"No way!"
"Why not?"
"Jade are you being serious right now? You know you can be really ridiculous sometimes."
"Oh so I can't ask you to do this one thing for me, me your girlfriend?"
The corridors of Hollywood Arts echoed with the sound of the most formidable couple of the school's argument. It had started when the goth had heard of her boyfriend's plans to hang with his best friend. Don't get her wrong she was fine with this aspect of the plan just not the location, the mall. Every single time they had gone together they would be bombarded by desperate lonely girls who would continously flirt with her boyfriend whether they could see her or not. The worst part was that it wouldn't just be other random customers, no it was anyone and everyone, cashiers, shop assistants, waitresses or even people handing out flyers and free food. Jade couldn't stand it, it had come to the point where she would either buy all her stuff online and just prayed that it fit or only go on her own without telling Beck where she was. It was exhausting, so she had just asked that when he and Andre go they could do just one favour for her.
"Whoa! What's going on with you guys?" Great, just what Jade needed now.
"Stay out of this Vega." Beck gave her a warning look saying she needed to calm down.
"Look Jade I understand to some degree why you want me to do it but I can't ask Andre to do that."
"Why not?" She demanded again this time with her famous puppy eyes, something she would only ever use on him.
"Ok what if I asked you to do that when you went out with Cat?" He had her there, she seemed lost for words. Although Beck did get some gratification from finally getting his point across he knew that the main reason behind her demand was that she detested him getting hit on by other girls when she wasn't around to put a stop to it. No matter how many times he would confess his love to Jade her past still haunted her making old insecurities flare up. If he was honest with himself Jade's proposal did sound rather funny and he could just think of it as an acting exercise. Andre on the other hand may not be so keen but he was going to try his hardest for his girl so she wouldn't have to worry.
"You see where I'm coming from right? Now I'll ask him but I'll make no grantees that he'll say yes."
"Thank you." She quietly whispered in his ear before giving him a sweet kiss on the lips and strolling off to the café to collect her morning cup of coffee.
"So you gonna tell me what that was all about?" Somehow Beck managed to forget Tori was still there while making up with his girlfriend. Jade must have also been very happy with his decision to ask Andre as even she forgot to make some rude remark about leaving Vega and her boyfriend alone together.
"Andre and I have plans to go to the mall tonight and-"
"Jade wants to come with you?"
"No, she...well whenever we go I normally attract of a lot of attention and you know how Jade gets so she asked me if I would.."
"If you would what?"
"If while we are there that Andre and I would pretend to be a couple if any girls come up to us." Barely a second pasted before the girl was almost falling over with laughter. She couldn't stop. Just imagining the two boys holding hands at the mall shopping together had her in stitches, she would pay to see that. A couple minutes past before she could regain composure and speak again, during which Beck had fought the urge to run away.
"Is she for real?"
"Yep." That was his Jade all right, anything to keep the girls away.
"You know I can't believe you're even considering this." Tori asks still in a state of shock and amusement.
"What can I say? A worry free Jade is a happy Jade." To Beck it was simple, Jade was his world and anything he could do to take some of the stress from her he would. She always put so much pressure on herself to be the best, especially since Tori had joined. She hadn't had a single leading role since then and it was beginning to grate on her. Before Tori, he and Jade had constantly starred alongside each other in the majority of school productions. It was also those plays she let her parents see but now she had been demoted to playing understudies and extras, and (although she wouldn't admit it) her confidence had taken a beating as well. She had told him after a particularly vicious fight with her Father that she felt as though she was losing everything to Tori. Whether it be time with her friends, being able to have her parents come and watch her as the lead and the most shocking of all: Beck. Jade said that after losing the first role to her it was like Tori was replacing her, that it would only be a matter of time before she replaced Jade as Beck's girlfriend. It was utterly ridiculous though, no one could ever come close to Jade, not to him anyway and one day he hoped she would fully belive that.
"Hmm. Well a happy Jade does sound better than a crazy jealous one." He definitely had to agree on that one.
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The group had sat down to lunch in their usual spot, Robbie, Cat, Tori, Beck, Jade and Andre all placed around the table. The current topic of discussion was where the curly headed creep Sinjin had disappeared to.
"I hope he's alright." Cat always being the over sensitive one.
"Who cares? As long as the freak stays away from my house and I, he's not my problem." Jade and Beck had both experienced first hand the frustrations of trying to keep him out of her personal possessions and property. The worst so far had been when they were staying round her's while her Mother was out of town as per usual and he had snuck into her closet and then proceeded to watch them make out for 15 minutes. Of course Jade had been furious, Beck even more so, it ended in a black eyed Sinjin being kicked out after the threat of calling the police had been made.
"I'm sure he'll return to his weird Sinjin-y ways soon." Beck serious hoped not.
On a slightly stranger note (he never thought there'd be something stranger than Sinjin to talk about) he knew he'd have to talk to Andre about their trip to the mall. They were supposed to find a present for Andre's Grandma's birthday that wouldn't send her into a confused rage (easier said than done).
"Hey Andre, come get some drinks with me."
"Sure."
"Babe do you want anything?" Beck asked as he leaned down to kiss his content girlfriend on the cheek.
"Coffee. Tw-"
"Two sugars I know." They shared a brief smile before the guys walked off.
Now to tell Andre that they would have to pretend to be a couple if any girls hit on them so his girlfriend could go one night free of having to worry about useless things. If he could get him to see his side of things maybe Beck could convince him. He did have a trick or two up his sleeve. Although he had kept it a secret Beck knew that since they were 15 Andre had harboured a small crush on Jade, this was something that not even she knew. He had found out when he had been staying round Andre's house so they could finish a school project and after he had fallen asleep started talking about how pretty and smart she was. Now at this time they had started dating and Beck already knew that Jade was the only girl he ever wanted to be with, so he couldn't help but be extremely jealous. It was then that he had learned to control it so he wouldn't ruin his relationship with his best friend.
"Hey man about tonight-"
"What about it?"
"Ok, so you know how Jade gets when there are a lot of other girls around and she's not there?"
"Yeah, crazy, psychotic." He couldn't help but laugh at the terrified face of his closest friend.
"Well she has come up with a way to stop it from happening."
"Ok." Andre's voice contains curiosity and apprehension.
"It involves you and I pretending to be a couple if any girls hit on us."
"Oh hell NO!"
"Whoa man. Calm down. Now it's totally fine if you say no but I just thought it would be nice for Jade not to have to worry about me when we're not together for once. I mean she's been so stressed recently and don't tell her I told you but she's been fighting with her parents again."
"Come on man don't do this to me! You know I care about Jade-" Oh yes he did and if it was anymore than as a friend now there would be hell to pay. "But what if someone sees us?"
"We'll just tell them it's one of Sikowitz's a drive by acting challenges." He could see Andre's resolve breaking.
"Fine! But you owe me big time dude."
They may not be the perfect couple (they would tell you that themselves) but if they could make each other happy then they would stop at nothing to do so. She wasn't perfect, she had an attitude, a bad temper and a cold exterior to anyone but him. However he loved it all. Perfect people aren't real and real people aren't perfect.
