A/N: Yay! This is one of my favorite episodes of the entire series, because we get a glimpse into Jade's vulnerable side. I know this episode is special to a lot of Bade fans, and I hope that I do it justice. I also know that A LOT of you are wondering what is up with Jade's mom. You will find out-but not until the next chapter. Sorry, I am evil. :)

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Jade Dumps Beck

Chapter One

"Are you seriously going to stay mad at me?" Beck says, as he pulls into Cat's driveway so I can grab my car. "This is just stupid. Let me drive you and Cat to school. If your mom happens to see that your car is still here, you wouldn't even have to lie to her about why."

My response to Beck is just to open the car door before it is even fully stopped, hop out, and without a backwards glance slam the passenger's door shut as hard as I can. I stalk up to Cat's front door and start knocking on it so hard that I swear the skin on my knuckles is going to break.

"Jade! Come on, let's talk about this. I didn't mean it in a bad way! Besides- you asked me for my honest opinion!" I heard Beck call out from his car window, but I refuse to acknowledge him.

Ugh! Where the fuck is Cat? I have been knocking on her damn door forever. I sigh and dig in my purse for my phone to call her. If she overslept this morning I am going to fucking kill her. As I am pulling my phone out I remember that I forgot to turn the volume back on. (I had put it on silent last night before Beck had arrived to the RV, not wanting my phone to make a noise and ruin the surprise.)

SHIT! I have twenty missed calls from Cat! "Fuck!"

"What's wrong?" Beck says concerned, quickly getting out of his car and running up to me. "Is everything okay?" I hold up my hand to get him to shut the hell up so I can listen to my voicemails.

The first few are typical Cat.

"Hope you are having fun with Beck."

"So, did Beck like the tail?"

"Did the cat ears stay on your head when you were...you know? Hehehehe."

"Jadey- you'll never guess what my brother did one time…."

I keep deleting the voicemails until I hear one of Cat crying.

"Jade, please call me back."

"Jade, pick up the phone."

"Jadey, I need to talk to you!"

"PLEASE pick up Jade!"

Beck sees the tears well up in my eyes. "Jade, what happened? Where's Cat?"

"I don't know!" I scream at him, frustrated that Cat isn't answering her door, and leaving me cryptic voicemails on my phone, but with no information about what is wrong. "Shhhh!" I put my finger to my lips as the last message begins to play.

"My family is on it's way to San Francisco. My Nonna called and told us my Grandpa just had a massive stroke. They don't think he's going to make it through the night. I will call you later. Jade...I'm scared," Cat's voice chokes out through her tears.

I turn to Beck, completely forgetting about our current argument and my irritation with him, and I wrap my arms around my boyfriend, guilt washing over me. "I'm a horrible friend."

Beck kisses the top of my head and strokes my hair. "What happened to Cat?"

"Her grandpa's dying- or dead, and I wasn't there for her. Before I left her, I promised her I would call her last night before I went to sleep, but I completely forgot," I say, pulling away from Beck and beginning to walk back to his car. "I just got so caught up in…..us, that I forgot all about Cat."

"Don't beat yourself up about it, she won't be mad," Beck says, taking my hand and squeezing it. I snatch my hand away from him.

"Don't tell me how to feel!" I snap at him. Beck just sighs, and we ride the rest of the way to school in silence.

"I can wait. For you I can wait for a thousand years," Robbie says, stepping towards me.

"But that's so many!" I exclaim, batting my eyelashes coyly at him.

"I know that I'm poor. I know that I don't have much to offer, but I do love you," Robbie grabs my hand.

"Because I'm beautiful?" I ask him, turning away.

"I don't love you because you're beautiful, you're beautiful because I love you," Robbie says, spinning me towards him, grabbing my hand again and kissing it.

"Great job you two!" Marty says, signalling us that our audition was over.

"Oh thank God," I mutter, yanking my hand out of Robbie's grasp. "Seriously Shapiro? You had to touch me?" I stomp back to the seating area of the Blackbox theater and flop down on the folding chair that is next to Beck, crossing my arms.

"I'm sorry, I was just in the moment and-"

"Shut it Robbie! If your lips come into contact with me again I will make you a eunuch!" I threaten, and watch satisfied as he recoils in horror and subconsciously covers his groin. I lean back into my chair with a smirk.

"You did great Babe," Beck leans in whispering in my ear, while rubbing my back.

"Yeah, whatever," I mumble, wiggling my shoulders to signal Beck that I want him to stop touching me. I am beyond annoyed that I just had to do that scene with Robbie of all people.

"Okay, same scene. This time I want to see Beck and Tori," Marty says.

Really? I mean…...really? Seriously, could this fucking day get ANY worse? As I am sitting there watching Beck profess his love to Tori fucking Vega it is pissing me off more and more. I know he is acting, but Vega's lovey-dovey look she is giving him look all too real. I've seen Vega act before, and the look of total infatuation that she is giving him right now is beyond her current level of talent.

"All right, great job you two," Marty says, standing up. "I think we are done. I will post the cast list Monday morning. Thank you all for coming. You have definitely not made my job easy. The level of talent in this room is extremely high."

Everyone starts to get all their stuff together and begin to leave the theater.

"I'll catch up with you in a minute," I tell Beck, and he shrugs and walks into the hallway with Robbie, Andre, and Tori. "Um, Marty, can I talk to you for a minute?" I ask, walking up to him.

"Sure. What is on your mind?" the director answered me.

"Would it be possible to hold off casting this show until Cat can audition? Her Grandpa is dying, so she had to miss today to go see him. But she loves this show as much as I do, and I know it would mean so much to her to have a chance to-"

"Jade!" Marty holds up his hand and cuts me off. "I sympathize with Cat. I really do. But I can't put the casting of this show on hold. We only have four weeks until performance week as it is. I'm sorry." Marty looks like he is going to pat me on the shoulder, but my narrowing eyes must have made him think better. He awkwardly puts his hand back down to his side, and turns around and continues to collect scripts.

I have to bite my tongue, because all I want to do is to tell this pompous bastard to fuck off, but I know that will screw any chance I have of being in the show. All I can do is let out a frustrated groan and storm out of the theater. I see Beck, Andre, Robbie, and Tori leaning against some lockers, waiting for me.

"Uh oh. What's wrong Jade?" Tori asked, starting to walk towards me.

I just glare at her, and stomp past the four of them. "I need a fucking drink. Let's go party," I say, ignoring Vega's question and stalking out the front doors of Hollywood Arts.

A/N: I thought that this would be a good explanation of why Cat is missing in this episode, and why she was not cast in Uptown, Downtown. PLEASE, PLEASE review and let me know what you thought! This is totally cliche, but true- the more reviews I have the more motivation I have to update!