A/N: Thanks to Rishini, Brucaslived1, irshgirl and the two guests for reviewing. I hope you like chapter two just as much :)

Before Jade drove to school she went on her The Slap page and changed her relationship status. She probably should have done that yesterday immediately after she left Tori's, but she just couldn't. Now that she was about to go back to school she knew she had to update her account. Beck surely had updated his new relationship status and she didn't want to look like the fool that still hadn't. With this new information about her she was sure that everyone would look closely at her for any sign of weakness and all the girls that had fallen all over themselves for a chance to talk to Beck would now have a field day. However all that shouldn't matter to her any more. Beck and her were over and she wouldn't come back to him again, he had hurt her too much for that.

For a moment she had considered it when she stood outside Tori's door, but the moment her hand touched the door handle she pulled it back as if it had burned her. She was too proud to let him walk all over her. He had humiliated her in front of the audience of Sinjin's stupid game show and then dumped her in front of their group. There was no turning back from the things he had done and having seen him like this she didn't want to be his girlfriend any more. Shaking her head Jade started her car and drove to school.

When she entered Hollywood Arts, head held high and her indifferent mask in place, she felt all eyes on her and she could hear people whisper, undoubtedly about her and Beck's break up. However nothing in her behavior let anyone know that she was hurt and her heart was still broken. The moment she opened her locker Cat was by her side, but right now Jade couldn't stand anyone and she turned to Cat before she could speak up.

"Not today Cat. I want to be alone." Her tone was demanding and Cat immediately nodded, understanding her.

If Jade wanted to make it through the day without showing any weakness it was better if she spent it alone and that was exactly what she intended to do. In class she didn't talk to anyone and when it was time for Sikowitz's class she sat in the far corner, putting as much distance between her and her former group as the small room allowed her. She felt their eyes on her and knew Beck was looking at her as well, but she didn't care. The only thing that mattered now was her love for art, that was at least something that couldn't end in betrayal.

When she entered the Asphalt Cafe she saw her group sit on their usual table, but there was no way she would join them. The moment she walked by their table her ex-boyfriend called out for her to wait. Turning around she faced him, her eyes ice cold and a frown on her face.

"Jade, can't we try to be friends?" Beck asked.

A loud humorless laugh almost escaped her when she heard his words. After all that he had done to her he wanted to be friends? First he humiliated her in front of an audience full of Northridge girls and then he dumped her in front of their group, but hey he wanted to be her friend. Who did he think he was, shattering her heart and then pretending everything was alright and they could all happily eat at the same table like they had done so many times before. Her next words were harsh, but they showed what she was feeling from the bottom of her heart since he broke up with her yesterday.

"A person like you turned out to be, I don't even want to know." Jade said coldly and left a shocked Beck and surprised crowd in her wake.

However before she could reach the table in the far corner Tori approached her. She was probably the only one that had pulled herself out of the shock she had all left them in with her words.

"Please Jade we are your friends. Come sit with us."

Now Jade couldn't hold her humorless laugh in any more. Tori Vega of all people thought she could tell her who her friends were.

"Yesterday you all proved how good friends you really are." The people that didn't already give her their full attention after her words to Beck were definitely doing it by now, but Jade didn't care. "I hope you all had fun while playing cards after my break up. It's not like friends really care about each other. Listen to me and listen good because I don't repeat myself, anyone sitting at that table isn't my friend and never really was. None of you has any right to call yourself my friend and from now on leave me alone."

When she finally reached her table Jade felt relieved. It felt good to let it all out and she meant every word she had said. These people had done nothing but betray her yesterday. No one except Cat had even cared enough to text her and despite that she would have told them that she didn't want to talk to them she would have appreciated if they had at least asked how she was feeling. She had made a mistake when she had thought they were her friends, because in the end they were Beck's friends who probably had only tolerate her because she was with Beck. Now they didn't need to pretend any more and Jade wasn't willing to give them a chance to lie to her again.

From now on no one was going to hold her back and three days later in class she finally had enough of a certain teach calling her names. Sikowitz had asked her to do an alphabet improve with two other students and after that went on for a while she misbehaved in his eyes.

"Jade stop being such a gank and go back to playing a happy scene instead of this dark one."

There he goes again calling her a gank and of course no one said anything about it. Jade was tired of it, just so so tired of all this. Everyone made her out to be the bad person all the time and it was finally enough. Without a word she left the stage, picked up her bag and left the classroom, only to go straight to Helen's office. She respected the new principal and she had to admit that Helen and her were similar in a way, they both were strong-minded demanding women who loved art. Ignoring the helpless secretary who tried to stop her she entered the principal's office without knocking. Helen didn't even look surprised and only raised an eyebrow at her.

"I'm changing classes. I'm not accepting Sikowitz as my improve teacher any more."

"Last time I checked I was the principal of this school and I decided if you change classes or not."

"And last time I checked I decided that I change classes and I'm doing exactly that."

Both were now standing face to face with a determined look in their eyes, none of them wanting to back down. Jade had one big advantage over Helen and that was that the last few days had made her so angry and hurt that she wasn't willing to take anything from anyone, so it was Helen who lost the staring match in the end. Sighing the principal sat back down and spoke up.

"At least tell me why you want to change classes."

"Let's just say Sikowitz has a different opinion than I have about how to treat his students."

Despite what most people thought of her Jade West wasn't mean when she could chose not to be. Why should she tell Helen how inappropriate Sikowitz was to her, when she could just change classes and be done with him. A lot of students, and at one point before he began the name-calling she was one of them, liked him as a teacher so why should she badmouth him to the principal?

"Alright let me fill out the papers."

Jade could tell that Helen was still skeptically, but she would give her the documents and that was all that mattered. When she sat down while the principal got the papers ready Jade felt really tired all of a sudden. Was this how her life would be from now on? Always fighting to be taken serious and with no one around to support her. The last three days had been awful to say the least. Putting on a facade of not caring about Beck any more was exhausting and only at night when no one was watching she let herself feel the pain her heart was in due to the break up. She knew that she was nowhere near over what had happened and wouldn't be for a while. Almost three years of loving someone didn't go away just like that, apparently except you're called Beck Oliver. Just like she had feared, he was always talking with some girl and smiling brightly as if she and their relationship never existed. She was pulled out of her thoughts by Helen calling her name. By the concerned look of the principal's face Jade knew that it wasn't the first time she had tried to speak to her.

"Here are the papers, but at least go to Sikowitz and tell him you changed classes so I don't have to do it." When Jade stood up to leave Helen stopped her. "For this you're going to do me a favor and be the guide for the new student tomorrow. He will go to this school starting Monday and is visiting tomorrow to see the school."

"Fine."

If that was all she had to do, it was alright. Without knocking she entered Sikowitz's class to see him standing on stage with a coconut, probably just done philosophizing about it.

"I talked to Helen and I'm changing classes."

"Good because you can really be a gank."

Despite that she had not said anything to Helen she would tell Sikowitz now what she really thought about him ever since he started calling her that word and stopped giving her roles in his plays.

"You call yourself a teacher and constantly call one of your students a gank. As far as I know teachers are supposed to support their students and help them not put them down, but then again when have you ever been a real teacher."

When she left Sikowitz's class after her words she was finally truly alone. No friends and no teacher there to hurt or betray her any more, but then why was her heart still shattered?

A/N: Next chapter Jade's old friend will show up for the first time. Please review and tell me what you think :)