So, I'm pretty much going to be updating every day or so until school starts because I want to avoid working on the newest chapter for Remember Me..
Summary: 4 times someone asks Jade out and one time she asks someone else. Minor Bade.
The first time someone asks her, it's at the beginning of P.E. and they're joking around and talking. She's softer then, a little sweeter, more, normal. She's still mean, and fairly rude, especially to pretty pretty girls and rude douchebags. They're talking about the totally mean Science teacher and then there's a silence.
"Will you go out with me?" He asks quickly, as if the words burn his throat. They're only in 5th grade and are totally out of their depths, but she considers saying yes. maybe the other girls would accept her if she told them! She thinks, fondly, since she's an outcast even back them, and even she wants to fit in sometimes. She opens her mouth to say yes when he stammers out, "Someone dared me, of course. Like I would ask you out!"
Her eyes harden, and she bites out a remark. "Like I would even say yes anyway,", and the next day he's dating a girl named Meredith. She tries to act normal, like that didn't bother her that he just said that he'd never date someone like her, but she lets herself drift further and further away from Ryder in the big ocean of life, and by 6th grade they become acquaintances at best.
Because even Jade West isn't invincible.
The second time, she's in 7th grade and being stalked. When she tells people, they laugh, thinking she's joking, because who has a stalker when they're 12? But it's true, she sees him creeping around her all the time, and she's pretty sure he's placed a hearing bug in her locker and at least one of her books. She just hopes he doesn't put one in her book bag, and prays he never hears the yelling coming from her home in the middle of the night.
Sinjin finally works up the nerve to ask her out, probably due to some misguided encouragement from his sister, and seeing his hopeful face, she almost says maybe. Not that she'd ever date him, but giving him hope was supposed to be good, right? , she thinks as she watches him lick his lips in anticipation.
But then she remembers he's a creepy stalker and flat out says "No," in the coldest voice she can muster. He whimpers at her cold tone, but, before she can stalk away, and art she's almost mastered by then, he leans over and presses his slimy lips to hers before running away happily.
Jade West despises Sinjin Van Cleef because he stole her first kiss.
The next time someone gets up the nerve to ask scary Jade out, it's a lot like her first time. It's her, Andre and Beck, messing around with their voices for their music project. She catches Beck staring at her after she does her 'famous' man voice, though,
"What?" She asks, a little self-consciously, running her hand through her hair.
"Will you go out with me?" He blurts out, and Jade flashes back to Ryder. She laughs a little, in disbelief, because sure she has a crush on him, but he's never shown any signs of liking her. She's sure that it's probably just one big joke, so she says no. He doesn't respond, and his face doesn't change in the slightest, and they go back to what they were doing before. It'd be weird if they dated anyway… right?
Even Jade West gets insecure and a little neurotic sometimes.
(She kind of wishes he'd ask again, but he never does.)
8th grade comes and goes, and Jade is still single. She wishes she could say she's better off that way, but she doesn't really feel like it. She and Beck still hang out though, during the summer, and one day she's mesmerized by his brownbrown eyes. "Wanna go out?" She blurts out in the middle of their conversation about him getting his own RV, then flushes. After a minute of stunned silence, she panics. "I…I have to go….out.. so bye." Jade leaves hurriedly, running down the street to her house, hoping against hope that he didn't hear her. She was so stupid!
"Bye?" Beck questions, then shakes his head. Girls were so weird.
The next day, he walks up to her house unannounced, holding a wilted flower from his garden, and when Jade answers the door, simply says, "Yes."
And then Beck Oliver becomes Jade West's second kiss.
Urrgh I hate the ending. I just wanted to somehow... i don't know... close it out.
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