Disclaimer: I don't own Victorious

Beck looked at his watch. It was almost noon and he was supposed to meet Jade in 8 minutes. He didn't know what was going on with her lately but he was concerned. Jade was normally different then she's been acting. He knew that she had been going through a tough time lately but he didn't know exactly what was going on. She got there a little bit early.

"Hi babe," he said, "Come on in. We really need to talk"

"k," she said coming in and sitting down on the sofa, "What's up?"

"I don't know," he said, "You tell me. You've been acting weird lately."

"Weird? How so?"

"You've been distant," he said handing her a cup of coffee, "and it's like your mind is a million miles away"

"I'm fine," she said dismissive but he wasn't falling for that.

"I've seen you fine," Beck said, "When you're fine you don't throw desks. When your fine you don't sit there for 3 hours staring into space like your brain took a vacation to Venus. When you're fine you don't take 75 minutes to get back from the bathroom. When you're fine you don't act the way that you've been acting lately and I want to know what's going on. I love you far too much to let you continue to drown when you are under my watch"

Jade smirked.

"Under your watch," she asked raising an eyebrow.

"Yep," he said, "Under my watch"

"Well my watch says I need to go now," she said and started to head out.

"Nope," he said stopping her, "We're talking about this."

"Fine," she said, "You want to talk. Lets talk. My life sucks right now. I mean it really sucks"

"Okay," he said, "Tell me what's happening. We can work it out together"

"You really want to know," she asked, "Last year my sister died in a building bomb. My dog died today. My sister Ava is really sick right now. My parents are spitting up. Lane chewed me out over what happened yesterday. You have been acting like you only love me conditionally and during certain times. Vega is getting under my skin something awful. You got mad at me the other day for embarrassing Vega and guess what. I didn't put up that poster of her. If I wanted people to know what happened I would have video-taped it and shown it on wide-screen TV at lunch in the Asphalt Cafe. My older sister has been on my case ever since our parents died about how I'm not doing things right. Look I know I'm not perfect. I never pretended to be but she doesn't get off of it. You should do this you should do that. I've been having nightmares about what happened this summer. I'm still in pain from the other day. I just found out that my friend has kidney cancer. I have actually lost my cool and got mad at my baby sister after I was having a bad day. That makes me an awful person Beck. How could I have done something like that? How could I have lost my cool and gotten mad and it wasn't such a big thing either. If it was a big thing... well that wouldn't be right but still I GOT MAD! Oh and then to make matters even worse I saw Eli again. He will not leave me alone. He will not give it up. I flunked my midterm and I have ICK"

Beck raised an eyebrow.

"Wow," he said, "That does seem like a crappy time you're going through"

"Ya think"

"Jade I know you miss your sister," he said, "I know that you must really miss your dog and all the other things happening to you are unfair. I wish I could take all of those problems away from you but I can't. I would do anything to make it better"

She sniffled.

"That's enough," she said with a sad smile on her face