Regretting Jade

DISCLAIMER: I do not own victorious nor do I have any affiliation with it or any other fan fics!

I woke up the next morning with a massive headache. Ugh...hangovers are the worst. I reached into my pocket and looked at my cell phone. It was already 10:30 AM! Crap! I was late for school! I ran around my RV gathering all my things and stuffing them into my bag. I didn't even bother to take time to clean myself up. I bolted out of my RV, jumped into my car and sped off to school. I really lucked out that there were no cops around this time because I was speeding pretty badly. I quickly drove into the school's student parking lot, parked, jumped out of my car with my stuff and sprinted into the school. I knew that I had already missed my first two periods so I ran straight for Sikowitz's class.

"Beckett Oliver!" said Sikowitz as he was taking role

"I'm here! I'm here!" I shouted as I burst through the door. I stood there for a while, gasping for air as everyone in the class turned to stare at me. I looked back at everyone in turn from Sikowitz holding his clipboard to Cat who was stroking her hair to Robbie with his hand up Rex to Tori in her wheelchair to Andre who raised his eyebrows and then to Jade whose jaw slightly dropped upon seeing me.

"Beck. You're late. I'll mark you as tardy and you can go ahead and take your seat," said Sikowitz.

I sulked over to an empty chair that just so happened to be next to Jade. I plopped down in the seat, still struggling to catch my breath.

"What the hell happened to you? you look like a mess," Jade said.

"Nice greeting...I really don't want to talk about it," I snapped.

"OK, fine." We remained silent as Sikowitz continued to take role for the rest of the class.

"OK, now that we're all here, let's get to business. I've looked over your performances over the past few weeks and I have to say that all of you are slipping badly. So I decided that today we'll make a quick revisit to the basics before we can proceed," announced Sikowitz.

Everyone groaned.

"Today we will do a basic improvisation exercise. I'm sure all of you are aware of the simple word association game. I throw a word at you and you say the very first word that comes to your mind in response. To make things a little more interesting, all of your answers must go in alphabetical order. For example if I say cheese and you say smelly, then if I say bed, you must say something that starts with a T such as touchy or twin. If you say a word that is out of order or take more than 10 seconds to give me an answer, you're out. Everyone who can complete a full alphabet will pass for the day and everyone who fails owes me a paper on improvisational acting methods due next Monday. Does everyone understand?"

Everyone mumbled their approval or their claim that they understood.

"Very good! Beck, because you were late today, you get the honor of going first!"

I moaned but I got up anyway and walked to the front of the room. I really wasn't in the mood for this with everything going on not to mention I was still hurting from my hangover. But I also really didn't want to have an extra paper to write. I might as well get this over with, I figured.

"Are you ready, young Beck?" Sikowitz asked me.

"As ready as I'll ever be I guess..." I mumbled.

"Splendid! Robbie, give us a letter for Beck to start from!"

"J!" piped up Rex.

"I was going to say J!" whined Robbie.

"OK, J! Ready, Beck? The first word is watermelon!"

"Uhhh..juicy!"

"Little!"

"Uh..kids!"

"Hair!"

"Long?"

"Good, next word is chips!"

"Munchy!"

"Bed!"

"Uhhh...nap!"

"Ancient Greece!"

"Uh..old!"

"Good, next is Barack Obama!"

"President!"

"Mouse!"

"Quiet!"

"Jade!"

"Regret!"

The word has escaped my lips before I could stop it. Oh crap..I did not just say that. I had finally gotten in the zone in spite of my hangover but I had gotten so into it that I didn't have time to reason or judge and I just blurted out something I shouldn't have. My jaw dropped in horror at what I had just said and then I turned to look at Jade.

Jade's jaw had dropped as she stared at me. I could see her eyes water and her fists were beginning to clench. I could tell that I had just deeply hurt her. Without a word, Jade shut her mouth, wiped her eyes, got up and ran out of class crying. I knew that I had screwed up bad.

"Jade! Wait!" I shouted as I ran after her. Andre ran after her too.

"Remember Beck! You owe me a paper on improvisational acting methods due next Monday!" Sikowitz shouted after me.

Screw that.

A bad situation gets worse as Beck screws up again.

Fun Fact: This actually happened to me when I was playing this game with some friends except I was lucky enough that the girl I said this about wasn't in the room. It's where the idea for this story came from.

Just Say'n - Your lady as in your girlfriend? And the father of her child was your dad? So that means that..oh wow...I'm sorry =O That really sucks.

Jeremy Shane - Thank you, come again.

Elizabeth (anonymous) - Glad you like the plot so far and I hope it keeps its appeal.

GemmaLeigh - I've never been drunk either. I based it off of observing my roommates. PS - It's fun to mentally screw with the stoned/drunk. No offense to the stoned/drunk.