The next few months of Beck and Jade's relationship are quite literally like a rollercoaster. They have their up days, when they seem absolutely, totally, completely in love with each other. Unfortunately they also have their down days as well, when they're either arguing or ignoring each other, spiraling towards uncertainty. There's often quite a bit of screaming on those down days as well.

Their friends aren't sure what to do, how to think, or how to act around the couple now. Should they trust that everything really truly is fine when Beck and Jade are having an up day? Should they believe that they really do love each other and it looks like everything is going to be alright? At what point should someone run and get Lane to intervene when they're having one of their down days? When the arguing reaches a point where no one can stand it anymore? No one has an answer, and they're not sure Beck and Jade do either.

This day had started as an up day, the day of the Full Moon Jam. Jade had spend the previous night at Beck's RV and they had enjoyed a bit of morning sex before lazily making their way to the diner down the street from Beck's house for brunch. Jade went back to her house to get ready for the evening, and Beck went back to his to get a quick nap before he needed to pick her up to meet up with everyone at school to start getting things ready for the concert. He might not have been much of a musician, but he could at least help run cables and help set up speakers.

The two of them sat together for the first few performances before Jade left to go backstage to start warming up. She hadn't told Beck which song she was performing, only that she had written it herself. Having dated her for three years, he knew that's how she could be with things that she wrote...no one got to hear them or read them until she was one hundred percent finished with them. He had been excited...excited for her to get the chance to perform and excited to hear what she had created...but now...well now he's just annoyed.

What had she meant by that song? You Don't Know Me? He likes to think he knows her better than anyone else at this point, even her own parents. Had she been singing to him? Was it meant to be a dig at his expense? And if not his expense, then whose? Whose opinion could she possibly care about more than his?

"Hi." Jade smiles as she appears next to him and kisses his cheek, but the smile quickly disappears from her face "What's wrong?"

"What the fuck was that?" He asks, nodding towards the stage

"What was what?" She clarifies "My performance? Cat said it sounded-"

"Yeah it sounded fine. I meant the song itself. What the fuck were you trying to say?"

"That people think they have me all figured out based on what they see on the outside when they really don't know me at all..." Jade clarifies "I thought that was pretty self-explanatory..."

"Just people?" Beck raises an eyebrow at her "Or me?"

"Why the fuck would I have been singing all of those things to you?" She scoffs "Stop being ridiculous."

"Don't tell me I'm being ridiculous!"

"Well then stop acting like it!"

"It made me feel like an idiot, okay?" Beck snaps "It made me question if I really knew you or not. We've been together for three years now, that shouldn't happen."

"Beck, I-"

"Why did you even have to sing tonight anyway?" He asks her "I thought you wanted to be a writer."

"Oh look at that, you do know me." Jade smirks

"Oh c'mon, Jade."

"It's a concert!" Jade reminds him, gesturing to the crowd around them "People sing! It's what it's for! I like singing! So I sang! If it had been some kind of writing contest, I would have written something! Is that answer to your satisfaction?"

"Whatever." Beck rolls his eyes as he pushes past her "Let's just go."

"What if I want to stay?"

"What?"

"What if I want to stay?" She repeats "There's still like an hour left."

"Find yourself a ride then." Beck scoffs "I'm leaving."

He storms off towards the parking lot, fishing his keys out of his pocket as he walks. Jade hesitates for a moment, looking towards the performers onstage and then around her to see if Cat or anyone else is around, then rolls her eyes and chases to catch up with him.

"Can we finish talking about this?"

"Finish talking about what?" Beck sighs as he yanks open the door to his truck

"Whatever the hell that bothered you so much about my song." Jade sighs as they both climb into their respective seats "I'm still not really sure what the problem was."

"Who said there was a problem?" He says as he starts the truck and begins to navigate it out of the lot

"You did! Five minutes ago!"

"Jade, I-"

"No." She cuts him off "Tell me what the issue was!"

"The issue is that was the first time I had ever heard that song!" He snaps "I've always known you march to the beat of your own drum, Jade. It's one of the things I love about you. You don't care what other people think, or at least that's what I thought!"

"You're right, I don't care!" She exclaims "The only opinion I've ever really cared about is yours!"

"Then why couldn't I know what you were singing tonight?" Beck asks

He's irritated, not just by this argument but by all of the idiots in LA who don't know how to drive. He presses his foot to the accelerator and weaves around the cars that can't seem to figure out the speed limit.

"You know how protective I am with my work until it's finished!" She insists "This is a ridiculous argument!"

"There's that fucking word again!"

"Oh my god, let it go!" Jade begs him "You're behaving like a child! And slow down, you're going to get a ticket!"

"Don't tell me how to drive, Jade!"

"Beck! The light is r-"

He hadn't noticed the red light, he had been too preoccupied on the argument he and Jade were in the middle of...an argument he had started.

Thankfully the car that hit them had been smaller than the truck. While the vehicle itself was going to need quite a bit of work, probably a new passenger side door and window, no one involved was seriously injured. Jade needed the most medical attention, because the force of impact had caused her window to shatter and a shard of glass had cut across her forehead near her right eyebrow, but she only needed a few stitches.

Stitches meant going to the emergency room though, and that meant a ride in the ambulance. Of course Beck had ridden with her, knowing how anxious the situation could potentially make her. He also had no other mode of transportation, with his truck being so damaged, so he also had to call both of their parents to fill them in on what had happened. He had already known Jade's father didn't like him, he never had, but it wasn't often that his own father was as equally displeased with him as John West was.

"I think they're plotting out the easiest way to kill me." Beck sighs, resting his head in his hands as he sits beside Jade's cot

The adults are down the hallway, discussing the insurance side of things. Jade's medical bills would fall to the Oliver's, as it was someone on their car insurance policy who had caused the accident, and Jade's father is a lawyer...so he wants to make sure everything is taken care of in a by-the-book manner.

"I doubt that." Jade smirks, holding an ice pack to her head as she leans back against the small pillow "At least my parents are arguing with your parents instead of each other."

"It's going to take me until I'm thirty to win their trust back..."

"I'm just as much to blame." Jade assures him "You ran the light because I was distracting you."

"You were only trying to end an argument that I started." Beck shakes his head "I'm sorry, by the way."

"S'okay..." Jade sighs "But, Beck? I think we need to talk."

"I think we do too." He agrees

Their relationship is headed down a very dark path, and has been for a while. The only reason they can see that now is because something catastrophic happened. Thankfully the car can be fixed and Jade's wound will heal, but things could have been a lot worse.

"We can't go on like this."

"I know."

"When two people are in a relationship...they're supposed to bring out the best in each other." Jade says quietly "They're supposed to make each other better people."

For a while, she and Beck made each other better. He made her a little less hostile and she made him a little less cocky. It was a good balance, and it was healthy.

"We haven't really been bringing out the best in each other lately, have we?" Beck runs a hand through his hair with a sigh

"No..." Jade shakes her head, wincing a bit at the pain "We've been bringing out each other's ugliness."

"That's a good way of putting it." Beck admits "I-I think we should break up."

"I think we should too." Jade agrees "We...this relationship has run its course."

They both knew this is where the conversation was heading, but saying it out loud makes it seem so much more real. It's a scary thought, not being together. They are all the other has ever really known. They've gotten so used to having one another around, even when they were fighting, that not having the other around seems almost wrong.

"You know I'll always care about you, right?" Beck asks her, tears stinging his eyes

"I do, yeah." She assures him "And I'll always care about you...but I think this is going to be for the best. The best for both of us."

"Yeah...me too."

There's more that needs to be said, so much more, but neither one of them can find the words to say it correctly. There's a heavy awkwardness in the emergency room cubicle now, and it's uncomfortable.

"I'll um, I'll go check on the parents." Beck says as he stands up "Are you...okay being by yourself?"

"I'll be fine, yeah."

"Okay, I'll be right back then."

"Okay."

But Beck doesn't go looking for their parents, he had never intended to. Instead he wanders down the hallway a few cubicles and finds an empty bed, sitting down on the edge of it and allowing himself to cry. He wishes this could have ended differently, but right now he knows it's for the best. That doesn't mean it hurts any less though.

Back in her own cubicle, Jade is crying as well. She should have known, no one really ends up with the person they dated in high school. At least they figured it out now, before they went away to college and long distance got in the way or someone cheated. She thought really thought that she and Beck were different, but it turns out they're just like everyone else.