Disclaimer: I do not own Victorious or Big Time Rush. They belong to Dan Schneider and Scott Fellows respectively.

Author's Note: Here's chapter five. Currently working on chapter six. Not much to say here, but the story will begin to progress a little more after this. I should have them actually attending college in chapter seven or eight. Enjoy!

Jade wakes up later that morning with a plan in her mind. Knowing that Jo has a little jealousy issue, she decides to be on her best behavior and be nothing but sweet and polite. She figures if Jo thinks she's really sweet, it'll drive her insane leaving Kendall all alone with her. Also, she just wants to make Kendall squirm.

She showers and goes to her closet desperate to find something girly enough. She ends up finding a yellow tank top and settles for putting on a pair of shorts with it. She does her hair and makeup as girly as possible (light pink lipstick, mascara, eyeshadow) and makes her way into the kitchen.

She's eating a bowl of cereal when Jo comes walking into the kitchen.

"Um. Hi." she greets.

"Hello, you must be Jo." she says sweetly.

"Yeah, I am. I can only guess that you're Jade."

"That I am. It's so nice to meet you." Jade smiles as she holds out a hand for Jo to shake.

"Um. Yeah. It's nice to meet you, too." she responds as she releases Jade's hand. "Don't take this the wrong way, but you're nothing like the image Kendall put in my mind."

Jade smirks. "I'm sure."

Kendall comes walking into the kitchen running his fingers through his hair as he turns his head and looks at Jade. "Jade?"

"Morning,"

"Yeah, morning. Can I talk to you for a moment?"

"Of course," Jade stands and follows Kendall into the living room. "What is it?"

"Why are you dressed like that?"

"Like what?"

"All girly and shit. Since I met you, you wore nothing but black clothing. What is all this?"

Jade smiles. "Am I not allowed to wear other clothes?"

"Why did you pick today?"

She shrugs. "I'm in a good mood."

"Why are you being nice?"

"I'm always nice."

"You and I both know that's bullshit. Seriously, Jade, why are you dressed and acting like this?"

Jade rolls her eyes. "I'm going to go finish my breakfast."

When they walk back into the kitchen, Jo asks, "Is everything alright?"

Kendall nods. "Everything's perfect."

"Good. What's for breakfast?" Jo asks with a smile.

"Whatever you want."

Jade smiles and looks over at them. "Isn't he the best boyfriend?"

Jo's smile falters. "Yeah. The best."

"And so talented. He played me a song on the guitar the day before, it was absolutely amazing."

Jo looks at Kendall. "You played her a song? How nice of you." she says with fake happiness.

Kendall shoots Jade a look before moving over to the refrigerator. "She wanted to know if I was a good guitar player and asked me to play the guitar for her. It was nothing."

"Oh,"

"Still, he's amazing. He cooks, he can play guitar, he's super sweet, just the full package."

"Yeah," Jo sighs. "That's my Kendall."

"So lucky."

"Yeah, I am."

"I'll leave you two lovebirds alone. If you need me, I'll be in my room." she say to them as she walks out.

"I thought you said I had nothing to worry about!"

"You don't," he tells her as he pours some juice in a glass and takes a sip.

"You made her sound mean, she's nice. And she's pretty. On top of all that she's really, really, busty."

Kendall chokes a little. "What?"

"Don't act like you haven't noticed."

"Jo, I pay no attention to that."

"Kendall, you're a guy, it's what you do. Why didn't you describe her like this instead of what you told me?"

"Because this is not really Jade."

"Then who is it? Does she have a twin sister you don't know about?"

"No, she's just…being nice."

"Well, I don't feel comfortable around her. Especially with her dressed like that. Is that how she always dresses?"

"No! I don't even know why she's dressed like that."

Jo sighs. "Whatever."

"Don't say that, you sound like her."

"Could you at least ask her to put on a sweatshirt or something?"

"Sure, I'll be back."

Kendall walks out the kitchen and to Jade's room. He knocks on the door and waits for Jade to respond.

"Come in!"

"Hey,"

"Hello."

"Stop being nice. Where's the vicious girl I moved in with?"

"Taking a break."

"You're making Jo uncomfortable."

"Am I?" she asks, feigning dumb. "I had no idea."

"Jade, all I ask is for you to put on a sweatshirt, or a jacket, or a longer shirt."

"Why?"

"Because apparently your boobs are too big and that weirds her out that you wear a shirt like that." he says, completely uncomfortable.

"Do you think that?"

"Think what?"

"That my boobs are big."

"Jade, I'm not answering that. Please, put on another shirt."

"I'm just having a little fun with you. Calm down, blondie."

"Are you gonna change?"

"I guess. This look and this personality aren't my thing."

Kendall nods. "Good. I actually prefer the real you; she's more interesting."

Jade rolls her eyes, but Kendall can see the smile she's fighting off. "Whatever."

"Yeah, whatever. I'm about to get ready to go in a bit. Try not to kill my girlfriend."

"She's the one who hates me."

"Yeah, but between you and me, I think you could take her."

"Do you now?"

"Yeah. Don't tell her that, though." he adds quickly.

Jade chuckles. "We'll see."

Kendall smiles. "Hey, I made you laugh. I think that's a job well done."

Jade rolls her eyes. "Get out before your girlfriend thinks you're doing something you shouldn't be."

"You're probably right. I take it that you won't come out before I leave so I'll see you later."

"Yeah, yeah."

"Don't you mean whatever?"

She smirks. "I knew you were expecting me to say that, so I didn't."

Kendall lets out a brief laugh. "Smart."

"Yeah, now get out of my room."

"I'm going, I'm going."

Jade sits in her room for a while even after Kendall leaves. She would walk out there, but she knows she would have to make small talk with Jo if she did. Instead, she grabs a book off her bookshelf and begins to read until there's a knock on her door.

"What?" she yells.

Jo opens the door slightly. "Can I come in?"

Jade sighs, but doesn't look up from her book. "I don't care."

Jo walks in and takes a seat at the end of the bed. She glances around the room before looking at Jade. "I'm guessing this is the you Kendall was telling me about?"

"I guess so."

"What was with you earlier?"

Jade shrugs, still looking at her book. "I was having some fun with loverboy."

"Fun?"

"It's more of an insider thing."

"Oh," Jo nods. "Do you like having him as a roommate?"

"He's okay, I guess. He's not the perfect roommate, but he's the only sane one who called."

"Trust me, you'll learn to love him." Jo says. "As a roommate, I mean." she adds quickly.

Jade sets the book down beside her and looks at Jo. "Let's get one thing straight, okay?"

"Okay." Jo says confusedly.

"I'm not, nor will I ever, be interested in Knight. He's not my type and he's just my roommate. Nothing more."

"Nothing more?"

"Nothing more, hell, we're not even friends."

"Really? I kinda thought you two were."

"It's more of a one-way friendship. He considers me a friend, I don't consider him anything at all."

"Maybe not now. You have only known him for a few days and like I said, you'll learn to love him."

"Whatever." Jade responds and Jo chuckles. "What?"

"Nothing, it's just that Kendall told me you say that a lot so I shouldn't be surprised if you say it an excessive amount of times throughout the day."

"He thinks he knows me so well." Jade mumbles.

"He's a great observer."

"I notice things about him, too."

"Like?"

"I've noticed he gets embarrassed easily."

Jo smiles. "Yeah. Have you been to his mom's house?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Did you see the naked photo of him as a baby in the bathroom? He was so embarrassed when I first saw it."

"He wasn't embarrassed when he showed me."

"Really?"

"Well, he wasn't until I pointed out that his ass isn't as fat as it was back then."

"You check out his butt?"

"No, I just made an observation."

"Okay. I guess."

Jade sighs. "You wanna know something?"

"What?"

"You're not as bad as I thought you were gonna be."

Jo smiles. "I can say the same about you."

"Kendall, stop working so fast. Our customers want the coffee to be good, not rushed and disgusting." Camille tells Kendall as he hurries to get the coffee ready for a customer.

"Sorry."

"What's with you today?"

"Have you forgotten that Jo is left all alone at the apartment with Jade?"

"No, but neither of them has called you yet so everything must be going fine."

"Unless Jade has killed her."

Camille roll her eyes. "That's highly unlikely."

"With Jade, anything is possible."

"If it's bothering you so much, call one of them."

"I can't."

"Why not?"

"We have customers." Kendall says as the coffee finishes.

Camille walks over and takes it from him. "I'll handle them for a moment, you just go talk to one of them. I love you, but you're getting on my nerves with this situation."

Kendall smiles. "Thanks, Camille. I won't be long." he tells her as he walks into the kitchen. He decides to call Jo since Jade probably wouldn't tell him what's really going on.

"Hello?" Jo answers.

"Good. You're alive."

"Why wouldn't I be?"

"Because I left you alone with Jade. Not fake Jade, but the real one."

"There's nothing to stress over, she's actually really cool."

"Did you just say Jade was cool?"

"Yeah."

"Are we talking about the same person?"

"Kendall, she really is cool. We were actually in the middle of talking when you called."

"Talking? Talking about what?" he questions.

"Nothing important."

Kendall sighs. "Could you put Jade on?"

"Yeah, sure."

"What?" Jade asks when she's handed the phone.

"What have you done to my girlfriend?"

"What are you talking about, Blondie? She's fine."

"I know that, but why are you two getting along so well?"

"I thought that's what you wanted."

"Jade, you being nice worries me."

"Who said I was being nice?"

"She said you were cool."

Jade groans. "Knight, stop being so damn paranoid. Don't you have work to be doing?"

"I just had to make sure my girlfriend was okay."

"She's great. Now hang up."

"Fine, just make sure she's still the same when I get home."

"Oh my gosh, what the hell do you think I'm gonna do?"

"You're capable of anything."

"I'm hanging up."

"Fine, bye."

"Yeah, yeah." he responds with a sigh and hangs up.

"Kendall!" he hears Camille yell. "I could use some help."

"Coming!" he yells back, slipping his phone into his pocket.

Kendall continues to be on edge for the rest of the day; even more so when he doesn't have enough time to make it home for lunch and back and has to stay at the café for his lunch break.

When he's done with everything for the day and locks up the café, he makes his way home but not without getting stuck in the L.A. traffic. He makes it to the apartment, twenty minutes later than he expected, and looks around for Jo or Jade.

"Jo?" he calls out. "Jade?" he tries again. When he doesn't get a response he walks to his room to see if Jo's in there, seeing that she's not, he walks over to Jade's room and knocks. He waits all of five seconds before opening the door and seeing Jade sitting on her bed reading.

She glances up. "What?"

"Didn't you hear me yell or knock?"

"Yeah,"

"Why didn't you answer?"

"I didn't feel like it."

Kendall sighs and rolls his eyes. "Where's Jo?"

"We ended up arguing over something and I told her to leave and she did."

"What?" Kendall yells. "Why would you do that? She doesn't even have any source of transportation! What if she's hurt? Or what if her cell died? Why didn't you call me?"

Jade smirks. "Well, aren't you mad."

"Yeah, I'm mad. Why did you tell her to leave?"

"I told you I didn't want her here in the first place. I also said that if she said or did one thing to piss me off, she has to go."

"I can't believe you, Jade!" he yells and starts pacing back and forth in front of her door.

"You really can't believe that I would do that? Seriously?" Jade asks in disbelief.

"No, I can believe it. I was just stupid to think that maybe, just maybe, you would get along with Jo. I've been on edge all day thinking about what could go wrong, but I never thought you would tell her to leave and then not even bother to tell me."

"Hey, she didn't call you either."

"Because her phone is probably dead and she probably doesn't even have any change on her so she can use a payphone."

"Calm down, Blo-"

"No, I will not calm down!" he yells, becoming even more angry. "You've done nothing but act like a huge bitch since I've been here. I don't care if you act like that towards me, but you have no right to treat Jo like that!"

Jade sets her book down and stares at Kendall for a moment before getting up. Her voice calm, yet somewhat wavering when she says, "I was just kidding with you. She's down by the pool."

Kendall's jaw drops and he immediately regrets everything he just said. "Jade, I'm-"

"Just get out." she tells him and walks into the bathroom, slamming the door behind her.

Kendall winces at the sound and sighs, closing the door to her room and walking back into the living room. Jo comes walking in just as he takes a seat on the couch.

"Hey," she greets him and takes a seat next to him, kissing his cheek. "This whole place is amazing. I can't believe you live here."

Kendall can't bring himself to look at her, the guilt of what he said to Jade quickly eating him alive. "Yeah, it's great."

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing," he lies. "It's just been a long day."

"Aw, I'm sorry."

"It's fine. Hey, I know I told you I would take you out for dinner tonight, but do you mind if we just stay in?"

"No, that's fine. I'm a little tired, anyway. I think I'll go take a nap."

Kendall nods. "Okay."

Jo kisses his cheek once more before getting up. "Are you sure you're okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"Alright. Let me know if wanna talk."

Kendall nods even though he knows he won't tell Jo about this. "Okay."

Kendall isn't sure how to exactly apologize to Jade, but he remembers his mom telling him one time that baking someone something can be a great way to do it.

He manages to scrap together the ingredients for cookies and starts to bake them. Once they're done, he allows them to cool before putting a few on a plate and walking to Jade's room. He knocks lightly on the door and can just faintly hear Jade say "go away". He opens the door anyway and Jade looks over at him.

"I told you to go away."

"I know, but I came to apologize."

Jade rolls her eyes. "I don't want your apology."

"No, but you deserve it." he says and takes a seat on the bed, setting the cookies down on the bedside table. "I'm sorry that I called you a bitch earlier, that was really wrong of me and you didn't deserve that. I just got all worked up, but that still doesn't make up for what I said. I also know that these cookies don't excuse it either, but I figured it was the least I could do. I'm not asking you to accept my apology, I just thought I should let you know."

The room falls quiet once he's done talking and he waits patiently for Jade to say something.

"Do you really think I'm a bitch?" she suddenly asks. "I've been called mean, bossy, cold-hearted, vicious, hateful, and a few other things, but never a bitch…at least not to my face."

Kendall shakes his head. "I think you're strong-minded, not a bitch. I really shouldn't had said that to you and I wish I could take it back."

Jade nods and stares at the wall in front of her.

"I'm not asking for an apology, but some sort of reaction would be nice." he tells her. "No pressure."

"Let's be honest here, Knight, I really shouldn't and don't have to forgive you."

"I know."

"But I do."

Kendall looks at her. "You do?"

"I don't wanna have to sit here and ignore you everyday. I might actually need you one day."

Kendall smirks. "You admit that you need me?"

"Don't push it and I said might. I won't forget that you called me a bitch, but it just means that you owe me more than you already do."

"That's fine."

Jade reaches over and grabs a cookie. "The cookies were a nice touch."

"I was hoping they would be." he grabs one for himself before walking towards the door. "I'm about to make dinner."

"I'm not helping."

Kendall chuckles. "I wasn't asking you to. I wanted to know if there's anything you want?"

"No, I'm fine with just these cookies. Do me a favor and bring me something to drink."

"Yes, Your Highness." he responds, he's about to close the door before he stops and asks, "Does me bringing you something to drink count as owing you?"

"No, that would be too easy." Jade responds through a mouthful of cookie.

"Of course." he sighs and closes the door.

"Jade's not joining us for dinner?" Jo asks as Kendall sets their plates down on the table.

"Nah, I gave her some cookies and she said she's fine with those."

"That's sweet of you."

"It doesn't make you worry."

"If it was still early this morning it would."

"Did spending a little bit of time with Jade really change your mind?"

"Yeah," she smirks. "She doesn't seem to like you."

"As a roommate or something more?"

"I mean as a person in general."

Kendall scoffs and rolls his eyes. "Did she say that?"

"She said she doesn't consider you a friend and that you probably consider her one. She also said that she doesn't consider you anything at all."

"That sounds like something Jade would say."

Jo laughs. "I'm sure she's kidding."

"I may have only known Jade for a few days, but I know enough about her to know that she's not kidding." he informs her. "But enough about her, let's just enjoy our dinner."

Jo smiles. "Sounds perfect to me."