Ugh, I'm sorry this took so long. My mom and sister got back from vacation, I finished 3 seasons of Glee (and have been reading a lot of fanfiction with Puck narrating, so blame that on all of the cursing in this chapter), and generally been avoiding the hell out of this because I wasn't sure where to start. But thanks to victoriousandicarlysky, I finally got myself together and typed this out within two hours. I'm sorry, this chapter doesn't have a new reason in it, but I figured Beck and Jade and kind of Cat needed some closure, so here this is.
Warning: Some swearing, like i mentioned earlier.
And thank you guys so so much for all of your support, you guys blow me away. 5,100+ hits? I know they're not the best count of views, but wow, people actually clicked, altogether, over 5,000 times on my chapters!
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"Hurry up, would you?" Jade snapped at Sinjin, who flinched, looking like he'd peed his pants. "Beck doesn't know I'm gone."
"It's only been 10 minutes since you got here." Sinjin said quietly, adjusting the audio of the CD slightly and frowning, shaking his head.
"Can you do it or not?" Jade asked, looking worried.
"Yeah, just tell me what you want removed again." Sinjin replied, trying not to irritate the girl next to him even more.
"Everything about the drugs he took and how he's taking antidepressants. He is, but the one time I helped wean him off that stupid cricket came and messed with his head. But if they find out, no matter how unjudging and open Tori says she is, she's going to be freaked out by this 'new' him and turn against him, and convince everyone else. And he doesn't deserve that. He can't help it!"
"You don't need to defend him to me, Jade." Sinjin said, sounding slightly amused, upsetting Jade even more.
"Whatever. Do you need me to, like help, or what?" She asked reluctantly. All she wanted to do was get out of there.
"You could help me with another problem…" Sinjin said suggestively.
"Shut up Sinjin!" Jade shouted, moving across the room. Checking her phone, she noticed she had a missed call from Beck. She doesn't return it.
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Finally, 15 minutes later Sinjin's done, and making sure it plays right.
"Just give me it." Jade told him eventually, snatching the CD from the holder and shoving it into the case. "I'm leaving."
Sinjin watched her go with a smile on his face. That's code for 'thank you' in her book. Smirking, he went back to watching the cameras, especially the one on Beck's RV.
When she arrived at Beck's RV, she walked in to see him sweaty and choking on his pills. Some days were worse than most.
"Babe, I told you to always wait until I came!" She said scoldingly, swiping them from him and tossing them into the garbage. Beck's pale, and she shook her head sadly before getting him a cold glass of water and his pills. He didn't deserve this life, she thought as she helped him swallow pill by pill. Wiping his mouth, he whispered a raspy 'thank you, babe' to her before he went to shower.
Jade sighed, glancing at the box she dropped at the entrance. Ignoring it for now, she flopped down on the bed. She'd tell them about it tomorrow.
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God, it was 7 am and Jade could feel the cardboard box taunting her from across the room. She had just woken up, though, and she resisted the urge to destroy it until 9, eating breakfast and working on her History project. Finally, after checking to see that Beck was asleep, his hair perfect even after hours of tossing and turning, she kicked the box as gently as she could and opened it, cutting it up with scissors she'd found on top of the fish tank. When she had gotten her anger out, she found her PearPhone on the floor and called up Tori.
On the bed, Beck shifted closer to where Jade was standing, his ear angled towards her.
She thought he was asleep, but he knew she was keeping something from him, and he thought he knew what it was.
"I found it….Yeah, he knows…Robbie?... No, not yet…Fine.. See you in a few hours." Is all he could make out, because Jade lowered her voice a lot, presumably not to wake him up. His eyes snapped open as he figured out what Jade was up to. That bitch!
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After 3 hours of anxiety, it was finally time to go to Vega's. Beck was up, so she made an excuse about having to see her dad, which, frankly, she thought was the worst lie ever, but he seemed to buy it, so she just shrugged and practically ran out of the tiny mobile home. Seriously, it was freaking claustrophobic in there.
When she was outside, she heard him calling for her, and turned around for a minute, searching for him. When he wasn't in the RV, she just shrugged and took out the keys to her car.
It was only a few minutes until she got to Tori's house, which already had Cat's brother's car parked in front of it. Opening her car door, she screamed as a hand grabbed her left shoulder. Turning, she saw Beck.
"What the fuck were you doing in the backseat of my car?" Jade asked slowly and threateningly, enunciating each word carefully.
Ignoring her, Beck opened his big fat mouth. "I knew you were cheating on me with the pasty Jewish freak!" He cried, looking around wildly. "Wait, why are we at Tori's?"
By then, Tori and Cat came outside to see what the scream was about, but neither of the couple noticed.
"Because Trina sent you a video and I was trying to protect you!" Jade yelled.
"Get inside!" Tori shouted, striding over to them and tugging them towards her house.
When they get inside, Tori commanded them to sit down and get this resolved, before moving to make popcorn.
"I love popcorn!" Cat pitched in, before going to the kitchen and opening random drawers.
Beck looked up at her sadly. "I'm sorry, babe, I've just been a little crazy lately. And I heard parts of your phone call this morning and you left yesterday and I didn't know what to think."
"I'd think that you know I'd never cheat on you with Robbie." Jade replied, wrinkling her nose.
"Hey, what's wrong with me?" Robbie asked indignantly, entering with Robbie.
"Oh, nothing, except that I don't like you or that stupid puppet." Jade snapped.
"Now let's just watch the stupid tape before I kill someone."
So that's what they did.
"There are few people I actually hate in this world, hate with a burning, consuming rage. You're not one of them, Beck Oliver, and I'm sad to say you never will be. I tried, trust me I tried desperately to loathe you, despise you and your fluffy hair and chocolate eyes with every fiber of my being. But you're not easy to hate, even after all you've done to me. You were my first boyfriend, when I was a freshman. I was one of the last in my school, probably the whole world, to get a boyfriend, and yet there you were, all cute and charming, asking to walk me to class and kissing my cheek. You wanted to keep it a secret, and I only told my two best friends, and it felt so good to have a little secret from everybody, one thing they didn't know about me. Oh, how naive I'd been. For a while, it was all good. But good things never last with me.
You started hanging around Jade West, more and more, and another week later, when I tried to kiss you in public during your lunch, and pushed me away and Jade poured her Diet Coke on me and announced, to the whole 8th grade, that I was a slut and that I tried to steal your boyfriend.
Remember when I pretended to date Beck this year? It's only a few days ago for me, but by the time this gets to you it's probably just a distant memory. Well, I threatened to tell someone if you didn't pretend to like me, and… you agreed, to my surprise. Then, though, you staged that fight over me with Andre and Robbie, and, at the end of the day, you told me how pathetic I was. Tell me, why would a dead girl lie? That sounds like a joke, but, trust me, I'm not kidding."
"Well, that was short." Tori commented.
"And choppy." Cat said.
"I never knew you dated Trina. I thought we told each other everything, dude." Andre said, winking at Beck.
"Whatever, it's over. Bye." Jade said, dragging Beck out with her.
"I need to find my brother." Cat rushed out of the house, her flip-flops making squishy sounds on the grass. She couldn't stand being in there any longer. All of those secrets, clumped up in one place? It made her nauseous. She tried to stay friends with them all, sitting with them at lunch and everything, but it kept getting harder and harder to ignore all of the horrible things they'd done. And as much as they tried, she knew they didn't care about her. They didn't even remember how her brother moved away, or notice how she'd been babysitting. She needed to get back to her home, with reliable Sam and the shard of the CD Trina had sent her under the bed. They didn't know her at all.
Honestly, I don't know where this came from. I don't know why I kept putting this off because once I start writing, I don't have writer's block or anything. Sorry about the tense mistakes I know are in there. For some reason, today everything sounded good in present tense, but this story's written in past tense so I had to change it right after writing. And I like it, i think. I'm working on a trina birthday oneshot, which might come out kinda soon in celebration of my own birthday, (August 18th), but I started writing it a year ago and I just started working on it again so I dunno..
And really? None of you noticed a hint I put in the last chapter as to who that guy at the end was? It did tie in to the 2nd or 3rd chapter though, so I'm not that surprised, but let me just tell you it has something to do with a not-main character. Or maybe it just makes sense to me...
Anyway I know I wanted to say a lot more in this, but I can't remember everything right now so I'll just tell you I plan to update within a week. We'll see how that goes.
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