Hey guys - I decided to write a new story :] mainly due to the impending Beck/Jade break-up this weekend :[ I just needed some nice Bade, so I wrote some myself. I hope to one day complete this story, so review and put it on alert ;]
Also I am English, so you're gonna have to ignore my English spellings :]
Jade and I were sitting in my RV on a Friday night. It was the night of the Big Showcase at school, but I was so ill I could barely make it up off of the couch.
"Thank God you're ill," Jade deadpanned from beside me.
"Oh, thanks. It's always nice to know that your girlfriend cares for you when sick." I replied sarcastically and turned my head away from the TV to look at her.
"I didn't mean it like that." She shook her head dramatically. "I just mean I couldn't stand being at the Showcase tonight with Cat going mental every time someone comes on stage."
"Fair point." I coughed out. Cat could get too much to handle; to the point where Jade, who was an expert at dealing with her, couldn't take it.
"Get your germs away from me though. I don't wanna catch Beck Disease." She told me seriously as she pushed me away from her and then stood up.
"Ah, perfect." I started, "Can you grab my PearBook from the side?" I motioned to my laptop on the surface next to my TV. Jade turned around and looked at me with her pierced eyebrow raised. I put my arms up and mouthed 'what?'.
"When you ask a favour of someone Beck, you say please." She replied in a patronising tone.
"Puh-leaseeee?" I teased her with a little smirk. She sighed loudly, but still traipsed over to my PearBook and picked it up. Turning around she threatened to throw it at me - I held my hands in front of my face and whimpered with my sore throat - but she didn't let go and laughed to herself.
"Loser." She said as she passed me my laptop and threw herself back down on the couch next to me.
I opened up the PearBook and logged straight onto theSlap - I had one notification, from Andre who had posted on my wall.
What's up, man? Where you been?
I looked at my watch and guessed that the Showcase must've been over. I rubbed my hands together and started to type a reply.
Sick. Jade's taking care of me.
Jade peered over my shoulder and ruffled my hair. "Aww, poor sick little Beck needs taking care of!" I merely rolled my eyes at her. A new notification appeared at the bottom of my screen so I clicked on it.
Oooh, sorry about that.
I winced as soon as I read it knowing Jade was too reading it.
"Unbelievable." She said as she yanked the laptop from my grip and placing it on her own lap. She then began furiously typing with a scowl on her beautiful face. This time it was me peering over her shoulder.
Hi, Andre. It's Jade. I'm sitting right next to Beck and NEWSFLASH: I know how to read.
"You know, maybe if you were nicer to people, they wouldn't be mean about you." I told her matter-of-factly.
"Whatever." She shrugged as she typed something else to Andre before slamming the screen shut and tossing the PearBook on the floor.
"You know, you could also not be mean to my stuff."
"Shut up and go to bed, sicky. I'm going home before I catch something nasty from you." She patted my cheek pretty hard before kissing me quickly.
"If you don't want to catch anything then don't kiss me."
"Whatever!" she called back as she exited the RV. I rolled my eyes for what felt like the millionth time that night, but that's what it's like being with Jade, and it's totally amazing. I took her advice and crept across the room on my hands and knees to my bed as I couldn't muster up the strength to get up.
Before I turned out the lights I texted Jade.
I'm gonna come round yours tomorrow, if I'm better. I'll text you tomorrow morning.
She should still be driving, but I know that she would reply within 10 minutes, so I waited for her reply before I switched off the light. And soon enough the reply came.
Sure, Cat's coming over for a bit, so I might be in a bad mood.
I laughed out loud at that. Truth be told, Jade and Cat were best friends and had been for a pretty long time; but Cat drove Jade crazy sometimes. It was then that I switched out the light and rested my head comfortably against my pillow, trying to get into a position which enabled me to breath through my mouth as opposed to my blocked nose.
Saturday morning I awoke feeling much better than I had the previous night, so naturally the first thing I did was grab by phone from next to my bed and texted Jade again.
I'm much better today so I'll be over in like an hour.
I rolled out of bed and landed on the floor with a thump. "Shit." I cursed as I landed on my school bag, which was lying on the floor.I threw on some new clothes and as I was pulling up my jeans I hopped into my small bathroom to brush my teeth. As I was brushing my teeth my phone started ringing playing Ginger Fox 'Number One' - Jade always berated me for that, but I liked it. Picking up the phone I saw it was said girlfriend ringing me.
"Hey babe, what's up?" I asked when I answered.
"Come over now - Cat's driving me insane." Jade begged. I heard a muffled 'phooey' from Cat in the background and smiled.
"Kay, just leaving." I picked up my car keys and left my RV.
It didn't take long to get to Jade's house, only about 10 minutes. When I reached her door I rang the doorbell and Jade's mum answered the door. Despite what many may think, she was a really nice person and in a way reminded me of Regina George's mum from Mean Girls; in personality, not looks. Not that I've seen Mean Girls or anything. Yeah.
"Hey Beck," she smiled widely at me, "Jade's in her room." I nodded at her and smiled back as I walked in past her and up the stairs to Jade's room. Opening the door I saw the weirdest thing ever. Cat was lying belly down on Jade's bed with Jade sitting on her back reading a magazine.
"Whatcha doing, Jade?" I asked when she looked up as I opened the door.
"Stopping Cat from moving." She answered emotionless looking back down at her magazine. I walked over to her and grabbed both her wrists and yanked her off of Cat.
"Thanks Beck," Cat said breathlessly, "I couldn't really breath very well then." Jade let out a small chuckle so I looked at her in disbelief.
All three of us then sat on Jade's floor; she and I were leaning against her bed while Cat was leaning against the door.
"Oh!" Cat cried suddenly. "I wanna show you a video of Andre's performance in the Big Showcase yesterday - I recorded it on my phone especially for you guys!" She pulled her pink phone from her pocket and loaded the video.
"Yeah right, like I want to listen to Trina Vega sing. Or wail - whichever best describes it." Jade murmured. I chuckled, because it's true. Trina Vega was talentless.
"Oh, no. Trina's tongue swelled up or something so she couldn't perform. Her sister did instead." Cat told them sincerely.
"Oh Jesus. There's another one? I bet she's ten times worse." Scowled Jade and I nodded in agreement.
"Actually, no. She was really good, like really good." Jade looked at Cat in disbelief and shock. "Her name is Tori," she held out her phone to me and Jade, "watch!".
Woah, she was really good, and the song suited her really well. Obviously the song was good as Andre wrote it.
"She's okay." Said Jade - which coming from her was definitely a compliment. "Not as good as me, of course!" I smiled and hugged her to my side.
"No way." I told Jade with a sincere smile.
"She's so good, and guess what?" Cat asked. Jade and I both raised our eyebrows as if to say 'what?'. "She's joining Hollywood Arts on Monday!"
It was Monday morning and I was running so late that I texted Jade and told her I'd meet her in school. She wasn't best pleased because it meant she had to walk the 30 minute walk instead. To make it up to her I decided to buy her a coffee, black, 2 sugars, just how she liked it to try and get into her good books.
I had improv first up so I walked down the hall to Sikowitz's room. My phone beeped just before I entered so I whipped out my phone and read my text - from Jade. However, before I could reply, I bumped into a girl and felt Jade's coffee all over my shirt. Damn, I thought, I guess I'm staying in her bad books for now.
Amidst the girl's frantic apologies and trying to get the coffee out my shirt, I noticed who she was. The new girl, Tori Vega. She was rubbing her arm up and down my shirt, which even I have to admit made me feel a bit awkward, when of course the situation was made worse.
"Dude! Why you rubbing my boyfriend?" I didn't even need to turn around to imagine Jade's disgusted face.
"Oh, I spilled coffee on him-"
"Get away from him!"
God she was so cute when she was angry; but nonetheless I still felt obliged to calm her down.
"Relax." I told her softly as I kissed her cheek, still hoping to weed my way back into her good books.
Later on in the lesson, after Tori had been introduced, Sikowitz had Jade pick some people for a quick improv scene. And Jade being Jade, she chose Tori as one of them. It was at that point where I began to fear what she had planned - I knew her better than anyone and she wasn't gonna let the shirt-rubbing slide.
Long story short, Jade poured iced coffee on her head. Jesus, sometimes I swear she can be so immature. When Tori ran from the room I had to talk to Jade. I grabbed her arm and pulled her off the stage to the corner of the room.
"What the hell was that?" I asked her exasperatedly. She just shrugged nonchalantly.
"I don't know what you mean, Beck."
"What?" I asked confused. "You just poured iced coffee on someone's head. Why?"
"Because she was rubbing you." I rolled my eyes.
"She spilt coffee on me!" I raised my voice slightly.
"Yeah, so I 'spilt' coffee on her, too."
"You're unbelievable, Jade." I sighed and walked back to my seat. Jade followed me, but didn't say a word. I honestly did feel really bad for the new girl. It isn't easy in the first place starting a new school, but have someone be so mean to you too?
I didn't really speak to Jade for the rest of the day, so I thought I'd be the bigger person and text her.
Hey babe, I'm sorry for being angry at you earlier, but couldn't you cut Tori a break?
I wasn't too sure how that would go down with her, but it was definitely worth a shot. Pretty quickly I got a reply.
About time you apologised.
I groaned aloud and laid back on my bed and stared at the ceiling of my RV contemplating whether or not to text her back - I decided I would, and I would try and make her feel guilty about it.
Andre said that she's gonna quit. All because of you, Jade.
There was next to no chance of Jade feeling at all guilty, but there was a remote possibility. My phone beeped again.
Good.
Then again, maybe not. I sighed and closed the text message, showing the wallpaper on my phone. It was a picture of me and Jade from before we started dating so we were only like 13, but I did have a crush on her even then. She was looking at the camera smiling, yes smiling, and I was just looking at her. It was so cute - she rarely smiles care free these days with anyone else around.
I hoped that tomorrow everything would be normal - no Jade being weird and no Tori Vega for Jade to be mean to.
Well that wish did not come true, as Tori Vega walked into our improv class early on Tuesday morning. I have to admit, I was impressed with her courage to come back, so I smiled at her. I ignored most of Sikowitz's babble before Tori volunteered to pick for alphabetical improv.
"Andre, Cat, Beck, and Jade." I winced a little when she called out Jade, because let's be honest, it didn't bode well. As Jade stepped up onto the stage she quickly grabbed my face and kissed me; almost as if to mark her territory. That's fine by me though, she can mark her territory as much as she likes.
"Jade!" Sikowitz interjected, "Kiss your boyfriend on your own time."
She gave me and flirty smile, "Oh I will." God, I love her.
Half way through the improv scene I ended up on the floor as an alien who'd fainted. Cat and Andre were already out which left Jade and Tori. Of course, they were throwing insults at each other.
"Eat your pants!" Tori yelled.
"You eat your pants!" Jade retaliated, before she noticed her mistake. "Wait!"
"Sorry Jade, the next letter was-"
"F, I know!" She yelled back at Sikowitz before stomping over me and off the stage. I decided it was a positive thing that she didn't kick, stamp or tread on me. I then felt Tori grab my arm.
"Get up, alien." She said.
"Head, dizzy." I replied, still very much in character.
"I know what will make you feel better." She said to me with a flirty smile on her face, which I brushed aside.
"Jumping Jacks?" I tried. As if I didn't know where she was going with this.
"Kiss me."
I had a fraction of a second to decide my reply, what I would do. On one hand, it was acting and I took my acting very seriously. On the other hand, Jade was in the room watching and let's say I wouldn't appreciate it if she kissed some random guy on stage. However, she was being so rude and mean to Tori and this was obviously revenge on Tori's part - seeing as I couldn't manage to teach Jade a lesson myself, maybe I would aid Tori in doing that. No I couldn't do that.
But before I could rationalise my decision, my mouth was moving without my brain's permission.
"Little weird. Let's do it."
What the fuck. What did I just do? I asked myself as I pulled away from Tori. The whole class was clapping our performance - bar one person. Jade. She looked so hurt - more hurt than I've ever seen her, that's for sure. She leapt out of her chair with such a force that it was knocked backwards and then stormed out of the room.
Naturally I quickly followed her ignoring the protests from Sikowitz. There were a few places that Jade went when she got angry in school - the girls bathroom or the janitors closet. I thought it would be best if I tried the janitors closet first, avoiding the girls bathroom at all costs.
Speeding down the hall, I peered inside the closet and Jade was nowhere to be seen. So I groaned inwardly and made my way across the hall to the bathroom. I subtly glanced left and right to make sure no one was looking and I took a step into the room. It was completely empty, even the cubicles.
I leant against the wall before slowly sliding down it and eventually sitting on the floor. It took a lot not to start crying, to be honest. And Beck Oliver does not cry at just anything. But before my body could muster any tears, someone entered the bathroom.
"Beck?" Cat's innocent voice carried across the room. "What are you doing in the girl's bathroom, silly? You're a boy."
"Because I'm an idiot, Cat." I told her solemnly.
"Yes, you are. You're in the girl's bathroom."
I got impatient. "That's not why!" I raised my voice at her; which I immediately felt bad for as her eyes widened and eyebrows shot up in confusion. "I'm sorry; I'm just really pissed off at myself." Cat nodded in understanding. "I came in here because I was looking for Jade."
"Oh, I just saw Jade go outside." Cat said cheerily. I looked up at Cat when she said that and then got onto my feet as quick as my body would allow me and exited the bathroom.
Walking out the front door of Hollywood Arts I saw Jade sitting on the front steps leaning against the railings. Her face was hidden from me by her hands. I tentatively stepped closer to her before sitting on the step next to her. She still didn't move her hands from her face though.
I moved my left arm to put around her shoulders, but as soon as I made contact with her she shrugged me off.
"Don't Beck. You're just gonna make it harder for me." Jade said, but in such a weak and feeble voice that I could barely recognise it.
"Make what harder?" I asked, genuinely confused.
"Breaking up." She said, her voice cracking slightly. I was shocked now.
"You want to break up with me?" I asked, fearing the worst. It was then that she took her head out of her hands and looked me straight in the eye. Her eye make up was smeared down her face, so it was fairly obvious I made her cry. The only other time I'd made Jade cry was when I pushed her off my bed when we were 14 and broke her arm.
"Of course I don't! But you obviously do!" She shouted at me.
"No I don't!" I insisted. "Listen, that kiss with Tori was just acting I swear!"
"But it wasn't necessary, Beck." She looked up at me with her big blue eyes and I just melted. I couldn't believe it was me who had caused her this pain.
"You're right. I don't know what I was thinking. Honestly. I think it was a part of me wanted to help Tori get revenge on you." I frowned at how the words sounded as they came out of my mouth, before Jade could respond, I added, "I can see now that she is manipulative and was very clever in turning that scene against you; maybe now you won't do things that make people wanna hurt you." I told her sincerely, placing my arm back around her shoulders, which she didn't shrug off this time, so I must have been getting somewhere.
"Oh, so you wanted to hurt me. Nice, Beck, you're a really great boyfriend." Jade said venomously.
"You know as well as I do Jade, that I never want to hurt you."
"Well it's too late, because you just did 10 minutes ago."
"Jade, I don't know what I can do to say sorry. You know you mean the world to me and I love you so much. No one is ever going to come between us. I swear." I buried my face into her hair and smelt it.
"Promise?" She asked.
"Promise."
"Not even Tori Vega?" She asked, one hundred percent seriously.
"Especially not Tori Vega."
She nodded at me and stood up, grabbing my hand as she did so.
"I'll believe you, for now. But don't you go thinking I'm gonna be all happy with this chick. She needs to be taken down a peg or two." I sighed as Jade dragged me down the steps.
"Fine." I told her. "Where are you taking me?" I asked, a little confused.
"I'm not taking you anywhere. You're taking me to go and get coffee."
I laughed. "Sure thing, babe." Then I kissed her, which she didn't react well to.
"Fucking gross, Beck." She wiped her mouth with her sleeve. "You trying to get Vega saliva in my mouth? When you get home your brushing your teeth at least 4 times before you kiss this." She said as she motioned to her face.
"Anything for you, babe."
There you go :] it was a particularly tough episode to do, seeing as I hate it. The way Beck acts in that episode is ughhhh!
Also, you guys should be proud because that's the longest chapter I've ever written :]