(A/N): Yay for an update! I'm just so thankful that people are still reading this. Thank you so much for all of your reviews! I can't believe I reached 111 reviews already. I'm so happy. Okay now, next chapter.

Btw, did anyone notice Beck wearing his 'J' necklace in Victori-Yes? I did. At least I hope that it was it. I'm pretty sure it was. It still hasn't sunk in that Victorious ended and I don't know… I think I'm just in denial.

Disclaimer: Definitely don't own it.

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"Can I have one cupcake, Jade? Please?" Cat begged for nth time for the past 40 minutes. She sat at the base of Jade's bed, facing her raven haired friend. Jade had only eaten two and hasn't really looked up from her laptop since. Andre decided to lounge on her furry red rug and was trying to distract himself from Cat's delicious cupcakes, which wasn't exactly helping because the smell of it was spreading throughout the entire room.

Jade looked up from her work and glared at Cat who squeaked in response.

"Please?" she asked again in a softer tone.

"Your hair is pretty." Cat added to try to get her to giving her a cupcake.

"Fine. You can have one." Jade replied.

"Yay!" Cat squealed and pounced on the tray of cupcakes on Jade's bed, making Jade glare at her some more for irritating her. Cat carefully picked out a cupcake and started munching it while she now sat next to Jade.

Andre, noticing that Jade let Cat have a cupcake, quickly stood up and casually walked over to them.

"Hey, Jade. We're friends right?" he said then playfully punched her arm. Cat looked up at him weirdly and Jade slowly turned her head to face him with a frown on her face.

Andre quickly contained his smile and locked his hands by his sides, "There was a…you had some dirt on your arm."

Jade gave an exasperated sigh, "Just get one!" she snapped.

"Yeah!" Andre raised his arms in victory then grabbed and pulled Jade in for a quick hug, earning him a glare and a growl of 'Let go of me.' from Jade. He quickly realized his doing and released Jade.

"Sorry." a blush had crept up his cheeks and he quickly grabbed a cupcake and turned around to prevent Jade from seeing it.

"Thanks!" he called back to avoid suspicion then sat back down on the rug and started eating. That was close. You are not in love with Jade. Get over it! He thought to himself then acted as he normally would.

Jade fixed herself up then grabbed another cupcake and continued with her typing. They all sat there in silence for awhile while they ate and entertained themselves.

"Hey, Jade." Andre spoke up.

"What?" she replied, not looking away from her laptop.

"Do you have another baby brother or sister?" he asked, suddenly remembering Jade's mom carrying a baby on her way out earlier.

"Huh?" Jade suddenly looked up. She completely forgot that her mom and Morgan were at home and that only Cat and Beck know about what's been happening in her life lately.

"Your mom was carrying a baby on her way out when we got here." Andre added which made Jade tense a bit and curse to herself.

"Oh! One time, when my brother was in Australia, he carried a baby kangaroo named Joey but then the baby kangaroo kicked him in the face." Cat suddenly piped up then bit cupcake. "He said that the other kangaroos were named Joey too. I wonder if they ever get confused when they're being called." She added and her face suddenly got serious as she wondered to herself.

Andre and Jade looked at her and shook their heads. Jade didn't know if Cat did that on purpose or she was just being her weird self but she was really thankful because it made her avoid Andre's question.

"Cat, all baby kangaroos are called joeys." Jade said.

"Yeah but how will they know which one of them is being called? Won't they get confused?" she replied with a worried expression on her face.

Andre looked away to avoid an endless conversation with Cat and baby kangaroos. Jade simply rolled her eyes and smiled then said, "Why don't you try to figure that out? Maybe you can help out the baby kangaroos."

"Kk!" Cat replied then silently started thinking about baby kangaroos. No one could ever really understand her way of thinking.

Jade rolled her eyes at her friend again then stood up to stretch. She'd been on her laptop for too long, her body was aching to be stretched. She then went to get her scissors by her nightstand and started playing with them. They were the ones that Cat had got her for her Christmas. She ran her fingers through the blade then started snipping the air again.

"So, Jade. About the baby." Andre started again.

Jade threw her scissors across the room in Andre's direction. He quickly moved away to avoid being hit. The scissors landed without a sound onto a dart board that Andre hadn't noticed before. It landed right in the center which made Jade smirk. Andre's eyes grew wide as he stared at her in shock and fear. He clutched his chest as he tried to slow down his heart rate.

"Ooh! Can I try?" Cat asked, unfazed by what just happened. She got off Jade's bed and stood right next to her.

"No!" Andre screamed at her.

"Are you crazy? She almost killed me!" he pointed a finger to Jade who just gave him an evil smile in return.

"But I just wanna hit the bull's eye." Cat said innocently.

"You—"

"Jade! Are your friends still here? I got dinner!" Jade's mom called from downstairs, followed by the sound of the door being shut.

"We'll be right down!" Jade screamed in response then walked toward her door. She stopped to turn to her friends when she reached the door.

"Are you coming or not?" she frowned at the pair.

Cat giggled then walked over to Jade, Andre followed suit but stayed at a careful distance. His heart was still racing and Jade could still be carrying a pair of scissors somewhere on her person. He didn't want to risk anything.

They could smell the pizza from Jade's bedroom door and that got their stomachs growling, even if they already ate Cat's cupcakes. They quickened their pace and got to the dinning room in a flash. Jade's mom was surprised when she turned around and they were all seated on the dining table.

"Aren't you a hungry bunch?" She smiled and handed them each a paper plate with a slice of pizza.

"I'll just be upstairs." She said then kissed the top of Jade's head and took the baby with her.

Andre was surprised that Jade didn't growl or react negatively to her mother's act of affection. Normally, she'd be grumbling about how much she hated that but she seemed not to mind it at all. In fact, she hasn't looked up from her pizza at all. Something was up but he didn't want to press on it now. Not after, he was almost killed by Jade's scissors.

"I'm gonna go get me another slice." Andre said as he dusted some crumbs off of his shirt and sucked off the pizza residue on his fingers.

"Me too." Cat said as she took the last bite of her pizza.

"Just bring the box over here." Jade said as she cleared the last of pizza too.

"Alright." Andre replied then stood up. He walked over to the counter and just as he reached the pizza box, his phone rang.

"Hello?"

"ANDRE!" he pulled the phone back a few inches from his ear and scrunched up his face. Jade and Cat looked over to him with their eyebrows raised.

"Grandma! Stop yelling!" he shouted, putting the phone a few inches from his mouth.

"THERE'S A HOLE IN MY WALL BUT I CAN'T GET THROUGH IT!"

Andre rolled his eyes at his grandmother.

"It's just a window, grandma!" he replied.

"IT'S JUST A WINDOW!" his grandmother yelled back then hung up on him.

"Nice grandma." Jade remarked, which made Cat giggle and Andre frown at her.

Andre turned around again and took hold of the pizza box but was then shoved back a few inches. He faced a small boy with dirty blonde hair and ice cold eyes who could only be Jade's younger brother, Carter.

"You know, you could say 'excuse me'." Andre said to him.

Carter took out a slice then bit into it, "I know." He said between mouthfuls, "But I didn't." he then walked away.

"Hi, Carter!" Cat waved at the young one.

"Hey, Cat." He smiled at her then scurried away when his sister shot him a death glare.

Andre scratched his head at what had just happened. He then remembered his task and took the pizza over to his two friends.

"About time." Jade said when he set the pizza down on the table. She immediately took out a slice and started eating it.

Andre was about to grab himself a slice when his phone rang again.

"ANDRE!" his grandmother screamed again from the other line which made Andre pull back his phone again.

"What is it grandma?" he asked through gritted teeth.

"COME HOME QUICK! A BIRD IS ABOUT TO EAT ME!" she screamed before the line went dead. Andre sighed as he shoved his phone into his pockets.

"I gotta go." He said then left the house.

Jade and Cat shrugged it off and continued with their business. When they were done, they cleared the table then went to the living room where they argued about what to watch. It was between the Scissoring 2 and Happy Bunny Adventures. After 30 minutes of arguing, they settled on watching Rent instead. They both loved it so there wasn't much to argue on.

"I'm home." Jade's dad called as he stepped into the house, closing the front door behind him. Jade rolled her eyes at her father but didn't bother to turn around to face him.

"Hello, Jade." He greeted her when she spotted her in the living room.

Jade raised her hand in response but focused on the movie. Cat, however, turned around to face Mr. West and greeted him with a smile.

"Hi, Mr. West!" she said then waved her hand at him.

"Hello, Cat." He smiled awkwardly at her then waved at her once. This satisfied Cat and she then turned back to enjoy the movie.

"Jade, where's your mother?" her dad asked her, loosening his tie and setting down his brief case on a table in the foyer.

"Baby room." Jade replied flatly.

She listened to her father's footsteps disappear into the second floor, then mumbled, 'hate that guy' under her breath. Just low enough for Cat to not hear it. The girl was currently glued to the screen and was singing along to 'Light My Candle' quietly. She knew better than to be loud in Jade's house.

A few minutes more into the movie, the two girls heard screaming and a baby crying coming from upstairs. Cat had on a worried expression as Jade tried to mask hers with a frown.

"Can I sleep over at your house tonight?" she asked her friend who simply nodded. She knew how Jade felt about all of this. She slept over at Cat's house a lot now just because of these nights. Her brother wasn't spending much of his time at home either. They hated being in this kind of environment.

Cat and Jade quietly slipped into Jade's room and packed up her stuff for the night and tomorrow morning. When they got out, Jade's brother, Carter, was already walking down the stairs with a backpack slung on his shoulder; probably going to spend the night at a friend's house too.

"Hey, Carter." Jade hissed. Her brother stopped in his tracks and turned to face his sister.

"Need a ride?" she asked him. He nodded silently in response and Jade gestured for him to come with them.

All three then walked down the steps and after leaving a note on the refrigerator regarding their whereabouts for the night, Cat, Jade and Carter got into Jade's car and they all drove away.

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"I'm gonna go ahead and sleep." Jade said as she plopped down onto Cat's very pink bed. They had already changed into pajamas but it was only around 8:30 pm.

"But it's early." Cat whined.

"I'm tired, Cat." Jade said from the bed. She was already under the covers and was hugging the blanket tight even if it wasn't cold.

"Are you gonna be okay?" Cat asked, worried. Jade always seemed like this when she went to Cat's to escape from her own house.

"I'm fine. I'm gonna sleep now." Jade said, closing her eyes. She wanted to escape from the world right now. She had so many complicated things going on in her life. Her parents might split up and she was worried about talking to Beck tomorrow and she didn't want to think about all of that right now.

"Kk. Good night, Jade." the redhead said then turned off the lights and snuggled up beside Jade on the bed.

"Night." Jade replied with her eyes closed, hoping that tomorrow would at least be better.

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(A/N): How was that? Andre's suspicious about Jade's home life now and how do you think Beck would react when he finds out that Andre convinced Jade to talk to him? Would he forgive him?

Alright, I'll leave you all to your guesses and please leave a review while you're at it. I love you all!

Oh! And a belated happy birthday to the guy behind our beloved Beck Oliver, Avan Jogia! Hope you had a good one! Much love!

Until next chapter,

Please review! Love lots, Julie.