So I worked on this a while ago and I kind of got to the point where I really don't know what I am doing. The characters are a little OC in this. If people want me to add more to this than that is what I will try to do. I would love some input on this story and what everyone who takes the time to read this story has to say.
Rescued
James decided to go for a drive to spend some time alone after nearly getting himself married. He had no idea how the situation had gotten so out of hand all he wanted was to see if he would make a good prince. Thank God for dirt boy or he would be on his honeymoon right now. The thought alone made James shiver. As James turned the corner he spotted a girl fighting with a guy in a giant diaper. He immediately pulled the car over sensing that the girl was in some serious trouble.
"Come on don't you want to celebrate this is what you do when you win prom king and queen." The guy said pinning the girl to the wall. A smaller man with a boom box was standing next to them.
"Hey, let her go."James said walking over trying to be as intimidating as possible. Sure he spends almost every day in the gym and could hold his own in a fight but he always had the guys with him. Now he was completely alone and the look of fear in the girl's eyes proved that he was truly needed.
"This doesn't concern you pretty boy. This is between me and my queen." He sneered as he moved hand further up her dress.
James wanted to vomit when he heard the girl let out a weak whimper and looked at him with pleading tear filled eyes. He didn't know how but she kept those tears from falling. "I said let her go." He repeated moving closer to the pair positioning himself between the man and girl. "How about you get the hell out of here?" James pushed the overweight man with all his power and watched him fall to the ground. "If I ever see you again I will make you regret it." He spoke slowly as he made his way toward the fallen man. He doesn't really know how it happened but heel of his boot was pressed into the guy's inner thigh hard enough to leave a bruise. When James removed his foot he kept his stance until the man and his tiny partner in crime were running down the street. "Are you ok?" James asked turning around to help the girl.
"I'm fine." She answered crisply hugging her arms around herself.
Taking his leather jacket off he held it out for her to take. He tried not to roll his eyes when she looked at him skeptically she had been through a lot why would she trust him even if he did save her. So he just put the jacket on her shoulders and pretended not to notice her flinch at the contact. "I'm James by the way. How about I take you home."
She nodded her head and followed him to the car. She didn't trust her voice yet. She knew that if she started to talk her voice might crack or she might start crying. And the last thing that she wanted to do after what just happened is cry about it.
James had been driving for about five minutes before he realized that he had no idea where he was going. He spotted a grocery store parking lot and parked under one of the lights.
"Hungry?" She asked bring her eye brows together in confusion.
James shifted in his seat to look at his passenger and smiled when she noticed that she did the same. For the first time he truly looked at the pale skinned girl. Her blue/green eyes were like nothing that he had ever seen before and her face was framed in dark black hair with blue streaks of color. She looked amazing in the teal dress that she was wearing and if they had met on different circumstances he would have told her so. "A little why?" He noticed her confused look grow. "Oh the store, I just parked here because I don't know where you live." He ran a hand through his hair feeling like an idiot. She did something that he didn't expect. She started to laugh and he wanted nothing more than to die on the spot.
Jade couldn't believe that she was laughing after what had just happened but it felt really good. She got out of the car and was about to close the door when she noticed that James wasn't following her. "I thought you said you were hungry?" She asked ducking to look into the car she smiled at the look of pure shock that she received.
Now James was confused but got out of the car anyway and followed her into the story. After successfully finding the junk food isle and filling a basket full of sugary snacks he realized he didn't know her name. "Um so I don't know your name." Up until this point they walked in silence he could tell that she was thinking about what had just happened to her. He had even spotted the moment when her eyes darkened with the memory. Before leaving the store James went to the frozen food section to find something to put on Jade's face to stop the swelling. A bruise was already forming as a very real very constant reminder of what happened.
The sound of his voice snapped her out her trance. It took her a second to realize that she was safe inside the store. "Oh Jade. And um thank you for before."
"Believe me it's no problem." He gave her a reassuring smile. They stayed in silence aside from her giving directions to her house. After 20 minutes James pulled up to a rather large house. Out of the corner of his eye he noticed Jade got paler if that was even possible. "Is everything ok?"
"It doesn't look like anyone is home." She whispered. She hated herself in that moment. She was Jade West she didn't let people scare her she scared other people. But the fear of being alone right now was so strong she could taste it. It's not like Doug knew where she lived or anything and she knew that she would be safe inside her own home she just could shake the fear.
As James walked Jade to the door he could tell that she didn't want to be alone. And he realized that he didn't really feel comfortable leaving her alone. If something happened to her after he left he would blame himself. "How about I come inside with you while you call a friend or your parents to see when they will be home. I can stay with you until then. I don't think you should be alone."
Jade looked over at him and smiled mentally thanking God that he had offered to stay. She wasn't the type to ask for help. "Thanks. Are you sure you won't get in trouble?" She asked noticing that it was close to 11:30. She didn't want to be alone but she didn't want James to sacrifice anything else for her. She didn't like owing people anything.
"I'll call home but I think that Mama Knight will understand." He said following Jade into the living room. He called home when Jade went to her room to change. Mama Knight didn't like the thought of him being in a stranger's house for who knows how long but the fact that she was proud of what he did overshadowed that.
After changing out of her dress she looked for her phone to call Cat but remembered that she placed in on the coffee table with her keys. So she made her way down stairs where she found James looking at the flier for Clowns Don't Bounce. She silently grabbed her phone and dialed Cat before he could ask her about it.
"Jade hi." Cat answered happily into the phone.
"Hey Cat I was wondering if you want to spend the night?" Jade asked moving to sit on the bottom of the stairs to have some privacy.
"But Jade you never want to have a sleepover." The red head squealed.
"Well then today is your lucky day. I can pick you up." She started to feel slightly better. She knew that when Cat saw her she would know that something is up. Cat might not be the smartest person in the world but she could be observant especially with Jade whom she had known for most of her life. But Jade could get her mind way from what happened because Cat knew how to let a subject drop and would do anything to make Jade feel better.
"Oh no."
"What" Jade growled. She knew that Cat was going to say something that would annoy her.
"I can't do it tonight. I'm already at Tori's we decided to hang out at her place tonight. You know a post Prome party." Cat giggled. "I would invite you but I think that Tori is still mad."
"So you are picking Vega over me." Jade almost yelled. She looked over at the living room but James didn't seem to notice.
"What's that supposed to mean." Cat yelled.
"What do you think it means." She yelled back.
"I'm not picking her over you. It's just that she asked first."
"After everything that she did to me today you shouldn't have gone over anyway."
"But she is my friend."
"And I'm supposed to be your best friend."
"You are."
"You know what Cat have fun. I don't need this right now. Have fun with your new best friend." Jade hung up before she gave Cat a chance to respond. A part of her knew that she was taking about her anger out on Cat for everything that happened today but it's not like she had control over her emotions.
James hadn't meant to eavesdrop it's just that Jade started to yell so there was no way for him not to hear. When he didn't hear Jade's voice for a while he knew that she wasn't on the phone anymore. He decided to make his way to Jade. He couldn't imagine any of the guys not going to his aid if he called them in the middle of the night to come over. Just like he knew if he got a call from one of them at midnight he would be out the door before the call was even over no matter where he was. James sat next to Jade and wrapped an arm around her. He didn't say anything and neither did she. Silence seemed to be their thing.
Jade hadn't realized that she and James had fallen asleep on the stairs until she heard her phone ringing on the step above then. Somehow James was leaning with his back against the wall and Jade was sitting between his legs leaning on his chest. Jade tried not to wake James when she reached for her phone. It was a text from Beck. Jade jumped away from James as if he was on fire the quilt of falling asleep right next to him was more than she could handle especially with what happened last night with Doug.
I'm outside- Beck
Is the door locked? –Jade. Usually Beck would just walk right in when her parents weren't home and it was obvious they weren't home now. Not that she wasn't glad that he didn't walk into a very awkward situation that she wouldn't even know how to explain.
I don't know just come outside. I'm not staying-Beck
Jade slipped on the sneakers that she always kept by the door and grabbed a pair of sunglasses and moved her long hair to cover the bruises on her face. When she made it outside she spotted Beck leaning against his truck arms folded. Jade could tell by his stance that he was annoyed. "I thought you weren't going to be back until tonight. Miss me that much?" She smirked walking over to him.
"Well I got a call in the middle of night from Tori."
Jade stopped in her tracks a few feet away from Beck. "Vega called you?" She couldn't say that she was surprised.
Beck kept an even expression. "Yeah she called a little after midnight. After your call to Cat where she apparently locked herself in the bathroom. Tori told me what you did to the prom. Are you proud of yourself Jade? When are you going to just stop this battle with Tori?"
Jade could feel the anger raising but worse she felt truly hurt by his words and his lack of his concern for her. "So you drove all night." It wasn't a question. They were dating for 3 years and she went to Canada with him before she knew how long the drive was.
"Yes."
"Why?"
"What do you mean why?" He asked removing his sunglasses.
"What made you drive here in the middle of the night?"
"Tori called upset…"
"There it is" Jade yelled cutting Beck off. "You drove all night because Tori called you upset. Let me guess because I ruined her Prom. But what about what she did to me." Jade yelled.
"What Jade what did she do to you that would make your behavior expectable? And she is sorry about making you cancel your performance I told her how important it was to you. Maybe if I had been here this wouldn't have happened."
Jade wanted to scream he was treating her like a child. "What would you have possibly done put me in a time out and tell Tori it was ok to ruin a show that I worked hard on. I put 10x more effort into my play then she did that stupid dance and she took it all away from me. And why it was something that she wanted. She was the only one No one else ever cared about a prom before. She just had to have it last night and everyone caved to her. It didn't matter that my play was supposed to be last night."
"So you ruin the prom. Tori wasn't the only one there what about all the other people that were there. Did they deserve to have their night ruined because of some petty fight? Andre told me about the video and how you cancelled the band. Even that you hired Diaper Doug to try and ruin everyone's night."
When Beck mentioned Diaper Doug Jade could feel the bile raising in her throat and began to sway a little like she was going to fall over but Beck didn't notice. Jade could still feel his hands all over her, his breath on her face, the smell of him. "Stop talking just stop talking." Jade yelled covering her ears and fell to the ground.
Beck had never seen Jade act like this before and it was starting to scare him. Normally she would just yell louder. "Jade are you ok?" He asked quickly closing the distance between them to kneel next to her.
She barely heard him make his way towards her. She didn't even realize that he was with her until she felt his hand on her back. "Don't touch me." She yelled pushing him away and falling back. She could see pure fear in his eyes because of how she was acting.
His heart broke when she told him not to touch her. She looked so scared he had never seen her like that before. He tried to crawl closer to her but stopped when she backed away. Holding his hands up in surrender "hey it's just me ok. Tell me what's wrong."
Jade was so close to telling him everything that happened last night with Doug and how James had saved her. She looked over at the house and spotted James standing in the door way. She could tell by the way that he was standing that he was uncomfortable and didn't want to do. She noticed that he kept moving forward and then stepping back as if he wanted to make his presence known but didn't know if he should. Just when she was about to speak Beck cut her off.
"You can't be this upset about your play. Tori didn't mean it. It's not like you your physically hurt."
After blinking a few times trying to convince herself that she must have heard wrong. Jade felt a rage that she had never experienced before and before she knew it she was reaching over and slapped Beck with more power then she knew she had. "I don't ever want to see you Beckett Oliver ever again." She got to her feet stepping backwards ignoring the anger and shock in Beck's eyes.
"Why the hell did you just hit me?" He asked following her lead to stand as he rubbed his sore check.
Even with Beck's deep tan she could see the red mark of her hand. "You have no idea what Tori did to me. And you have no right to make light of what happened to me. This is about more than the play. I want you to leave." Jade said in a cold hard tone. She was done with all of this she was going to lock down her emotions so that he couldn't hurt her anymore.
"You know what fine. But when you come to your senses about this I might not be there to take you back. Maybe you deserved a taste of your own medicine and Tori was the one to give it to you." Beck said walking back to his truck.
Jade didn't even bother replying to him she just walked back to her house glancing up and James as she passed him but otherwise didn't say anything. She wasn't sure if he was going to stay or leave when she heard the front door closed but then she heard his footsteps following behind her.
"Do you want to talk about it?" James asked taking a seat across from her at the table. He ran a hand through his hair again. James didn't even want to think about what he looked like right now. His hair was most defiantly out of place but it's not like he had his Cuda products here. There was an emergency kit in the trunk of the car because he never went anywhere without some way to make himself look James Diamond good.
"No not really." Jade said grabbing an orange from the fruit bowl on the table.
James grabbed an apple. "I think that maybe we should. I don't want to push you or anything but you went through a lot."
Jade focused on peeling her orange. "Beck made me realize that it's kind of my fault you know the Doug thing."
James slammed his hands down on the table immediately regretting it when Jade jumped. "Sorry I didn't mean to scare you but you have to know that no matter what you did or what you think that you did you didn't know deserve this and it isn't your fault." James said in a stern voice. He couldn't believe that she was blaming herself.
"Look around no one is here but you. My best friend and my boy friend couldn't be bothered to be here because I was the one that ruined prom. Because I hurt poor Tori's feelings and ruined a stupid dance. DO you know that Hollywood Arts has never had a prom before last night? Not once in the history of the school but this year Tori shows up and she wants a prom and so we have to have a prom. And of course it had to be on the same night and in the same place as that my play was supposed to be in. But does anyone care, no because it's Vega. I worked months on that play and she worked 2 days. It wasn't fair."Jade could barely see her orange because of all the tears that were falling from her eyes.
"How does the diaper guy fit into this?" James wanted nothing more than to climb over the table and hug Jade. It pissed him off that no one was here for her. He knew that if he seen this Beck kid again anytime soon he might beat the shit out of him.
"I figured that if she could ruin my night then I could ruin hers. So I cut the power had a super creepy video play. But they stopped the video and turned the power back on. Before the dance I called the band and cancelled them so that there would be no entertainment. And I hired Diaper Doug to come and make everyone feel awkward because hey who wants to see a man in a diaper dancing around. Just as everyone was leaving Tori decided to announce prom king and queen, she said that it was Doug and I and he carried me away from the school. I tried to get away but it wasn't working. He…he wanted to properly celebrate winning." Jade said whipping the tears from her eyes.
James got up and moved to the other side of the table and took Jade in his arms. He began to rub soothing circles on her back and whispered soft words to her about how it wasn't her fault, she was going to be ok, and she didn't deserve this. "I can't believe they just let you disappear with that guy." He said more to himself but he knew that Jade heard him.
Jade didn't even know how she had cried so long or that it was even possible to cry so much. Slowly pulling away from James chest she noticed that his shirt was now soaked with her tears. She was just happy that she showered real fast before she came back down last night because his shirt would be ruined with mascara.
James smiled down at Jade and let her move away from him but he still kept an arm around her to give her some sort of comfort. Jade rested her head on his shoulder. "Thank you for everything that you did for the past few hours."
Giving her shoulder a small squeeze "I'm glad that I was there. Just think if I didn't almost get married yesterday I wouldn't have been driving around." He commented without thinking.
"You almost got married yesterday?" Jade turned her head to look at James.
Throwing his head back and hoping to hide the blush that was rising on face. "It was a stupid, stupid mistake on my part. Let's just say that I will never give another girl flowers ever again and defiantly not a white rose. I accidentally proposed to a princess by giving her a white flower it's a tradition in their country or something. My friends and I tricked her father into letting her marry the guy that she really loved. Scariest day of my life."
Jade laughed but it sounded fake and hollow. "Mine too." They were silent for a while until James's phone went off. "I'll let you get that." Jade said getting up to give James some privacy.
James groaned hoping that it wasn't Mama Knight about to yell at him for not going home last night. "Hello."
"James where the hell are you? I told my mom that you got in really late last night so you are still sleeping. She just left with Katie." Kendall freaked out. "Are you ok?"
James couldn't help up laugh. "I love that the last thing that you do is ask if I'm ok. And yeah I'm fine I talked to your mom last night. She knows where I am or at least she did until she thought that I was home."
"Are you with a girl?" Kendall asked the smirk evident in his voice.
"It's not what you think." James replied shaking his head knowing that his friend was jumping to the wrong conclusion.
"How did you convince my mom to let you stay with her?"
Before James could answer he heard a struggle on the other side. "Is she hot?" Carlos asked when he wrestled the phone away from Kendall.
"Yes Carlos and tell Kendall that right now it's between Mama Knight and I." He didn't feel comfortable talking about the attack over the phone with Jade in the other room.
"Is she in trouble or something?" the concern evident in his voice.
"No Carlos it's nothing like that. She was just a girl that needed help and I was in the right place at the right time."
"Oh ok when do we get to meet her. You should bring her to the Palm Woods. We could hang out at the pool." Carlos quickly moved to excited at the thought of meeting someone knew.
"I don't know if that will happen but I can ask her."
"Ask her what?" Jade stifled a laugh when she seen James jump.
"Well ask." Carlos said into James's ear.
Groaning "my friend Carlos wants to know if you want to come over to the Palm Woods where we live to hang out by the pool." It's not like he didn't want to hang out with Jade he just knew how his friends could act and didn't want to make Jade's weekend any worse. But the guys were great at making people forget about a bad day. "It might be good for you to be around people. You can call your friend again or you could come with me." He already made the decision to not let her be alone.
"You make it sound like I don't have a choice." Jade asked raising a pierced eyebrow.
"You don't now go upstairs and change." James said shooing her away with the wag of a hand before Jade could protest.
"Dude that sounded a little harsh" Carlos commented. "But now I get to meet your friend."
James smiled he could see his shorter friend running around 2J in excitement. "Yeah well we should be home soon."
"Good because if you didn't come home I would be alone today. Kendall out with Katie and Logan went to a math workshop or something."
"I think I hear Jade coming. I will see you at the apartment." James said hanging up and making his way to the front of the house. James almost dropped his jaw when he spotted Jade coming down the stairs in a loose dark blue flannel shirt that she didn't button all the way and black jean shorts and black biker boots. The blue top really brought out the color of her eyes. "Wow you look amazing."
Jade rolled her eyes she didn't feel amazing but she would take any complement that she could get. "Thanks. So you live at the Palm Woods, isn't that the home for the future famous?"
"Don't tell me you never heard of Big Time Rush." James could hide the shock in his voice.
Jade turned to look at James in the drives seat and then her eyes went wide. "You're in Big Time Rush. You're James Diamond." Cat was in love with the band she had all their songs so Jade was familiar with the band. They weren't her normal type of music but she enjoyed them.
"You are actually telling me that you didn't recognize this face." James took his hands of the wheel to wag them in front of his face. James was weirdly happy that she knew who he was. I cannot be falling for a girl that I met 12 hours ago. He thought to himself.
Jade scoffed. "I was a little preoccupied at the time. And you aren't as hot as you think you are." Jade said with a smile so that it he wouldn't take her seriously.
Before James had a chance to be offended he seen the smile in her eyes and he knew that she was screwing with him. "Oh wait until you see me by the pool. That is my element." He winked.
"I'm sure it is." Jade grinned putting her sunglasses on "So who were you talking to?"
"Carlos, apparently there is no one for him to hang out with so he is happy that you are coming. He is a bit of a hugger so I guess I just wanted to warn you that he might try and get you. I'll do my best to stop him but when Carlos has his mind set on something you can't stop him. He is kind of sensitive and I seen the way you freaked this morning with Beck and I don't want that to happen again."
"Sorry you had to watch that. I can only imagine what went through your mind." Jade said looking out the window.
"It's not that I had to watch it, it's that I didn't know what to do. When you fell to the ground I wanted to go to you but then you freaked when he touched you and you know him a lot better than me so I would have just made it worse. Not to mention the fact that he is your boy friend." He didn't want to get too caught up in that thought.
"So this is where you live?" Jade asked as they walked through the Palm Woods lobby.
"Yup but wait until you see my apartment I think it might blow your mind." He joked. James just opened the door and let her look around.
"You have a swirly slide. Why...how?" Jade turned to look at James.
"We call him Swirly." Carlos said coming down the slide and then running over to the new additions to the room.
Before Jade could fully comprehend what was going on she was enveloped in a tight hug from the Latino boy. She felt her body tense but kept telling herself that she was safe and he wasn't going to hurt her. Giving a weak attempt to return the hug she looked over at James who was holding his breath in anticipation of what might happened. When Jade gave him a reassuring look he started to breathe again. "Uh hi Carlos I'm Jade." She half heartedly patted him on the back.
Abruptly Carlos pulled back and held Jade at arm's length. "You look pretty I can see why James would date you." When Jade raised an eyebrow and James face palmed, Carlos questioned "You're not dating are you." After receiving head shakes from the pair "Then what were you doing all night?"
Choosing to ignore the last question "how about you show me this awesome pool and James can meet us in a few when he gets changed."
Carlos looked over at his friend "it might be more like a few hours."
"What?"
"James won't go anywhere without looking absolutely perfect. And it might take a while." He smiled giving his friend a once over. Under normal peoples standards James looked fine but under his own he looked horrible.
James wanted to kill his friend for embarrassing him. He didn't need Jade or any girl to know how long it took him to get ready and there was nothing wrong with one looking their best. "I will be down in 5 minutes." He growled out before turning stomping away to his room.
Jade and Carlos laughed as they made their way down to the pool. "So how long do you think that it will take?" She asked pointing inside as she made herself comfortable on a lounge chair.
Carlos thought for a moment as he took off his t-shirt. "I don't know but at least an hour."
Following Carlos's lead Jade stared to unbutton her top forgetting about the marks on her arms and remove her boots and sock. "Does he ever actually go in the pool?"
Carlos frowned noticing the bruises on her arms and for the first time seeing them on her face but he knew better than to bring it up. He would just ask James later. "Yeah why?"
"Wont getting wet ruin everything he did to look perfect?"
Carlos never thought about that before. After a while they sat in a comfortable silence before Kendall showed up. "Hey Carlos." The tall blonde said sitting on the edge of the chair by Carlos's feet.
"Hey Kendall I thought you went out with Katie."
"We did but apparently I embarrass her so she made us leave." He explained. "Who is the new girl? She is hot." Kendall whispered while he pointed to Jade who had pulled out a script that she was working on from her bag.
James took that moment to appear in front of his friends. He sat down by Jade's legs so that he could be a part of Kendall and Carlos's conversation. Jade just moved her legs to the side to give James more room. James noticed the weird look that Kendall was giving him. "What?"He asked thinking that he didn't look good because he rushed to get ready.
Jade put her script down and leaned over to shake Kendall's hand. "I'm Jade."
"She is James's friend." Carlos added.
"Kendall." He said returning the hand shake. "So are you an aspiring actress?" He asked pointing to the script.
"This no I wrote it and hopefully when it comes to direct the play there won't be any issues."
"You wrote a play?" He asked in disbelief. He had a hard time writing songs let alone a full play.
"Yeah I go to Hollywood Arts. It's a performing arts school. Oh and it was an hour and a half." She said poking James in the back.
"Well you can't rush perfection."
"You could try."
"Enough out of you missy." James said taking the disregarded script from Jade's lap. He knew that she was involved with plays but he didn't know that she actually wrote them as well.
"Who wants to play in the pool with me?" Carlos asked. After a few minutes of everyone ignoring him he started to whine. "Please." He said hopping on the balls of his feet. "Jade?"
Normally Jade would push Carlos into the pool and tell him to shut up already and the fact that she hadn't yelled at anyone yet wasn't lost on her. She didn't really understand what was going on because she actually wanted to go and play with Carlos in the pool. Maybe she wasn't acting like her normal self because this wasn't a normal day. "Sure." She gave in even though part of her was screaming to not give in to nice Jade. Nothing good ever happens for nice Jade but nothing seemed to be going well for mean Jade either.
"Yes" Carlos fist pumped the air and then did a canon ball into the ball getting most of the pool patrons wet.
"He reminds me of Cat." She said nonchalantly as she removed her shorts.
"Is that so?"James said moving over to lay in the set Jade just left. He kept his eyes on the script so that he wouldn't look like a perv for checking her out. He did notice that Kendall was perving over Jade's body causing James to laugh at his friend.
Jade however knew that both James and Kendall were checking her out. Beck used to tell her all the time that guys looked at her but she never really noticed because she knew that she would never date any of those guys. "You know you shouldn't laugh at him for doing the same thing you are doing even if you are better at hiding it." Jade said before walking to the pool.
Kendall paled at being caught and James hit himself with the script. "She is something else." James said as he watched Jade dive into the pool and then have a splash fight with Carlos.
"So are you guys like together?" Kendall asked folding his arms behind his head.
"No we are just friends. She just broke up with her boy friend but I think she might reconsider when it fully sinks in what happened." He said looking up at his friend and then they both returned their attention to the pool.
"How did you guys meet anyway she doesn't seem like the James Diamond type."
"You mean because she isn't blonde?" James questioned. When Kendall shrugged and nodded he continued. "I know man but she is so different but even if her ex wasn't a factor I doubt she would want a boyfriend after last night."
"What happened? Does it have something to do with the bruises?" Kendall asked.
James rubbed his forehead. He knew that he was going to have to tell them because once they were curious about something that would stop at nothing to find out. "You have to swear that you won't act any differently towards her." He waited a moment for Kendall to agree. "When I found her last night she was almost raped. The guy was all over her." James body shock with anger at the thought of that guy having his hands all over Jade and the look of pure fear in her face.
Kendall could see James's eyes darken with rage. It had only happened a handful of times and those were times when he was protecting his friends. "Wow it was a good thing that you were there. But she seems ok though you know." He pointed to a laughing Jade and Carlos.
"No she isn't." James would admit that he didn't know Jade that well and some would argue that he didn't know her at all but he knew that she wasn't ok. He could see that she was hiding how badly she was hurting and he had to admit that if he wasn't looking for it he would never know. But he was looking and he could see in her eyes that there were moments that she was back in that alley with Doug but she would shake it off as quickly as it had come as to not bring attention to herself.
Kendall didn't want to argue with his friend because he knew nothing about what happened last night or the bond that his best friend now shares with the pale girl in the pool.
"I think he fell asleep." Jade whispered to James when she got out of the pool and made her way back to the seat.
James was so wrapped up in Jade's script that he didn't notice his friend dose off or Jade get out of the pool. "Done playing with Carlos?"
"Yeah." She laughed grabbing a towel to dry off. "How does he have so much energy?" Even Cat didn't have that much energy.
"I have no idea but that's just our lovable Carlos." He said spreading his legs and pulling Jade in between to lay on his chest again.
"You know you don't have to read this." She said pointing to her play.
He shrugged "I know it was here and I got curious about the stuff that you would write about. It's kind of dark and little creepy."
"Well I am dark and a little creepy you just don't know me that well."
"I accept."
Jade shifted in to look up at James "accept what."
"The challenge to get to know you."
"There is a chance that you might not like what you find out." It was a huge issue in her relationship with Beck. Her jealousy and always getting mad and yelling at people. "I don't think you want to hang out with a gank or freak demon." She said it with humor in her voice. She was an excellent actress and she wasn't going to let anyone know how hurt she was by what Tori called her and the fact that no one defended her against the accusation.
"Well if that's what's you are and I you aren't by the way. I guess I can make an exception." He said giving her a reassuring hug from behind.
"Let me go you freak." Jade yelled at the overgrown man in a diaper.
"Don't be like that you know you want this." Doug said walking them into an alley by the school Rocco playing loud music to drown out Jade from the passer buyers.
After Jade felt her feet hit the ground she tried to move away only to have Doug push against the wall. "Listen diaper loser if you don't let me go you are going to be in a world of pain." She said in a cold tone.
"Try it I like it rough." He said slapping her across her pale face.
A shock wave ripped through Jade's body. She had never been hit like that before and she knew that she was in a lot deeper than she thought. This guy wasn't fooling around. "Please let me go I can get you whatever you want. You don't have to do this." She put on her actress face hoping that it would keep her from showing fear.
"I have everything that I want right here." His breath hot in Jade's ear. She could feel every inch of him against her body the smell of his breath invading her nose. That's when she felt it his hands moving over her body. One making its way under her dress and up her leg. Jade squeezed her eyes shut and tried to pretend that it was Beck touching her and not a sick monster. But her mind was working against her as it registered every touch as he slid a finger inside of her. "Get off me." She screamed only to be surrounded by her things in her room safe at home. Jade realized that she over slept and jumped out of bed to get ready for school.
"Jade I have been trying to call you all yesterday." Cat said running up to her friend.
"I was busy." Jade said slamming her locker shut not bothering to look at Cat. She was still hurt by her friend not being there for her not that she would tell her otherwise.
"Beck said you broke up with him." Cat whispered like it was a secret.
"Yup I did."Jade moved to make her way to her first class.
"You both are late." Sikowitz said when the pair entered the room.
"So we are." Jade said moving to take a seat on the opposite side of her friends.
"Are you going to take your sunglasses off?" The crazy teacher asked.
"No."
"Very well. Today class everyone will be mimes trapped in a submarine. Aright class go."
Jade propped her feet on the chair in front of her and pulled out a pair of scissors and started to cut some papers that she found. Whenever someone tried to get close to her she would wave her scissors around at them. After a while they got the message. Beck however wasn't one of those people that went near Jade. He knew better plus he was still pissed at her. When the bell rang Jade left class and ignored the people calling after her. At lunch Jade found an empty table far away from the table that she and her friends normally say at.
"Jade why aren't you sitting with us?" Cat asked depressed. Her normally bubbly attitude was gone because her friend was ignoring her. She felt bad about what happened this past weekend but she didn't know what to do to make it better.
"Yeah Jade you should come sit with us. Beck said that he was cool with it." Andre said trying to make his long time friend see that she was still welcome. They were a close knit group and he didn't want that to change.
Jade laughed. Of course they thought that she was only upset about Beck. "Maybe I don't want to be around any of you." Jade said curtly.
"Is this about Saturday because you both got in some jabs it's time to move on."
Before Jade could respond she noticed someone waving enthusiastically at her. "Jade!" Carlos said running over to their table. "I was looking all over for you."
"Carlos what are you doing here?" Jade noticed her friends look of shock but didn't bother throwing them a bone.
"Logan dropped me off. Well he is in the book store down the street. I figured that I would come and say hi see how you are doing with everything. Do they have corndogs?" He asked pointing to the food truck.
"Yeah." Before Jade could say anything Carlos was running to the food truck. Last night she had met Logan, Mama Knight and Katie. James made her talk to Mama Knight about the attack and the boys were there to support her. She still felt weird being so open with them but it did feel good to talk about it.
"That was Carlos from Big Time Rush." Andre said in shock pointing to where the energetic boy was moments before. "How do you know him?"
"I introduced them yesterday." James walked up and sat down next to Jade. "You ok." He asked looking at her carefully.
Jade knew that there was no point in lying "Not really but it's just something that will take time." She said taking a sip of coffee.
"Seriously somebody better tell me what is going on here." Andre almost yelled. Beck was his best friend and Jade was already sharing secrets with another guy.
"I would love an answer to that." Beck appeared behind his friend with Robbie and Tori. They had seen Carlos and James come this way and were curious as to why they were here. He never would have thought it was because of Jade. "You seem very close to my girlfriend."
Even though he knew that it was wrong and would probably piss of Jade he couldn't help it he really didn't like Beck. James wrapped an arm around Jade "she isn't your girlfriend anymore." He gave his trademark thousand watt smile.
"Dude we just broke up and you already hitting on her. And you are letting him." He said incredulously.
"Trust me you didn't really come up all that often."
"What on earth do you see in her?" Tori asked. She couldn't believe that Jade kept getting really hot guys to fall for her.
"Shut it Vega this doesn't concern you. Beck you don't understand what happened you didn't let me explain so you don't get to come over here and judge who I am friends with. I need someone yesterday I needed you and all you could do was tell me how wrong I was to Vega."
"So you run to another guy instead of telling me what happened."
"Beck you told me I deserved it. Do you know how much that hurt that she almost ruined my life and I deserved it?" She wasn't going to let Beck know how much that hurt as the anger flared.
"This is Tori?" Carlos questioned coming into the conversation late but he knew what it was about.
"Yeah I'm Tori." She said smiling holding her hand out to Carlos to shake.
Carlos was known for wearing his emotions on his sleeve and right now he was mixed with anger for what happened but he was more so sad for Jade and what she went through. Carlos had stayed at the apartment while the guys went to pick up take out and Jade had cried on his shoulder after she had zoned out while watching TV. "You should be ashamed of yourself." His big brown eyes filled with sorrow.
Tori was taken aback by what he said. "But I didn't do anything all that bad she was the one that took it too far." She didn't like that Jade was turning these guys against her.
"How about you just leave." James said curtly.
"You don't get to walk in here and act like you know everything." Beck said throwing a glare at James. "Is getting your play canceled really ruining your life?"
Jade stood up anger bubbling over her coffee cup grumbling in her hand coffee going everywhere. "THAT IS WHY I DIDN'T TELL YOU. YOU NEVER TAKE ME SEIROUSLY." Jade yelled.
"WELL YOU ALWAYS OVERREACT WHAT ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO DO." He yelled back. The entire asphalt café turning to look at them.
"THIS DOESN'T CONCERN ANY OF YOU SO I SUGEST THAT YOU ALL BEAT IT." She yelled at all the spectators. The last thing that she wanted was an audience. She had a reputation to uphold.
James looked around shocked at all the people running to get away. He was also a little surprised by Jade's outburst but that didn't stop him from being a little turned on. "Maybe this isn't the best time to talk about this."
"I told you this doesn't involve you." Beck glared.
"I think that Jade would disagree and I can tell you right now that she wasn't overacting. You let her down in the worst way all of you." He said looking over at Cat.
Cat squeaked when she felt James look at her. "I said I was sorry what else was I supposed to do."
"Your friend calls you in the middle of the night and you don't think that maybe it might be important. Not to mention that the friend was Jade who in the little time that I have known her she doesn't ask for help often."
"Don't you dare talk to her like that pretty boy," Beck said stepping closer to James fists clenched.
Exhausted Jade sat back down. She leaned over and grabbed Cat's hand and gave it a squeeze and a small smile when Cat looked at her. Sure she was hurt and everything that James said was true but she never liked hurting her red haired friend. Cat always knew that she was joking. Carlos noticed the exchange and decided to sit in between the girls and wrap his arms around them. He never liked seeing people fight. But he knew if it got physical he would be out of his seat in a second and at James's side.
"Will the both of you just stop it isn't going to change anything." Jade said in a tired voice. She got a warm felling inside at the thought of James defending her that she didn't want to really analyze.
"Sorry." James hung his head and sat back down. This was not how his surprise was supposed to go.
"You should be sorry." Rex said.
James looked over at Robbie holding Rex and raised an eyebrow then looked over at Jade who just shrugged. "I didn't mean for this to happen." He said rubbing Jade's arm.
"It's fine." She leaned into him while taking off her sunglasses to pinch the bridge of her nose.
"Son of a bitch." Beck said taking notice of the bruises on Jade's face. He practically leapt over the table and tackled James to the ground.
"Beck." Jade yelled in surprise. Carlos and Andre were trying to break up the fighting boys. When the two were successfully pulled apart Jade kneeled by James to see what Beck had done. "What the hell was that Beck?" She asked dabbing at the blood from James's lip.
"Me? What's up with your face Jade? Who hit you?" Andre still had an arm around Beck.
Jade lifted a hand to her face and touched the tender skin. "You think that he did this to me?" She asked in disbelief. "And that I would still be with him?"
"I didn't see anything there yesterday."
"Well maybe you weren't looking hard enough because it was sure as hell there yesterday morning when I saw you." Jade and Carlos helped James stand. "Come on I will take you to find Logan."
Tori stepped in the way of the retreating trio. "Seriously Jade what happened? Or are you trying to get attention?"
"You bitch." Jade gritted out. "I was almost raped and you think I'm an attention whore like you. Get the hell out of my way before I make you."
Tori stumbled back as if the words were a physical blow. "Who…who tried to rape you?" Andre asked putting an arm around Tori.
"I really don't think that matters right now." Carlos said picking up Jade's bag. Gustavo had given them the day off and he was going to make it so that Jade had a half day. He knew that he wasn't going to want to leave Jade alone after this and he knew that James wasn't about to let go of Jade's hand.
Cat walked over to and whispered to Carlos "can I go? Do you think she wants me?"
Carlos gave her a one armed hug. "I think it would be best. I think that she needs you." He led her in the direction that James and Jade had walked in.
"What the hell happened to your face?" Logan questioned when his friends found him at the book store. He went into instant doctor mode checking James over.
"It was nothing Beck and I had a little disagreement." James told his over concerned friend an arm wrapped firmly around Jade.
"Beck?" Logan questioned. He knew who he was he just didn't know why he would want to hit but then again James and Jade did seem very close.
"Yeah can we just go?"James asked. He wanted to be as far away from the school as possible incase anyone tried to follow them.
"Sure let's go." Logan said leading the group to the car. James got in the back with the two girls. "Do we know what we want to do?"
"I think that we should just go home." Carlos said from the passenger seat.
Cat's phone started to go off after the group had arrived at 2J. "Who is it?" Carlos asked after Cat ignored her phone.
"Andre he wants to know if Jade is ok." She said after reading her text. "Are you ok?" She whispered pain evident in her voice.
"I'm ok the guys helped a lot."
"What happened? Who tried to…you know…?"
"It was Doug after we won prom king and queen." Jade said inspecting her finger nails not wanting to look her friend in the face. She felt James once again wrap his arm around her. She felt completely safe when she was with James and it was so foreign to her to feel this way about someone that she had just met.
"Oh" Cat squeaked. "Jade I am so sorry that I wasn't there for you."
"You didn't know and it isn't your fault." Jade heard Cat's phone go off again. She also felt hers vibrate in her pocket but she didn't want to deal with anyone else. "You might want to answer Andre tell him not to worry."
"K Kay." Cat said typing away on her phone.
"What do we want to do? Kendall won't be back for another hour or two." Carlos asked sitting down next to Cat blushing a little when she giggled and played with her hair.
James smirked at the small interaction between the pair. "I don't have any plans we can just stay here." He said picking up the remote and started to flip through the channels. James leaned over to Jade and whispered in her ear "I think they might like each other." He couldn't help but get lost in the fruity smell of Jade's hair.
Jade smiled at James warm breath on her neck she took this time to look at Carlos and Cat. The two were playing something on Carlos's phone sitting very close to one another. Logan had left a half hour ago to hang out with Camille. "I told you yesterday that he reminded me of Cat only makes sense that they would get along." She turned her head to whisper in his ear so that Carlos and Cat wouldn't know that they were talking about them.
He couldn't help but shiver when James felt her lips ghost his ear when whispering to him. He just pulled her closer to him enjoying her presence.
"Jade." Cat said pulling the pair out of their moment.
"Yeah." Jade tried to keep the embarrassment from her face when she turned to look at Cat.
"Andre said that your car is still at the school. He said that he can pick us up to take us back to it." She said gesturing to her phone.
"Oh he doesn't have to come all this way we could drop you off." James said standing up.
Cat looked down at her feet and then at Jade. "He is actually already here and he is really worried about you Jade." Andre, Jade and Cat had known each other the longest they had been in school together for the past 10 years. Robbie and Beck came into the picture later on so Andre always had a special part in his heart for "his girls."
"He is already here?" Carlos questioned. He found it odd the Andre would just show up rather than ask. "But what if Beck is with him." He really didn't want another fight to break out he was enjoying his time with Cat.
"Andre wouldn't do that. He would know that I need space." Jade said standing up.
James still didn't like that Jade was leaving but there was no reason for him to keep her from her friend. "Text me when you get home." He said giving the brunette a hug.
Jade looked at him and raised an eyebrow. She wasn't used to someone showing so much concern for her. "Yeah sure. It might be a while."
