Summary

"Don't call me 'babe' or 'baby' or 'Jay' anymore. You can call me Jade. Or West. I'd prefer the latter."

"Jade. What do you mean...?" No. This wasn't happening. She couldn't be doing this. It was a stupid silly mistake. Just...a stupid mistake that meant nothing. This didn't feel like any of our 'half a day long at most' break ups in the past.

"I mean; congratulations. You're now free to give a good dicking to any girl that crosses your path."

Set During S1E1 'Pilot'. After Beck kisses Tori in the Alphabet Improv Game, Jade doesn't just forgive and forget. Beck's going to have to work for it.

Chapter Summary

Cat Valentine takes no shit when it comes to protecting her best friend.

Authors Note

The awaited Cat Valentine chapter! Not a lot of dialogue. Some heavy Cade friendship here (if you squint and hold your breath and do a headstand all at the same time I suppose it could be seen as Cat being in love with Jade but clueless about it). Because she didn't get enough love from me in KWAFIBTN and my Snooping oneshots, or the my next one shot (which is almost finished).

Cat also says (well...thinks?) a line that I don't own. Near the very start, she thinks 'Jade just has so much love in her heart that the thought of letting it out, letting her guard down and showing her cards...it scares her to death.' This is actually from Season 3 of Skins (UK), and is Anthea Stonem talking about her daughter, the main character of that season, Effy Stonem. Because seriously, Effy Stonem is the British Jade West (or that's how I see it) and the quote was just too perfect for Jade.

Jade West is my bestest friend ever. I love her so much sometimes I think it may explode out of me in rainbows and cotton candy. Everyone thinks she's this mean, cruel, harsh girl who hates everyone and everything, but that's not the truth at all. She's the opposite.

Jade just has so much love in her heart that the thought of letting it out, letting her guard down and showing her cards...it scares her to death. And Beck knows that - or well, he should know it!

I'm so flipping mad at him! He's such a...a...a butt head! The King of All Buttheads! That's what he should change his name too! Or Jerkface McJerkfaceson. What was he thinking, doing that to Jade? Kissing another girl in front of her! He obviously wasn't thinking about anything but how to be the biggest Jerkfacey Butthead in the whole wide universe in the history of...of...of jerks!

I wouldn't say I hate Beck. I love Beck, I do. He's an amazing friend but...sometimes I think (and even before this all happened) that he's really not that good of a boyfriend. And no one else sees it except me - not even Jade! Maybe it's because I'm the only one who's Jade's friend first, Beck's friend second - everyone else is reversed. He's not mean but...it's like he doesn't take her seriously when she's mad or upset. He flirts a bunch with girls when he knows it upsets Jade; he knows the girls see it as him being open to something more when he's not. I didn't think he would ever cheat on Jade, until he kissed Tori when she asked, right in front of her! He knew Tori was doing it to hurt Jade, for revenge against her and just let her use him against her! Why would he want to hurt her that much?

I'm proud that Jade dumped him. And everyone knows it was her who ended it, not him. I'm so proud of her. I love Jade and I love Beck and I love Jade&Beck mostly, when they're happy together. And I know she'll probably take him back. Because Jade loves Beck the most and, despite how he acts, I know Beck loves Jade the most. And I do too, love Jade the most I mean, but it's a different kind of love so it's OK. I prefer my love for Jade; it's a lot nicer and sweeter and there's less drama because it's not all...messy with big emotions and explosions. It's sitting eating sushi and watching horror movies for her and disney movies for me, burrowed under blankets with my brother peeking out from the doorway because he loves Jades lots too, but more in the Sinjin way. But Jade's nicer to him than she is to Sinjin. When my brother is sniffing her, she just asks him to stop or takes a step away. She always screams at Sinjin when he does it or shoves him away. I think it's because Jade knows my brother is special. He doesn't like many people but he really likes Jade.

But she's not going to go running back to Beck this time, I'm sure of it. She may love him, but he really, really, really super hurt her this time. She already ignored him yesterday after he tried to apologise. And today too, she just walked straight past him when he tried to speak with her. I think he maybe realises how badly he messed up this time, because the look on his face when she ignored him was really um...what's the word...dis...distaught? Oh! Right! Distraught. Is that the right word for really super sad?

I'm not just mad at Beck though, y'know? I'm mad at Tori too. I thought she was a nice girl, and sweet. But she knew Beck was Jade's boyfriend and still asked him to kiss her! So when Tori came up to me today to try and talk to me and then when I didn't speak to her (I can be rude too, just like Jade! I just don't like to be.) she asked what was wrong.

"You're a meanie." I said it just like that. Jade would be proud...well, she would be prouder if I used a bad word instead of 'Meanie' but she'd still be a little proud!

"What?! Cat, I'm not mean-"

"You are. You're a meanie just like Beck is a jerkface. You hurt Jade." My lip jutted out, because I know I was pouting. "I don't like people who hurt Jade."

"Cat I didn't...I mean, it was just a joke, y'know, as revenge for the coffee-"

"There's a difference between the two Tori." I stamped my foot. "You only got your hair wet. Jade got her heart broken. Girls who kiss other girls boyfriends are bad." I told her bluntly and because I knew I was getting upset, and Jade always said to not let people know you were going to cry because they could be mean about it. So I turned away from her a stomped off.

Robbie sat with us at lunch today which was nice of him. He could have sat with Beck and Andre and Tori - he did yesterday - but today he asked if he could sit with me and Jade. Jade only shrugged though, which was practically a fancy written invitation which I think he knew because he sat down with a little smile. I like that Robbie sometimes 'gets' Jade. Because that means him and her get along and Jade's my favourite person and Robbie is my second favourite person so it always makes me happy! Rex is a meanie though - I think Robbie knows Rex wouldn't be very welcome at lunch because he put him in his locker today.

Beck tried to talk to me too, but I didn't let him. Because I like him lots, and deep down I do want Jade to be with him again, but I want him to work to get Jade back. And I might accidentally agree to try to talk Jade into getting back with him; but I think this is something he needs to do himself, yanno?