Chapter 22
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Okay here is Chapter 22 enjoy.
Jade has been in her own world since she got that text from her dad. I tried talking to her but she said everything was fine but I know it's not. I don't push her to talk about it because I don't wanther to snap at me and she has been rubbing off on me so I might snap back. We would end up and a big argument and we might say stuff that we might regret later so I want to avoid that at all cost. So right now I'm making dinner with Jess watching. Jess always watches cooking shows and she always tells Jade and I that she wants to become a famous chef. So I don't mind her watching I need some type of company seeing has my girlfriend is not fully present to the world.
"What's wrong with Jade?" Jess asks from beside me as she looks at what I'm doing. I have no idea what's wrong with Jade. I know something is wrong I just don't know.
"I don't know." I say honestly has I add some spices to the grilled chicken. Jade loves grilled chicken so I hope thatmaking this makes her feel somewhat better.
"Oh did something happen?" Jess asks handing me the spatula so I can flip the meat. Before I could say anything the doorbell rings. I sigh wondering who it was and not wanting to leave the food or send Jess to the door. I stop racking my brain when I hear Jade's footsteps come down the stairs going to the front door. I hear her talking to someone before she comes into the kitchen with a white medium box that has 'Cheese Cake Factory' on it and Liz in the other arm.
"I didn't know the 'Cheese Cake Factory' did delivery." I say confused.
"I had someone pick up for me." Jade says putting the cheese cake in the fridge. That is probably the first thing Jade has said and a hour or so.
"Oh." I say nodding looking back the food seeing that it's almost done.
"Jess can you please get Liz's little chair thing." Jade says playing with Liz a little bit before Jess comes back with the little chair. Jess sits it on the counter so that Jade could sit Liz in it. The food is finally finished. I take the plate next to the stove and sitting all three pieces on the plate. I already made the veggies all I have to heat it back up. I got the microwave turning it on for a few seconds so that the veggies can heat up.
"You guys can go to the table I'll bring the food." I say and Jess nods jumping down from the island going into the dining area. I look at Jade and she grabs Liz's whole chair with her in it taking her into the dining area with Jess. Once I finish setting everyone's plates in front of them along with their drinks I sit down taking Liz from Jade so she can enjoy her dinner.
"What's wrong Jade?" Jess asks from besidesJade looking at her sister with worried eyes few minutes after we settled and started to eat. Jade finishes taking a bite out of her chicken before she answers.
"Dad's coming home tomorrow night." Jade says quietly looking Jess.
"Is that a bad thing?" Jess asks a little confused.
"It's not, I was just letting know." Jade says taking another bite out of her food getting that far away look again.
"Why aren't you happy?" Jess asks still looking confused.
"I didn't say I wasn't." Jade says still with that far away look as she eats some of her veggies. I wouldn't be surprisedthat Jade would be happy if her dad never came home. Seeing has he hates everything she does. I know Jade said her dad is part of the reason she isn't out f'n up but that doesn't change the fact that he thinks her acting and singing is pointless. I think she's worried that now Jess is back that he might hate her wanting to be a famous chef. If Jess tells her father now that she wants to be a famous chef and he doesn't approve of it, that's going to break Jess's little heart and I'm sure Jade doesn't want that.
"Well you're not acting like you are." Jess says sounding a little upset. Jade doesn't seem fazed by Jess getting a little snippy at her. Jade doesn't say anotherword, she just eats her food. "What's wrong Jade?" Jess asks again. Jade sighs eating some more of her food.
"Jess eat your food." Jade says still unfazed.
"I'll eat when you tell me what's wrong." Jess says and Jade grips her fork tight coming out of her far away land her body tensing up. Jess is worried about her sister and Jade knows that. I guess that's why she didn't go off on her yet. Liz makes some weird baby noise and smiles really big looking at Jade. I guess she can sense the tension and that Jade is bothered by something. Jade smiles back at her taking her from me and playing with her. I look at Jess and she still looks worried about Jade but doesn't say anything and continues to eat.
After we finish dinner we have dessert and after that Jess helps me clean the dishes and after that she gets ready for bed while Jade puts Liz down for bed and start getting ready for bed. I told Jade I would put Liz down but she said it was okay and that she got it. I wait for Jess to finish getting ready for bed before I go in and read her a story and tuck her in. After she's asleep I walk back into the bedroom to see getting ready for bed.
"Hey." I say quietly walking into the room closing the door.
"Hey." She says back laying on the bed and flipping through the channels. I get on the bed sitting next to her and grabbing her free hand giving it a light squeeze. I look over at her smiling and she smiles back leaning over kissing me softly before she pulls away looking back at the TV.
"Jade please talk to me. Tell me what's wrong." I say really hating not knowing what's wrong with my girl. She sighs before speaking.
"Sorry it's just I had a lot on my mind." She says sighing again.
"Jade I'm here to listen tell me what's on your mind." I say letting her know that I'm all ears.
"I don't know how he's going to react. Like to Liz, our relationship, and Jess being back." Okay I understand Liz, and our relationship but Jess? "I know what you're thinking, he might be happy to see her but I don't know." Jade says shrugging and laying her head on my lap. Once her head hit my lap I start to run my fingers through her hair. "I want my dad to be happy with my decision for once to be happy that I've found somebody I love and that loves me back. He didn't really like Beck because he was scared that I might get pregnant." Jade says laughing a little.
"Well he should love me because I don't have the right parts to do so." I say and we a laugh again.
"Yea I know but my dad is very judgmental and he might not approve of our relationship. But I don't care I love you and that's that." Jade says and a huge smile breaks across my face. "I'm just going to have to explain that to him and explain Liz."
"No not you by yourself. WE are going to explain to him our love and Liz. I can't let you do that by yourself." I say and she smiles up at me and I smile back. She leans up a little and lean down meeting her rest of the way our lips connecting in a soft gentle kiss.
"I love you."
"I love you too."
LINE BREAK
The next day
"Andre' I'm freaking out." I cry into the phone.
"Tori listen I know you scared but you never know what might happen." Andre' says trying to calm me down.
"Yea he might like me, or he might just try and kill Jade and I." I say dramatically. I hear Andre' laugh on the other end of the phone and I groan.
"Chill girl, like I said you never know you just have to stay positive." Andre' says calmly. Him being so calm, calms me down too, but just a little bit.
"I'll try, and why aren't you at school?" I ask just noticing that he wouldn't be on the phone at school unless its lunch which isn't for two more hours.
"Taking care of my grandma. She beat up the mirror when she saw her reflection while she had anavocado mask on. She has glass all over her." Andre' says and I can't help but think his grandma is crazy has hell. "ANDRE' STOP TALKING TO YOUSELF!" "I'm not talking to myself I'm on the phone!" Andre' yells back. I can't help but laugh a little. "ANDRE' IT'S ANOTHER ME IN THE BATHROOM AHHH!" I hear his grandma scream for a scattering noise. "Aww grandma, Got to go Tori. Talk to you later. GRANDMA GET AWAY FROM THE BROKEN GLASS!" Andre' yells before the line goes dead. His grandma needs some serious help.
After School
"Come Jess, we have to finish the laundry." I say holding the basket full of clothes waiting at the top of the stairs for Jess.
"Okay." Jess says walking out the room and we both walk down the stairs but stop when we hear keys jingle and the door opens reveling Mr. West. He wasn't supposed to be back till tonight. He looks at me with a confused expression before looking at Jess who smiling. "DADDY!" She yells happily before running to him. His arms are open wide and he's smiling.
"How is daddy's little girl?" He asks kissing her cheek and holding her close. This wow. He looks so happy. I've seen the pictures of him smiling and he never smiled like he is now. The way his smiling is like it's the happiest day of his life. I hear footsteps and Jade is walking with Liz in her arms.
"I'm good daddy, I missed you." Jess says holding on to her dad tighter.
"I missed you too." He said kissing her cheek again before putting her down. Mr. West looks at Jade with somewhat wide eyes. Jess goes to Jade wrapping her arms around her legs.
"Look daddy this is my niece Liz and that's my sister in law Tori." Oh shit this is not how we wanted to tell him. He is silent just looking from Jade, Liz, and I with blank expressions.
"Dad-" Jade stops talking when her father holds up his hand and walks pass us going up the stairs. I look at Jade and she has the same blank at expression.
"Is daddy mad?" Jess asks looking up at Jade with worried eyes.
"I don't know." Jade says shrugging leaning down kissing Liz forehead.
"Are you okay?" I asks Jade and she nods. I lean over kissing her cheek about to walk away to finish this last load but stop when Mr. West walks back down the stairs.
"We're all going out tonight. I want you guys to meet someone." He says and we all have the same confused expressions.
"Who daddy?" Jess asks
"A new friend of mine and we can talk about all of this over dinner." He says and I know he mean Jade, Liz, and I.
"Are we going somewhere fancy?" Jess asks and he nods. "I'm going to put on my best dress." Jess beams about to run up the stairs but Jade grabs her.
"You have to finish helping with the laundry." Jade says and Jess frowns.
"Aw man." Jess says before walking towards the kitchen. She must have forgotten about her punishment.
"Why does she have to help?" Mr. West asks.
"Because it's part of her punishment." Jade says and Mr. West looks even more confused.
"What did she do?"
"She beat up another girl and she put gum in some else's hair." Mr. West looks kind of shocked.
"Why would she do something like that?" He asks sounding like he can't believe it.
"She was being a kid, don't worry about it I got it."
"That is my daughter I have every right to worry." He says looking a little upset.
"I know that and you don't need to worry because there is nothing to worry about." Jade says sounding kind of annoyed.
"No I need to worry because I don't want her doing something like that again."
"She won't. I dealt with it. let it go." Jade snaps at him and Liz starts to cry. Jade calms down and her motherly side comes out. "Shh its okay, I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you." Jade says to Liz carrying her up the stairs trying to calm her down. I look at Mr. West as he looks where Jade was just standing looking kind of shocked.
"Are you her girlfriend?" He finally speaks looking at me. I nod looking down at the dirty clothes. He doesn't say anything else just walks up the stairs. I sigh in relief that he didn't go off on me calling me all different types of names. But I'm not too relieved because we still didn't talk about everything yet so you never know what may happen.
Dinner
We just pulled up that same restaurant we went to when I had to borrow Jade's dress to sing to get ourselves out of trouble. We all get out and I'm really surprised when Mr. West grabs the car seat with Liz in it. I look at Jade and she's just has surprised. We all walk inside immediately getting seated thanks to our reservations. We're sit at a seven seat table Mr. West sitting at the head. He sits Liz's car seat on the left side in one of the chairs with Jade right next to her and then me. Jess sits next to her dad on the right side of the table across from Liz in her carseat. We talk a little only because Jess would ask questions about something on the menu and when the waiter comes to take our drink orders.
"I don't know where to start, so I'm just going to start here. We're did the baby come from and who's is it?" Mr. West asks as he looks at Liz in her car seat looking around.
"She is our baby; but not ours. She's apart of a school project. Tori and I have to be a happy married couple with kids. We were supposed to have a fake baby but Sikowitz gave us a real one. This is his baby; but ours till the end of this month." Jade explains to her shocked but somewhat calm father.
"So you're telling me you two have been talking care of a real baby plus Jess?" He says surprised. I smile a little bit at his expression. Jade and I nod. "Impressive, not many teens could do this."
"Well we're not many teens." Jade says taking Liz out the car seat and sitting her in her lap.
"Yeah you're not; look yes I was surprised seeing the baby. I thought your mother dropped this little one off with Jess, but I really looked at her and she doesn't look anything like your mother. As you can tell your mother has strong genes." He says smiling looking at Jade and Jess. So true their mom's genes are strong. They both look just like their mom. "Jade I know I always gave you a hard time about who you are and what you wanna do and I'm sorry. I love you for who you are and I'll always love you no matter who you're with." He says looking from Jade to me then back with a smile.
"Thanks dad." Jade says smiling. I'm really glad that Jade's dad is so okay and accepting to our relationship and that he now doesn't hate everything that she does and wants to do.
"David." We all turn our heads seeing a short blond, with blue eyes, in a black dress with black heels. She's pretty.
"Oh Claire, everyone this is Claire my fiancée. Claire this is my daughters Jess, and Jade, her girlfriend, and my granddaughter till the end of this month." My eyes go wide going right to Jade who tenses up a little but relaxes. I look at Jess and she's smiling. A choir of 'Hello' and waves come from us as Mr. West sits Claire next to Jade moving Liz's car seat next to Jess.
"Your father has been telling me all about you two. It is really nice to finally meet you both." She says looking at Jade and Jess.
"So that means you're going to be our new mommy, if you're marrying our daddy?" Jess says more of a statement then a question. We all laugh a little at how cute Jess is.
"Yes sweet but she will be your step-mommy." Mr. West says and Jess nods taking another bread stick.
"So how long have you two known each other?" Jade ask looking at Claire and her dad.
"Huh we've worked together for five years and we got closer over the years and we started dating." Claire says and Jess frowns a little.
"Are you the reason my mommy and daddy broke up?" Jess asks looking a little upset.
"Jess listen sweetie, the reason me and your mommy broke up is because we weren't working out. We weren't happy with each other. Claire and I started dating a long time after me and your mommy broke up." Mr. West explains. Jess face changes from upset to understanding.
"I could never do that. That would make me like the same person that broke messed up my marriage and I'm not that person." Claire adds.
"Okay welcome to the family." Jess says smiling brightly.
"She's not a part of the family yet, not until we get married." Mr. West says laughing a little.
"I love weddings can I be in it?" Jess says with hopeful eyes.
"Of course you can sweetie." Claire says and Jess claps happily. "Jade would you like to be in it?" Claire asks looking at Jade. Jade stops playing with Liz heading popping up with wide eyes. I hold back a laugh at her shocked expression.
"Huh, sure." Jade says hesitating a little before a small smile comes onto her face.
"Jade you don't have to if you don't want." Claire says placing a gentle hand on Jade's shoulder.
"Oh no its fine I would love to be in your wedding." Jade says giving Claire a warm smile.
"That's great." Claire says giving a toothy grin.
"When is the wedding?" Jade asks
"We didn't pick a date yet. We wanted to talk to you guys first." Mr. West says.
"Dad you're the one getting married, not us." Jade says and Mr. West nod.
"Yes I know but I don't want to just bring someone new into our lives without you two knowing." He says making Jade nod.
"So you say this your granddaughter till the end of the month?" Claire asks looking and sounding amused as she looks at Liz who is trying to eat her fingers.
"Yea, Jade and I are doing a project for a play we're a married couple with kids. Suppose to have a fake baby but our teacher is nuts." I say making Claire laugh.
"Wow, so you guys are married till the end of this month too?" Claire asks still very amused.
"Yes we are." I say, Jade and I holding up our left hands showing the wedding bands. "Jade and I used to be frenemies meaning at our first rehearsal we did really bad, so our teacher made us real husband and wife with a child so that we can really get into the part. And over time Jade stopped being such a gank and we got together." I explain smiling at Jade who playfully glares at me for calling her gank before she leans in kissing me softly. Bold move.
"Eww, not at the table." Jess says making us laugh against each other and Mr. West and Claire laugh. "Their always like this." Jess says as we pull away from each other.
"That's really sweet." Claire says in awe.
"Are we ready to order?" The waiter asks and we all order we want. For the rest of dinner we talk and get to know Claire it was really good. I'm glad that Jade took her father getting married so well. Tonight was amazing. I wonder what the further may hold and if it's going to be this good.
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