Just a little authors note again. I've been sick at home the last couple days so I've been able to write a lot. Tomorrow I'm starting again so I'm not gonna post as much as these two days. I've got nothing more to say so happy reading.

The week continued on like that. Nothing special happened. At least if you consider my father and stupid stepmother going on a holiday for a month leaving Jer and me home alone and Sikowitz slamming Cat with a ball nothing special.

I was sitting in Sikowitz class yet again next to Cat and ignoring Beck. I wanted to ignore someone else also but that someone was on stage putting on a horrific version of the Bird Scene. Luckily the end was coming near.

Vega laid her head on her chest and stayed silent. Oh how I wish she would stay like that forever. Of course she had to terminate that dream to with looking up and opening that mouth of hers. "How was that?"

And she failed the Bird Scene. Not that it surprised me.

"What do you mean?"

Stupid Sikowitz. Giving her a way out of this. Teachers should let the students make their stupid mistakes so they could learn from them. Not helping said students by giving them a way out.

"Did I do the scene right?"

A smirk appeared on my face. Maybe I could count on Vega for ruining her life all on her own.

"No, no not at all." Go Sikowitz! I knew he was my favorite teacher for a reason.

"Okay then what did I do wrong?"

"You have to perform the scene again tomorrow and get it right or else you cannot be in Andrés play or any other."

"But can you tell me what I did wrong?"

"No, I can't."

"I don't get any feedback?"

I snickered a bit at that. How stupid could someone be? Asking twice won't make the answer any different. You think she would have learned that question already. I took a quick look at her. Or not. She seems like the stupid perfect girl who get her way in everything.

"That is correct."

"Bu-"

"Drive by acting exercise. You're all terrified dolphins. Go!"

I hated the dolphins but at this moment I almost loved Sikowitz so I jumped up and acted like the hellish creature from the sea till the bell rang and I could escape.

Once in the hallway I dropped my books of and walked outside. The whole week I'd had lunch in the Janitors closet or in the Black Box Theater and I was sick of it. I wanted coffee and the only place I could get decent coffee here was at the Grub Truck. So I stood in line, snapping my scissors at anyone who looked at me too long. Dumbasses.

It was almost my turn when someone hugged me from behind and lifted my feet from the ground. "Jade! We've been looking for you all week."

I recognized that voice. And our history was the only reason I didn't rip him apart once he settled me back on the ground. I turned on my heels and heard everyone gasp when I glared at him. "Jake."

"Jade." The blond haired boy in front of me repeated at the exact same tone and then he smiled. "I'll get you coffee. Just this time. Black, two sugars, right?"

He didn't wait for my response and ordered the coffee. I just stood there a little bit baffled. After more than two years he still remembered my coffee order. How could I get mad at him now?

"Come on. You're sitting with us."

He held the Styrofoam cup in front of my noise and walked away. Now I could get mad at him. "Jake! Give me that coffee!"

The line split like the sea for Moses when I stalked through them. Still Jake was faster and already sat at my old table before I got too him.

"Come sit." He patted on the empty space next to him. "You know we don't bite. At least not you."

I wanted my coffee and if Jake didn't change, what it seems like, then this is my only chose at getting it. "Idiot" I muttered and grabbed my coffee before he could take it away from me.

"I know you love me."

"In your dreams." A sigh escaped my lips when I took my first sip of the smoking hot coffee. That was worth everything that could come out of this.

"Well, well if that isn't the lost princess. You finally came crawling back to us." Laura seated herself across from me. A smirk much like my own on her face. "We told you that Beck boy would be trouble."

"Yeah yeah. Can't you gloat somewhere I'm not? I'm sure everyone will be more than willing to join you. Maybe some idiot even filmed it."

"I see that you have changed over the years." She put her hands under her chin. "You always knew that we stick together. Hurt everyone else but each other. That's how we manage to stay on top of the food chain."

Surprised I raised my eyebrows a tiny bit. "Since when am I still part of the group?"

The last member set himself next to Laura. "You joined years ago. Your little mishap with that," Ryder nodded at Beck, "Doesn't change that."

It was two years ago I even talked to them and still they accepted me. Even though I left the group for Beck because they didn't like him. That was more than Beck's group of friends ever did for me. Maybe I still had friends or at least acquaintances other than Cat.

"Alright then." I took another sip from my coffee. "If I'm still welcome I'll come sit here at lunch. Except maybe on Wednesday."

Laura was the first one to understand and smiled a little. "Still friends with Cat?"

"She won't leave me alone."

"Riiight."

I could almost hear Jake rolling his eyes so I elbowed him in the stomach. "Shut up, pretty boy."

"She's back!" Jake was the most outgoing one of the group so it was obviously him who jumped up and screamed across the whole Asphalt Café.

Just to glare at everyone who stopped eating to look at us I slowly rotated my head around till I stopped at my old table. Cat was smiling happily and even waved at me. The only other person I could be interested in at that table was Beck. He stared at me intensely and when he noticed me watching he smiled his golden smile. Quickly I turned my head back again. He still didn't deserve me.

At the other table Tori was following Becks gaze and landed at Jade and the table she was sitting at. Maybe she didn't know the girl well but she was a little bit curious of the people she was sitting with. They looked so cool and everyone at that table was at least an eight in the looks department.

"Who is Jade sitting with?"

"Hm?" André looked up and threw a quick glance at the table. "Ow her old gang. Laure, Ryder and Jake."

"Jade has friends?" To Tori Jade just didn't seem like the person with friends. And if she did have them she didn't understand why she wasn't sitting with them the entire week.

"Of course Jadey has friends! I'm one of them" Cat clapped happily in her hands. Over the week she'd grown to like Tori. Although no one could replace Jade in her mind.

"Yeah I know Cat. But other than you? You all never talk about them."

Sometimes Tori was just too curious in Andrés mind but he liked the girl and he would be happy to satisfy a bit of that curiosity. "They're not our friends. Only Jades. Jade didn't hang out with them anymore because they didn't like Beck. So we got stuck with her."

"André!" That was the first time Beck said something during the whole break. "She isn't that bad."

"Hmhm. That's why everyone at school fears her and that group. They maybe more subtle then she but you know how they act. I don't know how they get so popular."

"Jade has a reason." Beck looked at the girl in question again. "You just don't know it."

"Then enlighten me."

"No!" Cat almost screamed it and clasped her hand over Becks mouth. "He can't do that. Right Beck?"

He nodded and she let him go. After another longing gaze at Jade Beck returned his attention to his lunch. "She'd kill me and I can't get her back when I'm dead."

"Poor bastard."

André shook his head and started eating again while Tori shot another glance at Jade. What did she have that made her so popular and loved by Beck even though she was mean?

Jade didn't know what was going on in the heads of the gang. She just smirked at the reunion with her old gang.

Did you like it? I hope so. Ah well enjoy your day/night further!