You asked for a quick update so here you go! Chapter by Emma.
"May I have Jade West to the principal's office? Jade West to the principal's office."
Jade cringed at the announcement that came on the loudspeaker during last period. Beck raised an eyebrow at her and she shrugged innocently. "Jade, you may go. Pick up the homework on the way out," Sikowitz said. She hurried out of the room, avoiding Beck's eyes.
She plopped into the chair in front of the principal with a nervous sigh. She needed to calm down. She had gotten in trouble at school dozens of times before, but she has never actually been nervous. Maybe it was because one thought kept creeping up in the back of her mind. Beck's gonna be so mad at me.
"Miss West, I was told you got in a fight during lunch today. Is that true?"
She nodded.
"What happened?"
Jade bit her lip. How did they catch her? It happened in the girls bathroom, and it wasn't even that bad. The girl must have told on her. Coward.
"There was a girl...talking to her friend in the bathroom...about my boyfriend. She was purposely trying to make me mad, saying how hot he is and how she'd pay to touch his hair. She was trying to make me angry. She knows how jealous I get."
"Jade, just because you're jealous doesn't mean you can beat someone up."
"I didn't beat her up! I just yelled at her! And...pushed her. But she was fine!"
"We don't tolerate any kind of fighting at this school."
"But..."
"I'm going to have to give you two weeks of detention."
"But that's not fair!"
Before she could negotiate with the principal anymore, the bell rang, and the woman told her she had to leave.
"I'll see you in room 207 after school. Starting today."
Jade groaned and buried her face in her hands. Then Beck walked into the room. Dammit. "Jade? What's going on?"
"I...I have detention. Right now. D-do you think you could wait a while and drive me home afterwards? It's only for a half and hour...and I have no way to get home."
"Jade, what the hell did you do?"
"I just...pushed a girl. She was trying to make me jealous. It was nothing bad. Will you please wait for me and take me home?"
He clenched his teeth and his hands formed into fists at his sides, but he just nodded and left the room.
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Fortyminutes later, Jade was sitting in the passenger seat of Beck's car, nervously looking at her hands. "Are you mad at me?" She asked. He rolled his eyes. "Yeah. Kind of." The last few minutes of the drive were spent in silence, and Jade was starting to get butterflies in her stomach. As soon as she got in the RV, she plopped down on the couch and turned the TV on, trying to act casual.
"Turn that off," he snarled at her.
"Why?" She asked.
"Cuz I said so."
She had no choice but to obey. She watched nervously as he took a swig of beer. He'd been drinking it a lot lately. She was worried about him.
"Tell me what happened." He barked at her.
She swallowed hard. "Today...during lunch..there was this girl talking to her friend in the bathroom...and she was trying to make me mad and jealous so I just pushed her down. I didn't really hurt her. But then she went and told and the principal made a big deal out of it."
"She was trying to make you mad and jealous?"
He was getting closer to her now, his face inches away from her. She could smell his cologne and hairspray, mixed with the bit of beer had just drank. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"I...I don't know. She was just staying stuff about you and.."
"About me, huh? So you got yourself two weeks of detention because a girl said something about me. Is that right?"
She felt a tear stinging her eye and tried to blink it away.
"Answer me!" He grabbed her hair and she cringed. "I..I just..."
"Yes or no?" He pulled harder and she yelped. "Yes! Yes Beck, I'm sorry!"
Then she heard a loud smack as his hand came down across her cheek. It stung. It stung so much she wanted to cry. She instinctively rubbed the burning red mark on her cheek and he grabbed her hand, forcing her to deal with the pain. He yanked her up from the couch and punched her right in the stomach. She fell to her knees and let the tears flow.
"You're a child, Jade! You're a jealous, irresponsible, stupid child! If it wasn't for me you'd probably be in jail by now! One day you're gonna get yourself in even bigger trouble, you idiot!"
As he yelled at her there was a blur of slapping, kicking, punching. Jade's eyes were cloudy with tears. She couldn't see straight or think. The only thought running through her mind was that she was going to die, right here. Beck Oliver was going to kill her, even if he didn't mean to.
But he didn't. Eventually, he stopped. Seeing his girlfriend sobbing and begging and cowering, he got some form of satisfaction. It was sick. He knew it was sick that he felt good about what he was doing to her. But he couldn't stop it. He craved it. He craved the control. The power he felt. For once, he didn't have to sit and take the pain. He didn't have to be hit by his father or listen to the insults.
Truthfully, Beck Oliver was not the cool, carefree guy most people saw him as. In reality, he had spent eight years of his life being terrified in his own home. His mother left when he was five, because his dad hit her too. She was smart enough to get out, but she left her young son to deal with it. And to this day, he still had nightmares about his father hitting him. And now, for once in his life, there was something he was in charge of. If a strong, independent girl like Jade West would obey him, there was nothing he couldn't control. And no matter how terrible it was, he had to keep doing it.
Jade looked up at him with big eyes, as if asking if he was done. In response, he grabbed his beer and walked out the door to cool down and take something for his awful headache. Jade pulled herself onto the bed and just laid there, sobbing. Not just at the pain, although it did hurt a lot. She was sobbing because of how messed up her life had become in the past few months. He used to be so gentle. Maybe a little controlling at times, but gentle. And now, for the first time, she was realizing that she was afraid of her own boyfriend. But she couldn't leave. It wasn't his fault he was like this. If anything, it was her fault for always getting into trouble and pushing him too far. Eventually it would get better, but for now she'd have to deal with it.
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Almost an hour later, Beck came back in the RV. Jade was too tired to cry anymore, but it was obvious that she had been. He sat down with her and kissed both of her cheeks. Then he laid next to her and draped an arm over her.
"I love you. I love you so much, Jade. Please stop doing this. Please stop making me do this to you."
"I'm so sorry, Beck." She snuggled closer to him and he started stroking her hair.
"You just...you just need to behave, okay?"
"Okay. I promise."
"I love you," he said again.
"I love you too."
He twirled a piece of black hair around his finger.
"Beck?"
"Huh?"
"I...I don't think I can go to school tomorrow. It really...it really hurts."
He inhaled deeply and the only thing he could do was nod and turn around.
"Goodnight," he said weakly.
And he tried to hold the tears back as he fell asleep.
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