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AN: So here is the next chapter. The song is "Don't you want me?" by Human League. Thanks to Tawny-Fern for beta-reading and to everyone who reviewed etc. You're amazing! Now, I hope you like this! Oh and this is AU, Jade never met Beck and the others before and I imagine them to be somewhere around twenty at the begining. (Though I know you probably can't go to a cocktail bar at twenty in the US...)
He was at a cocktail bar, celebrating his newest movie deal with André, Cat, Tori and Robbie, when he met her. She was their waitress and made it impossible for him not to notice her. It was not only her dark appearance which distinguished her from the most bright and bubbly girls of LA, but her behavior.
Though she didn't say anything directly to their faces, he saw her role her eyes and heard her mutter insults under her breath quite often. That changed when Tori told her that she had wanted another brand of the champagne she had ordered, which lead to her nearly being showered with it, if it hadn't been for his intervening.
Somehow he managed to stop his friends from either leaving or assaulting her, and her from dousing them with the champagne, but it still got his friends to leave rather quickly after they had drank their saved beverage.
He was just about to leave too, when she approached him.
"You're an actor, right?"
She must have overheard them talking.
"Yeah, why?"
She just shoved a stack of papers, which she had taken out of her bag, at him and growled: "Read that!", before walking past him and leaving the room. Confused, he just watched her leave, before he shook his head and decided to have a look at the paper. The title said "Well Wishes", a play by Jade West. So she wrote a play, huh. Not being sure on what exactly he should do with it, he brought back home and placed it on his desk.
Nearly forgotten, it lay there for several weeks, until the day he got ill and looked for something to do. Remembering the play, he thought he could at least try reading it, since he had nothing else to do anyway. That attitude changed as soon as he was a few pages in. This was good, it was different than most plays he knew and extremely well written. He decided to show it to his director, to see what he thought.
His director seemed to have the same opinion, because the next day he found a very angry Jade West in his living room. Before he was even able to ask what she was doing there and how she got there, she was already yelling at him.
"What the hell! You idiot! I said you should read it, not you should give it to some creep."
"Well, the "creep" is my movie director and I thought I'd be doing you a favor. What did he say?"
"A favor? He wants to produce it."
"So your mad at me because your play is being produced? Excuse me, but I don't see your problem."
"Whatever! So this guy really is a director? Why would you give my play to him? What do you want from me?"
"Nothing. I just thought your play is pretty amazing and should be shown to the public."
"I know!"
That was five years ago, her play then had been an enormous success and many more had followed. She had taken Hollywood over with ease, having the world at her feet and somewhere along the way he had fallen for her.
He evened out her temper and made her see the lighter side of things. Oddly enough, she became fast friends with Cat and seemed to like Andre. Robbie and Tori on the other hand she couldn't stand, which often led to fights between them and between her and the group.
Another reason for fights was her ridiculous jealousy, against every other female in contact with him, besides Cat.
Regardless of the fights, he wouldn't want to change anything. The fights were what made their relationship different and thrilling. He calmed her down and she livened him up.
Things were going great, he had even bought her ring, when she turned his whole world upside down (again), and left him.
He couldn't believe it. Why would she leave him? When he went to talk to her, all he got was Cat telling him that she didn't want to see him.
Well, if she didn't want him, she would see what she got. It was him who introduced her to all the producer and him who did the damage control when she went on one of her rampages again. There was no way she would still be hired or produced if he wasn't around to keep her calm.
But sitting home alone, all he wanted was for her to come back. He had a feeling they would both regret it, if they stayed apart, but he knew how stubborn she could be. Still there was hope for her to change her mind. If someone could achieve that, it was him.
She had been working at a cocktail bar, when she met him, but she had always known that she was destined for greater things. She moved out of her father's house at 18, because he didn't approve of her dream to become an actress and a playwright.
Him coming to the bar that day must have been destiny, because it not only brought her the career she always dreamed of, but the first real friends she ever had and of course his love.
She knew, when she first saw him, that there was something special about him, and so she took her chance, to give him her play. Having learned early that you get disappointed most of the time, she didn't think that he would get in touch with her again. So, getting a call from somebody, saying he wanted to produce her play, shocked her to the point where she did all she could to get his address, just so she could get a confirmation that this was real.
They had a great time together and she wouldn't want to change that for anything, but when she found that ring in his drawer she got scared.
All her life she had been independent, but in her time with Beck she had become so dependent on him and it scared her. She was so young, and even her career depended on him. That was when she realized, that she had to at least see if she could do it on her own. She couldn't live with herself if all her life depended on someone. No matter how much she loved him.
So she left him, and moved in with Cat, who didn't understand her, but still did anything she could to help her.
It was the hardest thing she had ever done.
A month later, everything still hurt as much as at the first day, if not more and she missed him more than she believed was possible. She could honestly say that she regretted her decision.
No matter how scared she got, being without him was worse. Her pride wouldn't let her go back to him though. Going back to him, after she left him to live on her own, would be like giving up. And as much as she wished for it, she couldn't bring herself to do it.
She had forbidden everyone to talk about him, so she wouldn't break down in front of them. So she didn't even know if he still loved her of if he had moved on already.
It was when Cat found her crying for the fifth time, (because she didn't notice her entering), that she decided she had to do something. She would need help though, which meant she had to ask Tori, because Cat couldn't keep something to herself for more than to minutes.
He better appreciate what she was willing to do for him.
Two month after she had left him, Tori somehow managed to get him to leave his apartment. He had no idea where there were going. When he asked, she just smiled at him and then changed the subject. They ended up in an old theater, but before he could get any more information about the play the curtain lifted and the play started.
What he got to see first confused him and then started anger him. It was definitely his and Jade's story. How could she do this to him, put their life out in the open like this? And why was Tori taking him here?
The interesting part came, when she left him. He would never have thought that she was so miserable without him. The play ended with the woman asking the man to take her back, and that was when it clicked and he realized that this was Jade's way of asking him to take her back.
He looked at Tori, who just smiled (again) and put a backstage-pass in his hand.
Arriving backstage, he saw her looking around nervously. When she saw him, she walked towards him uncertainly, not looking at him. As soon as she was in talking distance, she began to ramble, apologizing for making a play out of their life, without his consent.
He didn't know what it was, maybe that he had never seen her so vulnerable before, or that she had asked Tori for help or that he had spent the last two months thinking about her, but he cut her short by kissing her.
When they stopped kissing, she looked up at him, even more vulnerable than before.
"You love me again." Her voice was filled with wonder.
"Who said I stopped?"
And with that he was kissing her again.
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