A/N: Sorry this took so long! My life has gon berserk over this month. I have three AP classes, voice lessons, piano accompaniment, musical rehearsals, etc. I had a Spaghetti Dinner to perform at last Saturday and my spring concert this past Tuesday. That said, my schedule is only going to get worse until the end of May. I'll try to keep up on updates, but it will take more time.

I haven't forgotten; I promise!

xolys

Back at school on Monday, Beck and Jade filed into Sikowitz's class without incident. They took their seats at the middle of the room, like usual, and waited for the others to arrive.

Only Beck noticed Jade's present unhappy mood and he cocked an eyebrow. "Jade please tell me what's wrong."

"Get me something to eat from Festus and I will."

Rolling his eyes, Beck got up and left the room to get something from the food stand.

Jade remained in her seat, glaring slightly at her belly even as it was cloaked by her favorite of Beck's plaid shirts. The little girl curled up inside had caused so many problems already and she hadn't even been born yet.

The baby kicked and Jade groaned. Being a mother was painful.

"What am I going to do with you?" Jade asked it softly.

Growing impatient, she turned to watch the door and noticed as Robbie came strutting in and sat in his typical seat with Rex on his arm. The puppet tapped its puppeteer and pointed toward Jade. The boy looked over and glanced up and down her slouched body.

"You pull off the pregnant look well," Rex jeered. "Though I'm shocked you still fit in Beck's clothes."

Jade pushed herself to her feet and stormed over to Robbie, grabbing Rex and throwing him out the window.

"Hey!" Robbie protested. "Don't hurt Rex!"

"Would you like to go out the window, too, Shapiro?"

The curly-haired boy shook his head frantically and Jade backed off, returning to her seat as Beck reentered carrying a plate of cheese fries.

"I brought you food," the father-to-be announced, waving it around.

Robbie hopped up. "May I have a fry?"

Jade glared at the scrawny kid as she stood up. "Over Beck's dead body." She proceeded to take the food from her boyfriend and sit back down.

"Why my body?" Beck asked as he joined his girlfriend.

"Because killing me would entail hurting her." Jade looked down at her belly.

Beck placed a warm hand over the bump, smiling when it shifted slightly. Eventually, he met glances with Jade, who was oh-so-seductively slipping fries into her mouth then licking the cheese from the corner of her mouth. He felt himself get hard. "Fuck," he muttered.

Jade cocked her unpierced eyebrow. "Want something?"

Beck nodded. "Once you're done, can we have a quick conversation in the closet?"

The blue-eyed girl smirked and put on a lofty British accent. "My, my, Mister Oliver, I would love to, but unfortunately a certain little girl may get in our way."

Grinning wildly, Beck let his lips meet Jade's ear, causing her to squirm a little. "Oh, Miss West, I wasn't aware you considered your uvula to be a girl."

A coy look of shock spread across Jade's face. "Oh, heavens, no! But I believe we should go, as I have finished my chips and seem to be a little thirsty."

Robbie watched this exchange with intrigue and did all he could to keep himself from following the couple back out of the room. Instead, he settled on making a dart to the bathroom where he relieved himself to thoughts of naughty, non-pregnant Jade.

After releasing into Jade's talented mouth, Beck let his head fall back against the wall as he came down and regained motor control.

The blue-eyed girl pushed herself to her feet and then watched him recover. "Did I pass?"

"Pass?" Beck smirked. "You aced it. Like always."

Jade wrapped her arms around Beck's waist after re-buttoning his pants for him. She let her head rest on his shoulder and just smelled his scent.

"So," Beck eventually sighed and snaked his arms around his girlfriend, "you never did tell me what's wrong."

Jade released her boyfriend and backed away. "Your parents, Beck."

"What about them? You haven't seen them in months! Not since at least before our little one started showing."

"Now that's a lie," Jade grumbled and leaned against the opposite wall. "I saw them yesterday."

"Oh, Jade," Beck groaned. "What happened?"

"Your mother called me fat. Your dad threatened me. They both doted over Cat."

Nodding solemnly, Beck slung his arm around Jade's waist. "Let's go to Sikowitz's. We'll talk more between classes."

Jade agreed. When they returned to the room, the bell had rung a few minutes ago and most students had already taken their seats. Sikowitz laid on the stage, playing with a coconut that he held above his head.

"Peculiar things, coconuts are. Don't you agree, Beck?" The teacher sat up without looking at his student. "Fairly light, but actually quite hard." He beamed the coconut at the boy, who caught it nimbly with his right hand.

"I guess so," Beck stuttered, flustered by the sudden projectile.

Jade pointed an accusatory finger at the balding man on the floor. "You threw a coconut at me!"

Sikowitz shrugged. "It didn't hit you, did it?"

The blue-eyed girl opened her mout to speak, froze, and then closed it again. "No."

"Let's just sit down," Beck soothed, tossing the fruit back at their teacher.

Sikowitz jumped to his feet. "Don't sit yet, lovebirds." The couple froze midway through sitting down. "We're doing a little 'Number of Words' today. Beck, Jade, Cat."

With a groan, Jade made her way to the stage with her boyfriend and best friend.

"Jade, your lines must be four words. Cat, two. Beck, one."

"One?" Beck complained.

"Yeah, so speak sparingly," his girlfriend snickered.

Cat giggled. "What fun!"

Sikowitz turned to the class. "I need a topic."

"Cat's birthday," Andre offered before Rex could say anything vulgar.

"Ooh, yay!" the redhead squealed.

Sikowitz shrugged. "Sounds good to me. Let's go. Jade, you start."

The blue-eyed girl looked toward her boyfriend. "Isn't it Cat's birthday?"

He shrugged. "Yeah."

"What should we get?"

Cat jumped up and down. "Cupcakes, duh!"

"What kind of cupcakes?" Jade rubbed her belly soothingly as the little one inside fidgeted and landed a left hook in her intestines.

"Definitely chocolate."

Beck mimicked writing on a note pad. "Icing?"

"Strawberries. Yum!"

"Freeze." Sikowitz stopped the scene. "Cat and Jade you may come sit. I want Robbie and Andre to join Beck."

"Thank God, I'm done," Jade groaned as she took her seat.

With the two new actors on stage, Sikowitz turned to the remainder of the class. "I feel like we should do a new activity. How's a little 'Two-Line Vocab' sound?"

"Gee, Sikowitz," Tori smirked from her spot by the window, "you seem inconsistent today."

"Is that a problem, Vega?" Jade barked. "Not all of us live steady, boring, picture-perfect lives. Some of us have crazy brothers," she gestured toward Cat," or insane grandmothers," she pointed to Andre, "or a dad who hates you," she pointed to herself, "or even parents who saw your girlfriend yesterday, but still don't realize she's six months pregnant."

Beck dropped his head. The class went silent.

After a few moments, the blue-eyed girl got up and slung her bag over her shoulder. "Have fun with your class. Beck knows where to find me." Without another word, she left the room.