After One Year and Eleven Months.

Jade's alarm clock started to blare directly in her ear that annoying Monday morning. Her head was pounding with every irritating buzz that came out of the clock. She didn't bother to pick her head up from the comfort of the pillow, instead she just reached out her hand and searched for it.

The bed beside her let go of some pressure as she found the stupid clock.

"Jade. Wake up," someone said. If Jade didn't know better, she could have sworn the human form of sunshine was right next to her. "It's Monday, and it's time to get up and greet the day!"

"Cat... shut up," Jade muttered, leaving her eyes closed and her head buried against her pillow.

The girl sighed. Getting Jade up in the morning was one of the most difficult tasks Cat had ever faced. She didn't function very well in the morning, especially when the two of them had stayed up until three in the morning, searching every store that was still open for the right color, and dying Jade's streaks a shade of teal and a shade of green.

She looked at the clock again. The red numbers glowed six thirty. They only had forty minutes to be on the road, and it took both of them at least twenty to get ready.

There was only one thing Cat could think of to do that's worked in the past. She got out of the bed and pulled open the dark purple drapes that hung over the closest window to Jade's bed. She reacted just as Cat expected, she pulled up the covers so that her head was covered with her black pillow top comforter.

Cat decided to take another step after she ripped the covers off the bed entirely, she also took the pillow away from her head, giving her no option but to suffer with the sun, "Catttttt. I hate you."

"What's that supposed to mean!" Cat said, honestly concerned.

"I'm joking. I want sleep," Jade said as she curled up into a ball on her bed.

"Well, you can't have sleep. You need school. And according to your calendar, it's your one year and eleven month with Beck," Cat mocked. The day was covered in hearts and stars, along with 'Beck and I one and eleven!'

Jade smiled and finally got up, even though her face still showed off how tired she was.

"I had a feeling that would get you up. Can I shower?" Cat asked, pointing to the bathroom door.

She nodded a yes as she threw her legs over the side and landed on the floor. A yawn came out of her mouth when she stretched, and she couldn't fight it back. She walked to her dresser and opened three different drawers before she stripped off her short shorts, and replaced them with ripped up skinny jeans. She also pulled out a gray short dress that fluffed out around her hips, and made her boobs look great because of the extra support.

Jade knew she had to look amazing today, just to tease Beck until their night together. She also had to adjust the necklace that Beck had given her on their first anniversary, to match his own. She never took it off. It was black, with a silver ring, so it always matched everything she had.

She heard the water in the bathroom turn off. Cat emerged dressed in her outfit for school. Short shorts, sandals, and a yellow v-neck. It was a classic look for the girl.

It was weird how the two of them had become the best of friends. Jade was dark, blunt, and if you didn't understand her personality, she was mean. Cat was the sweetest girl in the world, but not the brightest. They clashed on different things, but they still understood each other. They had the weirdest inside jokes, and had the greatest times together, even when Jade was a little too blunt and Cat was a little too dense.

The clock read seven ten after they both had their make up done the way they wanted, Cat with barely any, and Jade with a glob on each eye. Each of them grabbed their backpacks and headed down stairs.

As she had expected, Jade's mom was in the kitchen, fixing the girls up a to go breakfast like she did every time Cat spent the night. Her mom wasn't one for getting up early, but every now and then she would surprise Jade by getting up and making a small breakfast, or preparing a toasted bagel with cream cheese for each of them. Today was one of those days.

"Morning, girls," she said as she tried to show a cheerful smile. Jade inherited her morning attitude from her mother, obviously. She was still in her fluffy red robe, clutching her coffee in her hand like it was life support and hardly opening her eyes. When she would blink, her eyes would stay closed for as long as possible before shooting open, making sure the woman stayed awake.

"Morning, Mrs. West," Cat said with a smile. She gratefully took the bagel in a napkin, and grabbed a juice box from the fridge.

Jade mumbled a "hi, mommy" before making her way over to the coffee pot. She grabbed a paper cup off the counter and started pouring the vanilla scented coffee in. Her father had a bunch of coffee to go cups from Morning Star that he would bring home, knowing his family couldn't function in the morning with out their coffee. Jade had to bring it in her car, and he didn't want to pay to reupholster her car if she spilled it.

They didn't say much else after Jade grabbed her bagel. The girls took a few bites before wishing a good day to Jade's mother before they were headed out the door. Jade said goodbye to a sad Molly while fishing through the dish on the door-side table for her set of keys.

The only thing that made them stand out above all of the other metal colored keys was her charms. A climbers clip held together her house key, car key, and the garage clicker, not to mention the head of Jack Skellington that hung off a chain, a beaded string that spelt out Jade, and a ring that Beck had given her after their one year to be a promise ring.

It always made her smile to think about that ring. A promise to be faithful, loving, and more than anything else, a promise to put up with everything she ever threw at him, and likewise. It made her feel like she was needed, and actually had a chance of a future with someone she cared for.

She patted Molly on the head before following Cat out into the driveway. She opened the doors on her black Mazda, letting Cat get inside while she got in her own side. Backing out of the driveway, the first thing that came on the radio was one of their favorites, Teenage Dream.

Cat turned up the volume to a higher volume and started to sing, "Let's go all the way tonight, no regrets, just love. We can dance, and we'll be young forever."

They started to sing together, "You make me, feel like I'm living a teenage dream, the way you turn me on. I can't sleep, just run away and don't ever look back don't ever look back. My heart stops, when you look at me just one touch and baby I believe, this is real, just run away and don't ever look back don't ever look back.

"I'll keep your heart racing in my skin tight jeans and be your teenage dream tonight. You can put your hands on me in my skin tight jeans, I'll be your teenage dream tonight," They yelled over the music, cracking up as Jade pulled into the parking lot of Hollywood Arts...

Cat didn't have a choice of walking with Jade to meet their friends or not. She had to go see the guidance counselor about an incident with an animal in her locker, along with three pounds of seaweed. To this day, it still amazed Jade how Cat could wind up in these odd situations. It never let her life be anything normal, and she actually liked it.

Jade was walking quietly down the hallway, ignoring the jealous glares of girls who wanted nothing but to be her, and the longing glares of guys who wanted nothing more than to have her, when someone came up behind her and clasped their hands over her eyes. She stopped walking, "Are we really going to do this?"

"Why not?" the person said with a thick accent, but one that was obviously fake.

Jade smirked and pushed her back against the person's chest. She couldn't feel boobs against her shoulders, and the person was taller than her, so it had to be a man. She had a feeling about who it was already. She reached her hands back to the person's waist. Her hands traveled up his side, and to the rib cage, then she pushed her nails against his side and pulled her hands down.

The man's breathing went ragged and he pressed his mouth to her ear, blowing a little before he bit down gently on her lobe. She got a shiver sent down her body, raising the hair on her arm. Jade turned around in the guys hands and landed a kiss with the mysterious man. She could feel his mouth forming into a smile as the kiss ended.

"You're getting too good at that game," Beck told her as he pressed his forehead against hers, staring into her eyes with a loving gaze. She kissed him again before he decided they needed to walk. She stumbled a little before she got the hang of it. He pushed her backwards, guiding her by the hips, attempting not to crush her feet under his own.

"I'm sorry that I'm good at everything," Jade said with a laugh while her arms snaked around his neck. Her body was on fire. Just the touch of her boyfriend could ignite every sense in her body. That was something only he had ever accomplished that no one else could, and it made Jade think that Beck could be the one.

"You shouldn't be good at turning on guys when you don't even know who they are," Beck said with a warning tone. She could see a small smile looming over his lips.

"Then I shouldn't be allowed to walk down the hallway. Every guys here gets turned on when they see me," she said, letting her ego come out with full shine. It was the truth. There were guys staring at them, but not just of the male persuasion. There were plenty of girls staring at Beck, but they knew better than to get caught. Jade was known for ruining reputations in a heartbeat, and sometimes even throwing punches. Her old habits of always getting in trouble still seemed to follow her everywhere.

She felt the cool metal of her locker pressing against her back. His coordination never ceased to impress her. He made it down two hallways with his focus just on her, with no accidents, thankfully. She pouted when he left her grasp and stood beside her, "Want me to get you some coffee?"

"Shit," she muttered, remembering she left her half empty coffee in her car. At least it would leave a nice smell, "I forgot mine in the car."

"Do you want me to get you a new one?" he asked. Something about his tone gave her a hint that she should say yes.

She looked at him suspiciously, "Sure... okay."

He gave her a sweet kiss on the cheek before he left down the hallway. He turned a corner when Andre walked up to her, "What's up, girl?"

"Beck's being suspicious. What's up with you?" Jade said, dropping her bag to the floor.

"Nothin'. I just fought off an entire crowd of transfers trying to get over here," Andre said as he massaged his shoulder, "I think I pulled somethin'."

Jade smiled at him and rolled her eyes before opening her locker. To her surprise, there was a stuffed Sally plushy doll, from The Nightmare Before Christmas, with a little note attached to her hand. Jade's heart melted as she read it, "You're the Sally to my Jack. And we'll have Halloween on Christmas, and in the night we'll wish it'll never end. Happy One Year and Eleven Months. Love, Beck."

She loved how he adjusted the lyrics to fit the first line.

"D'awwwww," Andre mocked as the bell rang. Jade took the doll out of her locker and hit Andre lightly with it. She grabbed her Gears of War bag and walked with him to class...

Beck was just getting the coffee into the building as the bell rang. It would have been a waste of time for him to walk all the way back to his locker to meet Jade when she was going to the same first period as he was, so he decided to go there first and wait.

Today, they had acting first period. With all of the new transfers flooding in from other schools for late acceptance, Hollywood Arts wanted to show off their art programs for the students. They would follow their schedules, and decided later if they wanted to stay at the school, or if they wanted to go back. Most of them decided to stay in the end anyway.

Beck's phone went off as he got into the classroom, with Robbie right behind him. They would have walked in having a conversation if Robbie and Rex didn't start arguing about if Whitey Tighties were manly or not.

'What took you so long?' Jade's message said. He was in the middle of replying when a girl decided Beck's shirt looked tired, and needed some coffee to wake it up. The coffee spilled all over his new shirt, blending the brown liquid with the pink fabric.

"Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry," the girl said in a panic.

Transfer student, Beck thought, "It's cool. It happens."

"No, here, let me help," the embarrassed girl insisted before she started to use her sleeve to try and dry up the stain. He felt the heat seeping into his skin, and luckily he had a little bit of a walk to get to the classroom, and it wasn't as scolding as it could have been. "I think it's coming out."

"Actually, I think you're making it worse. Sorry," Beck said with a laugh, and looked at her for the first time. The girl looked up at him at the same time, and their eyes met. She was already hooked on his light brown eyes. He, on the other hand, thought she was pretty, but in the back of his mind all he could think about was how she wasn't Jade.

"Dude," a girl said in a warning tone coming into the classroom, "Why're you rubbing on my boyfriend?"

"Oh! I just spilled coffee on him, and it was an-"

"Get away from him," Jade said with Andre coming into the room after her. He knew would could result from this, so he quietly moved to a safer part of the room and sat in a seat in the second row.

"Relax, Jade," Beck said like it wasn't a big deal. He walked up to her and landed a kiss on her cheek. Just like Andre, Beck knew exactly how his girlfriend could get. It really did bother him at times. The way she would try to dictate everything he did, how she had to know where he was and who he was with. He didn't mind at first, but lately, it was almost too much.

The back door to the room opened, and their teacher, Mr. Sikowitz, burst through the door in a panic, "Oh my god, there's a huge fire coming this way!"

The room erupted into a load of screams and frantic rushing to get to the door.

"Kidding, kidding, kidding," he laughed, "just wanted to get your blood pumping... which I did. Ha! Alright now, lets get started. Rumps in chairs."

"This is our teacher...?" Jade heard the new girl question to Andre. Jade already didn't like the vibes she was getting from the new girl. Something about her just wasn't right, and it was starting to piss Jade off even more.

"First off, I'd like to introduce you all to our new transfer student, Tori Vega, and why we only have one of them, I'm quite surprised," he mumbled the last part to himself, "and I would also like to thank her for her generous donation of two dollars, which wasn't necessary, but greatly appreciated."

"You gave him money?" Andre asked.

"I thought he was a bum!"

"Now today, we are going to continue our study of group improv. Now Tori, I'm sure you're familiar with improv."

"Um... Well, yes and no..."

"What does that mean?"

"No..." she mumbled. This made Jade laugh to herself, then received a pinch from Beck, who was sitting next to her, laying his arm around her shoulders.

"Crash course. Improv, acting without a script, which means the actors must make up their own stage directions, and dialog, and plot, as they preform the scene. Got it? Good! Jade, you will captain the first group of the day," he said, jumping off the stage.

Jade smirked. She strutted past Tori and onto the stage, hoping the girl could feel how intimidating she really was.

"I'm going to pick Cat, Eli, Beck and Tori," Jade said with an evil smirk playing on her lips.

Tori looked up with slight horror. Andre gave her a push in the right direction, and a look that said 'go on, you'll be fine.'

"Alright, lets start. Give them a place," Sikowitz said.

Robbie shouted, "home!"

"Home! Okay. You're at home, and the situation will be big news."

"Why don't you go wait out in the hall?" Jade said with a mock friendliness towards Tori. She muttered a 'sure' before leaving the room as the scene started.

"Hey babe, how was work today?" she said with a cheerful tone.

"Um... I got fired," Beck retorted. Jade sighed and her "children" stood up.

"Again?" Eli said in a baby voice.

"Our daddy's a loser," Cat said, copying the way Eli said his line.

"That's okay," Jade said, walking over to the door Tori stood at, "I've got great news for this whole family. I went to the animal shelter and got us a dog!"

"Yep... I'm the new family dog. Woof," she sounded disappointed. Beck rolled his eyes. Jade would do something like this.

"Sikowitz, please tell this amateur that dogs don't talk, and they don't stand on two legs. SIKOWITZ." Jade ordered.

"Sorry, I was sucking the milk out of this coconut, but Jade's right. If you're going to play a dog, be a dog," he said simply.

Tori glared at Jade, but slowly sank down to her knees, "Woof!"

"Action!" the teacher ordered.

"Oh wow!" Cat and Eli said together, bending down to pet Tori on the head.

Beck thought this was the perfect time to mess with his girlfriend, "Can the dog sleep in our room?"

She fired a warning through her eyes, "No, honey, it can't... Oh no, it looks like this dog has bugs in her fur."

"Ew!" the 'kids' screamed and backed away.

"It's alright kids. I read on the internet that coffee," she stepped off stage and grabbed the ice coffee out of some kids hand and returned to the stage, "is the best way to kill off bugs in fur."

"Um, maybe you shouldn't..." Beck tried to get to the coffee before Jade could fill out the scene the way she planned.

"Jade," Andre said in a desperate attempt to stop her. It was too late. She already took the top off, and was now starting to pour the cold coffee onto Tori's head, letting the last few ice cubes land in her hair.

She slowly stood back up to her feet, completely speechless.

"What's the problem, dog?" Jade said. She was a force to be reckoned with, and she wanted for Tori to know full well what she was capable of.

Tori couldn't say anything. All she could do was hide her face and leave the room. Andre felt terrible about what one of his best friends just did to this poor girl. This was taking it a step too far when the girl didn't do anything but accidentally spill coffee on Beck, and was just trying to help.

"That was so not cool, Jade." Andre stated, following behind Tori.

Jade held her ground, her face never faltering from the "fuck with it" look she mastered so well, crossing her arms across her chest.

"Jade... what the fuck?" Beck said as Sikowitz sent Robbie and Rex out to look for the missing Andre and Tori.

"So, you're taking her side?" Jade said, throwing her arms down in frustration and disbelief. "Are you serious?"

"What sides? You just poured coffee on a girl who was already terrified about moving to a new school where she doesn't know anyone, and embarrassed her in front of a class she's going to be around for the rest of the school year. She spilled your drink on me, and was trying to help me get the stains out of my shirt, and you end up ruining her self esteem. How could you do that?" Beck yelled at her.

Jade wasn't used to Beck raising his voice at her. It not only made her upset, now it made her nervous. He was standing up for a girl he had known for fifteen minutes against the girlfriend who he has had for almost two years. All he was doing was building her insecurities up higher and higher.

She walked off stage, not letting anyone see her attitude fall apart. She grabbed her backpack as she walked through the isle of chairs, ignoring Beck's voice, and Sikowitz's order to stay in the classroom.

She didn't give a fuck. She had to get out of this classroom. She had to get out of this school...

Jade walked down the stairs and turned to the left, heading to her locker when something caught her ear. A giggle, and the sound of a spray paint bottle being shaken. Her curiosity got the best of her.

Her locker was now being ignored as she turned the corner. To her surprise, a blonde girl was holding a box of spray paint, and a tall boy with shaggy brown hair was shaking a bottle. Their lockers were in front of them, so it wasn't an attempt at vandalism. What surprised her the most was who the people were.

She couldn't help herself from keeping her distance. She walked right up to the girl, causing her attention to switch to Jade. The blonde girl dropped her box onto the floor in shock.

"What the fuck is wrong with you, Lilz?" the man said, looking at her with a confused expression. He followed her gaze and landed eyes on an old friend, "Jade...?"

AN: SORRY! I know that was a long one. I apologize. I just had a bunch of things I wanted to get into this chapter, and really didn't notice what the length was until I started working the Pilot Episode into here. Oh well. I hope you enjoyed it, at least.

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