A/N: My sincere apology to michelle m randall because I just notice that her pen name was cut-off in Chapter 6 Author's Note and I edit in right away. Sorry about it (puppy-eye look). As to show my sincere apology, I put your name in this Chapter together with other followers and some added characters. I hope/wish that I am forgiven. I'm very sorry again. I dedicate this Chapter to the people who followed this story.
Chapter 7: Dedication
(JADE)
Three weeks after.
It's been three weeks and she didn't see him in school. Not hearing about him from their teachers even Nessie didn't mention anything to Jade about Red. It was weird to her that one day of meeting this guy just gave a huge impact on her. She felt that something was missing. She never felt this before whenever she was with Clarence back in the day when he was not around and until now but still he missed the times that they spent together as a couple, sometimes, she wanted to ask Nessie about him but her inner self stopped her for doing it. She managed to enjoy her day without seeing him and enjoyed her stay in Forks and for three weeks she met new friends.
In Cafeteria.
"This was the first time that they will hold a festival in our school and at the same time with our traditional dance, where girls will be the one who will ask the guys to be their escort." Jasmine (jasminefiregreen) said with full of excitement without touching her food.
"Yeah, thanks to our newly appointed School President at my side." Nessie gazed at the girl who was seated right next to her.
"You don't have to thank me because I just doing my job. I want this occasion to be memorable to all the students." Michelle (michelle m randall) said in a humble way.
"Still, we are grateful that you manage to make the school administration to agree with it." Jasmine told Michelle, who was now eating her food.
Michelle smiled at Jasmine. "Not without the help of the other appointed school members, I couldn't do it without them."
"You really are so down to Earth." Jasmine hugged her.
"Speaking of Earth," Nessie gaze at Jade, who was quiet the whole time. "Earth to Jade, come in. Earth to Jade, can you hear us?" Nessie waved her hands to Jade.
Jade's wandering was cut-off. "Ha? What? Yeah," she was scooping her food and put it back again and repeated it again and again.
"Do you know exactly what are we talking about?" Nessie asked her.
"Sorry." She politely said.
"Still not asking someone out?" Michelle asked.
"Well," she paused for a bit. "I don't want to attend the dance." She honestly said.
The three of them where in shocked upon hearing it. "What?!" They asked in unison.
She didn't say anything and looked at them.
"You know that's every girls dream off, to ask their crush or special someone out in a date. To get to know you stage." Jasmine gave her a lecture, putting it in quotation.
"But you have to be there to support are friend here. With or without a date, you need to experience this new thing in our school." Nessie was convincing her.
"I don't like parties and school celebration." She confessed.
"Well, it's time to change it." Michelle said. "As a School President I appoint you to be one of the usherettes in the dance. No questions ask. No buts and I won't accept no for an answer." She just appointed Jade on the spot to be an usherette.
Jade just sighed and raise her hands up, the sign of defeat. "Ok. You win Ms. School President."
And the girls gave high five with other.
"You won't regret it." Jasmine said with high energy. "What will be the theme?" Jasmine asked Michelle going back to the dance conversation.
"We decided to make it into a Masquerade theme." She simply answered.
"Wow, I was really looking for it, where all the students and teachers where going to were mask. Very mysterious I should say." Then she looked back at Nessie. "So Nessie are you going to bring him?" She asked with a huge smile at her face.
"Yes, definitely, he's my boyfriend." Nessie said with enthusiasm.
Jade pay attention to what Nessie had said. 'She's going to bring Red in the dance.' She thought. 'I will have a chance to see him again.' She blinked and repeat of what she just thought. 'Wait, his Nessie's boyfriend, I shouldn't think of it this way. Erase, erase, erase.'
"Maybe you might hook someone there, Jade." Jade heard what Nessie said.
"Maybe not because all of them are taken, they have dates." She quickly answered.
"Maybe someone will crash there without a date." Nessie was sure about what she was saying.
"Let's find out. Want to bet?" Jasmine just came out with an idea.
"I'm going to bet for having an unexpected date." Nessie said it first.
"I'm with Nessie." Jasmine raised her hands.
"Me too, I'm with Nessie and Jasmine." Michelle also raised her hand.
"How about you, Jade?" Michelle gazed at her.
"Hey, not fair, three against one." Jade complained.
"What's your answer?" Nessie ignore her whined.
"Okay, I bet I won't have an unexpected date in the dance." She answered. "What's the consequence?"
"Free food for three months." Michelle told her with a smile in her face.
"Do my homework for three months." Jessica added.
"Me simple, just let your hair down for three months as well." Nessie finished.
"Ok game on." Jade was delighted to bet with them. Well she's going to turn them down and win the bet.
"Are you done with the preparation?" Jasmine asked going back to their first conversation and she also started to eat her food.
"Almost over just few more details and we're set." Michelle answered.
"Why do we have a little celebration when you're all done with the preparation, what do you think?" Nessie just got an idea. "My treat," she volunteered.
"Yes of course, why not?" Michelle replied. "We won't say no for a free treat." She continued.
"Yeah, let's bring the others. The more the happier." Jasmine clapped her hands with full of excitement.
"Really?" Michelle raised her eyebrow, sign of not believing of what she said. "You just want to invite Edward." She corrected her.
"So?" Jasmine looked at Michelle with big eyes.
"That gorgeous guy is taken and her name is Bella. Please stop fantasizing about him, he's off the market." Michelle looked also at Jasmine with big eyes.
"Not until he is married." She was not giving up being with Edward.
Jade simply gazed at the table where the couple where seated with Nessie's relatives. They were chatting and she noticed that the food was not being touched. Then, she noticed a ring in Edward and Bella's ring fingers and turned her gazed away from them and finished her food.
"Well they are." Nessie slipped and after she realized what she said she simply cover her mouth and released a fake cough. She was relieved that the two were busy with their talk fight and turned to gaze at Jade who was looking at her in confusion.
"Well, I mean- "She was looking for a good excused for what she just said. "Meaning they are a good couple and soon they will tie a knot just like any other couple, who ended up in a good marriage, right? That's what I see when they're together." She said nervously.
Jade smiled. "Yes, I know. Why are you so defensive?" But still confused on what Nessie talked in a defensive mode.
"Nothing," she just said and looked at Jasmine and Michelle.
She gazed back at them and found out that the rings in their ring fingers were already gone.
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(CULLENS TABLE)
"Looks like our daughter just mess up." Edward took off his ring.
"I think she just notice it before our darlin' slip." Bella also took off her ring and put it in her bag.
"She's very observant." Jasper said while looking at Alice face.
"Do you read her mind?" Alice was playing with Jasper's hand which was around her shoulder.
"Yes, but there something about her. Sometimes she's an open book and then she was so silent. There's something else that I cannot decipher, whenever I try to decode it my head starts to ache or divert to another mind." He gazes at Bella who was looking at Alice. "On a lighter part, she was thinking if she could ask Nessie about Red, she thought that Red was Nessie's mate, which was funny." Edward smirked.
Bella looked at Edward. "Really?" she couldn't believe of what she just heard.
"If I were Jade, I might also think of that as well. Red and Nessie are too close with each other." Rosalie said with cross arms.
"Speaking of Red, did he call yet?" Emmett asked while twirling the edge of Rosalie's hair.
"Nope, not yet, Esme said." Bella answered and looked at Alice. "Do you have any vision?"
Alice closed her eyes. "I saw, he was training with Garrett." And she opened them.
"Oh yeah, I can't wait to a put it in test." Emmett grinned and held his fist up.
"How about his - soon – to – be - mate? Bella continued.
"Well, I don't really know if Jade was really his mate. I don't see it clearly. I just saw blue eyes that turned in to a crimson red eye. The way the eyes stare has a resemblance on how Jade stares. Let's not go down to the conclusion if Jade was really Red's mate." Alice was unsure about was her vision was telling her.
"Well, let's just wait and see but now let's just be cautious." Edward warned them. "She's looking at our way again and I can't read her mind this time."
Bella put her arms around Edwards arm and gazed to meet Jade eyes. She smiled at her and Jade started to blush and turned away.
The bell rang and headed to their respected classes.
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(JADE)
Biology class with Nessie.
Jade was not listening on what the teacher had said. Her mind was wandering outside the class. She was sketching something in her pad. She noticed a Nessie slipped a piece of paper to her.
Nice sketch. –N.
She wrote back.
Thanks. –J.
She slipped it back to Nessie. Nessie wrote something and gave it back at her.
Who was it? Look familiar to me –N.
She stopped and looked at was she just sketch. She quickly close her pad and gazed at the teacher. Nessie was surprised on what Jade acted. She looked at her in a few minutes waiting if Jade will answer her question but she gave up when Jade did not looked at her so she turned to gaze at their teacher, who was writing something on the board but still confused on what Jade acted. The class ended and still no answer from Jade. They were silent walking outside the room. When they're going to walked separate ways. Nessie broke the silent.
"Ahm….. You didn't answer my question earlier." She was examining her.
Jade bit her lips. "It's nothing. Sorry about the way I reacted."
"Okay, I'm not going to ask it anymore but another question. Is there something wrong?" She still was looking at her eyes, searching for something
Jade looked at her books to ignore Nessie's interrogative eyes. "I'm fine. Nothing's wrong."
They been quiet for a while and Nessie spoke again. "Jade. It's Friday, right?" Nessie was still thinking of what to say.
"Yes. Why?" Jade simply answered.
"Let's go out. Unwind a little, let's asked the others." Nessie putted her idea into a word.
She kept quiet and thought for a while.
"We won't take long. I'll bring you home." She showed her a puppy-eyed look.
She sighed and showed her defeat. "Okay you win. I'm just going to message mom about it."
"May I am the one to call her because I'm the one invited you?" Nessie volunteered.
"Okay."
Nessie handed her phone to Jade. Jade typed her mom's number and gave it back to Nessie.
"See you after class." She was full of excitement. "Don't hurt yourself because where going out, our first time to bond together." She reminded her.
Nessie walked the opposite way and putted her phone to her ear. Jade walked to her last class with a smile in her face but then again her smile pull out when her inner self surge again.
( BOLD ITALIC - inner self Bold - Jade )
You really have the guts to be friends with her, aren't you?
Please stop! Her head started to ache.
Being friendly with her makes you a traitor. We both know that you have something about her guy.
No I don't! She shook her head.
Come on. Don't be in denial. I know you. I'm also part of you. I know everything about you.
Shut up will you. She rested to a locker near her holding her head.
Not until you realize that you have feelings for this Nessie's guy and get rid of her. So both of you have will have a happy ever after.
Get out. I will not betray her. She closed her eyes.
We'll see about that Good Jade.
As soon the inner self was gone the pain in her head was also gone. This was the first time that her inner self talked in a harsh way. She never had this before. After the incident happened in Romania when she was a kid, she started to experience things that included headache, unexplained pain in her body and others. Her inner self was also part of it, her inner self talked to her liked having another body and mind of its own. They went back to the hospital in Romania when these symptoms occurred and asked for an opinion on what was her condition. The doctor didn't see anything, so, he just prescribed her a medicine for her headache and recommended them to see a Psychologist. They obey the doctors advised but after a few sessions with the Psychologist and nothing were change, they decide to end it and go back home – in California. As she grew, she never told her parents that she still experienced it because they will think that she was crazy and put her inside the hospital for mental illnesses but they still knew her headache and unexplained pain in her body. She always bought her painkillers whenever she went to. When she gained herself back, she headed to her class.
'I think it's getting worse. I should be more cautious this time. Think of the happy thoughts.'
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After the class, she quickly change and headed outside the campus. She gazed around looking for Nessie.
"Jade, over here." Nessie shouted. She was leaning on a pink Chevrolet Sonic.
Jade walked to Nessie's direction and gazed at the car behind her. Her eyes were mesmerized with the car and her mouth was hung open until she reached Nessie.
"Is it your?" Still not believing of what she was seeing.
"Yes, my dad bought it for me." Nessie said in an honest tone. "Come on let's go." She walked and opened the door.
She gazed around. "Where are the others?"
"Well, they're not available." She went inside.
Jade took the other door and slide in. "Wow, it was really nice and comfy, well; I've seen this in person but I've never get the chance to explore the inside."
Nessie putted her pink seatbelt. "Well, explore all you want." She smiled at Jade. "Put your seatbelt on."
Jade obey and putted her pink seatbelt on. Nessie started to start the engine and head out of the campus parking lot to the road.
"Your fave color is pink, isn't it?" Jade gave sure guess while looking inside Nessie's car.
"Mom decided to change the interior into color pink." She sighed. "But I'm beginning to like it." She added.
"Your parents love you a lot and maybe protective." Jade looked at her.
"Your right and I love them so much." Nessie said with full of love for them. "Change topic, I won't want to be mushy."
They both looked at each other and laughed.
"So, where are we going?" Jade asked.
Nessie looked at the road and asked, "Do you sing?"
A/N: I watched Teen Choice Award 2013. Congrats to all the winners and also the nominees. Darren Criss and Lucy Hale did a good job in hosting. I've never seen "Pitch Perfect" and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" yet so I decided to watch it this week or maybe another week. The performers were great and I love it. I was so touched with Lea Michelle's speech, who won as Choice TV Actress-Comedy. I admire her for being strong. What a speech coming from Ashton Kutcher with his opportunity, being sexy and build a life thing! Wow, I love Ian Somerhaalder, who won as Choice TV Actor-Fantasy/Sci-fi, congrats to you my love (in my dream). Yes! Paramore, Bruno Mars, Demi Lovato, One Direction, Selena Gomez and Ed Sheeran won, as well; they are the few singers/group/band that I like. The audience was so loud this year. Additional info, I did this story while watching it. Sorry if my mind and heart was not into it. I'm really distracted with Ian. Sorry for a long Author's Note. By the way enjoy reading and see you all next week. Mwah. ^_^
