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The reactions are what you would expect, especially when Freddie was quietly in LA and Jade and Robbie are the only two Hollywood Arts students who knew about Sam and Freddie at the moment. Cat was always a Bade shipper so her reaction is expected. Tori and Andre accept it for what it is, a friend finding a new boyfriend after a previous relationship ends, someone that will treat them right. There's no question would treat her right based on their viewings of iCarly and their interactions with him during I party with Victorious and Who Done It to Trina?
I hope to have the new chapter for this up soonish. I started work on it but sadly Sunday is football day so that is a lost day of writing...
Fanfic-Reader-88: Thank you. I apologize for the wait, I was originally trying to get the chapter up fast. Sadly family stuff and that prevented that.
Freddie is cautious for two reasons. One is the way his relationships with Valerie, Carly and of course Sam have gone. The other reason is how Jade is. While yes, Jade is more like the chimp Carly referred Sam was and the fact that Jade is a bit of a mean girl. Granted to Freddie, she hasn't been in the same as she been to others and she did become tamer but it is a bit of a flashback to Sam.
If Jade tells Beck, that would be spoiling the story (in particular this chapter)...
As for the names, yeah I spoofed real life MMA fighters but t I think there were only three male fighters in the Danverse: Jackson Colt, Geux Merr (the wiki goes by this for Goomer's name so I'm going by this) and the guy Geux Mere fought.
darck ben: Thanks and I hope you continue to read.
As I mentioned OneHorseShay updated Double Proposal (an AU multi-shot kinda/sorta based off of iGuess We're Roommates) and he also updated A Daughter's Salvation (a parallel story to his Who Are My Brothers? based off of Killing Daddy.) Fanfic-Reader-88 also updated his story Maybe Somebody Does Like You, a prequel to The Tech Whiz And The Former Grunch and A Shower And Two Valentines (The Best Shower Ever) and posted a spin-off one shot to A Shower And Two Valentines entitled In Need Of Some Alone Time. Both of these stories are not lemons at all.
While Jade was busy at school, Freddie spent the day on his PearBook looking for jobs and sending applications to various jobs and checking his application status at the California colleges he applied to. Once he spent enough time doing that, he played World of Warlords. At about 4:00 PM, Freddie saw Jade's PearChat name signed on. Freddie has not talked to Jade since the previous night when she dropped him off at Robbie's house. Freddie clicked on ScissorLuv and typed "Hi."
"Hi," the scissor loving teen replied. The screen showed that she was typing a new message. "How was your day nugnug92? :p"
Freddie smirks and typed, "It was fine. And my screen name goes back to my first Pear account."
"Figures, not going to ask me about my day? ;)" Jade commented.
Freddie rolls his eyes before putting his fingers to the keyboard of his PearBook and replies, "Actually I would but I imagine you'll say that there was some weird situation at school that you don't care to tell me so you will not."
"Wow you know me so well…" Jade remarks. Freddie expected that she was typing it with sarcasm.
Freddie smiles as he types his reply. "I should, being that I want to be your boyfriend. Just like how you like two sugars in your coffee."
"A guy that knows how I like my coffee, you are trained well," his blue-eyed goth girlfriend types.
Freddie smirks and asks, "Can I see you?" Moments later, he has a video chat request from ScissorLuv which he accepts. "Hey babe."
"Hi Freddie," Jade responds with a smile on her face.
Freddie smiles back and states, "You look beautiful. I missed you."
"I missed you too but I have a question for you, one you don't have to answer. Why couldn't I have met you before I started dating Beck?" Jade questions
Freddie sighs before responding. "Well, too be fair I don't think I would have noticed. I was too preoccupied with chasing after Carly at that point that I would have thought that I was settling to be with any girl."
"Kind of like dating Sam?" Jade inquires raising her pierced eyebrow.
Freddie exhales and replies, "I guess, especially after Carly tried to date someone else in Steven."
"Yeah that creep who said I'd taste good," Jade recalls.
Freddie looks confused and asks, "What?"
It is now Jade's turn to sigh. "At Kenan's party, Beck and I went into the hot tub because I like going into them because I imagine myself being boiled by witches for them to eat," Jade states. Freddie looks somewhat disturbed by that revelation. "It's not the worst you heard from me like the story of why I visited Nona Patterson's house after Cat thought she died."
Freddie shakes his head before confirming, "Yeah, that is true."
"So as I was saying, I explained that to Steven and Tori and he remarked that 'I would taste good.' And this was in front of Tori AND Beck," Jade explains.
Freddie nods and asks, "And what did Beck do?"
"Nothing besides stare a hole at Steven. I shouldn't have expected any different," Jade comments crossing her arms across her ample chest.
Freddie says, "I would have fought him for you."
Jade smiles at the thought. "I know you would even if you are nerdy," Jade jokes knowing that Carly said that she feared that Freddie would get beat up by Steven. Freddie laughs at the comment. "But speaking of Beck, I met him last night to tell him about us finally away from everyone else."
Freddie perks up knowing that Jade planned to tell he about them now that they were official. "So how did it go?"
"Why don't I just start from the top?" Jade asks. Freddie nods wanting to know the details of the meeting he couldn't be around for. "So I just dropped you off after finishing the scene with Cat.."
After finishing the project with Cat and dropping Freddie off at Robbie's, Jade drove over to her former boyfriend, Beck Oliver's trailer. In the last month, the two barely talked to each other they were quiet at lunch, not talking to each other. The only time they would is if they were a part of Mr. Sikowitz's acting exercises in class. Jade knew this was going be a tough talk have with Beck. One that Freddie already expected Jade to have with her ex though it was a conversation he himself didn't have it with Sam.
Jade realized why Freddie did not let Sam know about the two of them dating and did the same thing with Beck but now she realized she has no choice and should tell her ex. She knew now that Sam told Cat, it was only so long until everyone else in Hollywood Arts knew. Whether they were a friend of her's or just afraid of the resident mean goth girl of the performing arts high school. She thought that it would be better if she told Beck herself.
Jade turned into the drive-way of her ex-boyfriend's house where his trailer sat. She parked her car close enough she could get in between her car and his trailer. Jade turned the key to shut off the ignition before opening the driver side door to get out. Jade got out of the car and closed the door behind her. She walked to the door of the trailer and waited. Jade thought about the words she needed to say to Beck, do they could salvage any future relationship between the two.
Just as Jade moved her hand up to knock on the door, it opened revealing the long-haired pretty boy actor who until a month ago, was her boyfriend. "Hey," he welcomed his ex with a smile
Jade smiled back and replied, "Hey yourself."
"Didn't expect to see you here again," Beck commented.
Jade smirked at her ex before stating, "Yes, I didn't expect to be back here. I already have you have your stuff and you gave me mine."
"Well when you threatened to burn mine, I figured it was a good time to swap everything at school," Beck responded.
Jade rolled her eyes at the acquisition, even though it was true. Jade looked at the pretty boy ex and explained, "Well that was only because you didn't try to fix or problems and only wanted to date me because I was difficult and didn't agree with everything like Meredith or any of the girls that continued to hang on you after we got back together."
"I know, I screwed up," Beck admitted throwing hands in submission. Jade smirked at the abnormal occurrence of Beck submitting and admitting defeat. "Old habits die hard."
Jade raised her pierced eyebrow and replied, "That's exactly what got us in this mess in the first place "
"I know and it a sucky excuse but we only got back together because we were comfortable," Beck stated. "Want to come and talk?" Jade nodded and Beck let hs goth ex-girlfriend into his trailer. "Do you want something to drink?"
Jade nodded again and responded, "Yes you got any Blue Dog in there?"
"Yes, you drink that stuff?" Beck questioned.
Jade looked at Beck and replied, "You sound surprised. I know you don't have a coffee pot and you know besides loving the taste of it, the caffeine calms me down." Beck walked over to the mini fridge and grabbed a bottle with the blue soda in it and handed to his ex. "Thanks," was her response before she took a sip from the bottle.
"So what is this visit about?" Beck asked as he took a sip from his own bottle of Blue Dog sitting on the opposite arm of the couch.
"You mean I couldn't have just decided that I just wanted to stop by?" Jade remarked.
Beck looked at his ex's blue eyes and answered, "Well you never just stop by. There has been a purpose to you being over, normally someone's suffering. You stayed at Tori's when we were helping her with the Kesha contest to watch Robbie return after giving the ice cream to kids at the park. You also laughed Tori's misfortune doing the stunts at the Gorilla Club. Then you also forced her to make you a pizza."
"I also laughed at Robbie when he was bandaged after falling into a tank of Kansas Razorback Tuna," Jade commented.
Beck looked confused at Jade and asks "Kansas Razorback Tuna?"
"Long story," Jade stated.
Beck nodded his head and agreed, "Right. I just never heard of Kansas Razorback Tuna before. I knew Robbie got attacked by fish." Beck sucks in a deep breath. "So why are you here tonight?"
"Well, it is a bit complicated," Jade announced after sucking in a deep breath.
"Was anything with us or our friends ever not complicated?" Beck inquired raising his eyebrow.
Jade rolled her eyes in response. "Well yeah but this is something I didn't expect to have happen to me this fast."
"You like someone don't you?" Beck questioned
Freddie asks, "So what did you tell him?"
Jade rolls her eyes at her boyfriend and replies, "Chill, I am about to tell you. God, you're almost as bad as Cat Freddie."
"I'm sorry," Freddie apologizes.
Jade throws up her hands and exclaims, "You're killing me Benson, you're killing me. As I was saying..."
Jade sucked in a long deep breath and exhaled it before she nodded her head and remarked, "Yes, I do."
"Is it anyone I know?" Beck replied with a question of his own with an even emotion on his face.
Jade shrugged her shoulder and answered, "Kind of, you met him once a few years ago. Remember the party André had at Kenan Thompson's place?"
"Yeah, why did so many people show up to it?" Beck pondered remembering how many people showed up to the party.
Jade raised her pierced eyebrow in response. "Don't you remember, Rex sent it out on TheSlap causing André to be wazzed off at him and Robbie for letting it out to Sinjin, Burf, Brady, Damien, Darren, Eli, the nodders, the shruggers and the Northridgers who came and even the iCarly gang." Jade remarked. "I can't believe you didn't realize that."
"Jade, we went into the hot tub with that weird brother of Carly and Sikowitz scared the chiz out of us in it," Beck defended.
Jade smirked and commented, "I guess you were too preoccupied looking at me in bikini while witches were boiling me."
"I plead the fifth on that," Beck argued. "However, if I did, it was OK at the time because we were dating"
Jade rolled her eyes and agreed, "Fine you get off on that one Oliver. But if I ever catch you oogling me again whenever you see me in a bikini, so help me because you will never be found."
"What you're going to send me into the desert like you tried with Tori or Robbie?" Beck questioned. Jade gave no visible response, which told Beck that he was right about his thought. "So you reconnected with someone from the party recently?"
Jade nodded her head confirming that to be true. "Yeah like four weeks ago," Jade responded. "I didn't really do anything for like two weeks and then we just kind of started going out. I didn't mean for it to be behind your back or anything like you going to the Full Moon Jam with Meredith or the opposite date with Tori. We just dated and because it was me, I just hid it because I am not open with a lot of things. I didn't even tell Cat."
"Well Cat and you haven't hung out a whole lot lately and you've been hanging out with Tori," Beck noticed.
"Yeah, there's that. Cat has been hanging out with her gank of a babysitting partner since her Nona moved to an elderly community," Jade agreed.
Beck looked at Jade and felt the hurt in Jade's words and comforted the goth. "I'm sorry," he apologized.
"It's OK, Freddie has helped," Jade exhaled.
Beck's face turned into a shocked one compared to his usual even one. He slowly let go of Jade and asked, "Freddie who?"
"Freddie Benson from iCarly, he came down when Cat and I had to do that project two weeks ago for Mr. Sikowitz because I became friends with Sam for a brief period. Cat got jealous and called Freddie and tricked him into taking her around town on a date even though Freddie didn't think it was. Sam used Robbie to get back at her. Cat dressed up as Sam to jump a pool of Kansas Razorback Tuna but she crashed into the scissor lift Robbie and Freddie were in to see it when they couldn't pay for the tickets causing them to fall in the tank. They ended up in the hospital and Sam and Cat visited them. Sam asked out Freddie and Cat asked out Robbie. Cat and Robbie are now dating, Sam and Freddie aren't because Sam left him on their date and I showed up at Bots just after and then we just started dating," Jade rambled. "Please don't be mad."
Beck nodded as his shocked face faded away for his more normal even expression and replied, "I'm not mad. I'm glad and at least you are telling me before you two got super serious."
"Yeah, we just became boyfriend and girlfriend this morning," Jade admitted.
Beck smiled, "I'm happy for you. I really am."
"So do you have any crushes?" Jade asked as her eyebrow rose.
Beck shrugged his shoulders and responded, "I am not sure. I'm thinking Vega."
"TORI? You still want to date her?" Jade questioned in an angered tone. Beck shaked his head from side to side. "So you mean Trina?"
Beck stopped shaking his head and instead nodded it before replying, "Yes, she hasn't been as boy-crazy as late being on Divertismo and she did like me."
"But she is nasty," Jade commented.
Beck shrugged his shoulders again before replying, "She's changed Jade. She's taking comedy seriously and has lost some weight."
"Fair enough, you could have chosen worse," Jade relents.
Freddie asks, "So he's fine with us?"
"Yeah, though I don't get what he sees in Trina," Jade responds with an audible eye roll.
Freddie looks into Jade's eyes (as best he could from a PearChat video call) and inquires, "She's the one that played the alien in Tori's play from earlier this year right? The one that talked in gibberish."
"Yeah but if you ask Tori it wasn't because she can't act. If you ask me though," Jade comments with a smirk. "It definitely was. You saw the video a couple of times right?" Freddie frowns before nodding his head. Jade feels the emotion Freddie is letting out from just his body language. "I'm sorry if that was too much."
Freddie stops nodding his head and shakes it before responding, "No, I can't tell you how many times Sam, Carly and I had jokes about our doorman Lewbert, Nora, Nevel or other people that wronged us like Ginger Fox. We were no better. However, as I've looked back I've realized that I was wrong." Freddie tries to look into the eyes of his girlfriend though the PearChat. "But, I don't want to force guilt on you. You're you Jade and I like that about you. If I didn't, I wouldn't have wanted to stay with you."
Jade nods as a single tear falls from her eye. "Remind me to hit you when I see you next," Jade comments. "So you think this is more than a guise?"
Freddie nods and replies, "Yes. With what you said about your father and the insecurities you had while dating Beck, it's understandable. Then throw in being overlooked for roles because of your friend Tori, you can't help but understand why it's more than a guise you do for protection."
"I love how understanding you are and hate it at the same time," Jade comments.
"So what are your plans for the night?" Freddie asks.
Jade frowns knowing that she can't see him tonight. Jade replies, "Get ahead on working on my current events homework due at the end of the week. 500 words on a news story that interests me."
"Oh, did you think about Zapathon's drone service?" Freddie inquires.
Jade rolls her eyes but cracks a smile at her boyfriend before replying, "You would say that but I don't get it. Sorry."
"It's OK. What about the highs on the Dow Jones?" Freddie questions.
Jade's anger flares up as she shouts, "Wall Street is so boring that I wish I would bleed from my eyes reading about it." Jade looks at Freddie who is slightly scared due to getting use to Jade's outbursts. "Sorry."
"Jade, you don't need to apologize," Freddie comforts Jade. "What about…" Freddie looks away from the cam and at his computer as he looks up a breaking news story. "WHAT?" Freddie yells as he sees a news story.
Jade look concerned and asks, "What is it Freddie? What's wrong"
"Nora's out of prison," Freddie states.
Jade blinks and replies, "That psycho girl that held you captive twice once the week of Webicon and again the day she was released?"
"Yeah. She was is a state penitentiary in Washington and now she's broke out and on the loose." Freddie answers.
Jade sees the hurt and worry in Freddie and questions "What do you think she will do?"
"I'm not sure, Carly is abroad with her dad and both Sam and I are in LA with little knowledge about that. Maybe just Gibby knows," Freddie rambles.
Jade smirks, "Well if she wants to try and get you, she'll have to go through me. I may not exactly hate Tori and you've heard the stores." Freddie nods knowing various stories of what Jade has done to Tori. "I don't know her and for threatening you in the past, I hate her and don't care what I do to her."
"Thanks," Freddie says in a thankful but scared tone.
Jade nods and asks, "If you need me to come over, I'll see what I can do to come over"
"No, I could always hang out with Robbie," Freddie replies.
Jade gives a smile and comments, "OK but I better go. My mom wants me home soon even though I don't care. I just don't want her threatening me from not seeing you."
"Yeah, I got to figure out how to deal with how my mom will deal with you," Freddie states.
Jade raises her pierced eyebrow and remarks, "She'll have to." Jade's emotion switches to a sad one reading between the lines of what Freddie has just told her. "And I guess from you saying that, still not sure if you can get cheaper tuition here?" Freddie nods. "I'm sorry."
"Yeah if I can't get a job. I still got the Daka settlement but I don't want to tap into it too much," Freddie explains.
Jade nods and smiles thinking that Freddie was being smart about his money. "So I guess all your Pear goods don't come from that Daka money."
"No, I would do trade ins plus iCarly made some money through ads at times," Freddie acknowledges.
Jade rubs her chin like she has an idea and comments, "Good to know."
"You're scheming aren't you," Freddie asks.
Jade smirks and replies, "Wouldn't you like to know Freddie." Jade sighs before continuing, "But I have to go. I'll text you when I am home."
"Alright, I'll miss you Jade," Freddie replies.
"I'll miss you too Freddie," Jade replies back. "Bye."
The video chat ends and Freddie closes the PearChat and looks at the NewsNewsNewsNewsNews website and looks for the story on Nora's escape from the Washington state prison she was locked away in.
This is where I'm ending this chapter. Until next time, thanks for reading.