So not every chapter will include Cat and Robbie, or the secret game. I know I've already got two. Also not all the chapters will happen so tightly together, there will be bigger gaps of time (for the characters) in the chapters….I've just needed to get this off my chest (or clear it up in my head) since the first episode of Victorious. It's tainted Bade for me until now . Nothing I write will conflict with the canon, so if you've got Bade issues, just put'm in a review, and maybe I'll try to straighten it out. Enjoy!
When the rain stops we head back inside. It's empty. Her brother is at his friend's house, her dad is away, and her mom is…where ever she is. Maybe she didn't crash her car. Maybe she's just out. We're about to go take a shower when Jade's phone rings.
"What?" she says into the phone. "I don't know Cat, maybe it will start raining again. Do I look like a weather woman?" She pauses "What do you mean you're about to crash? Who's the other voice? Hello?" Jade pulls away from the phone. "Really? She can't even explain what's going on properly?"
"What is going on?" I say as we walk up to her bathroom. She throws her phone onto her bed. She sighs.
"I'm regretting" Jade said as she sat on her sink. I give her a look that asks her to please fill in the details.
"I think Cat and Robbie are on their way here" she says.
"How?" I ask "Neither of them have a car."
"I think" she says, emphasizing the think, "That they're on his bike." I chuckle.
"They're biking all the way here?" She nods in reply. "When are they getting here? Should we really be taking a shower?"
"I don't like chlorine" she answers "Besides" she smiles as she slips out of her bathing suit.
About twenty minutes later it starts raining again. And about forty minutes later there's a knock at the door. Robbie and Cat are standing in the door soaking wet. Something is smudged on Robbie's face. I think it was a pirate beard at one point, but I don't want to ask.
"We brought our bathing suits" Cat says in shivers. I reach out and put my hand on Cat's forehead.
"You're freezing" I say.
"Am I?" Cat asks.
"I want to light the fire" Jade says. I know she'd rather go back out in the pool, but she knows that wouldn't be the best thing for Cat right now. So we sit by Jade's fire, wrapped in blankets. Jade's sitting between my legs and my arms around her waist. We're making smores. Well, Cat and Robbie are making smores. Smores are a bit sweet for me. Jade is lighting the marshmallows on fire. She likes it when they burn.
It's quiet. We aren't used to having Robbie here. Robbie is being Robbie. I'm resting my head against Jade's hair. She smells really nice. I think he's burning his mouth. Jade and Cat are conversing with their eyes. Cat's nodding. I can feel Jade sigh.
"Secret game" Cat sings.
"What's the secret game?" Robbie asks. I rub Jade's arm. She's trying to share, and I know it'll be difficult.
"Okay, so Jade and I made a game" Cat explains "Where we ask each other to tell secrets, but they have to be about something!"
"Aren't all secrets about something?" Robbie asks.
"Yes, but" Cat pauses "I mean"
"Robbie" Jade snaps. "Tell me a secret that has to do with chocolate."
He answers faster than I expect "When I was little I accidentally thought some poo was chocolate and"
"Ew!" Jade and Cat shout. I laugh.
"You ate your poo?"
"Tasted it!" Robbie argues, but no one listens. We just laugh. We go through a few rounds, making smores and burning marshmallows. Jade's getting tired, she's resting against me more and more as we go on and it gets later and later. I think she's asleep when Robbie wakes her up on his turn.
"Tell me a secret that has to do with kissing" Robbie asks. I look down. Her eyes are barely open. Jade thinks for a minute, and I can feel her weight lift off me a bit.
"I'm still mad that Tori kissed Beck" she says, her voice hard. We all fall silent. She chuckles to herself unhappily. "And everyone pretends like it never happened. Go ahead, keep playing the game, it's not like anything's changed."
She's pulled mostly away from me, and she yawns. We play a few more rounds, until Cat and Robbie are both asleep. I help Jade carry Cat onto a couch. We leave Robbie on the floor. I follow her up to her room. She climbs into her bed without looking at me. I wonder what triggered it. I wonder why we really never talked about it. She's lying with her back facing me. The lights are still on. She doesn't ask me but I flick them off.
I crawl into bed next to her, and pull myself close to her. Her back is pressed against me. "Tell me a secret" I whisper in the dark "about how I can fix it."
"We were in such a bad place then, we were angry, and then, you let her use you against me" she whispers "And it's like everything fell down hill, like I couldn't trust you. You, one of the only people I trusted."
"Jade" I say "We were acting."
"And you can't say a small part of you was acting to hurt me?" she says into the dark.
"I never want to hurt you" I say "ever."
"Did you ever like Tori?" she asks.
"Never" I say. "I've kissed other girls before when acting. I kissed Cat before."
"Cat knows we're us. She calls us mom and dad, and past that" Jade pauses "I can trust her."
"Why does Tori's bother you the most?"
"Because I can't trust her" she answers.
"You know you can always trust me." I say "But why can't you trust her?"
"She's made it impossible to. Even if I was trying to get back at someone I'd never try to scam their boyfriend. That's just wrong. And then what she did to Cat, when she sprayed her with hot cheese and kissed her boyfriend. I don't know. It's like she can't see out of her own frame of reference."
"How often do you think about it?" I wrap my arms around her. She places her hands over mine.
"I don't know, sometimes it'll just pop up…and I didn't want to bring it up because" her voice shakes but she takes control of it "Because we were doing so well."
"Part of that well" I say "is communicating. The good and the bad." We're silent for a moment.
"I always want you tell me when you're upset, I want you to always come to me when you need to. Jade I'm so sorry I did that to you. I'm sorry I didn't pay enough attention. Jade I love you, and I never ever want to hurt you." She rolls over to face me, and I see her face, the hurt, the happy, the love. It's all there. It's so strange to be having his conversation with the lights on, but the rain is rhythmic, soothing.
"Even the little things?" she says, confidence in her voice. I smile.
"Even the little things."
"I'm upset that Robbie is passed out on my floor downstairs" she tells me,
"I'm not sure that's a little thing" I reply "But I can fix it." She smiles back.
"Later" she says as she leans in and kisses me. I kiss her back. She runs her hand through my hair, and I run mine down her soft bare back. She rolls over and kisses me harder, and pretty soon, we're lost in each other.
When we're done she's sleeping on my chest. She seems peaceful, and I let out a deep breath. I've been stupid. We've been stupid, but it's been a good stupid, a stupid that leads us to a better us. I'm starting to fall asleep when Jade starts mumbling. Demon speak. I chuckle to myself and run my hand through her hair. She pulls in closer to me, and I fall asleep to her jibberish.
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