I'll bet you get bored of seeing me on the first page of Victorious Fanfics everyday, aha! I do have a life by the way, I've been very busy lately actually, but I write a new chapter every time I get a spare moment. Anyway, this is the second to last chapter. I'm a bit gutted that it's ending, but if I carry it on then it'll turn rubbish D: I wanted to drag it out to twenty chapters, but they'd only be chapter fillers until then and they'd probably annoy you. Do you guys want the last chapter tomorrow or do you want me to wait a couple of days? THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS AGAIN! XxcoupleMseddiexX, you were my first review ever and are STILL reviewing my story! Yay! Everybody else has also been lovvvvvvvvely with the incredible reviews. Whoops, I'm rambling again like I always do on these bits alalalaaaa, right so here it is - READ AND REVIEW! I love you all.

Beck's POV

I knew Jade wouldn't give up that easily, but she really was taking it too far. Pathetic and childish little things like hiding Tori's costumes just minutes before she was due on stage, purposely sabotaging every little thing she could, paint that sprayed out of her locker when she opened it, buckets of water on top of doors – just generally making her life a living hell. I could tell Tori was crumbling; she wasn't showing it, but I knew.

How could Jade do this to her? Tori was the most innocent person I'd ever met (if you don't count Cat); she didn't deliberately harm others and she only argued with Jade when she was provoked. I didn't think the break up would affect Jade as much as it had done – I thought she'd be over it in a couple of days. She's not one to hold on forever, but she was doing a great job of holding me back.

I called Jade and asked her to come over. I probably shouldn't have, but I had to sort things out. Jade sounded happy on the other end of the phone. I probably should've told her that this wasn't a reunion for the two of us.

A knock. Jade's knock. Deep breath, just answer the door, Beck.

I shuffled slowly to it, shocked that she hadn't intruded like she normally does. Jade was a pretty girl, there was no doubting it, and I hated admitting to myself that I was no longer attracted to her. She looked up at me as she climbed the steps of my RV. She did what she normally did; slung her back down and flopped heavily onto my bed.

"Hey, you," she smiled weakly. I took a mental picture of that smile as it was one I was sure I wouldn't see again after tonight.

"Jade, you have to stop what you're doing to Tori."

Her smile transformed into a furious scowl in less than a millisecond. Then she laughed. I say laughed, it was more like a cackle. She wandered over to me; her black finger nails surrounding my face and squeezing my cheeks together. She put on a sickly-sweet voice and said softly, "Awh, does little Beck want me to stop being mean to his girlfriend? Whatever shall I do about that?"

I pushed her off me and gritted my teeth, "Grow up. You think you've written all over me in permanent marker, but you haven't. You've not left any scars either, cuts, bruises, nothing. Give up now, because you're never going to cause me pain anymore."

"That was never my intention. I never wanted to hurt you, and it rips me in half every single day knowing that I did. I'm in love with you. I've knocked that wall that shut you out down now, but what you're doing to me just proves why that was a huge mistake. The roles have reversed, and now I'm getting hurt. Vega isn't the best thing that ever happened to you – I am," she moved closer to me again. "Beck, I need you."

"So you keep saying. Jade, it's selfish, don't you see? You're only making sure that you turn out okay, but you honestly couldn't care less if I was miserable. And I just feel as though I'm repeating the same things to you over and over again and it's making me exasperated but I won't stop until you see what you're doing," I took a deep breath. She was melting, I could tell. I hated hurting her, but she had to know that she was hurting me. "Jade, look at me."

Her icy blue eyes finally unstuck themselves from the floor and met mine. She swallowed as she put both of her hands on my shoulders. She looked so pleading that it broke my heart, but not in the way it had done a couple of months back. Months back I'd have given her everything, but now I couldn't. I've always aspired to be as selfless as possible, but sometimes you've got to give up and look out for yourself.

"I'll change."

"I don't want you to. Everything you're willing to change is something I once loved about you."

"Once," she sniffed, but then she shook her head violently and blinked her tears away. She dug her nails into my flesh, clinging tight. It didn't really hurt: the thing that hurt the most was that I was forcing her to let go before she was ready. "No, I'm not stopping until I get you back. And I will get you back."

I took a step backward, ready to tear my hair out. Was I speaking a different language to her? Why couldn't she see?

"Even if I wasn't with Tori, there's no way I'd come back to you. I'm better off without you, and you're better off without me. You just can't see it yet. I think you should go home, sleep, and we'll avoid each other for the next couple of days."

"You think you can avoid me? Beck Oliver, you obviously never knew me as well as I thought you did," that devious and vicious grin had sewn itself onto her lips. Her eyes twinkled with a menacing glint that, honestly, shook me to the core and back again. It amazed me how she could melt but freeze again so quickly. Her moods changed quicker than Cat's, but Jade's mood switches were unsafe, hazardous and destructive. She moved her pointed tongue to behind her front teeth as her eyebrows raised and lowered so quickly you'd have missed it with a blink. I could see her brain working overtime with a carefully constructed plan coming together nicely. She moved close to me and hissed in my ear, "Tell your girlfriend to watch out."