A/N: Thanks to kaitlin2515, mnj2327, Reader 21, irshgirl, Rish and sayyouwontletgo for reviewing. I hope you enjoy the new chapter :)
Monday mornings in Hollywood Arts were always full of a lot of gossip seeing that the most interesting things always happened on weekends, but this time a certain video that had been posted on The Slap just a few minutes ago was what everyone talked about. The quiet conversations among the students, who were holding their phones in their hands still amazed at what they saw, were disturbed by the entrance doors of the school slamming open.
"Where is she?" Jade West, the person everyone was talking about, roared followed by a calm looking Kyle.
It seemed that the moment she saw Cat standing by Tori's locker she had found the person she was looking for.
"Cat why did you post that awful video?"
"I think it's cute. You know my mom found it on the weekend while she searched for my brother's old toys." Cat replied innocently, smiling brightly.
"And you had to post that?" Jade snapped angrily.
"I just thought that it showed so great memories and I wanted to share that. Are you mad?"
"I don't know why you're getting so worked up over this Jewel, I think it's a great video of us and you sound amazing." Kyle spoke up, laying and arm around Jade's shoulders, before turning to Cat. "Don't worry Kitty it's alright."
Despite that Jade looked still rather annoyed, she nodded in agreement. Cat didn't have anything bad in mind and she could never stay mad at her for too long. However she could have done without a video from years ago showing up on their school website.
"Does anyone mind telling me what all this is about? I don't understand what's going on." Tori finally said when she was sure it was safe to ask about it.
"As if this is the first time you don't understand something, it's more like a regular thing." Jade smirked at her and leaned against one of the lockers.
"Why don't you watch the new video Cat posted on The Slap and then ask." Kyle suggested and leaned back against the locker as well, waiting for the others to do as he said.
Excited Cat pulled her phone out and the rest of the group watched the video on it. There on stage of what looked to be a sort of school concert were Jade and Kyle, just a few years younger than they were right now. Jade had still her long brown hair without any highlights and her piercings were nowhere to be seen either. The only thing that didn't seem to have change was her love for black clothes, seeing that she wore black jeans and a black top with an equally black jacket. Kyle hadn't changed much, he was just more muscular and taller now. In the background they could see two other guys playing the drums and keyboard.
"That's Tyler. You know my ex-boyfriend and Kyle's best friend." Cat pointed to the guy playing the keyboard and didn't notice Robbie frown slightly. "I was there as well in the audience, but my mom didn't film me. Wait, now they start singing."
Just like Cat had said in the video Kyle started to sing and after a few seconds Jade joined him. Andre, who was probably the one that knew the most about music, had to admit that their voices blended in well together. Jade's voice had changing a little, judging from the last time Andre had heard her sing and Andre was sure Kyle's singing voice got deeper since then just like his speaking voice was now. However the musician could imagine that their voices still blended in together in a good way. Shaking his head Andre focused back on the video.
The younger versions of Kyle and Jade on screen just finished their performance and smiled at each other, before Kyle embraced Jade. There in the video were two people who were obviously close to each other and enjoying their time together. After they pulled away and the audience was done applauding the video faded to black.
When everyone looked up Kyle smirked.
"And that was Jewel and my first gig in front of an audience."
"And you're so proud of that." Jade rolled her eyes at him.
"Of course. This just shows that I saw your talent first. The audience loved how our voices sounded together."
"You mean they loved my voice and they tolerated yours." Jade smirked at him.
"Not true. I was the one who practically had to force you on that stage and anyway my voice got better and my band still has gigs, thank you very much."
"You can hardly call your grandma's birthday party a gig and if I remember correctly her ears were never the best."
"You know what? You have this thing coming up here at Hollywood Arts don't you? The Full Moon Jam?" He looked at Cat for confirmation, who nodded excitedly. "Let's sing a duet together and you will see that people love my voice."
"I'm the best singer at Hollywood Arts, sure you can keep up with me?"
"Challenge accepted Jewel, I hope you can keep that reputation." Kyle smirked at her.
"Whatever, now I'm bored. Let's get some coffee, before the students around here want our autographs."
True enough the students standing in the hallway were watching them closely and now shattered quickly when Kyle and Jade went out the door to the coffee cart.
Beck was quiet the whole time and watched Jade and Kyle interact closely with his heart squeezing painfully in his chest. Sure Jade had told him in the past while they had been dating that she had a few friends back at Middle School, but she had never talked to him about her first gig or how close she had been to the people there. It hurt to see her so carefree with Kyle and Beck didn't know what to make of their relationship with each other. Clearly there was history between them, but what kind of history? Was there more than friendship and were old feelings flaming up between them?
A week later the premiere of the play Jade and Kyle got the leads in made Beck worry even more about the matter. He had been offered a minor role in the play as well, but he had declined, not willing to see Jade and Kyle play a couple. To the premiere however he came, after all he wanted to get closer to Jade again and the first step was friendship and friends support each other. So here he sat in the audience watching the girl he still loved play a couple with her old Middle School friend. Beck couldn't believe how hard it was to watch them, but when they had to kiss he felt even worse. Of course he knew how Jade kissed people on stage, he knew how her stage kisses looked like, but this was different. Was Kyle the one that made this kiss seem more real or was there a chance that it was from Jade's side as well?
For the first time ever Beck felt disappointed and sad. Was this how Jade had felt when he had kissed Tori in her first week here? They had discussed that kiss for days and Jade had told him that it bothered her that he chose to kiss Tori, it was after all an improve scene and he could choose what to do. Back then they had been a couple and considering that, his kiss with Tori must have hurt her even more, if seeing her kiss Kyle hurt already so much while they were broken up. Looking back at the situation Beck finally realized his mistake, but was it too late for that?
Shortly after the play finished Beck pulled Cat aside, who looked confused at him. He just had to know if there was more history between Kyle and Jade he didn't know of.
"Were Kyle and Jade a couple in Middle School?"
"Why don't you ask Jadey?"
"Cat were Kyle and Jade together?" Beck's voice sounded harsh and demanding, so unlike himself, but he had to know.
"That's Jade and Kyle's story to tell, not mine." Cat said and skipped away.
Distracted Beck ran a hand through his hair. Of course Cat would never tell him Jade's secrets. Despite that the redhead could almost never keep secrets she always kept Jade's, they were best friends after all. If the circumstances were different Beck would have been happy that Jade had such a good friend in Cat, but right now he really wished that she just had told him what had been going on between Kyle and Jade. Seeing that Cat wouldn't tell him anything, there was only one person who he could ask and that could destroy his chance to ever get along with his ex-girlfriend, but he was blinded by hurt and anger.
Finding Jade was easy enough and when she just stood by herself for a moment Beck approached her.
"Did you kiss Kyle?"
"Duh Captain Obvious, I think you have a lot of witnesses for that." Jade rolled her eyes at him.
"I didn't mean just now on stage. Did you kiss Kyle before we began dating? Were you two a couple in Middle School?"
Jade frowned at him, before anger overtook her. What was Beck getting at and which right did he have to ask her that question?"
"That is none of your business. I'm not your girlfriend anymore. We aren't even friends right now Beck, so why should I tell you about my history with Kyle?" Shaking her head she sighed deeply. "You know what? I'm really done fighting with you, we did that enough while we were a couple. I'm out of here." With that she stormed off almost running Kyle, who was about to approach them, over.
Kyle looked after Jade for a minute before he looked at Beck. What did this idiot do now to get her so worked up?
"When I left, Jewel was in a good mood because of how much people liked our play and then you come along and she gets angry. Care to explain pretty boy?"
The last few weeks since their last conversation Beck had done his best to avoid Kyle as much as he could, but now they were back to facing each other.
"I asked her about her history with you and she said it was none of my business."
"And she is completely right about that. Dude you're her ex-boyfriend, why should she tell you about such things?"
"Because we dated for years and I love her." Beck insisted, fists clenching tightly by his sides.
"So you had your chance to be with her and you blew it. Don't you think she deserves to move on with someone who really appreciates her and treats her right?"
"And you mean yourself by that?"
"Maybe."
"Do you love her?" This time Beck felt that Kyle would answer him and he wasn't sure if he would like what Kyle would say next.
A/N: So next chapter we'll see if Kyle has any feelings for Jade beyond friendship. Also I decided that I'm going to end this story with chapter 10, I really planned for this story to have only around five chapters but your great reviews made me extend it :) Anyway now I slowly have to decide how everything turns out for Jade, Beck and Kyle. I'll try my best to write an ending that is fair to all of them. Please review and tell me what you think :)
