★Can yøu cøme a little cløser? || A jyder tale♥︎

★chapter 1- feelings♥︎

Hi, This is my first ever fanfiction and I'm really excited! I started watching Glee in early 2019 and loved it so here is a story about one of my favourite ships :)

This is set after Jake and Marley break up (S5) but instead of losing nationals, they stayed at school as a club. I've also added one of my own characters called Lea (I'll give a description soon). Hope you enjoy xx

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The bell. "Dammit, late again", Jake thought as he ran up the steps, scooter in hand. He was late for the third time (in a row). He went over to his locker, grabbed his books and shoved his scooter into the empty space. He sighed and and shut his locker, already wanting to be back at home in his bed. He turned and looked around.

The halls were emptied and the only sound jake could here was his own footsteps and the shuddering of his breath from running. He walked towards his history class, dreading the day ahead.

He sighed and knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Jake walked into the classroom and immediately, all heads turned.

"I- umm... sorry I'm late...", He stammered, his feet shifting anxiously.

"Hmmm, sure...", his teacher replied (he hated her). "So... are you just gonna stand there or do you wanna sit down?"

Jake nodded feeling awkward and walked to his desk in the front row and sat down.

"Dude, what happened?"

He turned to look at the boy beside him. It had been over 2 weeks since him and Ryder became friends again in that hotel room. After they won nationals everything started changing. Him and Ryder started hanging out a lot more and jake was way happier. They understood each other more now.

"uh, nothing. Just woke up late." Jake chuckled a bit afterwards to make it seem like it wasn't a big deal. Ryder saw right through it.

"Really? For the third time in a row?"
Jake heard the sarcasm and let out an exhausted sigh.
"Yep"

"Hey, you can tell me" Ryder's voice was reduced to a whisper. He leaned towards jake, who sighed and followed suit.

"I just haven't been sleeping well, I guess."
He was whispering now too.

"Whats been keeping you up?" Ryder asked trying to keep the conversation going while still paying attention to the lesson. He was worried about Jake. He'd slept in for the past few days and Ryder was wondering why.

"...stuff."

"Like what?"

"I dunno, just stuff."

"wow, Very specific"

Jake rolled his eyes. Ryder's sarcasm was getting annoying. He looked at him, concentrating on how focused he was with his work. He couldn't take his eyes off of him, he was just so so perfect. The way he bit his lip trying to concentrate, the way ran his fingers through his hair trying to think. Jake loved it; he was kind of obsessed.

" You ok man?"
Jake snapped out of it.
"Uh yeah, I... yeah, I'm good"
Ryder smiled, "good". That damned smile.

They fell quiet for a while until Ryder starting doing impressions of the teacher and trying to balance stuff on his nose which made Jake laugh for the first time this morning. Ryder never failed to make him happy. Maybe today won't be so boring after all.

xxx

Next period was pretty much the same, kinda boring but they made it work.

The period after was way more fun. It was art and they were doing pottery and painting. Every thing was going well until Ryder decided it was a great idea to splash clay-water at Jake. One thing lead to another and suddenly the whole class was involved. Paint and clay flew in all directions and everyone was getting hit left, right and centre. By the end, the 2 boys are just using their hands, sliding the murky water on whatever exposed skin they can find. Jake feels the stubble on Ryder's jaw scrape against his palm and Ryder feels the flex of Jake's bicep as he slaps on a handprint. Caught up in the moment, every feeling is amplified.

xxx

Ryder decided to sit with the glee club in the cafeteria this time. He was getting kinda tired of the football team. He looked over and saw them messing around, seeing who could fit the most macaroni and cheese in their mouth. Ryder shuddered in disgust and tuned back in to the conversation.

"...so, what are you guys doing tonight?" Tina asked as she stared at Sam. She hoped he wasn't busy. "If everyone's okay with it, we could hang out at my house? You guys could sleep over if you wanted to, My parents are away for the weekend."

There were mutters of agreement and a few 'yeah sure's

"Hell yeah!" Lea shouted, or tried too, with her mouth full. People around her made disgusted faces, except brittany who was laughing her ass off. Lea shrugged and continued eating.

"Hey Jake", Sam whispered. Jake snapped back into reality at his name being called. He turned towards Sam, "You good dude? You kinda spaced out"

Jake responded, "Huh? oh, yeah I'm good"

"you sure?"

"yeah"

"a'right" Sam was skeptical but he nodded and turned away to talk to Tina. Jake sighed and turned to Ryder who was calmly eating his lunch.

He took a deep breath,

"Hey", Ryder looked up, "you going to Tina's tonight?"

Ryder smiled at Jake and shrugged, "Don't think so. What about you?"

Jake shrugged. "I don't really have anything else to do." He looked forward as if he was in deep thought.

"Yeah me neither I guess." Ryder paused and thought for a second. "How about you come over after school? I'm gonna be alone otherwise."

Jaked looked back at Ryder, hopeful,
"Uh yeah, that would be... great" He replied, trying not to sound desperate.

"Awesome" Ryder smiled before turning his head to join Blaine and Marley's conversation.

Jake smiled to himself and went back to daydreaming. He was happy that him and Ryder could get some alone time but he was also nervous. With all the time they'd spent bonding, Jake realised he had feelings for Ryder. He'd stayed up late the last few days thinking about him and how Ryder made him feel. He knew he had to tell him. But how?

Next to Jake, Ryder was thinking almost the same thing. He loved the way Jake would flex his jaw when he was daydreaming and the way his eyes would light up when his name was called. He was just so amazing. Ryder realised he was staring and he blushed and looked away. Ryder was confused about his feelings for Jake but he had a feeling they would be resolved very soon.