A/N: Okay everyone, be proud of me. I actually am getting this up a couple days before the deadline I had made for myself. :)
Thank you everyone who continues to read, follow, favorite, private message, and review this story. It means more to me than words could possible describe. This is literally the first work of fiction I have written in over seven years.
Oh, and since I have had several people ask me- no, Beck and Jade did not have sex when he returned from Canada. They just had plenty of fun. ;)
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Jade Dumps Beck
Part Four
I am using my favorite pair of scissors, the ones with the extra sharp edge, to cut out a picture for my project for Mrs. VanKampf's class. As I cut around the edges of Ashton Kutcher's face (he's so cute!) I hear my doorbell. I throw my scissors down and check the peephole in my front door. It is my neighbor from a couple houses down the street, David, and he is holding a medium sized brown paper bag in his hands.
I hesitate in answering the door. Something just feels a bit odd, although I don't really know why. David is the older brother of my friend, Teresa, so it's not like I don't know him. The Granger family moved a few houses down the street from us a couple of years ago. Teresa and I hit it off. We are both twelve and in love with Avril Lavigne. Her older brother just turned sixteen last month, and seems to be pretty cool. He always makes a point to talk to me when I am over there, and never treats me like I'm just a dumb kid since he is in high school. I even spent the night over there one time, and Teresa fell asleep, so David stayed up and talked to me until 4am. He listened to me about how I wanted to audition for Hollywood Arts, and all of my fears in doing so. He actually told me to go for it and tell my dad to fuck off, (my father's NOT in favor of the idea.)
David was always so sweet and supportive of me. Why did I feel so weird about the fact he was at my door? Yes, I knew Teresa was at some special sixth grade camp thing for the week, (she goes to an all girls Catholic middle school) but David and I talked and were kind of friends, right? What was the big deal?
I unlocked the front door and opened it, leaving the screen door closed.
"Hi David. What's up?" I asked casually, trying to bury the uncomfortable feeling I had. He is my friend's older brother. A neighbor from down the street. He is probably coming over to ask to borrow a stick of butter or something stupid like that. My dad is constantly telling me that I look at everyone and everything in a negative way, so I ignore the churning feeling in my gut and open the screen door.
"Hey Jade, can I come in for a second? I want to show you what I've got," he says, indicating the paper bag in his hands, but doesn't actually wait for me to answer before pushing his way inside. I automatically step back and away from the door, and my feeling of unease begins to grow.
"Um, my mom and Greg aren't home right now, and I am in the middle of doing a project for school that is going to take me like, all night, so I should really get back to it," I say quickly.
"Oh, can I see what it is? What class is it for?" David asks me, just like he normally does.
"It's an English project on pop culture," I answer him.
"Let me guess, Ashton's on there somewhere, am I right?" he asks, poking me in the arm. I can't help but relax and smile. He is always teasing Teresa and I about our slight obsession with Ashton Kutcher.
"Ha, maybe," I say, grinning. "Come on, I am working on it in the den," I say, as I turn to walk through my foyer and begin to walk down the hall that leads to the den. "And then you have to show me whatever it is that you have in the bag."
"I will. Don't you worry," David says, and shuts my front door. I hear him lock the deadbolt, and I spin around.
"Jade. Jade! Wake up! It's me!" I open my eyes and realize that Beck is lying down next to me, holding me tight, despite the fact that my entire body is thrashing all around. Beck is attempting to calm me down as he fought to wake me up. I stop fighting him, and begin to start shivering uncontrollably and I realize that my cheeks are damp because I have tears rolling down my face. My heart is racing inside my chest. "Shhhh…..it's okay Jade. It was just a nightmare," he gently turns me over to look at him. "You're safe."
I swallow a couple times and struggle to take a couple of deep breaths, nodding my head slowly. I fight hard to control my breathing and know I just have to wait it out for my heart to stop racing. "Sor-sorry," I apologize to Beck, my teeth chattering.
"Babe, you're freezing. I thought that these nightmares had stopped?" he asks me, as he vigorously starts rubbing his hands up and down my arms in an attempt to warm me.
"I- I just haven't had one that bad in a long time. God, it's like...It's like I was fucking reliving it all over again," I say, still shivering, wiping at the tears that I shed while asleep. Beck stands up and walks over to his sofa and grabs a throw and then wraps me up in the blanket.
He sits back down next to me, and holds both of my hands in his. His concerned eyes look deep into my glassy ones. "Any idea what brought this on?" he asks me, once he notices my breathing has slowed back down to normal and I have stopped shaking like a leaf.
I should tell him that David was released. That he is back to living three houses down the street from me. That the fucking nightmares could very easily become a reality again. I should tell him.
"No," I say, my eyes darting to the floor. "I have no idea."
"Jade, I am leaving in two minutes!" I hear my mom call out to me as I am finishing up applying my winged eyeliner.
"Ugh. I'll be down in a sec!" I practically growl at her. I grab my backpack and purse and stomp down the stairs and into my mom's SUV. "I don't see why you won't just let me drive to school. This is so stupid," I complain as I buckle my seat belt and my mom backs out of our driveway. "I can't believe that you are taking away my car for a month!"
"There are consequences for your actions Jade. I know you were upset, but do you know the hell you put your father and I through Saturday, just disappearing like that? It's a good thing that I called Beck and found out you had made it over there," my mom starts to lecture me.
"You are sure you didn't say anything about David to him?" I ask my mom for about the tenth time.
"No, I just told him we got into a fight and you stormed off. Which isn't so unusual," my mom says. I see her glance and me as we are stopped at a stoplight. "Why don't you want him to know?"
"Because I don't want him looking at me like you are! Like I am some kind of fucking victim. I can take care of myself. I'm not the same person anymore," I reply, absolutely hating the look of pitying concern my mom has on her face.
"Okay. I think it is a mistake, but it's your decision," my mom says, sounding doubtful. We pull into the parking lot at Hollywood Arts and my mom clears her throat as she pulls up to the front doors to drop me off. "I made an appointment with you to see Lane during your lunch period."
"You did what!?" I scream at her.
"You need to talk about this with somebody. You refuse to talk to me or your dad. You won't tell Beck. Cat is out of town. You have to have someone to talk to about this. It's Lane's job to listen," my mom says, reaching out to me, but I quickly open the car door and jump out of the vehicle.
"This is bullshit!" I say, slamming the door and stomping into the school. All I want to do is go back to before Saturday afternoon. I start slamming things into my locker and pull out my phone and decide to check out The Slap. As I start to look at my feed I keep seeing a link to the Buzzfinger website with various versions of "Way to go Beck!"captions. What the hell is this about?
A/N: Okay, well, I sort of got to the actual episode. Right? Obviously, the next chapter is going to have the break up scene in it. So far, I have split each chapter into 6 parts, but this episode has gotten a bit away from me, so I know that there will most likely be 7 or 8. Like I said earlier, it is one of my favorite episodes, and I had this entire story line worked out as to why Jade was acting so crazy. More will be revealed as to what happened to her in the next chapter.
Things have gotten quite intense, and will probably continue to do so for awhile. I promise that the rest of this story won't be all full of angst.
Please, PLEASE review and let me know what you think!
