Switched

Painful Entry in Reality

Beck woke up in his own RV, he looked at his hands and knew them as his own. He smiled when he realized he was finally himself again. That’s when he realized his girlfriend, next to him, was squirming and crying in her sleep.

            “Jade?” She didn’t wake up. “Jade!” He shook his girlfriend. She suddenly awoke, screaming at the top of her lungs. “Shh…” He tried to calm her down, but all she did was scream more and fall off the bed. When Beck tried to slowly grab for her she backed away into a corner. She curled up in a ball and stopped screaming. She hugged her knees to her chest. Beck slowly walked over to her and said her name again.      

            Her eyes looked distant, but there at the same time.

            “Beck?” she slowly whispered with trembling lips. Her eyes started focusing on him.

            “Yeah. It’s me.” Beck went to her side.

            “Prove it.” It was so Jade-like to make everyone prove themselves, a few tears strayed out of her eyes.

            “On our second date I asked to kiss you so you punched me in the face. And I took it as a yes.” She gave a small smirk at the memory. Beck kissed her cheek and picked her up wondering what had happen to her. This didn’t happen to him when he came back to his own body. She laid her down on the bed and lay next to her. She molded her body to the shape of his and buried her face in his chest.

            He decided not to push her tonight. She looked tired and he knew she wouldn’t say anything tonight anyways. So he kissed her temple and whispered,

            “I love you.”

            “I love you too.” she mumbled into his chest. Jade had just said ‘I love you’ which was incredibly rare. He knew she loved him because of her jealousy issues with other girls, but the ‘I love you too’ meant a lot. She looked up at him, her blue eyes glistening with tears.

            “Oh my gosh, Jade West said the four words she hates most.” said Beck in a mimicking voice. Jade stuck out her tongue at him. He kissed her and asked,

            “Can you please smile for me? You know how much I love your smile.”

            “No.” she frowned and buried her face in her chest.

            “Fine, I’ll just have to work at it.” He leaned down and kissed her neck. He could feel her smirking against his chest.

            “Remember when you dumped coffee on my head just because you thought it was bad?”

            She nodded, a smile slowly creeping onto her face.

            “You remember what I did to you afterwards?” Jade remembered clearly. She was very ticklish and only Beck knew this. He had tickled her, she was mad at first but couldn’t stop laughing by the end. Beck knew Jade was a tough girl who was supposedly never happy and didn’t like being happy, but Jade did have her vulnerable more softer side that only Beck ever sees. Though she doesn’t like showing it often.

            She felt his hand on her waist and she immediately started giggling and he wasn’t even doing anything. He was surprised she caved that easily. She rolled over on her back and smiled up at Beck. He smiled back and leaned down to her and kissed her. It was a long passionate kiss and Jade smiled into the first part of it. When Beck pulled away Jade crawled on top of him and sprawled herself out on him.

            “You’re not getting that out of me for another year.” She frowned and closed her eyes. Beck stroked her hair as she drifted off into sleep. He figured, since it was 3am and he wasn’t about to fall back asleep, that he’d just stay up and watch his beautiful Jade sleep.

            Morning came to quickly for Jade. It was six in the morning. She quickly took a shower, put on makeup, and got dressed. After Beck was dressed and her hair was dried she quickly combed it and they went to go get coffee.

            All of them met up at school wondering if it was all just a big dream, but of course it wasn’t.

            “That was one freaky experience.” said Andre.

            Jade was leaning on Beck not talking or making any sarcastic remarks.

            “Yeah, seriously, it’s weird being in someone else’s body.” remarked Tori.

            “Anyone want candy?” asked Cat taking a gumdrop out of her bra and eating it.

            “Cat! What did Lane say about keeping candy there!” Tori scolded Cat.

            The little red head gave her the big brown puppy eyes and Tori just sighed and let Cat have her candy.

            “Somebody is quiet.” Andre says to Jade.

            “So what?” Jade scowled.

            “Just sayin. It’s not Jade-like.”

            Jade simply just walked away.

            “What’s her deal?” Andre asked Beck.

            “I don’t know. She won’t tell me. But she woke up screaming last night and her eyes were all clouded, like she was somewhere else. It was very uncanny.”

            “She was still in my body,” said Cat. Everyone stared at her. “For some reason my body wouldn’t let her go. I could feel her there. We shared what she saw. It was scary.” Cat didn’t look phased by the event at all. Unlike Jade.

            “OK then.” Beck walked away to follow his girlfriend.

            When Sikowitz was rambling on about something that none of them knew about they whispered to each other and agreed to go to Tori’s house tonight after school to discuss things. When the bell rang they were almost running to lunch.

            Jade and Beck were the first to sit down, the giggling Cat sat next to Jade with her chicken. That’s when they all heard a yelp, and Cat and Jade felt something splatter all over their backs. Both turn around to find out Robbie tripped and sprayed ketchup all over them.

            “ROBBIE!!” Both girls shouts at him at once. Jade shoots out of her chair to beat him up and Cat gets up along with her. Jade grabs his shirt and yanks him up.

            “Stop being so rude to Robbie.” says Tori as she walks past.

            “Stay out of it Vega!” screamed Jade as she chucked a hotdog at her, which hit Tori in the face. Andre had to hold the struggling Tori back.

All of a sudden they all passed out. They all woke up in darkness, but no bodies were with them. Only their voices, they were in a black hole in between death and life.

“What the-“

            “Whose all here?” asked Tori. She sounded like she was far away.

“IM HERE!” squealed the redhead.

“Andre’s in the house.”

“Beck is too.”

“Be prepared to lose it.” Tori gasped and Cat squealed in fright at the new terrifying voice.

“What?” Andre whispered to himself.

“Expect the unexpected.”