A/N: Hi! :)
Welcome to the second chapter of this fanfiction! I hope you enjoy reading this. It´s Cat´s point of view again, it´ll be for the whole story. I hope she is not too much out of character. I think it is really difficult to write Cat´s ponit of vie, so be kind ;)
Important information: Cat already lives with her Nona, so don´t be confused.
And I didn´t have the time to read through it, after I finished this chapter, but when I have time, I´ll immediately do it.
Please read it and the leave a review! It´ll make my day! :)
By the way: This chapter is dedicated to the guest who reviewed the last chapter.
This morning I woke up early, altough we didn´t have school, because it was a Saturday. At first I was a little bit confused, because everything was so dark until I remembered that I slept at Jades house this night. In Jades room it was always so dark, because everything she owned was black, gray, dark purple or dark green. (I have to admit, I like my room better, because it´s colorfuller and brighter. But everyone has his own taste and I think Jade doesen't like y room this much too.)
I had slept on an air mattress next to Jades bed, like I always did, when I spend the night at her house. The air mattress was in a bright red, both of us liked the color. Me, because it was bright and nice and Jade liked it, because it looked like fresh blood. (Just in her opinion)
When Jade spend the night at my house, she always slept with me in my bed. But after she met Beck and after they started, I call it 'bedroom activities', she said I shouldn´t sleep there, for my own well-being. I knew, Jade and Beck broke up last night, but I didn´t want to ask Jade about it, I thought it would make it just worse.
I turned around and saw that Jade still slept. I didn´t even try to wake her up, 'cause if she slept, she slept like a rock. (Or better like a mountain, hehe) When we were in Yerba, she even slept through the war! I sat up and looked at Jades sleeping face. In her sleep, without the make-up and the mean gaze, she always seemed so fragile and vulnerable. Like this only I knew her. And Beck too.
I was deep in thought for another few minuits, but then I finally stood up and went to the bathroom. Like so often her family wasn´t at the house, Jade didn´t even knew where her parents were, but her brother was at a friends house.
I brushed my teeths, combed my messy red hair from the night and got dressed with my old clothes from yesterday. Then I went downstairs to the kitchen, where I made coffee. (But just for Jade an not for me. I don´t like coffee it tastes gross. Eww, hehe) If the coffee was cold until Jade woke up, I´d make a new one.
I prepared for the breakfast: after I took the dishes out of the cupboard, I set the table with them. I took orange juice out of the fridge and then I prepared the dough for pancakes. I always made pancakes for breakfast when I slept over at Jades house. Sometimes I added a powder of licorice, 'cause the pancakes got black. But I had to admit, that I didn´t like the pancakes like this, but Jade did, so it was okay for me too.
After everything was ready, I took my Pear Phone out of my pocket and checked The Slap. There wasn´t new stuff, so I clicked on Becks The Slap page. And then I saw hat something had changed. Instead of 'BeckOliver is in a relationship with JadeWest' like all the years there stood 'BeckOliver is single'. Wow. Now it was really official. More than yesterday, because yesterday just Tori, Andre, Robbie, Beck, Jade and me knew it. And know everybody who had an account on The Slap. I checked Jade´s The Slap page too and I realized that there stood still 'JadeWest is in a relationship with BeckOliver'.
I was sure that Jade would not like to see, that Beck said he´s single on The Slap and she not. So I quickly logged myself out and logged in as Jade. I knew her keyword for The Slap for a really long time, I think since sh has an account on the page. In return, Jade knew my keyword too. As fast as I could, I changed her relationship state too, like Beck has done it. Now there stood too 'JadeWest is single'.
Then I logged out and went upstairs to look after Jade. I opened the door to her bedroom and entered it. Jade still slept and I wanted to exit the room again, when my I caught a unusal color for this room.
The pink heart.
I couldn't help but take it with me when I went downstairs to the kitchen again. In a kitchen drawer I found a sticky tape and a scissor (actually one that was not Jades). I didn´t knew why, but I fixed the pink heart. Of course it wasn´t as beautiful as it was before Jade cut midways through it with her scissors, but it looked better, when the picture Jade and the picture Beck were kissing again. I knew, it didn´t fix them in reality, but I really couldn´t help. I always thought they were forever, so I still had the hope, that they would came back together one day.
A hour or something like this later I heard Jade coming downstairs. Quickly I hid the fixed pink heart in my pocket, where my Pear Phone as well. She was already dressed, her hair was combed and she had put make-up on. Normally we went without make-up when we were at each others house for the weekend, but I think she did it, because she didn´t want to seem fragile and vulnerable anymore, like she did when I watched her in the morning when she was still sleeping.
We didn´t speak much, I made the pancakes and we ate them in silence. After this we both loaded the dishwasher with our old dishes and the bowl of the pancakes dough. The silence was so nasty, so I finally spoke.
„Jade? Want to braid my hair?"
Sometimes, Jade braided my red hair into a wonderful hairdo. It looked always so magic, like I was an elf of a fairy tale.
„Yes.", she answered my question, but with no emotion in her voice. I sat down on a kitchen chair and she started to braid it. Again, we didn´t speak much and I thought again about Jade and Beck. I was sure, that they were ment to be, everything had just seemed so right. I clearly remembered the day, Jade and Beck kissed for the first time.
/ Flashback 2 \
I am leaving the classroom, where Andre and I just had history, when suddenly, out of nowhere Jade comes.
„Cat!", she shouts in a demanding voice.
„What´s up?", I ask her. When I arrive where she stands I can see, that she looks excited. That´s unusal for Jade. Or better, it´s unusal for her to show, she wears always a mask, that doesen´t show her emotions, that are making her vulnerable. (The mask is obviously just a metaphor, we learned this a while ago)
She grips my arm and tries to sound annoyed and blasé: „Beck kissed me."
I smile and jump a little bit. „That´s so cool! I am really happy for you guys, tell me everything!"
It was clear that this would happen sooner or later, I mean, the relationship of Jade and Beck was always special. Of course, the relationship of Jade and me is special too, because she tells me everything and I tell her everything as well. But I don´t mean this, because always when I am speaking of Jades and Becks friendship, I think: „Can I call this friendship?" Because I don´t think it´s the right word for their relationship, because it was always a little bit more than friendship. Sometimes I wonder if they know this by themselves, that they have something special. But when they are together, Jade is less mean and Beck actually shows a little bit more emotion than usual. Jade and Beck are always close to each other and Beck can touch Jade as much as he want to. It´s like they are standing on a stairway, and everyday they take the next step. The next step guides them away from friendship and brings them a little bit closer to… to love? (I am really philosophical today, weird, isn´t it?)
„It wasn´t special at all, you know, that´s why there isn´t much to tell. It was in acting class, and we sat all the very back. A few students were performing a play they wrote, so of course it was just annoying. And then I looked at him, and he looked at me and we both felt it was just right and then…"
I covered my mouth with one hand. „And then?"
A few students turned around the corner and Jade remembered being mean.
„You know what happend then, stop acting so stupid.", she told me, but I couldn´t do anything besides smiling.
The fact is, that it doesen´t have to be 'special' like Jade calls it. There doesen´t have to be a sunset or a waterfall, it just has to be them to, and all the magic is given. All the magic, other people just can reach, when they are sitting in the sunset or when they are standing in front of a waterfall. But Jade and Beck don´t need this, they are too special by themselves.
/ Flashback 2 End\
Jade finished my hairdo and I ran to the mirror to view my new hairdo. It was beautiful, as always, when Jade braided my hair. I went back to the kitchen, to see Jade looking out of the window.
„Thanks Jade for braiding my hair", I said to her.
„It´s okay Cat."
„Want to speak now about, you know, the… breakup?", I asked her hopefully. I was sure, that she would feel so much better, if she spoke about her feelings.
„No!"
Her tone was aggressive and mad and I decided again that she just needed more time to collect herself, until she could speak about it with me. I was sure, that I was the only person close to Jade, now Beck was gone, so I had a big responsibility. I thought after the breakup with Beck, it was more difficult for Jade to trust me, because one of the two persons she trusted, was gone, with all her secrets. In fact, Beck would n. e. v. e. r. e. v. e. r. tell anybody about the things he knew about Jade, but Jade probably didn´t believe this. Like she never believed, that Beck would never cheat on her.
After this, we played a little bit with Jades bunny, but she wasn´t really there. (You know, mentally) For lunch we ordered two pizzas and in the evening I went home. Of course I made sure that Jade was okay and that she could stay without me, but Jade clarified over ten times, that she wasn´t a baby, that needed people around it. I packed my few things in my backpack and left the house with bad conscience. But my Nona had called my for seven times and i had send her a message, that told her I would come home soon. So I had to leave Jade.
„Bye!", I said, „call me, if you need me."
„Yeah I know. But you know too, I don´t need you, so bye." She closed the door behind me.
At home I told Nona a quick version of the actual situation and she felt very sorry for Jade.
„You can invite her to stay here over for a few days, if she want to.", Nona told me, after I explained everything to her.
„Thanks Nona, I´ll ask her!", I answerd and hugged my Nona. I was so lucky, that she was there for me.
At my room I called Andre.
„Hi Andre", I said.
„Hey little red, what´s up?", he answerd.
„I just wondered if you know, how Beck is doing? You know, because of the breakup."
„Oh, yeah, I visited him this afternoon. He is, a little bit… weird. He doesen´t show any emotion at all and it works. I mean, normally you can see, if people are hiding their emotions, but Beck really seems like he feels nothing."
„I don´t think he feels nothing, I am sure, it is the good actor in Beck. But thanks for telling me Andre."
„How is Jade doing?"
„She tries to die her feelings too, but you can see how sad she actually is. But she doesen´t want to speak about it. It´s so sad that they are broken up, I wish I could undo it."
„You are right Cat. I always thought that they were endgame. Maybe they go back together one day."
„Yes, this would be so gerat! Thanks that you told me everything I wanted to know. Bye!"
„Bye Cat."
And then, I didn´t know why, but I took a paper and a pen and I began writing.
Beck: „I brought you roses."
Jade: „I don´t want them."
Beck: „Why?"
Jade: „Can´t you understand it? Roses are cliché. I don´t want us to be cliché. Shouldn´t we be special? Do you really want us to be like every other couple?"
Beck: „I don´t."
Jade: „So why are you bringing roses?"
Beck: „Because they are black. Black roses are special. Black roses aren´t cliché. Red roses are cliché, but mine are black."
Jade: „B-black?"
Beck: „For you."
It didn´t even happen, I just knew, that Beck brought Jade black roses one day and I didn´t know why, but in this moment, I remembered it and I had to write it.
A/N: So that´s the second chapter, you see, Cat began writing something… where is this leading to? Review for the next chapter. By the way: I won´t be able to post a chapter for the next week (maybe two weeks). I´m really sorry, but I have visitors, work and friends… I have a life! So please leave a review and read on, when the time for the 3. chapter comes! :)
Again: I´m not a native speaker, so either skip the mistakes or tell me about them. ;)
