Hello! Here comes the finale of this little story. I'm quite nervous. And I want to say something after this chapter, so expect another author's note there. As soon as the line comes, the story is over and it's me again. Yeah, this is a warning. ;)
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When Jade comes to school next Monday, everybody watches her as much as they did before the weekend. There are still a lot that are quite afraid of her, though others say that she won't hurt you as long as you're not flirting with Beck. There are a few that assume that Jade will totally loose it now though, after the break-up, and that nobody will be safe.

Only a few girls exchange long and confused looks when Jade strides into school and to her locker.

It's Sonia, who finally steps up to Jade and raises her voice loudly, to make sure everyone notices: "What are you still doing here? Why haven't you been arrested?"

Jade notices Hannah, Joana, Romy and Josephine around as well, now also stepping closer to not miss anything. She wonders, if there are more than those five involved, except Erica.

Of course, they now have waited in the main hall. They wouldn't have expected Jade to be here and maybe even guessed, Beck wouldn't be and would be in the hospital instead. But they probably wanted to wait for Andre, Tori, Cat and Robbie who all had their lockers in this hall as well or close-by, always met in this hall. Maybe, they wanted to try to overhear how much they already knew. They knew nothing.

But Jade notices that Andre and Tori are already there, now turning curiously from Tori's locker to them. And there are Cat and Robbie approaching too, coming into school from another entrance.

Jade calmly turns back to Sonia, the stupid bitch, and cocks an eyebrow: "Why should I have been?"

"I heard you now even got Beck into the hospital," Sonia says.

"Oh, did I?" Jade asks. She would like to hear this story. How Sonia is able to explain about knowing about Beck having been hurt, when not even his friends know about it. And if she doesn't have anything to do with it.

"Yes," Sonia answers defiantely, of course having an explanation ready, though a quite bad one: "My cousin works as a nurse in the hospital Beck is in now. One of his rips is broken and some others are bruised."

Out of the corner of her eye, Jade notices Josephine lowering her gaze. Was she the one using that baseball bat on Beck?

She also notices many eyes, that are watching, widening now. Obviously, nobody else has heard about Beck until now.

But she focuses back on Sonia. "And your cousin naturally told you as they recognized him and thought you'd be interested."

Sonia just thinks about it for a second. "Well... He knows him from the play Beck and I did together and knows we're friends."

"Friends. Right." As if.

Jade looks to his real friends who stand together now, watching, not understanding what's going on, wondering if Beck has indeed be hurt now. But they do look as if they are ready to step in, just in case.

Sonia gets a little red, maybe because she also knows she is no friend of Beck's – or because she gets angry at Jade. She says in any case: "That's not the point here anyway. You did that to him. You should have been arrested!"

Jade rolls her eyes, tries to act as bored as she can though yes, she is a little anxious. But she didn't give Sonia the satisfaction of seeing her too scared Friday evening. She won't give her the satisfaction of showing her that she makes her uncomfortable now.

"I didn't do it as you very well know. After all, you three" – she indicates her, Romy and Joana with a wave of her hand – "have been with me at that time and held me down while you used my phone to text Beck."

Sonia sneers. "Oh, is that so? Now trying to get out of this with a claim like that? Nobody will believe you."

Jade is sure that most of the people watching think the same. But honestly... as long as she doesn't get arrested... "Like I care. The thing is though... I wouldn't have had a reason to hurt Beck."

Sonia looks a little confused, then: "Of course you had. You guys broke up and that made you angry."

"We never broke up," Jade calmly states. "We just pretended to see what you would do then."

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It was on Thursday, when Jade was released from the police again and Beck finally was home from school. They spent time together in the RV, holding each other, both scared. Yes, the police seemed to doubt the girls too, but at least after another attack, they would have to arrest Jade. They had no choice. Maybe, they would even have to arrest her now, just not today.

"I wonder how many girls are involved and how far they will still go," Beck whispered after a while, in which they just held each other in silence on his bed.

"I don't care," Jade claimed. They should just kill each other.

Beck looked worried though. "What if they'll start hurting girls that don't know about their plan?" Jade was close to pushing him away, just because this shouldn't have been about any other girls. But Beck actually kept speaking, earnestly: "Or worse: What if they get you into prison? The police will have to arrest someone soon."

Jade swallowed thickly. She couldn't go to prison. Not for something she didn't do.

Beck went with his fingers through her hair, thinking, then he decided: "We just shouldn't be apart anymore, so I can always be your alibi."

"How horrible," Jade commented because she needs her space. Beck and she almost spend all their time together anyway, but sometimes she needs some time for herself – and Beck for himself as well. Not to mention that she already tried being constantly around people since the police first spoke to her. They still managed to hurt Erica, Sonia and now Hannah while Jade wasn't around anyone, just once on the phone with someone who told the police so.

She continued: "And then they will use the time while one of us is in the bathroom or something." They would find a way to still have attacks. To finally make Beck break up with her. To have him to themselves.

Wait. There was a possible solution there.

"You should break up with me," she said, breaking apart from him and sitting up.

He immediately sat up as well. "No! I never would."

"You should," she insisted. "Not for real. But they will stop with all of it and instead start flirting with you like crazy. Let's see if they can ever decide who gets dips on you. And I will try to behave and not kill them while I watch them do that – and then, we can finally say we never really broke up, but I obviously didn't do anything to anyone, though I had to be just as jealous. Obviously I didn't snap then or whatever..."

Beck looked at her for a moment, thoughtful, then: "They will say you only did it and behaved yourself to convince me and it's not for real."

Which was true. Still. "But maybe, it will help the police to definitely see there's something else going on. I could tell them right away that we will do this. If those girls start flirting with you like it's the end of the world, it might also be easier to figure out who is part of all of this. They will be the first to try."

Again, Beck looked at her for a while, before he shrugged and said gently: "I still would like to spend all my time with you."

Jade knew that feeling, but it was decided now. They shared a kiss, a silent promise that this wouldn't actually hurt them.

They are good actors. Of course, they were easily able to stage a break-up for everybody to see the next day.

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Now, there is a brief moment of horror in Sonia's eyes. That wouldn't have been part of the plan. Then, she seems to decide that Jade is lying. "Yeah, nice story."

But then, there is Beck's voice, clearly: "It's true."

Beck has walked through the doors, unnoticed by everyone as there are still a lot of students arriving on the scene and getting drawn in.

Romy, who is closest to him of the involved girls, immediately asks him: "Beck. How are you?" She steps up to him, wants to touch his arm.

He quickly passes her by though and quite harshly tells her: "Keep your fingers off of me."

He walks up to Jade and they share a gentle kiss.

"Everything okay?" Jade asks him quietly, not even touching the left side of his back, knowing it will hurt him.

He nods and then whispers back: "With you?"

She just shrugs.

Sonia interrupts them anyway, bewildered. "You can't be serious, Beck! After everything she did?"

"After everything you did," Beck corrects. "I trust Jade."

The other involved girls share an almost scared look, as if they get there's so much more going on. Everyone else in the hall seems confused.

Sonia pulls an angry face. "How can you? You know she broke your rip!"

Beck tilts his head and with all the calmness in the world, asks: "How would I know?"

"She..." Sonia starts but then stops. She can't know any proof if she isn't involved. She can't know about Jade's supposed text and her voice in the park. Because her cousin, the nurse, possibly can't have known about that as well, unlike about the broken rip, an information she must have asked him about, saying she heard something terrible happened to Beck.

Beck raises his eyebrows. "Because she ordered me there and I heard her voice? Well, you can't have watched her at all over the weekend, possibly because you didn't want her to tell the police and them to find you around her. Otherwise you would have seen that she was with me in the hospital most of the weekend and she had time to tell me everything about how you caught her Friday evening and sent that message from her phone."

Now the girls all seem to panic inside. Jade likes to see it written across their faces.

Only Sonia does her best to get this back where they want it: "But you just said you heard her voice while she hurt you."

"Too bad for you that Jade and I rehearse every one of our plays with each other and go to every performance if we can. I know that she said that line in a play about a year ago. And it was filmed and you had access to the tape. Maybe, you got that idea for this scheme through that play with Jade acting out a character killing other women out of jealousy and finally the guy. I immediately recognized the line and the tone she said it in. She did a brilliant job in that role."

He turns to Jade with a smile. Jade smirks back and they share another short kiss.

Sure enough, that line was in that play. And it didn't even fit perfectly for the situation at hand. But these girls obviously expected Beck to break up sooner or later. Now, it was actually Jade who said the words (though they also wanted Beck to be the one to say them, but when they acted it out, it just went over Jade's lips and it was way more natural than Beck doing it). But the girls must have decided that they broke up with each other more or less and that Beck wouldn't wonder about Jade claiming that he left her and therefore deserves to be hurt as well. Well... If they would have broken up like that, Jade definitely would've felt like it was Beck's fault and him leaving her. Especially with him not trusting her anymore.

Sonia is really angry now. "You know she's a horrible person and you deserve better."

"Like you?" Beck asks coldly. "Hurting each other and finally me to make me leave the girl I love? Yeah, right. You are all awful human beings."

He also looks at the other girls, he knows involved.

And that breaks Josephine, who suddenly bursts out: "It wasn't my idea, Beck! I just..."

The bomb was dropped. All their classmates seem absolutely shocked.

The girls don't seem to notice. Joana states, with tears in her eyes: "I told the others we should stop after Sonia accidently hurt Erica like that!"

Sonia turns to her and spits out: "Shut up! You were on board!"

"We did it for you, Beck," Romy meanwhile says and Hannah agrees: "You shouldn't be together with a girl like that!"

Beck is disgusted but there is no need for him to say anything anymore. Police officers burst into the school; there have been two in plainclothes in the group of students and teachers watching. They have given the sign to the ones waiting outside.

All the other students make way, surprised and shocked, while the officers arrest the girls.

Tori's father is the one to step up to Beck and Jade, smiling. "I think we got a few confessions. Well done!"

It was also him, whom they called that Friday evening. When Jade was alone, she called Beck first, who already waited for the ambulance with his parents. She hurried to the hospital, where they met up, then they called Tori's father to tell him everything. Because they felt like they could trust him, like he would listen and would believe them, unlike some of the other officers, Jade had to deal with before.

And over the weekend, they have talked to him about this idea that they quickly had. To keep playing it out, to see what the girls would say, if Jade would be in school, still not arrested. Obviously, that was very successful.

Now, everyone is talking again. While they have silently followed the conversation before, now it kind of has exploded and everyone tries to make sense of what just happened, while simultaneously sharing their thoughts about it.

Beck and Jade kiss again and then another time.

They only break apart, when their friends step up to them and Andre says, shaking his head: "They are crazy."

None of them have known any of this, or even guessed it. Not even Tori, as her father hold his tongue in front of her, though she talked to him about it all through the weekend again, begged him to make sure everything was going fair for Jade – even when he told her that he isn't on her case anymore as he's too close to it due to her.

"They are," she now says. "I can't believe them."

"I'm glad it's over," Robbie says, watching Jade.

It's Cat who finally charges forward, totally relieved, and hugs Jade tight.

Jade makes an 'ugh', but Beck actually then hugs both of them and the others join in.

Well, Jade guesses she can let them. They really were there for her, in some ways. In the ways she needed. Just being with her.

She will never forget that. But she will especially never forget, how much Beck trusted her, how he never doubted her once, how he stood with her.

She turns to him, when her friends finally break apart from her again. He smiles at her, also so relieved, and she can't help but smile back and kiss him again.

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I'm not into author's note at the end because I like for you, in case you decide to drop a review, to do that directectly with the last words of the chapter still in mind. But I have to say this and couldn't do it before to not spoil anything:
When I came into this fandom to write fics, I shortly looked what else there is here. And I found a few stories where something bad was going on and everyone thought Jade did it. Everyone, including Jade's friends but especially also Beck. I liked the drama but... I want Beck and Jade to trust each other beyond doubt. That is how I got this idea. I wasn't so sure where to go with their friends for some time but I decided to also have them trust her for the bigger part. Because I am a sucker for people trusting each other.
So, yeah, there was never any danger of Beck actually mistrusting Jade in this story, because him trusting her was the whole point of the story – which I obviously couldn't say before because of the break-up of it all. ;)
I hope the ending is now fitting for you guys and that noone got disappointed because they would've loved the drama of real fights etc more. And I hope that nobody stopped reading when Beck and Jade broke up because they also dislike Beck mistrusting Jade and they didn't believe it could've been a ruse in this story. Now, thank you so much everyone for reading this story, for following and putting it in your favorites, but especially for taking the time to review! You are awesome!