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Unbroken

Chapter Twenty-One

"Good," She replied.

"My parents raised me with respect," I answered proudly.

"So have you ever had a girlfriend?" She questioned completely out of the blue. It caught me off guard. I did not expect her to be asking me this question.

"Why do you wanna know?" I raised a brow.

"I'm your best friend, I should know these things," She said with a smile. I couldn't disagree with that. "So, have you? Even though my memory's getting better, I'm still forgetting a few things. It's mostly about you and our friends. I remember most things about myself, but I don't entirely know our friends' life stories. I'm sure I'm supposed to know that."

"Well…" My voice trailed off. I wasn't sure if I was going to tell her that I did have a girlfriend. Even if I did, I was going to make sure I didn't tell her that it was her. "I did have a girlfriend… But she broke up with me like a week ago." I shrugged.

"Is she an idiot?" She gave me a look.

"Huh?" I looked at her, puzzled.

"You're a great guy, I don't understand why she would break up with you," She explained. "What's her name? I'm gonna go talk to her and make sure she gets back together with you."

"I don't even know, but whatever," I answered. "You don't know her. And it's okay, I don't mind anymore."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm positive," I smiled. "But thanks for caring."

"Sure thing."

For the rest of the morning, we played video games. Occasionally, Jade would look around my RV again and find some things that interested her. Right before lunch, she found a photo album in my closet that I put together with pictures of me and my friends. I had a separate album for just Jade and I, and all the cute couple pictures I forced Jade to take with me.

"What's this?" She asked, holding up a bulky photo album with a picture of me, her and the others on the cover.

"It's a photo album," I replied in a 'duh' tone. She didn't appreciate my sarcasm very much and gave me a dirty look. "We all made an album with these pictures. It's an album with pictures of us and our friends and all the shenanigans we've been involved in."

Jade walked over to me and sat on the floor, while I was sitting on my bed. She opened the photo album and flipped through the pages.

"Whoa, we've done a lot of stupid things," She commented, referring to a picture of us dressed up as The Diddly Bops. "What the hell did we do this for?"

"We performed for Sikowitz's friend's kid's birthday party," I replied.

"We must have gotten something out of it. I wouldn't have done that just for a bunch of seven year olds voluntarily."

"We were paid a thousand dollars," I added.

"That makes more sense," She smiled. She then flipped the page and pointed to a photo of us all dressed up fancy (except for Tori, she was in her ping pong uniform) at a restaurant. "What about this picture? This is from Maestro's right? From the Great Ping Pong Scam?"

"Yup," I replied, popping the 'p.'

"Why is Tori wearing a ping pong outfit?" Jade questioned, furrowing her brow.

"You forgot to tell her to bring something nice," I pointed out.

"Wait—why is she wearing my dress in this picture?!" Jade pointed to a picture of Andre and Tori performing at Maestro's in order to pay off our bill. Andre was sitting at a piano and Tori was sitting on it in Jade's sparkly purple dress.

"She forced you to change outfits with her," I shrugged. "Our bill went over than the amount of money we had, no thanks to Robbie, and so we paid it off by a performance from Tori and Andre."

"Figures," She muttered. "It's always Tori."

I shook my head amusingly at her comment.

Jade continued to look through the album, only stopping to ask when it was a photo that interested her. She stopped at a photo of us and the others all dressed up in random 'costumes.' It was from the sleepover at Sikowitz.

"Why was I wearing a cowgirl outfit?" Jade questioned, staring at herself in the picture.

"This was from the sleepover at Sikowiz," I replied.

"We had a sleepover, at a teacher's house?" She repeated. "Is that legal?"

"I don't even know," I answered. "But Tori and I were the only ones who ended up sleeping over that night. He invited us over as a method acting challenge. We all gave each other a character to play and whoever broke character was to be kicked out of the house."

"How did I get kicked out?" Jade inquired. She knew she was an exceptional actress, so it amused her to see a picture of just me and Tori at the end.

"You burned your hand," I informed her. "You technically didn't break character until you were out of the house, though. You kicked yourself out. But then you started yelling profanities and broke a car window, I believe."

"That sounds like me," She commented. "Well, with what I've heard others say about me."

"It does," I agreed.

She flipped through more pages.

"Wow, we've done a lot," She said.

"Yeah, we get ourselves into a lot of weird situations," I told her. When I saw a picture of us with Kenan Thompson, I added, "But at least we got to party with Kenan."

"How did we manage to get into Kenan's party?" Jade inquired.

"Andre hooked us up," I replied. "You and I spent most of the party in the jacuzzi with Sikowitz and some dude named Spencer. He's Carly's brother. You know, from iCarly."

"What the hell is iCarly?" Jade gave me a funny look. "And I love me my jacuzzis."

"It's a popular web show run by some kids our age from Seattle," I explained. "And I know you do."

"I'm hungry," Jade announced, closing the photo album shut and handing it to me. I put it on my bed and was planning to put it away later.

"Do you want to go out or do you want me to cook for you?" I questioned.

"I wanna go to Inside Out Burger," She stated. "Take me?"

"Sure," I replied. "I'll buy."

"Yeah, you will."

"Rude."

"Get used to it."

"I already am."

"Rude."

We headed out to the nearest Inside Out Burger and I bought us lunch. She had a big appetite, surprisingly. Well, it wasn't that surprising since she skipped breakfast this morning. But really though, I've never met a girl who eats as much as Jade. Quite frankly, I like girls who aren't afraid to eat in front of guys. I couldn't care less what size they were. They're beautiful either way.

"You eat a lot, you know that?" I commented, watching her eat. She didn't find it uncomfortable.

"You know if you tell girls that, you'll never get a girlfriend?" Jade shot back, taking a huge bite out of her burger. "Keep that up and you'll be the reason why girls starve themselves."

"It was just an observation, geez," I defended myself, returning to my own food.

"I don't know why I'm telling you this, but I actually enjoy hanging out with you," Jade said out of the blue, taking a drink out of her iced tea. "This was the first time we actually spent so much time together ever since I got out of the hospital."

"Of course you enjoy my company," I smirked. "I'm your best friend."

"Of course, but don't get too cocky," Jade rolled her eyes. "But really, we need to hang out more."

"I have a feeling that's going to happen," I told her. Now that Ryder's out of the way, there will be no more problems, whatsoever.

"Alone, I mean," Jade added sheepishly, avoiding my gaze. She assumed that I meant all of our friends. "Just me and you."

I raised my eyebrow in interest.

"Why just me and you?" I asked.

"I feel like we haven't hung out in ages," She replied, biting into her burger once again.

"Well, you lost your memory of the last three years," I pointed out. "Maybe that's why you feel that way."

"Oh thanks, Captain Obvious," Jade rolled her eyes again. "As if I hadn't known about my memory loss."

"You're starting to get your attitude back," I commented.

"What attitude?" She scoffed.

"That attitude," I laughed.

"Hey, remember that park we used to go to all the time in seventh grade?" Jade asked with hopeful eyes.

"Yeah, what about it?"

"I wanna go there," She declared.

"Do you really?" I questioned. "We haven't been to that park since the last day of seventh grade."

"Why, what happened?"

"I don't know, we just never ended up going there again," I shrugged. I was unsure myself why we had stopped going to that park. I believe it was because it was getting crowded there and we just liked the peace and quiet. For a bunch of twelve year olds, we were deep. We were actors, after all.

"Oh," Jade's face fell. She really liked that park. Except for the pond. She hates the ducks and she ends up yelling at them for just being ducks.

"If you'd like, we could go back on the last day of school," I suggested. "Make it some kind of tradition or something."

"I'd like that," Jade said. "I just don't like growing up and I feel like that's the only piece of childhood I have left. That, and my love for scissors, of course."

"Of course you'd mention scissors," I added.

Once we finished our lunch, we headed back to the RV. Jade, once again, was going through my things and found some box sets of Degrassi. She never liked Degrassi, just because it was Canadian. I've tried making her watch it with me before, but she threatened to leave. Of course I wasn't going to let her just leave my RV on a night she planned on staying overnight, so we never ended up watching it.

"What's this?" Jade questioned, holding up a DVD box set of Degrassi.

"Degrassi," I replied from the couch. "It's just kids in high school involved in a lot of drama. Drinking, cheating, that kind of stuff. Deals with a lot of issues teens have these days. But sometimes it seems a little too unrealistic. I shouldn't complain too much, though, it is just a television show."

"I wanna watch it," She announced, reading the back of the DVD. "Seems interesting. High school drama? Fun."

"It's Canadian," I told her calmly, hoping she wouldn't freak out.

"What's wrong with that?" She titled her head. Well, that was an unexpected response from her.

"You hate Canada," I pointed out. "You didn't talk to me for a week when you found out I was Canadian."

"You're Canadian?" She seemed shocked, but then I remembered that she only found out after we started dating.

"Yeah…"

"Ew."

"See?" I pointed out. "You hate Canada."

"Sure, I may not like the country, but I want to give it a try," She shrugged.

"I tried making you watch Degrassi with me before," I told her.

"And?"

"You said you were going to leave if we did."

"Shouldn't you be happy then?" Jade queried. "That I finally wanna give this show a chance?"

"Sure, I guess," I shrugged. "But it seems totally unlike you."

"Whatever, I wanna watch it," She insisted, ignoring my comment. Jade went ahead and put the DVD into the DVD player without waiting for my response. "High school drama, I like laughing at this chiz." Yup, that was Jade, alright. Once she set it up, she joined me on the couch. We sat a little too close for her liking (I thought), but it didn't bother me at all. It just took me all my willpower to not put my arm around her. I would probably get slapped. But with the way today has been going, I highly doubted it.

During one scene in one episode, two characters got into a fight and Jade laughed to no end. I looked at her and she returned the gaze. Our eyes locked for a while, and then the unexpected happened. She began to lean forward, and I didn't stop her. I knew what was happening and I was not going to let this opportunity go to waste by telling her to stop. Besides, it was her who started leaning in first. It was her choice. I let her lean in even more and I leaned in as well. Before I knew it, our lips touched and I screamed like a little girl inside. I haven't kissed her like this since before the accident. I longed for this kiss. Seconds later, she pulled away and I looked into her eyes. She looked down, avoiding my gaze. She didn't seem to avoid my gaze about a minute ago.

"I, I'm sorry," She breathed, still looking down at her lap. After a few seconds of silence, she got up.

She headed towards the door and I followed, but she didn't stop. She left the RV as I stood at the door.

Hehe, cliffhanger!

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