Attention All CTC Students!

Signup for fall classes will start Wednesday, June 1 at 2 PM. Classes are on a first come, first serve basis. You may signup either thru the CTC website or in person starting at 8 AM Thursday June 2nd.

Ugh. CTC emails already? I don't want to study…or do actual work.

I'm lazy. Newsflash everybody.

Might as well glance at the classes I need to get out of the way. I'm only entering my second semester. Wow, my whole academic calendar is really thrown off.

1 more Math, English and History, along with Psychology and Political Science. And theater of course. Then I can start to take sophomore courses in foreign languages, actual science and stuff like that. The tough stuff.

Ugh again.

Ok…what times to choose. No Friday courses obviously, and no early mornings either preferably. Last semester they let us put classes in a "shopping cart". Kind of like those online stores, but you pick a class and a time and it holds a spot for you until the actual registration happens. Then it loads you in for you. Hopefully they can do it again.

I click to the CTC website to register for the classes…

Oh wow.

Almost nobody has signed up yet! Yay getting what I want!

"Knock Knock."

That would be the door. I'm on the other end of the house and don't want to get up.

"IT'S OPEN!"

I heard the door creak open.

"Robbie? You here? I heard a shout!" Jade called out, as the door creaked open.

"Yeah! I said the door was open!" I shouted back.

"Oh…well then."

A moment later I heard multiple footsteps near the door.

"Hey Robbie, whatcha doing?" Jade asked happily. She came over a couple of days ago. I haven't seen the others. Cat seemed very tentative and didn't speak directly to me.

"Looking at CTC stuff. They set up registration dates for the fall. You can put what you want in the shopping cart." I said, turning to see Cat hiding, or simply standing behind Jade.

"Really? When is registration starting?" Jade asked.

"The second. Hey Cat." I smiled, trying to get one in response.

"Hi." She squeaked.

Still nervous. Tentative, call it what you want. She isn't comfortable.

"Hey Jade, can I talk to you for a second?" I asked.

Jade was obviously taken by surprise. "Sure…" She replied, walking out towards the patio, which is what I was hoping she would do.

Cat POV

Jade and Robbie walked outside to the patio.

Robbie's CTC login is still up, 6 classes chosen and in his shopping cart.

No Fridays. Late classes Monday thru Thursday.

Exactly what Robbie wants I bet.

It's nice to finally see him in person, and more importantly not seething at me. At least not on the surface.

I have to keep working my butt off on my new music and covers. Every day since he gave me the reality check I've done something music related. Researching new songs to cover, writing a couple of new songs, and talking to Beck about what he thinks I should do.

I'm afraid to ask Robbie. I don't want to bother him. He's completely lost faith in me. I wouldn't be surprised if this turned out to be the time that he started to fade out of my life. I finally have a great boyfriend, getting back into the social swing of things and I've finally shaken his confidence to the point he now thinks I'll be a failure. He could just hand his share of my musical career to Beck or give it back to me and…go do other stuff I guess.

But I don't want that. Robbie is awesome and I want him around. He can always shove me to the side at any moment though. I fear it's just a matter of when and not if anymore.

He can't shove me to the side if we share some classes.

Most of the classes he is going to take I need too.

I should copy them down, get on my pearPhone and signup for the same ones. That way we can remain friends!

It's foolproof.

I quickly jot down his planned schedule on a piece of paper from his printer and throw it into my purse. Which I don't even know I brought it in here. Wait…

Why are we even here at Robbie's?

Does Jade like Robbie? She admitted to sleeping with him last fall…

This is confusing. My head hurts.

I'm going for water.

Robbie POV

I reached behind her and shut the sliding glass door.

"Why are we out here?" She immediately shot at me.

"I remembered something from when Cat surprised us. When did you start smoking?"

"I'm not." She quickly shot back. "I made it sound that way to give me a excuse for your shoes being there. But she is still smoking."

"I know that. Makes me want to throw up." I admitted.

"We have to think of a way to get her to quit on her own."

I know how I would get her to quit. It would be easy to enforce, and she would hate it to the point the damn cancer sticks would go right into the trash.

"Yeah." I agreed.

"You picked your classes yet?" She asked, perching herself on the ledge.

"Yeah, I'm just waiting for the second so they can get confirmed."

"When did you get the email?"

"Today."

"Knock Knock."

Jade and I both turned to see Tori and Andre making silly faces on the other side of the glass.

"Looks like I have visitors." I sighed.

"Yep." Jade replied, sliding off the ledge and moving to the door.

"Oh great...not you two." I fake grumbled as I opened the door.

"Yep, us two. Nice to have you here for longer than a day." Tori smiled, hugging me.

"How's the music?" Andre asked Jade.

"It's ok, can't find the lyrics for 'Forever Bleeding' but I'm finding portions. You down to help me later this week?" She smiled.

"Yeah, just text me when your free."

Glancing past them I see Beck and Cat talking and looking serious, Cat with an egg in hand.

"What's up?" Tori smiled.

"Not much, but it's early on today. Why so perky?" I smiled.

"I don't know, just happy."

"You didn't overload on coffee did you?" Jade asked, looking slightly worried.

"No. Just happy."

Behind her, Beck and Cat still were deep in conversation. It's obviously important. Cat has moved back to cracking eggs…for something. Every time Beck stops speaking I see her start to talk.

"What is Cat doing?" Andre asked.

"Don't know…" Jade said, trailing off at the end.

"Well, she has a egg in her hand…and cracked it. She's making something." Tori pointed out.

Quickly, Cat dived at Beck for a hug; he kissed her hair and looked to see us looking at him.

"Hey guys, what's up?" He smiled, making his way to us.

"Not much…" Jade shrugged.

"Hey Robbie, how was Seattle?"

"It was ok…"

Carly is kicking our ass in song output and she took only one night. And I went because of Alex.

So in reality it sucked.

Majorly.

"Hey Cat! What are you doing?" Jade called out.

"Breakfast!" She chimed back, smiling.

"Breakfast?" Tori asked, looked stumped.

"Yeah! Aren't you guys hungry?"

"Yeah…" Jade replied.

"But you didn't say anything." Tori finished.

"Oh…do you guys not want it?" Cat asked, looking nervous.

"I do." I said. I'm starving actually.

Cat looked thrilled. "Anyone else?"

Everyone else shook their heads.

Cat simply frowned and cracked her next egg violently.

I took the long way into the kitchen, leaving the others to strike up a new conversation.

"Thanks Cat." I smiled at her, as she cut up ham.

"Of course Robbie. I had a feeling you were hungry." She smiled back.

"What are we having?"

"Our usual." She smiled again.

"Sweet, is the bacon already in?"

"Yep yep."

"You're amazing." I smiled, brushing the hair out of her eyes.

"Thanks…how was Seattle?" She smiled.

"Fun, I was wrong about Carly. Well…Carly and Freddie think I'm wrong." I admitted.

"Really now…"

"You don't sound surprised." I replied, surprised myself.

"I am…believe me. But I was concentrating on the eggs, and that changed my response."

"Ok, well Carly said that it was quality not quantity, and Freddie said the same."

"Anything else?"

I racked my brain.

"No, nothing I can think of."

"Good, right on time too." Cat mumbled, pulling the bacon out of the oven.

"Looks great." I commented, trying to placate her.

"Yeah, the omelet's gonna be even better." Cat said, taking the bacon off the cooker with tongs.

"Why?" I asked.

"You're cooking it."

"What?"