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Beck Oliver awoke to warm air streaming thorough the window by his bed. He sat up, groggy, and swung his feet over the side of the bed, stood up- and promptly ran into the bedside table.
'What..?' he thought, still disoriented, until he remembered where he was. He and his family (aka Mom and Dad) had gone up to Canada to visit his Dad's parents, his grandparents, as well as his aunt, uncle, and cousins. Jade had come along, because Beck's grandma wanted to meet the "lovely young lady that has so sweetly captured our Beck's affections". Yes, she really put it like that.
They had arrived yesterday, and Jade had met the family, including his Aunt Rachel, Uncle Ken, and their kids, Jackie, age eight, Alyssa, age seven, and Teddy, age five. His grandmother, Rose, had been standing at the door waiting to greet the family, but his grandpa, Jack, had been watching hockey in the den, uninterested. He only came out when Beck's grandma forced him to come say hi and meet Jade.
Beck was pretty sure his family was still recovering from meeting Jade. She'd been very.. Jade-like, despite his advising against her being her usual sarcastic self. His grandma had tried to still be nice to Jade afterwards, but everyone else pretty much avoided her, including his own parents. His grandfather had made no secret of his dislike for his girlfriend, and she had done the same for him. Typical Jade.
They had had dinner all together last night, then all gone off to do their own thing. The adults had gone to the living room to talk, and Jackie, Lyss, and Teddy had wandered off to play. Apparently the girls were going to make Teddy be their dress-up doll, but Beck really hadn't cared at the time. He was too preoccupied with Jade, who was sitting next to him as they watched a movie in the den. Well, they didn't really watch the movie, more like made out the whole time. But anyway.
The good thing about coming to his grandparent's house for a family get-together was the space. The house itself was huge, only one story, but spread out. It was a log cabin, built in the 1940's, but it had been renovated a few years back. Now, the house had several more rooms as well as new appliances and plumbing. There were six bedrooms, one for each grown-up pair, one for Lyss and Jackie, one for Beck and Teddy, and one for Jade, who had refused to share with the girls. Unfortunately Beck's parents refused to allow him to share a bed with her at his grandparent's house.
Everyone had gone to bed in their own time (well, not the kids, who had been put to bed by their parents), and now it was 8:30 in the morning, and his aunt was calling from the kitchen. Teddy's bed was unoccupied, and Beck realized that everyone else was probably already up.
"Beck! Get up! I made the pancakes that you love," Aunt Rachel yelled through the door.
"Just a minute!" he called back, getting up and beginning to get dressed and decent. Halfway through working out his bedhead, another, less gentle knock sounded on the door. "I'm not ready yet, Aunt Rache-"
He broke off as he heard the door fly open, almost hitting the wall. He didn't bother turning around from the mirror; he already knew who it was. Sure enough, Jade came up beside him, glaring.
"Hurry up. Your aunt's pancakes smell good, and I'm hungry. I've been told I had to wait until "everyone" was out in the kitchen, and everyone obviously only means you, since you're the only one not out there." She said haughtily.
"Knowing you, I'm surprised you didn't ignore that rule and take one anyway," he answered, smiling as her glare grew more pronounced.
"I'm not completely horrible. You should know. Anyway, I was trying to be nice and make them maybe like me a little bit more, so I tried to wait, but I got impatient and came to force you out of here."
"Aww, Jade's trying to be nice. How sweet. Can I ask why you have stooped so low?"
She hit him, albeit lightly. "'Cause, idiot, they're your family. I don't want to hate them, or have them hate me, 'cause then they'd want us to break up and tell you what a horrible person I am."
"True. But still, you're being nice. That's just… wow."
"Have I ever told you that I hate you?" she asked, smiling a little bit.
"All the time, actually." He said, smiling as well, and he leaned down to kiss her. Abandoning the mess that was his hair, he pulled her into his arms, up against him, and she gripped his arms as they deepened the kiss. It was gentle, not too steamy, and perfectly wonderful for the two of them.
"Hey, Beck, you really need to hurry up. Jade came to find you, and- oh." Evidently Jade had left the door open when she came in, as now Jackie was standing in the doorway, her mouth hanging open.
"Ohh… morning, Jackie." Beck greeted weakly, still out of breath from the kiss. Jade stayed silent, too happy at the moment to glare at his cousin for interrupting them. "Tell Aunt Rachel we'll be out in a minute. And I mean it this time."
"You know, she's probably going to go tell everyone how she walked in on us making out."
"I really hope not."
"Yeah, that would be awkward."
"Completely."
"You know, your hair is still kind of a mess."
"It's a lost cause. Let's go; I'm hungry and I want pancakes."
"That's what I've been trying to do for the last ten minutes!"
"Yeah, well." Jade glared at him again, not that that was unusual and together they walked from the bedroom, down the hall, and into the kitchen where the rest of the family was waiting. By looks on their faces (with the exception of Grandpa Jack's, who was, again, uninterested), Jackie had indeed told everyone that she had found Beck and Jade kissing in his room.
"Sooo… pancakes." Beck tried. His mom blinked and shook her head, as if coming out of a trance.
"Right." She said. "Rache, let's go hand 'em out to the crew." Rachel followed her to the oven, and they pulled the pancakes from where they had been keeping warm. Beck, Jade, Jackie, Lyss, and Teddy lined up (much to Jade's displeasure, as she hated lines), and got their pancakes. The kids smothered theirs in chocolate chips, marshmallows, and chocolate syrup, whereas Beck and Jade chose maple syrup and chocolate chips, and maple and blueberries, respectively.
"I didn't know you liked blueberry pancakes," Beck said to his girlfriend, a little surprised that in three years of dating and countless pancakes, he had never learned this.
"Well, now you know." She responded, focused on her pancakes. He shrugged, and ate.
After breakfast, the adults forced the kids to do the dishes. Jackie, Lyss, and Teddy complained, although at age five, Teddy couldn't really be expected to do anything. Beck half-expected Jade to make some snarky comment, or just walk away, but she simply did as the grown-ups asked, which surprised him.
"You really are trying to be nice." He told her after they'd finished, and were relaxing in the small sitting spot in the dining area, adjacent to the kitchen.
"Duh. Haven't we gone over this?"
"Yes, but.."
"You didn't believe me?"
"Of course I did!" he exclaimed, sensing she was about to get mad. "It's just.. you're not.. great… at being kind to others."
"So? Can't I start?"
"Was I complaining? I think it's kind of nice."
"Good. Otherwise I might have to shove you off a cliff."
"There are no cliffs around here."
"I would find one, just for you."
"Gee, thanks."
-to be continued—
A/N: this is more of an intro chapter; the really plot, and reason for the title, will come later. Expect shorter chapters, too. This idea came from the East Coast's earthquake on Tuesday; it was scary! The building I was in was shaking really badly. Now I've experienced an earthquake. Yay! Sort of.
Anyway. Review, favorite, etc. Put this on alert! I don't know how often I can update, since school starts on Monday I won't be able to stay up late writing. Night is when I write (rhyme alert), 'cause I'm much more inspired and my daytime stories are crap.
Again, review!