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"See, they fit well, don't they?" Jade asked her boyfriend as she stood at her locker looking at the new orange and black scissors that were jammed into her locker.
Beck threw his arm around his girlfriend's shoulder and nodded, "they look awesome."
Jade looked at him, "do you believe in dreams?" She asked. The conversation she had with Cat that morning kind of popped into her brain.
"What kind of dreams?" Beck wondered.
"Like, sleep dreams." Jade said, "do you believe they're real?"
"Yeah," Beck nodded, "they can be."
"That's what I thought."
"Why?"
Jade shrugged, "just wondering." She looked back to her locker and brushed her hand against the new scissors, "they do look nice."
Beck couldn't keep the smile from floating onto his face as he watched her stare in wonder at her locker. It was like she was just discovering it was there, "you want some coffee?" He asked.
Jade snapped out of her stare at the metal door, "please."
Beck nodded and leaned toward her, pressing their lips together passionately, "be back soon." He told her, squeezing her shoulder lightly, in a loving manner.
Jade smiled back.
"Robbie, have you seen Tori?" Cat asked the boy who was standing at Andre's locker. She had been roaming around the school for the past thirty minutes looking for the younger Vega sister.
"No, sorry." The boy answered, "hey, you didn't happen to see Andre anywhere did you?"
"No, why?"
"I'm kind of needing to talk to him." Robbie answered in his dorkish, boyish way, "personal issues."
And Cat giggled.
Robbie felt embarrassed before he ran away, dragging Rex with him.
However, Cat just laughed more, because Robbie had no idea that she wasn't laughing at him. What was funny was that she was looking for Tori, while he was looking for Andre.
Cat figured they had to be hiding out together somewhere.
"Hey, Cat." Sinjin greeted from behind.
Cat turned to face him still laughing a little, "what?"
"I'm looking for Jade, do you know where she is?" The boy asked.
Cat furrowed her eyebrows as the laugh disappeared, "no...and I'm sure she's not interested in whatever that is." She told him pointing to the long piece of wood in Sinjin's hand.
The tall boy looked at his object before saying, "this is a replica of the staff used in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies." He smiled.
Cat nodded as another random laugh escaped her lips, "you know what that reminds me of?" She asked.
Sinjin just shook his head, "what?"
Cat pointed to the staff, "this one time, I found this stick on the grass outside in my yard and I was gonna pick it up and play fetch with my dog...but then," her face turned sad, "I realized I didn't have a dog..." She smiled again, "so I just played by myself."
Sinjin nodded, "fun." He told her, "I've done that before."
Cat's smile got wider, "yay!" She said before she walked away, continuing her search for Tori.
She ran into Jade.
Literally.
"Hey!" Jade hollered out as she slipped forward. However, when she turned around and noticed it was Cat, her mood shifted slightly, "hey," she repeated.
The red head smiled at her nervously, "sorry," she claimed. "Hey!" She practically shouted her mood changing completely, "have you seen Tori?" She asked.
The other girl simply said, "ew, no."
Cat furrowed her eyebrows, "well, Sinjin is looking for you." She warned her friend.
Jade sighed, "gross."
"Is there anyone you'd be happy seeing?" Cat wondered allowed.
Jade nodded, "yeah, Beck, with my coffee...or you know, Beck without my coffee." She shrugged, "but it'd be nice if he brought my coffee."
"Oh." She didn't mean to sound hurt.
Jade examined the smaller girls face before saying, "I don't mind seeing you that much either."
All of a sudden Cat was feeling a lot better, "let me know if you see Tori." She told Jade.
She completely ignored Jade's 'no' as she walked away, because Jade had said she didn't mind seeing her.
"You can't just admit that you like me, not even a little!" Tori hollered out in an angry rage.
Andre shook his head, "you don't understand how difficult it would be if I did." He told her, he sounded a little off.
Tori shook her head, "God! Can you even do one thing right?" She wondered.
Jade smiled, "yeah, he can tell you how he really feels."
"Hey, knock it off," Beck said looking at her.
Jade shrugged, "this is ridiculous, you always take her side."
"I'm not taking her side," Beck argued, "I'm just saying..."
"I know what you're saying!" Jade snapped folding her arms across her chest as she descended the stairs, "you love her."
Beck erupted in a sarcastic laugh as he followed the girl's motions, "babe, you know that's not true." He told her.
And Cat's eyes wandered back to Tori and Andre, because she really couldn't stand to look at Jade so hurt.
"This is stupid," Tori said putting a hand on his shoulder, "just tell me how you feel."
Andre sighed, "I don't..." He shook his head and grabbed her hand from his shoulder, "I don't love you anymore Zora."
Zora? Cat wondered, who is Zora?
"And cut!" Sikowitz hollered out. He looked at Andre and Tori, then at Beck and Jade, "see how well the scenes mesh if you add real life drama." He smiled skipping up the steps.
Oh yeah! Cat's thoughts cried out, it was all an act. She looked across the isle at Jade and Beck who were sitting back down, Beck was whispering into his girlfriends ear as Jade smiled. She wasn't heartbroken after all.
When the bell rang Cat was following Tori out the door, "hey Tori?" She said in a sing-song voice.
The girl looked at her, "what's up?" She asked.
Although Cat believed Jade's theory on dreams, she wanted a second opinion, and who better to ask than Tori Vega, "what do you think about sleep dreams?" She asked.
Tori looked a little confused as she asked, "huh?"
Cat shrugged, "sleep dreams." She said, "you know, when you're sleeping and you have a dream. Do you think they're real?"
Tori shrugged, "they can be, I guess."
"How so?"
"Well, sometimes my dreams act as Deja Vu, you know...I dream about one thing and the next day it happens...but it's not always that way. Sometimes people just dream bizarre things."
"Oh."
"Why do you ask?" Tori wondered.
Cat sighed, "I've just had the same dream a few times, and I was wondering if it meant anything."
"What dream?" The Vega girl asked.
"Nothing to worry about." Cat told her before walking away.
And Tori was a little confused. However, the whisper coming from the janitor's closet distracted her and she quickly went inside to see her secret boyfriend.
"So what movie should we see tonight?" Beck asked Jade as they made their way down the hall holding hands.
Jade leaned on her boyfriend a bit as she sighed, "I don't know...there's that new mystery/thriller/horror thing about that doll and the clown."
"Do you really wanna see another movie like that?" Beck asked as they stopped at his locker.
Jade scratched her head, "no..." She trailed off.
Beck was a bit surprised as he knelt down to look inside his locker for his history book, he looked at her, "no?" He wondered allowed.
Jade looked at him biting her lip nervously, "would you make fun of me if I wanted to see that sappy romance story?" She whispered.
Beck grinned at her in amazement, "Oh, yeah, totally." He grabbed his book and stood back up, closing the locker with his foot, "the fairy tale one...or the one about the writer?" He wrapped his arms around his girlfriend's waist.
Jade sighed contently, "I was thinking the writer...fairy tales are kind of lame."
"Okay," Beck said, spinning the girl around so they were facing the doors together, "we'll see the sappy romance one." He told her as he led her to the door.
That night Cat woke up screaming for the third time in a row, however, this time her mother didn't rush to her room.
Cat called Jade...
...and once again Jade was a little annoyed about being bothered so early.
"Hello?" She asked.
Cat sighed, "I had the dream again." She whispered.
"What dream?" Jade asked.
Cat was confused, because she knew she had told Jade about it, "the dream we talked about."
"Oh...So why'd you call me?" The girl whispered.
Cat shrugged, "I didn't know what else to do."
She heard Jade yawn over the line before the girl said, "just...try and change it, you know...work it out, and hopefully it'll go away."
"Okay," Cat whispered. She heard Jade shift around on her bed a little. The red head stood up and walked over to her light switching it on. She sat down at her desk.
"I'm sure the dream is nothing though." Jade told her, "so, whatever you do don't worry about it."
Cat nodded, "thanks."
"Whatever." Jade said before she hung up.
Cat grabbed a piece of paper and a pen before she began writing everything down.
1.) Mr. Longneck really was the greatest stuffed giraffe anyone could ever ask for, he was the nicest friend too.
2.) She loved her family more than anything in the world, she loved her mother who loved her unconditionally, she loved her brother and his crazy wackyiness, and she loved her father even though he was no longer a major part of her life.
3.) She never once told Rex that she liked him, and it was perfectly okay by her, she hated that puppet. That was saying something too because Cat Valentine didn't hate anything.
4.) Lane really was the greatest guidance counselor ever. That and he used SO much lotion.
5.) She knew Trina had talent somewhere hidden inside, and she figured if she dug hard enough she'd find it eventually. It probably didn't involve singing, or dancing, or acting, or any other kind of performing, but she definitely had talent somewhere.
6.) Andre was an awesome guy, he was going places. He probably wouldn't make it as an actor, but he would definitely be on the top charts as a song writer. She always would be his Lil' Red.
7.) She never liked Robbie as more than a friend, it didn't matter what anyone else tried to say, they were not perfect for each other. He was lost, and she was lost, but they were not each other's maps.
8.) Sikowitz always would be the best teacher ever, and she wondered if the coconuts made him see this coming...because they did give him visions. Were they only good visions? Or were there some bad ones thrown in there too?
9.) Tori was awesome, she was funny and sweet and just an all around good hearted, amazing person. Cat was really truly lucky to have known her.
10.) Cat would always remember Sinjin as the freaky tall lanky kid with glasses who was always stalking Jade, but she also knew he would never love Jade as much as she did.
11.) Beck was an awesome friend. He was sweet and kind and caring, and really good for Jade. Cat hated how good he was too her sometimes because he wasn't her...even though he gave Jade exactly what Cat could've given her, they still weren't the same. She truly knew how happy Jade and Beck were together and that's all she ever wanted, just to see Jade happy...even if she wasn't the one doing it.
12.) She loved Jade, she loved Jade almost more than anything in the world, she always would...but they weren't meant to be together and she knew it, Jade was meant for Beck, Beck was meant for Jade, they were made for each other. However, Jade was Cat's best friend and for that fact alone she would always love her, Jade was the one there for her when everything went wrong, when she felt like a failure, when she just needed someone to lean on...Jade was always there, and for that she was truly blessed.
Cat stared at the paper reading each number twice.
How in the world was she supposed to stop the dream from reoccuring?
Reading 10, 11, and 12 again she realized that she really did love Jade...and not just as a best friend like she thought she did. No, Cat actually loved Jade...
"I'm in love with her..." She whispered bewildered.
So, there we have the next chapter, hope it was good...
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