Jade West and Beck Oliver were the "it couple" at Hollywood Arts. Everybody knew they were dating, including the principal who, ever since the re-auditions, rarely was seen in the company of students. (Vice Principal Dickers took care of most trivial things.)

They had won cutest couple two years in a row, partly because they were the best couple and partly because Jade terrified most people. Everybody knew that they would win the award again this year.

When they had first started dating however, it had been a different story. Nobody had thought they would last more than a month at the most. They were totally different. Jade was vicious and dark and loved weird and freaky things, and Beck was calm, down-to-earth, and into normal things like movies and football.

They also thought that Jade's jealous nature would eventually annoy Beck. Admittedly, most of the girls at Hollywood Arts had hoped that they would split quickly. Females didn't really want them to work out.

But it had worked out, and that's why two years later Beck and Jade were sitting together at lunch in a secluded corner of the Asphalt Café, giggling and smiling in that adorable young-romance fashion that would have made Jade sick if anyone else was doing it.

Right now, they weren't really keeping up a conversation, they were too preoccupied with other things. Mostly kissing, but they also were way to wrapped up in their own thoughts to pay much attention to the other, except for when their lips were locked.

Jade was thinking about the day they had met, which was also the day she started at Hollywood Arts freshman year. She had been walking into her first class, Beginner Classical Vocals when she saw him. He had been talking to the teacher when he caught sight of her. When they met eyes he was stunned into silence and lost his train of thought without any hope of finding it again.

She was the most beautiful thing he had ever laid eyes on. Even as a fourteen year old, he knew that she was the one. Before that moment, he had never believed in love at first sight. But she was the single most stunning thing in the world.

Jade however, found him incredibly annoying. She found it odd that he was staring at her like some foolish blind man seeing the sun for the first time. It sort of creeped her out, and not in the good way. He seemed like one of those popular, good-looking people (she had to acknowledge the fact that this guy was incredibly hot) that had made her life hell in middle school. He had that aura of fitting in that irritated her. She immediately hated him.

He couldn't be feeling more opposite. He walked away from the teacher, leaving him talking to the wall. He approached Jade, still looking like an idiotic blind man. But he was still confident, which instead of turning her on made him all the more undesirable to Jade.

"I'm Beck." he said coolly, the amazed look in his eyes all but gone. He held out his hand. She stared at it scathingly until he let it fall. Instead of being deterred however, he continued to talk to her.

"I assume you're a freshman, or else you wouldn't be in this class." he said. When she didn't answer, he tried again. "I'm a freshman, obviously. I came from another school a long ways away," (only later would she realize he meant Canada) "I was discovered in a youth summer theater program. I'm an actor."

In her mind, it surprised her that this guy was an actor. She had pegged him as some cocky singer who would soon be on the covers of second-rate teen magazines all over the country. He was here for the same thing she was. Instead of making her like him , it just made her hate him. This meant they would have to deal with each other more.

Present-time Jade laughed at this memory. Now she couldn't understand why she had hated him so much when they first met. She thanked whatever controlled love that he was persistent, otherwise right now she wouldn't be kissing the most amazing man in the universe.

In that first class, he had sat next to her and tried to pull a move more times then she could count. Once the bell rang, she tried for the rest of the day to avoid him. But to no avail; she had almost every class with him.

For a month, she maintained an antagonizing relationship with him. He would flirt with her, she would insult him, and he would flirt more. It was a never-ending circle, and secretly she had to admit she sort of liked it. On the outside though, she would never say it. Especially not to him.

Then one day in their Introduction to Improv class, she got a Saturday detention for calling a teacher a wazzbag. She actually was disappointed about it, because that weekend there was a Scissor Convention in town, so Beck got himself a Saturday detention as well by spray painting the word wazzbag on Sinjin's forehead.

She pretended to be outraged at having to spend 8 hours alone with Beck, but secretly she couldn't wait. When she showed up, she had no idea what was going to happen. What did end up happening was Beck flirted with her the entire class. She acted totally annoyed, which she sort of was, but not at him.

She was annoyed at herself for liking his flirting. Finally she yelled at him, "Oh my gosh what is your problem?" Instead of responding, he approached her, held her face gently, and kissed her softly. It was short, but she felt an overwhelming desire for more.

She kissed him back, and when they finally pulled away, he smiled at her. "You have no idea how much I've wanted to do that." he said. She smiled in spite of herself, and future-Jade turned to Beck and kissed him. He smiled at her when they pulled away and put his forehead against her.

"I love you." he told her, stroking her cheek. She closed her eyes at the feeling of bliss she got when she was with Beck. He made her feel alive, and those walls she had worked so hard to keep up fell away at just the sight of Beck. She relished the way she could be different when he was around, she could just be herself.