Jade pushed the garbage can out of her way and sat down in the janitor's closet. Beck had been blowing up her phone asking when they can get started on the project and she continued to ignore him. Jade stopped going to Ms. Harmony's class as well. She pulled out her salad from her bag and her Shiver book and began reading.
In the café... Cat sat with Robbie and Andre, sipping her apple juice and telling them an story about her pet turtle when she was seven. As she was in the middle of telling about the time he peed in her lap Beck came over.
"Hey guys" he said to the table.
"Hey Beck, what's up?" Andre asked
"I was looking for Jade, she hasn't answered any of my calls, my text or my messages on The Slap and we really have to get started on this project for Ms. Harmony."
"Oh I'm sorry man I haven't seen her" Andre responded sincerely apologetic
"I haven't either, Cat what about you?" Robbie asked the red head. Cat turned around and looked about Beck sipping her apple juice, she looked at Robbie and Andre too. So many pairs of eyes on her...so many eyes waiting for her to spill the beans but she held her ground...
"I'm not going to tell you that Jadey's in the janitor's closet eating lunch"
...so she thought.
Beck smiled as Cat hopped up from the table. "Oh pooh! Please don't tell Jadey that I told you"
"I promise" He said waving goodbye to the guys and going to the janitors closet. He rounded the hallway, walked toward the door, and stood there with his hand on the door handle slightly terrified to open the door.
Just do it. He thought to himself.
Beck pushed open the door and made eye contact with Jade for the first time in what felt like forever and he stood there just looking and so did she. He knew he had only a couple more seconds to get a word out before she started yelling at him.
"What book are you reading?" He tried.
"What the hell do you want?" Jade said annoyed finally looking away from him and packing her things up standing to leave.
"Don't leave...just hear me out" Beck pleaded.
"No".
Beck got frustrated and blocked the door.
"Jade just listen...I'm sorry about what happened. And we don't ever have to talk about it again...I just came to ask you when will be a good time to start the project and where will be a good place to work. I'm really flexible and if you feel more comfortable at your place then that's cool too." He rushed out. Jade stood there and thought about it, she couldn't ignore him forever and her grade depended on working with him and she sighed.
"Fine. My place, Friday, 8 now move." She demanded. Beck smiled at her moving out her way and she couldn't help but smile at him while she left out the room. Only when Beck made sure the door close did he give himself a high five, and only when Jade made sure she the door clothes did she look back at the door and smile. She had missed him.