Of Scissors And Scooby Doo

Chapter 26

"Andre-"

"What were you doing?"

"Oh please, what did it look like we were doing?"

"I'd say each other but I'm not gonna do that. I ain't no trashy man. I'm classy."

"Oh yeah, classy man," Jade scoffed and crossed her arms, "A classy man who bursts through the door like a madman and interrupts-"

"Yeah, what did I interrupt, huh?"

"What kind of dumb question is that? You saw it!"

"I'm not sure what I saw, maybe I was hallucinating!"

"We're a couple," I loudly blurted out, interrupting the unbearable back and forth between Andre and Jade. The room immediately fell back into the tense silence from earlier while both pairs of eyes snapped to me. Andre's gaze was unbelieving but above all really confused. Who could blame him, really? I was suddenly feeling ridiculously nervous, my fingers beginning to fiddle with each other in front of my body. "Jade... Jade is my girlfriend. We're together..."

"Y'all are... You're... Your girlfriend," he slowly repeated while his eyes darted back and forth between us, "You two are... dating?" I nodded. "But that's... how did that happen?"

"It's kind of a longer story, actually," I said with an awkward chuckle and glanced over at Jade. "We... knew each other from before I transferred to Hollywood Arts."

"What? Where... How?"

Before I had a chance to answer, Jade took over. "We met in elementary school, became best friends, then I moved to San Francisco and we lost contact until I moved back and two years later I ran into Tori on her first day at Hollywood Arts. There. Long story short."

"Best friends? But you were horrible to her for the first few weeks!"

"Okay, I wasn't horrible," Jade said, her irritation noticeably growing with every word that left Andre's mouth, "I wasn't very nice to her in the beginning but I had my reasons for it. Reasons," she sharply added as Andre opened his mouth to probably question what exactly those reasons were. "Which, aside from me, only have to concern Tori. So don't even bother asking."

"Okay," he almost breathed out, his voice cracking and eyebrows seemingly shooting off his head. "I think my head is exploding."

Oh man. If Andre took it that badly, how would everybody else react to it? Maybe we should wait a little while longer. Just to... be sure, to give us some time to brace ourselves for- Oh, what was I talking about? Andre knew now, that meant it was just a matter of time before everyone else found out and that probably meant even worse reactions. Andre was just the beginning, oh my God, what would happen?! God, I was freaking out!

"Oh, geez, this is some crazy chiz," he mumbled to himself while sinking down on my bed. Using his momentary shift of attention I clung to Jade's arm in an hopeless attempt of calming my nerves.

"Jade," I urgently whispered and squeezed tightly while her almost indifferent eyes traveled from Andre to me. How could she be so freaking calm? Sometimes I really wondered if she was even a real human being. Why wasn't she at least a little worried? Ugh, this girl. She stared at me for a moment before releasing a sigh.

"Look, Andre..." His eyes drifted back over to us, dropping down to my hand around Jade's arm for a second before looking up at Jade. "I get it that it seems really weird to you or whatever but... we don't really care, to be honest."

"Jade," I hissed and gave her arm a sharp tug. I cared!

I only received an irritated glance from her before she continued. "We're not with each other just for the heck of it. I... I care about her more than for anyone else and if you can't bring up a normal sense of... of acceptance and respect for us, then it's your problem, not ours."