The rest of my classes went by in a blur. After first period, the only thing I could think about was finding Beck at lunch. By the time the fifth period bell rang for lunch, I was practically running down the halls. I stopped when I heard hushed whispers/hisses.

"I don't like your association with that girl," said one voice.

"Why does it matter anyway, Jade? Do you really think of her as a threat to you? All I did was walk the new girl to class this morning." So it was Beck and Jade talking.

"I don't care if she slipped in the hallway and broke her arm. Let the new kid fend for herself!"

"Look, I don't feel like arguing with you anymore. Let's just go to lunch."

"Oh. You mean the lunch that you also invited Tori to?"

"Seriously, Jade, stop. That's really enough."

Jade was silent for a few second before, "Fine."

I watched them walk away towards the outdoor cafeteria. I felt pretty awful being the cause of fighting in someone's relationship. But if I'm being honest, I think they were fighting plenty before I even came into the picture.

I made my way to the cafeteria, where the first thing I saw was a giant vender's truck that had a sign reading "The Grub Truck." This was obviously where everyone got food from. I quickly ordered a cob salad from a strange man named Festus, and starting looking around for Beck. Just as I was about to admit to myself that Jade talked him out of meeting me, I saw him waving his hands at me.

I walked over to the table he was sitting at and sat down next to the guy with dark hair and dark skin.

"Hey guys. I'm Tori."

"Tori this is Andre," Beck said gesturing to dark haired boy, "Cat," the girl with bright red hair, "and this is my….girlfriend….Jade." He gestured to Jade finally but the way he said girlfriend sounded pretty unsure to me. Jade just grimaced and turned on me.

"So Tori, what brings you to Hollywood Arts? Get kicked out of whatever rinky-dink school you used to go to?"

"Jade!" Everyone said.

"No, no guys it's really fine because no. I didn't get expelled. My dad got a job transfer to this part of the state."

"When you say transfer, do you really mean demotion?" asked Jade yet again.

"Jade, stop." It was just Beck who defended me this time. He smiled at me apologetically.

This just made Jade even angrier and she stormed off, leaving her half eaten pizza open on the table.

"Well," Beck said, "I apologize to everyone, especially you, Tori, for my girlfriend."

"It's cool. You can't please everyone right?"

Just then a kid with really curly hair and glasses came over to the table holding his lunch and…a puppet.

"Hey guys, sorry I'm late," his eyes landed on me and they went wide, "And who is this?"

"Hi, I'm Tori."

"I'm….I'm….I'm."

"He's Robby, and I'm Rex," piped up the puppet.

"Oh ok. Nice to meet…both…of you."

"So Tori," started Cat, "what's your talent?"

"Oh I really love singing. I have since I was a little girl. "

"Really? That's so fun! Will you sing something for me?" she asked a little too innocently.

"No…no that's ok. I'm sure my time to sing will come eventually."

"Oh come on. Pleeeease?" she asked batting her huge eyelashes.

"Tell you what. I'll sign up for that Center Stage Concert thing, and then you can all here me sing, ok?"

"Yeah," Andre said, "that would be awesome. You know I'm a song writer. I could write you an awesome song."

"Actually if you want to, that'd be really great."

"Cool."

Andre, Cat, Robbie, and Rex all started to leave and then it was just me and Beck. He looked at me across the table and gave me another smile.

"So, are you enjoying our ever so fascinating school?"

"Honestly, yeah, it's been pretty fun so far. But, no offense bro, your girlfriend's kind of psycho."

"Yeah, I know. I'm really sorry about her. She's changed so much since we started dating."

"How long have you two been dating?"

"Too long," he said looking down at the table. "Don't say anything, but I've wanted to break up with her for a while. I'm just not sure how to do it."

"Well, the first thing you have to do is make absolutely sure that you want to break up with her. Are you absolutely sure?"

"Trust me," he said meeting my eyes from across the table, "I've never been so sure about anything."

I stopped talking for a few seconds, caught up in Beck's eyes looking at me. I then remembered we were in the middle of a crowded cafeteria.

"My house, eight o' clock. We'll get you through this, ok? Give me your phone."

He handed it to me across the table and I typed my number in. I saved me in his phone as Tori V. and handed it back to him.

"Text me and then I'll text you the address," I said as I started to get up to leave. "I usually wouldn't say this to someone's boyfriend, but if I were you I'd just try and avoid her the rest of the day. You don't want to say something you'll regret later."

"Thanks Tori, really," he said with a small smile.

Alright guys! That was the end of this chapter! Sorry if this one was a little shorter, but I really tried to get a good bit of dialogue into it! I do want to give a big THANK YOU to all of you that gave ideas in the review! Every little bit helps, especially if I'm having writers block! Anyway, as always ya'll REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW! I want at least five more reviews before Chapter 4!

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