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Chapter 2

A/N: Hey everyone. FInally updated! Yay. I definitely think this chapter has a more serious tone to it, but I hope you guys will still like it. Feel free to follow me on twitter at madkin18. R&R and hope you guys enjoy!

Ella knocked on her son's door to invite him to breakfast. She had made pancakes and waffles and she was hoping that the food would make Beck more willing to talk about his date with Meredith. It had been his first date since the break up as far as she knew and she was hoping it had gone well. He had been more withdrawn since his break up with Jade and a new girl was exactly what he needed. Or an old girl, Ella thought, as her son's door opened to reveal her son's ex with mused hair and dressed in his grey button up shirt and nothing else.

"Oh." Jade muttered as she looked down at what she was wearing and back to Ella. "I was… My clothes…" Jade sighed, seemingly giving up. "We're back together."

"I see." Jade looked back into the RV and a few moments later her son came into view in only a towel.

"Oh…Mom." He looked back to Jade and then at what she was wearing, his eyes widening in realization. He turned back to her to say, "Uh, could you give us a minute?" and then shut the door before she could respond.

She could vaguely hear her son asking Jade why she had opened the door in only his shirt. From what Ella could tell Jade thought it was their friends who would have barged in anyway. She listened carefully as they continued to argue over Jade answering the door in just his shirt. Eventually she heard Beck ask if she was ready and then the door opened. They were both dressed although Jade had only put on a pair of Beck's sweats.

"Mom. Um, good morning?" Ella could see Jade's hand go behind her son and assumedly place a comforting hand on his back.

"Can I speak with you?" She didn't feel right speaking in front of Jade no matter how often the girl used to be around. Her son met his newly old girlfriend's eyes before saying, "Yeah, sure."

Beck stepped down and walked with his moms few feet further from the RV. "I thought you were going out with a new girl last night. A Meredith?"

He scratched his head. "Uh, yeah. I mean I did. Go out with Meredith, I mean."

Ella gave him a concerned look as she glanced back to his RV where Jade was still standing in the doorway. "But you and Jade…"

He blushed red as he avoided her eyes. "Yeah."

"What happened last night?" Ella watched carefully as he explained that Meredith was just too nice and easy and how he wanted someone with strong opinions who would fight back and how Jade had gone on stage and sang and how amazing she had been and how it seemed like she was singing to him and how he hadn't even realized he was on the stage until he was telling her he missed her and then it just happened. "Are you happy?"

Her son threw a glance over his shoulder to the beautiful and anything but easy girl sitting in the doorway of his RV. "Yeah, I am." Beck looked back to Ella. "I really am."

"Okay." Ella nodded more to herself than Beck. "Both of you come inside when you get hungry. I made pancakes and waffles."

Beck nodded. "Thanks, Mom." Ella smiled and shooed him away. She watched as he jogged back and pulled Jade from her sitting place only to pull her in close while he laughed at something she said. He certainly seemed happy.


For the next few weeks Ella watched the two carefully. She knew how unhappy her son was before the break up and how withdrawn he was after it. She had turned the couch into a semi-permanent bed for two weeks after Jade took her stuff from the RV because Beck insisted on sneaking in every night. She had watched his friendship with Moose become strained and filled with tension only to later be told that it was because of Jade's obvious crush on Moose. She watched as her son came home early every night and moped around the RV and the house. He declined every attempt she and Kevin made to talk about Jade or the breakup.

After everything she had witnessed she was sure that eventually the two would go back to fighting and Beck would wish he hadn't gotten back together with Jade, but that's not how it seemed at all. Despite the fact that she could hear the two screaming at each other in the middle of the night, anytime she saw Beck he had a big smile on his face, so Ella let them be. Perhaps her son was right and Jade was worth all the trouble she caused with her defensive attitude and blunt ways. Whether she was or wasn't didn't really matter though. Ella never could bring herself to disapprove of Jade or her relationship with Beck after seeing the smiles she enticed from her son.


"Hey, Mom." Beck smiled as he made his way past his mother and to the fridge.

"Hey. What are you getting?" Ella inquired as she watched her son's hand pass the sodas and chocolate.

"Jade's really craving apples for some weird reason." Beck took out two apples, one red and one green. "Does it matter?" Ella laughed and nodded her head. Even if Jade wasn't as picky as Ella knew her to be most people had a preference. Beck shrugged. "I'll bring both."

"Wait, honey." Ella took hold of her son's elbow and guided him to the kitchen island. "How are you?"

"Good." Ella nodded as Beck smiled reassuringly.

"I haven't seen you much since you got back together with Jade." Ella hinted. She knew that prying was really more her husband's thing, but she was curious and with Kevin away on business there was no one else to pry for her.

"Yeah, sorry about that. I'll come home from dinner soon. We're just trying to make up for lost time."

Ella nodded as she wondered if that dinner would include Jade. "You two were broken up a long time this time."

"But it was worth it. I know that she's really what I want, even though we fight a lot and she can be a gank sometimes." Ella couldn't say she was heart broken when they were broken up. Jade was his first real girlfriend and they fought so often. Sometimes she feared that Beck wasn't getting the experiences he should be as a teenager.

"Are you sure?" Ella watched as Beck paused and considered her question.

"Yeah, I am." Beck nodded seemingly confident in his decision. "She makes me really happy."

Ella took a moment to study her son. He was smiling and there was a brightness that she hadn't seen in months. His shoulders no longer drooped and his eyes sparkled. "Then I'm glad she's back." Perhaps it was time to start looking at Jade as more than just Beck's high school girlfriend.