A/N: Hey, I hope that I didn't scare too many of you away with the last chapter. This story will change to an M rating in a couple more episodes. I would also like to let everyone know that I do not hate Tori's character. Remember, I am writing this fic from Jade's point of view, so all the characters and events are going to written from her perception of them. I am actually going to do a couple companion one-shots from other characters point of views regarding certain main events that happen later in the series. (The first one will probably be Beck's POV from Jade Sumps Beck.) This episode has been really fun to write, since there was so little to work with regarding Jade in The Birthweek Song, this is purely coming from my crazy imagination. :)

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The Birthweek Song

Part Three

"Ugh, remind me to NEVER ride with you to school again!" I yell at Cat as we walk into school together. Since my car is at the shop being cleaned (thanks so much Vega) I had to hitch a ride with Cat and her brother drove us. Frankie tends to scream randomly at other people on the road and veer erratically at them while driving, and I was sure we were going to end up on the news for him causing some road rage related accident. "Remind me to kill Vega when I see her!" I seethe at Cat, before leaving her and going to my locker.

"Hey Jade," I hear Robbie say somewhat subdued, as he walks up to his locker next to mine. I notice that Rex is not in his arms.

"Where's your puppet?" I can't stop from asking, and I immediately begin to mentally kick myself. Like I really want to stand here and listen to Robbie tell me why he isn't holding his doll today.

"He's NOT a puppet!" Robbie yells at me, and I can't help but smirk. "He's in my backpack. On a time out. He wants to yell at Tori for puking on him Saturday night."

"No, I just want to tell Cheekbones next time she wants to puke in someone's hair, to do it to Robbie! It's not like he had a date the next night. I had to cancel a lunch date with my Northridge honey yesterday cause the smell was still lingering!" Rex mumbles from Robbie's bag.

"I just want to rip Vega a new one for upchucking," I say, slamming my locker door shut. "My car is in getting cleaned professionally because the fucking puke smell wouldn't come out!" I yell. "So for once I agree with your damn doll Robbie. Let Rex yell at Tori fucking Vega until his little puppet heart's content," I say, throwing my backpack over my shoulder and heading to my first class, leaving Robbie behind.

"Hey Jade, do you mind lending me a couple bucks for lunch?" Andre asks me as we get into the line forming in front of Festus' truck.

"Here," I begin to hand him a five dollar bill, and then stop, squinting my eyes at him as something occurs to me. "Did you forget your wallet at home?" I ask innocently.

"Uh, yeah," Andre says, looking everywhere except at me. He begins to reach for the money but I quickly yank it back.

"You sure?" I ask, arching my right eyebrow.

Andre sighs. "Okay, I should have listened to you. Stephanie or one of her friends must have taken it from me at some point."

I shake my head and give him the money. "I told you to keep track of it. You know you can't trust those North Ridge sluts," I smirk at him, and step up to order my lunch.

I somehow manage to find myself seated between Cat and fucking Sinjin VanCleef during lunch. Beck isn't even gone for one whole school day and I already have my creepy wannabe stalker sticking to me like glue. He literally came out of nowhere and I can't even pinpoint when exactly he sat down next to me. It is beyond creepy that Sinjin can be that stealthy. I play with my small portable scissors, methodically cutting up some french fries I am too full to finish eating, while listening to Vega go on about finding the perfect birthweek gift for her to give to Trina.

Really Andre? Cheese? And Robbie's suggestion about the lotion was not any better. It gave me visions of the different lotions that Beck has next to his bed that we use, for *ahem* certain things…...and I do NOT want my mind going to what Robbie uses his various lotions for.

"Jade, what should I get Trina?" Vega interrupts Cat's rambling to ask me.

"Talent," I reply, without looking up from my scissors. I can just feel Sinjin's eyes on me, and it is beginning to be more than I can handle. It is one thing that the freak stares at me constantly from afar, it is another to have him inches from my face and staring at me like a love sick little puppy.

"Jade's so pretty," Sinjin sighs. I take a sharp intake of breath. Could he be any fucking creepier?

"Three...Two...One," I start counting down, my voice hard. As soon as I begin to say the number one, Sinjin quickly jumps up, grabs his backpack and dashes across the Asphalt Cafe. Thank the gods he is away from me. I listen for a few more moments of Vega's current dilemma, but decide that I just can't take it anymore.

"You people give me a rash," I tell everyone at the table, rolling my eyes and walking away. I cannot stand how everyone is so worried about Tori's damn birthday present problem. Who the hell cares what the fuck she gets for her annoying ass sister?

I walk into the Blackbox theater and decide to read over the scenes again for my audition for 'Uptown Downtown' at the end of this weekend. The one positive thing about Beck being in Canada for the week is that he won't be able to distract me from prepping for this audition. I am just beginning to lose myself in the script when I hear the door to the theater open. I don't even glance up from reading, figuring that it is just a random student who left something behind when they switched classes.

"Jade, I really wanted to talk to you about what happened Saturday night," I hear Vega say, as she comes walking up behind me.

"Ugh, why?" I groan loudly, dramatically throwing my head back and flopping my script to the floor. Aside from my short conversations with Robbie this morning at our lockers, and me getting Andre to admit his wallet was stolen, no one has said a word about Saturday night. Most likely because Vega had been monopolizing the conversation at lunch with her inability to find the perfect gift for her annoying sister.

"Because, I wanted to say that I'm sorry. And I also wanted to thank you," Tori begins, sitting down in the chair next to me. "I've never had that much to drink before, and I am so embarrassed that I almost-"

"Stop!" I interrupt her, throwing my arm up. "I have been trying to block the image of you on your knees out of my head for the past two days."

"Cat told me that you were the one who noticed I had disappeared, and you insisted on finding me. And that you went off on that Northridge guy about taking advantage of me," Vega says, looking at her hands that she is fiddling with nervously in her lap. "If it hadn't been for you, who knows just how far I would have gone with that guy. I just want you to know that I am not normally like that. I just had too much to drink and I don't just randomly hook up with-"

"You don't owe me any explanation. Douchebag Dangle Dick was trying to take advantage of a drunk girl, but I stopped it. End of story. The creep had been trying to get into my pants all night. I would have gone off on him no matter who he had managed to go into the bedroom with. So you don't need to make this into some damn Hallmark touchy-feely moment. You were acting like a drunk slut, and I stopped you. You don't need to thank me."

The bell rings, signalling the end of lunch. I close my script, gather my bag and stand up and begin to walk towards the hallway. I put my hand on the door and glance back at Vega, who is still sitting, looking at her hands that are clasped together. "Oh, and Vega?"

"Yeah?" she asks, tearing her gaze from her lap to look at me.

"I'll be sending you the bill for the cleaning of my car," I smirk at her, before leaving her alone in the theater and heading off to my next class.

A/N: I hope that this helps explain why Tori is willing to help Jade get back together with Beck in the episode Jade Dumps Beck. The explanation for that in the show always seemed rather lame to me. Anyway, I hope that everyone enjoyed this chapter. Let me know what you think!