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Chapter nine: I love you too
Becks POV
"We're on the ground!" A little boy behind me shrieks. I look outside, he's right. We've finally landed.
"Wake up sleepy head," I murmur in Jade's ear. She opens her icy blue eyes immediately, making me suspect she wasn't asleep.
"It's about time," Jade complains, yawning loudly. I grab her hand and we walk with my mom and dad out of the plane door, and into the airport.
"Get me some coffee!" Jade demands.
"Mom, dad," I begin, they turn, "Can you get our luggage, I'm gonna find a Jet Brew for Jade." I suggest, mom nods. My dad sighs.
"Why can't she do it herself?" He hints.
"Because I'm her boyfriend and like doing her favors," I reply, and take Jade by the hand.
We walk through the busy airport, searching for a coffee shop. Jade pulls me over into a Jet Brew she spotted. I get into the long line at the counter.
"Two sugars," Jade reminds me.
"I know," I say, and lean down to kiss her forehead.
"Beck," She begins. "On the airplane, I heard you.. And your dad.. Talking," Oh no, she heard that! I was pretty sure I felt her squeeze my hand!
"Yeah," I say cautiously.
"You said you loved me," She smiles sweetly. She looks happy.
"Yeah." I reply.
"Did you mean that, or were you just trying to get your dad to bug off?" Jade wonders, she looks worried.
"Of coarse I meant it Jade, you don't say I love you without meaning it!" I exclaim. I looked into her eyes and smile. "I love you," I tell her sincerely. Jade looks thrilled.
"Thanks," She replies. I frown. That's not what she's supposed to say!
"You know, you could say that you love me too," I remind her, Jade looks up at me, with a mixture of shock and fear. Does she not love me?
"I... I lo-I don't want to," Jade decides, her voice shaking slightly. I look into her eyes, why won't she say it. I love you, is a pretty common phrase, she's said it before, I think.
"Why Not?" I wonder. Jade looks terrified.
"I... I.. Don't think I've ever said that before.. And sure as hell no one's ever said it to me," Jade explains. No one has ever told her they loved her? Ever? I was just bluffing when I told my dad about Jade having a horrible childhood, but maybe I was right.
"You have to have said you loved someone before, and someone has said it to you," I say, slightly unsure.
Jade's POV
"You have to have said you loved someone before, and someone has said it to you," Beck says. Is he right?
I think back. I think back to the memories of my murky past. The memories I am forbidden to remember.
FLASHBACK
I was six years old, my parents weren't divorced yet. I was wearing my favorite pink dress, my light brown hair hair in pigtails.
"I love you daddy!" I shouted, as I headed off to school.
"OUT!" My dad screamed, too busy arguing with my mother to have time for his worthless daughter. I ran away, forgetting my packed lunch.
Tears stained my eyes and my lower lip trembled. Why does he hate me? I wondered.
I ran all the way to school. My eyes and face where red from tears.
"Oh look! It's Jadey! She's been crying!" the kids said when they saw me. "Why were you crying?" They taunted. They all laughed.
"SHUT UP!" I yelled angrily, "JUST SHUT UP!" The kids were taken aback. The teacher walked in, hearing the end of my screaming fit.
"Jadelyn, principal's office," The teacher ordered, pointing towards the door. I walked out, leaving a trail of laughing kids behind.
I walked sadly down the hallway, not looking where I was going, I bumped into something.
"Sorry!" I looked up, it was a girl with brown hair, like mine, but darker. She was short for her age. She smiled at me.
"It's okay! I'm Cat! Who are you!" The girl bubbled, grinning.
"I'm Jadelyn," I replied. The girl seemed nice enough.
"Oh! Hi Jadelyn! Oh my gosh! Have you been crying? Why?" Cat wondered. I frowned.
"My teacher just sent me to the principal's office," I admitted sheepishly. Cat frowned.
"Why?" She wondered.
"'Cause I told some kids to shut up," I said, unashamed.
"That's not nice, why did you want them to shut up?" Cat questioned.
"'Cause they were teasing me for crying," I explained sadly.
"That's so hurtful!" Cat said, shocked. "Well, I'm sorry your sad! Hope the principal doesn't eat you! I have to go back to class, BYE!" The strange girl waltzed off.
I sighed and continued down the long sad hallway. Into the principal's office.
I sat down in the familiar chair that I'd visited so many times this month. The principal, a big scary man, sat across from me.
"Jadelyn, your teacher told me you would be coming," He explained. I twiddled my fingers nervously.
"Jadelyn, you've been to my office five times this month, what do you have to say for yourself?" The principal questioned.
"That you should paint the walls a different color." I suggested confused.
"Jadelyn! If your in my office one more time this year your expelled! Do you hear me? Now go back to class, with a polite attitude!" He ordered, banging his fingers on his desk. I hopped up and ran back to my classroom.
Later that day, I sat at the table for lunch. I had forgotten the packed lunch that I had made myself last night. I didn't have any money to buy lunch with, so I sat alone at a table, hungry.
"Hey!" I hear, I turn around, it's the Cat girl again.
"Hi," I said shyly. Cat sat down next to me. She frowned, confused.
"Where's your lunch?" She wondered. She took a pink thermos out of her lunch box.
"I don't have one," I explained. Cat smiled.
"You can share mine then!" She grinned and handed me a carrot stick.
"That's what friends are for!" She chanted. I'd never had a friend before. I bit into the carrot stick.
"Thanks," I said politely. We finished lunch, and went back to class.
After school, I walked home alone, in the pouring rain. I was halfway there, when the Cat girl came running down the street.
"JADELYN!" She cried happily, hugging me. "Your all wet! Here, share my umbrella!" She offered, holding a big pink umbrella over me.
"Thanks," I whispered. She grinned. We walked home the rest of the way, till she had to turn up her street.
"Bye, Cat!" I shouted behind my shoulder.
"BYE JADELYN!" Cat chirped back.
I ran up the street, happy for the first time in weeks. I ran to my house, and grabbed the door handle, but before I could open it, my eyes caught sight of a note. I picked it up, it said "Jadelyn, you're late. If you can't live by the rules, you can't live here." The door was locked.
Tears stained my eyes as I sat by the front steps in the pouring rain. Cold rain pelted my back I shivered.
I never said "I love you" again.
END OF FLASHBACK
Beck's POV
"Jade, Jade! Earth to Jade!" I say loudly, waking Jade out of her trance.
"Yeah," Jade says, startled.
"What were you thinking about?" I wonder. She's just been standing there for like a minute and a half.
"I was thinking about what you told me to think about. Trying to remember a time when I told someone.. You know.." She trails off, afraid to go further.
"Well, did you remember anything?" I wonder. She has to have said "I love you" once.. Right?
"Yes," Jade whispers, terrified.
"See, you've told people you loved them." I ruffle her hair, "You can tell me," I say.
"I... I.. I'm scared Beck!" She shouts. We are almost to the front of the line.
"Why?" I wonder.
"I... The last time I said those words, my dad screamed at me, he made me leave the house! I went to school, then sat outside in the pouring rain! Crying! I'm scared Beck! Just because I'm scared to say it, doesn't mean I don't love every bit as much as you love me! It doesn't mean I DON'T LOVE YOU! Because I do! I love you Beck!" Jade says this all, then bursts into tears. A few people are staring at her now.
I pull Jade into me and crash my lips to hers. She kisses me back, her tears slowly stopping.
"I love you too Jade," My lips whisper against hers.
