One-shot: Holiday Decorations
Rating: K+/T (for implications…pretty mild though)
Disclaimer: Bade is not mine :[…nor is Victorious…nor is Frankenstein
Summary: Beck drags Jade into decorating their, well technically Beck's, RV.
Word count: 1414
Continuity: Takes place after my Moving Back In one-shot, which I only have written in my head as of right now. Moving Back In will be post-TFB&J. I guess I could have just said the continuity is post-TFB&J, but that would make things too easy to understand eh?
AN: I'm going to try to write a series of holiday themed bade one-shots. I have around 10 planned…but idk how much time I'll have. It's a busy time of the year.
AN2: I unexpectedly really liked Robbie Sells Rex…and I really loved Jade in it for some reason and the affair conversation. I'll spare you the details about my opinion on it.
Frankenstein. Beck finally saw the title of Jade's book that she had placed on his bed before situating herself on the ground next to it, reading the book. He was bored and tried to lift Jade's book up many times, each time only earning him a swat at the hands. But eventually Jade decides it is easier to just let Beck look at the cover.
"Frankenstein?"
Jade nods.
"Are you going to read for a long time?"
Jade nods again.
"But I'm bored."
Jade nods once more.
"How long is it going to take you?"
Another nod.
"Are you listening?"
And again. Beck starts poking her. She tries to dodge his finger, but because her attention is mostly towards the book, he succeeds many times.
"Come with me," Beck pleads.
Jade doesn't even nod anymore. After a few more rounds of ignored begging, Beck decides to try something else. He sneaks behind her and quickly puts his arms under her and picks her up.
Though she was normally way too attentive for everyone else's good, Jade did not expect to be carried. Victor Frankenstein's lack of responsibility towards the creature angered her too much. And in general, Jade's flawless attention became quite flawed when she was angry.
Before Jade could start yelling, or even pick up her dropped book, Beck started running out of the RV, using his back to knock the door open.
"Why am I here?" Jade complained from Beck's arms. Fearing that she would just walk back inside, Beck was afraid to put her down. But Jade not being furious was a good sign.
"You're always here."
"What?" Now Jade sounded like she was on the verge of losing her temper.
"You live here."
"I do not live outside your RV."
"No, you live inside my RV."
"No I don't. I have a house. Well my dad has a house."
"I know." Sometimes Jade wishes she could hate that stupid smirk on Beck's face.
"I meant why did you drag me out the RV?"
"I didn't drag you. I carried you." Perhaps hating Beck's stupid little smirk was possible.
"Beck" Jade felt like she sounded like a mother giving her son a warning as he reached out to steal a cookie before dinner or something. Oddly enough, it didn't disgust her quite as much as she expected.
"I need some help."
Jade tried her best to look at him from head to toe, which was rather unsuccessful since he was still holding her bridal style.
"I want to decorate the RV."
"So?"
"You should help me."
"Put me down."
"Will you run back to the RV?"
"Of course not," Jade had an innocent pout on her face.
Beck slowly put Jade down. Once Jade's feet touched the ground, she started sprinting. But after being together for so long, Beck could easily predict Jade's next move. Well, this time it was pretty obvious, even if you weren't Beck. So Beck kept holding onto Jade's wrist, pulling her back to him.
"Please stay?"
"Why should I?"
"I need help."
"So?" If it weren't for Beck's grasp on her wrist, Jade would have left already.
"I don't want to fall off the ladder and hit my head and die."
"You're always so overly dramatic."
"I'm an actor babe."
"So?"
"It's part of the job description." Beck winked at her. Jade rolled her eyes at him.
"You have the lights already?"
Beck pointed to a couple overfilled paper bags sitting next to the RV and sheepishly admitted, "My mom wanted to buy new lights for the house so I got to have our old ones."
"I'll get the ladder from your parents' garage. You start untangling that mess."
Beck smiled and gave Jade a quick kiss on the cheek before releasing her wrist and walking towards the tangled Christmas lights.
When Jade came back, carrying the ladder, Beck was sitting on the ground trying to untangle the lights. With another roll of the eyes, Jade leaned the ladder against the RV and plopped down next to Beck and started untangling, well trying to untangle, the other bag.
"Who put these away? They didn't even try to keep them straight, or wrap them in coils, so that next year, we wouldn't have to be doing…this." Jade would never become famous for her patience; talent, likely, patience, no.
"Hey! My parents asked me to put it away last year. You know that." Beck protested.
"It really shows."
Beck pouted.
- (five minutes later) -
"Why did I agree to do this?"
"Cause you love me."
"Definitely not."
"You aren't doing this because you love me or you don't love me?"
"Both."
"Liar."
"Shut up."
"Liar liar pants on fire."
"You are so immature."
"But you love me anyways."
"You are such a dork in private."
"You love that."
"If you acted like this around other people, girls would stop liking you."
"You like me."
Beck gave her a nudge and a cheeky grin.
"You are so intolerable."
- (fifteen minutes later) -
"Babe?"
"What?" Jade was irritated.
"I think I'm making it worse."
"You make everything worse."
"You don't have to be mean."
"But you love me anyways." Jade said in her Beck voice.
Beck tried to shoot her a Jade-like dirty look.
- (one hour later) -
"Stop trying." Jade was looking at the tangle of lights in Beck's hands.
The lights from Jade's bag were separated into neat coils.
"How do you do that?"
"It's not my fault your incompetent."
Wrapping his hands around her waist, he whispered into her ear, "I'm not incompetent in everything. I think I make up my lack of ability to untangle things with other things."
Jade could only smile.
- (twenty minutes later) -
Jade started trying to untangle Beck's bag. Beck sat next to Jade, playing with her hair.
"I shouldn't have let you touch these lights."
"You're so mean to me."
"You sound like Cat."
"You like it."
"No. If I liked it, I would just date Cat."
"But Cat doesn't….Cat isn't…Cat…" Beck tried desperately to say that Cat was a girl in an inoffensive way that wouldn't make Jade want to punch him.
- (one hour later) -
Beck had fallen asleep, leaning against the RV. Jade threw a coil of lights at the sleeping boy.
"You're done." Beck exclaimed delightedly.
"You were zero help."
Beck wrapped his arms around her, and smiled way too brightly. And Jade turned her head to hide her smile.
"Get on the ladder."
- (thirty minutes later) -
"Does this look good?" Beck called from the top of the RV. After minutes of holding the ladder as Beck climbed up and attached as much of the string of lights as he could reach before climbing down and moving the ladder a little to the side, Jade was sick of it and told Beck to just stay on the top.
"Yeah, it's perfect." Jade called back. Receiving a sincere evaluation of perfection from Jade was more than rare, so that should have been a hint.
"Let me down."
"Figure it out yourself, Rapunzel."
"Hey, you of all people should know that I'm very masculine." Though Jade didn't actually see it, she could imagine Beck's wink. That boy liked to wink way too much.
Jade eventually brought the ladder over and held it still for Beck to climb down. When he did, she immediately carried it to his car and tied it to the top of the car. Then she drove away before Beck even realized that she took his car keys. What concerned Beck the most was that Jade seemed like she was trying to suppress giggles. Few people have seen Jade giggle, or come close to giggling, because she rarely ever did it. Maybe she was feeling the holiday spirit. Or maybe Beck should be worried. The latter seemed more probable.
Beck immediately examined the lights. It was pretty crooked, so good thing Beck was onstage and not working backstage, but he didn't see any reason for Jade to take off.
Well until, he reached the last side of the RV, the side facing his house. The lights and the pattern on the RV somehow formed a shape that reminded him of a certain part of his body that Jade didn't have. That must be why Jade left with the ladder. All Beck could do was take out his phone and call André.
"Hey man, do you have a ladder?"
AN: I didn't proofread this yet. So let me know if there are any typos or illogical parts. And tell me if I should write/post more holiday-related bade one-shots :]