AN: Bit of a stressful day/morning on my end so I decided to post the 8th chapter. I've got a few more written, will keep trying to work on this story cause it's a great release for me.

Jade opens up about her feelings, while things take a stumble for the girls, remember, Beck is an ass, and I'm sorry for that, I just felt like this roll suited him for this fic.

Also, feel free to bash Sinjin in the comments!

I woke to a random noise, making me huff a little and roll the other way.

Jade cursed softly beneath her breath, making my eyes shoot open and look around.

I looked at my laptop, the call still running, Jade's breasts on display.

"Fuck," I mumbled, slamming my legs tighter together and pulling the blanket over my head.

"Sorry, my alarm… gotta shower," she said.

"It's midnight, shut up and sleep." I grunted.

She laughed softly and huskily, her voice sleep infected.

"It's six," she said. "Go back to sleep."

"Nah, my alarms about to go off," I huffed, peaking out at the screen to see her standing with her black fluffy bathrobe wrapped around her body.

"So get up then," she said, throwing a pillow in the direction of the laptop.

"Maybe," I sighed, rolling onto my stomach.

"Want me to pick you up? I'll buy pancakes," she said, making me lift my head slightly.

"Coffee?"

"And coffee," she sighed, as if she wasn't going to get coffee anyway.

"Jade?"

"Yeah?"

"I-I think I might be okay doing that scene, we don't have to go to Sikowitz," I said, moving to sit up and pull the laptop a little closer.

The thought of kissing her for a scene seemed a little less hectic after she kissed me yesterday, after our talk, after falling asleep beside her, and seeing how great her tits were moments ago.

Damn, were they great. Or were they great.

"Sounds good, I'mma go shower now," she said, making me nod. "Be ready in an hour. Or starve, your choice." She said before walking away.

I smiled, running a finger over my lips, still feeling a faint tingle from her lips pressed to mine.

My thoughts were broken by my alarm going off, making me grab my phone and shut the sound off with a whine.

She didn't hang up… does that mean I should leave the call on too?

I shrugged, sliding out of bed and pushing the laptop to the middle before heading over to my dresser, finding something to wear for the day.

I stepped into my bedroom after getting changed from my shower and ran my brush through my hair as I went over to my closet, completely blanking on having to grab a shirt before I'd gone in there earlier.

"Hey!"

I jumped, my hands coming up to cover my breasts despite having a bra on.

"Fucking hell, Jade," I growled, tossing my brush in the direction of the laptop only to see the call wasn't actually on the screen.

"Missed me," she purred, coming up behind me, her fingers stroking along my lower back causing me to shiver.

"I thought you said an hour," I whispered, feeling her nails lightly bite into my hips.

I had no idea what was happening right now, but I couldn't find it in myself to stop her.

"I got bored waiting, you take long showers," she said, her lips brushing against my shoulder.

"I shaved and washed my hair," I stepped forward, moving out of her grasp and grabbed a shirt from my closet.

I was about to pull it on when she snatched it from my hand, making me whirl around to face her, arms outstretched for the shirt.

It only took me a second to grab it from her, a second too long for me to realise that she could totally see my boobs through my bra.

I licked my lips, my mouth going dry at the memory of seeing her bare chest earlier on.

Pancakes. Food.

Come on brain, think of something else other than kissing Jade.

Something other than her bare chest.

Something other than begging her to throw me onto my bed and let her mark me, take me, so whatever she wants to me.

Shirt. Right, clothes.

Getting dressed.

School.

I pulled my shirt on quickly and turned towards my bed, leaning over to shut my laptop just as I felt her hands on my hips, pushing into me from behind.

Feeling her pressed against my ass, it made me lose balance and topple into my bed.

Her chuckle made me roll over quickly, and I wondered briefly if I'd said all my thoughts out loud, if she could read my mind, or if she just wanted the same thing I did.

She straddled my thighs, slowly bringing a hand up to stroke my hair from my face and leaned in, pressing her lips to mine.

A soft sound escaped her lips as I brang my hands up to rest on her hips, my fingers stroking against her lower back, nails biting in as she deepened the kiss.

She pulled back, I felt her smile into the kiss as I leaned up, hoping to keep it going longer, but with one hand on my chest, I was laying back on the bed.

She than bring both her hands up, tying her hair back into a quick bun. I bit my lip, finding it completely sexy for some reason.

With her arms lifted, her shirt did too, my hands moving on their own to slid across her front and brush against the newly exposed skin.

A pounding on my door made me jump my hands flying to my sides.

"I locked it," Jade said softly.

"What?" I called out, looking towards the door.

"Are you up?" I heard my father ask.

"Yeah, just about to leave now," I said, my breath hitching as Jade ran her fingers across my stomach.

"Trina said Jade was here, did she wake you?"

"Uh, kind of, but I've been up a while…"

There was muffled speaking from the other side of the door, making me frown and gesture for Jade to get up.

I made my way to the door and unlocked it, pulling it open to see my parents on the other side. "Problem?"

"No, sweetie, we were just making sure you were up," my mum said as she looked by me to see Jade, sitting on my bed, pretending to be interested in her nails.

"Right, well," I cleared my throat, running a hand through my hair. "I need to make sure I have all my homework done before we leave, and Jade's going to help me,"

"I am?" I heard Jade ask.

"It's fifty percent, Jade. I'm not doing it alone," I said, looking back at her.

"Oh, that homework. Well, yeah. We can discuss that over coffee and breakfast though, right? I'm starving."

"Maybe you should of ate more than a Nutella sandwich for dinner."

"I would have cooked if I wasn't distracted by you," she said, making me freeze. "By the homework we did," she continued a second later.

"Right, well, I'll let Trina know she doesn't have to be up for a while." My mum looked at Jade like she knew something I didn't before she left my doorway, dragging my father away also.

"Awkward," Jade whispered, making me turn to face her. "Come on, Vega. I need coffee, I left the house without any to get here quicker."

She waved a hand, gesturing me to hurry up and I rolled my eyes. "Says the one who wouldn't give me my shirt," I murmured, making her raise her studded eyebrow at me.

I raised my hands in surrender and went about getting ready quicker.

I slid into the booth, shifting to the far side of it, Jade schooched closer to me as soon as a waitress put menus down.

"So," I said nervously as I picked up my menu.

"So," she repeated, her knee bumping against mine lightly.

"This almost feels like a date," I said with a low voice, glancing up at her.

"What?" She asked, looking at me so fast I thought her neck was going to snap.

Crap. Totally just ruined her happiness.

"Uh… you asked me out and offered to pay," I said softly and she processed the information before nodding.

"I guess so, yeah," she said, smiling at me before patting my knee gently and my heart stopped when she didn't remove her hand as she went back to looking at her menu. "What do you want?"

"To know what's going on," I said, shifting in my seat a little to face her.

"That's not on the menu," she said as she flipped the menu over to look at the drinks section. "Can we order before getting serious? I need coffee, Vega."

"So… we will talk?" I asked hesitantly.

I felt her thumb stroke over my knee as she nodded.

"Yeah, we'll talk."

I licked my lips, watching as her eyes flickered down to watch, she bit her lip and was slowly leaning forward- way too slow for my liking -when the waitress came over.

"What can I get you both?" The woman asked.

"Coffee, Black. Toast, with butter on it only- so it melts before I get it." Jade looked at her menu, raising an eyebrow at a picture. "And whatever that is," she said, pointing to the image.

The waitress leaned over, looking before nodding. "Double stack with ice cream and chocolate topping, and you?" She then turned to me.

"Chocolate and strawberry milkshake, so they're mixed together, not two… and a double stack with butter, please."

"Alrighty, I'll be right back with your drinks," she said before walking off.

I smiled, biting my lip as Jade stroked her fingers across my knee, a shiver running up my spine.

"So…" I offered.

"Coffee first, please?" Jade asked.

"Okay," I nodded.

It wasn't much longer that the waitress came back, a coffee and milkshake on a tray.

She set them down in front of us and I took a small sip, smiling wildly at the semi-caramel flavour.

"Why'd you order that?" Jade asked as she blew on her coffee a little before taking a hesitant sip of it.

"I'm allergic to caramel, so… it almost tastes like caramel enough to have it."

"Lies," Jade said, clearly not believing me.

I gently slid my drink closer to her, offering her a sip.

Jade leaned forward, her tongue wrapping around my straw and bringing it to her lips.

God, I wonder what else that tongue can do.

I watched the milkshake flow up the almost-clear straw and into her mouth.

"Okay," Jade said as she pushed the drink back towards me. "That was oddly delicious."

I grinned, taking a large sip of my milkshake as Jade pressed a delicate kiss to my cheek.

When I looked up from my drink, she grabbed my chin and kissed me tenderly.

When our food arrived, and Jade's coffee was getting refilled, she half turned to me as I cut up my pancakes, smearing the butter across the top of them so it melted.

"So," Jade said, grabbing my attention.

"So?" I asked, turning my head towards her.

Jade watched as the waitress walked off and she rested her hand on my thigh.

"I don't know," she said.

"Don't know what?"

"Why I keep kissing you, or why when I'm around you now- you make my heart skip. I don't know why I couldn't answer Beck when he asked if I still love him."

I blinked, my knife and fork slipping from my hands and clattering to the table.

A few surrounding tables looked over, but I paid them no mind.

"What?"

"I don't know why I constantly wonder what flavour gloss you're wearing, or why I want to run my fingers through your hair so badly."

"Jade," I whispered, my hand resting on hers, causing her to finally look up and meet my eyes. "Maybe I shouldn't have admitted my feelings."

"But you did, and you can't exactly take them back."

"True." I nodded.

"U-Unless you don't feel that way anymore," she stuttered, vulnerability written all over her face.

"Of course I sill feel that way," I said, stroking my thumb across her knuckle.

"And you can't change the way you tore down walls I didn't even know I had up, or broke through and actually made my heart start beating like it never had before."

"Jade, slow down… I just… one question."

She nodded, allowing me to continue.

"Are you saying that you feel the same way?"

"I'm saying, that I think I do," she said, her hand flipping over beneath mine, she closed it around my fingers, giving a gentle squeeze.

"Jade, you understand that you're with Beck right? And while I've enjoyed the few kisses and touches, and god, seeing your boobs this morning cause your blanket slipped off last night while you were sleeping… we can't be together."

"Because of Beck?" She asked.

"Because I'm not going to be the reason that the school's most popular couple breaks up, or for the lashing that will bring me."

"Who would know that you're the reason?" She asked, her fingers gripping tighter around mine.

"The second we started something after you two stop? I'm not a rebound either."

"Would it really be a rebound if you were the reason I left him though?"

"Jade, seriously? You need to think about this… think of what you really want and not some spark of want that I've created that you might think you need."

As fate would have it, the subject of our conversation decided to show himself, appearing at the end of our table.

"Jade, Tori," Beck said, looking at us both, studying our closeness. "What are you two doing here?"

"Working on Sikowitz's scene," we both said, my heart hammering painfully as Jade encouragingly squeezed my fingers.

"Oh, Cool. Can I sit?" He asked.

"I mean, Sikowitz said no one could know what we were doing with our scene, so…" Jade said, trailing off.

"So…" he frowned, looking at us, then at our arms, which clearly- even though he couldn't see our hands -were joined. "What the hell is going on?"

"Sikowitz's topic is a strange one, as they always are… just, go away, Beck. We'll talk later," Jade glared as she spoke.

"Later? You haven't even replied to my text from lunchtime yesterday."

"Why do you even care so much? You've never cared when I've gone days without texting before."

God, this was getting awkward.

"Perhaps I can help," a voice said from the table behind Beck.

We all looked over at it, Beck half stepping to turn and face them making me see Sinjin clearly, my eyes widening with fear.

"What do you want, Sinjin?" Jade barked.

He didn't look scared like he usually did.

"Sinjin, how long have you been sitting there?" I asked hesitantly.

"Been here since opening, I tend to go unnoticed just like I do in school. Which is funny seeing as I help run the school's Gossip blog."

Jade's fingers loosened around mine long enough for her fingers to slice down between my own before she tightly held on once more.

"Again, what do you want?" Jade asked harshly.

"What do you want?" Sinjin smirked, raising his eyebrows a few times suggestively.

"To cut you open and paint the floor with your blood," Jade said, her voice low.

God, how can she be this sexy right now?

Sinjin seemed to falter slightly at her admission but quickly regained his confidence as he shifted to show his laptop … was recording.

"Why are you recording?" Beck asked him, towering over Sinjin.

"I was working on a vlog for my slap page, but I recorded something much more interesting."

"You recorded us practicing our homework scene?" Jade asked. "One Sikowitz will fail us for if someone else knows about it? Do you really want to die so badly if I fail this class because of you?"

Sinjin swallowed, I could see his throat bobbing as he seemed to mull it over.

"Why were you using real names then?"

"Because, we draw from real experiences," I said. "That's why acting is, you wanna cry? Think of a sad or painful memory. You want to act, draw from your environment and adapt… we have used names until we can fully write it down."

"I don't believe you, but this will be great in my vlog," he said before picking his laptop up and closing it as he ran out of the diner.

"Great, there goes our grade," Jade said, her free hand coming up to cradle her forehead as she rested her elbow on the table, her thumb stroking over my knuckle where her other hand still held tightly onto mine.

"You'll think of something else to do," Beck said, shrugging.

By the time Jade and I finished eating and we're getting in the car, my heart still hadn't calmed down from its racing state.

She drove with her hand on my thigh, trying desperately to help, but unable to.

So she pulled the car over to the side of the road and turned to face me.

"Whatever you're thinking, it'll be okay. Whatever happens, nothing between us will change, okay?"

"Jade, if he'd been sitting there since the diner opened… we kissed, multiple times. We spoke about Beck, about you and I," I tried to keep my tears at bay as I spoke, but everything started to get blurry, the salty tears burning my eyes.

She reached over, her hand stroking my arm.

"Whatever happens, we'll be okay."

"Can you just drop me at home, please? I don't feel good."

"Yeah, I can do that. Or we could go mess with Sinjin? I have a friend who's really good at messing with computers when one least expects it."

"What?" I asked. "What do you mean?"

"A hacker… I have a hacker friend."

"I just… we could just go to my dad," I said, looking over at her.

"The cops won't do anything," Jade said, shaking her head.

"No, they won't. But my dad would."

"Why don't you call him and find out if he actually can do something about it."

I nodded, pulling my phone from my pocket and dialing my father's number.

As expected, my dad took it very seriously, telling us to get to school and he'd sort it out.

By the time we actually arrived at school, there was a cop car there, my father and another cop I hadn't met yet were talking to the principal about something as Jade and I got out of her car.

"Are you sure?" I heard the principal ask as we passed them.

"Very sure, our lead suspect is someone called Sinjin Van Cleef," my dad said, looking at his notepad.

Jade pulled me over to the Jet Brew cart and I kept my eyes on my father as he continued to speak to the principal, many other people half gathered around them pretending to not pay attention while also hoping to find out what was happening.

"Sinjin," the principal yelled out when he saw him walking by.

"Yes sir?" I heard Sinjin before he moved across the quad to go over there.

A coffee was pressed into my hand, breaking my gaze as I looked down at the drink before my attention flickered up to meet Jade's gaze.

"Thanks," I said softly.

"He looks like he's about to piss himself," Jade murmured, using her hushed tone to half lean into me.

I turned my attention back to my father and watched as he and the principal talked to Sinjin, finally making him take his laptop out of his bag.

Jade took a sip of her coffee, our bags bumping together.

I glanced down at our bags and rested my hand against the side of it, our bags covering anyone from seeing as my pinky linked up with Jade's free hand.

She gave a light squeeze of my finger and I felt my heart race.

I looked back over as the principal and my dad leaned around the laptop to stop anyone from seeing what was on the screen.

"You can't take my laptop!" I heard Sinjin yell out.

"It's evidence," my dad said, frowning. "You'll get it back when we're sure it's passed the examination. Is there anywhere else this video is?"

"No, but I need that for school," Sinjin said.

"So, you'd rather be taken away in handcuffs for hiding evidence from an ongoing investigation?"

"No sir," Sinjin said.

"Right, we'll get your laptop back as soon as possible, go on," my dad said.

Sinjin walked off, looking angry, he glanced our way and jade smirked at him as she sipped her drink, her fingers lifting slightly in a half wave off her cup.

God I wanted to kiss her so badly right now.

"Come on, we should get our books for class," Jade said, and I let go of her hand with a sigh.

My dad made his way over to us, a concerned look on his face.

"Girls, that video…"

"Dad, please," I whispered.

"Look, I don't want to see either of you get hurt, please be careful. Jade, I'm trusting you to keep Tori safe," he said.

"Of course, Mr Vega. Thank you for helping," Jade said, making me look at her.

"Go on, get to class," he said, waving us off as he turned to head back to his car, laptop tucked under his arm.