He was friendly, peaceful, kind, cool, relaxed. She was dark, mean, vicious, eccentric, gothic. Yet they belonged to each other. They were inseparable. They were Beck Oliver and Jade West, forever intertwined.

Or so it seemed.

Why don't I start from the very beginning, the start of the story. Before the heart-wrenching ending, before there was ever a Beck&Jade. Let me start this story three years ago, when everything was normal, when there was no love, or heartbreak, or deceit. Three years ago, when Beck Oliver and Jade West first met.

She took her first steps into the doors of the most prestigious college in the United States of America. Just moments ago, she had been a nervous wreck, having to resort to breathing exercises and talking to herself. She had been muttering, barely audibly, looking at the oaken doors before her and breathing heavily. It wasn't supposed to happen this way. She was Jade West, and this wasn't like her at all. Jade West was supposed to be composed, uncaring, obnoxious, feared. But at that moment, the only thing she feared was herself. She feared that she wouldn't be good enough, that being accepted into this esteemed school was just a mistake. And all that emotion bubbled up inside of her, swallowing the hard shell that was Jade, and exposing the soft, vulnerable inside that was hidden away from everybody. Everybody except for one single soul, who at that moment hadn't the faintest idea of who Jade West even was. Until then.

He was in awe of the grandeur as he strode, unafraid, into the great halls of the college of his dreams. The immaculate cleanliness of the gracious building was alien to him, coming from an independent life of a teenage boy living alone in a cramped apartment. The busy bustling of the halls was familiar to him, having have lived for several years in a joint family before breaking away to become his own person. The outside of him seemed to be calm and confident. But inside, he was afraid. Beck Oliver was truly afraid, for the first time in his life. Afraid that he would be deserted, not good enough, abandoned. Afraid that being independent would, for once, stab him in the back. But he had no clue what was in store for him.

And they found each other.

Slowly, steadily, they discovered one another.

It took time, of course, seeing as they came from two completely different backgrounds. But from the moment, on that wonderful day, that they met, Beck Oliver and Jade West knew that they were meant for each other.

But now I may have stretched the truth a bit.

It wasn't exactly the very moment they set eyes on each other.

She hated him at first.

But he, Beck Oliver, fell in love with her as soon as he saw her face.

It was that day, the first day of college. The long, six-year journey that would take Beck and Jade farther than they would have ever imagined.