HELLO EVERYONE! This is my first Victorious fanfiction, but not by far my first fanfiction. I am indeed excited to get back to writing fanfiction. Here's a little background on the story: it's based off of the movie 10 Things I Hate About You poem read at the end of the movie by Cat, and I feel that each line has a different story behind it especially when concerning Jade and Beck. So this will be 10 chapters. Please enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Victorious...if I did, Tori and Beck NEVER would have kissed in the first episode.

Disclaimer 2: I do not own 10 Things I Hate About You. No one can touch that movie, so the disclaimer kind of stands on its own.

I do; however, own this idea :)

"I hate the way you talk to me."

Her black combat boots stomped the ground with ferocious force as she made her way along the pavement. She could feel the odd looks that people gave her, their eyes following her as she strode down the pavement, but she didn't care. She felt their eyes boring into her back, but she still kept walking ahead. She was wrong, she knew it from the moment the words escaped her lips. The venom in them was meant to attack and disarm, but not to kill. Shuddering, she walked faster, trying to keep the ghosts of yet another mistake from growing in her head. It was cold outside, an odd temperature for a Monday in LA; April brought showers, but with humidity always lurking at its corners. The sun attempted to show its strength, but the dark clouds budging in front of it eventually forced it to admit temporary defeat and soon the rain came down in little drops. Landing on her cheek and sliding down till it eventually mixed in with the salty water flowing from her eyes, the rain dropps brought Jade back to reality. In a sudden moment of desperation, she reached into her bag tearing through its contents until her hand clenched her prized possession: eyeliner. With the movement of a professional, Jade quickly reapplied the black hue beneath her eyes, darkening and hardening her glare with every swipe that she gave.

"Jade," Sikowitz smirked as her sauntered towards her, an idea brewing within his balding head. "You will be playing an angry woman-"

"Easiest role of her life!" Tori giggled at Jade, poking fun at the girl that she cautiously called her friend. As Jade's famous icy gaze caught Tori's, her laughter ceased immediately.

"An angry woman, who has to accept love from a man that has skeletons in his closet…that she just found out about. Robbie, you play the man." Sighing, Robbie moved to the stage in the front of Sikowitz's class where he stood toe to toe with Jade.

"I hate you," Jade hissed. "Everything about you disgusts me. Why would I ever, ever love you?"

"You hate me because of what I've done? All I did was tell you the truth!"

"And that makes it any better? Look, I've got problems of my own."

"Listen," Robbie's hand now reached out to her shoulder. Jade flinched away as she realized the similarity this exercise held to a conversation all too familiar. "I love you. More than…than anything." Ignoring the cheesy one-liner, Jade pushed on, shaking off the feeling of repetition.

"More than your secrets? More than mine?" Here, she knew she'd caught Robbie off guard when his eyebrows raised and he began to stutter. He knew as well as she did that by simply answering yes to this question, Sikowitz would end the exercise: he hated yes when "so many other words could be said."

"Look! I'm sorry that I like grilled cheese with pickles! It's a family trait!" Rolling her eyes, Jade walked off of the stage, no one knowing if she had completely left character or not. It didn't matter. Robbie had just ruined what may have been the best acting he'd done in two years of attending Hollywood Arts.

"Can I try again?" Robbie asked, looking back and forth between Sikowitz and Jade.

"No." Jade's voice rang throughout the room. "In the real world when people suck like you, they don't get a second chance." She knew she'd hit a chord, not only with Robbie but with the pair of eyes boring into the back of her head.

"Jade…he got nervous…you…" Cat couldn't find the words so she, for once, stopped talking. Then the bell ring, but no one moved. Sikowitz was still standing in the back of the class, staring at Robbie as he had his eyes glued on Jade, his body frozen. Getting up and storming out of the room, Jade made her way to her locker.

"That was a pretty crap thing to say." She didn't even have to look up to identity the voice that dared to speak to her. Beck, his dark hair pushed out of his face in frustration, stood in front of her; his brown eyes boring into hers. He sighed; those eyes were what got him every time. He loved their blue electricity, and how they looked grey when she tilted her head a certain way. Everything about them spoke volumes about her. They always caught him off guard, stopped his ranting, but not today. She had crossed the line.

"He screwed up. It's time for everyone to stop babying him."

"You know that he's been getting a hard time for his acting lately, that's the best that he's done in a while. Why would you say that?"

"Look, Beck, the class is all about learning right? Receiving constructive criticism? He signed up for it, he got it."

"He signed up for Sikowitz, not for your crap."

"You know what-"

"Next time you get mad at me, take it out on me. Not out on the people that you call your 'friends.'"

"Screw you!" she shouted the words, more venom. But it was too late to take them back. Their fight had started on Saturday over a waitress and now, here she was, adding more fuel to it when all she wanted was to end it. Just to be able to breathe.

"I love you too, Jade," he said, the words struggled and with a tint of hurt. Still, he picked up his bag, slung it back over his shoulder and swaggered away, leaving her standing at her locker. Alone.

So, this is my return to fanfiction, but from a completely different point. I have another story in Zoey 101 and one that is currently in serious re-edit because my writing has greatly matured since those stories were first written. Please read and review. BTW, this was inspired by an AMAZING video that I saw because I happen to love 10 Things I Hate About You and I thought that it applied to Jade and Beck so much! So please, go and watch the Jade and Beck 10 Things I Hate About You video, it's amazing. It will really give you a better idea of the story.

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