"I have some leftover Halloween candy in my locker," Tina shrugged.

"I may have a juice box," Blaine said.

"I'll go get Marley's mom." Joe rushed out of the room.

Jake and Ryder sat Marley down in a chair. Matti's eyes were filled with worried tears, and Jayden's ocean orbs were shooting daggers into the back of Kitty's head.

"This is bad," Artie said. "Never in the history of show choir competitions has anyone ever fainted."

Blaine tossed Sam a juice box, and he held it out to Marley.

"We got the juice. We got the juice."

"N-No, I'm okay," Marley shook her head.

"Drink the damn juice!" Kitty snapped, and Santana and Jayden both side-eyed her.

"Marls, you have to eat," Matti begged as she reached for the girl's hand. "Please."

Finn rushed into the room and went up to Marley. "Are you okay? What happened?"

"She hasn't been eating," August frowned softly.

"She's been skipping lunch," Jake added.

"Because you've been telling her to?" Jayden snapped, her eyes narrowing at Kitty. "You trying to turn her into a fucking rexy?"

"W-What? No," Kitty shook her head. "Why would I–"

"Because you're a crazy, evil bitch!"

Brittany and Santana quickly grabbed Jayden when she tried to lunge at Kitty. The Latina frowned when she noticed what looked like covered-up cuts on Jayden's arm, her stomach dropping.

Were these because of her?

"Hey, Marley, you alright?" Mr. Schue asked as he ran into the choir room.

"The nurse is on the way, Mr. Schue," Finn told him.

"Santana, Puck, you stay here with Marley," the teacher instructed them. "The rest of you, get back up there. Leaving the stage mid-competition for any reason is risking immediate disqualification."

"What?" Finn frowned. "That's a rule?"

"Have you not read the rule book?" Iris scoffed. "God, you're so fucking dumb. Of course it's a rule, dipshit!"

"One of the bylaws, actually," Sue added as she appeared in the doorway of the choir room with a smirk. "As all of you were spiraling into a self-created k-hole of crazy, the judges, by unanimous vote, have declared the Warblers victorious."

August and Leilani exchanged a defeated look. Jayden stopped struggling to break free from the hold Brittany and Santana had on her, her tense body going limp in their arms.

"Hey, congratulations, Finn Hudson. For the first time its charmed yet pitiful existence, the New Directions has lost sectionals. But here's the good news...Christmas came early for one Sue Sylvester."

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"Kathrine Rebecca Wilde!"

Kitty flinched when her locker was slammed shut by a fuming Jayden the following Monday. "Who told you my full name?" she frowned.