Disclaimer: I do not own Glee or any songs performed in this story. This is purely a work of fiction.

"Mr. Schue's out with the flu. Glee is canceled this week," Tina said as she passed Paige in the hall. 'Good,' Paige thought, 'I need to ask my dads about spring break.' Paige spotted Sam at Ryder's locker. He told Ryder something, clapped him on the back, and jogged down the hall to Jake's locker. Paige took the long way to English class so she wouldn't have to deal with anyone. After class, though, Ryder caught up to her. "Did you hear about glee?" he asked. "Yeah, it's canceled," Paige replied. "Oh, no. Sam told me that he and Blaine had an idea for a lesson so we're meeting in the choir room as usual." "I already made plans," Paige lied flatly. She left without another word.

Lunch was awkward seeing as the glee club had accepted Ryder back into their fold. Paige sat at the far end of the table across from Jake and ate in relative silence. She was glad when lunch was over.

Ryder walked into glee feeling pretty bummed, but he tried not to show it. He was taking the breakup really hard and thing that hurt the most was that Paige seemed perfectly fine. It was like things had gone back to exactly the way they'd been before they ever started talking. It made him miserable. Although she had said it wasn't a permanent goodbye, it certainly felt like it and he wasn't sure how he was going to keep it together.

He sat down in the back row while the rest of the glee club (sans Paige) flowed in. Sam and Blaine stood in front of the group. "We have an idea for an assignment this week," Blaine said proudly. Sam wrote it down on the board. "Guilty pleasures?" someone asked. "Yeah," Blaine said, looking extremely proud of the idea. He and Sam explained it to the group and told them how they came up with the idea. "And we're supposed to sing one for regionals?" Ryder asked. "No...It's a team building exercise."

For an example, Blaine and Sam wore matching shirts and sang 'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go' while everyone else joined in. Ryder didn't feel much like singing an upbeat 80s tune, but he didn't want to seem like a party pooper so he jumped in too. It was actually fairly therapeutic. Still, he wasn't sure he wanted to put his guilty pleasures out there for everyone to judge.

Paige walked into the house and slipped her shoes off. She found her dad in the kitchen drying dishes. "Hey, sweetie. Want a snack?" "Fruit salad and yogurt please," she said with a small smile. "Coming right up." He set to work and when he finished, he put it in front of her and sat down. "I talked to your sister today," he told her. "Yeah? What's up with her?" Paige asked, dipping her spoon into her homemade parfait. "She was pitching the idea of you and Cam spending your spring break with her in New York." Paige waited and tried to seem casual. "Oh, yeah. It's an idea we had," she said.

Her dad frowned and Paige's heart dropped. "I'm just not so sure about it," he told her. "Why not? Rachel and Kurt and Santana are totally capable of taking care of us while we're there. We won't go off on our own, Dad, please..." He held up his hand. Paige stopped arguing. "It's just that...your Papa and I feel there are some things you haven't told us. It's not like you...or Rachel...to keep things from us," he said. Paige stirred her fruit and yogurt. "You mean what happened with Ryder and I," she said. "And the Brody thing," her dad replied, nodding. Paige bit her lip.

She sighed, resigned to tell him. "I guess it doesn't matter either way." He waited. "Santana, Kurt, and I had a bad feeling about Brody but Rachel didn't want to listen so Santana did a little snooping. At first she thought he was a drug dealer..." Her dad's eyes bugged out. "But he's not. He's...he's..." She rubbed her temple and sighed. "He's a prostitute," she admitted. She looked up to see her dad's reaction and could see he was upset. "Phase one of the breakup has already been implemented. Brody moved out over the weekend and hasn't spoken to Rachel since." Her dad was frowning again. "Santana and I are trying to figure out how to tell Rachel, okay? She doesn't know yet. It's kind of a delicate situation and we're trying to break it to her easy."

Her dad was quiet. It was actually scaring Paige. "Trust me, he's gone. And once she finds out the truth there's no way she'd ever take him back. Just give it time..." His cheeks were red and he shook his head. "I think I'm done with that conversation," he said. He looked at her with his deep brown eyes and seemed to be begging her not to break his heart any further. "What about you and Ryder?" he asked. "That's a lot simpler," she lied. Why hurt him any more when she can spare him with legitimate surface reasons? "He was talking to some girl on facebook behind my back. It was really flirty. And that's on top of finding out he was rude to Unique, though he has apologized to her for that."

"So that's it?" her dad asked disbelievingly. "He flirted with a girl online?" Paige tried to think fast. Why was everything so damn complicated? "Well, yeah. He said he did it because I was putting up walls and he wanted to be more serious with me but that I wasn't letting him in. So this girl was basically his substitution." Paige nervously ate a spoonful of yogurt. "And has he apologized to you?" her dad asked. "Oh, yeah, like a million times. We've talked about it and everything. It's all worked out, we're just not together right now. I think that spring break in New York with my beloved sister would really help me get my mind off things." "Yes, I'm sure it would," he replied, shooting her an I-know-what-you're-doing look.

"Well, your Papa and I have been talking about it and we'll keep talking about it," her dad said, attempting to end the conversation. "Can I make one final pitch?" Paige asked. "Sure," her dad said. "If Cam and I are in New York over spring break, think of how much time you and Papa will have to be together...alone." She grinned and got up to put her dishes in the sink. "Well, I'm off to do homework," she sighed. She passed Cam on her way up the stairs.

"Why are you home so early?" he asked. "Skipped glee." "Why?" "So I could try and convince our dads to let us go to New York for spring break." A wide grin spread across Cam's face. "How'd it go?" he asked in a low voice. Paige lowered her voice as well. "He's still gonna talk to Papa but I think I managed it." Cam high-fived her and continued down the stairs.

The next morning Paige was standing at her locker. She could feel eyes on her and glanced from the corner of her eye to see Ryder staring at her. His face was so sad and pathetic, but if she looked up he might take it to mean something when it meant nothing. She took out her book for English, shut her locker, and hurried past Ryder without so much as a glance. She got down another hallway but found her path blocked by Kitty, Brittany, Marley, Unique, and Tina.

"We demand you tell us your guilty pleasure," Tina said. "It's none of your business," Kitty snapped. Brittany whispered something and the other girls were silent. Then out of nowhere they burst into excited squeals and Kitty looked really embarrassed. "I love the Spice Girls!" Marley exclaimed. The others cheered their agreement. "Really? Spice Girls is your guilty pleasure?" Paige asked, unable to control herself. Kitty turned brick red. "That's not even a little bit bad," Paige said. She pushed past them without another word, shaking her head.

At lunch Paige almost decided not to sit with the glee club. The choir room would be empty, she could sit in there and read while she ate and no one would stare at her. She decided that running away wasn't the answer, but still refused to spare a look for Ryder. She pretended to be really interested in what Brittany was talking about, which was her fondue youtube show. Marley, Unique, and Tina were raving about it. "Unique had watched every episode!" "Me too!" Tina said. Paige could hardly stomach it. She finished her lunch and stood up. "Where are you going?" Artie asked. "I have a paper to work on," she lied. She left before anyone else could ask questions.

Ryder stood up, wanting to follow. Unique put her hand on his arm. She shook her head when he looked at her. "Don't. She needs space," Unique said gently. Ryder sat down, his cheeks growing hotter by the second. No one said anything, though, and for that he was grateful.

That afternoon, Paige didn't show up to glee again. He wondered if it was as hard for her to see him as it was for him to see her. Somehow he doubted it, which did nothing for the constant ache in his chest that he felt for her.

Sam stood before the glee club, trying to find the courage to share his guilty pleasure. "I like...Barry Manilow. I'm a Fanilow..." He went into a whole explanation while the rest of the club sat in stunned silence. He then donned a frilly purple coat thing and started singing 'Copacabana'. Brittany was the first to jump in and dance. Then she brought Jake down and the rest followed suit. Even Ryder had to admit that he liked the song and joined in.

After it was all over, most of the guys admitted to liking Barry Manilow too. Ryder wondered who would be the next person to admit their guilty pleasure and put it out for the whole glee club to see. He was sure it wouldn't be him, though. His was way too embarrassing.

Paige had considered going into glee club, but about a minute after the final bell rang, she got a phone call from Santana. "I told her," she said in lieu of a greeting. "About Brody?" Paige asked, having trouble hearing through all the noise the crowd was making. "Yep. She was talking about the possibility of getting back with him and I couldn't let her do that. She's on her way to confront him right now," Santana told her. "Oh my God. This could be a disaster," Paige groaned. "Lady Hummel was pretty pissed at me for spilling. But I did what I had to do," Santana said. "Definitely. I mean, I understand. I just feel so bad for her." "I know," Santana said. "But...if you tell anyone what I'm about to say I'll deny it...she's a beautiful girl. She'll find someone better."

Paige smiled. "Yeah, that's true," she said, automatically thinking of Finn. "I'm gonna go before I get trampled. Call me if something goes terribly wrong," Paige said. "Will do." They hung up the phone and Paige made her way home. She walked in the door, kicked off her shoes, and decided to do homework in the kitchen. "I talked to your Papa. We'll let you know by the end of the week how we feel about New York," he told her. Paige grinned and hugged him.

Wednesdays always felt like reaching some huge goal for Paige. The middle of the week. She'd made it two days in and after Wednesday, there were only two to go. She would know by that weekend if her dads were going to let her and Cam go to New York. She'd had a pretty peaceful day and had even decided to go to glee that afternoon. She was feeling pretty good until break when the other girls in glee dragged her into the choir room to yell at Jake.

The berated him for several minutes while he tried to defend himself. The girls and Jake eventually looked to Paige for her opinion. "I'm really uncomfortable," she blurted. Everyone just looked at her with confused expressions. "Look, I'm not saying I agree with Chris Brown. I like his music and I feel bad about it..." They jumped back into yelling at Jake. Paige wondered if she could slip out unnoticed. There wasn't an opportunity. The girls said their peace and left. Jake and Paige were alone. "Are you going to yell at me now?" he asked. Paige shook her head.

"It's guilty pleasures, dude, and frankly I don't care what your guilty pleasure is. Though I suppose, given the controversy, I'd go with something else." She shrugged and walked out, leaving Jake to reconsider.

That afternoon in glee, Blaine asked everyone to come to the auditorium. "I'd like to perform another guilty pleasure," he announced. "Another?" Paige whispered to the person next to her. Kitty looked at her and nodded. Paige sat back and waited for him to begin. He sat down at the piano and started playing. The song was emotional, beautiful, and one that Paige had listened to many, many times while daydreaming of being on stage.

When he finished he talked about the genius of Phil Collins and tried not to continue awkwardly glancing at Sam. "Who was that about?" Tina asked, her arms crossed over her chest. Kitty pushed her. "Shut it," she whispered venomously. "Kurt...obviously...still a fresh wound..." As they were leaving, Paige looked over to Marley and Unique. "So, do we all have to do one of these?" she asked. She tried not to sound panicky or embarrassed. "Only if you want to," Marley said.

Paige wondered if she should perform a guilty pleasure as Marley caught her up on what she'd missed. So far Sam's love of Barry Manilow had been the worst and she wasn't sure if it could really trump hers or not. She decided to wait and see what some of the others did to see if it was worth the risk of being ridiculed.

The next day, Kitty actually sat with glee club at lunch and chattered excitedly with the other girls about their performance for glee. Paige already knew that Kitty's guilty pleasure wasn't that bad and that Jake would probably change his mind and do something else or not perform at all. Paige was worried that no one would really have that bad of a guilty pleasure and that if she revealed hers, she'd have the worst one.

Thank you for reading part 1 of Guilty Pleasures! Next chapter will be out ASAP but it'll probably be late since I'm going to my parents' house this weekend and my sister will be home all week on spring break (she's a teacher). We only have one working computer right now. :( But I promise to get it out ASAP. Thank you to all who have reviewed, it truly means a lot. Also I want to get the readers' opinion on something I've been thinking about for a long time...

I've started developing an idea for a new story. I would continue this one, but I'd like to know what you all think...

Here's what I have so far:

Basically it's a multiship (I know a lot of people hate that but I have an idea to try and keep everything straight and not confusing) and would be set after Artie, Tina, Blaine, Sam, and Brittany graduate. It's Lima-centric and would involve quite a few OCs. Now I know you're probably grumbling to yourself that this just is not a good idea...BUT...let me pitch it to you this way...

First, your opinions matter very much to me. I want you to like what you're reading.
Second, the concept I'm working on will be painstakingly detailed (meaning chapters may take a while to come out especially since I'll still be working on this story) and it'll be a slower pace but you'll get much better character development.
Third, it's something I'm really interested in trying. Chapters would be written from viewpoints of individual characters. We'll see multiple points of view which will help with character development. If you've read the Game of Thrones books, think of how George R. R. Martin writes his chapters because that's what I'm thinking here.

I know that was a lot and if you read all of that, THANK YOU! I'm just curious as to whether or not this is something any of you would be interested in. Please, please, PLEASE let me know. I'm considering having a little contest to maybe get 2 of you an OC in that story (1 male, 1 female). But I have to get enough responses. So let me know what you think!