Step by Step (Ryrley story)

Chapter 7: Strength by Strength

My mom didn't want me to go into school today but I wanted to. I had to face Ryder and Kitty even though I didn't want to. I wanted to face my fears and that was them. After my phone call with Ryder yesterday I wasn't myself just I just want to tell him how I feel. But not in words, in music.

As I hopped on to the school bus for the first time since I joined McKinley I thought of how I was going to tell the glee club about my song and why I'm going to sing it. Even though it took up the whole bus ride I finally found a way to go up and sing for them. Also we're in the auditorium today so that should make it easier...not. Oh life why do you hate me. 

When I finally got to the school I could feel the butterflies in my stomach...oh wait thats just my breakfast coming back up. After I finally got my breakfast back down and walked in and who was the first person that I saw...Ryder. I swallowed my pride and walked to my locker. He saw me and I knew that he was following me.

'Oh please go away, please' I said in my head as I got faster.

"Marley" I heard him shout behind me.

I kept walking and just ignored him.

"Marley" He said again making me walk faster. "Marls wait up" He said running. I could tell that he was running because I could hear his worn out converse banging on the ground.

Soon enough he was on my heels. I got fed up with him and turned around.

"What?!" I asked him. Clearly I was angry because of the tone of my voice and the expression on my face.

"Can we talk about the phone call yesterday?" He asked me sheepishly.

"There's nothing to talk about" I mumbled turning back on my heel and walking to my locker.

"Yes there is" He said following me.

"Well I don't want to hear it" I said not looking into his big brown eyes.

"Marls, I'm sorry" He said as I slammed my locker shut and walked away.

"Yeah well sorry doesn't cut it" I yelled walking off to History class.

I could tell just by the noise that he was standing at my locker looking at me walk away from him. At the start I felt bad but then I remembered why I'm mad at him. The last time we had spoken was when we kissed and now it had just turned into a battlefield. Now if I could just stay away from Kitty until glee club then I'd be fine but no she had to be in my History class. The thing is I don't know if she knows that I know. Oh great now I sound like and episode from friends. Really Marley, really?

 As I entered the History classroom I kept away from Kitty who was on the other side of the room. I closed my eyes and prayed that she wouldn't see me. That wasn't a smart idea. As I was walking with my eyes closed I walked straight into the table and a huge pile of old history books fell on to the ground and made a huge bang. Everyone turned around and looked at me. I was bright red and the cheerleaders started to laugh and point at me. Kitty told them to stop and walked over to me.

"Having a little trouble there" She asked me as I picked up the books with her.

"Yeah, I guess" I replied keeping my head down so the taught of her and Ryder kissing wouldn't come back into my head....and that didn't work either.

"So how are you feeling after yesterday" Kitty asked me as we took our seats at a table in the back.

"Huh?" I said looking nervous.

"Um, Yeah you were out yesterday are you okay Marley?" She asked me patting my back.

"Yeah why?" I asked shaking.