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They light the fire up soon and keep the instruments close as they get their food out again. They have brought sausages, dough for twist bread and similiar things, they now put on sticks and warm up over the fire.

It's great fun for everyone except Jade of course: "Ugh. This is stupid."

"It's so much fun!" Cat promptly claims with a big grin on her face.

Jade gets her stick out of the fire and examines the two sausages she has on it. "They are always either burnt or still cold inside. Or both."

"You aren't holding it at the right hight then," Robbie says.

He sits opposite to her and she glares at him through the fire and he makes a terrified noise.

"Come on," Beck lightly says, rubbing one of her legs that's drapped over his, while he pulls his own stick out of the fire. "I think mine is done."

He holds the stick in front of her and she takes the sausage carefully off the stick, letting her own just fall onto the ground.

But it obviously doesn't make her much happier. "Also, it's getting cold."

"Think so?" Andre asks and... well, Jade is right there. Tori has to say: "It is sort of chilly."

The fire of course is warm and great, but her back is definitely a little cold. She has already thought about getting herself a jacket out of her tent but she hasn't felt like standing up yet.

"Give me your jacket," Jade tells Beck but it isn't as commanding as she sometimes can talk. It's softer and nearly with a little question mark in the end.

She does wear a rather thin jacket already. They are all in long sleeves.

Beck doesn't ask her to say "please" today which he sometimes does. Instead he directly takes it off and helps her in without them moving apart even an inch.

She leans heavily against him after while Cat finally chirps up again: "I don't understand why you don't love this, Jade. It's so beautiful here."

"Yeah," Robbie agrees, looking around, to the woods and the sky, happily. "I wasn't all that psyched to go into nature but it's actually quite nice."

"And we all spend some quality time with each other," Andre agrees and Cat says as if it is something suggestive, before she giggles: "Ooooh, quality time."

Everyone looks at her confused for a second, then Tori decides to just ignore it: "Whatever... It's especially great to have time to really talk. And to sing."

"How about singing an old campfire song?" Andre suggests and they are all on board.

So it goes on with singing while they eat, but they also keep talking much in between.

Tori doesn't miss that Jade has totally given up on making her own food over the fire. Instead she's eating some of the things that are also good cold – and Beck shares all of his food he holds into the fire silently with her. Of course he does, Tori thinks with a small smile. He always takes care of Jade and before she has to go to bed even slightly hungry, he provides food for her that she likes.

They eat for a long time as they also only put so much on one stick and all hold only one into the fire. Tori gets herself a jacket to pull over while they are still eating. Cat gets herself a blanket out of the tent after they are just finished. Tori is still a little angry with herself that she hasn't thought about bringing a blanket though for the night the sleeping bag is just fine. But here, in front of the fire, a blanket would probably be comfortable. But she guesses if she wants, she can ask Cat to share hers. At the moment, she is warm enough.

Though, it really is getting colder and colder but the fire is still burning beautifully warm.

They are just talking about the up-coming finals when Jade suddenly stands up.

Tori sees Beck's gaze following her into their tent, a little confused possibly about her standing up without warning him or saying where she's about to go.

The others just keep talking, probably guessing she wants to go to the bathroom or get herself another jacket.

Tori watches her come back from their tent, another jacket of Beck's in her arms and a big blanket.

She holds out the jacket for Beck while she sits down next to him again. "Say something the next time."

Beck pulls on the jacket (that he must have brought to the trip exactly for this reason – so that Jade and him both are able to wear one of his jackets) before he puts his arm back around Jade where it has been for the last few hours like so often. "I wasn't cold until you left just now."

"Yeah, right," Jade answers, rolling her eyes while she puts her legs over Beck's lap and then spreads the blanket over both of them.

Tori looks in Beck's face and realizes that Jade is right. He has been cold. For whatever reason he hasn't said anything about it though. Maybe, because they have sat together like this before and him getting himself a jacket would have required Jade to move, get off of him. Maybe, he hasn't wanted her to be angry about it. Or maybe, judging by how he has looked after her, he hasn't wanted to stop touching her even for the few seconds to get himself something warm to wear.

He shrugs though and decides with a smile: "We were keeping each other warm."

She rolls her eyes again. "Stop being so cheesy."

But he makes a kissy face and she does kiss him with a small smile before she makes absolutely sure that they are both covered by the blanket enough to keep them warm.

Only then, she turns her attention back to the others, her head lying against Beck's shoulder while they still talk about finals.

Tori has to smile again. As it seems, Jade also takes care of Beck. Maybe not as obvious, maybe not even as much. But she has noticed him being cold without him telling her and she has gotten up for him without making a big deal out of it or expecting a thanks.

And Tori is suddenly pretty certain, if she had watched them a little closer before, if she had been more... open to their relationship with their dynamic and everything, she probably would have noticed this way earlier.