Jade was sitting in her living room, watching TV and enjoying being at home for a few more days. It was around 6 pm when all of the sudden someone knocked on the door. She got up and opened it, surprised to see Beck standing there.
"Hey, why didn't you tell me you were going to come over?" she asked him before giving him a quick kiss.
"No time to explain. Get in the car." he told her, dragging her out.
"What? What's…"
"I can't explain. Get in the car, please." He told her. She complied, but still didn't understand the situation.
"Why? Where are we going?" she said as she locked her door and got inside his car, he quickly following.
"Now it wouldn't be a surprise if I told you, would it?" he said with a grind and handed her a piece of cloth. "Put that on your eyes."
"A blindfold? Come on, that's too much."
"Please?" he begged, putting on a puppy face.
"Oh god, okay!" she finally gave in, wrapping the cloth around her head so that she couldn't see anything. "I swear, Cat is already enough with those puppy faces, don't start yourself."
"I'm sorry, but I really want for this to work, so please, don't peek." He told her as he started the engine and drove off.
Jade was sitting in the car, having absolutely no idea where Beck was taking her. After what seemed twenty minutes to her, he parked the car and turned the engine off.
"Don't look yet." He told her as he got out of the car and walked over to the passenger door. He opened the door and led her outside.
"You could have at least told me when you would come so I could have dressed up." Jade said.
"That's not important. You are beautiful no matter what you wear." He told her, making her blush. He really knew how to make a girl feel good.
"Here we are. You can look now." He told her as he took a step aside. She took of the blindfold and opened her eyes. She stood in awe as she found herself on a hill, a table for two set on one side with a blanked placed on the ground a few feet away. The view from the hill was amazing, the clear night sky working perfectly with the view over Hollywood. She turned around, her mouth open and her eyes wide, to look at her boyfriend. He was amused by her reaction, happy that he did surprise her.
"Beck, this is…"
"The most beautiful place in the world found by the most amazing boyfriend in the world?" Beck finished with a grin. She ran over to him and answered him with a passionate kiss. After a few minutes, they took a seat at the table Beck had set up. He lit the candles and took out the food he prepared.
"How long have you been planning this?" Jade asked him as he was getting the drinks out of the cooler.
"To be honest, I had planned all this two weeks before Tori dragged you to my place that day." He admitted.
"Before we got together again?" Jade asked as he sat down.
"Mhm. To be honest, I had made a thousand plans about what I would do once we got back together, but I had never found a good way of asking you to come back to me. Thank god it turned out the way it did."
"This is amazing." She said as she took another look at the view from the hill. "How did you find this place?"
"During those six months I had a lot of thinking to do. So whenever I couldn't sleep and needed to think, I got into my car and drove around. One night, I found this place. The first thing that came to my mind then was "Jade would love it here". And I was right about that."
He said with a smile. She smiled back at him, shaking her head at his actions. He was a hopeless romantic when he wanted to be.
"Do you actually know what got Tori to dragging me to your RV that day and giving us the pep talk?" Jade asked him.
"Nope. And it wasn't a pep talk. She basically told us that we were childish idiots who need to get our heads out of our asses." He said as he emphasized Tori's actual words. "You told me you didn't remember anything but waking up at her place."
"Well, she told me yesterday what actually happened the night before."
"Oh. So? What happened?"
"Well, I saw you talking to another girl that day. And it wasn't really talking. She was all over you."
"Oh. You mean Vanessa." He sighed. He didn't know Jade saw them. "Look, I didn't even want to talk to her. But she kept trying. She is worse than Trina in that aspect." He explained.
"I figured that out the moment I saw it. But still, I got angry. And you know as well as I do that anger is nothing more but a cheap substitute to sadness. And I got very angry that day. So as my father wasn't home again and that bitch he called girlfriend went with him, I took some booze out of his stash. A bottle and half of vodka later, I came over to Tori's place, completely wasted. Then I poured my heart out to her. About you; about everything. She said it was the first real conversation we had until then. So after I fell asleep at her place, you know what happened."
"I'm sorry I pissed you off to the point that you drank because of that." He apologized, his usual confidence replaced with guilt. Jade got up from her chair and walked over to him, sitting down in his lap.
"I'm not. If it hadn't happened, who knows when we would have ended back together." She said before giving him a kiss. They got up and moved over to the blanked stretched on the ground. They lied down as Jade rested her head on his chest, his arms around her.
"I won't make that mistake again." He said, breaking the silence. She looked up at him, confused.
"What mistake?"
"The one I did that day at Tori's place. I won't give up on us ever again. That was the biggest mistake of my life." He explained, pulling her closer as if he wanted to prevent her from ever leaving again. As if he wanted to prevent himself from ever letting her go.
"I do understand why you did it. I was impossible. My behavior almost drove all the people I care about away from me. I already told Tori and I already told Cat. I want to change the way I treat others."
"Nobody wants you to change. Just be the Jade I always knew. The one I fell in love with so many years ago. The strong yet caring one."
"I have many wrongs to right." She said in a sad tone.
"Not with me. To me, you have always been the best. I don't regret a minute of the time we spent together. I would do it all again in a heartbeat." He said before he felt something wet on his chest. He lowered his look to see Jade crying. "Hey, why are you crying?"
"You are such a hopeless romantic." She smiled trough her tears. "I'm crying because I'm happy. Life has become so… good for me. I've got you. I've got my job. I've got Tori. Andre. Robbie. And I got Cat back. I couldn't be happier."
"Hey, how did Cat end up at your place?" he finally asked what he had been wondering about since he got her text last night.
"After I got Vega home, I drove back to my place. While I was lying in my bed simply thinking about my conversation with Tori, I got a text from her. It simply said "I can't sleep. I miss you", so I invited her over. We talked and everything is fine now. I promised her and Tori that day that I would change my behavior and show them how much I actually appreciate them and what they have done for me."
"That's great. I'm glad you made that decision."
"So am I. I've got a few more days left before I go back. Is there something you want us to do?" She asked him.
"Just stay with me." He told her, surprising her that he didn't make any sexual anecdote this time. "I know you are going away for another few months, but when you come back, I'll make every day special. I promise you that." He told her before kissing her again. She enjoyed the perfect moment, wishing time would freeze. She wanted this to last forever. She wished she didn't have to go back. She wished she didn't have to leave them again. But she knew that when all the work is done and she comes back to Hollywood again, people that love her will be waiting for her.
