Chapter 3: you're my drug, breath you in 'til my face numb

They arrived at Sikowitz's classroom, the teacher not even looking up from his coconut milk (there was no real need to apologise. They could get away with murder in his classroom thanks to blatant favouritism) and Beck couldn't help but shift his bag awkwardly at the glares directed straight at him, spotting Jade sitting with a murderous look on her face as Tori, Cat and Robbie hemmed her in on all sides, as if they were her bodyguards. When she spotted the two entering, she stood up, shoved Robbie's chair out of her way, sending the boy to the floor as she did so and moved towards where Beck had sat (at the back of the class to hopefully avoid the glares), sitting herself down right on his lap defiantly looking around as if challenging anyone to say anything.

Tori looked like she was about too, before Jade's sixth sense of 'Tori's About To Do Something Irritating' kicked in and she directed a venomous glare at the half Latina. The rest of class went fairly quickly (thankfully, it seemed Sikowitz hadn't heard about the video). The second class was over, Beck and Jade vanished from the classroom together, leaving Andre to gather the others up and lead them towards the janitors closet, where he knew Beck and Jade had disappeared too.

When they'd arrived and the door was shut behind them, a sort of standoff began; Cat, Tori and Robbie staring at Jade and Beck (his arm slung around her shoulder as usual).

"OK so I think we all need to have a quick and mortifyingly embarrassing chat." Andre started off with, rubbing his hands together out of nerves - and slight happiness that he wasn't going to be one of the embarrassed parties - that honour rested on Beck and Jade, along with the other three who would no doubt turn bright red and cover their ears the second they understood. It was well known that although Tori was the 'boy crazy' girl of their group, she was also pretty much the most innocent of the three girls, and falling short just behind Robbie out of the whole group. Cat, whilst not quite as naive about sexual things, still gasped when people cursed. And Robbie? Well, he seemed to be stuck in permanent awkward puberty that all other boys grew out of by age 14.

"OK kids. Let's have a nice talk about the wonders of sex!" Jade exclaimed in her fake, over the top, children's TV show presenter voice, the same one that once talked about 'Sticky little 3 year olds!' when they were writing a song for the never to be mentioned again 'Diddly Bops'. The three blinked blankly at the couple, and Jade let out a huff, obviously annoyed her obscure and roundabout way of finishing the conversation in one sentence obviously missed the mark - not surprising really, considering it didn't explain anything.

"Let's just..." Beck sighed and ran his hand through his hair. "OK. You guys all obviously have jumped to conclusions."

"That you hit Jadey?! Yeah we did!" Cat exclaimed with wide eyes and a frown. "How could you?! I always thought you were such a nice guy but really you're a-"

"Hey, c'mon. We need to talk about this like adults." Andre cut in before Cat could go off on a crying jag.

"Jade, you know you could have spoken to us about it! If not me, then my parents...my dad can help-" Tori was cut off by a groan of both pain and anger from the girl in question.

"Oh my fucking God. Beck. Is not. Abusive." She snarled. "And if you breath one word of this to your dad I swear to God I will hunt you down and show you what real abuse feels like." She admittedly did feel a little bit of pleasure at Tori shrinking back with a 'Meep!' look on her face.

"But...but the video-" Robbie stuttered, looking from Beck to Jade. He'd always looked up to Beck for being so cool, calm and confident. And to Jade for being so, well, bad ass. Seeing that video shattered both of those images.

"The video cut off early." Beck sighed, his thumb stroking Jade's shoulder.

"What, so we didn't see the punch that came after?" Rex blurted out.

"No. It cut off before it showed him letting me go and then me dragging him to the disabled bathrooms to ride his cock like a bucking bronco." Jade bluntly answered, causing both Tori and Robbie to go neon red and Cat to clamp her hands over her ears the second the c-word came out of her mouth.

"I uh...don't..." Tori, despite her red face, still seemed a bit confused. "Why would you do that after he hit you? He was choking you Jade!"

"Because I like it." She stated as bluntly as possible and Andre had to admit, Jade's acting skills were top notch. She seemed completely unaffected by revealing the truth to the three of them, when he knew that under the hard-as-nails attitude, she was mortified. Beck was practically glaring a hole in the ground, refusing to look up at his three friends. Although that may have also been out of betrayal that they'd think something so horrible of him, without even questioning it.

"You...like it?" Cat asked with wide eyes and her head cocked to the side like a curious puppy or kitten.

"Yes. I enjoy receiving some pain and being controlled. Beck enjoys giving me some pain and being in control." She sighed and flicked her hair over her shoulder. "It's fully consensual and safe. However, I'm not going into the finer details of BDSM or D/s with you virgins. That's what PornHub or xhamster is for." She noticed Andre's look when she mentioned the second name and simply raised her eyebrows at him. Sure, everyone knew what PornHub was, due to the amount of memes and pop culture references that included it, but xhamster was a little more obscure - generally only known by people who visited the site or sites like it. It looked like Andre didn't realise that yes, girls also watch porn.

Robbie, Tori and Cat all now looked beyond embarrassed and, admittedly, a little guilty for jumping to conclusions.

"So in the video..."

"Pretty much our version of foreplay." Beck replied to Tori, although his gaze didn't leave the ground.

"So I think you owe us an apology. To me for thinking I'd actually stick around someone who abused me. And especially to Beck for thinking something so messed up." Jade stated, her arms crossed and toe tapping in impatience. "Well? Go on."

"I'm sorry Jadey. Sorry for thinking such mean things about you Beck." Cat was first to apologise, her eyes wide and watery due to her guilt and worry that she'd really hurt their feelings.

"Yeah sorry it's just...y'know. What else were we supposed to think?" Robbie shook his head. "But Andre was right. We shouldn't have jumped to conclusions."

Tori's brow was a little furrowed as she thought hard on what she'd just found out. The one plus side of this situation was...it kind of totally got her over her crush on Beck, that she knew was still part of the reason her and Jade couldn't be best friends. Jade was more obvious about it, but Tori was just as closed off, just nicer about it. Because deep down she'd always thought that she would have been a better choice than Jade for the half Indian/half Canadian boy, even after knowing them for almost 3 years. But now? Even after thankfully finding out that Beck wasn't an abusive asshole, she still didn't think she'd crush on him again. Because if she did, and they somehow managed to get together without Jade murdering them both violently with her scissors, she wouldn't be able to handle his...'kinks'. What was it Jade said? 'He enjoys giving me pain and taking control'. That just wasn't something she felt she could get into, like, ever.

"Vega. Don't you have something to say?" Jade's harsh voice snapped her out of her thoughts and she glanced at the couple, biting her lip.

"I won't apologise for being worried when I thought you were in that kind of situation, Jade. But...I apologise for jumping to conclusions about you Beck. I should have known better than to think you were abusive." She chewed her lower lip but what she said was true. Because the day she didn't worry about anyone, boy or girl, friend or not, being in that kind of relationship was the day she stopped being Tori Vega.

"It'll do." Jade snapped with a nod before sighing. "Now this idiot is being all chivalrous and doesn't want to just tell the school the truth because it'll make me look worse than him-"

"Sorry but...how?" Robbie asked with a raised eyebrow. Surely, the fact they did...stuff like that was nothing to do with others. Why would they care?

"Because Beck will get high fives and bro-fists for it. I may as well sew a scarlet letter onto all my clothes. I'll just be seen as a slut, well, more of a slut." She replied bluntly with a shrug, pressing a kiss to Beck's cheek when she felt his arm tighten around her at the word 'slut'. They were both aware of what a lot of people assumed when they saw Jade, with her tight skirts and lowcut shirts, but he knew for a fact that he was the only person she'd ever willingly slept with, and one of the 3 people she'd ever even kissed (not including stage kisses, of course).

"And as seen from the bathroom incident before Sikowitz's class, Beck pretty much can't go anywhere alone, otherwise he'll get jumped again." Andre added with a shake of his head.

"Hehe! So we're like his bodyguards! Like in a movie!" Cat exclaimed with a bright grin. "Do I get a gun?"

"No." The entire group chorused with a small eyeroll.

"Aww." The redhead pouted a little.

"I just need to wait it out. Once they see us acting normally, they'll all just go back to their own business." Beck shrugged a little, running his hand through his hair, which was still a little messy from the earlier incident in the bathroom, and from his own hands due to stress. Because what the fuck had him and Jade managed to get into this time?