Hey, got my first review last chapter, so yaaaay! Ok, just wanted to let you know this chapter is really long, about twice as long as the other chapters, because it all kept flowing into my head and so, yeah it's long. And the next chapter is going to be a really good one, I can just feel it. :) If you're reading my story and you like it, please review it, it would mean the world to me!

Ch6

Sitting in class was like torture. The clock on the wall was going so slowly I thought it must be broken. I couldn't stop thinking about how much my life was going to change. I will be going out with the coolest guy in school, people may not avoid me any more in the hall. Jade will get over it; we just need to break it to her gently…

"Hey Cat!" I jumped and nearly fell off my chair.

"Oh hey Andre. Did you know that clock is broken?"

"Wh… what? It looks fine to me!"

"Yeah well, I know it's broken. I can tell."

"Right… anyway, that's not what I want you to talk about! Tori told me."

I gulped "She what?"

"Oh it's all right, I won't tell anyone!"

"Oh, please don't!"

"Don't worry Little Red, you're secret's safe with me! So did he apologise for scaring you like that the other day?"

"Yes, yes. It's all been worked out. I'm scared of telling Jade though, she might hurt me."

"She would never hurt you. You mean a lot to Jade, even though she'd never admit it."

"If you say so… she's not talking to me right now though I don't think"

Jade was seated at the other side of the room from us. She hadn't spoken to me for the whole lesson. I decided this was a bad thing, I expected her to start asking me about what I was excited about in the toilets. I thought its best not to bring it up though, so I left her alone.

"So, you and Beck, you going to be like, kissing, and hugging and stuff!" Oh I knew Andre would be just as giddy as me about it.

"Hmmhmm, I know! It's not going to be weird though, is it?"

"No, you are going to be really cute together!"

"Aaahh! I'm so happy, haha, I think I'm going to burst!"

"Well, you just keep your voice down" he whispered "you don't want this spreading around any time soon."

I wished the clock would fix itself, but it just seemed to keep going slower. Lunchtime came, and I left the classroom as quickly as my legs would carry me. I dumped my stuff in my locker and headed to the theatre. I checked the coast was clear and ran backstage. Beck wasn't there yet. I started to look around backstage. There was a box full of costumes from the most recent play, "Romeo and Juliet". I decided to have some fun, and try on some of the costumes. I found a really poofy old dress that was bright blue. I slipped off my jeans and shirt and was about to try it on when I heard a voice from behind me.

"I was under the impression we were just going to talk, but really I think your idea is better."

I jumped around and saw Beck gazing at me, leaning against the wall. I shrieked and tried to cover myself up, but I was only in my underwear and I wasn't having much luck.

"Beck! Turn around!"

"Hey don't worry. Here." He handed me his jacket and I slipped it on. It was more like a dress on me, as it came halfway down my thighs.

"Thanks"

"No problem."

He stood right in front of me, looking down at me. He leaned towards me but I put my hands on his shoulders, stopping him.

"Not yet. We need to talk."

"Ok, what is it we need to talk about?"

"Err, y'know, stuff and… things that need… talking about."

"Ok. Stuff such as…"

"I don't know! We need to sort out our… err, feelings and stuff…"

"Ok, I'll start then."

He paused for a second, summoning up some courage. "Cat, I have liked you for a while now, I just never was going to tell you because I wasn't sure how you would react. I thought I might frighten you so that you would never talk to me again, and I didn't want that to happen."

"I would never do that, I love you Beck… I mean, y'know, I didn't mean to say that, I'm sorry."

"It's alright Cat, I mean, very sudden. But I'm flattered, honest."

"Oh good. Sorry, carry on with your story."

"Okay. When me and Jade broke up I just thought I'd go for it, and make a move on you. My head was messed up, I wasn't thinking straight. After I left you like that by the side of the road, I thought I really had blown my chance, and I thought you hated me."

"Whoa. Beck, I could never hate you. You've always been nice to me, and always listened to me. Most people don't do that. If it wasn't for you, I would be a lot less popular than I am."

"Not to mention the eighty dollars I had to tip off Sikowitz to drop his supply of coconuts in the hall this morning."

"You got Sikowitz to do that?"

"Yeah. I knew you and Tori were in the toilets. I knew you were telling her, I could hear you both squealing from outside. I saw Jade heading in, and so I ran up to Sikowitz and told him to drop the coconuts. The amount of money I thought was a bit… excessive. Apart from that, he did it quite willingly really. It's surprising; he really does worship his coconuts."

"Yeah, but, you asked him to do that… for me? For eighty whole dollars?"

"Well, yeah but, Cat it wasn't a big deal! I just had to think fast. He specifically asked for 100 dollars, but I only had eighty on me, sorry…"

"Don't be sorry, I don't think anyone has ever spent eighty dollars on me before!"

"Well, I think I was spending it more on Sikowitz, but sure the favour was for you." He smiled at me mischievously, and I grinned back, but it made me feel goofy so I stopped. Then he laughed at me, but in a kind way, so I laughed too. Then he started to lean towards me, but again I stopped him.

He sighed; I could tell he was frustrated. I didn't want him to be angry. "Sorry, really I am sorry. But there's just one more thing!"

"Don't worry, cool it Cat! Ok, what is this thing."

"Andre knows."

"Oh. Did you tell him?"

"Nooo, Tori did. I didn't know she would, I thought she'd keep it a secret!" I laughed nervously "haha… but it's ok right?"

"Yeah, Andre's one of my best friends, I know he won't tell anyone. Now, where were we?" He leaned, and this time I let him.

He kissed me slowly and I felt the familiar tingling spread from my lips down through my whole body. He pushed against me so I backed into the wall. He started to kiss me with more force so I was nearly lifted off the ground. I responded by wrapping my arms around his waist, and clutching onto his back. He rubbed his body against mine quickly, causing me to moan. He responded by doing it again, and I felt something strange in my lower regions which made me squeal suddenly.

He broke away from me. "Are you alright?"

I was out of breath but managed to smile, "Yeah, all good!" He smiled back at me, and pulled me in to hug me. He was warm and smelled like cinnamon and apples, which I really liked.

"So, you still haven't really expressed your feelings to me."

I smiled at him "Do I really need to?"

He moved in again and kissed me, gently and slowly, and I felt like it was meant to be, I felt wanted when I was in his arms, and Beck was the only person in my life I felt completely comfortable acting like myself around, not that it ever stopped me acting like myself in front of everyone anyway.

We broke apart suddenly when a shuffling sound of footsteps came from around the corner. We both looked at each other and started to move towards the noise. As we came around the corner, we saw…

"Robbie! What the hell are you doing?"

"Cat! Beck! What a surprise to see you two here! I was just, on a walk and now, well, I'm leaving!"

"Hold it right there." Beck calmly reached out and grabbed Robbie by the arm, easily stopping him from going anywhere. I couldn't help but smile at how strong he was.

"Please, don't hurt me!"

"What did you see?"

"Nothing! I saw nothing!"

"Oh sure, you were spying on us weren't you?"

"Beck, please, let me go! I'm sorry, I saw Cat rushing off somewhere and I wanted to follow to see where she was going."

"So you heard everything then?"

"No, I was stopped by Sinjin in the hall, he wanted me to look at his new lighting controller for the theatre, and I tried to get away but he wouldn't let me go! I saw that Cat had run in here, and I came in just in time to see you two sucking each other's faces off!"

"Grr, Robbie it's not like that! I want to be with Beck, he wants to be with me! We are together now, we just haven't told everyone yet!"

"Oh sure, look you guys I don't know how long your little game has been going on, but you are going to end up hurting Jade, it needs to stop. Just because you two can't control your urges doesn't make it right!"

I felt so angry! How dare he say that! Before I could stop myself, my hand made contact with his cheek so hard that Beck dropped his arm in surprise and Robbie fell to the floor.

"Oww, Cat!"

"Don't you ever dare say that again! I love Beck, and Jade and him are finished!" I burst out crying before I could stop myself. Robbie grabbed Rex, who he had left around the corner, and ran. Beck pulled me in and hugged me tight. As though it was magic, he made me feel better and he managed to comfort me without saying a word. I looked up at his face, and he smiled down at me and wiped the tears off my cheeks with his thumb.

"Oh Beck, he's going to tell Jade!"

"He's not if he knows what's good for him. Don't worry, I know how to handle Jade, when she does find out, it will all be ok, I promise."

"What should we do now?"

"Go and get some lunch. If we are both missing, people will get suspicious."

I left for the asphalt café, and Beck was going to come in five minutes so we didn't get the together. I grabbed some food and went to sit next to Tori. She was sat on her own at a table, texting on her phone.

"Hey Tori"

"Hi Cat, where've you been?"

"Just with…" my voice changed to a whisper "Beck."

Tori giggled "Oh ok, you two had fun?"

"Yeah" She looked at me worriedly.

"Why d'you sound so glum?"

"I know you told Andre about us."

"Ok, Cat I know I should have kept it to myself, but Andre is our friend, and he won't tell anyone."

"So you only told Andre?"

"I swear."

"Ok!" I suddenly felt uplifted again; I should have known I could trust Tori. I decided to change the subject so she didn't feel awkward. "Did you know that Beck's hair is like, softer than anything I've ever felt before?"

Tori looked surprised but pleased that I changed the topic "well, yeah I know, its awesome hair."

"Yeah, and did you know he smells like apples?"

Apples… really?"

"Yep… AND, he's got really big eyes."

"Ok, Cat, calm down. And you'd better start talking about someone other than Beck, Jade's heading this way."

I gasped and looked behind me. Jade was heading towards the table, and she had a really angry look on her face. I noticed her hair looked pretty today though.

"Hi Jade!" I gulped nervously "You're hair looks pretty today."

"Cut the crap Cat! What's the game, huh? I know you two are up to something, and you don't want me to find out. Come on then, spit it out!"

"Err, Jade, look it's really nothing." I could see Tori couldn't think of anything to say, and neither could I. We were saved, however, by someone coming up behind Jade to talk to her. I couldn't believe it though when I saw who it was.

"Jade?"

"WHAT?" Robbie Shapiro's face never managed to brighten up Jade's day.

"I've got something to talk to you about. In private." I was looking pleadingly at Robbie, but he ignored me.

"This better be good, or the puppet gets it!" Robbie looked too serious to even defend Rex, who also sat their silently in Robbie's arms. He started to walk off towards the doors and Jade stormed off after him.

Tori looked relieved and confused. "God, Robbie looked bummed! I wonder what he wanted to talk about, with Jade of all people!"

I felt fresh warm tears hit my cheeks "I know! Oh God, oh God Oh God!"

"What, Cat, what is it? Sweety what's wrong?"

"He knows! Robbie knows about me and Beck, but he only saw us kissing and just thinks we're like, just doing it behind Jade's back but he doesn't know we're actually together and he's going to tell Jade, and Jade's going to hurt me, and she's going to KILL Beck, and then I'll never get to see his face again because he'll be dead and I'll be alone and hurt forever!"

"Shush Cat! D'you want the whole school to know? Robbie would never tell Jade, he's our friend!"

"But Robbie doesn't want me to be with Beck, he's trying to split us up!"

"Wh… why would he do that?"

"Robbie, well he kinda…" I blushed at the thought of what I was about to say "he told me a few weeks ago that he fancies me. And I turned him down, I told him I liked him, but he was my friend and I didn't want him to be my boyfriend! He wants me, and he is jealous of Beck, I'm sure of it!"

Tori looked really worried "Ok, wow, poor Robbie. But that's not what I'm worried about. We need to think about how you are going to handle Jade. I've got your back, but I think that Jade will probably hate you even more if I take your side, seen as she despises me."

"Beck says he knows how to handle Jade, he'll know what to do."

"Well we are so in luck then. Look behind you."

Beck was heading towards the table with a tray of food. He saw me looking at him and smiled, but quickly turned to face Tori and smiled too. I felt jealous, but then remembered we were trying to be secretive.

"Hey girls." He winked quickly at me, and I giggled.

"Hey Beck! So, so glad you are here!" Tori did really look relieved to see him.

"Why, what's going on?"

"Jade is being told about us right now! And it's Robbie that's telling her, he's going to make her think we're like, just doing it behind her back for the sake of it, and she is going to kill us!"

"Relax! I can explain to her what is really going on, she'll listen. Who knows, she may be totally cool about it!"

"Yeah that's likely!" I saw Beck glare at Tori. "Well, I'm just being truthful! Now, not that I'm not worried for your safety, but I'm going to clear off before Jade comes back here! I'm number one target for Jade to take her anger out on, so I need to get as far away from here as possible!"

Tori ran towards the doors, looking behind her briefly to wave goodbye to us. We just sat there, not knowing what to say next. What felt like years passed before either of us said anything.

"So, no sign of Jade yet."

"Nope." I sighed "Maybe she got so angry she burst into flames, so she died and couldn't come and yell at us!"

"Cat!" Beck looked shocked "That's a horrible thing to say."

"I didn't say I wanted that to happen! I just thought that it's a possibility, that's all."

He shook his head, and then stared into space. I messed around with my food, twirling my fork in it, but I didn't want to eat anything. The minutes dragged on, and we both jumped in shock as the bell went, signalling the end of lunch.

"We'd better go."

"What about Jade?"

"I don't know. If you see her, just run and find me, don't try to explain anything to her, I think it's best if I do the talking."

"Sure. I'll, erm, see you later?"

"Come around to mine after school." He paused, "If you're not busy that is."

"No, I'm free. See you later."

The rest of the afternoon was uneventful. There was no sign of Jade or Robbie anywhere, so I assumed they must be skipping classes. Why though, I had no idea. I talked to Tori, and she thought it was strange too, but she was just glad the drama was over for one day.

"Look, Cat, I think this is a good thing. Jade isn't here, so she is probably at home thinking it through, and calming down. She will realise this is a good thing. Anyway, she's over Beck, isn't she?"

"I don't really know. She said she wouldn't get back together with him, so…"

"So she must be over him. If she was angry, she would have come and found you by now.

That did reassure me quite a bit. "Ok. Tori, will you drive me to Beck's after school?"

She looked at me with the concerned look I knew too well, but she agreed. "Yeah, ok sure. But you're not too worried are you? About Jade and all?"

"No, I'm not too worried." I wasn't sure how I felt about it though, to be honest. I felt safe when Beck was near me, and being with Beck was all I wanted every second of the day, so being with him seemed like the best option to me right now.