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"Thanks for giving me a ride." Cat told the boy as Beck pulled into the Valentine driveway.
Beck looked across the seat toward the other girl and smiled, "it's no problem," he shrugged it off as it was no big deal.
Cat smiled as she looked between Beck and Jade who was sitting in the middle part of the seat, "well, I'll see you tomorrow." She said.
Jade nodded, "whatever."
Beck gave a small wave.
Cat sighed and pushed the door to the small truck open, "bye."
"Bye," the young couple said in unison.
As Cat slammed the door shut Jade scooted over to the passenger side of the truck and buckled up before waiting on her boyfriend to pull away from the driveway.
Beck waited until Cat was inside before he pulled away, "you know why she didn't take her car?" He asked.
Jade just shook her head, "no, I thought she had."
"Oh." As Beck steered the way toward his RV he glanced at his girlfriend, "is everything okay between you two?"
Jade nodded, "I think so." She folded her arms across her chest and stared forward, "I don't think she was mad at me, but I don't know. She sent this text saying she had to tell me something but we couldn't talk in person yesterday, and now she's acting fine, like nothing happened at all."
"Why was she so upset earlier?" Beck wondered as he turned right at the corner.
Jade shrugged, "she said she didn't like looking at us because we were so us being in love and all."
"Oh."
2.) She loved her family more than anything in the world, she loved her mother who loved her unconditionally, she loved her brother and his crazy wackiness, and she loved her father even though he was no longer a major part of her life.
Cat folded the sheet of paper up once more and stuffed it back into her backpack before walking toward the stairs. "So, I just tell them I love them." She shrugged, it couldn't be that hard.
She reached the foot of the stairs and had to back up quickly as her brother dashed throught the room with a fire extingquisher. "What's going on!" She hollered out following the older boy.
"I was trying to bake." Was the answer she got.
"In the oven?" Cat asked.
"Well yeah," Cat watched as he struggled to take the pin off of the extinguisher.
"Let me do it!" Cat hollered to him as she made her way across the kitchen and grabbed it from the boy. She pulled the pin off quickly and aimed the nozzle toward the flamed oven.
When the fire was dead she looked at him with wide angry eyes, she rarely got angry but it was there, "Mom said you weren't aloud to use the oven without her or me around."
"But you were just upstairs." Her brother pointed out.
Cat shook her head slamming the extinguisher on the island top, "in the same room!"
"I'm sorry." The taller Valentine whispered.
"God, you're supposed to be older than me and I somtimes worry about the things that you do because you're no more mature than I am." She shook her head, "and I'm mature so I mean you're not as mature as I am...and..." She trailed off noticing the chocolate candy laying on the table, "ooh, candy!" She smiled excitedly before walking over to the table and opening the box, helping herself to the contents inside.
"Hey," she said looking up to her brother once more.
He looked sad, kind of disappointed, upset. "What?" He asked as he eyed her.
"I love you." She whispered, "even if you are a little too much to handle."
It seemed to help him a little as a light smile spread upon his features. "Thanks. I love you too."
As she watched her older brother walk away she smiled to herself one down two to go.
She already knew how to say it to her mother, it was simple she'd just tell her tonight, she'll have to go a little more in depth with it though because her mother hears it every night already when she comes home for work. Cat always wanted to tell her every night, she used to do the same with their dad until he moved away after the divorce from her mother.
It was one of the things Cat and Jade had in common; they both had divorced parents. It was also different though because Jade's father came of as a man who had parenthood issues and hated his daughter most of the time. Jade was neglected. Cat on the other hand had a father that cared about her immensily but he wasn't around that much anymore because he was always so busy with work.
"I'll call him." She said to herself pulling out her phone and dialing #4 in speed-dial on her phone.
Yes, her father was # 4.
Her mother was #1.
Jade was #2.
Tori was #3.
It rang three times before Cat's step mother answered, "hello?"
"Hey, it's Caterina, I'm looking for my father?"
There was a pause on the line before she heard a light shuffling and then her father's strong voice, "Cat?" He wondered.
Cat smiled because it was okay for him to be confused, she hadn't called in a while, "hi daddy." She said, "I just called to say I love you."
He heard a slight laugh before the "I love you too, kiddo, came."
"How is everything there?" Cat asked.
"Good, it's going good. How's school?"
"Brilliant." Cat smiled, "it's never been better really."
"And that friend of yours..." He wondered, "Ruby?"
Ruby? Cat wondred because she was pretty sure she didn't have a friend named Ruby. "did you mean Jade?"
"Jade, yes, if that's her name then that's what I meant."
Cat shrugged, picking up a piece of candy and sticking it in her mouth, "she's good." She smiled, "Jade's good."
"That's good to know." He cleared his throat before saying, "I have to go, we're going out for dinner soon and I need to get ready for it."
"Okay," Cat said, hanging up only when her father did.
"What do you wanna do?" Beck asked handing Jade an apple, she took a look at it before tossing it back in the basket it was in before the boy had grabbed it.
Beck stared at her a moment before sitting beside her with an apple of his own, "we can go see that writer movie we were supposed to see a few days ago." He suggested.
Jade nodded, "yeah, that sounds good to me."
"Okay," he pointed to his door, "we going now?"
"Maybe in a minute." She was looking at her PearPhone.
Beck nodded as she ate his apple.
A moment later he was looking at Jade again as her voice began to lace with concern, "hey, look at Cat's status update on TheSlap."
Beck grabbed his girlfriend's phone and looked at the small screen:
CAT VALENTINE:
"Just extinguished a fire, I feel like a real firefighter now!"
Mood=Extinguish-y
"What fire?" Beck asked handing the phone back to Jade.
The girl shrugged, "I'm not sure." Looking back to the update she looked at the comment section before making her own comment:
"Want to explain a little further?"
-JADE
"Maybe she'll answer back." Jade said before switching her screen to movie listings, "the next showtime is in an hour."
Beck nodded, "so if we leave in ten minutes, we'll get there about five minutes early."
"That'll work." Jade sighed putting her phone up and reaching over to grab the apple she had earlier tossed into the basket. She then took a bite. Waiting for Cat's explaination.
Jade was worried about her that had to mean something right? Cat read the comment on her TheSlap post again.
Yeah, she thought, it means she's a concerned friend who wants to know what happened. She shook her head as she pushed the comment button and wrote the comment on the page.
"Long story short, my brother started a fire. All good now though."
-CAT
She smiled to herself before putting her phone down. Because the post had only been up for five minutes and Jade had already asked what happened.
She was the only one who asked too.
That had to mean something right?
Maybe?
Cat could only help.
So, I'm not sure how this chapter turned out. It may just be rambling a little, it might be completely horrible. I'm really tired and writing it while drifting back and forth between sleep, might not have mixed well.
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