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When Beck walks into the room, where he and Jade want to film today, Jade is already there and busy with the popcorn machine. The school has that one in the room for a while now and the group of friends have already used it a few times.

Jade brought her laptop this time and its already placed on the couch table that's pushed a bit further away from the couch than it usually is. Beck can gather by the setting alone that Jade thinks they could sit down on the floor in front of the couch and do the video that way. Beck doesn't have a problem with that.

"Hey," he says as he throws his bag to Jade's on one of the chairs.

"Hey," Jade answers. "You ready for our first actual video of relationship advice?"

Beck smiles as they share a short kiss. "Sure."

Jade fills the popcorn from the machine into a bowl while Beck asks: "Are we filming it on the floor?"

"I thought so," Jade answers and Beck only nods before he walks to the couch and already sits down in front of it. The laptop it already turned on and Beck opens the program to record them, and TheSlap as well, before he puts the laptop into the right position to be visible on the video.

While he does so, he tells her about the ridiculous homework he got in his last class. Then he wants to know: "How were your classes so far?"

"Fine," she only answers as she walks up to him with the bowl of popcorn in her hand and sits down next to him.

He puts his arm around her like he does and asks: "Ready to start recording?" He doesn't want to make the mistake again of just starting to record while she is getting something out of her teeth or alike.

She only nods and so he leans forward and pushes the button to starts recording.

"Hey, it's me and Beck," Jade also immediately starts with the video.

"What's it doing?" Beck asks into the laptop camera.

Jade informs the future audience: "I just made popcorn." Probably so they won't wonder what she's eating. Though it is quite obvious.

"Yep, the little woman sure can cook," Beck jokes.

Jade doesn't take the joke well. "Okay, that's offensive on like every level."

Beck blinks for a moment, then: "It was a joke."

He knows it's not a real excuse. Offensive jokes are still offensive.

But his joke wasn't offensive, was it? He guesses there was no need to declare Jade a a 'little woman'. But still...

"Was it?" Jade viciously responds.

Okay, now Beck gets the feeling like she wants to fight. Because she also wouldn't care if it was a joke or if it wasn't whenever she finds a statement offensive.

Well... He isn't in the mood to fight right now.

Instead he turns to the camera. "I'm Beck."

Jade also turns to the camera. "I'm his girlfriend which makes him ridiculously lucky."

Of course she had to say it like that. Of course she had to say that having her as his girlfriend makes him ridiculously lucky. As if there's nothing better than getting to be her boyfriend. It's not like he disagrees but her saying it like that... Well, typical Jade.

"So lucky," Beck makes with a little smirk.

Jade immediately turns on him again: "Oh, you're not lucky to have me as your girlfriend?"

That's not what he said. "I just said 'so lucky'."

"You said it sarcastically," Jade notices.

Well... He did because her saying it makes him ridiculously lucky is just so... random that he couldn't help but answer in that tone of voice. Which doesn't mean that he doesn't actually feel that way. He does feel lucky that she is his girlfriend. Not to mention: "You say everything sarcastically."

"Oh, right," Jade makes – sarcastically. She notices it herself by the look in her face right after.

He suggests: "Okay, why don't we just... have a nice time together?"

"Okay," she answers.

But it's not the 'okay' he wants to hear. She is weirdly... off.

He has to ask: "What's going on?"

Jade promptly imitates his voice in the worst way possible, repeating after him: "What's going on?"

It makes Beck feel terrible because Jade always makes him sound so dumb. He knows she does it on purpose. She knows that it's going right under his skin.

She doesn't give him time to react and instead continues in her normal voice: "I thought you wanted to have a nice time." So they shouldn't talk about what's bothering her.

"Which we can't have if you're being like this," Beck tells her harshly.

"Now it's my fault?" Jade aggressively asks.

"Well, it isn't mine," Beck answers pointedly.

Jade glares at him for a moment, before she turns back to the camera and tells, without any prompting at all: "On my last birthday, which was on a Sunday, he didn't call me til two in the afternoon."

"Okay, we're gonna have that fight again?"

Beck doesn't know what has gotten into Jade. Why is she thinking about her birthday now all of the sudden? And how can she still be angry about that? He feels like he already explained why he called so late about a thousand times and that though he doesn't think it's too late to call at two pm on someone's birthday. Which he told Jade one time while they fought and she exploded.

"Not unless you start it," Jade says in an almost threatening tone.

"You were the one who told..." he starts but... okay, no. She said they won't have that fight again unless he starts it. Then they won't have this fight. "You know, you know what? Let's just forget it."

"Sure," Jade responds sarcastically. "I'm so glad that you can forget it."

He's still for another moment, then he turns back to the camera. "So, uhm... Here on TheSlap we've been taking questions from other people who have relationship issues."

"And then we respond," Jade adds.

Beck continues: "With helpful advice."

Jade claims: "It's our way of giving back to the community." Well, you could call it that. Though with Jade saying it in that way... Almost maliciously...

"Here at Hollywood Arts," he tries to go on, but Jade interrupts him: "They know where we are."

This tone still is the one she uses when she wants to fight with him. What's going on?

"Yeah, okay," he therefore makes and asks again: "Why are you in a bad mood?"

There must be a reason. And he won't accept any distraction from that now, not any reference to something that made them fight so long ago.

Jade's answer comes quick: "Maybe because you didn't call me until two in the afternoon on my birthday."

"That was seven months ago," Beck points out and wants to keep with the original question: "I..."

He doesn't get any further. Jade interrupts again: "Yeah, but you never explained to me... I don't understand how a person can just..."

She stops and Beck doesn't know why for a moment until he also notices Sinjin. He has walked in and is now leaning into the video next to Jade with her quickly leaning away to not risk coming in contact with him.

Beck gives her room to lean further while Sinjin asks: "You guys making a video?"

Beck has a lot to say to him. He always has. Sinjin is such a creep and Beck doesn't like how he behaves around Jade. But Jade doesn't want him to do or say anything. She told him early on on their relationship that she's no damsel in distress and also doesn't want to be treated like that. If she needs help, he'll notice, she said. But on a day to day basis, she will deal with shit herself.

That's why he never said a single thing to Sinjin.

Jade now takes it upon herself to glare Sinjin away. Then, she turns to Beck: "Okay. Let's read the first question, then we're gonna give some relationship advice."

So now she's all business again. He could go with it. But he knows she's still in a bad mood. Whatever happened before.

"Nah," he makes, a quick decision made up.

"Nah?" Jade asks incredulously

Beck tells the audience: "I'm gonna give Jade noogies."

Jade huffs. "Don't be a child."

Beck is barely able to surpress a smirk while he further explains to the audience: "If you don't know what noogies are, it's when you grab a person's head and then you rub your nuckles on it."

"I will call the police if you give me noogies," Jade threatens and yet there is a smile when she looks at him.

"You ready?" he asks her.

"Don't."

"Three, two..."

"Beck, don't," she says but he already tightens his grip around her.

"One," he says and then he goes for it. She'sthrashing around and defending herself but she's holding back enough for him to be able to get going.

Soon, they are both on the floor and only when she lightly bites the hand holding her, he lets go. She pulls him in again though and they kiss deeply.

They kiss for a while, before Jade breaks away from him and pushes the button on the laptop to stop recording.

They are both a bit out of breath from their tussle and the making out. Only after they both calmed down a little, Jade suddenly explains her behaviour: "I read some of the questions already in class just now and one of them is a girl who forgot her boyfriend's birthdady and asks how to apologize to him. That reminded me of you almost forgetting my birthday."

So when he asked what was wrong, she actually told him what was wrong: him 'forgetting' her birthday all those months back.

"I didn't," Beck assures her like he has done so often before. "I just didn't call before because you had complained that you had to get up so early because your dad had invited you to breakfast somewhere and I thought you'd spend the morning with him."

"I did," Jade responds. "You could've called me at midnight."

"I thought you would be asleep," Beck says.

That only makes Jade glare at him.

Beck knows Jade would've hated him for waking her up in the middle of the night except for an emergency.

Though yes, the thought of Jade waiting at midnight for him to call, also more than irks him. Her waiting for 14 hours until he finally called at 2pm... He hates that thought.

But she had no reason to wait. She could've also been long asleep at midnight do wake up early to spend time with her father and then getting Beck's call. Beck thought back then that it would play out like that. Is it really his fault that it didn't and that Jade waited instead?

Well, but... "I'll do better on every one of your birthdays from now on." He'll know to call her as early as possible, mostly right on midnight. And if he then wakes Jade up by it, there'll be another fight he'll have to fight.

"You better," Jade says. "And you better never give me noogies again."

Well, he can promise the first, he never will the second. Instead he promptly puts his arm around Jade again and pulls her to him, readying himself for giving her another round of noogies.

That evening they'll upload another video they call 'Relationship advice', though there's no advice given at all. They'll only cut the end a bit shorter than it actually lasted and take out a tiny part in the middle, in which Jade imitated Beck, because he can't stand the thought of anyone else hearing it.

For now he says: "Oh, careful. Careful! It's coming!"

And then he starts giving her noogies once more with her defending herself again and trying to return the favor until they both end up laughing breathlessly.