(note: sorry this chapter took me a little longer to write, ive been a little busy lately and my new semester is about to start up. anyway i hope you enjoy this chapter... or love/hate it.)

"I'm so excited we're gonna have a sleep over! What should we do? Watch movies? Oh I can paint your nails!" Cat says excitedly while we drive to my house.

"Sure Cat, we can do all of that."

"Yay!"

"Will your parents mind I'm coming over?"

"No they're away on vacation."

"Oh ok."

When I invited her over on impulse I didn't think about the fact that I actually have to tell her I like her. Fuck, how is she gonna react? Is she gonna be repulsed? I really can't put this off but I'm really nervous. I'll just wait for the right moment tonight, if such a thing exists.

We arrive at my house and I'm noticeably a little nervous.

"Jade, are you okay? You're being quiet." Cat asks with a quiet tone.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I smile at her as we walk into my room.

Cat always looks so interested when she walks into my room, she looks around like shes never seen a room that isn't frilly and full of bright colors. She likes to touch things that she's curious about but I don't mind it.

"What do you wanna do Cat?"

"I wanna paint your nails! Can I paint them pink?"

"Er, I don't have pink. Paint them black."

"Okay!"

I open my drawer and pull out my black nail polish. I like Cat and all, but I wouldn't paint my nails pink even for her. Shit, I'm still really nervous maybe I should put some music on. Some nice music should calm me down or distract me. I connect my Pear phone to my stereo and turn it on.

"Here's the nail polish." I tell Cat, handing it to her.

"Yay! Sit!" She says impatiently, patting the empty space of bed next to her.

"Wait do you wanna change first? I'll lend you some shorts and a shirt."

"Yeah, sure. Thanks Jade."

I go back to my drawers and get her a pair of purple shorts and a white t shirt, I get myself some black pants and a black shirt. I don't know why I got her the shorts, maybe I just want to see her legs again. What? They're nice okay.

"Here you go, you can uh.. change in the bathroom I guess."

"No It's okay." she says as she undresses and puts on the clothes I gave her. For a moment I can't stop myself from staring but I stop soon enough to not get caught by her. I change along with her and can't help thinking that maybe she undressed in front of me because she knows it drives me crazy. I don't think that's something Cat would do though, wishful thinking.

"Alright, let's paint your nails now!" Cat exclaims.

I take a seat in the middle of my bed as she grabs my hand. This nail painting slumber party shit is really cliché but I wouldn't ever tell that to Cat.

The song changes on my Pear phone, I almost forgot music has been playing. I guess I was really caught up in my thoughts. The song playing is one Beck sent to me a while ago, It has cellos and violins in the background with female vocals.

"What is this?" Asks Cat looking over at the stereo.

"It's some European band, do you not like it?" I know Cat doesn't just listen to pop but I can never be too sure about her taste in music because it's so varied.

"No I like it, it's a little dark and scary, but beautiful. Kind of like you Jade." She says as she looks up from painting my nails, sending a smile at me.

Cat just called me beautiful.. She also called me dark and scary though. I don't know how I should be taking that but it made me feel frozen in time, like I imagined it because it felt too nice.

"Jade! You're blushing again." Cat giggles as she keeps painting one of my nails.

Fuck fuck fuck.

"I uh. It's hot in here." Did I really just say that? Shit, here it comes again. That sudden heat wave rushing through my body.

"Cat I need to tell you something."

"What?" She looks up at me with a serious look on her face and stops painting my nails. I feel her thumb and her index finger rubbing my hand gently.

Oh crap, am I really about to do this? Fuck Cat, please don't hate me after this.

"Jade, what?" she asks again.

"Cat..."

"Jade you're scaring me are you okay?" she says worriedly.

"Cat I like you, not like friend like you. Well I like you as a friend too, but I like you more than a friend. Cat I think I'm gay." I over explained that like an idiot. I start to feel like I'm losing the ability to breathe. I've never felt like this before. Not once, even when I'm auditioning for something or on stage. I have never been this nervous in my entire life.

"Oh, I know. Don't scare me like that!" She giggles again and keeps painting my nails.

What the fuck did she just say? She knows? W..What?

"What do you mean you know?" I almost yell at her.

"I knew you liked me, and I knew you were gay silly."

"How?" How did she know? What the hell is going on.

"Remember when you first started dating Beck? You started being really nice to him at first. That's how you've been acting with me. You also stare at me a lot, and not in the way everyone stares at me when I tell a story or go on stage."

Wow, I knew Cat was a really emotionally connected person but I never realized she noticed such tiny things. I don't think people realize the weird little talents she has, I guess I didn't fully realize either.

"Why didn't you ever say anything?" I tell her sternly.

"It's more romantic if you tell me Jade!"

I should be pissed at her but I'm not. She's looking at me like she thinks I'm about to slap her.

I rush into her and meet my lips with hers. Cat doesn't hesitate. She instantly pulls me in closer kissing me back, I grab hold of her cheek and kiss her deeper. She still tastes like the candy she ate earlier, her lips are soft and delicate and it makes me go into a frenzy. The heat wave coursing through my body is now fire.

Is this happening, is this really happening?

Cat pulls me into her even more and she falls back on my bed. I lean onto her feeling her body against mine. I hear a soft moan escape her and it makes me weak, so weak I almost collapse on her. I feel her lips part, her body aching to taste me more, to have me more. I open my eyes for just a second to make sure this is real. Fuck, this is real. She takes hold of my neck and slips her tongue between my lips.

I pull back.

"Did I do something wrong?" She asks hurt.

"No not at all, sorry I guess I'm just surprised that happened."

She grabs my hand, her fingers are soft and inviting to mine. "Jade I like you so much, even if you're cranky sometimes." I've never felt the way I felt when she said that. I smiled at her and held her hand tighter.

"I like you too Cat, a lot."

I notice little spots of black on her cheek.

"Oh, Cat .. I got nail polish on your face."

I try to wipe off the black spots but they're there to stay. She sneaks in a quick kiss and giggles while my hand is on her face trying to take off the nail polish.

"Heh, I'll go get the nail polish remover."

I go to my bathroom looking for a cotton ball and the nail polish remover. I take a cotton ball and moisten it with the remover. I get a quick glance of myself in the mirror and see some of Cat's lip gloss on my lips reminding me that we did indeed just make out. I stared at myself in the mirror for what seemed like hours but was probably a couple seconds. I won't fight this, it was too natural for me to kiss Cat.

"Here lets take it off your face." I rub the cotton ball against her cheek and the black marks start to fade.

"Oh no Jade, your nails are ruined!" Cat sighs.

"It's okay, it was worth it." I smile at her as we giggle.

"We should watch a movie! Which ones do you have?"

"Umm, Let me go look." I turn off the music that's been playing from the Pear phone and go over to my small collection of dvds.

"I have.. Mortal Carnage 2, The Haunting Of Shelly Manor, Tears Of Small Children, Scream 1, and 2, and Kill Bill."

"Jade, those all sound scary." She says with a frown.

"Let me go to my parent's room and see if they have any that aren't scary."

"Okay."

I leave the room and go to my parent's, I figured Cat wouldn't want to watch any of my movies. It doesn't matter though I've seen them all way too much anyway, even Beck knows most of the lines to them. I rummage through my parent's dvd collection which is significantly bigger than mine and find one I think Cat might like.

"I found one." I tell her as I walk into my room.

"Ooh which?"

"Romance Beach 1, just kidding it's Finding Nemo. You like that one right?"

"YES!" She says jumping up slightly from the bed.

I don't really know why my parents have Finding Nemo in their movie collection but I won't complain because I actually like this movie and so does Cat. I slip the dvd inside my dvd player and turn on the movie. Cat is smiling at me as I turn off the light and walk towards the bed where shes laying. I get inside the covers with her and she immediately snuggles up to me, resting her head on my shoulder and putting an arm around me. At that moment I thought my stomach was going to come out of my mouth. God, this feels so good, to have her like this. It's all so sudden but I never want it to leave. I feel a sudden squeeze from Cat's arm, I look down at her and shes completely buried in me. It's like she can't get close enough to my body. She isn't really paying attention to the movie but I don't blame her, neither am I.

"Jade.." I hear a little whisper come out of Cat.

"Yes?"

"I want this to be for real. I want this to not go away."

"It won't Cat."

"Promise?"

"Yes, I.. I like you so much."

She digs herself up from my shoulder and sits up just enough to give me a soft and slow kiss.

"Be my girlfriend Jade."

"R..Really?"

"You don't want to."

"No of course I do Cat."

"Really? You're my girlfriend now?"

"Yes."

She smiled at me and went back to snuggling my shoulder. She wrapped her arm around me again tracing small circles on my arm, it gave me goosebumps. I couldn't believe how fast this all happened. I never actually thought Cat would like me back or that she would be my girlfriend. It's all so surreal, like I'm going to wake up any minute now.

Cat hugged me tight for a while until she fell asleep. I followed suit soon after that.

I woke up the following morning with Cat's arm still wrapped around me. It wasn't a dream. I lay in bed not wanting to move her arm or wake her up. I stretch a little and reach my phone from the night stand to see if I have any messages. One from Tori, and another from Andre.

"Morning cutie." I hear a sleepy voice coming from Cat who I suppose I woke up.

"Morning..Did I wake you? I'm sorry."

"No it's okay." She says with a smile and a sleepy look on her face, still holding onto me like she's afraid I'll disappear if she doesn't hold me tightly.

I check my texts to see what Vega and Andre said.

"Hi Jade, Can you bring my math notes back to me on Monday?" From Tori. Once again I don't bother to text back.

"Hey Jade how was the sleep over with little red? ;-)" What the fuck is Andre talking about?

"Cat."

"Yes?"

I show her the text from Andre.

"Do you know anything about this?"

"I told him we liked each other." she says shyly.

"Why!"

"Because I like you so much and I wanted to talk about it with someone, please don't be mad!"

"What the fuck, Cat!"

"Please don't say bad words."

"I am mad! I don't want anyone to know!"

"Why! Whats that supposed to mean?" She said with a hurt look on her face, her eyebrows scrunched up and looking like she was going to cry.

"B-Because! I don't want people to think I'm a freak!"

I got up from Cat's embrace and walked into my bathroom and closed the door. Jesus Christ, how could she just tell Andre like that? Who has he told? Who knows about this? No one should know about this except for Cat and I!

I hear Cat outside the bathroom door.

"Jade.."