Jade stared at the text long and hard for about 15 minutes in Cat's driveway. Her mind was racing with all different kinds of thoughts. All the message said was 'Can you come over? We need to talk' but it could mean so many different things. The only way she would find out what he really meant was by going over to his place. She replied 'Be there in 10' and then started her car. The short car ride seemed hours long, and she had even thought about turning back around to head home instead, but she kept going towards Beck's RV.
When she pulled up, she turned her car off, but continued to sit in the car just thinking about what the visit with her boyfriend would bring. However, she pushed aside all of her nerves and made her way to Beck's door. She pounded on it as usual and Beck answered almost immediately and let her in.
"You want something to drink?" Beck started.
"What did you want to talk about?" Jade retorted bluntly.
"Look, I know we've been arguing for like a week…" Beck began.
"If you're going to break up with me, just do it already. I don't have all day!" Jade interrupted.
"I never said I was going to break up with you. I want to work things out. I hate arguing with you. I don't want the rest of our senior year to be spent fighting." Beck announced.
Jade was completely taken back. She thought for sure Beck was going to break up with her. She was left almost speechless, because she walked into his RV prepared for a huge argument that would lead to another break up. She didn't think he would apologize and want to work things out.
"Y—you want to work things out?" Jade was pleasantly surprised to hear his words.
"Yeah. I do. I'm sorry for getting upset when you pushed Tori, I just want to just enjoy these last couple of months in high school. So what do you say? Can we forget all about this?" Beck continued.
Jade didn't say anything. She walked right up to Beck and kissed him passionately. They spent the rest of the day together until Jade decided it was time for her to get home and get ready for the next week. She decided not to do her homework, because she was already so anxious for the week—which hadn't even started—to be over, that she couldn't concentrate on anything else. After all, she was supposed to get her letter from NYU on Saturday. She knew she would be anxious all week in anticipation of receiving the letter that would change her life.
Jade spent most of her night thinking about what a great life she and Beck were going to have in New York once she got her letter. She convinced herself that it would say she had been accepted to her dream school, because she didn't want to waste her time on negative thoughts, even though they still tried to enter her mind. She woke up the next morning and got ready for school. For the first time in a while, she actually felt satisfied with her life. She and Beck had made up, she didn't bother to stress over homework last night because she felt the assignment was small enough to miss, and she was supposed to get her letter in the mail on Saturday.
When she got to school, Beck was already at her locker with a nice big cup of coffee—just the way she liked it—for her. He pecked her on the lips and handed her the warm drink.
"Looks like you two made up!" Tori said walking over to the couple along with the rest of their friends.
"Yay! I love when no one's mad at each other" Cat squeaked bursting with joy.
"Did you guys do that insanely hard assignment for our improv class?" Tori asked.
"Yeah! It was a short assignment, but it was actually really difficult" Everyone—minus Jade—agreed.
Jade was so relieved that she decided to let that homework slip. It seemed all of her friends, and Tori, had a pretty hard time doing it. The bell rang and they were off to Sikowitz's class.
"Good morning class!" Sikowitz yelled as he swung through the window with a coconut in hand.
The class mumbled their responses as they looked at each other with confused looks. Even if not all of them talked on a regular basis, they all agreed that Sikowitz was an odd teacher and just an all-around strange man.
The day went on as normally as it possibly could. The group of friends decided they would go to Nozu for lunch instead of having something from Festus' truck. The restaurant was a short walk from Hollywood Arts, and once they were all gathered around a table, they ordered.
Tori pointed out the karaoke machine set up on the opposite end of the restaurant, and asked her friends if one of them would sing with her. They all were very hesitant, because they really just wanted their sushi.
"I'll do it." Jade announced.
The entire table looked at her with confused looks.
"You…you will?" Tori asked, shocked that Jade would want to sing a duet with her. They had done it once before, but she never thought Jade would agree to it again.
They both stood up and walked over to the list of song selections, but Jade refused to sing any of Tori's choices. The song she picked was meant to be sung by only one person, so as much as Tori felt like singing, she sat back down at the table her friends were at, knowing that she wasn't going to get her way.
Jade walked up to the stage, dragging a stool from the sushi bar along, and sat down. She had decided to sing 'You and I' by Lady Gaga, and she sung it well. When she finished, the entire restaurant—filled mostly with students from Hollywood Arts—burst into applause. Some people even told her what an amazing voice she had as she walked back to join her friends, and Beck, who looked extremely proud of her.
Jade sat back down at the table having confidence in herself that she absolutely had what it took to get into NYU. All she needed was her acceptance letter to make it official.
Author's Note: I know I am killing you all with the anticipation of Jade's letter, but I PROMISE it will be in the next chapter. I appreciate every review this story gets, so please continue writing them! If you want to hear Liz/Jade sing this song, you can do so by going on her youtube channel. I hope you all understand that I update every Saturday, because I have work and school. I'm not trying to make you wait. If I could, I would update all the time, but I just don't have the time! Thank you again for reading and have a beautiful week(: