I'ma really push the boat out and give you two chapters today, just to move things on that tiny bit faster. Trying to update atleast once a day. Lalalala review because I love your comments so far and they make me want to continue!

Beck's POV

I met Tori's boyfriend the other day. He was anything but perfect. He was ignorant and arrogant and cocky. He treated Tori horribly and made her do everything for him. She didn't jump when he asked, but then he'd shoot her a 'look' and so she'd reconsider her actions. She didn't look happy to be with him, but apparently she tells Cat that Kane is everything she ever wanted.

"That's ridiculous," I replied. "She's only known him a month or so."

That came out a little more bitter than I expected actually, so I added a, "But if she's happy then I'm happy for her!" on the end.

Jade wasn't fooled. She didn't say anything, but the look in her eye told me that what I'd said had bothered her. My conscience began to get the better of me, and later that day I found myself asking Jade out for a meal.

"What kind of meal?"

"You'll have to wait and see."

"You're not cooking it are you?" she snarled. "I want to leave tonight without suffering from food poisoning."

I laughed to lighten the mood and pulled her in for a kiss. She kissed me back the same as she always did, but it didn't feel the same. I didn't feel the same. The whole situation wasn't the same. But nothing had changed, nothing at all, so I couldn't seem to get my head around it.

I really went all-out for this meal tonight. I racked my brain for an idea that she would love. She liked big fancy restaurants like Maestro's, but there was no way I could afford anything like that. She wouldn't allow me to cook for her, so what could I do?

I suddenly had a brainwave. I clambered down to the basement and began rifling through the various pieces of junk we had stored there over the years.

"Beck, honey," my Mum appeared in the doorway, flicking the light switch then I happened to have forgotten about. "What are you looking for?"

"Do we still have that picnic blanket from years ago? You know, the red patchwork one that we used to take to the park when I was younger?"

Mum chuckled, clearly fond of the memory, "Do I know it? You wouldn't let us go to the park without it. Erm, I think it's somewhere around here – try those boxes over there on the top shelf."

I pulled at the boxes and Mum's chuckles turned into full-on laughter as thick dust coated me from head to toe. I scowled at her but she couldn't stop.

"Sorry love," she spluttered, making her way over to where I was standing and trying to brush as much dust off of me as she could. She tugged on the top box and it fell smoothly into her arms. How did she do that? She laid it on the floor easily and rumbled through it, finding my treasured blanket folded into a neat square at the bottom. She opened it out and shook it violently to release any of the dust confined inside of the material.

I thanked her as she handed it to me.

"So why the sudden interest in this?" she asked.

"Jade's coming round."

She shook her head at me. She rarely gets involved in my personal business, but there's something about Jade that she really doesn't like. Of course she acts like she does so as not to make things awkward or difficult, but my Mum has always made me aware of exactly how Jade comes across in her eyes. Usually it flows along the lines of a 'manipulating dictator'.

I rolled my eyes at her and made my exit.

"Beck, when will you see that you don't need her?" Mum called after me, but I shrugged off her question before I thought into it too much. Instead I put all my focus onto making this the best date that Jade had ever had.

Her knock came on my RV at about 7:30pm.

"It's open," I shouted. She shoved the door harshly, but grabbed hold of it quickly as she began to take in her surroundings. The only light source in the whole of the trailer was from the thirteen candles outlining the blanket. I could just make out her facial expression of shock and her eyes filled with concentration as they wandered about the room.

"Thirteen candles," she breathed.

"Your lucky number."

She closed the door and stepped inside, carefully making her way over to me. She crouched down opposite me.

"This is your Mum's best china from the cabinet," she gasped.

"You admired the plates when you came for Christmas dinner last year."

"Roses?"

"Your favourite flower… with the thorns, just the way you like them."

"Chinese?"

"Your favourite takeaway."

Her eyes finally met mine in the dim-lit room.

"Right. All right," she murmured. "How did you remember all that?"

I shrugged. She looked as though she couldn't believe it. She cupped my face with her icy hands.

"Beck, you're the best boyfriend in the whole world. And I mean it," she announced, leaning over and rewarding me with a kiss. The best boyfriend? If only she knew. My mind appeared set on ruining this moment for me. Tori's image flickered in my mind like Jade's had done in the candle light just moments ago. Jade was happy and the mood and the atmosphere and everything was perfect. Everything except the kiss.

I was pulled out of it anyway with a loud thumping sound coming from the entrance of my RV. Strange, I thought, Jade was already here and nobody else I knew knocked like that.

"Beck Oliver, I swear I'll kick your butt if you don't let me in. I have to talk to you now," a threatening voice called through the door. I tried to ignore it.

"What the hell is Vega doing here?" Jade questioned angrily, standing up quickly and pulling the door open with great force. "May we help you?"

Tori bit her lip anxiously and looked from Jade to me, around the room, to Jade and then back to me.

"Beck we have a script due in two days that I totally forgot about. When are you next free so we can write it?"

I breathed a silent sigh of relief, grateful that she hadn't said anything about our previous encounter. I reacted to what she had said quickly and told her that I would come and find her tomorrow at lunch. She gave me a little nod and raised her eyebrows. Then she lowered them and gave her usual dazzling smile.

"Anyway I'm sorry for barging in like this, I didn't realise you were on a date. The place looks beautiful by the way," she was saying, but Jade had pushed her out of my RV and slammed the door in her face before she could say anything else.