A/N: I am so so so sorry for keeping hanging for so long. Life has been so chaotic. I got the assistant position at my job so I work alooot of hours now. But enough of my excuses here is the long awaited chapter 12.

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I Don't Believe Them

Beck and Andre stood by their lockers waiting for Jade and Tori. They were determined to find out what was going on with them. Beck was trying to think of reasons for the girls acting different. He thought Tori could be PMSing. He knew when its Jade's time of the month she's unbearable. Usually that whole week he would spend it with Andre, Robbie or his dad. That would explain Tori but that wouldn't explain Jade. He couldn't think of any reason she would be acting so freaking nice. Maybe she was abducted and replaced by an alien? He shook his head at the ridiculous thought. But there was so much more than them being nice or mean. Tori has been doing horrible in play practice, her singing was even worse, and the kiss...he didn't even want to think of that disaster. Jade had been putting herself down, she's never really done that. But the biggest thing that confused him was the kiss they shared during practice. For one it was random, she just walked up to him and did it. And he still didn't know why she did it. Second, it didn't feel like Jade, everything about the kiss was different, the tongue movement, the lip movement, and the over all general feel of it.

Beck was knocked out of his thoughts by Andre tapping him on the shoulder. "Hey man, Tori and Jade just walked in." They walked up to the girls ready to demand some answers.

"Hey guys." Tori said while smiling and waving.

"Hey we need to talk to you two.

" Andre said.

Jade glared at him. "What do you want?"

Andre took a step back. "Um...Beck you want to handle this?"

Jade turned her attention to Beck, glaring at him but he wasn't fazed by it, he was never fazed by it. "What's going on with you guys? You've been acting different."

"How are we acting different?" Tori asked trying to extend his part of the conversation so she could think of a lie.

"Well Tori, you have been a real bitch the past few days and you're clothes were all depressing." Andre said.

"So you're saying that she was acting like me them?" Jade said in a threatening tone. She wasn't actually mad, she was just having some fun with this.

"No..um..I-I n-never said that."

Beck rolled his eyes. "What about you Jade? You've been super sweet and you were wearing colorful clothes. I mean for crying out load Jade you wore a pink sun dress yesterday. So what's going on?"

Tori really hoped Jade thought of a lie to tell them because she couldn't think of anything to tell them.

Jade rolled her eyes and groaned. "It was an acting exercise."

"What?" Andre said joining the conversation again.

"It. Was. An. Acting. Exercise."Jade said slowly. "Tori and I decided to challenge each other. I had to act like her and she had to act like me."

"Ok but what about the insults? You guys were putting yourselves down?" Beck asked not really buying it. He could always tell when Jade was lying.

"I got bored acting like Vega and decided to have a little fun with it. Now if you're done wasting my time, I need to go to my locker." Jade promptly turned around and walked to her locker.

Tori quickly followed Jade. "How do you do that?"

"Do what?"

"Lie so good. How did you even think of that?"

"I don't know. I'm just that good."

"It was brilliant."

"I know I am." Jade smirked at Tori and they walked off to class.

Andre had already went to class but Beck stayed behind. He stood by his locker watching Jade. He still didn't believe her. He didn't know why she was acting like that yesterday but he was going to find out the truth. He just needed to talk to her alone.

All throughout Sikowitz's class Beck just sat back and observed Jade and Tori...mostly Jade though. Everything seemed normal, Tori was her normal pleasant self and Jade was her normal malice self, shooting off sarcastic remarks every chance she got. The bell rang and everyone gathered their stuff and left.

Beck stood at the doorway waiting for Tori as he usually does. They walked to class together making small chit chat. Once in class Beck decided to ease his way into a conversation with Tori about the 'acting challenge.' He wanted to be subtle about it. "Was that really an acting challenge you and Jade were doing?" Ok so being subtle wasn't his strong suit.

Tori's eyes got wide for only a second before she calmed herself down. She wasn't good at lying at all. "Um yeah why would we lie about something like that?" She laughed nervously.

Beck knew right away she was lying and the nervous laugh only confirmed it. That was one thing about Tori that everyone in their group knew, when she laughed nervously she was lying. "Who's idea was it?"

"...Jade's..." Tori sounded almost uncertain about it.

"Jade's? Doesn't really sound like something she would think of."

"What do you mean? How could that not sound like her, it was a challenge. Everyone knows Jade likes a challenge especially when she knows she will win."

"Yeah I get that but I don't see Jade willing to act like you. I mean she was in a pink sun dress, challenge or not I know Jade, she would never do that."

Damn he had a point, she didn't think this through all the way. Why did he have to know Jade so damn well? Tori was trying so hard to think of a lie to cover it up but she couldn't think of anything. Just then the teachers voice rang out through the classroom. Tori had never been happier to start an English lesson.

Beck unwilling turned around to face the front of the class. He knew something was going on between them. Question was what was it?