Here's chapter one! Hope you guys enjoy, and thanks to those who reviewed and followed!
(1)
Beck is woken up by the sound of his RV door opening and shutting.
He grunts and turns on the light, seeing Moose walking into his RV and Beck narrows his eyes.
"What're you doing here?" Beck mumbles.
Moose should be in his parents house. There's more space there, there's barely even enough space for Beck by himself.
"It's late, I didn't want to wake your parents up," Moose tells his friends.
Beck shrugs, is about to go back to sleep when he realizes that Moose is back.
"Where the hell were you?" Beck asks.
He watches as the blond ten smiles before he shakes his head. "I just didn't want to go to Karaoke-Dokie after all."
Beck raises an eyebrow. "Really? You seemed pretty excited to go there."
Moose sits down on the couch, leaning back. "Yeah, but you know, things changed."
"Like what?" Beck wants to know.
Moose chews down on his bottom lip. "Uh, you know, I went to go get burgers at that In-And-Out place. With that brunette friend of yours. Jade."
Beck furrows his brow. "You and Jade? You guys spent time at In-And-Out?"
Moose nods as he pulls the shirt off his back. "Yeah. She's pretty cool too, you know, after she stops being so scary."
Beck watches as his friend walks across the room, and Beck furrows his brow even more when he notices something on Moose's back.
"Are those...are those scratches?" Beck asks, his throat constricting.
Moose whips around, his eyes widening as he mutters, "Shit," and scrambles to grab his shirt. "You, uh, you weren't supposed to see those."
"Why not?" Beck asks, and why the hell can he feel his heart beating in his throat.
"Because...," Moose sighs before he says, "Look man, don't freak out."
This isn't good.
He knows it isn't.
"Why-Why would I freak out?" Beck asks when he feels as if oxygen has returned to the room.
"Because she's your friend," Moose says.
And his ex, and the girl that he still loves, despite everything.
Beck hasn't told Moose that he and Jade dated, but he didn't think that they would ever do anything.
Jade is supposed to hate Canadians.
"What happened?" Beck wants to know, forcing himself to sound nonchalant.
Moose flops down on Beck's bed, a smile forming on his lips. "We hooked up."
Beck feels as if someone has punched him in the gut.
"It just happened dude, I mean, one second we were driving to that Karaoke-Dokie place and the next second we were making out and then the next second we were in her back seat and...well, you know."
Beck feels like he can't breath. He has no reason to feel this way, he (technically) broke up with Jade, he almost made out with Tori, he was pretty close to moving on.
But the traitorous voice in his head screams that he didn't make out with Tori, and he sure as hell wouldn't have slept with her.
"Is this weird?" Moose asks, taking him out of he thoughts. "Because I know that she's your friend and I'm your friend and your two friends having sex must be pretty weird."
He forces himself to shake his head. "It's, uh, it's cool."
"You sure?"
Beck doesn't nod, nor does he shake his head, but still he says, "It's fine."
It's not fine.
"So then I was like, Grandma, it's not a robot bunny, but she just kept screaming and running down the street. People were looking at us funny."
Beck gives André a tight smile. He knows that he should be paying attention to his friend, but right now all he can do is watch the school entrance, waiting for Jade to walk through.
"You alright dude?" André asks when he notices that Beck isn't paying him any mind.
Beck nods. "Yeah, of course I am."
"You sure? Because right now you have on your angry face."
Beck furrows his brow. He doesn't have an angry face. He tells his friend that too.
Andre waves his hand dismissively. "Of course you don't know your own angry face. You can't see it. But I'm your best friend and I know your angry face and this," he motions to his face, "is definitely it."
Beck is about to dispute his friend, but then Jade is walking into the school, coffee in hand (he expects nothing less) and is heading towards her locker.
"I gotta go," Beck tells André, not waiting for his reply before he makes his way over to Jade.
"What do you want Beck?" the brunette asks.
Beck moves closer so that he can talk lowly to her without her straining ether ears.
"We need to talk."
Jade furrows her brow as she opens her locker. "What could we possibly need to talk about?" Jade wants to know.
Beck shifts on his feet, reaching up and running the back of his neck. "Can we...can we go to the janitor's closet?"
Jade turns toward them then, her perfectly arched brow raising. "Why?"
Beck shrugs his shoulders as he shoves his hands into his pockets. "Can we just go please?"
Jade narrows her eyes as she looks him up and down, as if she's searching for something. She must find it, because she's sighing and slamming her locker shut.
"Fine," the teen girl says as she moves closet.
Beck follows her, and once they're in the room Jade turns toward him and looks at him expectantly as she crosses her arms across her chest.
"What's wrong with you?" Jade wants to know, and the way she says it, soft and concerned, it almost makes his heart ache.
Somehow, he's forgotten how caring Jade can be.
He pushes those thoughts away though. It's not the time for that.
"Moose told me what happened between the two of you," Beck says bluntly.
Jade tenses for a moment, but then she simply shrugs. "Okay, so what?"
Beck doesn't know what he was expecting her response to be, but this response, it makes him see red.
"So what?" he growls. "Jade, Moose is my fucking friend."
"Oh I'm sorry, did you think of me when you damn near made out with Tori?" Jade snaps, and Beck swears his heart falls out of his ass.
How does she know about that?
Jade smirks bitterly when she sees the shocked expression cross his face.
"Yeah, you thought I didn't know about that? You should learn how to turn of a webcam."
Beck shakes his head. "It's different and you know it. Tori and I didn't even kiss!"
"Because she stopped you," Jade snaps. "If it was up to you, you would have had your tongue down her throat!"
"So that's what this is? Revenge? I was going to kiss Tori so you go and have sex with my friend?"
Jade smirks, her brow arching as she says, "Payback's a bitch, isn't it?"