I want to lay you down

On a bed of roses...

Though at night I sleep

On a bed of nails...

"Oh- Oh my God, Beck." Jade says as he pulls her into his arms. She likes the feeling and all, but she's too surprised by his being there.

She pushes him back so that he's at arm's length, "What are you doing here?"

"I just... I... You left and so I came to find you... I.. I thought that was what you wanted... But, it's okay, I'll just leave. J-just forget I ever came here." And with that, he cowers out, turns around and heads for the door.

Just as he's walking out, he feels a hand on his shoulder. "No. You can stay." He turns around, "But, Beck. What are you doing here. You're getting married. Tonight. You're supposed to be with your fiance. Not your ex girlfriend."

"I just came to find you, like I said. Listen, ever since you came back into my life, I haven't known what to do. Lalaine is great, but she's no you, Jade. She's not... She's not what I want."

He walked to the middle of the room and sat on the edge of the couch, and she followed. "What do you want, Beck?" Her tone was firm and exhasperated. Like she was just tired of all this drama.

He took her hand in his, and gazed down at their fingers, intertwined again after what felt like forever. "I want you."

"Bu-"

"Is that so hard to understand, Jade? I want you, I've always wanted you. I thought I loved Lalaine, but I didn't. I never did. Because everytime I'd look at her, everytime I kissed her, all I could think about was you. Jade West, the girl that got away because I was too big of a coward to make her stay."

"Beck... I just- I can't. I can't put myself through this again, okay? I need... I need some time to think."

Walking towards her bedroom, Jade feels a headache coming on. This is too much emotion.

"No." He grabs her by the arm. "Jade, do not walk away from me. I'm not letting you go this time."

It's spontaneous, and probably a little stupid, what she's about to do, but without giving it further thought, she turns herself around as fast as she can and presses her lips to his.

Surprised, he tenses and almost pulls away, but a moment later, he relaxes and melts into her.

That relaxation, however, doesn't last long. Having waited almost five years without her, he can't control himself anymore.

He hurriedly pushes her against the wall, elminating what little space that was left between them. She grunts, a little bit surprised by this action, but quickly recovers and grinds her hips against his in return.

He groans, and his hands rush underneath her thin shirt, feeling her all over. Shivering under his touch, she easily unbuttoned his flannel shirt. Breaking their kiss, she drags her lips over his abdomen. Electricity ran up her spine at the moan that escaped him, and she hurriedly returned her lips to his.

Unzipping her jeans, he teases her.

"Oh my God, Beck. Stop teasing and just take me." She groaned.

And take her, he did. Right there, against the wall in the living room of her tiny apartment, just hours before his wedding

Afterward, they sat together, half dressed, leaning against the wall and trying to catch thier breath. They both knew what they had done was wrong, more wrong than the first time they'd made love that week. Because this time, they were fully aware of what they were doing. This time, they had talked about it before, and though the passion and desire was even more blinding this time, they still knew what they were doing.

They didn't speak, in fear that words might ruin the beauty of what they had just experienced together. Neither were virgins, not by any stretch of the imagination, but that felt like thier first time.

Now, they both drooped with exhaustion, too tired to move.

Jade lifted her head, about to speak, when there was a sudden knock on the door. They exchanged a look of confusion, neither knowing who it could be.

Without waiting for any invitation, the door opened, and there stood Lalaine and an apologetic looking Cat.

Lalaine's eyes almost popped out of their sockets when she saw the two sitting on the floor together. Beck, with his shirt open, jeans unzipped and tugged down, hair a mess. And Jade, his ex-girlfriend, lying beside him, topless, her obviously too-small black bra only half doing it's job, as she was almost completely falling out of it. Her jean shorts were open and pushed down over her hips.

Realizing who was at the door, Beck and Jade both rushed to cover themselves up. Beck quickly zipped his pants and worked on buttoning his shirt, while Jade shot up, pulling her shorts back into their place, and shoving her shirt back over her head.

Lalaine was stunned, and Beck didn't even bother. In fact, he was almost relieved. Sure, this wasn't the ideal way for her to find out, but it was done now. She knew. She knew and he could stop hating himself for carrying on around her back.

Cat spoke up before anyone else, "You guys, I'm so sorry... We were shopping and I accidentally mentioned that Beck had come to New York and so Lalaine was like 'What for?' and so I told her that he had gone to look for Jade before I thought about it and then she said she wanted to come here and find you and I couldn't stop her and-"

Beck cut off Cat's rambling, "Lalaine... I... I'm sorry."

He expected a rant, he expected her to be angry, but what he didn't expect was for her to look him in the eye and say "It's okay.", then turn and walk out the door.

But that's exactly what she did.

Jade slid back against the wall where she was standing, put her head in her hands and started sobbing. Cat and Beck both raced towards her. Beck, being the first to get to her, cradled her in his arms.

"I ruined it all for you. I'm so s-sorry." She said, between sobs.

Beck's eyes widened, and she continued. "If I had never come back to California, you'd be getting m-married right now and none of this crap would've ever happened. You- You'd be happy with Lalaine."

Beck gasped, "No, no, baby. Listen, I'm glad you came. I'm glad you came back to California. I'm glad to be here with you right now instead of at the alter with her."

She looked up from her tears, "Really?" she said, sounding like a lost little girl.

"Cross my heart."

a/n: Okayz, so there's that chapter!

I know I got out there with this and, even though it's named after Taylor Swift's song Speak Now, I couldn't see a way to follow the story that song drew out without making it incredibly corny and just overall pointless. Haha. So, yeah. :)

Anyways, I hope you review :) Your reviews make me smile xD

Oh, and the next chapter will most likely be the last... There's just not very much room for me to take this any further.

Song: Bed Of Roses. By Bon Jovi :)

Love you guys :)
xx

Cat

And P.S.

Kay, so I recently read The Hunger Games (finished it in less than two days. Couldn't put it down), and then bought the movie Saturday when it went to dvd. It's just such a breathtaking story, with amazing characters, and I want to write some fanfiction for it. But, I just don't know if I'll be able to pull it off, you know? So, if you guys think I should try it, I will. Okay?