Just keep an open mind about this one, okay?

Beck was still sitting on the steps in the main hallway, his head hanging down, his eyes hurting as he didn't really want to cry, but couldn't help as though he was going to. He heard footsteps, and looked up to see Sikowitz walking towards him.

"Beck? What are you doing here? School was over hours ago." He said, but Beck just looked at him and shrugged, saying nothing. "What? What's wrong?"

"Nothing." He mumbled.

"Well, it has to be something, doesn't it?" Sikowitz looked down at his watch. "It's five o'clock! Don't you have to pick Bentley up at daycare?"

To his surprise, Beck just stared at him blankly before speaking almost robotically. "My mom picked him up."

"Okay, then what's going on?"

"I fucked up," He finally said. "I fucked up bad."

"How so?" His teacher asked as he put one foot on the step next to him and leaned forward a bit. "What's wrong?"

"I lost my best friend." Beck sounded so sad, and so broken, it worried him. "I lost her… and…" He was no choking on his words, his eyes filling with tears. "And I don't think she's ever going to come back."

"Oh, I see." Sikowitz nodded, "You miss your best friend."

"What?"

"Beck, from what I understand, you and Cat, you've been best friends forever, correct?" Beck nodded, "You miss her, you miss everything about her, even… maybe being in love with her as well."

"But, I love Jade." Beck insisted. "I love her more than anything."

"You have a different kind of love with Cat, and it's one that can be replaced by no one else… and vice versa. She can't replace you, you can't replace her."

"This… this isn't some life long love story! We're not Cory and Topanga!" Beck said, "I just…I…" He trailed off, looking away, he took a deep breath and turned back to his favorite teacher. "I miss her."

"I know." Sikowitz said, "I think it's time you both stop being in denial and start owning up to how you feel."

"But, what about Jade? I mean… she's pregnant."

Sikowitz's eyes went wide, "You got her pregnant?" Beck nodded. "Two kids in four years… sure you can handle that?"

"I—I don't' know what I want!" Beck yelled, he put his head in his hands and a moment later, Sikowitz good see he was very clearly crying. He sat down next him and put his arm around him, he squeezed his shoulder, and looked at him.

"Talk to Cat." He said, "And then go talk to Jade."

After a moment, Beck looked up at him, wiping his eyes, "Shouldn't I go talk to Jade first?"

"That's…that's completely up to you." Sikowitz said, "You have to decide that yourself, I can't do it for you."

"But how can I do that?"

"Figure out who's the most important person to you right now." Sikowitz said, "It's all you got."

Cat was pissed off. And even that, that was an understatement. She was so mad at Beck for just… taking off the ring like it meant nothing to him. And she was mad at herself for doing the same thing and throwing it to the ground, only to roll away and never be seen again.

She didn't really know where she was going. All she had was her phone (which she kept in her bra) and her keys which were in her pocket. She had just walked out of the school, leaving all her school stuff behind, not really caring about what happened to it.

She was just walking down a sketchy looking street, too pissed to care she'd gone farther than her comfort zone.

She wanted to throw something at someone (namely Beck) and have a fit. But she couldn't do that, at least not yet.

"Holy shit." She heard behind her, and turned around to see a very familiar person standing there. "Am I seeing things?"

Cat just smirked at him, "No, no… it's me." She said, "Nice to see not much has changed, you're still here."

"Well, yeah. Where else would I go?"

"I don't know? Back to school, maybe?" She walked closer to him and sat down beside him. "Miss me much?"

"Hell yeah. Where the hell have you been? I heard something about treatment?"

Cat sighed, and then laughed humorlessly. "Yeah, I was basically pushed into it, thanks to Beck."

"Ah, the boyfriend."

"Uh, no…no. He's not my boyfriend anymore."

"What? I thought you both were all crazy in love and shit."

"Yeah…" Cat said looking down the street ahead of her. "We—we were."

"Were?"

"Yeah…uh, I left for two years and he got another girlfriend, or fiancé, whatever, who happens to be my stepsister."

"Whoa! Drama!" He said and she rolled her eyes. "Anyway, you want some?" He asked, pulling out a small baggie of some white stuff.

She took it slowly and stared at it. "I—don't think it'd be a good idea for me to have that, I mean… I literally just got out of the hospital like two days ago."

"Oh yeah? For what?"

"Cutting myself." She said, without any hesitation at all. "Long story, anyway, yeah… uhm, no thanks."

"So, what, you're straight edge now?"

"Hell no." She said, "I do some… other things."

"Like what?"

"None of your damn business." She said and stood up, he did too, and moved closer to her causing her to back up against the fence.

"Why are you lying to me?" He murmured, staring deep into her amazing eyes. He'd always loved them, loved her. "Why don't you just tell me the truth for once?"

She made a face and tried to push him away, once she found she wasn't strong enough, she just looked up at him, "Because I decided to get better." She snapped.

"Come on… you used to be fun." He said, tracing his finger along her jaw. "I know you still are that girl somewhere deep down inside.

"No, I'm not!" Cat yelled at him. "I can't be that girl you once knew anymore, just like I can't be the girl Beck once knew either! I'm me, now. This is who I am, and no one is going to change it!"

She started to trace his finger along her jaw again, and her breath caught in her throat, she knew what he was capable of, as he was the guy she continually got in trouble with two years back. He had tried to convince her to cheat on Beck numerous times, and as drugged as she was, she always said no. It didn't matter, she loved him and she had to make damn sure he knew that.

But now that she wasn't with him and she didn't love Beck like that anymore… what was going to stop her?

"Come on, Blaze." He said, "You know you want some of this…" He took the powder from her and waved it in her face. "You fucking know you do."

"I—I don't belong here, I don't belong with you." She whispered, "I can't do it! I have—"

"You have what?" He asked her, shouting the words. "Yeah, exactly. You broke up with him, now you have nothing."

"That's not true." She said, "I have… I have my son."

"You—you have a child?" She nodded, "The fuck? And you still did this shit?"

She shrugged, "I was going through some things back then."

"Were you today? Because the way I saw it, you walked down this street, and you were pissed off. You wouldn't have done it for any other reason, other than you were pissed as fuck at someone."

Just like she always did.

(Are you going to let him control you?)

Oh no.

"If you must know, yes. I was pissed off at someone."

"Beck." He said simply. "Am I right?"

"Fuck you." She snapped. "You don't know anything."

"Try me."

"Fine." She said, "If you must know, yes. Yes, I'm pissed off at him."

"And why is that?"

"Because he got his fiancé pregnant!" She shouted. "And—and—"

"And that means… you what? Still have feelings for him?"

"That wasn't all that happened." She said, dodging the question. "He took off our promise ring and uhm, just threw it in his bag. While I… threw it on the ground. I don't know where it is."

"Ooh! Burn!" He said, and started to laugh humorously. "Now you know who you really should've been with."

"Yeah…" She said, rolling her eyes. "Because you're the first person on my list. Right."

"Are you denying it?"

"No." She said, "I'm just annoyed with you." She said, pushing him and finally getting him to move. "Besides, there's already someone else, you're too late."

"Oh yeah? Who?"

"Doesn't matter, you don't know him."

"Oh, okay. So I'm supposed to believe after like a day of being back in LA, you have another boyfriend? Right."

"I've been here two months!" She shouted. "See? Get your damn facts straight!"

"So, do you have a boyfriend or not?"

She thought about it for a moment, trying to make sense of it in her head. "I—I don't know what we are. All I know is that we've kissed a few times, told each other how we felt, and had sex, like once."

"Oh, you fucked him?"

"You are so immature." Cat rolled her eyes, "And yes, I did."

"So, you're not really official? You're just kinda… fuck buddies."

"Again, you are so immature!" She rolled her eyes, and looked around, "I don't know what we are, okay? He hasn't asked me out, so I really don't think we're boyfriend-girlfriend yet."

"Oh, well, that's good."

"Why?"

He didn't answer her, instead he pulled her towards him and kissed her. She didn't fight back so he took it as a good sign. He deepened the kiss once she gasped, and then pulled away.

"So, you're saying that you don't care I did that?" He asked, once his breathing finally became normal again.

"Nope." She said, "Not really."

(What the hell is wrong with you? You're going to fuck everything up!)

"And I don't care!" She whisper-yelled, and then pulled him back towards her, kissing him harder than he had before. They stood there making out for a while, when suddenly, she heard her name, and abruptly broke apart from him.

"Oh, no." She said, rubbing her arms, she began to shake. "Just… come with me." She told him, and tried to make a run for it, but couldn't as the person who called her name, managed to catch up to her.

"What?" He said, confused, and she rolled her eyes.

"What are you doing here, Sikowitz?" She asked him. He stared at her for a moment, before speaking.

"I just got done have a very interesting conversation with Beck."

"Oh, that's nice." She said, sounding as though she really wasn't interested. "I was uhm, you know, catching up with an old friend."

"Oh, an old friend?" Cat nodded, "That's nice…" He said, and she just stared at him. "Well, I would like to have a talk with you as well, would you like to come over?"

Her friend just looked at him like he was nuts. "You're gonna go over to this random dude's house?"

"Uh, he's my teacher." She said, "And uh, yeah. Sometimes we go over to his place… I used to, but I don't anymore."

"Oh, well, alright." He shrugged.

"So, Cat?" Sikowitz said, "Will you please come over?"

"Sure." She said, "But can I say goodbye to my friend first?"

"Sure." He said, "I'll just be over here." He walked towards the end of the block and Cat turned to him.

"Give me the coke." She said, and he looked at her, an amused expression on his face.

"I thought you were straight edge."

"Just give it to me dammit!" She whisper-yelled.

(You're such a fucking idiot!)

"Fine. Here you go, no charge."

"Thanks." She said, and then turned to walk away, before stopping a few feet, and turning to him, she put it in her pocket, and then looked at him. "My number's still the same if you still wanna catch up." She said, and with that, ran after Sikowitz.

(You're such a fucked up girl)

She shook her head, and caught up to her teacher. The walk was awkward and silent, but only lasted a few minutes. Once they got to his house, she walked inside and looked around.

"Wow, it looks pretty much the same…" She said, her hand going along the furniture. "Do you ever get bored of the same thing?"

"Eh, it's all the same to me." He shrugged, putting his stuff down, he motioned for her to sit on the couch, and she did. He took a seat next to her, and looked at her. "Now, I want you to tell me, what's going on?"

She shrugged, "Nothin'. Beck fucked up, simple as that. Now I want nothing to do with him."

"Oh yeah?" He said, "So, you're saying you're perfect?"

"Not even close! I'm just saying I'm not going to put up with it anymore."

"Cat, let me ask you something." She just looked at him, "Who was there for you the last 17 years of your life? Or at least the first fifteen, before you went into treatment?"

"He was."

"And who never gave up on you, when your father turned his back on you?"

"Beck."

"And who stayed by your side when you were pregnant? And through the birth?"

"Beck."

"Okay, and what does this tell you?"

"That… I need more friends?"

"No! That he cares about you! And no matter what, he's always, going to love you, but in a different kind of way… it's not the same love he has with Jade, you know. It's way different."

"Different how?"

"It's a different kind of love, Cat. You both grew up together, you both did everything together up until you went away for your treatment. If he wasn't there for you and you went through everything you did on your own, don't you think things would've been different?"

"Yeah." She scoffed, "Way different. I mean… I would've probably committed suicide to be honest."

Okay, that comment didn't really help at all, considering what happened the other day, but he put it aside, for the time being.

"Don't you see? You miss him! And he misses you!"

"Doubt it." She said, "He has Jade, why should he care about me?"

"Cat… he cried today. He cried because the best friend he had just walked out on him, if that's not… you know, a friend who cares for you, than I don't know what is. Regardless if he's in love with someone else now."

"I—" She didn't really know what to say. Everything was just so complicated. "I miss him too." She finally said. "I miss him a lot."

"Then, you have to tell him that."

"But I'm still so pissed off at him!" She whined. "He took off the promise ring I gave him and I threw mine! I'm not going to forgive him for that."

"It's just a ring, you can always get a new one."

"I don't want a new one! I want that one!"

Sikowitz shrugged, "Well, maybe you'll get it back someday." He said, "But that's not the main issue right now. You need to talk to Beck, and you need to sort everything out."

"No." She said, "I refuse to. I'm taking him to court to get custody of Beck. I'm done with him and Jade."

"Why? Because she's pregnant? How would you feel if it was the other way around? Wouldn't you feel hurt and alone?"

"Well, yeah. Of course." She said, "But when I was pregnant, Beck was by my side."

"And from what I understand it, he refuses to be by her side because 'he's not ready'. I think he is… he just needs, some closure, like you do."

"We need—what?"

"Closure. You need to stop pretending what you're feeling isn't there. Stop ignoring them and just… act on them! It's time to end the denial."

"You think so?"

He nodded, "I know so."

"So… I should go talk to Beck then?" She said, and he nodded again. "Can't I just… call him?"

"He might be with Jade."

"No." She said, "I know Beck, when he's upset, he's usually in his room… by himself, staring at the ceiling."

"See, right there." Sikowitz said, "You both know each other more than you both know yourselves. Go make things right, okay? Be the bigger person."

Cat was silent for a minute, playing with her phone, before she finally nodded. "Okay." She said, "I'm gonna—I'm gonna go make things right."

SIXTH GRADE – BECK'S HOUSE

"So, Beck, how was school today?" His mother asked him, and he just shrugged. "it was pretty much the same, you know, PE, math, science, nothing too interesting happened."

"Oh yeah?" He nodded, "Well, that's interesting, usually you have more to tell me."

"It was a boring day! What can I say?"

His mother laughed, "Alright, alright." She said, as he began to set the table for two people. "Are you hungry?"

"Starving." He said, just as his phone went off. He pulled it out to see he had a text from his girlfriend of two months. It was weird, you know, transitioning from best friends to boyfriend-girlfriend, but he had to say he did enjoy it.

Can I come over? – Courtney

After dinner, okay? – Beck

Okay. Xoxo – Courtney

"It's a Friday night! Why aren't you out with your friends?"

Beck shrugged, looking up from his phone. "I don't know, don't feel like it. Uh, Courtney's coming over after dinner, is that okay?"

She smiled at him, "Of course it is, sweetie." He nodded, and they sat down to eat. Afterwards, he texted her to come over, and sat down in the living room to watch some tv. He hadn't realized it was raining until his program was over, and he instantly worried if she had gotten hurt or something.

He checked his messages, but found none.

He didn't have to worry or dwell on it too much though, because a few minutes later, his girlfriend came in, her hair soaking wet, her eyes puffy and red, her clothes soaked.

"Courtney! What happened to you?" He demanded immediately rushing over to her, grabbing the blanket on the couch, he wrapped it around her shoulders. "What's wrong?"

"My—my father." She said, "He and I got into a fight."

"A fight?" She nodded and looked down. It was then he noticed the bruise on her cheek. "Was he drunk again?"

"He only had a few drinks, no big deal." She said, leaning against him. Beck didn't know what to do, since they were both still under 16 years old, his mother had a rule that if she was over, they could only stay downstairs. She didn't seem to care when they were kids, but since they started to date, she had become a bit more strict on them. But he knew she needed to get into dry clothes or she was going to get sick.

"Hold on, okay?" He said and she nodded, sitting on the couch. He ran upstairs, got some small sweatpants, a hoodie, and socks and rushed downstairs. He went back into the living room. "Come on, let's get you changed before you catch a cold." She nodded, and he led her to the downstairs bathroom.

He put the dry clothes on the sink and was about to leave when he felt her hand on his, pulling him back in. "Don't leave." She whispered, and he nodded, closing the door behind him. They had changed in front of each other millions of times, so she wasn't too scared or worried about it.

He watched her take the blanket off, and her clothes. Until she was just left in her underwear and bra. And even though she was in a fragile state, and she was cold, and she'd just gotten into a fight with her father, he couldn't help himself. He closed the distance between them, and kissed her so suddenly, she didn't see it coming. He pushed her against the door, and bit down on her bottom lip, causing her to let out a moan into his mouth.

"B-Beck." She stammered, and he pulled away, looking at her. "I—I can't do that, yet." She said and he nodded.

"I know." He whispered, "Don't worry about it."

She nodded, and kissed his lips softer. She changed into his clothes—laughing a bit when she found out it was his basketball sweats—and sat down on the couch, letting her long wet hair fall over her shoulder, she lay her head against Beck's chest, once he sat down beside her, wrapping his arm around her.

They sat in silence, staring at nothing while Cat struggled not to cry.

"Are you sure you're okay?" He whispered, and that was it. Tears began to flow from her eyes and she sobbed into his chest, balling her hands into fists against his shirt, she just let it out all out.

After a few minutes, she was done and he ran his fingers through her hair. He didn't say anything, but he didn't have to for her to know he was still there.

"How—how can a father not love his own child?" She asked him, "Why did he have me if all he was going to do was treat me this way?"

He kissed her forehead and shook his head. "I don't know." He whispered. "But I'm sorry."

She started to cry again, so he hugged her close. "I'm here for you though." He said, "I always will be. And nothing will ever change that."

"Don't make a promise you can't—you can't keep." She whimpered and he shook his head, still holding her tight against him.

"That's a promise I'll always keep. You're my best friend and my girlfriend, I'm never going to go anywhere."

"Really?"

"I promise." He whispered into her hair. "I'm never letting you go."

PRESENT DAY

Cat stared up at the house in front of her, she hadn't done this since the time she was pregnant and Beck had yelled at her for it, but she felt like it was something she had to do. She climbed up the tree (quickly figuring it out even though it was completely different than from when she was in Canada) and found which window was his. She looked inside it, to see that she'd been right. He was in the same position she knew he'd be in. He was staring at the ceiling, almost emotionless. His door was shut, and she could see he was crying a little bit.

Sikowitz had been right.

He rarely ever cried, but for him to be doing it now, it had to be for a good reason. But she wasn't self-centered, she knew it wasn't just about her he was upset about, it was Jade too.

She knocked on the window, the same code they'd had for years, and waited for him to respond. He did a moment later, and got up, wiping his cheeks quickly, he walked to the window and opened it, helping her inside.

"Well, isn't this just like old times." He commented, and she nodded.

"Yeah, very vivid flashbacks happening right now." She told him, "Very, very vivid."

"Same…" He looked at her, "So uh, why are you here? I thought you hated me… remember, you said you were going to take me to court and—"

She put her finger on his lips to shut him up. "I'm here to talk to you."

"Talk to me?" She nodded, "Why do I feel like… I'm going to be duped?"

"You're not!" She insisted, "I promise., I just… we need to get this out, and be up front and honest with each other."

"Okay, about what?"

"About how we feel, Beck. I mean come on, I know you love me, and I still love you, but we both know it's not the same love we felt two years ago, it's a different kind, and I don't know what it is, but I can't be with someone else, with out thinking about you, and it's really hard and confusing and it's driving me crazy!"

"You feel the same way?" He whispered, and her head snapped in his direction. "I mean, yeah I love Jade, to death, trust me. I'd kill myself for you, but with you it's different."

"Yeah I know." She said, "I'm beginning to see that."

"I think… I think we have feelings between us, like this tension and we can't get rid of it, until—until we're really sure it's over."

"Like, closure." She said, and he nodded. "Well, how are we supposed to do that? I mean you're with Jade now, and I'm sort of with Robbie, but probably not because I sort of made a mistake earlier today in my anger and…uh yeah." She said, "You know how I get when I'm upset."

"Yeah," He nodded, "Your wrist is an example of that."

"You know, normally I'd be offended by that, but it's true, it is." She shrugged, looking at him. "So what do we do?"

He shrugged as well. "I don't know, Courtney… you're my best friend and I can't just let someone like you go. You've been apart of my life since I was born, and if I just lost that… I don't know what I'd do."

"Beck, are you still with Jade?" She whispered and he shook his head.

"We're on break. She texted me it after our fight, and I agreed figuring it was best—for the both of us, while I figure things out."

"And I'm—I'm single too." She said, stammering through her words. "We're—we're both single, and—and that's bad."

"Why is that bad?"

"Because I—" She stopped talking. "Look, I have to be honest with you, and yeah it's gonna make me sound like a slut, but I have to be honest." He nodded and she took a seat on his bed. "I had sex with Robbie."

His eyes widened, and he looked like he was gonna get pissed off and go off on her again, but she stopped him from it, "You can't say anything, Beck. You've had sex with Jade, that much is obvious." He nodded, calming down. "But anyway, today, I met up with an old friend of mine and—we hooked up, as in we made out."

"What were you thinking, Cat? You can't just do that!"

"Like you can't be with Jade and deny there's still something between us, Beck?" Cat pointed out and he rolled his eyes. "I know what I did was wrong, and I feel guilty for it, but even when I was with Robbie…. I couldn't help but feel like something was missing, and then I realized the last time I'd had sex was with you and it just… it hurt."

"So, that's why you didn't talk to Robbie all day." He said and she nodded.

"Yeah."

"So, what should we do now?"

"I—I don't know." Cat admitted. "I don't know where to go from here."

"I think I do—" Beck said, and leaned in closer to her. She looked up at him, her eyes going in between his eyes and lips.

"Beck, what are you doing?"

He didn't answer, instead pressed his lips against hers softly, leaving them there until she responded back—she didn't, and he broke it.

"What did you feel?"

She just stared at him a moment, before throwing her arms around his neck and pulling him toward her, pressing her upper body against his, she kissed him deeper, causing him to as well, starting their battle for control.

She broke the kiss a moment later, breathless and looked at him, her arms still wrapped around his neck.

She couldn't lie, she missed it… being with him.

And he couldn't lie to her either, as he too, missed being with her.

They were caught up in each other, so much that anything else that was going on then, didn't even matter anymore. It was just Cat&Beck or really Courtney&Beck, back when they were dating, back when they both still lived in Stratford.

They were still an inch from each other, catching their breath. They stared at each other, refusing to take their eyes off the other, and then leaned in closer for the kiss, kissing more and more.

He put his hands under her shirt and took it off throwing it to the side. She did the same to him, and he turned her a bit, laying her on her back, he still continued to kiss her, loving the feeling of her lips against his. As they continued to kiss—not able to stop for too long, her hands traveled down his sides and down to his sweatpants, she pulled on the string and let it fall, pushing it down his legs, he kicked it off, left in only his boxers.

She pulled away from him for only a moment to take off her leggings and shoes, leaving her in just a bra and underwear.

She knew they were probably going to make a mistake—and make it soon. But even knowing that, she knew they needed it. There had been too much tension between them, so much that it was building up, to the point where they both literally exploded.

But once it was over, it was over. They were doing this for closure, so they could finally move on from each other, as they didn't care for each other in that way anymore, right?

Right.

His hands traveled up and down her sides, tickling her. She couldn't help it and giggled into his mouth, her hands going into his hair, she ran her fingers through it, causing him to hit his body against hers, which caused her to feel his arousal.

She moaned against his lips, and moved in sync with him as he thrusted against her, pressing his body as close to hers as he could go.

He groaned against her lips and then let his hands travel lower, going just outside her panties, he pressed his thumb against her, causing her to cry out and move her hips towards his. He didn't again and the same thing happened. Then he put his hand inside her panties and began to play with her, causing her to moan again, he stuck two fingers inside her and moved them, her body thrusting against his, as he kept his lips on hers.

"B-Beck." She whimpered, "Please.. just—" He got the message and pulled his fingers out of her, she had her hands on the waistbands of his boxers at that point and pulled them down, her fingers "accidently" brushing against his member.

She put her fingers around it and began to pump it, causing him to bite down on her bottom lip. She did it more and more until he stopped her with a shake of his head. He pulled her up with him taking her bra off, he threw it to the side and then took her panties off of her, leaving them both completely naked.

There was no turning back now—it was really going to happen.

He reached over her, to his nightstand drawer, and pulled out a condom, sliding it on, he positioned himself at her entrance.

She looked up at him, biting her lip. She wanted it to happen, and then she didn't, she was just really lost and confused.

But luckily for her, she didn't have to think about it too much. Beck leaned forward, and started to kiss her again, deep and hard until she kissed him back. And as he kissed her, he pushed himself inside of her, causing her to moan against his mouth. She wrapped her legs around him, causing him to go in deeper, until he filled her up completely. She gasped, as he started to move, but quieted her by kissing her more, noticing that as they did, she had started to cry, her cheeks were wet, her eyes bloodshot.

He too started to cry a bit, but didn't let it stop him. She moved against him, moving in sync with him as he went faster and harder. She moaned against him, noticing that he didn't want to move away from her, that he just wanted to be as close to her as he possibly could.

What was up with that?

Then she remembered that he did that many times when he was upset, almost like she did some pretty reckless things when she was the same way.

"Beck, I—I'm—" He nodded, getting the message immediately. He moved faster, his own orgasm approaching as well.

And a few minutes later, they came, exploding at the same time. But throughout it all, he didn't stop kissing her, strange as it was.

Finally, it was over, and he moved slower, until he pulled out of her completely, throwing away the condom, he kissed her one last time softly, as she kissed him back, and then fell on his back next to her.

It didn't take long for him to realize she was crying as her hands had covered her face, tears streaming down it. He grabbed them both and looked at her, he didn't say anything for her to know they had the same thing on their minds.

"It's over, Beck… it's really over." She whispered.

"Yeah." He said, "it really is, we now know… that we—we can move on."

She nodded, "We don't need each other in that way anymore, and… I don't really know how I feel about it."

"Me neither." He said, laying on his back again. "But I now know what I want."

"And what's that?" She asked him.

"I want Jade… she's the only one for me."

Those words would've hurt her if it had been a few hours before, but instead of getting upset about it, she just nodded, "Yeah, and Robbie's the one for me." She said, "This—this is exactly what we needed, isn't it?"

"Yeah, it was." He said, "Now we know we don't always need each other—you know like that."

"Yeah." She said, a small smile on her face. "We don't."

"What's going to happen to us though?" Beck asked her. "Are we still going to be fr—" He stopped himself. "Best friends?"

She nodded, "Uhm, yeah, yeah we are." She said, "I mean, that you can't just let—let go of, but uhm, I just want to say… that I'm sorry. Okay? I'm sorry for freaking out and threatening to take you to court. I was just—"

"Upset." He finished for her, "I know."

"And you're right you know, that I don't spend anytime with Bentley, but here's the thing, well, two things. One is, I am going to start to, you know once my life gets back on track again, and two, I don't want us to be like a divorced couple. We broke up, but that doesn't mean we can't still be best friends, right?" He nodded, a hopeful look on his face. "So, we have to be civil not only for our son, but for each other."

"Yeah," He said, taking her hand in his. "For each other."

She smiled, "I love you, bestest friend forever."

"I love you as well, Courtney." He grinned, "You know, this might sound awkward, but… we're still kind of…"

"Oh! Right, okay!" She said, and got up quickly pulling her clothes back on. "Let's uh, never speak of this again."

He laughed, "Okay…" He said, but then his tone got serious. "So it's our little secret?"

She looked at him and nodded, "Yeah, you know until we're ready to tell Jade and Robbie, but before we do that, we have to talk it over first, deal?"

He nodded, "Deal."

Because, after all, what were best friends for, if they couldn't keep a secret in between just them?

"I think—I think you should go talk to Jade, and tell her you want to keep the baby." She said, "I know you do, and it'll be good for Bentley to have a baby brother or sister."

Why she was suddenly so open minded about this, Beck didn't know. But what he did know was everything they were afraid of, all their fears and everything, it was over with. They had gotten what they needed to, out of their systems (without cheating) and it was over… all of it. Except of course their friendships.

"I will, but first… I need to tell Jade about what happened just now." He said, and Cat sighed, nodding her head.

"Yeah I think it's best I tell Robbie." She told him. "But no one else, okay? We'll tell Tori and Andre in our own time, and I'll make sure Robbie doesn't tell anyone if you make sure Jade doesn't either, okay?"

He nodded, "Okay."

And with that, she gave him a hug goodbye, disappearing out of the window, she jumped down to the ground and walked back home.

Beck was relieved, relieved that everything he was afraid of, was now over and done with and he didn't have to worry anymore.

He knew what he wanted, and he was going to get it.

It didn't take too long for Cat to get to Robbie's house, as he didn't live too far from Beck. She knocked on the door, and it opened, only for her to see Robbie was on the other side of it.

She knew she was border lining on slut that day, but she didn't care. As soon as the door opened and she saw Robbie, she threw her arms around him and kissed him. He looked shocked so she pulled away, and then began to explain herself.

"I saw Beck." She said, and he nodded, "And uhm, well, we talked things out, and uhm, now I know what I want."

"I didn't really think that was too much of an issue for you," Robbie told her, "I just figured that was his problem."

"Well, it was mine too, as you saw today from me ignoring you and all." She said and he nodded. "I—I wasn't sure what I wanted yesterday, and I'm not afraid to admit it anymore. Because the thing is, Beck had Jade and I had you and I was just missing the relationship I had with Beck. A lot. And that's what the other day with you reminded me of, since he was the only one I had ever been with like that." Robbie nodded, and she was about to continue, when she stopped for a second. "Just come outside, so I can talk to you." He nodded and shut the door. They both then sat down on the steps outside, she turned to face him, and then started to speak again.

"So, uh, I talked to Sikowitz who told me a whole lot of stuff that he knew about Beck and I, and then said that we needed closure. So I went to Beck's and we uhm, we talked for a little, and then—then he kissed me." Robbie's eyes widened, she was only afraid of what his expression would be when she told him what happened next, "And then we had sex."

"What?" He shouted, jumping up. "He cheated on Jade?"

"No! No!" She shouted, jumping up with him, "He said they were on break and that they had decided that earlier."

"But—what—why?"

"Because we need to get it out of our systems! Okay? We went two years without having sex because I was gone, and—and it was obvious we needed to do it so we could finally move on! And that's what happened, after we did it, it was over, over for good. And I was ready, Robbie, ready to move on."

He looked at her, and noticed that she really did sound sincere, and she wasn't saying it to fuck with his head.

She stepped forward, taking one of his hands in hers, and then put her other on his cheek. "I like you, now, Robbie and I want—I want to be with you."

"You—you do?"

She nodded, "If I didn't would I be standing here right now? Especially after having sex with Beck?" He shook his head. "Exactly."

"I—I want to be with you too." He whispered and then she leaned forward and kissed him gently. He broke the kiss though and looked at her, "No sex with Beck anymore, promise?" She laughed, and leaned in again, an inch from kissing him.

"I promise." And with that, she wrapped her arms around his neck as he put both his hands on her waist, pulling her closer, their lips connected once again, in the most amazing kiss they'd ever shared before.

Jade, meanwhile was in her bedroom, laying on her bed, her pillow pressed to her eyes, tears flowing through her eyes, pretty much totally running the pillow, but she didn't really care.

She wasn't feeling well, and just knowing she and Beck were on break after two years of being together, just killed her.

She heard a knock on her door, and didn't say anything, but she heard it open, and then close and then the weight of her bed shift as someone sat down beside her.

"Weird, the last time I was here, we got into a huge fight."

No, it wasn't Beck… was it? She turned around to face him, and saw he was in fact there. She sat up quickly and wiped her cheeks.

"What are you doing here?"

"To talk to you." He said, simply. "And tell you something."

"Okay, then talk."

He took a deep breath, "I talked to Cat today," He said, and she stayed silent, "Look, Jade. We—we have a lot of history together, and we just... needed to get rid of that tension that was very clearly in between us. If that makes sense. She was gone for two years, and we never really… had any closure on how we felt or anything like that."

"What are you saying, Beck?"

"Okay, well uhm… I talked to Sikowitz, and he was telling me how we had some things we had to deal with and the sooner we did it, the better." She nodded, agreeing. "So, I don't know, I was just bumminb out in my room and she came over, and we talked… and then, we uhm, kissed."

Jade's eyes grew about the size of golfballs, but he still continued anyway, deciding to just come out with it, "and then we had sex."

"What?" She yelled, "You—you had sex?" She was almost screaming, "How could you have sex with her?"

"Don't you get it Jade? We needed to just officially close the relationship! And guess what? After it was over, it was really over between us! We don't have feelings for each other like that anymore!"

"You can't have sex with someone and not have feelings for them, Beck!" Jade shouted at him, "It's not like it goes away! You're always going to have feelings for her and she's always going to have feelings for you! And I'm so sorry I got in the way of that!"

"No, no, no, just listen to me." He said, grabbing her wrists. "You don't fully understand. She and I—we've known nothing but of each other since the day we were born, okay? We thought we were gonna end up together and get married, and we especially did when we had Bentley, but you know… it's not like that anymore! We can now move on, I mean, she was happy it was over, and so was I! I finally knew what the hell I wanted, and it wasn't her, it was you."

"So you just kept these feelings to yourself the last two years, Beck? What, you really didn't love me then? Your proposal was just a lame attempt to forget about her?"

"No, no… it never was, Jade I love you, okay? I'm in love with you and that's never, ever going to go away. My feelings for Cat are now and completely a hundred and fifteen percent platonic, as in we're always, always going to be best friends and nothing is ever going to change it."

"Because you've been that all your lives," Jade said, understanding, "Okay, but still, I'm not okay with you having sex with her! That's like, no!"

"I know!" Beck shot back, "but come on! Put yourself in my position, if you were like this with your ex from Jersey, would you have done the same thing?"

She thought about it for a moment, she and her ex, Ryan had been very serious, maybe not as much as Beck and Cat had been, but for a good part of her life, he'd been everything to her. But the difference in between Ryan and her and Beck and Cat was that she and Ryan didn't have such a strong hold on each other, one that would always be there. They were long over, and we're sort-of friends now. They hardly talked since she moved, and though she missed him, she didn't miss him that much… at least not anywhere near as much as Cat and Beck did.

"Just think about it," Beck said, "If you and Ryan had been best friends since the day you were born, would you have—"

"I get it." Jade cut in, "Okay… I get it." She said, "I probably would've done the same thing. Cat's a bit different and she's got issues and I get that you both had to get something out of your systems, I mean, you'd have to be an idiot to not see the tension that was building up in between you two."

"So, you're okay? I mean, we're okay? And you're okay… with her?"

"Well, I have to talk to her, but yes… we're uhm, we're okay." She whispered, "And I still trust you, I mean that's never gonna change. But…" She looked down and he instantly got it, what she was thinking.

"I am not going to leave you, and I'm not going to leave this baby, okay? I will be by your side throughout this entire pregnancy. Is it the best news ever? No, but it's not the worst thing either. The timing kind of sucks, but Jade, I'm—I'm honestly and truly ready now to have a baby with you… and to be married to you and to be yours forever." She looked up at him, tears in her eyes. "I can't change my past, but I can make my future better."

She didn't say anything, just wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him repeatedly. "I love you so much, Beck."

"I know." He said, smiling, "I love you… more."

She shook her head, "No... there's no way."

He nodded, "Yes there is."

"How?" She asked him and he rolled his eyes. "He leaned forward and started to tickle her stomach causing her to laugh and push him away.

"Beck! Beck! I'm going to kill you!" Jade yelled, but it was mostly covered by her laughing, "That's not fair!"

He stopped suddenly, looking up at her, his hands on her stomach. "Our baby is in there." He said, and she nodded.

"Yeah… he or she is." She said, smiling. "I'm excited to see her… in a few months."

"Me too," Beck whispered, "Me too."

"Do you think Bentley will like that?" Jade asked him, "Having a little brother or sister?" He thought about it for a moment before nodding.

"He'd love it!"

"What about Cat? How does she feel about it?"

He smiled, "She encouraged me to tell you I wanted to keep the baby, so honestly I think she's totally fine with it."

Jade blinked back tears, damn hormones. "That makes me so happy." And with that, she grabbed Beck's shirt collar, pulling him to her, she pressed her lips against his and kissed him gently.

"I love you," She murmured against his lips, running her fingers through his hair and pulling him closer. "I love you so much."

"I love you too, Jade." He said softly, "Please, please, don't ever doubt that for a minute."

"I won't." She whispered, "I won't ever doubt it again."

And with that, she fell on her back, Beck on top of her as he kissed her deeper. But after a few moments, he pulled back and lay down beside her, wrapping his arms around her, he pulled her close to him, and kissed the top of her head.

He couldn't be happier now that he knew things between him and Cat were over for good. And he definitely couldn't be happier that Jade had forgiven him so easily, after he'd been such a jerk to her. She was good though, like Cat she knew that he didn't have to apologize verbally for them to know he really was sorry.

Jade just knew. Jade was also the one who was carrying his baby, a new sibling for his young son.

And as he kissed Jade again, he realized… his life was finally the way he wanted it, to be and that thought alone made him the happiest young man alive.

Jade lay against Beck, happy that they were back together and everything was okay again. She wasn't too bothered by the fact that he had to have sex with Cat to figure out what he wanted, since she knew it was going to come up sooner or later. But she was happy that it made him finally figure out that she was what he wanted and that she was who he wanted to spend the rest of his life with.

They were both so happy, and content and in their own little worlds, that they didn't really want to go out and face the real world.

Not ever.

Well, soon, but just not at that very moment.

"Hey, Jade?"

"Yeah?"

"Uh, well, I was wondering, do you want to uhm…" He sat up and she did the same, looking at him a bit confused.

"Yes?"

He didn't say anything, instead getting an evil grin on his face, he launched himself further and started to tickle her, causing her to laugh out loud again as he kissed her to try and quiet her down, but still keeping up his tickling.

"Beck! Oh my god! Beck!" She laughed, pushing against him, "I'm going to kill you!"

"Nah, you wouldn't." He said and she looked at him.

"Give me one reason why I shouldn't." She challenged, narrowing her eyes.

"Because," He said, shrugging. "I'm just so darn cute and adorable."

"Yeah, you just keep telling yourself that, buddy." She said, and he rolled his eyes, tickling her faster.

"Admit it! Or it'll just be worse for you!"

"No!" She laughed, "I will never admit that you are somewhat cute and adorable!"

"Somewhat?" He paused for a second, pretending to think it over, "I can live with that."

"Oh god, no." She moaned, "Why?"

"Because you love me." He teased her and she nodded.

"Yeah." She pretended to be annoyed, "I do…unfortunately."

"I bet you, you'll love me more when we have that baby." He said, and she shook her head.

"There's no way I'd love you more than I do right now. You came back to me, and really that's all that matters to me, all that… among other things, including your habit to randomly tickle me out of nowhere, that just makes me fall in love with you more and more everyday."

He just kissed her, unable to speak, and even if he could, he wouldn't even know what to say.

"I love you, Beck." She whispered and he smiled against her lips, which was enough for her to know he loved her back.

See? All of it worked out! For both Beck&Jade and Cat&Robbie. And nooo it's not over! Still a lot more to come… since I added in Cat's un named friend who gave her the coke, as well as the issue with it and why the hell she has it.

And of course! Jade and Beck's baby! Whooo! I'm happy they worked things out, aren't you?

Hehe, yeah, hopefully it makes sense what I was trying to do, but if not, it's just like this. Cat and Beck still had feelings for each other. Right? Because she had just left, and they never really had closure on it or anything and if you read in the chapters before this, you can kinda tell he misses her, and she misses him (if you read between the lines) but they were just too afraid to admit it. Not to each other, themselves or anyone else. So then the news of Jade's pregnancy just made all of that come to a boil, and yeah, that's what happened last chapter. And Sikowitz, he knows what's up, and knows that Beck has to make a decision in between Jade and Cat. He's not necessarily for Cat and Beck, he just knows how important their friendship is and understands it very well.

So, he tells them to "get closure" on their relationship since their's is one not many people have, and he knows that they're lucky to have it. So, that's what happened, they let their feelings be known to each other and just got rid of it completely, which is why they were happy and (somewhat sad too) that after it was over, it really was over. They had no feelings left for each other, other than a best friend kind of feeling, and just had romantic feelings for Robbie and Jade.

I had planned it from the very beginning and didn't just pull it out of my ass, just so you know.

So, yeah! Hopefully that cleared it up!

If it still doesn't make any sense, let me know, and I'll be happy to explain it more.

Oh, and didya notice Beck did it again? He was upset… and used Cat to make himself feel better (which I sort of address) and she knows about it, since she's always known him to do things like that when he was upset, just like he knew what she always did when she was upset.

And yeah, I know Cat seems like a slut here, but you know… there are things going on with her… which will be revealed later, if you can tell, lol.

Okay, so hope you enjoyed that… and I know you're DEFINITELY going to love the next one as it's going to be ALL about Beck&Jade and about their past (sort of just like I do with Beck and Cat) so yeah, stay tuned for it! Review!

I'll get it up as SOON as I can, as I'll be busy the next week or so, but I'll try my best! That is if you stil like this story, lol. Just kidding! Hehe, xoxo!