Chapter Two «First Day - Eew»

A/N I am so so so sorry! I meant to update earlier, but everything went wrong. First, Internet decided it didn't like my computer, then I had all those christmas related things, then I went to see some family, but they were sick and I caught it too. I just puked for three days in a row, and I just started feeling better. So here it comes. I am still so sorry, but I'll try to update regularly as from now. Frogive me? :)

"Cat, if you're not here in ten seconds, were gonna live without you!" threatened Jade, tired of standing in Cat's living room. She had been there for almost ten minutes, and she knew Beck was waiting in his truck. The rest of the gang still needed to be picked up and it was almost lunch time. They had five hours of travelling ahead of them, squeezed in the six person truck, their stuff in the huge box at the back.

"Coming!" she entered the room, her last bag over her shoulder. She already had two other in the truck and one in Jade's hands. She was smiling and jumping everywhere, really excited.

"Say goodbye to your parents, I'll be in the car."

"Kay kay!"

While Jade was leaving the house, she hugged her parents, then left. She knew her mother was nervous, but she was too excited to worry about it.

"Hey Beck!" she said, climbing in the truck and passing over Jade, who was on the passenger seat, to sit in the middle.

"Hi Cat" he respond, grinning a bit. He knew Cat was the only girl he could speak at without Jade going crazy jealous, because she was her best friend.

"I'm so excited!" she shouted, clapping her hands with enthusiasm.

"Yeah, yeah" sigh Jade, closing her eyes like she was praying God to deliver her from Cat's happiness.

They then stopped at André's grandma's house, where he was waiting on the porch. Immediately when he saw the truck, he got up, ran and threw his bag in the box. He quickly climbed up in it.

"Hey, you guys" he said, out of breath. "Not to be mean, but Beck, can you just go?!"

"What happened?" asked Beck, starting the truck again and driving to Tori's house.

"My grandma" sigh André. He attached his seatbelt in the complete left at the back of the car. "She's just out of her mind. I mean… really."

"We know man" Beck looked at him in the mirror. "What happened, this time?"

"She was screaming about the neighbor's cat. Believe me, you don't wanna know what she said. Oh no…"

Cat giggled.

"A cat, just like me!" she laughed.

"Yeah." André lay on the truck door. "I just needed a break from her, since my parents are still away and I'm staying at her house."

"Well, you certainly won't see her for the next six days." Beck concentrated his attention on the road.

"Thank god"

They stopped at Tori's house not a while after. André got out of the truck quickly, knowing Jade wouldn't go.

"Hey!" greeted Tori, opening the door after he knocked. "Come on in, I just need to add a couple of things to my bag. It won't be long."

"Kay" he entered her house, and then sat on her couch. He could hear Mr. Vega doing some stuff in his study, and Tori's mom was cooking pasta for lunch.

"Hello Mrs. Vega" he said, taking his PearPhone from his back pocket.

"Hello André" she respond, walking toward him. "I just have a question, about this camping trip."

"Sure"

"Tori said the school was taking care of the tent, but she didn't know if there would be two separate tents for the girls and the boys. Do you know anything about it?"

André swallowed nervously. He wasn't expecting that. Like Tori, he knew that the school was bringing the tent, but nobody knew how many they were.

"Oh yeah" he lied, improvising. "I saw Lane and he told me that they found two tents for the girls and the boys."

"Oh, perfect" she sigh, then smiled. "I was afraid that Tori was gonna sleep with you guys."

"Oh no, definitely no" André found himself too good at lying. He really needed to tell the truth more often.

"I'm ready!" shouted Tori from upstairs. André, relieved, got up quickly. "But it's heavy!"

André sigh, amused. "Coming!"

He helped her with her bag, then they both sat in Beck's car, André at the left and Tori in the middle.

"Hey everybody" said Tori, smiling.

"Hi!" respond Cat.

Robbie was waiting in the hall of the building where his apartment was. He saw the truck quickly when it stopped, and put his two bags in the box before climbing and siting in the only seat left.

"Hello guys" he saluted, then attached his seatbelt.

"Where's Rex?" asked Tori, not seeing the puppet on Robbie's arm.

"Oh, he didn't want to come. Said he was too tired." he respond quickly. He shrugged. "He was acting weird, anyway."

"Ok" said André, taking his cellphone and plugging it in the car. "So, we have five hours of travelling. Everybody's ready?"

"Yeah!" shouted the five teenagers, grinning happily as Beck went on the first freeway of their really long travel.

"Let's go!" he screamed after.

Two hours later, the mood wasn't exactly the same. Beck was drinking his second cup of coffee, but he was still yawning. Cat was playing a game on her PearPhone plugged in the car, and the only sounds in the vehicle were her little screams, once in a while, when her game went very insane. Jade was sleeping since the beginning, and she didn't look like she was going to wake up sometime near. Her earplug were on and her PearPhone was laying on her lap.

At the back, the three friends, after talking for a bit, had fallen asleep, André and Robbie, against their doors and Tori, her head on André's shoulder. The atmosphere was calm and peaceful, but it was making Beck tired.

A while after, when Cat was now often yawning, Tori started to stretch, her eyes now opened, trying not to hit André or Robbie.

"Hi!" whispered Cat in her usual playful tone.

"Hey" whispered Tori back, rubbing her neck. "Shit, André's not really comfortable"

Cat giggled a bit, then passed her hand threw her red velvet hair.

"Hey Tori" sigh Beck, his eyes still focused on the road.

"Hey Beck. How much time until we arrive?"

"Three hours. Almost in the middle. I'll stop in five minutes for pee emergency, can you wake up the guys?"

"Sure."

Tori didn't bother to wake them up gently – she put her index in the boys' ears, then jingled. André hit her hand a bit before opening his eyes. Robbie instantly opened his eyes, attacking Tori with his angrier look. She laughed. Cat, in her front, only had to take off Jade's earplug to wake her up.

"Pee stop" explained Beck as his parked the truck at the gas station. "The only one during the travel, so everybody go."

The gang groaned but they all jumped out of the truck. They looked horrible, all wearing joggings and T-shirts, their hair messed up and the sleep still in their eyes, but actually, nobody cared. They all stretched, and walked to the gas station to use the bathrooms.

Waiting for André to finish his… business, Beck walked through the store, and decided to buy two bags of chips for the travel. He knew they would pass easily. The girl who made him paid was blonde, tall and pretty, and she obviously liked him.

"So" she started, taking a flirt pose, blinking fast so he could see her long eyelashes. "Why are you here? I've never seen you before."

He shrugged, uncomfortable. He didn't know if Jade was watching, but he sure knew that if she was, she was probably pissed off. "We're just here for a… passage. We're going camping."

"Ah cool" she said, giving him his change. "We don't usually…"

"Bye" Beck recognized Jade's hiss even before he felt her grabbing his arm.

"He has a girlfriend, so stop being such a slut and GO AWAY!" she screamed the last two words, her eyes darker than normal. The blonde seemed close to pee in her pants. She nodded nervously.

When Beck came back at the truck where the gang was waiting, he talked quickly to Jade. "Babe" he started. "You know how much I love you."

Jade stayed quiet willfully.

"I wasn't flirting!" he screamed a bit, just to make her react.

"Maybe, but you let her do it!"

"I didn't let her!" he rolled his eyes.

"You didn't walk away, or say that you already had a girlfriend or, I don't know, slap her!"

Beck tried to not take her threatened seriously.

"I didn't talk about you because she hadn't give me the chance. I needed to pay for the chips, so I couldn't walk away. And I only slap boys who deserve it."

Beck's words were logic. Jade sigh, then took her boyfriend's hand.

"Ok, maybe it's true. I just don't want this to happen again."

"It won't, babe. I promise you."

She stopped, followed by Beck, who gave her a surprise look.

"You said that you only slap boys who deserve it. How can they deserve it?" she asked, taking one step closer to him, enough to make their waist touch.

"Oh, I don't know. They can be too close to my incredibly hot girlfriend. Or even talking too much to her. This kind of stuff…"

She grinned, and went closer to him. He closed his eyes. She rose on her toes and kissed him. They both grabbed each other head, like if the other was going to walk away. The kiss, from soft, had become way much hotter, hungry. Jade was passing her fingers into Beck's perfectly fluffy hair. Beck had his palms on his girlfriend cheeks, holding her closer and closer.

"Hey!"

They separated, both out of breath. They didn't know who shouted, and they probably won't ever know. But it forced them to go away from each other and climb into the truck again. For one of the only time of her life, Jade's cheeks were bright red and her eyes sparkly. All her friends, except Beck, of course, had never seen her like that. But her boyfriend wasn't himself more than her. His lips were covered with Jade's lipstick and his hair were all messed up.

And it's in a new and happy atmosphere that the gang continued their travel to the camping site.

"Eew"

"Gross"

"Disgusting"

"Cool!"

"Ech"

"Weird"

First thoughts.

They had stopped the truck not a while ago, in the only place they could, twenty meters from their camping place and tent. Leaving the bags in it, too excited to go see the tents and the camp site, they had run to it, to only stop right before they arrived.

The site was pretty good, an open area cover with grass and bushes. It was clean and surrounded by trees. Two or three trails, including the one they came from, started there and just twisted into the forest.

But this wasn't why they stopped, or talked in disgust.

In the middle of the camp, all set up and ready, was standing the most awful, big and dirty tent the gang had ever seen. It was once kaki, but now, the only colors were brown from the mud and mucus green. It was huge – ten or even eleven persons could easily fit in it – but it was filthy and disgusting.

"I think I'm gonna throw up" joked awkwardly Tori, walking through the site.

"This is so… eew" added Cat, walking behind her.

"I'm not sleeping in that" said Jade, more decided than ever. She turned around.

"Well too bad, you'll sleep outside with the mosquitos and the spiders" Beck caught her arm and stopped her.

"C'mon Jade, it won't be so bad" André tried to cheer her up. "Well, I guess…" he added after thinking.

Jade sighed, then took her boyfriend's hand. "I'm sleeping with Beck" she ordered, walking down to the truck to get her stuff.

"You mean sleeping in the same sleeping bag, not having sex, right?" Robbie, for everyone's surprise, made it clear.

"Of course, you nubs. C'mon Beck, I'm gonna go get the stuff"

"Alright"

The gang, with about three round-trip each, finally got all their bags and all the things they needed to camp. Still disgusted, Tori and André entered the tent first, sighing, relieved to see that it wasn't really that bad. It was only huge, all black and covered with leaves. They removed the leaves and finally, they put their stuff in it.

Jade and Beck chose the extreme right of the tent to put their yoga mats and the two sleeping bags zipped together for the two of them. They knew the others wouldn't like it, but actually, who cared? They put their pillows right at the top of the tent and their bags near their feet.

Besides them, Cat, with her pink sleeping bag, three of her favorite stuffed animals and her huge pillows, was taking a lot of place. Her multiple bags, opened at her feet, showed a mix of plush, pink panties, pink bras and colorful tank tops.

And then came Robbie. Weirdly, he only had brought one of his two bags in the tent, and it was a perfectly good camping backpack, full with useful stuff, all clean, all tidy up. His mat was self-inflated, small and rapidly comfortable, and his sleeping bag, warm and cozy, came from a tiny wrapping. All his stuff seemed being really good quality, and all of that showed practice and skills.

André's place, even five minutes after he put his stuff down, was a mess. Clothes everywhere, books and papers flying around, boxers and socks on Robbie's and Tori's bed, his guitar taking too much place… he already had his touch.

Tori's bed was the last one, with her suitcase at her feet. It was perfectly tidy up, everything folded and lying where it was supposed to. Even her sleeping bag, open just a bit so she could do a triangle with the opening, was clean and perfect. She seemed too organized for a camping trip.

After organizing the tent, the gang went outside to eat their dinner – some fast food from Inside Out Burger grabbed on the way. It was about eight p.m., and the sun was already behind the trees. Under the shadows, they ate their burgers and French fries, quiet. They felt like the peaceful atmosphere created by the wild life would explode if they talked.

Once they were done eating and that they threw the garbage in the bag for it, that they put inside Beck's truck with the food, to be sure that no wild animals would eat it, they quickly went to the bathroom (there were a little cabinet for, you know… business) and entered the tent. The girls, then the guys, changed in their PJ's – actually, the boy's PJ's were just boxers with pants (for Robbie).

"I guess we're going to bed early" sigh Jade, wrapped up in Beck's arm and their sleeping bags. She had remove her green streaks from her hair and her piercing from her eyebrow. She wasn't wearing any dark make-up and her hair were tied up in one braid. She looked so different, that when the others saw her, they stayed quiet, with their mouth open, for almost two minutes.

All the gang were either in their sleeping bags or sitting on it. Cat giggled, hugging her stuffed purple giraffe.

Tori shrugged. "It sucks. That's what I don't like about camping. You live with the sun."

"It do suck" agreed Beck, holding Jade's waist even closer to him.

"Can we stop saying 'suck'? It's sound like we're having sex or something." Everybody, even Beck and Jade, who were in there own world, opened their mouth in surprise and turned to face Robbie. He seemed to remember that he wasn't with Rex and he didn't say it, but himself, as the shy Robbie.

"Damn dude, I wasn't expecting that" André had his eyes wide open and he seemed to be out of breathe.

"Robbie?" ask Cat, looking at him with a mix of surprise, concert and maybe, maybe, a bit of interest. "What was that?"

"I'm-I'm sorry" he stutter in a small voice, looking at the ground.

"Why?" Jade had a little smirk. Maybe Robbie wasn't as dumb as she thought. Maybe, if he wanted to, he could be a little bit more like Rex – but not exactly the same, Rex was still mean and disgusting.

"I-I don't know"

"Man, we're on a camping trip, two hours away from every civilization, and you're with your friends" shrugged Beck, ignoring Jade's 'a-hem'. "If you wanna, you know, be someone else, who cares? This is just gonna be fun."

"I guess" mumbled Robbie, laying in his sleeping bag.

The silent that fallowed seemed to drag on. Cat and Tori, sitting on their sleeping bags, both went into it. After what seemed to a long time, André shrugged, grinned a bit and took his guitar, who was laying beside his bag.

"I guess we're going to bed" he started, making everyone look at him. "But before, say goodnight and I'm gonna play a little melody on my guitar."

"Goodnight guys!" giggled Cat, putting her head on her pillow and grabbing her stuffed animals.

"Why" grumbled Jade, cut off by Beck's lips crashing hers.

"Goodnight babe" he whispered, after the quick and deep kiss. "Goodnight everyone" he then said out loud.

"Yeah goodnight" added Jade.

"'Night" Tori lay down and put her head on her arm.

"Goodnight" finished Robbie, grinning.

"Good. Now close your eyes and enjoy." laughed André.

He passed his hand on the guitar, and started a slow melody, beautiful and sad. He didn't sing, or say a word. Most of the gang didn't recognized this slow melody, but Jade, hiding in Beck's chest, smiled a bit.

It was Photograph by Ed Sheeran, a song she knew nobody thought she liked. But actually, it made her feel safe, in some way.

And the five teenagers fell asleep, soon followed by their favorite musician.

Hey you guys! :) I've promised this one would be longer, so here it comes! I really liked writing it, because I think there's a lot of stuff in it. Some Bade, because I'm totally in love with them, and maybe the start of a Cabbie romance. I actually loved writing the bit where Robbie was a mix between the usual Robbie and Rex. I may be going that way, in the next chapters.

Ed Sheeran is one of my idols, and if you wanna cry on a sad song about a really strong love, listen to Photograph. I'm totally addicted to his newest album, X. Sheerios Power! (weird name, I know xD)

So now, this is my second chapter. Reviews make me happy :)