August 1,2011

3:58pm

"Hmmm"

I had just taken a shower and now I was looking through my walk in closet for an outfit to wear to Andre's birthday dinner tonight. Cat had said that the restaurant was nice so I was looking at my nice dresses. "There it is!" I exclaimed because I had found my favorite dress. It was a short, black, strapless dress. I walked out and laid it on my bed, and went to find Beck. It took me a while because I thought he had been in the kitchen, but I found him in the living room, hand over his mouth, looking distressed.

"Babe, what's wrong?" I asked slowly approaching him

He didn't respond, his eyes were just glued to the T.V. screen. I sat down next to him, and listened to what the news reporter was saying,

"So once again, we are here to report about an explosion that has happened in the country of Iraq, and so far we have no reports of survival by the soldiers who bravely tried to stop the attack"

Without any warning, Beck turned the T.V. off, threw the remote on the ground, and buried his face in his hands. I sat back on the couch and laid my hand on his back. After a minute he rested his legs on the couch and laid on my lap. He opened his eyes and although he didn't have tears running down his face, he eyes were misty. I started stroking his hair and leaned down and kissed him.

August 1,2011

6:28pm

"I like that dress on you." Beck said eyeing me up and down.

I raised an eyebrow at him and smirked.

"What? I can't think my girl looks hot in a dress" He said as he opened the passenger car door.

August1,2011

6:46pm

"Man this place is packed!" Beck said while grabbing my hand and leading me into the restaurant.

"I know." I said pulling myself closer to Beck. "Oh! There's Cat and Robbie!" I said while pointing into their direction.

Cat was wearing a short, pink mini dress with her extremely high, pink pumps. Cat was very short, 5' ft maybe, and even in her pumps she was still a head shorter then me. Cat was sitting on Robbie's lap since there were so many people waiting for a table, and she was resting her back on Robbie, and his arms were wrapped around her. Cat and Robbie started dating about the end of our junior year and I wouldn't be surprised if we see wedding bells for them in the near future.

She spotted us and gasped, "Beck! Jade! Over here!" she motioned us over.

Beck headed in their direction and I followed close behind, our hands still intertwined.

"Hiiiiiii!" Cat exclaimed waving her hand back and forth excitedly.

I smiled and Beck and Robbie did that guy hand shake. We stood their and chatted while waiting for Tori and Andre to arrive. I felt a pair of hands squeeze my shoulders, and I turned to see a boy with dreads and an extremely skinny girl smiling excitedly.

"Hey, Hey, Hey!"

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" Cat exclaimed jumping up from Robbie's lap and throwing herself into Andre's arms.

"Thanks Little Red!"

We all greeted each other and then Andre came to hug me.

"I'm still one week older then you!" I said pulling away from him.

"Hey!"

That had always been a joke between us. I always made fun of him because I was one week older then him, and he was youngest out of the gang.

Cat gasped and then squealed, "Our Table's Ready!" she exclaimed while holding up the vibrating object. We all pushed our way threw the crowd of people and eventually got up to the hostess' desk and they escorted us to our table. Everything seemed normal as we were looking through the menu when Cat gasped.

"Guys! Look!" She held up the menu and pointed "They have red velvet cupcakes on the desert menu!" She laid the menu down and squealed.. We all rolled our eyes playfully because of Cat's pointless comment. We placed our orders and shortly after, our conversations were interrupted when Robbie spoke while holding his glass of wine up in the air. "Cheers! To everyone officially being legal!" Tori giggled while everyone held up their glasses and tapped them against each other. Cat squealed with delight as she took a sip of her margarita.

"Ok!" Tori spoke as she set her pina~colada on the table and clasped her hands together. "Andre, I know it is your birthday but" She paused and looked at me and Beck "November 11" Cat squealed excitedly. I love Cat but her squealing is kind of getting on my nerves..

"That's the day you're getting married!" She informed us as if we didn't already know.

Beck looked in Tori's direction. "What about it?"

"Well, I don't know, just that there's a lot of planning to do in such a short time period.!" She moved her hands up and down while talking trying to add effect.

"I know! It's like..." Cat paused and tried to count the months in her head but eventually moved to her fingers.

"4 months" Robbie answered while lowering Cat's hands signaling it was okay to stop counting.

"4 months!" She added emphasis by holding up four fingers.

"Well." I leaned forward and rested my chin in my left palm. "I guess we should start discussing the cake flavor, or bridesmaid dresses." I looked back at Beck and saw him listening intently to what I was saying. We all chatted about the wedding but I started to feel bad because it was Andre's birthday and we weren't showing any attention to him, so I changed the subject to something else and our food eventually came and we all dove in.

Cat squealed, again. " Mmmmm! This is sooooo good!"

I looked over at Beck and talked in a whisper so only her could hear. "If she squeals one more time..." He chuckled slightly and leaned over and kissed my forehead.

August 1,2011

9:23 pm

"Hope you had a good birthday!" I said as Andre and I hugged each other goodbye.

"Thanks West" He said and he and Beck did that guy hand shake thing.

We all said our goodbye's and walked out to out cars. I had just grabbed the handle when Beck came from nowhere and shut the door. He turned me around and pushed me slightly so I was leaning against the car, and his big brown eyes looked straight into mine. I smiled and cupped his face with my hands and kissed him. He pulled away but our foreheads still rested each others and he spoke, his lips still hovering over mine.

"Only 4 more months"