So, I've had free time since I graduated and I decided I'd rewrite some of my one-shots. I'm kinda stuck on my other stories and I still don't have internet. So until then. Here you go!

~*The Trina Complex*~

It's been two months since they broke up.

It's obvious they miss each other, but she won't cave and neither will he.

They've tried and tried to move on, but it hasn't worked. Mainly, they've dated other people to make the other jealous, but they both refuse to admit their feelings.

They can't let their walls down.

Beck's dating Trina now, and—though he says it—he doesn't love her. Not like he loves Jade. But Jade's gotta learn. She's gotta learn to break every once in a while. Because of her, he's dating Trina and he claims he loves her, but that doesn't mean he's happy.

Jade's never been worse…

Jade misses him more than she breathes. She misses running her hands in his hair, the feel of his lips against hers, his deep light brown eyes enveloping her whole… She knows she has to stay strong though; she can't let him get to her. He never lets his guard down, never gets rid of that cool persona, and Jade wants to be there when he does. It's just a matter of time until he comes running back to her.

Only time will tell.

She sits with Cat, Tori, Robbie (who's with Rex of course), and André at the Asphalt Café eating their lunch. Cat and Tori start talking about something she really doesn't care about, so she focuses mainly on eating her salad. She imagines each slice of lettuce as one of the girls she sees flocking around Beck everyday trying to be his new arm candy. It's reassuring every time she sees him turn them down; she has that hope that he'll come back to her and that's what keeps her going.

Then, she sees him.

"Who's Beck walking with?" Jade hisses, grabbing Tori's arm tightly. "My arm, Jade!" she cries out. With an annoyed sigh, Jade throws Tori's arm away and keeps her eyes locked on Beck. She can't see who stands—arms locked—with the luscious brunette boy because the girl has her back turned to the group; she's not too tall, maybe taller than Tori (which is an inch shorter than Jade), and her hair billows a quarter of her back in chocolate curls. Jade can faintly see little pieces of blonde peaking from the front of her hair. She hears a familiar, annoying laughter…

"No," she breathes.

The girl turns around and confirms Jade's suspicions, holding a freshly bought burrito in her freshly blue fingers. She smiles that stupid smile and tilts her head down to Beck. With a smile of his own, Beck leans down to kiss her. The surrounding girls make audible noises of their disappointment and Jade stabs her fork into her salad so hard that it stands up on its own.

"No!" Jade screams loudly, causing everyone to look at her in fright. She picks up Tori's chicken wrap and throws it at Trina. The wrap hits the Trina in the chest, getting ranch dressing all over her shirt, as Jade gets up and runs the other way. Cat quickly runs after her to try to comfort her friend, shouting Jade's name the whole way.

Beck moves to go after her, but his new girlfriend grabs him roughly by the arm. "She had to find out sooner or later," she says as she picks away at pieces of lettuce on her shirt. "Now smile like you're happy to be with me." She plasters a smile on her face and locks arms with her boyfriend as they walk to the table Jade hastily left.

The three remaining people stare at Beck and Trina in wide-eyed shock.

"So, uh," André starts as he gestures to Beck, "When did you start liking Trina?" Something catches in Beck's throat, coughing loudly and gasping for air. Trina smiles as she answers for him. "He's liked me for a while, but he kept it on the hush because he was with Jade." She smiles widely and kisses his cheek. "Now he's with me! We've been dating for a whole month and now we've decided to go public."

Beck gives a less than audible groan but the others don't hear. "She's amazing," he lies. "I really love her." His voice cracks for the first time in years when he claims he 'loves' her, but no one else says anything.

Jade and Cat don't return to the Asphalt Café.

On the way to class after an awkward lunch where Tori, André, and Robbie barely speak to Beck and Trina, Trina pulls Beck off to the Janitor's closet where no one can see. She's not happy.

"What was that?" she hisses, keeping her voice low even though they're in the secluded closet. "What was what?" Beck retorts impatiently; the less he talks to her, the better. Trina crosses her arms and taps her foot. "What was that little stunt you pulled back at lunch?" she reiterates. "You're supposed to act like you really like me." She gently pats his cheek three times. "I've seen you act, babe, and I know you're more than just a pretty face."

She crosses her arms again and narrows her eyes expectantly. "Are you forgetting our agreement?" she questions in a cold tone. "Or do I have to give you another demonstration? I just might have to use Jade. I'm sure she'll last longer than your dog did."

Beck's breath hitches and his eyes widen. He's showing true fear. "Please don't," he pleads softly. "Please," Trina smirks and pulls him down to her by his shirt so she can kiss him deeply.

"Then be a better actor," she demands. "Act like you want to be mine or your creepy little ex-girlfriend's gonna wind up in a terrible 'accident.'" She over emphasizes the last word to show she means business. Beck lowers his head. "Fine," he sighs. With another smirk, she pulls him down into another deep kiss. This time he wraps his arms around her waist and pulls her close.

Trina sighs contently and dreamily once the kiss is broken, but quickly regains her composure and gently slaps his cheek twice. "Perk up," she orders, "It's Showtime!" She smiles proudly and grabs his hand, walking out of the Janitor's closet with him. Everyone stares at them with either a shocked gasp or confused whispers, but it only fuels Trina's fire.

The rest of the day, Beck keeps up his charade like Trina wants him too, but he gives pleading glances to Jade whenever Trina isn't looking at him. She spends the rest of the day admiring the whispers she receives about her and Beck. She's on cloud nine while he's trying to claw his way out of hell.

Later, Trina makes Beck drive her home and she grimaces when she sees Jade's car in her driveway. With lightning fast reflexes, she snatches Beck's phone from the cup holder in his truck before he can even think of reacting. "Trina, don't," he pleads as he turns off his truck. "You know I don't like you going through my phone." He reaches for it but Trina punches him in the face. He screams in pain and holds his nose. "Don't you ever tell me what to do," she spits.

She unlocks Beck's phone—because she made him give her his password when they started 'dating'—and checks his text messages. There's a stream of messages from around lunch time from a certain Goth girl and Trina's thumb taps them with angered, accusatory curiosity.

To: Jade

Don't believe everything you see.

From: Jade

So you aren't in love with that abomination?

To: Jade

I didn't say that.

From: Jade

Then what are you saying?

To: Jade

Come by Tori's after school. I'll tell you there.

From: Jade

Tell me now.

To: Jade

I can't. Just meet me at Tori's

From: Jade

What is this about?

To: Jade

Just be prepared to defend yourself.

From: Jade

I'm always prepared.

Trina screams loudly in annoyance and smashes Beck's PearPhone against the glove box, shattering his screen into a hundred pieces. "Why do you have to be so stubborn?" she shouts. "Why couldn't you leave her out of this?" If anyone was within a thirty foot radius, they would have heard her.

Jade hears her, though, and rushes outside to see Trina and Beck in his truck. She has a baseball bat in hand and runs to the truck. She swings the bat across the window and breaks it, shattering glass into Trina's face and knocking her unconscious against the glove box.

"Quick, get inside!" Jade shouts urgently. Beck throws his seatbelt off, pushes the door open, and runs with Jade inside Tori's house. "Now do you wanna tell me what's going on?" she questions once she locks the door. Beck sighs and runs a hand through his hair. "She really likes me," he admits.

Jade scoffs and rolls her eyes as she puts her back to the door. "Tell me what else is new," she spits.

Beck scowls. "She threatened to kill you if I didn't agree to go out with her," he growls. Jade gasps with widened eyes. "You put up with Trina just so you could save my life?" she asks quietly. Beck nods. "I would do anything for you," he tells her. "I still love you, Jade."

Jade smiles weakly and opens her mouth to tell him she loves him too when a rough force knocks Jade to the ground. Luckily, Beck catches her and he holds her tight as the door slams open and an angered, bloody-faced Trina stands in the doorway with her arms crossed. She taps her foot expectantly and holds up her house keys. Part of her hair is matted to her forehead with blood.

"Did you forget I live here?" she asks loudly and vengefully. She steps into the house and smashes her hand into the glass of her father's gun shelf that he recently moved from the garage to on top of the fire place. She pulls out a double barrel shotgun and cocks it twice.

"I warned you Beck," Trina begins as she aims the gun at Jade. "All you had to do was play the part of the devoted boyfriend until I got tired of our relationship. But no, you just couldn't keep your stupid mouth shut. Now say goodbye to your girlfriend." She fires the gun at a doe-eyed Jade, but Beck quickly pushes her out the way. His act of heroism allows Beck the opportunity to be shot in the shoulder, millimeters from his heart.

"Beck!" Jade shrieks as he falls to the ground with a shocked, pained noise. She falls to her knees and holds his head in her lap.

Trina sighs in annoyance. "I wanted to make him watch you die," she starts, "But I guess this works as well." She aims the gun at Jade. "There's no one to jump in front of a bullet for you this time, Jade."

"Jade," Beck whispers coarsely. She looks down to him with tears in her eyes, destroying her makeup. "I…never stopped…loving you." He coughs up some blood and Jade clings to his clothing. "No," she sobs out, "Don't say it like that; you can't leave me again!" She leans in and kisses him deeply, uncaring of the blood surrounding her mouth.

Trina sucks her teeth with a sneer and her finger starts to squeeze the trigger. Jade clings to Beck as the gunshot fires, waiting for the pain to scream at her, 'You've been shot!'

But it doesn't come.

With wide, confused eyes she looks up to see an equally wide-eyed Trina with a small stream of blood trailing down her lip. The gun falls first and the force causes the gun to fire, shooting Jade in the leg. She clenches her eyes shut and lets out a noise of pain, but she clings to Beck, trying not to let him see her hurt. It doesn't matter though; he's on the verge of unconsciousness.

Trina falls next, exposing Officer Vega holding a slightly smoking hand gun.

"Officer Vega!" Jade exclaims in terror. "Please, you have to call 911!" Officer Vega runs to Beck and Jade, pressing down on Beck's wound and Jade's leg. "I called them when I saw the broken glass on the ground," he tells them urgently and slightly worried. "They're on their way, but we'll need to keep pressure on his wound until they get here." He looks at Jade with worry. "Are you okay, Jade? Did the second bullet hit you anywhere?"

Shakily, Jade nods. "I'll be fine," she states evenly. Then she looks to him with tear-stained eyes. "How did you know?" she questions softly. Mr. Vega pauses before answering then looks down at the bleeding, shallow breathing bow beneath him. "My daughter's mind hasn't always been in the best condition," he admits. "I've worried about her for as long as I can remember. I figured she was up to something when she started screaming about how she was dating Beck; you probably thought the same." Jade nods softly with a sniffle and looks back to Beck. "Is he going to be okay?" she asks quietly.

She doesn't wait for his response. Even if she did, she wouldn't hear it. She doesn't hear Tori's heels clicking as she runs into the room, or her screams as she sees her sister's bleeding body just inches away from Beck's equally bleeding body. She doesn't hear the blaring siren of the ambulance as it pulls up to the Vega residence.

As soon as they arrive, they load Trina into the ambulance first. There's enough room for them to load Beck in, but not enough to load Jade in as well. But she won't take no for an answer. When the paramedics tell her she can't go, she pushes past them and limps into the ambulance, laying on the gurney beside her boyfriend who's barely conscious enough to turn on his uninjured side so Jade can lay with him. She lies on her injured leg, but she doesn't care; she only cares about Beck's arms enveloping her in their warmth.

Obviously, Tori has questions. Why is Jade's leg bleeding? Why is Beck bleeding? Why did her dad shoot her sister? Officer Vega takes the breath to fill his sane daughter in on the situation along the ride to the hospital, sparing some of the gruesome details.

Beck, Trina, and Jade are all treated for their injuries and the world tries to return to normal. Trina—after making her recovery—is sent to a psychiatric ward where, if she fails rehabilitation, she will be sent to jail for attempted murder. She refuses to speak to her family and is starting to become 'normal.'

And though their relationship is rocky, Beck and Jade get back together, working through their problems and appreciating everything about the other because that's what makes them who they are. They know how easy it is to lose someone you love…