"Welcome," Sikowitz said, "To Dear Bade. Jade you will be Jade. Beck you will be Beck"

"Pretty easy parts to play," Beck said putting an arm around Jade

"Ah yes but you will be giving out advise from the letters given to you."

"This should be fun," Jade said grinning

"There are 26 letters. I will be pointing to you when it's your turn. Andre read the first question."

"Gladly," Andre said

"Dear Bade,

I love my boyfriend very much but he doesn't take me seriously. Sometimes he goes as far as to ignore me when I'm not acting in the way he'd like me to act. He doesn't see how much it hurts me when he treats me like that. I know he loves me but I wish he could understand me. I don't like to me unloved even for a minute.

Really conflicted"

"Well," Jade began, "I can relate to that. You have to understand that he's a guy. He doesn't mean to make you feel unloved. Guys can be stupid sometimes. What you need to do is sit him down and explain to him that you feel hurt by his behavior. He may not even realize what he's doing is a big deal to you. He might think it's okay what he's doing"

"In the meantime," Beck added, "You need to pay attention to your own behavior"

Jade rolled her eyes.

"Maybe for example you're being a little too controlling of your boyfriend."

"Well maybe she wouldn't have to be if he would be a little more considerate. Maybe he should realize that some of his behaviors are wrong!"

"Maybe he would if she would stop being so much of a control freak," Beck said, "Maybe he needed to take control before he went overboard"

"Maybe he should realize that acting in a hurtful way isn't the answer," Jade replied.

They weren't really angry with each other. It was all part of an act. But they did use the opportunity to get some things off their chest.

"Maybe if she wouldn't be a bitch sometimes he wouldn't have to act in a hurtful way"

"Maybe if he didn't act like that she wouldn't have to be a bitch"

"Can't argue with you there," Beck said

"Meanwhile," Beck replied, "This is Bade signing out on the first letter"

Andre read the next letter

"Dear Bade

Several years ago my boyfriend had a friend, Buddy. There was an incident between them. Now Buddy is reaching out to my boyfriend again. I think he should forgive him. How do I tell him that without upsetting him?

Compassionate Soul"

"Well first of all," Beck said, "I think your boyfriend already knows that you want him to forgive Buddy. If he didn't know before he sure as heaven knows now. It may take some time for your boyfriend to forgive Buddy. I don't know what he did but it seems like it was bad. That being said, relationships are very fragile and very important. So I would urge compassionate soul's boyfriend to forgive his friend. If nothing else at least give him a second chance"

Andre looked at Tori when Jade and Beck were debating.

"Do you really think I should forgive Buddy," he whispered to her

"Yes," Tori said, "I know what he did was wrong but he paid his price. How did you know it was my letter by the way"

"Cause," Andre said rolling his eyes, "I know the name Buddy. Because Buddy was my friend and the exact same thing happened between Buddy and I. That's sort of a big clue"

"Anyway," Jade said, "This is Bade signing off on this question"

"Dear Bade,

My girlfriend has an issue with my best friend. She is jealous of her and there is nothing that can get her to stop being mean to my friend. I have tried everything. I've criticized my girlfriend when she was mean. I tried timing her out. I've held out on her. Oh and I even got mad but NOTHING IS WORKING!

Frustrated VERY MUCH!

Jade rolled her eyes. Clearly Beck had wrote that letter.

"Okay Frustrated very much let me see if I can break this down for you. You obviously need to get a clue. You want your girlfriend not to have issues with your best friend and yet you're doing that by putting your girlfriend down? You know that little thing in your head that looks like spaghetti? It's called a brain. Use it.

"Here is what you need to do. You need to stop being an idiot. You need to listen to what your girlfriend is telling you. Obviously your friend makes her insecure and your ignoring her, hurting her and criticizing her among other things isn't going to stop her from being insecure and it certainly is not going to make her want to be nice to your friend because guess what you moron? She sees this friend of yours as the reason she's going through what she's going through. In her mind your friend is the reason that your relationship is suffering as well."

"Jade," Beck said, "Do you have to call him a moron,"

"Yeah," Jade said, "I do have to call him a moron because he's ACTING like a moron. If he was stupid that would be a different story. He's smart. He knows how to communicate. He knows that getting mad is the dumbest thing he could possibly do"

"Maybe he gets mad because he cares?"

"Maybe he gets mad because he cares," Jade mimicked, "and maybe that's the stupidest thing I ever heard. Maybe there's a way to get your point across without being hurtful. How do you think YOU would feel FRUSTRATED VERY MUCH if your girlfriend ignored you or acted in a hurtful way towards you or criticized you or allowed her best guy friend to flirt with her in front of you? You'd feel FRUSTRATED very much"

"Did it ever occur to you that maybe he tried all that stuff. Maybe he is frustrated by the way his girlfriend is not trusting him?"

"She's supposed to trust a guy who ignores her, criticizes her and acts in a hurtful way towards her? It's like knowing that there is something that will piss her off and doing it anyway"

"Maybe he didn't do that to piss her off but because he cares about her"

"You have 30 seconds to explain that," Jade said.

Again they weren't angry with each other. They were acting but using the exercise to work things out between the two of them.

"Maybe he didn't want her living in fear her whole life"

Jade smiled.

"Well she appreciates that," she said, "but she doesn't appreciate being treated as if her boyfriend's best friend means more to him then she does"

Beck placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Nobody will ever be more important to him then she is"

"Really?"

"He likes his friend," Beck said, "But he loves his girlfriend. There's no way anyone could take his girlfriend's place. There's no way he would WANT anyone to take her place. And this is Bade signing off on that letter"

The bell rang

"Alright we will continue Dear Bade tomorrow," Sikowitz said