Hello, everyone!
I don't think it's smart for me to have two stories going at the same time, but this fic almost writes itself at the moment, while I'm a little stuck at Their son right now. And as that story is sooo long and this will be quite short, I decided to put this in quickly. If you read Their son as well, I'm already apologizing, because I think I will make a one-week break with uploading there soon, but I hope this otherwise won't interfere too much with it. I do also want to upload this once a week (and the weekend is always good, because I have time for a final proofread then and you have hopefully directly time to read) and it will have six chapters all in all. It is a Beck and Jade story though Beck and Tori are together at first (and for most of the fic).
Lovely alicheriee gave me the idea for this. She dreamed the basic plot of it, told me about it and allowed me to use it after I asked. :3 Thank you so much for that!
Now, everyone have fun reading!

Everyone knows a new girl will come. They say she's moving to Los Angeles at the moment, has already successfully auditioned for the school and will be there soon.

Tori is excited to take the new girl under her wing, to show her around, to make her feel welcome. Tori is a wonderful girl, always helpful and easy-going. Beck loves her very much and now is together with her for a year already. They have quickly become friends when they have started to attend Hollywood Arts and somehow from the very beginning, everyone has seen them as more than friends. Slowly, they have become exactly that. After a year of solid friendship, they have shared a careful first kiss with each other, and it has been so easy to transition from being friends into being a couple.

Beck just now checks if Tori has texted him as they usually meet in front of her locker before Sikowitz' class on Monday mornings, but Tori has texted him earlier that she would come a little later today and that he already should go to the classroom without her to make sure he's on time.

She hasn't sent another text, as he sees now, but possibly he could ask her via text if she's already in school.

He's still considering it when suddenly, he bumps into someone.

Not only his own coffee but also the other person's go all over his shirt. Luckily, both are only luke-warm and not totally hot. He still takes a small step backs as he looks down at himself.

"What kind of idiot are you?"

Beck looks up from his shirt to see a girl standing in front of him he doesn't know yet. Instantly, he forgets about the coffee and the bad feeling of the shirt on his chest.

The girl is rather pale, has black hair with blue streaks in it, pericing blue-green eyes with which she glares at him. She wears a tight black top, black jeans and black boots and some jewelry. She even has two piercings.

And in her hand is the other coffee cup that got emptied all over him.

"What? Can't even talk?"

He blinks, slowly looking from her boots up to her face again to see how she has cocked an eyebrow and now harshly says: "Take a picture."

"I'm sorry," he finally says. He's not sure himself if he apologizes for staring like that or for bumping into her. He's also not sure if that last one has been his fault. Yes, he has been distracted by his phone but she must have suddenly turned and taken a step in his direction for it to happen like that.

She already asks though, still harshly: "Didn't you see me standing here? Are you blind or something? Or really just dumb?"

Beck doesn't exactly know why, but the situation somehow amuses him. Yes, he also feels confused because he should be angry, shouldn't he be, with the coffee all over him. But he can't feel angry at all somehow.

But before he can say anything, there's another voice cutting in: "Uhm, hi. I'm Tori. Why are you calling Beck bad names?"

While the rest of the class already there watches them in silence, without a doubt also surprised about the girl's outburst, Tori must have just come in and could've only heard the last few words of the conversation.

Now, she steps next to Beck while the stranger says: "This stupid idiot lost me my coffee."

"I'm sorry," Beck quickly repeats himself. "It was an accident."

"I'm sure you were an accident," the girl directly says. Wow. She hasn't even thought about that one for a second.

Tori cuts in: "There's no need to talk to him like that."

The other girl raises her eyebrows at her. "What are you? His mommy?"

For a second, Beck is about to smile. Well, certainly, Tori has just acted a little like a mother, not like a girlfriend. She sometimes does that. He's fine with it, but is a little amused at someone making fun of it.

"His girlfriend," Tori says decisively though and the other girl's eyebrows go even higher up as she looks between Beck and Tori, and then says: "Of course. Whatever."

And, obviously uninterested, she turns away and finally sits down.

Tori keeps looking at her for another while, as Beck already sits down on the other side of the room, finally turning back to his shirt that's of course still drenched in coffee.

Tori finally sits down next to him when Sikowitz suddenly bursts into the room and says something about a fire. Of course, everyone gets back up and hurries to the door, Beck making sure Tori's leaving before him.

Before anyone reaches the door, Sikowitz already says though: "Kidding, kidding. Just wanted to get your blood pumping. Which I did."

Sikowitz sometimes does these weird things. Beck likes it though. It keeps them up their feet, it keeps them alert. Which they also need to be when they act.

He tells them to sit back down now which they do, then he says: "Okay, first, I'd like to introduce our new student, Jade."

So that's the new girl's name.

She barely nods and Sikowitz looks at her for a moment, as if he expects her to at least say hi, but as she doesn't, he gets right into his lesson: "Now, today, we're going to continue our study in group improv. Jade, I assume you're familiar with improv?"

"Of course," she says, even sounding a little annoyed that she has gotten asked. This girl truly is something different.

"Excellent," Sikowitz says. "Tori, you will captain the first group of the day. Choose your actors."

He sits down in the back while Tori moves to the front. They of course know what to do, have been improving their previous lesson as well in about groups of five.

Tori now also chooses her four friends: "Cat, Robbie, Beck and Andre."

Beck has been sure, Tori would choose him, as have the others been. It's just so much easier to improv with your friends than with other classmates. Though, naturally, Beck enjoys the challenge to also improvise with everyone else but as they have just only started with it, he's fine with doing it with his friends at first.

Robbie puts Rex down, then they are all up the stage and Sikowitz makes the rest of the class choose a place and a situation. Then, they get going.

It's a nice little scene they do but while they do it, Beck can't help but look to the new girl every once in a while. They are not doing anything too challenging, noone says something too surprising, so he has enough time to look over to her with still staying in character.

Though the girl sits there in a bored pose, she does watch them mildly interested. She doesn't seem to think too much of their scene though, at least she has cocked an eyebrow by the end of it.

Beck wonders what she thinks and would've liked to ask her but at the end of the scene, he sits back silently and listens to Sikowitz' critique, who says that they could've gone with a little bit more risk, that one of them should have just put something surprising into the scene.

Another group goes whose acting is much worse and they also talk about that scene for a while when Eli is called to captain a group and he calls up three of his friends, before he looks to Jade, shrugs and then smiles: "Jade."

She doesn't hesitate and directly gets up to the stage with them. And she changes. As soon as the group has gotten a place and a situation, her posture changes like Beck sees it with other good actors in this school. She gets into some character, easily, even changes the tone of her voice completely, suddenly sounding much softer than she has talked to Beck earlier.

Beck is impressed, also of how she doesn't hesitate to interact with everyone else on stage and to pull the focus on her in front of the whole class she barely knows. Jade obviously knows how to act - and likes it. Many students here like it, that's why they are here, but there's something about Jade... Beck has to smile.

Especially when Sikowitz calls the scene off and Jade lets the whole act drop immediately, crosses her arms and sits back down bored.

Sikowitz also likes their scene almost best of the ones already done and they only have time for one other group, then the bell rings.

"Jade," Tori stops the new girl when she's about to pass them to be one of the first to be out of the door with Beck and Tori just having stood up.

Jade turns to her with an annoyed look, but she does stop.

Tori tries a smile again. "I think we got off on the wrong foot. How about we show you around?"

She implicates Beck and her. Of course, she still tries to be nice. Beck guesses, she has thought about the incident earlier and has somehow decided that Jade could be different after the scene she acted out, and to still try to befriend her to make her start here easy.

But Jade raises her eyebrows. "Yeah, right." Then, she turns to Beck. "You owe me a coffee though."

"Sure," Beck says though he's still not sure why he's the one owing her, but why not? He can get her coffee. Maybe, that will make her talk to him a little. She definitely seems interesting. More interesting than anything that has happened in this school lately.

He smiles and she's out of the door without another word.

"How weird is she," Tori murmurs and by now, Cat stands with them, looking after Jade like Beck does: "I think she seems interesting." Boy, Beck has never agreed with Cat more.

"I think she seems a little scary," Andre says though. He and Robbie and Rex have also approached them and Beck looks at him surprised.

She hasn't seemed scary to him at all. She has seemed interesting and exciting and just so... different. It definitely makes him want to know so much more about this girl.

.

.

He approaches her in front of her blank locker before lunch, his shirt only roughly rubbed with a wet towel in the restroom. He of course doesn't have his gym clothes or anything with him today, so he'll have to stay in this shirt for the rest of the day.

"What?" she asks, barely looking at him. She already has brought most of her stuff and has put it in there, as far as Beck can see.

"I wanted to ask how you like your coffee, so I can get you one," he says honestly.

That does make her look at him, tilting her head, almost a smirk on her lips. "It depends on my mood. Black, two sugars is fine at the moment though."

He asks himself what kind of mood she is in then, and what other moods long for other kind of coffees.

"Okay," he says for now though and then asks: "You coming with? You can also sit with us for lunch."

He can get her the coffee at the truck outside and then, they can sit down together with his friends - and he can get to know more about her.

"No," she decides though, quite harshly.

"Why not?" he asks but she doesn't answer, instead puts a book into her bag, that looks a lot like some thriller, then takes her food out of her bag while she closes her locker.

So, she plans to read while she eats, as far as he can gather. Some thriller. Well, she can do that, but he doesn't understand, why she doesn't want to sit with them at all. Why isn't she glad about someone offering her to sit with them, is she the new girl after all?

But yes, she's different. And carefully and with an amused smile, he tries a different approach of getting her there to get to know more about her: "Well, how about this? If you come sit with us every lunch for the week, I'll get you a coffee each morning."

Jade cocks an eyebrow at him. "Really?" He nods, because why not? He can do that.

She shrugs. "If you wait at my locker each morning with that coffee, it's a deal."

So, she really needs her coffee apparently if she is ready to sit with them for it. Or she takes up everything she can get for free.

He wants to agree in any case because that's not a hard thing to do and he's sure he will get an interesting start of the day each day if his first talk in school will be with her.

Then he remembers: "What if you're ever in the mood for a different coffee?"

She shrugs again. "Then, you'll get me a new one then."

Of course. He would've have to get her two coffees then. Well, he would be able to drink the one with two sugars. It may not be his favorite kind but it's fine. So, why not also agree to this? Undoubtedly, he will learn a lot about Jade through his deal. And somehow, he feels like he should learn more about her, like that's what he needs in his life. A little excitement.

"Okay," he says with a smile and makes a gesture to imply that they should go to the Asphalt Café then.

She does go with him now. She says though: "Don't expect me to start swooning over you or something."

Okay, that came out of nowhere. "I don't," he honestly says because why should she? He has a girlfriend anyway. And even if he hadn't got one, he wouldn't want any girl to swoon over him (though he realizes that some do).

They get Jade her coffee first (and Beck gets himself one because he also has lost his coffee in the morning and definitely feels like he could use another one), then they walk to the table Beck and his friends usually sit at.

Everyone else is already there and Beck shares a short kiss with Tori while he sits down next to her. Jade sits to his other side without looking at anyone, apparently desinterested.

The others are looking though and Tori seems surprised that Beck brought her with him.

"Hi, again," Rex finally says and Jade looks up, cocks an eyebrow at Rex, then at Robbie. Beck is somehow sure, she will ask Robbie what the puppet is about, which is never nice because Robbie has these problems and obviously needs Rex and it's tough to walk a line there when you're annoyed with Rex.

Jade doesn't say anything though and Tori is the one to ask her: "So, you moved here?"

Jade slowly looks back to her and actually answers: "Uhu."

"Where have you lived before?" Cat asks happily.

"New York City," Jade answers and Andre instantly reacts: "Whoa! That's a big move." In many ways. New York is so far away and also such a different kind of city.

Jade also glances to him before she finally takes a sip out of her coffee. She obviously won't say anything on her own.

But obviously, not only Beck wants to know more about her.

Tori asks: "Have you been on a performance arts school before as well?"

"Yes," she answers.

Cat cuts in again: "What do you like best? Like singing, acting, dancing?"

Jade shrugs. "Acting."

"You've done a good job today," Tori says and Beck nods. She has.

Jade doesn't bother to thank her for the compliment but starts eating instead.

"What class do you have next?" Rex asks and Jade may narrow her eyes on Robbie, but she does answer the question: "Singing."

"Me, too," Cat says excitedely. "Do we have the same class? We could do the next project together!"

"You have a project coming up?" Andre asks interested. He isn't one to ask too much about all the acting stuff but whenever someone has a project in music, he wants to know more about it. It happens regularly for him to also do the assignments of their classes for himself, just for the fun of it. Andre is a brilliant musician, one of the best at Hollywood Arts, if not the best.

"Yes," Cat answers. "We're supposed to sing a well-known song in another style. I think we can also do duets. We will get to know more about it today."

"That sounds like fun," Robbie says, talking for the first time since Jade has sat down.

"It will be," Cat agrees and start explaining about all the ideas she already has and somehow, they get into different topics that have nothing to do with Jade at all.

She also doesn't say another word during lunch and seems rather uninterested in everyone's stories.

When the bell rings, she's up and gone with Cat hurrying behind her though.

Well, Beck hasn't learned all that much about Jade. But for some reason, she still fascinates him. There's something about her...