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"How's everything with Jade?" Beck startled her as he came up behind her.
Cat closed her laptop and looked at him, "what do you mean?"
Beck shrugged taking a seat beside her, she was sitting on the stairs, "is it like what you were hoping?"
"Yeah." Cat nodded, "it is." She smiled, "Jade's awesome."
"I know." Beck laughed, "you know, people always looked at me weird when I told them who I was dating, like they didn't understand why I would choose her...you understand though."
"I do." Cat nodded.
Beck smiled, "we're the only ones who get to see Jade at her best, it's a side of her that she chose to only show us, and we should feel privileged...and you get how awesome that is."
Cat again was nodding, "I do feel privileged...and it is awesome, I get it." She smiled before noticing he was holding something, "that a camera?"
Beck nodded, "yeah, Jade got it for me...we were at the mall the other day and she noticed I liked it."
"Aw." Cat smiled.
"She said it was to make up for the dog, and the text-fight we had last week."
Cat laughed, "it's cool."
"Yeah." Beck nodded looking at the device, "I've been shooting around for a while, it's pretty awesome...what were you searching?" He wondered pointing to her computer.
Cat shrugged, "nothing...just searching some catalogues."
Beck gave her a pointed look, "better not be ordering anything."
"No." Cat shook her head, "I was only looking."
"Good," Beck nodded, "but it's best if you don't just look, especially if you're looking at something you actually want, it'll only make you want it more."
"I'm not looking at something I want." Cat explained, "just something Jade might like." She shrugged, "special scissors."
"Oh." Beck held the camera to his eye and said, "smile." Cat flashed him a smile before he took the picture, "awesome." Beck grinned, "thanks." He said before getting up, "shop easy." He pointed to her before walking away.
When the boy was out of sight Cat re-opened her laptop and got back to the webpage she was on.
Skystore.
So, yeah, she had lied to Beck, she wasn't really looking up scissors for Jade, she had actually found some really cool boots that she really wanted to buy, but now she had to search for them all over again because she didn't have the page bookmarked, and she forgot the name of the boots. So it was gonna take her a longer time than normal.
"What'cha doing?" A voice from behind startled her.
"Nothing." Cat said before she started to close her laptop once more.
"No, keep it open." Jade said taking a seat next to her girlfriend, "see, I've been looking for you all over wanting to apologize for the way I acted last week, you know with the cereal. I even bought you some coffee," she showed her the cup for emphasis. "And I find you sitting on the stairs looking at Skystore."
"I can explain." Cat mumbled.
"Skystore? Really Cat, I thought you were done with that?"
"I was." The redhead told her, as Jade gave her a look she shrugged, "really, I was. I had only started to look at things, only looking them up, kind of like window shopping. I haven't even bought anything from Skystore since the addiction thing."
"Cat." Jade said, "just stop, looking at all of the items the store has is only going to make you want them more."
"I really only want one thing." The redhead admitted.
"No."
Cat huffed sadly, "just look at them." She pointed to the screen.
"What are those?" Jade furrowed her eyebrows.
"Jupiter Boots." Cat smiled, "it says here that they're bouncy."
"Bouncy?"
Cat giggled, "totally, please, Jadey let me get them?"
"No." The girl shook her head, "no."
"But-"
"Cat you have to stop with Skystore, okay, addictions are no good."
"Fine." The redhead replied with a sigh, closing the laptop. "Can I have my coffee now?"
Jade gave her a light smile before she handed it over, "I'll see you later." She told her.
"Yeah." Cat nodded and watched as Jade walked away. When the girl was out of sight Cat sighed, she knew Jade was right about addictions being a bad thing, but she really wasn't going to try an be addicted again. She just really wanted those freaking boots!
"Hey," Jade greeted as she stood at the redhead's locker.
Cat closed her locker with a smile, "hi." After a small pause she asked, "are you still mad at me?"
"I wasn't mad."
"No?"
"No." She shrugged, "I just don't want you getting caught up in the glamorous world of Skystore or whatever, but I did send something to your house that I believe you may enjoy."
Cat's eyes lit up, "a present! I just love presents. They look so cute with the little bows."
Jade nodded, "yeah, it's a present…overnight delivery."
Cat gasped, "what is it?"
"That'll ruin the surprise."
"But-"
"You'll just have to wait until the morning."
Cat wore her Jupiter Boots to school, Jade had gotten her Jupiter Boots! She giggled as she hopped around, when she saw Beck standing in the hallway she hopped over to him. "Hi!" She laughed jumping in the way of his shot, as he stands with his camera.
The boy looks her up and down, "hi."
Cat continued giggling, "I'm wearing Jupiter Boots
"Any reason?" Beck asked with a shrug.
"So I can be bouncy." She replied, still hoping up and down, "ha!" She exclaimed before she bounced away, "bye!" She then jumps back down the hall giggling all the way.
As soon as she reached the end of the hallway Cat turned around and continued off back in the other direction. Cat continued giggling passing Tori and Andre on the floor.
"Hey, all!" Andre greeted as he sat down at the lunch table later.
"S'up?" Beck greeted his camera on the table and his arm around Jade's shoulder.
"Hello." Jade greeted her eyes not moving from the homework on the table below her.
"Hi!" Cat greeted bouncing over to the table behind Andre and freezing a moment when she noticed Beck's arm around Jade's shoulder, however she shook her head quickly remembering to play it cool. And instead she sat down.
"What's up?" Tori asked looking at Cat a moment.
"Nothing," Cat shrugged. "I got Jupiter Boots!" She popped her lunch open.
"I noticed." Tori nodded, before letting out a small chuckle, "We've all noticed." After a moment she shrugged, "anyway, Andre, I'm sorry I kind of bailed on your song tonight."
The boy shrugged, "it's not biggie."
"What song?" Beck wondered. Now Jade looked up.
"Andre needed to write a song for a class project, and he's been having problems with it, and he asked me to help him tomorrow." Tori explained, "but I had to bail to get Robbie's help with my Tech Theatre exam."
"Yeah," Andre nodded, "but I'm gonna find someone else to do it for me."
"Why don't you sing it yourself?" Jade questioned.
Cat picked up her baby carrot and started nibbling it as she watched her friends talk.
Andre shrugged, "I'm going to, but I've kind of got like a duet thing going."
"I'll do it." Jade said after a moment.
Andre was hesitant a moment, like he didn't expect her to suggest that.
"You?" Tori asked astonished.
Jade nodded, "yeah. Why not me?" She closed her book and looked between Andre and Tori, "if you're stuck on the lyrics I could give you a hand, I love writing so I'm pretty reliable on that kind of thing."
Beck shrugged, "you've heard her sing."
"Yeah." Andre nodded with a smile, "lovely voice." Jade gave him an actual smile, "yeah, okay."
"All right." Jade picked up her fork, "we'll meet tomorrow after school?"
"Cool." Andre nodded. Cat could still sense a little hesitance in his voice but he tried to be confident.
"So," Cat hopped up to Jade, who was sitting in the Asphalt Café, her arms behind her back. There was barely any people around since it was after school hours, but Cat couldn't wait until later, she had to give the gift to Jade now.
The girl put her pen down and looked at her, "will you just take those things off already?" She asked eyeing the boots.
"No!" Cat objected, "I love them."
"So." Jade rolled her eyes, "if I'd known you were never going to take them off, I wouldn't have bought them for you."
Cat sat down beside her with a giggle, "yeah, but if that'd been what happened then you wouldn't have gotten this." She pulled a white box from behind herself.
"What'd you do?" Jade wondered.
"You'll see." Cat smiled, handing her the box. "Open."
Jade took the box and quickly untied the red bow holding it together before she lifted the top off, "oh, my God!" Cat's eyes lit up at Jade's excitement.
"They're gorgeous." Jade said taking the new pair of shiny scissors from the box and setting the box on the table. She then looked at Cat, "why'd you get me these?" She asked before inspecting the object.
"I felt like giving back." Cat admitted, "you got me my boots." She smiled.
"They're so sharp." Jade admired, running her finger along the blades.
"Just adding to your collection."
Jade looked from the scissors to her girlfriend before she set her scissors on the seat next to her, "come here." She said grabbing Cat's hand and pulling her around the building.
"What?" Cat wondered, "did I do something wrong?"
Jade quickly shook her head, "no, not at all."
"Then what's u-" Jade cut her off by leaning forward and kissing her.
"Thank you." Jade said pulling away, "I wanted to thank you."
Cat touched her lips with her fingers, "yeah."
Jade smiled, "and you know, I kind of wanted to kiss you, too." She shrugged, "but only kind of."
Cat giggled, "I love you."
Jade's smile went away, as she looked over Cat's head, "no!" She hollered, causing Cat to jump. "Don't sit there!" Jade shouted swiftly moving past Cat and running back toward there table. She heard a slight squeal.
Cat quickly followed, noticing a small audience formed from the few people still around. "Get up!" Jade demanded pulling Sinjin to his feet.
"What was that?" The boy wondered rubbing his butt.
"You sat on them." Jade growled picking up her scissors and inspecting them, "you bent them." She swung around to face the boy, "that's just great!"
"Jade, calm down." Cat tried.
"No!" The girl replied, still looking toward the boy, "you jus-"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Sinjin held his hands up, "look, I'm sorry." He told her, "I-I didn't see them there and-"
"Get outta here!" Jade demanded causing the boy to jump away before he ran, and the small group around them to disperse.
"Jade." Cat reached out and grabbed the girl's shoulder, "it's okay."
"It's not." Jade replied turning toward her, "Sinjin's a moron and I just got these and, now they're all ruined."
"I can get you new ones."
"Don't bother, he'd probably sit on those ones, too."
"Jade-"
"I have to go help Andre." She replied grabbing her bag before she walked away.
Cat watched her a moment before she decided to check on Tori and Robbie in the Blackbox with their tutoring.
Cat hopped into the Blackbox theatre soon after, "haha, hi!" She smiled, "how's the tutoring session go..." She trailed off as she quit bouncing. There were three standee pictures of her around. She looked at Robbie, "ah."
"uh, t-these aren't mine...I-I just wa-" Tori looked at Cat as the girl looked beyond freaked. "o-okay they are mine, but I-I only made them ca-"
Cat gasped sending him a weird look as she hopped out of the room.
Cat happily answered the door after receiving a text from Jade telling her she was standing outside. "Hello!" She greeted.
Jade eyed her up and down as she stood in her candy pajamas, "you took the boots off." Jade said in surprise.
The redhead nodded, "yeah, I couldn't really wear them when I slept. Mom wouldn't let me." She stepped onto the porch and closed the door behind her, "what's up? How'd the song go?"
"Good." Jade nodded, "it turned out really well, I even helped him write the chorus."
"Awesome." Cat grinned sitting on the steps, Jade followed suit.
"Sorry, I got upset earlier."
"It's okay." Cat told her hooking her arm through Jade's and resting her head on the other girls shoulder, "I know you were only upset about the scissors."
"They were nice scissors."
"I can get you new ones." Cat told her again.
"No," Jade shook her head, "it's okay." She said honestly, "I still kept them, I'd just rather have a pair that aren't bent, and stuff you know?"
To that Cat nodded.
"Andre acted a little weird after we wrote the chorus." Jade said after a minute.
"Weird how?"
"I don't know…he just stopped talking…made us record the song and then decided it was time to leave without checking out the final project."
"That is weird." Cat admitted, "kind of like Robbie today."
"What do you mean?" Jade wondered, looking at her, "what did Robbie do today?"
Cat sat up and looked at her as well, "I went to check on him and Tori in the Blackbox today because they were doing the tutoring session and he had these standee pictures of me."
"What?"
"I know, it's weird right?"
"Cat, you have to ask him what those are about." Jade demanded.
"Well, he told me they weren't his at first before he nervously told me they were…and it kind of freaked me out too much to actually listen to his explanation about them, so I hopped away before he could tell me."
"Does he like you?"
"No." Cat assured her, "he doesn't…he knows how I feel about you."
"You told him?"
"A long time ago." Cat stated, "before you even knew about it."
Jade nodded, "oh, still I don't want him getting any ideas. You're my girl. You need to talk to him."
"I will." Cat promised.
The next day at school Cat's still messing with her Jupiter Boots. She hopped around the hallway passing Tori, Andre, Beck and Jade giggling she smiled, "hi!...bye!"
"Hi!" Cat greeted as she passed Robbie on the stairs. He didn't say anything back as she continued on her way. She turned around again at the end of the hall and bounced back, "this is so fun!" She cried.
This time Robbie looked up, but he only sighed sadly.
"What's wrong?" Cat bounced up to the curly haired boy.
"Tori beat me." He told her.
"Beat you at what?" Cat wondered.
"Teach Theatre." He sighed, "I just helped her…I wanted her to pass, I was being a good friend-a B, she was only supposed to get a B…and she did better than me!"
Cat smiled sadly, "that's okay." She shrugged, "you're still Robbie."
"That was my thing, though!" He snapped back, "it was my thing, and she took it away from me."
"But-"
"You just don't get it." Robbie sighed, "you never would."
Cat stared at him a moment before deciding to change the subject because she really wasn't getting anywhere with the current one and she remembered Jade was upset when she told her about the standee's of herself. "I really want to talk about boundaries." She informed.
"What are you talking about." Robbie frowned.
"Boundaries." Cat said again, clearer this time. She sat next to him on the stairs in the school. "I don't like you as more than a friend." She whispered.
"What?" Robbie looked at her.
"I thought you got that." Cat shrugged, "but now I don't really think you do, those pictures Robbie?" She sighed, "where'd you even get them?"
The boy shrugged, "I took them, with my phone."
She furrowed her eyebrows, when? She skipped the question though and instead said, "I just want to remind you, because I feel like you're being a little-"
"Jade doesn't like you." Robbie interrupted. "She wouldn't like you the way I do."
Cat's head snapped toward him, at least she wasn't off base with her suspicions. "Robbie, I'm not interested in that kind of relationship with you."
"Look," the boy sighed, "I know that I'm not the greatest thing in the world…I-I'm not the best looking guy-not like Beck-but I know what I want. I know what to do to get what I want, to get you what you want."
"I don't want you, though." Cat tried.
"Jade doesn't understand you like I do." Robbie told her, "she's stringing you along, saying she needs to think more about it…" Now Cat understood why she and Robbie haven't talked about the whole thing with Jade in a while. He really didn't care. "…But she's not thinking about it, Cat. She's playing with your mind…with your heart."
"Robbie-"
"She doesn't deserve you."
"And you do!" Cat growled back, now was a key moment in which she really wished she could tell him that she and Jade were together. Defend her love, because she wasn't just stringing her along.
"I'd treat you better than this." He replied, "I'm not dating anyone, it wouldn't hurt for you to look at me because I would be with y-"
"I love Jade, okay!" Cat snapped, "that isn't gonna change."
The boy was silent a moment before he shrugged, "I don't want you to hate me." He mumbled, "I really don't, I-I didn't want to tell you…" He trailed off.
"Look," Cat sighed calming herself, "I don't hate you, I'm just…I'm not interested in you that way, so you're going to have to find someone else to aim your heart at." She paused for a moment, "and I'm sorry about the thing with Tori."
Robbie tried a light smile but it didn't reach his eyes. "Thanks."
Friday night concert, Jade picked Cat up around six thirty. "Beck is gonna meet us here...is it okay if we sit with him?" She asked as they got out of her vehicle.
Cat shrugged, "you can."
Jade looked at her, "you don't wanna sit with me?"
"No." Cat told her, Jade actually looked hurt at that statement. So Cat smiled, "It's not like that, silly...I have my Jupiter Boots." She showed her, "I wanna hop on them some more."
Jade rolled her eyes, "are you ever going to take those things off?" She wondered,
"Eventually." Cat agreed, "but for now, I'm gonna bounce." She bounced off toward the crowd before bouncing back, "Beck's over there in the back of the red truck." She pointed behind her. "I love you." She smiled. After Jade said it back she hopped off to join the crowd while her girlfriend went to sit with Beck.
"Okay," one of the teachers said, "coming up next we got Andre Harris and Tori Vega singing an original song, written by Andre give it up everybody!" As the crowd cheered Andre grabbed his guitar and stepped up to the mic as Tori stepped up to the other.
Andre looked out at the crowd, "Uh, this is a song I wrote for uh-"
"For his dog!" Tori interrupted.
"I love my dog." Andre said before the song started.
'Monday,
Well baby I fell for you
Tuesday
I wrote you this song
Wednesday
I wait outside your door,
Even though I know its wrong…
7 days a week
Every hour of the month
Gotta let you
Know where my heart
Is commin' from
I shouldn't feel this way,
But I gotta say
Baby I gotta let you now
I will try
Everything,
To make you come
Closer to me
And baby do you believe
That it's not just a phase
How can I get it through
To tell you
What I cant lose
I will try 365 days,
365 ways to get to you'
Cat dances the whole time, bouncing on her shoes. With Robbie.
After the song the group all steps around to meet Andre and Tori when they come down. "Andre! Andre! Andre!" Cat called hopping over to him and hugging him, "I love you, that was so good!" She then joined Tori and Robbie as Andre and Jade hugged, "that was so good." She repeated.
"And now it's over." Robbie said.
"Aww." Cat mumbled.
"Hey," Rex said, "they got spaghetti tacos over there."
Everyone looked that way a moment before Jade pointed, "let's go." Robbie said.
"Spaghetti tacos!" Tori called while she and Andre stayed back a moment and the others went away.
And there we have it...Okay, I know I've been updating often now but I don't know how long that'll last because I have to watch the episodes before I update the chapters and Season 3 is not on DVD cause it's not over yet...and I still have like six more of season two (which I'm totally stummped on how to do Blooptorious) but just so you know, I can't really do season 3 yet when I get to it.
Anyway, thanks again for reading, and let me know what you think!