So the awkward thing that happens in this chapter I saw on this show called Misfits.
It made me laugh so hard so I included it. I hope it makes you laugh a bit. If not, sorry.
Oh and the ending I stole from Teen Wolf. Yeah, I'm just a big thief, what can I say?
Enjoy?
Beck's POV
"Say it!" Jade was ordering me to speak in a sharp tone.
"Jade West is—,"
"I'm sorry, what?" She exaggerated that she couldn't hear me.
"Jade West!" I raised my voice even though she was less than a yard away from me, sitting on top of me and pinning my arms up on either side of my head. "Is the most beautiful girl on the planet."
"The planet?" She wasn't happy with my choice of words so she tightened her grip on my wrists.
"The universe!" I amended. "The galaxy. The most beautiful in the entire history of people who ever lived."
"And?" She raised her eyebrow at me.
"And she's the best girlfriend a guy could ask for," She raised her eyebrows again so I went on. "And if you ever left me, I wouldn't survive."
"Hmm…," She looked off thoughtfully, considering if my answers were good enough for her. "Okay fine," She hopped off me, relieving the pressure on my wrists and torso.
"Thanks," I said, sitting up. The second I'd gotten back from Tori's house, she'd pounced me, tackling me to the ground. I fought her a bit, but let her wrestle me down and proceed to order me to speak her praises.
"You know what," She was talking to me but sounded like she was thinking out loud as she stood up. "New rule! You're not allowed at Vega's house unless I'm there too."
"What if you're out of the country?" I mused as she started changing her clothes for bed.
"Then you're not hanging out there," She shrugged and I didn't question her. I didn't want to ruin the somewhat good mood she was in. "I mean, what did you guys even do?"
"Typed up a new resume for her," I told her as I climbed up onto my bed. "And I took her new headshot."
"You what?" She turned from our small closet to give me a look of disbelief. "Since when are you a photographer?"
"I'm artistic," I flipped my hair dramatically and pulled out my pear phone. "It comes with the territory." I held up my phone's camera to snap a picture just in time for her to scowl at me. "Perfect," I commented. "Beautiful, the camera loves you."
"You're a lunatic," She shook her head at me and joined me on the bed.
"There's a fine line between insanity and genius," I reminded her and kept snapping photos of her. "Come on, give me a smile." Instead of obliging, she flipped me off; I'll have to remember to make that my new screensaver.
"Beck, put that thing away," She covered her face.
"Come on," I refused. "I hardly have any pictures of you on my new phone. Doesn't that concern you?"
"Yeah, I'm all torn up about it."
"Remember those pictures we took freshman year?" I smiled at the memory. "When I first got the RV?"
"You mean the half naked ones?" She rolled her eyes. "How could I forget?"
"Right, well if you'll just lean forward a bit, we can recreate them," I tried to coax her into it, but she shut me down, flipping me off again. "For old time's sake? Please?" I gave her my best puppy dog eyes and watched her smirk grow.
"Alright," She nodded. "Just one, though." I didn't protest, just waited for her to pose. Instead of leaning over like I'd suggested, though, she pulled her tank top off completely. "Well?" Her eyes were pure sin as she laid back and waited.
I could barely take my eyes of her long enough to find the shutter button on my phone. I'd felt a pang of guilt a moment ago for persuading her, but I should've known Jade never did anything she didn't want to. After the first pose, she kept going, modeling topless for me as if I were a real photographer.
"Paint me like one your French girls," She said jokingly, quoting The Titanic.
"Okay now, put your finger in your mouth like this," I did it myself and she threw a pillow at me.
"Perv!" She called with a smile.
"You're the one corrupting me," I tossed my phone aside to crawl over to her.
"Corrupting you?" She repeated as I hovered over her.
"I didn't say I don't like it," I said playfully as I kissed her bare rib cage. Her skin was so smooth I wondered how I could leave her earlier like I did. Not when she was here, waiting, her skin so soft.
"Mmm," She sighed the quietest moan as I ran my tongue over her chest, taking my time to get to her mouth. I massaged her breasts and started kissing at her neck, sucking in one place, slowly enjoying it. "Ahh…," She exhaled when I bit down harder.
"Too hard?" I glanced up at her to make sure.
"Never," She smirked and lifted my chin up to kiss me. It was so easy for us to entwine ourselves, in a matter of seconds we were both stark nude and a tangled mess of each other. "Did you have fun at Tori's?" She asked breathlessly as I knelt between her open legs.
"No," I shook my head against her lips, still trying to kiss her.
"And the new rule?" She put her palm on my lower abs stopping me from entering.
"I love it," I was smiling at the nerve she had. It was just like her to wait till I had no choice to comply. "Really, I think we need more great rules like that," I rambled on, my blood pumping rapidly. "More structure, I say."
"Shut up," She grinned and pulled me closer at last. I don't know if it was the topless photo shoot she'd put on earlier or the fact that I'd allowed myself to get keyed up so fast, but a few moments later I knew I wasn't going to last long enough.
Instead of keeping a solid pace, my rhythm was erratic; it was like my hips had a mind of their own. I could tell Jade was nowhere near finished, but that only made it that much worse when I came in a hasty eruption.
The abruptness of it left us staring at each other in silence. I was horrified at the shocked and kind of confused expression she wore so I scrambled my way off her and laid down beside her, at least a foot away.
My chest was heaving up and down, and I couldn't tell if it was from my early release or my anxiousness at what had happened. Guys say that kind of thing never happens to them, which is a total lie, but that kind of thing hadn't happened to me in a very long time.
"Well that was awkward," I felt the need to voice and I could feel the bed shake as she started to laugh. "Oh come on," I tried to stop her uncontrollable giggling, but failed, smiling myself. "How about some sensitivity?"
"It's not that," She managed to choke out between fits of laughter. I didn't believe her, though, and I could feel my face growing red with heat. "Really, it's not!" She turned onto her side to tell me. I gave her a dirty look, shaking my head at her until she stifled her laughter completely. "It's just…do you always make that face when you come?" Her question made her start giggling all over again and I felt even more embarrassed.
"What are you talking about?" I demanded to know. We'd been fooling around for over two years and she waits till now to bring this up?
"I don't know," She kept smiling as she shook her head. "You just made this really funny expression and I guess I never noticed until now, I'm—I…" Her voice trailed off as she kept laughing.
"You should see your face when you…you know," I tried to turn it around on her, but I didn't even believe myself. I loved the face she made.
"I'm sorry," She told me, still grinning. "Really, babe, it's cute." I stared at her for the longest time not sure how I felt.
Utterly humiliated for sure, but it was more than that. I almost felt lucky. Lucky that this girl could see my supposedly ridiculous expression and not run screaming. Instead she was looking back at me, chuckling a bit, but still in love with me.
It was a surreal feeling. Like no matter how much I embarrassed myself, she didn't care. So rather than plunge into self pity about the entire situation, I laughed. And so did she.
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*Next next day…I think*
Tori's POV
Fall mornings in Los Angeles had been getting cold lately, and I wasn't used to it yet. I did, however, love the clothes I got to wear for it. It was all about knee high boots and cute jackets; scarves and hats optional.
The clothes weren't enough to calm my nerves, though. I'd spent the past couple days panicking about the stunt I had to do; even after I'd been excused from it yesterday, I'd spent the whole night worrying about how I'd be able to do it again today.
Which is what brings me to Beck's driveway almost two hours before school starts. I'd texted the whole group yesterday about my nerves, and he'd been the only one who volunteered to actually help me.
Andre said he couldn't text because his Grandma was having an 'episode', whatever that meant. Cat had only responded with colorful emojis that depicted me jumping off the building, landing with a splat, and ending up in the hospital. Robbie had texted back a rude comment and signed it 'Rex', leaving Jade's reply: nothing.
Like I said, Beck was the only helpful response. He'd asked me if I wanted to come over the next morning to work on my stunt. I didn't know exactly what that entailed, but I figured it couldn't hurt to try.
So I had my dad drop me off, and walked lazily towards where I knew Beck's RV was parked. The sun had barely risen, but I only had to knock a few times until he answered.
"Hey," He was dressed and upright, but his eyes looked drowsy, and I felt a bit guilty.
"Hi," I waved, and felt even more guilty when he smiled at me. Mostly because last year I thought I'd gotten over my little crush on him, but since he got back, I don't know…
He just looked so cute, and I couldn't figure out why; it was like he'd gotten hotter or something. The guilt came from the fact he'd only seemed to grow closer to Jade. And while she and I weren't the best of friends, I'd like to think we came to a new understanding over the summer.
"Did you…wanna practice outside or something?" Beck brought me back to reality and I realized he'd been standing with the door open for me.
"Oh, sorry!" I stepped inside and shivered instantly.
"Sorry about that," Beck said as he shut the door behind me. "The heat's been out for a week or so."
"It's okay," I said, but wrapped my arms around myself; it was colder in here than it was outside.
"How're you doing?" Beck asked now.
"I'm freaking out!" I couldn't control my volume, and I didn't know I had to until Beck hushed me.
"Shhh," He brought his index to his lips and sort of widened his eyes till I stopped talking. He pointed at his bed, and then I saw her.
Jade was curled in a ball on the bed, the blankets up to her chin as she made a noise. Her eyes were still shut, but she tossed around a bit to change her position. Beck walked over to her and leaned in, then gave me nod like it was okay.
"Maybe we should go outside?" I suggested, but he'd already gone to sit on his couch.
"No, it's fine," He shook his head as he opened his laptop. "She just woke up 'cause I had to move her. Otherwise, she sleeps like a rock."
"Oh…kay," I nodded and sat beside him. If he said it was fine, I'd agree, but mostly because I was trying to bury the small pang of jealousy I felt. She was in his bed. I knew I shouldn't care, but I mean…she was in his bed!
"So I was thinking," Beck's voice brought me back again. "Maybe we could look up stunt falls to see how they land then practice on a regular chair."
"Then?" I braced myself.
"Well, the main house does have a balcony…"
"Beck!" I pushed him lightly and he smiled the brightest smile I'd ever seen.
"I'm just kidding," He laughed at my reaction. "We could put the chair on a table or something."
"Let's just see if I can handle falling off a chair by itself," I sighed and put my glasses on as he opened up a Youtube tab. I wish I could say I was bored the entire time and couldn't wait to get out of there, but that'd be a lie.
Hanging out with Beck alone, as I'd learned a few nights ago, was even better than hanging out with the whole gang. He was funny, charming, interesting, and more importantly, he listened. We always had a good time together; even with his girlfriend asleep a few feet away.
An hour or so later, we'd gone through numerous videos and studied the different ways I could try to land, I was feeling a bit more confident. The professional stunt people made it look so easy.
"I think I can do that one," I said, pointing at the screen as another person tumbled off a platform. "If I can manage not to crack my skull on the floor."
"That would be useful," Beck nodded seriously then smile just before a ringing sound went off. I almost jumped in surprise, but Beck remained calm as usual and reached forward to silence his phone.
"Who's calling you this early?" I wondered out loud.
"It's an alarm," He said as he put his phone in his pocket and stood up. "For school."
"Ah," I nodded to myself because he'd already left towards his bed. I pretended to focus on the laptop screen while watching him out of my peripheral vision.
"Jade…," I could hear him whisper as he knelt onto the mattress beside her. "Come on, babe. Time to wake up."
"Mmm…no," I heard her muffled voice protest. My heart almost skipped a beat when I saw him bend down lower to kiss he cheek. I could hear him mumbling, but couldn't make out the words; something that felt like it was literally killing me not to hear. A moment later he hopped off the bed, done with his job I suppose, and returned to his seat next to me.
"So," He took the laptop back from me and closed it. "You think you're ready for a test run?"
"Umm…," I hesitated, my paranoia creeping back in. "Maybe just a few more videos. I'm a visual learner, you know."
"Okay," He nodded, and I knew he could tell I was still scared. He didn't say anything about it, though; something I really appreciated right now.
Before we could say anything more, Jade's awakening caught both of our attention. She thrashed about, tossing her blanket on the floor completely and muttering to herself as she stood up. I tried not to notice the fact that she seemed to be wearing the top Beck had on yesterday and nothing else as she stomped towards the bathroom.
"Good morning, sunshine," I gave her a smile that she scowled at.
"Fuck you," She mumbled before shutting the door behind herself.
"Uh…," Beck grimaced at my shocked expression. "Jade's not really a morning person."
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Jade's POV
"Are you listening to me? Hello?" Beck waved his hand in front of my face. "Jade?"
"I'm listening!" I lied as I smacked his arm away from me.
"Liar," He rolled his eyes. He was right, the second he mentioned Tori's name, I zoned out.
"Fine, sorry, go ahead," I shook my hair out and waited patiently. We'd been sitting on the floor under his locker, eating lunch without the gang.
"I said, Andre and I thought it'd be a good idea for the group to visit the set of Tori's movie today," He said her name and I fought the urge to stop listening.
"Ugh, I wish you'd stop calling it that," I rolled my eyes. "She's just a stunt double, and not a very good one at that." Beck didn't respond right away, just stared at me long enough for me to understand he wasn't condoning my attitude towards Vega.
"Anyways," He spoke after an exaggerated pause. "We're all gonna meet up after school and head over to the studio."
"Have fun," I tried to get out of it, but the eye roll Beck gave me told me he wanted me to go. "Ugh! Fine, what time are we going?"
"Around 3:30," He smiled at my compliance. "I have a thing right after school, so I'll come find you after."
"A thing?" I repeated his words.
"Yeah, a thing."
"Care to explain?" I crossed my arms and waited.
"I just have…," I recognized his hesitation and wanted to pinch the information out of him. "A meeting with Eikner," He put his hands up to stop me from speaking. "It's just a meeting! Not a big deal."
"What for?" I could hear my rage building at that douchebag Ryder.
"I don't know," Beck shrugged and looked absolutely calm. "He just told Andre and me to be in his office after last bell."
"This is so stupid!" I started tearing at random papers in my notebook to take out my frustration. "It happened a week ago! Ryder needs to grow a pair and move on, I mean what kind of—," My rant was interrupted when Beck leaned forward and kissed me. "Not fair," I whispered when he pulled away an inch.
"Don't stress," He told me with a half smile as he tucked a strand of hair behind my ear. "I'll handle it."
"Fine," I sighed, admitting defeat. I hated that my impulse decision to key Ryder's car had come down on Beck the way it had.
"Where should I meet you?"
"In…the blackbox," I answered and tried to hide the fact that an idea had just came to mind. "I'll be in there with Cat and Robbie so come find us after."
"Great," He smiled and continued to talk about how he didn't think he should have to wear a red clown nose for my play. I let him go on, knowing he'd end up wearing the rubber nose, but started thinking about my own agenda.
By the end of the day I decided this had gone on long enough. Ryder was just being a dick about the whole situation, and I was sick of it. The only way to end this was face to face.
So after school, instead of waiting for Beck in the blackbox with Cat like I said I would, I went to find Ryder. I told Cat where I was going, but ordered her to stay put; I didn't want her to get in any more trouble she didn't deserve.
I knew Ryder was one of the dumb jocks that worked out in the school's gym afterschool so I waited outside the boys locker room until I was sure he'd be in there alone. When the last boy walked out, I crept inside, ignoring the raunchy smell that only boys could produce.
"Ryder?" I called his name throughout the empty room, the sound echoing a bit. "Ryder?"
"In here," His voice rang out towards the showers and I went towards it, my eyes widening when I saw him. He wasn't near the lockers like I'd thought, but still in the shower, buck naked.
"Jesus!" I exclaimed and turned around instantly, the image of his dripping wet body burned into my mind. "You could've said something."
"Why?" His smug tone pissed me off again. "I'm sure it's nothing you haven't seen before."
"Still," I rolled my eyes as he left the tiled showers and went to his locker, still nude. "Look, I want—,"
"To talk?" He assumed, using a small towel to dry his hair. "Go ahead."
"Fine," I rolled my eyes and made eye contact; ignoring that my peripheral vision gave me a full gaze on his…well, you know. "It's about your car."
"You mean the one you keyed?"
"Allegedly."
"Drop the act, Jade," I hated the way my name sounded on his lips. "We both know it was you."
"Okay," I nodded, it was pretty obvious he wasn't wearing a wire so it's not like I could be held accountable for anything I said here. "Fine, I did it. So stop blaming the others, alright? It was me. No one else."
"And you expect me to believe that?" He scoffed. "I bet that bitch Tori put you up to it."
"She didn't even know," I lied.
"Yeah right."
"Tori is…," My mouth fought the next words to come out. "A…nice girl. She didn't deserve your crap and she doesn't deserve this."
"What about you?" He flipped the script, and started walking towards me. "You're not a nice girl, are you?"
"No, but that's not…," I stopped when he got a little bit closer than I wanted. This was starting to feel uncomfortable; him, naked, backing me against a wall with no one around. "You know what? Never mind. I should go."
"I thought you wanted to talk?" He gave me an arrogant smirk.
"Yeah, on second thought," I trusted my instincts, which were telling me to get the hell out of there, and moved to leave. "I gotta go."
"Why?" He stuck his arm in front of me onto the wall, blocking my exit. "We were just getting started."
"I have to be at—,"
"Don't lie," He shook his head at me and raised his other arm, locking me in a cage between him and the wall behind me. "You don't have anywhere to go, otherwise you wouldn't be here."
"Beck will—,"
"Beck's not coming," He said with certainty. "He's with Eikner." He'd moved so close to me now, I could almost feel his chest on mine, making my skin crawl. My heart beat sped up as the severity of my predicament set in. "It's just you and me…," He made a point to inhale deeply near my ear as his hands moved to hold my arms.
"Get your hands off me," I demanded through gritted teeth.
"Why?" He was far too close to my lips now. "I heard you like it rough."
Before he could kiss me, my natural impulses kicked in; literally. My knee came up in a sharp motion to plunge into his groin. Since it was so open to pain, he keeled over instantly, holding himself and groaning.
"Bitch," He hissed at me before using what minimal force he had left to trip me as I walked away. I tumbled down near him but crawled way as fast as I could, eager to get as far as possible.
When I'd made it across the room, I looked up to see him wiggling into a pair of gym shorts and eyeing me like a hawk. In a matter of seconds, though, that all changed.
The door swung open as Beck arrived, somehow knowing where to find me. He got one look at the room; me on the floor and Ryder pulling shorts onto his naked self, and lost it.
"Beck, wait!" I tried to stop him, recognizing the angry look in his eyes. He was on a warpath. "Beck, I'm fine!" I called out again, but it was too late, Beck had already lunged at him.
Ahhh that's as close to a cliffhanger as I get lol
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