A/N: Ok ok, I caved- here is the fluff you all asked for. So you know, fluff isn't really my forte, but I did my best. Thanks for all the reviews, they make my day. This chapter's song is All The Small Things by Blink 182. Hope you enjoy!
"Always I know, you'll be at my show, watching, waiting, commiserating…
…Turn the lights off, carry me home"
…
Cat smiled from ear to ear as Jade hit the final note of her solo; it was perfect, right on pitch, not a waver or crack. It was beautiful, just like Jade. Cat was the first standing in the audience when it came time for a standing ovation. She clapped the hardest, and definitely the loudest. When the curtain fell, and the lights went up, Cat grabbed her purse and ran out the exit door on stage left. She sprinted up a flight of chipped, black stairs leading backstage to Jade's dressing room.
"Jade! Jade! Jade! Jade!"
Jade smirked to herself as she heard the shrill pitch of Cat's voice from down the hallway. She walked to her dressing room door and flung it open, just in time to see Cat bounding up to her.
"Jade!" The red-head cried, leaping into Jade's arms. "You were so so good! You were, like, fantastic!"
"Cat- get off me," Jade said, shoving the small girl away, though smiling a little. "Thanks for coming."
"I would never miss opening night! And you were perfect!" Cat gushed, letting go of Jade and beaming up at her.
"I wasn't. I sucked. I messed up so much- I was sharp on the intro, and I messed up a simple box step! And the in the end, on my solo…" She kicked the chair next to her violently. The chair went spinning into the corner of the room where it smashed into the wall.
"Jade, stop, you were amazing." Cat took hold of Jade's hand and leaned up until their lips met. Jade placed her hands on Cat's hips and kissed back with vigor. When Cat broke away, she glanced over Jade's shoulder into the mirror hanging on the wall atop Jade's vanity. "Haha! Look! Your makeup is all over my face! Ha..haha!" She began to giggle and Jade scowled, looking at her own makeup in the mirror; Cat was right, half of it had smeared from her face onto Cat's.
"Damn it Cat!" Jade shouted, "Look what you did! Now we're going to be late to the after party because I have to redo this."
"I'm…I'm sorry?" Cat looked confused. "I just wanted to kiss you. You were so good, and I kept telling everyone 'that's my girlfriend'…but some of them looked a little shocked and mad at that.
"Mad? Screw them" Jade reached down and pulled off her heels, then began to strip out of her dress and stockings. "God I hate this dress. I look like a daffodil"
Cat looked down at her shoes, then back up at Jade, who was facing away from Cat, trying to untie the lace of her corset.
"I think you look pretty."
Jade smirked and slowly turned her head to look at Cat over her shoulder.
"Do you now?" Jade's voice was like honeyed poison- sickly sweet and venomous. She succeeded in unlacing the last loop of her bodice and she let it drop to the floor, leaving herself completely topless, still facing away from Cat. Cat let out a little squeak and blushed, staring at the way Jade's soft black curls cascaded down the alabaster skin of her bare back. She walked up behind Jade and swept her raven hair over her shoulder, leaning in to place little kisses across Jade's shoulder blades.
"I do…" she said, and Jade noted how her voice dropped several octaves lower than she was used to hearing from Cat.
"Well…" jade began, her red lips forming into a smirk, "I suppose we could always be a bit late to the after party…"
Cat smiled behind Jade's back, but before she knew it, Jade had rammed her lower body into Cat, making the red-haired girl stagger backwards a few feet.
"Jade!" she cried, exasperated. Jade walked over to the corner of her dressing room and slipped behind her changing screen, emerging a minute later with her normal clothing on- black denim pants, a dark red, off the shoulder shirt and a leather jacket.
"What?" she asked innocently, as she pulled her hair out from under the back of her jacket.
Cat merely rolled her eyes.
"You're such a tease…"
"Damn right, and proud of it," Jade smirked, slipping on a pair of black high heels. "Now move, I'm not going to be late because you spent time seducing me." Jade grabbed her bag off her vanity, applied a layer of blush to her cheeks to cover up the splotches Cat had caused, darkened her eyeliner a bit, and then turned to Cat who was staring in disbelief at the taller girl.
"I seduced you?"
Jade ignored this comment, just shoved Cat out the door.
"Move, come on. God, you're slower than a dead elephant." Jade quipped.
"Ooh! One time I was at the zoo with my brother, and we saw an elephant," Cat started up in her usual excitable Cat tone. "But it wasn't dead…" she clarified.
"CAT!" Jade screamed at her, whipping her head around to face Cat.
"Sorry…" The smaller girl stopped talking immediately. Jade shifted through her bag, moving objects like scissors and lipstick tubes aside before pulling out a key. She locked the dressing room behind her, grabbed Cat's hand, and proceeded down the stairs and out into the fresh night air.
"Hey Jade?" Cat said softly after the two had been walking for several minutes.
"What?" Jade answered, a bit preoccupied with reading street signs.
"I love you," Jade stopped short and stared into the large brown eyes looking back at her. "And, I'm really proud of you for tonight."
"Thanks. It means a lot to me that you came. And…I—" Jade stopped and gulped. "I love you too."
Cat grinned from ear to ear and giggled, squeezing Jade's hand as the two continued on their way down the streets of Hollywood.
A/N: So for all you fluff lovers out there- I hope that tickled your peach, haha. I know it wasn't the fluffiest, but I'm working on it. :) More to come. Someone suggested "The One That Got Away" by Katy Perry, so that will be coming shortly. Thanks to all who read. If you all could take the 6 seconds it takes to review this, that would make me so happy. Thank you! ~AT
