Hey all you people! This popped into my head yesterday and I was just now able to write it down. I've always loved Jade and Cat's friendship for some reason. It's just adorable!

Anyway, hope you guys enjoy!

~ "Perfection is the disease of a nation," Pretty Hurts, Beyonce.~

Jadey.

There wasn't anything Jade West hated more than when Cat called her 'Jadey'. "Jaaddeeyy." The way it rolled off her tongue in that already annoying high pitched voice of her or the way Cat would bounce a little and give her that look. That cute little look that held nothing but pure admiration for Jade...okay, well, maybe she liked the nickname a little...wait, what was she thinking? She hated that nickname, plain and simple, end of story.

She did not hate Cat, however. If anything, Cat was one of the few people who didn't make Jade want to throw up. Aside from Beck and André (who she deemed 'pretty cool' or 'alright, I guess'), Cat was the only other one who she truly enjoyed being around. Her innocence and overall demeanor could be very aggravating, but at the same time somewhat adorable, if you were into the ditzy redhead thing. However, one of Cat's many flaws was that she had never been able to stand up for herself, her child like personality making her shrink back every time someone so much as raised their voice at her.

That's why Jade knew someone had upset Cat by the way she walked up to her this morning at her locker. Jade took one look, and slammed her locker shut, not in anger of Cat being beside her, but at the tears that threatened to streak mascara down Cat's flawless face. Jade wasted no time and got right to the point. "Who was it?"

Like she needed to ask.

Her first thought jumped to Cat's new boyfriend, Ryan Walker. She sneered. She never really liked him, or had a good feeling about why he was with Cat. For as long as he had gone to Hollywood Arts he had dating nothing but perky blondes with striking blue eyes and bubbly personalities. Sure, Cat had one heck of a bubbly personality, but definitely not one like the cheerleader types Ryan was into.

Jade reluctantly let Cat lock arms with her, much to her disgust. Cat knew how much Jade hated being touched by anyone other than Beck, but... Jade sighed. She guessed she would let Cat get away with this one time. This one time only though, she thought as she led the sniffling Cat down the hallway, straight to Tori's locker. She hated this Vega chick to no end, but sometimes she was useful.

However, as soon as Cat saw where they were heading, she abruptly stopped, a small whine emitting from her.

"Cat? Come on, Cat what is the deal?" Jade asked, much sharper than she had meant to.

Cat shook her head, and Jade took her little squeak of indifference as enough as an explanation that she was going to get out of her.

She left the cowering Cat in the middle of the hallway, her hands still covering her mouth and constantly stepping out-of-the-way of people. Pushing through her fellow students, half of which she didn't even like, she stepped up to Vega's locker, leaning up against the wall beside her. Tori didn't seem to notice her right away, and as she leaned out of the locker and saw Jade standing there, she screamed shrilly and her books went straight up into the air, fluttering back down to earth as Tori tried to slow her heartbeat down.

She placed her hand over her heart and took several deep breaths. "God, Jade. You just gave me a heart attack."

"Good," Jade drew out, raising an eyebrow as Tori shot her a look and shaking her head as she bent down and began gathering her things.

"So, I gotta question."

"Is it about how to restart my heart cause I think you broke it."

"Not really."

"Well then"

"So, why is my Kitty Cat upset and why does she not want to come anywhere near you?"

As soon as the words left Jade's mouth, Tori shot up, her face flustered. She looked everywhere but into Jade's eyes, and she held her notebooks and papers in one hand while she ran a hand through her messy hair. "Umm, I-I don't know what.."

Her stutters died down as Jade took a menacing step towards her, the slight smirk that dashed her face now dripping into a cold scowl. "Look here, VEGA. I wanna know what's up and I wanna know now. You know something and for whatever reason you're not telling me. Either you man up and tell me now, or I can just beat it out of you."

Tori swallowed hard and looked as if she was going to run, but she knew better, and her arms fell to her side as she gave an exasperated sigh. "It's my fault."

"WHAT?" Jade practically leapt at Vega, until she started talking again, tossing her papers once again on the floor and throwing her arms in front of her as a defence mechanism.

"I mean, it's my fault.. in a way, I guess. But the real problem is Ryan. He's the one you should go after."

Jade seemed to calm down, for now at least, as she relaxed back down into a calmer stance, her arms crossing as she glared at Tori. "What do you mean?"

Tori swung her body around like she always did when she had to explain something she didn't want to. "Well, last night, um.. Ryan kind of broke up with Cat and said like a bunch of mean things to Cat..and she texted m.."

Jade threw one hand up, shutting her eyes and shaking her head. "Whoa whoa whoa slow your roll. What kind of mean things?"

"Well.."

"Vega.."

"OK, OK, um, stuff like he.. never really liked her because he thought she was annoying." Tori bit her lip at the end of the sentence, examining the extremely pissed off look clouding Jade's face. She took a mere step back at the sound of Jade cracking her knuckles and clenching her fists together.

"Is that all?" Jade asked through gritted teeth.

Tori did a little dance and dug the toe of her shoe into the ground. "Umm, well, he kind of also said that.. that the only reason he had dated her in the first place was to get close to me." Knowing that she was endangering her life Tori knelt over, hiking her leg up to guard her stomach and using her arms to shield her face. Jade watched Tori's body tense up, waiting for the impact, and she would have laughed under any circumstances that didn't involve her best friend's hurt feelings.

Jade rolled her eyes and let out a deep breath. "Vega."

"What?" Tori yelled from behind her wall of arms and legs.

Jade reached out and grabbed one of Tori's arms, of course causing Tori to flinch and make the most inhuman noise Jade had ever heard in her life, and pulled her arm down so that she could see Tori's face. Tori popped one eye open, examining the girl in front of her, before assuming it was safe enough to unfold herself. She sniffed and smoothed her band tee out. "That never happened. You tell no one."

Jade thumb-upped her. "Look, I'm not gonna hurt you just because Ryan broke up with Cat because he likes you. I should, because Cat's over there crying and you're part of the reason, but.. I'm not."

The horrified look on Tori's face faded into a surprised one. "Really? Wow, thanks Jade.."

"Okay, yeah, but seriously if you ever hurt Cat's feelings on purpose I'm gonna bash your pretty little face into my fist, got it, princess?"

Tori's chocolate-brown eyes widened and she nodded slowly. "Got it," she whimpered.

Okay, I'm gonna have to finish this story later but now for honesty time. I really don't know how to write the second part, so any help you guys could give me would be great. :)

Oh, and sorry it's kind of choppy. It's almost dinner time, and I was trying to finish this up before my Nacho Bell Grande comes home. ;)