Robbie was sitting in his room making a list when Jade invited herself into his room. He barely looked up as the girl took a seat in the chair beside him at his desk. Instead he continued to look over his list.

"About what you said yesterday about me being conceited, I'm not." The first words out of her mouth were those.

"Name one nice thing you've ever done for anyone… with no strings attached." The boy said half-heartedly. He really didn't wanna waste too much time on a lost cause like Jade West.

Jade thought about it for a really long time. "When you fainted I called my dad." She announced. She could have left him there it had definitely crossed her mind. Robbie gave her a disbelieving look. "Look, I need your help."

Robbie looked up from his list his skin a sickly pale in the lamp light. It actually took her back a little, along with the abnormally dark circles under his eyes. He looked sick; she couldn't believe it was her first noticing. "My help with what exactly," he asked.

"I wanna become nicer."

"Why are you asking me?"

"You're nice… I guess. And it's not as embarrassing asking someone like you as it would be as asking say… Tori. You're my brother." The girl spit out her last word like a bad taste. "Are you going to help me?"

"I guess I can." Robbie mumbled.

An awkward silence fell over the room and Jade quickly snatched Robbie's paper away reading over it. Robbie really didn't care the list was full of things that wouldn't happen, but apparently his consular thought it was a good idea.

The girl read over the 'bucket list' and frowned not really sure why Robbie would need one, but honestly not caring enough to ask. She read over the list, "Number nine get a girlfriend?" The girl snorted. "You would have a better shot at curing cancer."

Robbie's face turned stony, which successfully caused Jade to shut up.

Robbie blinked and the look was gone replaced by a sheepish look. "First lesson, you shouldn't go around insulting people all the time."

()

It was raining and Jade couldn't figure out why she was standing in the awful smelling animal shelter she had just left from a few days ago. Well, she understood why. Robbie felt guilty about getting rid of Cupcake and as a result it was decided she had to feel bad too. He had called it her first lesson at being nice.

The girl tapped her foot impatiently as rain pelted on the metal roof above her. Robbie appeared exited the office and walked towards her without a yapping mutt. He removed his hood once he was under the roof with her. "Why don't you have that annoying mutt with you?"

"Apparently he was adopted." Robbie admitted. "The guy said pure breed dogs go fast."

Jade huffed angrily, "What are we going to do then?" Then she remembered she actually didn't wanna be doing this anyway. "Oh well we tried."

"Wait," Robbie began to dig into his hoody pocket and pulled up a crumbled piece of paper. "I have the adoptive couples address." Jade's shoulders noticeably sagged and she gave him a look. "It's amazing what forty bucks can get you." Jade nodded in agreement.

()

The rain had let up by the time they had found Cupcake's adoptive family leaving the world looking wet and soggy. Jade glared out of the window. "What are we going to do? Steal the mutt back?" Jade asked. "That isn't very nice." The girl mocked.

Robbie thought about it for a while trying desperately to think of a plan, and finally he thought of one. A slow grin appeared on his face.

A drenched Jade gently pressed the glowing door bell and waited on someone to answer. She quickly made herself look as pathetic as possible. A tall blond woman answered and regarded Jade with a worried look. "May I help you?"

Jade gently pulled at her shirt. "Yes… did you adopt a dog from the animal shelter this morning?" She asked softly glancing behind her.

The women nodded. "I did, for my daughter's birthday."

Jade hugged herself and bit her lip, "You see that's my boyfriend's dog and he loves Cupcake more than anything." She ran a shaky hand through her wet hair.

"Well I'm sorry, but my daughter already loves him. I can't very well take away my daughter's birthday gift." The women said seeming worried but not really concerned.

Jade let out a shaky breath. "You don't understand." Jade glanced behind her again. "My boyfriend really loves Cupcake, and I was jealous so while he was away I gave Cupcake away to the animal shelter. It was a big mistake. He has like no idea I gave his dog away and he thinks you're only watching Cupcake. If I don't get him back my boyfriend will be really mad. He's a totally different being when he's mad." To show emphases Jade widened her eyes and pulled some of her hair back to show a fake bruise on her chest. Robbie had said it looked real. The women's eyes widened.

"Hey, what's the hold up?" Robbie yelled roughly from a rolled down window. He began to get out of the car. Jade rolled her eyes at his over acting before turning back to the women.

"Do you need me to call the cops?" The women asked concerned already backing away from the approaching Robbie

Jade quickly shook her head. "I only need Cupcake back, please…"

The women looked at Robbie approaching again. "Alright, I'll be right back." The women disappeared back into her house.

Robbie approached and took a firm grip on Jade's arm and leaned down and whispered into her ear. "Is it working?"

Jade waited until the women had returned to shrink away from him. "I told you Cupcake was alright, Hank." The women handed the rat of a dog back to Robbie who pretended he was in love with the thing.

"He better been," Robbie mumbled before walking away back towards the car.

Jade turned back to the women. "Thank you so much…"

"You shouldn't ever stay with someone who hurts you sweetie." The women said kindly.

"Come on!" Robbie hollered from the car.

"How was I?" Robbie asked laughing amusedly. That was the most fun he has had in a long time.

Jade lips twitched with a suppressed smile. It was sort of fun. "Your acting was a bit much…" Jade told him.

Robbie looked at her and shrugged. "We helped someone though; doesn't it make you feel good?" He looked at her as she watched the road. "Are you smiling?" He grinned.

Jade rolled her eyes, "Oh yeah, we only lied and took away a little girl's birthday present."

Robbie lightly shrugged. "Sometimes there is a hazy line between nice and mean."

()

"Look who we found." Jade called with forced happiness as she entered her dad's home with the yapping dog in her arms.

Taylor instantly ran up to her snatching the animal away from Jade. "You found him?"

Jade held in her sarcastic comment and smiled forcefully. "He was with some lady." The girl said. It was a half-truth.

Her dad entered the room a moment later looking the two teens. "Robbie you're drenched." The man exclaimed. Jade rolled her eyes; of course her dad wouldn't notice she was drenched too. She turned to look at Robbie right as his legs buckled underneath him and he fainted, he was caught by Anthony.