A/N: Locked up is next! ;)

Jade's Birthday

Jade's POV

Never expect the unexpected, It's a stupid thing to do. It just sets you up for disappointment.

That's why on this birthday, I'm not expecting a call from my dad, because it's not gonna happen.

I'm not not expecting any sort of celebration on this day that marks that death is a year closer.

Nope, I'm not expecting it at all.

I'm not gonna cry when my dad doesn't acknowledge the fact that his daughter is seventeen years old.

Nope, that's not gonna happen.

"GIVE IT UP, YOU CAN'T WIN, 'CAUSE I KNOW WHERE YOU BEEN-" I jump at the sound of my phone. I look at the screen, It's Beck.

"Hey," I say, picking up the phone.

"Happy birthday babe!" Beck says happily. I smile.

"Thanks," I say.

"I'll pick you up in a few minutes," Beck promises. I grin.

"Ok." I say, ending the call. I decide to update my status.

"Today is my birthday. I know I said I hate birthdays… but I just meant everyone else's. Not mine. Mine's cool. MOOD: Bleh"

The good thing about birthdays is that everyone treats you like queen for the day... Wow, poor Vega... Her birthdays must suck... They would be the same as any day.

My phone beeps. I look at it.

Tori: Happy Birthday!

I frown. What gives Tori the write to think she can write on my page? I quickly type my reply,

Jade: Don't patronize me.

Then, I set my phone on my dresser to get dressed.

I dress quickly, and apply my usual makeup. Then, I rush outside.

My mom shouts "Happy birthday Jade!" behind me. I smile. At least one of my parents remembers.

Beck is waiting for me, as promised.

"Hey birthday girlie!" He teases, as I sit down next to him in his car.

"Not cool." I scold. Beck rolls his eyes.

"I brought you birthday coffee," He offers, holding out a large coffee from Jetbrew. I take it from him, taking a sip. "And we're going scissor shopping after school!" Beck adds.

I try to keep a grin from spreading across m face. Don't give him the satisfaction of winning.

"I don't get it. Why do people get special treatment for being closer to never breathing again?" I rant.

"So you don't want special treatment?" Beck asks playfully. I shake me head.

"Oh well... I guess I won't kiss you all that much today... I mean, I usually don't like to show too much PDA in the hallways... I was thinking of making exception, since it's your birthday, but I guess since you don't want special treatment..." Beck trails off, grinning at me.

"Shut up..." I say, but the venom in my voice is ruined, because I'm smiling.

Beck rolls his eyes, running one hand through his fluffy hair. He parks his car in the parking lot.

I start to get out of the car, but Beck grabs my shoulders and pulls me in for a kiss.

Soon I'm running my fingers through his hair, and his tongue is in my mouth, exploring. Sparks are flying everywhere, and butterflies enter my stomach.

Too soon, Beck pulls away, grinning goofily at me.

"You know what I said earlier... About not wanting special treatment.. I lied..." I murmur. Beck smirks smugly.

"I thought so," he says, looking into my eyes with his beautiful brown eyes. He runs his fingers through his very fluffy and extremely sexy hair.

"Wanna skip first period and make out?" I suggest, since we're both obviously not in the mood to go to class.

"You got it birthday girl," Beck smirks, and his coffee flavored lips touch mine once again.

Later At Lunch

Beck's POV

"Hey birthday girl! What do you want for lunch?" I ask, smiling. Jade shrugs.

"A burrito," She suggests. "And coffee." She adds.

"Alright." I say, rushing to the grub truck to get Jade and I's food.

When I come back Andre and Robbie have joined our lunch table.

I set Jade's lunch in front of her and sit to her.

"Happy birthday Jadey!" Cat squeals happily, bouncing down to sit on Jade's other side.

"Don't call me that." Jade warns. Cat grins, unfazed by Jade's negativity.

"Happy Birthday to you! Happy birthday to you!" Cat sings, soon, Andre, Robbie and I join in.

"Happy Birthday dear JADE! Happy birthday to you!" We finish.

"Kill me now." Jade orders. Ugh, I hate when she says things like that.

"Are you one? Are you two? Are you four? Are you five? Are you six? Are you seven? Are you eight? Are you nine? Are you ten? Are you twelve? Are you thirteen? Are you fourteen? Are you fifteen? Are you sixteen? Are you.. SEVENTEEN!" Cat chants, unaware she skipped three.

"Hey Jade, happy birthday!" Tori says happily, sitting down next to Andre.

"I'm not your friend." Jade reminds Tori impatiently.

"Well!" Tori says, offended.

"Hey Beck, where were you in science first period?" Andre wonders. I stare around awkwardly.

"Jade! You weren't in music first period!" Cat realizes.

"Umm.. Jade, what's that on your neck?" Tori wonders. I turn towards Jade, who has a hickey on her neck.

Andre snickers, and Jade's cheeks turn slightly pink.

"Well, I think we all know what Beck and Jade were doing first period.," Andre hints. Tori smirks.

"What?" Robbie wonders.

Cue facepalm from everyone at our table.

AFTER SCHOOL

"Scissor shopping time!" I exclaim, while getting into my car, Jade follows.

"Are you serious? You hate scissor shopping!" Jade says in disbelief.

"It's your birthday," I remind her. Jade grins.

"Okay," She says happily.

I begin to drive to the mall.

"Scissor shopping" consists of me following Jade around the mall, running to any store that sells office supplies, and comparing scissors with all the other stores, than picking out some she likes the best, and buying them. This process usually takes about an hour.

Jade leans her head against my shoulder as I drive around LA, soon, we reach Jade's prime 'scissor shopping' mall.

"Let's go!" Jade says impatiently. I roll my eyes and walk into the mall with her by my side.

Jade's POV (AFTER a lot of scissor shopping)

I hold the gray scissors in my hands again, opening and closing them. The have a lot of scizz, I decide.

Their shiny smooth metal could probably puncture deep into human flesh.. If one needed to. *COUGH-Tori-Cough*

The smooth gray and orange plastic is genius in the scissor art..

They are beautiful.

"I'm getting these ones," I decide. I can see Beck's face of relief.

"Actually, I think-" I begin, laughing at the annoyed look at Beck's face. "Jk, I want those."

"I think you're getting faster at scissor shopping," Beck praises, kissing my cheek. "Only forty eight minutes! It's a new record.

Soon, my scissors are purchased and Beck and I leave the mall, getting back in his car.

"Where to now?" I ask.

"My RV." Beck decides. I don't protest.

Beck drives home while I play with my new scissors (Which he bought me).

"Seriously Beck, just.. Listen to the sound they make!" I command, snipping the scissors together. Beck rolls his eyes.

"It's a very nice sound..." Beck says, sarcasm dripping into his voice.

I punch him playfully.

Soon, we pull up in the driveway of RV 143. I smile once again at the sweet address Beck has.

I get out the car and Beck gets his keys to unlock his RV. I don't get why he doesn't just give me a key, but whatever.

"SURPRISE!" A few voices shout from inside the RV. My eyes widen in shock.

"You knew.." I state to Beck. It isn't a question.

I walk into the RV to fine Cat, Andre, Robbie, and Tori. They've decorated Beck's RV with a ton of decorations, and each of them has a present.

"JADEY! I bought red velvet cupcakes!" Cat exclaims, holding out a plate of cupcakes. I take one, and so does everyone else.

No doubt about it, Cat has a weird talent for cooking. She's amazing at it. Her cupcake tastes heavenly in my mouth.

"Ooh! Jadey! Can you open my present first!" Cat asks. I nod taking a medium sized box with a pink bow around it from her hands.

I open it carefully and look inside.

"No way." I say in shock.

"Yes way!" Cat squeals.

"What is it?"Beck asks.

"The scissoring three on DVD.. With bonus features!" I saw excitedly.

"What do you say to Cat?" Beck reminds me.

"Thank you," I say.

"My turn!" Vega announces, holding up a small box, I take it from her.

I open it gingerly to find a beautiful pair of earrings lying in the box. They are small scissors that pretend to be cutting into your ear.

Awesome.

Beck gives me a 'Thank Tori' look.

"Thanks Tori." I mumble.

Robbie gives me his gift, something I didn't even know existed. It's a plush scissors.

That is awesome.

"My turn," Andre says. He holds up a piece of paper, I take it from him.

"It's a coupon, for free coffee," Andre explains. His eyes looking into mine for a little longer than necessary.

A/N: WE are close to Jade gets crushed ;)

"Thanks dude," I say gratefully. I love coffee.

"Well, lets go outside, turn on some music and party!" Vega announces happily. She leads me into Beck's backyard, which is covered in birthday decorations, and has most of the kids in our grade dancing around to music. (I'm very respected in the Hollywood Art's social hierarchy.)

My friends had set up a karaoke, which would be much needed at a birthday party filled with kids who go to a performing arts high school. I smile.

"Beck do you wanna do a song?" I ask. Beck looks doubtful for a second. He hates singing.

"Sure," He decides, taking a microphone. He tells Andre what song to play, Andre nods.

Music starts playing and we beginning singing, it's the same song we sung in the big showcase a few years ago.

Beck slowly walks closer to me staring into my eyes. His angelic voice ringing out above the crowd.

How can he not think he can sing? His voice is pure beauty.

We finish our song with a kiss and applause Shouts of 'happy birthday Jade!' ring across the crowd.

I smile, and pull Beck into the crowd of people and we begin partying.

We listen to other kids at our school sing, as we dance around Beck's yard(Which is very big).

"Seriously, this is a sick party," I smile.

"Well, it was my idea, but Tori and Cat organized most of it, so you should thank them." Beck explains.

"Why would Tori help me? I tried to ruin her prome the other day?" I wonder.

"Well, she felt bad about preventing you from doing you play." Beck says.

"And setting me up with a possible rapist!" I add.

"Yeah, that too." Beck adds.

"I'm gonna get pizza, want some?" I offer.

"Sure." Beck shrugs.

"Okay great. Get me some." I demand. Beck rolls his eyes, and we walk over to the table Vega set up, with soda, pizza, and red velvet cupcakes.

Beck and I eat our food, and when we finish, Beck says "I have to go for a minute, I'll be right back," He says, kissing my cheek and leaving me there, slightly confused.

Beck's POV

I stare at Jade, smiling, and eating pizza, her body moving sexily to the music.

Jade may be happy now, but only I can imagine the tears she'll be crying in only a matter of hours.

He doesn't care, he never has. Jade and I both know that.

But I won't have this turn out like it did last time.

FLASHBACK

She stared at her phone, waiting, and hoping, for nothing.

"Beck, it's only 8:45, maybe he's getting back from work late," Jade hoped.

I sighed.

And than it was 8:50, 9:00, 10:00.

No call.

Soon the sun had completely set in the sky, only the stars remained.

Jade put her phone down in disgust.

"I'm sixteen Beck! I'm sixteen, sweet sixteen, and he doesn't even care. He probably doesn't even know." She ranted, laying face down on my bed.

I lay next to her, and ran my fingers through her hair, letting her ruin her shirt with her tears.

END OF FLASHBACK

That's not how her birthdays going to end this year.

"I have to go for a minute, I'll be right back," I tell Jade. I kiss her cheek, and walk away.

I walk to my front yard and take out my phone. I scroll in my contacts until I find who I'm looking for. I hit "Call Now" and wait.

"Ring... Ring... Ring... Hello, may I ask who's speaking?" Jade's father says in a cold voice.

"This is Jade's boyfrien-" I start.

"Seriously? What kind of boy wants to date a girl who's face is covered in piercings!" He asks, his voice almost amused.

"Me." I answer plainly.

"I gathered that. So why are you calling? Did Jade get in an accident of something, because I could call my-" I cut him off.

"Do you seriously not know what day it is?" I wonder.

"Monday." He answers automatically.

"No! Today is you daughters birthday! And I'm not having her birthday end with tears the way it did last time, just because her father neglects her!" I yell accusingly.

And for once, I made speechless.

"Please, just call Jade later tonight, and wish her a happy birthday." I'm almost begging now.

"Very well. I'll see if I can fit it into my schedule,"

"You'll see? No. You will." I order, hanging up the phone in disgust.

I walk back to Jade's party, happy to see her eyes light up happily as I approach.

Jade's POV (LATER THAT EVENING)

"Awesome party Jade," A guy, who I recognize from my tech theater class, says, waving.

I watch as the other leave, until eventually, it's just Beck, and my other so-called friends left.

"What do you say Jade?" Beck asks, his tone lights. I roll my eyes, and look down at the ground.

"Thank you." I mumble. I can feel my friends grins.

"You're welcome Jade," Tori says in her annoying voice.

"Yey! Bye Jade!" Cat says happily, Robbie, Andre, and Tori follow, shouting a chorus of goodbyes.

After they're all gone I go into Beck's RV and collapse on his bed, tired from the evening. Beck lies next to me and we just lay there, in silence.

I sigh, my dad never called.

But I won't be sad, I won't care. Forget him? Who needs a dad? I'll add that to the long list. I hate dads. Their useless.

"GIVE IT UP YOU CAN'T WIN 'CAUSE I KNOW-" I stand up and grab my phone, answering it, not bothering to check the caller ID. It's probably just one of my friends, calling saying they left something here.

"Hello?" I answer.

"Jade." a man says in a cold voice.

I freeze, in shock, it's my dad.

"Dad," I reply.

"Happy seventeenth birthday. I hope you had a good time." He says.

"Thanks. I did." I tell him.

An awkward silence arouses.

"I'm glad. Goodnight." My dad answers.

"Goodnight." I repeats, hanging up the phone.

I put my phone on Beck's night side table and stand, still shocked.

"Who was that?" Beck asks.

"It.. It was my dad," I say. "He called," I explain.

Beck smiles, his warm brown eyes drilling into me.

"You happy?" He asks.

"Yeah." I nod, and slowly, the corners of my mouth turn upwards into a smile. "He remembered." I say, still in shock.

I lie down next to Beck, settling into his arms. He kisses my temple sweetly.

We lie there blissfully, as Beck twirls my hair in his fingers. I close my eyes and feel Beck's warm firm grasp around me.

I think about the phone call with my dad. It's funny how the words 'happy birthday' mean so much more coming from him than the people who came to my party.

They show that deep down. Maybe just maybe, he cares for me, even just a little bit.

I smile at that thought, hoping that it's true.

Never expect the unexpected, because it makes it even better when it happens.