A/N: Thank you guys for the wonderful reviews! Reading them totally made my day! Personally, I like both Bade AND Cade. I'm definitely a hardcore Bade shipper but I think EVERYONE ships Cade juuuust a little bit lol. The romance can be cute at times, but I think Cat and Jade's friendship is just absolutely adorable. Ok ok, enough gabbing, I'll see you at the bottom!

Jade woke up on Cat's living room couch, not remembering where she was for a brief moment. The house was empty. Sitting up groggily, she reached out and pulled her phone off of the coffee table in front of her. It was 10:43 AM.

I guess school's out of the question. Oh well.

Looking underneath the time, she saw that all of her notifications were almost exclusively people asking her about Beck. She had nine texts sent last night from Beck, a text from Andre which was also sent last night, and two sent from Cat this morning.

hi jadey ik im not there but DONT WORRY im just at school! i woulda stayed home w/ u but i had a toad in scriptwriting im sooo sorry :(

-Cat

hahaha omg! i meant to type TEST not TOAD thts sooo funny lol xD i was just thinkin abt how toads must be rly sad whenever people call them frogs :( poor toads

-Cat

Jade quickly typed out a response.

1. You dont need to skip school for me

2. Im almost certain that toads dont know english, so dont fret

3. Your emojis make me want to pull my hair out. Seriously

-Jade

Cat replied about two minutes later.

OMG ur awake! hiiiii :)

a. r u kidding ur in like 4 of my classes! theatre was soooo boring w/o u ugh i almost fell asleep -.- i wanna leave at lunch!

b. omg i totally forgot tht they speak toad! i wish i spoke toad :( but all the songs i like are in english! omg do u think there are toad songs o.O

c. u looooove my emojis ;) :P

-Cat

Jade smiled at the message on her screen.

Whatever. Dork.

-Jade

She hesitated, I really, really shouldn't ask her. Then again, she really, really wanted to know.

Are people talking about what happened?

-Jade

oh, um..yeah :/ its almost all anyones talking about. im sorry :(

-Cat

Jade sighed. Of course, everyone was talking about it. It was practically trending on TheSlap when they changed their relationship statuses. They were officially broken up now. Girls are probably swarming him already. She imagined Beck flirting with someone new. Her heart grew heavy and she felt like she was mourning something. In a way, she was. Beck was still alive but whatever relationship they had was completely gone. Maybe they could stand talking to each other again eventually, but she couldn't see them being friends like they were before they dated. She definitely couldn't imagine them ever being as close as they were during the almost three years they spent as a couple. It felt as if everything they shared together was pointless. She opened up to him about so many things that they'd probably never even mention again. That relationship that they spent so long building was just, totally gone. Jade began to think back on her favorite moments with Beck and smiled.

"Beck, stop it! He really wasn't trying to hurt your feelings!" Jade followed Beck as he began to walk out of her dining room, leaving his plate half eaten. Beck turned around, his face slightly red. Her younger brother laughed as Mr. West stood up from the table, and Jade's stepmother watched the scene in shock. Beck pointed a finger at his girlfriend's father.

"You, sir, are not a very nice man! I'll have you know that the Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey Clown College is a perfectly practical university, and I'll go to the damn school if I want to!" Beck shouted at the man who was red in the face.

"I don't care where you go, but you're not dragging my daughter along with you on a campus tour of Clown school! She's not going to attend a university for circus clowns! I won't pay for it!" Mr. West shouted back even louder than Beck.

"Well, why not?! Steve-O from Jackass went to clown school!" Jade shot back at her father with an indignant look on her face.

"Steve-O from Jackass is NOT who you should be modeling your life after!" He screamed at the girl. Beck grabbed Jade's hand and began stalking towards the door.

"Come on, Jade. There's just no reasoning with this guy! It's useless!" Beck and Jade walked all the way to Beck's truck, both looking enraged. Slamming the doors closed as they sat down, they breathed heavily. They turned to look at each other and both immediately started to smile.

"Clown school?!" Jade shouted as she began to laugh, unable to contain it any longer.

"Steve-O! You're ridiculous!" Beck laughed hysterically right along side her. Jade wiped the tears from her eyes with one hand while holding her stomach with the other as Beck hunched over the steering wheel and tried to catch his breath in between laughs. After a few minutes, the couple was able to calm down enough to form cohesive sentences.

"I told you I could cause a bigger scene than you did last night," Beck said, still chuckling lightly.

"You know what, you win. You totally win. I thought your mom's thirty-minute rant was bad, but it doesn't even come close to you storming out mid-meal," Jade remarked as she tried to suppress her laughter. "Oh my god, my dad thinks I want to go to clown college now!" They both began to cackle yet again. When they finally had their laughter under control, Beck turned and looked at his girlfriend.

"While that freakout was pretty hilarious, I still can't believe how funny my mom's face was when you told her you were planning on dying your hair. She lectured us for like half an hour about how 'dying your hair leads to drugs, sex, and alcohol,'" Beck smiled.

"Of all the things you could spend your money on, why would you waste it on something that makes you look like a teenage hooligan?!" Jade did her best impersonation of Beck's mom and they both giggled.

"For the record," Beck began, "I think you'd look pretty cool with black hair."

"I wasn't being serious though, I was just lying for the bet. You know, I try to freak out your parents, you try to freak out mine. This isn't a new thing," she reminded him. He rolled his eyes.

"I know, I know, I was just saying. Maybe you should actually dye it. You know, for shits and giggles," he suggested. Jade faked an offended expression.

"For shits and giggles? Really? You think I'd only dye my hair as a joke? Do you not think I would seriously dye my hair?!" she challenged.

"Twenty bucks says you'd go back to brown in like a month" Beck joked along.

Jade glared at him playfully as she commanded,"Drive me to the store."

As Jade relived the memory from last summer, she unconsciously picked up a lock of her hair and twiddled it in her fingers. Looking down, she studied the jet black color she'd become so accustomed to. She hadn't even noticed she'd been crying until a tear drop landed on her thumb. Reminiscing didn't help at all. All it did was remind her that they'd never get those moments back; they'd never make any new ones, not with each other at least. He'd make new memories with some new girl. Better memories. Jade began typing a new message.

So girls must be throwing themselves at him then huh?

-Jade

She quickly added,

Not that i really care about it or anything.

-Jade

Yeah real smooth, Jade.

idk, i dont think he came to school today...

-Cat

its ok to care tho

like i mean... you dont have to lie to me

-Cat

Jade sighed, knowing that she'd probably slightly offended her friend. She knew she didn't have to keep her guard up around Cat.

I know. Sorry. Force of habit.

-Jade

As she anticipated the next message, Jade heard a knock. Ugh. She tried ignoring it at first, not wanting to leave the comfort of Cat's sofa, but the knocking persisted. After a minute or two, she finally gave in. She wiped her tears and slightly primped her hair as she rose from the couch.

"I don't care what you're selling! No one is buying!" she shouted as she marched in the direction of the front door. Swinging it open, she instantly recognized the face of the person standing in front of her.

"Andre said you didn't go to school and you weren't at either of your parents' houses when I checked so, I figured you'd be here," the fluffy-haired boy explained cautiously, twiddling his thumbs. His hair was a mess, there were bags under his reddened eyes, and he was wearing the same clothes as the night before. It appeared as though he hadn't gotten a wink of sleep.

"No," Jade replied, piercing him with her icy blue eyes as they locked onto his brown ones.

"N-No?" Beck asked with a confused expression, not quite understanding what the girl who stood before him meant.

"You don't get to do this," she began with a bit more fire in her voice, "You don't get to walk up to me with your stupid face to apologize and pretend like nothing happened. You had the chance to do all of this last night and it's not my fault that you decided not to take it. You don't just get to-" she felt a small lump in her throat as tears began to form in her eyes, "-to fix this. I'm not letting you make me feel bad for you just because you came over here looking like shit." She reached up and wiped her eyes just before the tears had a chance to fall. Don't let him see you cry.

Beck was stunned. He stood there bumbling, not sure how to respond, "I... J-Jade... That's not what I was-"

"That's exactly what you were trying to do!" she spat back. Beck ran his fingers through his hair as he closed his eyes and let out a sigh.

"Can you just... can we just have a conversation?" He pleaded.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" She sarcastically chuckled through her words, "Is this frustrating for you? Is Beck having a bit of a tough time after breaking up with me through a door in front of five other people?"

"You were the one who walked out on me!" Beck fired back at her angrily.

"That's correct! And I also installed about thirty locks on the outside of the door when it closed, which prevented you from opening it back up, right?" Jade retorted, crossing her arms expectantly. The boy stayed quiet and glared at her, not knowing how to counter the point she made.

"Yeah. That's what I thought," she said, breaking the silence. She tilted her head down towards their shoes. His eyes became softer when he noticed that her voice was laced with more sadness than anger.

Beck reached out towards the girl in front of him. "Jade, I didn't mean-"

"Don't," she commanded shakily, cutting him off as she took a step backward. When she looked back up, he watched as a tear drop clung to her cheek before it fell and hit the concrete beneath them. "Go home."

"Jade, I-"

"Please, Beck, will you just-" she stopped mid sentence and sighed, closing her eyes and pinching the bridge of her nose, "Please go home." Beck nodded his head, finally understanding that he'd get nowhere by pestering her.

"I'll see you around," he said before he walked away, his head hanging low. Jade shut the door and leaned against it, cursing herself for every tear that fell. She was supposed to be strong, so she didn't understand how she wasn't able to deal with this. She was angry. She was angry at herself for being so miserable, she was angry at Beck for leaving, and she was pissed off that she was stupid enough to believe that he'd do anything different. People leaving was something she'd been used to her whole life; her only constant had ever been Cat.

She was actually surprised that Cat wasn't mad at her. Ever since Jade had started dating Beck, she'd unintentionally began drifting further and further away from the girl she considered to be her best friend. Sure, they texted every now and again, but the times they hung out with just each other were few and far between. Jade could tell how excited Cat was when she accepted her invite last night, even though it wasn't necessarily under the greatest circumstances in history. She'd blown her off so many times in the past just to be with Beck, and there she was, at Cat's house for the first time in months, crying over the same boy. She hated herself for that, and she wasn't quite sure how Cat didn't hate her too. Jade couldn't genuinely say she'd react the same way if she were in Cat's shoes. What a horrible friend.

Pulling her out of her thoughts of self-pity, her phone began to ring. A picture of the bubbly redhead that had just been swirling around in her thoughts popped up on the screen. Speak of the devil. Jade tapped the green circle and held her phone to her ear.

"What do you want?" She answered. It was obvious in her voice that she'd been crying.

"Jadey, can you come pick me up? I was serious about the whole lunch thing. School is reeeeally boring without you," Cat asked. Jade rolled her eyes.

"We go to a performing arts school. I'm not sure things can ever really be boring," She replied matter-of-factly.

"Please? There's nothing going on and without you, I'm really really really really bored," the girl whined on the other end of the phone.

"Ugh, Cat, I don't even have my car with me," Jade groaned.

"Your mom's house is like a five-minute walk from mine!" Cat argued.

"Cat, I'm really not in the mood to-"

"Jadey please come pick me up, please, or I swear I'll die of boredom in my next class. Do you want me to die?! You don't want me to die, do you?!" Cat begged her black-haired friend.

"Fine!" Jade shouted irritatedly in defeat. "I'll be there in like 20 minutes."

"Kay kay!" She replied, giggling. Jade could hear the smile in her voice. She hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"I'm really sorry, Cat," the raven-haired girl swallowed her pride and apologized. Cat may have pretended not to mind, but Jade knew the distance between them must have hurt her, and she was to blame. She regretted all the times she chose Beck over Cat, and the fact that Cat didn't even bring it up just made her feel twice as guilty.

"You always yell, silly, I don't care!" Cat responded laughing. Jade sighed.

"No, that's really not what I mea-"

"OMG! I gotta go now - Robbie just downloaded this software that makes your head look tiny! I'll see you when you get here!" Cat ended the call before she had a chance to explain herself. Maybe another time. Jade wiped her tears, took a deep breath, and began getting herself ready to pick up her friend from school.

A/N: Welp, what'd you guys think? My plan is to do every episode leading up to Tori Fixes Beck and Jade. I decided to make The Worst Couple a two-parter because I really wanted to explore more of the immediate aftermath of the breakup, but Andre's Horrible Girl is next, I promise. The next chapter will also be FLOODED with Cade! Please review :)