It's so, so, so hot. Hating everything I dropped myself on the bench and grabbed Ryder's water. Relieved I gulped it down before looking at Ryder. He had an amused smirk on his faced. "You could have asked."

"Asking is for losers." I shrugged and eyes Laura's water.

"Don't even think about it. You don't sweat. I do."

"So?"

"So I need it. You don't."

"Unfair." I leaned my head on Ryder's shoulder. "You should share with your best friend."

She smirked and held her water bottle out to us. "Ryder, would you like a sip of water?"

"Mean." I threw my empty bottle at her. "He isn't your best friend. Girls can't be best friends with guys unless their gay, ugly or unattractive in anyway. One day you can't deny the chemistry anymore and you'll have sex and the friendship is ruined because at some pint one person wants more." I checked Ryder out. From his handsome face to his delicious booty. "And honey Ryder isn't any of those things. But maybe just sex could work between you guys. You both don't want something serious."

"Sweetie." Ryder caressed my cheeks. "If you want me I'll dump her immediately."

Laughing I pushed his hand away and planted a chaste kiss on his lips. "Sweetie." My teeth ached from the sweetness in my voice. "It's lovely that you say that but if Laura and you break up I'll go for her." I patted his cheek.

"Hmhm." He stretched his arms which showed is, let's be honest, beautiful abs peeking from under his shirt. "I know you want me more."

"Wooh." Teasing I fanned myself with my hands. "If you show me more I won't be able to keep myself away from you. Can you, Laura?"

"Jade." Laura stood up from her place across from me. When she was close enough she let her fingers walk across Ryder's shoulder. "If he gets any hotter we'll start fighting for him."

Ryder wiggled his eyebrows at that us both. "Hot in... So hot in here… So it in…Oh!"

He was loud enough for one of his puppets to hear him and the puppet started playing a beat at his keyboard. The three of us looked each other in the eyes.

I stood up at exactly the right time. "With a little bit of… and a little bit of…"

Laura, who was still standing sang further. "Just a little bit of, just a little bit of."

Our eyes met and we started moving against Ryder on the beat. "Just a little bit of, just a little bit of."

"I was like, good gracious, ass is bodacious.

Flirtatious, trying to show faces."

Ryder's voice wasn't bad for this song. All of our voices weren't bad, but we weren't great either. But our moves were certainly making up for it.

"I'm waiting for the right time to shoot my steez you know.

Waiting for the right time to flash them ki's, then."

Laura and I were moving suggestively against Ryder while I sang the next few lines.

"I'm leaving, please believing, oh!

Me and the rest of my heathens."

While Laura was singing she walked to Jake who was watching us with an amused grin on his face. Ryder started singing his part of the song and in the meantime Laura was 'seducing' Jake. I haven't had this much fun in the last year. The weather could still be the dead of me but singing had joking with my friends made me forget it.

"No deceiving, nothing up my sleeve and." It was my turn again and there was only one person I would be comfortable enough with to flirt with him. Confidently I strode to Beck and let my fingers wonder against his cheek. "No teasing I need you to."

Jake took Laura's turn to sing and chose his own girl to tease. It was the girl he took the math notes from yesterday and she was blushing like a tomato. It was kinda cute. Ryder slipped into his part and walked towards me, choosing his own victim. I would have laughed at the face of Tori Vega when Ryder started making his moves. The look of shock, fear and poorly disguised lust should be able to make me last for at least a week without hurting her.

It was my turn again and I lifted one of my legs over his so I was straddling him. "And can't nobody stop the juice. So baby tell me what's the use? I said."

Together the boys started singing the first line of the chorus while the second line was sung by us girls. "It's getting hot in here, so hot, so take off all your clothes. I am, getting so hot, I wanna take my clothes off."

On the same time Ryder ripped off his shirt, Laura shredded Jake's and I lifted Beck's. The look of surprise on his face was priceless, but I got more satisfaction out of the look of lust when I started moving against him. I missed this. I've missed him.

"It's getting hot in here, so hot, so take off all your clothes. I am, getting so hot, I wanna take my clothes off."

I ended the song with my front pressed against Beck's back, Ryder was almost kissing Tori and Jake and Laura were in a…let's say more indiscreet position. My arms started to relax and I let Beck go. Before I could even take a step away he grabbed my wrist again and pulled me onto his lap.

"You can't leave me hanging, babe."

He had a mischievous sparkle in his eyes and I couldn't help but smile back. I always loved this side of back, when he dropped his front and showed his feeling to me. "Can't I?"

"Let her go, Oliver." Ryder dropped a hand on Beck's shoulder.

"Ryder." I smiled up at him. "It's okay. Really."

"Sure?"

"Yup. Thanks."

He still had a cautious look in his eyes but Ryder walked away. "Well." I smiled at Beck again. "Where were we?"

"You were leaving me hanging."

"I know. But it's nice to hear it again." I glided off of his lap on the bench and looked around the table. "How much was I slandered in the past weeks?"

Cat only smiled at me, André and Robbie looked guilty and Beck grabbed my hand under the table. Tori was the one who spoke up.

"Not a bit. At least not while Cat or Beck were with us. You just give us so much to talk about."

"I know." With an evil grin I watched her. "At least I'm not afraid of what people think about me."

"I'm not afraid!"

"Hmhm." I stood up from the table and laid a hand on Beck's shoulder. "It's nice seeing you all again. Bye Beck. Cat"

The bell signaling the beginning of class hadn't rung yet so I walked back to my table where three pair of eyes were looking accusingly at me. Normally I wouldn't care. Hell, I wouldn't have care a couple weeks ago. But these were the people I call my actual friends, together with Cat. Not just mere acquaintances like Robbie or André were.

"We're not dating again." I seated myself on the opposite side of the table. "Don't worry, I promise."

"It looked real cuddly to me. Don't you think Jake?"

"Yeah Laura. You're right. She doesn't sit that way with everyone."

I groaned. They weren't letting this go. "I won't deny I still have feelings for him, because I do. Those won't disappear just because of what he did. And…You all know how I act on my feelings. That's never been a secret."

"We know that Jade." Ryder spoke up. "But that doesn't mean we're going to let him hurt you again."

My face softened a bit. It has been a while that someone actually cared about me like this, beside from Jer. "Of course. If he does that again you'll have my permission to ruin him socially, but in the meantime just try to act nice. Beck and I were friends before we started dating and I'd like to have that back."

Jake shot a glance back at my old table. "Your old friends aren't going to like this."

My gaze hardened again. "They were never my friends except for Cat and Beck and they won't mind it. I can handle Robbie, André and that Vega girl."

"You sure?"

"Of course." I elbowed Ryder softly. "I've got you guys. How can they win from me? Robbie pisses himself before we even get to him, André will run away screaming and Vega will be crying her heart out before we're even done."

"That's my girl!" Jake grinned and slung his arm around my shoulders. "They won't know what hit them."

Ryder smiled a bit and didn't react. Laura looked at me with a serious look on her face. "As long as you won't forget us. We took you back one time and we won't do it again. Got it?"

"Got it." For them I smiled. "I won't do that again. And even if I come close you'll kill me before I've done it."

"You got your brains back, West."

I did. I've left them once for back and that was one of the stupidest things I've ever done. Since I hang with them again I smiled more and was generally happier. The only thing throwing a shadow on my happiness was the lack of Beck, but if everything went like I wanted that would be gone soon too. I'd be the happiest I've ever been.