Chapter Two.
"What do you want?" She sighed as he closed the door behind him. His fingers combed through his hair and her knees instantly turned to jelly. Trying not to be obvious, she attempted to disguise it but he had noticed.
"What's wrong with you?" He questioned, staring into her eyes. Truth was, she couldn't really figure out what was wrong with her lately, all she knew was since Beck and Tori got to together, there had been an ever-present rope around her heart, knotting tighter with each day and the engagement made it a whole lot worse.
"I don't really know, I guess I'm..." She snapped her mouth shut. She promised herself that she would never say the J word, especially when it was about herself.
"Jealous?" Bingo. She nodded. He knew her too well. She twirled a solitary curl of her brown hair around her finger, she'd gotten her green highlights taken out for the week for an audition she was doing on Friday and she still wasn't used to it.
"Stop it, Jade. We broke up months ago."
"But it didn't take long for you to get over us did it?" He shrugged, not really caring and her heart twanged a little.
"No, but it doesn't mean I didn't still love you. I'm with Tori now and you've got to accept that. I want us to be friends. Please?"
"Ok." He held out his arms for a hug and she caved. Once his warm arms were around her she felt at home, it was the first time he'd hugged her since the breakup but she had to be strong. For Beck. He was happy and she should be happy for him. She just had to suck it up and try.
They were sat in the RV with all of their 'friends'. His arm wrapped around her waist, hers around his. They were watching a late night talk show. Boring to hell. There were three celebrities, desperate to make an impression, sat on a couch opposite the host. Two boys and one girl, all wearing pretty extravagant outfits, except for the girl who was just wearing denim jeans and a sparkly top. Beck was pretty silent, he hadn't said anything in a while, so she glanced at him and he was already staring at her.
"What?" She mumbled and his lips slowly pressed against hers. Only for a moment, a split second, but long enough to make smiles appear on both of their faces.
"Never leave me, Beck. Please." He nodded, his smile fading slightly as he noticed the pain on her face. He opened his mouth and leaned towards her ear, whispering.
"Never."
"I miss him, Cat." Jade said, fiddling with one of her cuddly toy's outfits, which she'd asked her to fix.
"Of course you do." She replied, glancing at the television, longingly.
"There's still no signal." She spoke. She thought back to when they were together, how she'd noticed all the little things changing, the way he spoke became slightly harsher day by day, the softness was disappearing gradually. The hugs became rare and the kisses even rarer. It came to the point when the barely even held each others hands or spoke and then came the argument.
"Why do you hate me?" She screamed as loud as her lungs would let her. She locked her eyes shut so now more salty drops would escape.
"I don't hate you, Jade."
"You never hug me, you never kiss me and nowadays we barely talk!" Her voice continued to crack and she paused to think about what she was doing. She was singlehandedly killing off everything that made her happy. She opened her eyes and looked directly into his, they were cold, completely dry, unlike hers. Was this the day it all finished? The last chapter in their book? Not if she could help it.
"Do you remember when we went to the beach? When we paddled in the sea and a crab caught onto your foot and we wanted to get you a plaster from the shack at the top but we ended up just getting ice creams and watching the Sun go down?" She watched the cogs in his brain search through their memories until he nodded moments later.
"Yeah. Course I do. When I pushed the ice cream in your face and you put yours on my head? It was the best day of my life."
"Why?"
"Because it was the day I found out just how much I loved you." Tears slid from her eyes and down her cheeks. Spontaneously, they crashed together, her head on his shoulder, his hands around her waist and once again she was happy.
"I know, urgh. I'm going to have to ring the TV company. I'll do it in a bit." She whined. "So what are you going to do about Beck?" She honestly didn't know how to reply. She wasn't intending to be ignorant, but it ended up looking that way. She didn't care anymore anyways.
"I don't know, man, I guess I miss her." Beck held his phone against his ear, pacing backwards and forwards.
"You can't miss her, Beck, you're engaged to Tori or have you been asleep through your whole relationship?" He didn't know what to do, he missed Jade, but she was just trying to mess with his head, wasn't she? He had to set a date for the wedding and quickly.
"I've got to go, Andre, I've got a date to set."
