Welcome to the third chapter!
Because of the story this is inspired by, I feel the need to say that Beck hasn't driven the boys of chapter one away. They really go voluntarily in this chap because their holiday is over. ;)
Now much thanks to Zilvelyn (also for the reviews to my other fics) and to SMC for commenting on my last chapter.
I hope everyone enjoys this one!

They haven't stayed up all that long. They had all been up early for school and therefore had gone into their tents fairly early as well.

Before they agreed to be up at 9am again, eat breakfast they have brought and then probably go swimming together if the weather would still look good enough for it.

Tori and Cat are both up half an hour early to shower before breakfast. The wash rooms in the close-by hut are luckily surprisingly clean.

Andre and Robbie have also washed themselves already when all four of them set up what they brought to eat.

They have some finger food, some sandwiches and Cat also already pulls the sweets out and claims you could and should always eat some.

They also gleefully watch that the guys that were set up close to the lake, woke up just as early and pack up now and leave. Possibly, they have spent the week here though neither Tori nor the others have any idea which school or college they could go to where they actually would have had a break. But in the end, they are only happy that at least they really can go swimming and won't be annoyed by them.

They talk about that while setting up and it's Tori who looks at Beck's and Jade's tent after some time and slowly asks: "They are still sleeping?"

Maybe, they have already gotten up and she missed it. Maybe, they are in the hut getting ready. But she is pretty sure they aren't and she hasn't heard a noise yet out of the tent. Except maybe the alarm over half an hour ago when it still was 9am.

"They are," Andre says with a look to the tent himself and amused, he adds: "I still think it's funny that Beck only is a heavy sleeper when he is with Jade."

Tori furls her eyebrows. "What?"

"Don't you know?" Robbie asks and she hasn't heard this before at all, so she shakes her head.

Andre explains: "Beck is usually a pretty light sleeper. That's my experience at least for the times I stayed over at his place or he was at mine or something."

Robbie nods as if to show that that's his experience as well.

Cat smiles happily: "He never is with Jade."

"I didn't know that until we were in Yerba," Andre says. "After you were arrested, we all stayed in one room and talked about our possibilities and worries and just fell asleep there in the early morning hours."

"We slept as well as we could," Robbie adds with a shiver. "It was still horrifying."

Andre nods at that before he goes on further with his explanation: "But Beck and Jade slept like babies, Jade sprawled out on top of him and everything."

"Really?" Tori asks and Andre nods again: "Really. I first thought Beck was just so exhausted and that's why it took so long to wake him up but actually..."

He makes a gesture to Cat who giggles and takes over: "I've seen Beck sleep when he's around Jade before that. Sometimes, we stay over at Jade's at the same time. I've never known he could be a light sleeper. He is like a stone, at least until she is up and under the shower. Then he wakes up quickly."

"I didn't know that," Tori honestly says and how could she?

Andre shrugs with a smile: "Well... The more comfortable you feel, I guess..."

And Tori thinks that's incredible. She doesn't think, being a heavy or light sleeper has normally anything to do with how comfortable or safe you feel somewhere but it sounds like that's true for Beck. Does Jade's mere presence let him feel so safe that he could sleep through everything like she can?

"I'll go wake them up," Cat decides after she has put her last sweet on their table they have luckily brought and now put up over the fire pit and loaded with their food.

She opens the tent and scrawls into it.

"Come on, wake up," Tori clearly hears her voice, even too loud outside. "Or you won't get any breakfast. Come on, come on."

Tori hears a groan from Beck and Jade yelling: "Cat! Shut up and get out!"

Cat comes out giggling. "They are awake."

"No kidding," Andre says and sits down on one of the logs.

Robbie sits down next to him and Cat and Tori take one of the other logs.

They already start eating what they have brought while Beck and Jade still don't come out. It takes several more minutes but when they do get out, Tori guesses they both made their hair at least a little in those minutes as they don't look as if they've just fallen out of bed.

But they are both still in something that's probably their pajamas. Jade pulls a jacket over a top, then she falls down on a seperate log, claiming: "It's way too early."

"We agreed on 9am," Tori reasons.

"We agreed on 9am," Jade mimics her with that awful voice she always uses, rolling her eyes and grabbing a sandwich.

Beck, who has sat down next to her, puts an arm around her and gives her a kiss on her temple, smiling.

Tori has to surpress a smile of her own as she bites in her own sandwich.

Well... Maybe, she doesn't know them after all.

Yes, she knows Beck, he is one of best friends, together with Andre. And she knows Jade way better by now than she once had.

But their relationship... She didn't understand that one for a long time, didn't understand why they stayed together despite their fighting, despite Jade's extreme jealousy, despite everything. After they have gotten back together after being apart for a few months, things have been a little different between them but not really. But she has come to the understanding with herself that that's just love. There is nothing to understand about it. It just somehow works or it doesn't.

She now realizes that she doesn't know anything about them as a couple, even after all those years close by. But she also has never tried to know more about their dynamic. She always has thought it's quite obvious. But what does she know?

Now, she suddenly learns that Beck is at least slightly possessive as well, that Jade has been considerate in her own way during the break up after all and that Beck apparently feels so safe around Jade that he can sleep through everything with her by his side, just like she normally does.

Who knows what else she will find out? Maybe, it's time to keep more of an eye on them, to watch them a little and to get to know more about the relationship they actually have.