Disclaimer: I STILL don't own anything Beck or Jade... :( I do own Angry Frogs, The Frontyardigans, Kassy, Gavin, Barb, Tim, Paige and Bentley though! Heehee... XD I own people...
Jade POV
I followed Beck, into the house and we both kicked our shoes off at the door. Yeah, funny thing about Canada people actually took their shoes off before going into somebody's house. I guess because it just gets the house all dirty to leave your shoes on and you have to vacuum or mop more. Lazy Canadians.
Beck went off to find out where Paige had run off too while I went to check out what food they had in this joint. I had barely gotten to the kitchen when I heard this god-awful screaming noise. What the hell? Was it like a TV or something, somewhere? Forgetting about the food, I went to investigate.
"Beck!" I called, out hoping he would know what the noise was or where it was coming from. He never yelled back though. He must be in the basement or he couldn't here me over the odd screaming noise.
I followed the noise out of the kitchen and down a short hallway stopping at the door which I assumed the noise was behind. I slowly opened the door and peeked in. K, now I felt stupid for not knowing what it was, but don't tell anyone that. There sitting in a big crib against a wall was a little baby bawling it's eyes out. Fantastic! Now I suppose it probably wanted something and since Beck was MIA I was the person that was to do whatever it took to get this child to shut up. Stepping up beside the thing I gingerly poked its stomach hoping to distract it so it would forget about whatever happened to have made it cry. No such luck. Then I remembered how on TV people usually picked up and/or cuddled a crying child. OK... So I'll try that!
I slid my hands underneath its back and lifted it to my shoulder. It was still wailing away so I started patting its back and whatnot.
"OK, listen here you little thing." I began. "I have no clue what you want and I have never had to do anything like this before so unless you want to have your entire little body wrapped in duct tape I suggest you stop making these noises immediately." It didn't! The nerve of this thing! I walked out the door and down the hall screaming for Beck, which of course just made the baby scream louder.
"BECK!" I yelled over and over. I was now in the living room. I was just about to throw the child at the floor when Beck came in behind me.
"Jade! Stop! What are you doing?" He asked, panicked, taking the devil child from me.
"It wouldn't be quiet. I was trying to make it quiet." I explained.
"By throwing it?"
"Hey, whatever works." I replied grinning. He started to bounce with the child in his arms and whisper to it. It slowly calmed down.
"And that's how it's done." He winked at me.
"Whatever. Where's the other one?" I asked. The only reason he could get the kid to shut up was because they're related. Yeah, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
"She's hiding under her bed. Why don't you go see if you can get her out." Beck said taking the baby with him to the kitchen. "I'll make us some grilled cheese sandwiches." He added.
"Fine. Where's her room?" I might as well. There's nothing better to do.
"Down that hall. Second door on the right. Be nice!"
"Whatever!" I called back walking towards the room. This brat had better not be as bad as her brother.
When I walked in I instantly smelled bubble gum and cupcakes. Ew. The room was covered floor to ceiling in pink. The carpet was light pink, the walls hot pink and the bed was light pink with hot pink floral designs and a pink canopy. The shelves that lined the walls were covered in stuffed animals and girly crap. Cat would've liked this room quite a bit.
I marched over to the bed and laid down on my stomach to get a better look at what I was dealing with. When I got down there, there were two very large blue eyes staring back at me.
"Hi." I said bluntly. She just scooted back closer to the wall.
"Look kid, I really didn't want to resort to this but since I'm tired and hungry, I don't really care." With that I stood up and took my little pair of scissors out of my pocket. Scanning the room I found what I was looking for. Sitting on the over-fluffed bed was a collection of barbie dolls. I grabbed one -some brunette bimbo that kinda reminded me of Tori- and sat on the floor on the opposite end of the room where she could see me.
"If you're not out by the time I count to three, you're gonna have one bald barbie doll." I threatened. I heard a small gasp come from the little snot monster. Perfect.
"1...2...You really want me to say 3...?" She ran out from under the bad and lunged for the doll. I let her have it but quickly went to block the bed so she wouldn't go under again.
"BECK!" She screamed running from the room. That went well. And I wasn't be sarcastic there.
"Beck!" I repeated in a high shrilly voice trying to imitate hers. Kid needs to grow up. I thought, dragging my feet as I followed her down the hall to the kitchen. When I got there, Beck was knelt down trying to figure out what was wrong with the sobbing toddler and also trying to balance the baby in one arm. I stood in the doorway and laughed at him. Which sounds like a really mean thing to do, but for some reason I found his situation really funny.
Upon hearing my laugh his head shot up to me and his eyes narrowed.
"What did you do to her?" I asked panicked.
"I got her out from under the bed." I answered simply. He just rolled his eyes at me.
"I'm not even gonna ask... Can you finish the grilled cheese and I'll figure out how to calm her down?" He asked taking both kids out to the living room.
"Fine." I sighed going over to flip them. The kitchen was really tiny. Like really tiny. When you walked in there was a fridge to your right and a counter with the microwave on it to your left. The stove was beside the fridge and the sink was straight ahead. There was hardly room for 3 people. I don't know how anybody could live like this. I guess it appeared bigger because there was a kind of open window/shelf thingy that over looked the dining room and living room. I looked out and could see Beck setting the baby down in an odd circle thing and then pulling the older one onto his lap on the rocking chair to watch the Frontyardigans. Looks like he was going to win the bet... Damn. Time to step up my game! I started making another sandwich for the child. I made sure it was perfect, then I scoured the cupboards for some cookies for the baby. After putting everything on plates and getting juice for the kids and coffee for Beck and I, I went into the living room.
"Here ya go." I said fake smiling at the baby while I placed a few animal crackers in front of it and a sippee cup.
"And for you..." I handed Beck and the girl their food and went over to sit on the couch. I should probably learn the children's names if I wanted to win.
I was just about to take a bite of my sandwich when I caught Beck giving me a confused look.
"What?" I asked slightly annoyed. I can't do anything nice?
"It's just that... Well you... Why?" He was stunned apparently.
"Why what?"
"I didn't even have to ask you to get food for the kids. You did something nice. Voluntarily."
"So?"
"Are you feeling OK?"
"I'm fine! Geez! I can't be polite? Am I not allowed to or something?" I shot him one of my death glares that always made him shut up.
"I was just wondering..." He mumbled turning back to the TV.
We watched The Frontyardigans for about half an hour in silence. Eventually the baby got bored and decided to get all fussy. Beck was just about to get up to sooth it when I quickly shot up remembering my goal.
"Sit down, babe. I got it." I picked up the whiny thing and tried to imitate the bouncy thing that Beck had done earlier. It calmed down pretty quickly so I went to go sit on the couch with him.
"What's their names again?" I asked Beck, nodding at the kids.
"Bentley and Paige." He answered hesitantly. Then his face lit up.
"I know what you're doing!" He exclaimed.
"Whatever are you talking about darling?" I asked faking innocence and confusion.
"You're trying to win the bet! Well forget it because I'm their cousin and they already like me better, so you don't stand a chance!"
"We'll see about that." I replied. "Hey, Paige! Want to play a game?" I asked exclaimed nicely. She looked terrified of my offer but subtly nodded her head. I got up and handed Bentley to Beck. Hey! The names both start with B! K, moving on... I grabbed Paige and sat her on the couch beside me and handed her my Pearphone.
"You just use your finger and click whatever you want to play!" This kid was incredibly lucky. She is the third person to ever touch my phone besides myself. First to ever touch it was the store clerk when I bought it. Then Beck. He's the only one ever allowed to use my phone.
I opened up Angry Frogs for her to play and showed her how to fling the awkward frogs at the even more awkward looking Koalas. She laughed whenever the animals exploded and I grinned smugly at Beck. I was so winning this.
"You know," Beck started. "You look really cute when you're dealing with children. You can act very motherly when you want to." He had the dorkiest smirk on his face.
"You tell anybody else that, and I'll kick you so hard you won't be able to produce children when I'm through with you." I threatened.
"Well, alrighty then! Mind if I change the channel?" He asked, quickly changing the subject. Good choice, Beckett.
"Go ahead. You really think I was watching that?" So he changed it to some race car show.
"No no no no no. No. Not that! Put on CSI or Bones!"
"We can't watch those shows! It'll give the kids nightmares!"
"I don't see your point."
"We can watch a nicer show. How about Drake & Josh?" He knows my weaknesses...
"Alright!" I answered trying not to seem to eager but coming off as incredibly eager. He laughed at me. Wonderful.
Between watching the show and keeping an eye on the little thing so she doesn't brake my phone the night went by pretty fast. Before we knew it there were footsteps and voices in the porch area. I turned to Beck knowing we'd have to leave soon.
"How do we decide who they like better?" I questioned.
"We can just ask Paige. Then we can set Bentley down in the middle of the room, go to opposite sides and see who he crawls to." He sounded pretty confident, but little did he know that I had this in the bag! (AN: idk if that's an actual expression, it just sounded right xD So im sorry if its not!)
"OK then." I smiled looked at Paige.
"Paige, sweetie, who do you like better? Me or your cousin?" I batted my eye lashes and tried my best not to look threatening. She looked back and forth at us both for a moment before turned back to the app and said "Jade!"
"Ha!" I beamed at Beck who was looking at her with a shocked expression on his face.
"But Paige!" He tried getting closer, which was a little difficult with the baby he was holding. "I'm Beck! Remember? Your favorite cousin in the whole wide world?" She just shook her head. Yes! One down, one to go...
Noticing the triumphant smile on my face Beck was quick to get to the next test.
"You still have to get Bentley to like you! Which, good luck, because I've been holding him all night! He obviously likes me better!"
"Getting nervous, Beck?" I said mischievously. "We could always call off the bet if your too chicken..." There was no way he -or I- was going to call off the bet.
"No!" He answered a little anxiously. "Let's just see who he likes better." He then got up and set the baby in the middle of the room on the floor and went to sit by the wall. I followed after getting my PearPhone back.
"Come here little man!" Beck cooed at the child. The baby looked pretty clueless. For a moment I thought it was just going to sit there and not move at all. I slipped an animal cracker out of my pocket and held it in the baby's direction.
"Come get the food little monster child." I cooed like Beck did. Bentley started moving in my direction.
"No! Bentley! Jade! You can't bribe a baby! That's against the rules!" Beck fumed.
"What rules?" I asked picking up the devil child. "We never made any rules."
"Well that rule was self explanatory!"
"I'm sorry I didn't play by your made up rules, Beck. Actually, you know what? No, I'm not! I win! HA!" I smiled at him, and he just looked down at me expressionlessly.
"Oh c'mon, you're not seriously going to be upset with me over this are you?" I pouted. I made my sad puppy dog face that I knew he couldn't resist. Sure enough he bent down and gave me a quick peck on the lips. He still looked upset but I knew it was only because he was sad he didn't win and would have to deal with the consequences.
Just then Beck's family walked into the living room.
"Daddy!" Paige shrieked running for whom I assumed was, Gavin, her father.
"How'd everything go?" Kassy asked taking Bentley from me.
"Pretty well." I answered. Beck was still in a snit.
"We should get going." Tim said.
"Yeah, you probably need to put these guys to bed." Barb continued. Beck and I started walking towards the front door. Kassy followed to see us off.
"Thanks so much for doing this, guys. I owe you." She gave Beck a hug then turned to me.
"Something tells me you're not really the hugging type..." She said turning to me.
"Nope." I answered truthfully, popping the p.
"Well then I'll just see you guys at the reunion Saturday. See-ya later!" She called out the door as we got in the car. Beck put his arm around me and I laid my head on his shoulder. The car ride was pretty quite and when we got back to Barb and Tim's place we decided to just go to sleep. It had been a long day. I'll make Beck deal with the consequences of losing the bet tomorrow. For now it was off to dream land. Beck kissed me goodnight at the foot of the stairs and we both went off to out respective sleeping quarters.
AN: Holy cow patties I almost just lost everything I just wrote... My computer spazzed! Anyone who follows me on twitter (xXtwitoriousXx) saw my freak out lolz. Anyways... IM SOOOOSOSOSOSOOO SORRY! I totally didn't mean to take that long to update! I tried to make this one a little longer to make up for it...
For the longest time I had up to the part where Jade goes to find Paige written and just couldn't find the will or time to finish after that! But work got called off today so I had a free day and was like "I NEED TO WRITE!" so I wrote :) I'm sosososooo sorry you all had to wait that long :( I'll give you a warning next time!
OK warning it may take a while for the next update... I think I know what the next chapter is going to be about I just need to find time to write it. You see I only have 2 days off in the next 2 weeks and I usually go do something where I'm not at home with my laptop. After work I'm just to tired to even bother :( I'm sorry :( I'll try as best as I can! And now... To reply to a lot of people!
Ace5492: thanks! :)
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Minditess: I actually had no idea who was going to win while writing this xD I think I WANTED Beck to win because like you said, it was unexpected but it just didn't turn out that way :P
MissyKitty23: A tie would've been interesting haha xP And you're comment made me giggle lolz
StrawberryAngel143: Thank you so much! I'm glad somebody reads my disclaimers xD and I'm glad you like it!
666LuzJayC: i'm sorry you had to wait so long for an update! D: But here it is :) And im also sorry there was no fight.. haha :P
missamerika91: No Problem! I really really wish I could've updated this one sooner though :( I'm glad you liked it xD It was fun to write xD I looked like a maniac giggling to myself while typing lol
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So there you go! And as I was reading through and answering comments I remembered that I actually wanted Beck to win just because everyone didn't think he would xD So... Yeah!
IK this authors note is almost just as long as the story but one more thing I swear! On August 14th which is this coming Sunday a bunch of us Gillians (Liz Gillies fans in case you dont know) are going to attempt to trend WeLoveLiz and LizGilliesSwag on twitter! So if you have twitter all you have to do it just write that in like one tweet at least and help spread the word! :D If you dont have twitter... (your missing out) ask friends to tweet it for you! Or get a twitter account! :D :D So once again just to sum it up we're trending WeLoveLiz and LizGilliesSwag on August 14th which is this coming Sunday! :D Thanks For reading ! BYEE! 3 3 3