A/N: I got way more reviews and favoriteS for the last story than ever- THANK YOU 3
"It means you two aren't the most truthful people", Jade hissed eying the two skeptically. It was taking everything in her not to leap across the table and yank a hefty chunk of hair out of Cat's head.
"Jade, what the hell are you talking about?" Beck furrowed his perfectly smoothed eyebrows up to his hairline.
"This should be good", Trina lifted her palm whispering amused while she discreetly slid her cellphone out to record the drama unfold.
" Jade... I don't... understand", Cat looked baffled and anxious. " Did I do something wrong?" she asked in her whispery voice pointing to herself wide-eyed.
"Nothing", she stood pushing her tray aside and standing. " I'm done", she retorted throwing a glare toward Beck before she shrugged past bumping into harshly as she thundered away from their lunch table.
Beck sighed running his fingers through his hair. " Later guys", he called over his shoulder sprinting to catch up with Jade. She was halfway across the quad and heading for the parking lot.
"Jade!", he called after her.
She ignored him stomping harder every time he called her name, she even picked up speed so he wouldn't catch up with her. Once he did, she knew he'd try to get her to calm down and realize how ridiculous she was being. But she didn't want that- she wanted to be mad.
"Jadelyn", he called firmly grabbing her arm and forcing her to turn around to face him when she'd finally made it to the parking lot.
"Don't call me that!", she screeched snapping her arm back like he'd burned her skin. "And don't touch me".
"Fine", Beck dropped her hands and exhaled trying to catch his breath. He looked at her curiously. " You don't have a car, why were heading to the parking lot of all places?".
"To key your car", she spoke as if it was the simplest answer.
Beck shook his head in disbelief and fought the urge to smile, Jade really was a ball buster.
"For what?" he heard himself yell. " I didn't do anything wrong".
"Yeah?" Jade screamed sarcastically. "How about you lied, huh? How about you made me look like a complete fool in front of all our friends? How about you never told me you used to not only date one of my friends, but actually had a relationship with Cat Valentine of all people", she roared pushing him back a few paces.
Beck was silent. He thought Jade was mad that his first hadn't been her, not that it had been with Cat- whom she considered a friend. She wasn't angry, she was hurt.
And when Jade West was hurt, everyone else would be too .
"Jade-
"Don't Jade me!", she resisted shrugging from his grip knowing full and well once those hands touched hers the argument would be over.
"You don't know how hard it is being your girlfriend", she added bitterly feeling hot tears prick the bottom of her green eyes.
"Up until last night we were doing perfectly fine, you don't know how hard it is being your boyfriend", Beck fired back not understanding where she was coming from anymore. It was like everything he did was wrong to her, and every time he tried to fix something it'd ending back firing in his face.
"You don't know the half of it. Yeah, I might be a little bitchty here and there but that only lasts a day or two. You, you have girls falling at your feet and you act like you don't even care", Jade ranted flipping her jet-black hair out of her distressed face.
"Nobodies falling at my feet, and I don't care about those girls. I care about you", he said genuinely and grabbed her hand and forced her chin upward so she'd meet his eyes.
He could slowly feel her resolve.
"I love you", he mused tilting his head in an angle to plant a gentle kiss on her mouth.
Jade melted underneath his embrace and felt her fist unball and loosen and move to the back of his head out of habit.
"Or so you say", she teased with a weak smirk that he didn't believe.
"Why do-
"Heyyy, Beck", a group of girl stopped on their stroll to gawk at the golden boy of the school.
He turned hearing his name and smiled waving. " Hey, what's up?"
Jade's hand slinked out of Beck's grip and she felt exactly how she did minutes before when their eyes swept across her boyfriend like he was up for auction. She could easily have insulted them and sent them on their merry little way but it'd become tiring after awhile. Some girls had to deal with maybe one guy having the hot's for their boyfriend, Jade had the whole school and half of L.A.
"Nothing, see you in chem", the blond flirted before leading her pack away.
Jade turned on her heel and headed in the same direction angrily.
Beck grasped her hand. " What did I do now?"
The whole hot and cold thing was getting to be iritating.
"Nothing Beck, you never do anything wrong. You're perfect", she remarked sarcastically hiking up her shoulder bag shrugging through the crowd with her dark hair fluttering behind her.
Beck exhaled and watched her go, knowing it was best not to follow her this time with her temper being ignited and all. Kicking his feet he brought himself to his sleek vintage Mercury, and sat perched on the hood almost instantly another flock of faceless girls appeared to join him.
Jade looked over her shoulder and felt her eyes sting all over again. Being with Beck was becoming more stressful than she'd initially bargained for. She ignored the plucking feeling and was about to continue on her stride when she noticed Cat watching in the distance. She looked innocent and lost having seen the whole argument and the girls that now flocked around Beck.
Including Jade's hurt expression.
"Jade-", she began in a barely there whisper stepping closer toward her.
"Don't", Jade intercepted her holding up her palm as to keep Cat at bay. " Just... don't", she spoke somberly before walking in the opposite direction of both her and Beck.
Cat stood behind obeying Jade's request, and sighed.
Being Beck's girlfriend was never easy. From the countless girls throwing themselves at him, girl's befriending her just to get closer to Beck, and sleepless nights wandering whether or not he'd wake up and realize he could have any girl he wanted with the snap of his fingers.
It was something Cat knew quite well, though.
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FLASHBACK, December 1st Freshmen Year.
"Valentine, a little to the left", Mrs. Ray's voice instructed 5th period during drama class. Every student was doing their part in preparing for the winter-wonderland showcase.
"Kay", Cat agreed flicking her chestnut waves out of her face with a soft giggle as she adjusted the paintbrush.
The blackbox theater was crowded with people practicing, cleaning, or helping with the was all three, she loved helping people, so painting icicles on a tree was a walk in the park.
Well- besides her extra negative partner, Catherine Sanchez anyway.
"Sanchez, are you even trying?" Mrs. Ray asked exhaustedly, of all her students she'd manage to give her a migraine every time she opened her mouth.
Catherine flicked her jet black hair dropping the shimmery paint brush back into its canister haughtily.
"Can I have a bathroom break at least?" she sighed dramatically. " This poison is ruining my nails", she whined.
"Fine", Mrs. Ray exhaled, and gave Cat a sympathetic look before continuing to check on everyone else while Catherine paraded off muttering swear words that Cat would never repeat.
After a few minutes Cat moved back into a regular tempo and stopped to admire her work with a smile. She was about to move toward the prop to adjust the leaves until a pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist.
"Put your hands where I can see them", Beck joked whispering into her neck.
Cat smiled turning her boyfriend on 4- months with an ocean wide grin.
"You scared me", she giggled causing the dimples he loved so much to dot each side of her cheeks.
"Sorry", he grinned flicking her adorable button nose before planting a sweet kiss on her lips, oblivious to the jealous glares girls were throwing their way.
"Do you know how freaking cute you are?" He wandered moving his hands to rest at the small of her back as he affectionately pulled her frame into his until they were close enough to smell each other's minty breath.
Cat giggled letting her arms lazily droop to Beck's waist .
"So I've heard", she teased burying her head into his crisp cotton V-neck inhaling his familiar Polo cologne while he absently rubbed circles on her lower back soothingly.
It was true. Everyone loved Cat- especially the guys. They were attracted to her for obvious reasons but her innocence was what kept them interested.
"Beck", a group of girls called impatiently. They'd been lucky enough to be picked in the same group as him, and were taking full advantage.
"I'll see you after school, k?", Beck unloosened his group from around her petite frame and kissed her and squeezed her waist before he strolled to the other side of the stage to join his group.
"Aren't you guys cute", Catherine's voice appeared behind Cat . She'd taken a bathroom break for 30 minutes- purposely.
Cat hadn't been her favorite person since grade school, back when everyone had dubbed her the "Cat" of the class while she had to be called boring Catherine, and to insult to injury everyone always mistook her for the for the other Cat all her life. Until she got to school and earned the nickname "Catty" rightly so.
"Thanks", Cat smiled pleasantly turning away from her artwork. Contrary to popular belief, she wasn't stupid, dumb, or spacey. She could hear the sarcasm and distaste in her voice but decided to ignore it. Unlike most people, words didn't hurt her.
She caught onto every smart remark, every underhand joke at her expense.
But as always she kept smiling, her motto was to kill with kindness.
"You look nice today", Cat complimented with a warm smile looking beyond her frenemies shoulder to giggle at the funny face Beck was making at her across the room.
Catherine rolled her eyes determined not to be taken over by her sweetness and followed Cat's gaze and smirked.
"Look at all those girls, I mean I don't blame them. Beck is one sexy piece of...", she smirked bitting her bottom lip to let her know exactly what she'd like to do to her boyfriend.
Cat rolled her eyes choosing to ignore the lewd comments about Beck and continued to paint. "Can you help me paint ? thanks" .
It wasn't anything she hadn't heard before, and she rather not hear it again.
"I mean", Catherine dipped grabbing a paintbrush. " If he was my boyfriend be going nuts with all the girls around".
Cat lifted her shoulders in a shrug. It did get annoying sometimes, but it wasn't like her to just complain.
"And I'd do anything to keep him interested...".
Cat spun around curiously. " Interested? What's that suppose to mean?"
She smirked at Cat as if she was a naive little puppy.
"Sex", she spoke loudly causing a few heads to snap up across the blackbox theater.
Cat recoiled back and felt her cheeks flush a faint red.
"Wait...", Catty laughed. " You guys haven't yet?" he dark eyes were practically sparkling with amusement.
"No, he loves me and its not his fault he's beautiful", Cat smiled pleasantly because she knew Catherine hated it.
"But Cat", she returned the Cheshire grin. " Girl's like you are a dime a dozen. Sure you're cute and cuddly- kinda like a teddy bear that you out grow eventually... for bigger, and better toys".
Cat felt her heart sink to the pit of her stomach when her eyes instinctively fell across the room where her boyfriend was laughing comfortably with his arm draped around senior girl in a friendly gesture.
She swallowed hard and focused on Catherine. " You're wrong".
Sanchez shrugged satisfied, pleased that she'd already planted the seeds of doubt in Cat's pretty little head. " Just because you're not givin it doesn't mean he's not getting it".
"Alright, I can take it from here ", she said dismissively before turning back to the tree. Frankly, she'd heard enough.
"Fine", Catherine Sanchez stood dusting herself off. It was then Cat noticed her outfit.
Cat was pretty, hands down. But Sanchez was sexy.
She was sporting an off the shoulder top that flashed her flat, pierced stomach. Catherine completed the outfit with a tiny, almost microscopic blue-jean Chip& Pepper mini skirt that left little to the imagination.
"Beck", she suddenly exclaimed lifting her skinny arms causing her chunky bracelets to clink against her elbows while she sashayed over to envelop him in a hug.
Beck smiled and greeted her with a half-hug.
Cat watched from the distance distractedly and noticed when his loyal- but teenaged boy eyes skimmed across Sanchez's scantily clad body out of habbit.
She sighed somberly looking down at her own outfit and wished she'd opted to show a little more skin. Against Catherine's barely there outfit she felt over dressed,sporting skinny jeans, and a blue t-shirt with a Panda on it.
"Love you", Beck mouthed catching her glimpse toward him and smiled weakly before tearing her eyes away.
For the first time in their relationship, she felt insecure.
Maybe, she was too cute.
After school she was fifteen minutes late meeting Beck in his car, he'd been the only freshmen with a licence making him even more alluring. She's spent the extra time applying liquid eyeliner, gloss and shimmer to her lips after she'd shook her unruly waves out of its ponytail.
Once she'd convinced herself she looked sexy enough she belted through Hollywood Arts doors feeling confident. She spotted his shiny Porsche parked snugly in its reserved park and smiled as she sprinted the last steps.
"Looking for me", she drawled trying to sound sexy and self-assured leaning into Beck's drivers side window.
He blinked at her waking up from his short nap and squinted. " What took you so long", Beck yawned stretching his arms into the air and stopped midway noticing the subtle change.
"Anything you wanna tell me?" he joked scanning his eyes over his girlfriend in approval.
"No talking", she shushed him moving toward the backseat of the car.
Beck looked at her through his mirror and laughed. " What am I, your chauffeur?" he teased.
"No, but I was hopping you'd join me", she flirted leaning over the back seat to kiss the nape of his neck.
He unbuckled his seatbelt and quickly joined her in the back seat. He didn't know where her sudden aggressiveness came from but he liked it.
Beck filled in the space in between them and anxiously pressed his lips to hers while cupping her hips pushing him closer to her. Cat obliged shimming out of her jacket and hungrily mashing her face against his not bothering comming up for air.
The space in Beck's Porsche was limited but they barely noticed as they wiggled and bumped into the cushions until they'd found a comfortable spot with Beck pressed against the backseat window.
"Cat", he smiled into the kiss trying to come up for air but she persisted pushing him down harder. " Cat...
His back was pressed into the glass, and he felt the seatbelt dig into the bottom of his thigh. To say he was uncomfortable was an understatement. But Cat's lips and tongue were numbing all the pain until he felt her bite on to his bottom lip, hard.
"Ow!", he yelped holding his bottom lip and pulled it away revealing crimson blood on his fingers.
Cat gasped wide- eyed and cupped her mouth embarrassedly. " I'm so sorry Becky, are you okay! " she screamed nearly jumping on him to make sure he wasn't injured.
"I'm fine", Beck laughed still holding his lip always being a good sport about everything. " Did you just bite me?" he wandered in a teasing tone squinting his warm chocolate brown eyes at her.
"I didn't mean to", she sniffed feeling her heart sink all over again. " It was supposed to be a nibble".
"Nibble?" Beck wandered truly baffled. " But why?" he laughed seeing the conversation as truly hilarious.
Cat looked up with him and felt her eyes well with tears. "Don't laugh at me", her voice cracked an her eyes looked weak.
He felt liked he'd kicked a lost puppy.
Beck quickly stopped and rubbed her shoulders supportively. He forgot how sensitive she got whenever she felt like people were laughing at her, it reminded her too much of kindergarten when she was the weird kid everyone liked to laugh at.
"I'm sorry Kit-Cat", he pulled her into a one arm hug while she sniffed resting her head on his shoulder.
"Okay", she said in a small voice.
"But, what's with the sudden aggressiveness?"
Cat sniffed again as Beck wiped the last of her tears with the pads of his thumbs.
"I was trying to be sexy", she admitted.
"Sexy?"
"Yeah, sexy. Sanchez said that's the only way i'd keep a guy like you".
Beck couldn't believe what he was hearing.
" A guy like me?" he pointed to himself. " I'm the average Joe, I should be worried about how to keep a girl like you", he said honestly. Beck felt lucky to have her, and the fact that she was doubting herself made him feel like the scum of the earth.
"But what about all those sexy girls? and i'm just... too cute".
"Yeah", Beck smiled squeezing her waist and kissed the side of her jawline. " You're cute-
"That's the problem", Cat contradicted.
"And you're sexy", he trailed another kiss on her jawline before moving to her temple. " Without even trying".
"Yeah, right", Cat said in disbelief. One thing about Beck was that he was a people pleaser, he was just telling her what she wanted to hear.
"When you smile", Beck whispered pecking her nose.
"When you laugh", he kissed her chin.
"When I look across the room at you, and you don't know i'm watching", Beck smirked pulling her into another deep kiss resting his hands gently on each side of her face.
Cat sighed contently and smile lazily. "How do you always know what to say?"
Beck shrugged innocently. " And I'm sorry for making you feel like you had to be anyone else but yourself babe", he spoke seriously.
She leaned her head against his shoulder again and sighed with a grin absently playing with the strands of his hair.
" I know".
Present
Cat heaved uncomfortable and turned on her heel. She'd always considered herself a confident person but being with Beck and being so young really effed with her self-esteem. With countless of pretty girls parading over her boyfriend she began to question herself.
She knew what Jade was going through- she'd practically lived it.
Her eyes shifted toward the parking lot and immediately connected with Beck's.
"I'm sorry", he mouthed truly meaning it.
"I know", she mouthed back and walked in the opposite direction when she she felt him advance toward her.
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