Jade very slowly exited her room after being locked in all day. She couldn't face Robbie after what happened and had decided to avoid him. She walked towards Robbie room and his door was wide open telling her he was downstairs. Consider it was Sunday she really doubted he had a doctor's appointment.

Hearing whispering coming from the living room made the girl quiet her approach and listen in intently.

"Are you ever going to tell her?" Robbie's voice asked sounding a little annoyed.

"Of course, but we both understand it won't go well." Her dad's voice announced. "She already hates me can you imagine if she finds out I'm not really her dad."

"Maybe if you would have told her sooner… it wouldn't be hard now."

Her dad had to be talking about her, she realized. She backed away from the room.

()

Jade was standing in the middle of her room a little confused what it was she needed to do. She wasn't really sure how to feel.

"You heard." Robbie asked from behind her making her turn around. "You look angry."

Jade openly stared at him then shook her head in disbelief. "No Robbie I'm not angry, I'm completely fine with everyone lying to me."

"Well that's goo-"He was promptly interrupted.

"Yeah, I'm angry Dude!" Jade loudly screamed at him. "What's wrong with you?"

"I would have told you… but I had to promise I wouldn't." Robbie uncomfortably shifted on his feet.

"Nice to see you're nice enough to keep a promise and to lie to me." The girl bit out hotly.

Robbie had nothing to say to that.

"I'm madder at you then my parents." Jade announced and walked towards him.

Robbie frowned thinking that wasn't fair. "That's not fair. I've only been keeping it from you for like five weeks; they've been for your whole life!" Robbie quickly defended himself.

"Yeah, but my parents didn't have me think I was some type of backwoods hillbilly in training." The girl said crossing her arms.

Robbie was lost at first until he looked at her and finally understanding dawned on him, and he realized how close the girl was standing.

"You made me think my feelings were wrong…"

"They are wrong." Robbie quickly said. Jade's frowned confusedly, and Robbie avoided her gaze. "It's not right and you're only confused. You pity me… not like me."

Jade eyes narrowed into a glare. "I'm not confused, Robbie." The girl swallowed and licked her lips suddenly feeling frustrated. "It's not only pity… it's not"

"We both understand why you wanted to me to help you become nicer." Robbie announced weakly. "You wanted to make things work with Beck, and that's what you're going to do."

Jade was quiet for a while because it was true, it had started out like that. "You're right," she admitted, "and for other reasons, but it's not like that anymore."

Robbie gently shook his head.

"Are you telling me you haven't felt anything between us?" Jade asked angrily.

Robbie bit his lip. Yeah, he felt it, but what could he really do about it. He was dying… what good would being in a relationship be now? It wouldn't be fair… to either of them. "Can we not… have this conversation, Jade?" He asked feebly.

"Answer me…" Jade commanded. "Do you really not feel anything for me?"

Robbie opened his mouth without any true intention of saying anything. "Robbie, your mom is calling!" Taylor's voice called from downstairs.

Jade rolled her eyes and shook her head in frustration. "This conversation is not over…"

Robbie nodded and slipped out of the room quickly, having no intention to continue that conversation ever.

()

Robbie leaned back on his hands and let out a moan. He felt awful. He ignored it and continued to look for the movie he had planned on watching finding it he grinned weakly.

"What are we watching?" Jade asked entering the room sipping on a cup of coffee.

Robbie held up the movie as he got back to his feet and the girl groaned sitting on the couch. "I'm not watching that."

Robbie laughed lightly taking a seat beside her on the couch forgetting the current awkwardness between them from the events a few days ago. "It's a really good movie." He told her.

Jade openly stared at him, "well aren't you going to put it in?"

Robbie laughed nervously, "oh yeah…" He got on his feet. Their doorbell rang. "Can you get it?" Robbie asked quickly.

"Aren't you standing?"

"I'm getting the movie ready…" Robbie whined.

Jade instantly frowned when she saw who was on standing on her porch. "What are you doing here?"

The boy ran a hand through his thick mane and gave his ex-girlfriend a sheepish grin. He hadn't expected her to be here, Robbie had actually told him she wouldn't be. "Robbie invited me over."

Jade's jaw clenched, "did he..."

"Hey Beck," Robbie appeared the hall.

"How are you feeling, Robbie?" Beck asked him over Jade's head.

"Great… come on in." Beck slid by a stony faced Jade and into the house and followed Robbie into the living room.

Jade closed the door loudly and stomped into the living room. "Can I speak to you Robbie?" The girl bit out with anger entwined around every word.

Robbie looked up from the DVD player and nodded slowly pressing play. "We'll be right back, Beck." The boy said following Jade out into the hallway.

"What's this?" Jade whispered harshly pointing towards the living room.

"What?" Robbie asked innocently. "My consular said I should invite more friends over… spend more time with people."

"So the first one you invite over is Beck?" She asked a little louder and was quickly shushed by Robbie. "I get what you're trying to do Robbie and I think it's really messed up." The girl sounded more wounded then angry.

Robbie instantly felt bad he was only trying to do what he felt was right. He tiredly sighed. "I have no idea what you're talking about." He lied.

"You're a really bad liar…"

"If you think so," he turned away from her and reentered the living room, and sat on the couch Jade following close behind sitting right beside him.

Beck watched as they argued feeling like an outsider and a peeping tom. They were arguing over the movie on the outside but it was obvious that every word they said had a double meaning, and it was likely they were arguing about another thing entirely.

"I'm going to bed." Robbie finally announced getting up and quickly leaving the room before anyone could stop him.