Oneshot: 'Confessions' (Jandre)

Jade and Andre start having a conversation and she tells him that she knows he wrote 365 Days about her.

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Jade and Andre are sitting in a practice music room in Hollywood Arts and having a discussion about random things.

Jade had started talking about her dad.

And Andre actually listened.

"I call my real dad 'Step Father' sometimes," Jade admits to Andre. Beck wouldn't understand. Beck made it very clear that disrespecting her elders was wrong. Beck was raised like that. Of course Andre respected his elders. But he knew the difference between a joke and what's not. Beck was too serious. It's not like Jade didn't respect her elders. They're just really old and gross. Plus, her dad isn't an elder. He is just a lousy father.

"What? Why?" Andre half smiles and chuckles at her, and she finds herself staring at him a little to long and hoping to hear his laugh a little too much than she should as friend.

Andre, Cat, and Jade had stayed after school together since Beck and Tori had to write a scene for Sikowitz's class together. They were all going to meet up later at Tori's house together, so they decided to all stay after school.

Of course, ten minutes into hanging out with Cat, the redhead became distracted when Robbie (and Rex) showed up. So Cat left to go hang out with Robbie in a different room, away from an annoyed Jade.

"Why do I call him 'Step Dad?'" Jade repeats his question, trying to think of a snarky comment. But she can't think of any.

"He always gets annoyed when I call him that. Since it's not true," Jade smirks thinking about the dad's facial expressions when she calls him that.

Andre looks confused for a second, but then Jade keeps talking. There's something about Andre that makes Jade want to be honest. It's almost like he has this comforting warm aura about him.

"It makes me laugh. I like making him annoyed. But it's not like in a mean spirited way. It's not like the way that I'm happy when people I hate get hurt. But it's like... how you laugh when you stub your toe or trip on your own feet or bang your shin against a piece of furniture. It's some kind of perverse defense mechanism," Jade admits, using her purple scissors to play with the ends of her hair.

Andre frowns for a second.

"You know, you've always been a mystery to me," Andre tells her. The way she smiles, genuinely, wholeheartedly at his statement, makes him want to pull her into a kiss her right then and there. But he knows he can't. She's still dating Beck.

"I know," Jade smirks. She knows he likes her. As more than a friend. For some reason, she doesn't feel weird about it. Because a little part of her actually likes him too.

Andre knew he was lying to himself; he never was going to get over his crush on Jade.

Jade stares into his eyes for about twenty seconds which starts to make him uncomfortable, because he thinks he knows that he likes her.

"Why are you staring at me? I didn't do anything," he blurts.

Jade smirks. "I know you wrote that song about me," she confesses. It was out of the blue, but not really.

"What? What song? I wrote that for my dog," Andre lies, watching her as she stands up and moves to sit next to him on the couch.

"No you didn't," she rolls her eyes.

"Look, Andre. I saw the way you looked at me. You looked at me at least ten times. It was the same way you looked at me after I sang the song we wrote," Jade tells him.

"What?" Andre blurts. "How did you know?"

"Because I'm not stupid! I know how you blurt out your feelings. Whenever you don't blurt out your feelings, your facial expressions get all weird. Like right now, when you're denying the fact that you wrote a song for me, when I know for a fact that you did," Jade tells him.

"Why are you being so nice to me?" Andre asks. "Sinjin has a crush on you. Half the guys in this school have crushes on you. You always just yell at them. So why not yell at me?" Andre asks, confused.

"Well, first of all, you're my friend. Second of all, I never told you that I didn't like you back," Jade tells him, feeling her cheeks heat up.

"But I'm dating Beck now," Jade states. "And I love him."

Andre swears he feels his heart shatter.

"I know," Andre sighs.

"So... we're cool now?" Andre asks after a moment of silence.

"Yeah. We're cool," Jade half smiles.

Just then, Cat opens the door. "C'mon guys, Beck is waiting to drive us to Tori's house," Cat smiles. Jade sighs and walks out of the room.

Jade finds herself looking over at Andre a couple of hours later when they're in Tori's living room. She can't help but let her mind drift to thoughts about what it would be like to date like Andre. A guy who cares less about what people think of him. A guy who would care about her just as much as she cared about him. A guy who would take her side. And although she tries to convince herself she wouldn't like dating him, she secretly wants it to happen.

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