"Hello Jade! What brings you by?" Beck's mother says opening the door.
"I didn't see Beck in school today, and I had some news for him... is he around?" Jade asks.
"Yeah, he's in his RV, like always, come on in."
"Thanks Mrs. Oliver."
"You can call me Stella... "
"Oh no, I can't"
"I insist." Stella says leading Jade through the house.
"Okay...Stella?" An uneasy Jade says. "Oh, I also wanted to thank you for sending the cake yesterday. I really wasn't expecting it."
Stella laughs. "It's no problem. We had plenty and you loved it when you were over the other day. So I told him to take you a slice."
Stella and Jade arrive at the backdoor. "You know the way." She says pointing at the RV. "I've been in and out all day so the door should be unlocked, just go on in."
"Thanks." Jade says, as she starts out the door.
"Oh, wait a minute Jade." Stella calls out.
"Yes."
"Can you do me a favor and take this tea to Beck. "
"No problem Stella." Jade smiles as Stella hands her the mug of hot tea. She carefully makes her way down the driveway to Beck's RV where she swings the door open and walks in. She finds Beck lying in the bed asleep and looking a mess. Jade laughs at the sight of a sick and sloppy Beck. It was a far cry from the boy she was used to seeing everyday at school. She studies him for a moment before deciding to take out her pear phone and snap a picture of him. "This is definitely going on the slap!" She chuckles to herself. She sits the tea on his table and leans down close to him. "Honey, wake up... I have your tea." She says imitating Stella's voice perfectly.
"Huh?" Beck says as he stirs under the blankets.
"Your tea sweetheart, come on and drink it while it's hot." Jade says, trying her best not to laugh.
Beck pulls the blankets from over his head and starts to cough. Jade jumps back in disgust and moves across the room. "I knew you were getting sick!" She yells, causing Beck to jump.
"What! Jade? What are you doing here... where's my mom?"
"She's in the house.. that was me telling you to get up."
"No, I know my mom's voice. "
"It was me sweety." Jade says impersonating Stella again.
"Whoa, I really thought you were my mom."
"Why thank you." Jade says, taking a bow. "There's your tea... she sent it out with me."
"Thanks." Beck says as he slowly lifts himself off the bed and makes his way to the table. "What are you doing here?"
"You weren't in class today, you missed the good news."
Beck stops sipping his tea and gives Jade a look of confusion. "That news?" He says.
"THE NEWS!" Jade says. "Our scene was chosen as the best, we get to make it into a full length play for the freshman showcase... not to mention our automatic A's for the semester!"
"That's great!" Beck says as he rushes over and hugs Jade. Jade embraces him for a moment before pushing him away. "Ew, you're sick, get off." She says turning her nose up.
"I'm sorry, I forgot." He says.
"Anyway, we were supposed to pick our team today and since you weren't there. We are already a day behind. So do you want to put a team together now?"
"Don't we need to figure out what our play is about first."
"Oh, well we already know that my character gets sick and dies." Jade says.
"But what does she die of? Maybe it should be something..."
"Gradual..." Jade interjects. "Like maybe she was poisoned and throughout the play she gets sicker and sicker before she finally bites the dust. "
"Yeah, but who poisoned her?" Beck says. "We know it wasn't me, I just told her how much I loved her."
"I don't know..."
Jade and Beck sit in silence as they think.
"Maybe they can be a rich couple, and someone working for them wants to be with the husband so they poison the wife everyday to get her out of the way." Beck says.
"Yeah, like maybe a jealous maid that has always envied her lifestyle and been in love with her husband."
"Yeah."
"Okay, well we have what our play is about. We just need to pick two people to help us write it. Maybe Andre and Chrissy... I liked their scene, it was awesome. " Jade suggests.
"I'm starting to think you might have a thing for my boy Andre." Beck says.
"Excuse me?"
"Well, you do seem to like him."
"I think he's a cool guy, and you have to admit that their scene was good. If ours didn't win, theirs would have."
"Ok, if you say so."
"Are you jealous?" Jade laughs.
"Jealous of what... I have no reason to be jealous." Beck tells her.
"Yes you are. Does it hurt your little ego that I might like someone more than I like you?"
"No, because I know you don't."
"Alright, I'll let you keep thinking that."
"If you like Andre more than you liked me, Andre would be your partner, and not me."
"I didn't want you as my partner. You moseyed your butt over and offered yourself to be my partner."
"Because you wanted me to. If you really didn't want to work with me you would have picked a different partner."
"I'm your partner because our psycho freak of a teacher made me partner up with you. And now I'm stuck with you for the rest of the semester." Jade says, as she grabs her backpack off the floor. "I think I'm gonna go inside and talk to Stella, I can't stand to be around you now."
"Stella? So you and my mom are on a first name basis now?. Beck says as he grabs his blanket and wraps it around himself.
Jade walks out of the RV and Beck follows behind her. She got halfway up the driveway before turning around to face him.
"Why are you following me." She says.
"I'm hungry, the food is in the house."
"I'm just going to go home... We'll finish working on this Monday."
"I thought you were going to talk to my mom?"
"Not with you there."
"Why not?"
"Maybe I wanted to tell her that her son is a big ole jerk."
"I'm a jerk?"
"Yeah, you are." Jade says as she walks away. "You wanna know why I don't like you?" She says turning to face him once again.
"Why?"
"Because you are just so disgustingly conceited and it makes me sick." She says as she walks off.
Beck jogs down the driveway after her and stops her. "Look Jade, I'm sorry if I've been a jerk. I didn't mean it. Just come inside and we can work on this project... okay."
"I'm going home."
"Come on, my mom will fix us something to eat and we can get our team together, that way we're not behind come Monday."
"No thanks, seeya Monday." Jade says as she walks down the driveway and onto the sidewalk, never once looking back.
