Okay before you start reading I should probably give you some background information. The next 1-2 chapters will be based on one of Dan's ideas that would have been filmed if the show hadn't been cancelled. So this idea was that Beck and Jade broke up because of a misunderstanding, then Jade does something that gets Beck jealous. I decided to make it one of those longer episodes that span around 2 episodes so this episode will be around 2-3 chapters! (yay) Enjoy! (:
[hallway]
"So when he turns around, his face gets immediately smashed with the pie…" Cat giggled. "Get it? Then she'll get embarrassed at him and they'll break up!"
"Remind me again why I'm listening to you talk about how you want Laura and Tyler to break up?" Tori sighed as she closed her locker and looked at Cat.
"Hey Tori!"
Tori turned around, to see Lane. "Oh hey, Lane! What's up?"
"Well, um," Lane took out a piece of paper. "Remember you requested to join the songwriting class?"
"Yeah!" Tori grinned. "Was I accepted?"
Lane hesitated. "The thing is Tori, you need to be able to play both the piano and guitar for the class, and you stated here that you can only play the piano."
"Oh… But if I learn to play the guitar, I'll get accepted, right?" Tori put in.
"That's the thing- you need to learn it by the end of this week, because that's when the course starts. The next course is half a year later."
Tori's smile faltered.
"Andre can play the guitar…" Cat said, fiddling with her thumbs. "He played it for me once." She smiled, took out her pearphone and started playing with it.
"Great!" Tori exclaimed. "I'll get Andre to teach me the guitar and hopefully, by this week, I'll be decent at it."
"Okay." Lane smiled encouragingly. "Good luck. Oh and, here is the list of chords you need to know before you can join the class." He passed Tori the piece of paper in his hands.
"Lane!" Marisa came running up to them. "Trina has a problem and she insists that you go to her."
Lane rolled his eyes. "Okay. Remember Tori, by the end of this week." He then followed Marisa off.
"Hey guys!" Beck said, as he and Jade walked up to them.
"Hey Cat!" Jade added.
"I'm here too!" Tori reminded Jade.
"I know." Jade smirked. "Anyway, where's Lane rushing off to?"
"Trina had some trouble." Tori explained. "No idea with what, though."
"Oh yeah!" Beck interrupted. "I just remembered. Sikowitz told me to tell you guys that the castings of the new play should be out in a few days."
"Yay!" Cat jumped up and down in excitement. "That's great news!"
"Yeah, great for Vega." Jade remarked drily. "And poor old Jade probably gets the understudy again. I'm really looking forward to that."
"Hey no need to be sarcastic." Tori defended herself. "Anyway, does anyone know where Andre is?"
"Probably eating out his new girlfriend's face." Jade replied, checking her nails. "They can't let go of each other."
As if on cue, Andre walked towards them, smiling to himself as he texted someone on his phone. "Hey guys!"
"Oh Rex's in trouble, hah!" Cat giggled, totally off-topic, looking up from her phone. "Robbie says Rex has pants problems. I'm gonna go save him. Byee!" She skipped off to find Robbie.
Tori rolled her eyes, then turned back to Andre. "Hey Andre. I know this is a bit sudden and stuff, but you think you can teach me how to play the guitar?"
"Yeah, sure, when?" Andre replied, not looking up from his phone.
"Really?" Tori hadn't expected such an easy agreement. "This evening? And tomorrow evening? Maybe around 5?"
"Mm..." Andre muttered, still typing furiously on his phone.
"Well I'll see you then!" Tori purposely spoke slowly to get Andre to look up, but to no avail.
"Mm, yeah." Andre muttered as a reply, before walking off to class, still texting someone non-stop.
Tori groaned in frustration. "Why won't he look up?"
"Maybe he's had enough of your face." Jade forced a smile at Tori.
"Hey, hey. We should probably get to class," Beck interrupted, before the two of them could start bickering.
"Yeah, okay." Jade muttered and the three of them headed to Sikowitz's classroom.
[sikowitz's classroom]
"Andre!" Cat bounced into the room, with Robbie following close behind.
"Oh hey Cat!" Andre smiled, finally slipping his phone into his pocket. "Where's Rex?"
"He had a pants problem, so I brought him home because he was embarrassed." Robbie answered sulkily. "Stupid pranksters."
Cat giggled. "They tore his pants into two and Rex had childish underwear on!"
Andre stifled a laugh. Robbie tried protesting but realized it was useless.
"Anyway, Andre, wanna come to the park with me and Robbie this evening?" Cat asked, excitedly sitting down beside Andre. "We're going to have so much fun!"
"Sure." Andre replied. "I don't think Jess has anything on with me tonight, so yeah."
"Who's Jess?" Asked Robbie.
"His new girlfriend," Cat giggled. "She's really cute but loud! Or at least, that's what Brandon said."
"He's right," Andre shrugged. "She's sort of like a much milder Jade. Plus, I only really started dating her because everyone said she was a good kisser."
The door slammed open. "Are we late?" Tori panted, slightly out of breath, with Beck and Jade behind her.
"Nope. Come on in!" Sikowitz replied, appearing mysteriously from behind the curtains hung on the stage. The bell rang.
"Okay, class, can someone please ask me why there are curtains on the stage." Sikowitz started the class, snatching up a coconut from the side of the stage and drinking from it.
"Why are there curtains on the stage?" Beck asked. Jade rolled her eyes and rested her head on Beck's shoulder.
"That's an excellent question, Beck!" Sikowitz grinned. "Anyway. These curtains are here because I needed to come in by some unconventional way. So I sneaked in before school started, hung the curtains and hid behind it."
Jade raised an eyebrow.
"Anyway." Sikowitz continued. "Today we are going to talk about masks!" He whipped out a large magazine cut-out of Robert Pattinson's face. (anyone get the Dan/Phil reference? Haha sorry)
"Imagine this is the mask you want to wear. What do you do first?"
"Attach strings to it?" Cat answered.
"No!" Sikowitz replied, causing Cat to squeal in disappointment.
"I was just kidding. That is the right answer." Sikowitz chuckled to himself, and proceeded to attach the string to the magazine cut-out.
Jade groaned.
[tori's house]
"Where's Andre?!" Tori screamed in frustration. It was 5.30, the cocoa was getting cold and Andre was half an hour late.
"Chill, sis." Trina mumbled as she walked down the stairs. "Someone blew you off, get used to it."
"Andre is not the type to blow someone off!" Tori replied, finishing the remains of her cocoa in a singe gulp. "And he's usually early!"
Trina shrugged. "Hey, can I have his cocoa?"
"No!" Tori yelled. "I need it!" She snatched up the other mug of cocoa and drank it all down, trying to calm herself down.
Trina groaned. "I'm going up. Even staying in my room is better than facing Torizilla." She stomped up the stairs.
"Torizilla!?" Tori was offended. "I am not hairy and big!"
"Yes you are!" Trina's voice floated down form upstairs.
Tori rolled her eyes and took out her phone, calling Andre for the thirtieth time. He didn't pick up. She was desperate. Jade. Could Jade play the guitar? No, she couldn't. Only the piano. And then she remembered it. Beck had played a little song for her on the guitar before.
She smiled and dialed Beck's number instead.
[park]
"Hey Andre!" Cat giggled. "Push me! I can't push myself!" She was sitting on the swing set, waving to Andre.
Andre laughed, jogged up to her and pushed her. She squealed in excitement as the swing rose higher.
"I tried calling you! You didn't answer!" Cat yelled from up there.
"My grandma accidentally broke my phone, so I don't have one right now," Andre explained. "Sorry!"
"Caaaat!" Robbie yelled as he jogged towards the park. "Sorry I'm late! I had to give Rex ten different reasons why he couldn't come along to the park!"
Cat looked down and waved at Robbie. "Heyy Robbie!" Her butt slid halfway out of the seat.
"Cat watch out!" Andre cried. Cat turned to look at him. "Huh?"
Then she fell out of the swing set with a thud.
"Cat!" Robbie ran towards her. "Cat, are you alright?"
"Luckily the swing wasn't at a very high height when she fell," Andre sighed. "Hey Cat, can you hear me?"
"I don't wanna play swings anymore…" Cat mumbled. Robbie supported her back as she got up.
"Wanna play Queens instead?" Robbie asked gently. Cat nodded.
"What's Queens?" Andre asked, curious.
Robbie grimaced. "It's Cat's favorite game. She pretends to be a queen and we run about doing whatever she wants us to do."
Cat giggled.
[tori's house]
The doorbell rang.
Tori ran to get the door. Beck was standing outside.
"Hey!" She grinned and invited him inside. "By the way, does Jade know you're here?"
Beck stepped inside. "Nope, but it's okay because she has something on this evening anyway."
Tori shrugged. "You want some cocoa?"
"Yeah, thanks." Beck smiled and unzipped his guitar case. He took out the guitar and strummed it a little. ( I imagine Beck to have a guitar like this . ; and that Jade gave it to him for his birthday.)
Soon, Tori returned with a steaming cup of cocoa. "Okay, what's first?"
Beck showed her the notes of the different strings. Soon, he had taught her the different notes and chords.
"Stupid C…" Tori muttered, as she tried repeatedly to strum the C note. She couldn't fit all four fingers into position.
Beck laughed. He repositioned her fingers. This time, when she strummed the C note, it was perfect.
Tori grinned. "Thanks."
[park]
"Now, Andre will hug and hold onto me!" Cat giggled. Andre sighed exasperatedly and hugged Cat. She was standing on top of the slide, commanding Andre and Robbie around.
"Robbie, you try to get Andre off. Andre, you keep holding on to me." Cat instructed. Robbie rolled his eyes and tried halfheartedly to pull Andre off Cat.
Andre, sensing Robbie couldn't pull him off Cat even if he really tried, took pity on Robbie and let go. He fell to the ground.
"And now, Robbie picks Andre up!" Cat announced, giggling. She attempted to skip off to another part of the park but tripped over Robbie and fell on top of Andre in a rather awkward (and sexual) position.
[tori's house]
"I said, her love is my religion…" (If anyone's interested, the song is "Her Love is my Religion" by The Cab!)
"Sorry!" Beck dug into his pocket and took out his phone. "That's my ringtone."
"Who is it?" Tori asked, momentarily stopping her guitar playing.
Beck paled. "Jade. I've gotta take it."
"Good luck!" Tori placed the guitar quietly on the sofa. "I'll go get a drink and pretend I'm not here."
Beck finally answered his phone once Tori had walked off to the kitchen. "Hey babe!" He greeted, trying to sound as if everything was normal.
"Where are you?!" Jade screeched. "You're not in your RV, and your parents don't know where you are! Or they just don't want to tell me!"
"I'm out doing some errands," Beck replied. "I thought you were watching a movie with Cat?"
"That's next week," Jade snapped. "I told you we had rescheduled it yesterday."
"Oh." Beck froze momentarily. He had completely forgotten about that.
"And," Jade continued, "You said we could go out today around 6.30. And it's 6.45 now."
"I'm sorry, babe, but this thing suddenly cropped up and-"
"So I'm not important anymore?" Jade asked icily.
"No, you are! It's just that-"
He was interrupted the sound of glass shattering on the floor. "Sorry!" Tori yelled instinctively, before slapping a hand over her mouth in horror.
"Tori?!" Jade's temper rose again. "You're with Tori?! You lied?!"
"It's not what it sounds like!" Beck protested.
"I'm coming over," Jade spat into the phone. "You better not go anywhere."
"But Jade-" Beck sighed and put his phone down. "She hung up."
"I'm so sorry," Tori sat down next to him. "It's entirely my fault."
"No, I lied to Jade. I should never have done that. I'm not supposed to have secrets." Beck ran a hand through his hair in frustration.
"Hey, I'm sure she'll forgive you after she's cooled down." Tori tried to reassure Beck. He sighed.
"She's my world. I can't lose her again."
[park]
"Sorry!" Andre apologized immediately, getting on his feet and pulling Cat up. "I guess my legs were in the way."
"Andre Harris!" A shrill scream came form behind him. He whipped around, to see Jess standing there, eyes narrowed, hands on her hips.
"Just what were you doing with that red haired girl?!" She yelled as Andre jogged towards her.
"Listen Jess, it's not what it looks like!" Andre protested.
"And why haven't you been answering your phone!?" Jess steamrollered on, ignoring Andre.
"His grandma broke it!" Cat explained, looking on with widened eyes.
"Shut it!" Jess spat at Cat, visibly trying to calm down. "Look Andre. You're great. But I cant be with you if I cant trust you and if you're lying to me. I'm sorry." She strided away confidently, not looking back once.
"Andre, you okay?" Robbie asked.
"Yeah." Andre shrugged. "I told you, I only really asked her out because I heard she was a good kisser."
"Tag! You're it!" Cat tapped Robbie on the shoulder and ran away, changing the topic.
And the day progressed with the three of them just playing in the park like little kids.
[tori's house]
The doorbell rung. "Open the door!" Jade's screech could be heard from a mile away.
Tori got up to get it, but before she got there, Jade had kicked the door open. "So. You blew me off to get intimate with Tori." Tori's eyes widened at the accusation and she retreated back to the sofa.
Beck stood up. "Jade, listen. Tori needed to learn guitar and Andre wasn't available, so-"
"Is that the guitar I gave you?" Jade interrupted, looking at the guitar on the couch next to Tori. "For your birthday?"
"Yes, but only because I didn't have another one." Beck explained. "Jade, I-"
"You what?!" Jade yelled. "You want to break up with me so you can go for Tori? Why didn't you just say so!"
Beck's eyes widened in horror. "No! It's not that at all! I just thought if I taught Tori how to play the guitar she could join the class in time!"
"It's true," Tori added. "Nothing happened between us."
"You shut up!" Jade glared at Tori. "You know what I've noticed? You're always with Tori. It's always about Tori. Nobody cares about Jade anymore! I can't trust anyone anymore!"
"Jade, you know I care-" Beck tried to convince her but Jade pushed him away.
"No you don't! If you actually cared you would have told me you were going to teach Tori, instead of just sneaking out and blowing me off!" Jade turned her glare to Tori.
"Tori took everything from me. I can't even get speaking roles in plays anymore, because Sikowitz likes her better. I thought at least you would stay with me." Jade shifted her gaze back to Beck. "I guess I was wrong."
"And if I can't trust you," She paused to reach around her neck and unclasp a necklace. She tossed it to Beck. "Then we're over," she snapped, before turning around and leaving the house, without looking back once.
"Jade! Please!" Beck yelled, running after her.
"No!"
"Jade!"
"No!"
[hallway]
It was they day after the big Bade breakup (and the less known Andre-Jess one as well). The whole school was abuzz with the news.
"Hey Jade!" Tori called, when she spotted the black-haired girl walk past.
"What?" Jade turned back and faced Tori. "Here to show off the necklace Beck gave you?"
"No, he never gave me a necklace." Tori paused. "Are you talking about the one you threw at him yesterday?"
"Yeah, he got that for me when we started going steady. We had matching ones." Jade explained. "Anyway, what is it?"
"I just wanted to say, Beck really loves you, you know. Absolutely nothing happened between us yesterday."
Jade groaned. "Look, before I slam your head into that locker, is that all you wanted to talk about?"
"Well, yeah, but-"
Jade rolled her eyes. "I am not talking about that, okay? All you need to know is that Beck and I are over and that if you take him now I couldn't care less." She then marched away, without giving Tori a chance to reply.
To be continued
Hey guys! I didn't quite post this when I was supposed to ( I always seem to be late) so I'm sorry for that D: Anyway please review (honestly they really keep me going)! :D
-Jess (: