*Jades POV*

How could I be so stupid? I don't understand, yeah I flirted with him a bit, but nothing more serious than that. I ran over to her.

"For now, just remember I'm not Tori, and wouldn't do this to you without an explanation."

"Wait, wait, wait! What's the problem here? And who the hell is Tori?" That was it. He couldn't let Cat like him, then kiss me, and then immediately sound interested in Vega. I turned back around and walked over to him. I felt like the Jade I'd been since I was 8 again, instead of the new soft Jade.

I put all my anger at upsetting Cat into a slap. Seeing the look on her face right now almost killed me . So yeah, it was a pretty hard slap.

"Jesus! Ow, bloody hell!" He looked really red. It couldn't just be from the slap, because his whole face looked like a tomato. Almost immediately I realized he was embarrassed. I mean, I'd been sending the poor guy mixed signals. Treating him like everyone else, then flirting with him, then normal again, then I let him kiss me and I kissed him back. Then I slapped him. I am a bad, bad person.

"I only asked what was wrong..." I know I said I felt bad, but I was still mad.

I can either risk telling him the truth about Cat liking him and betray her trust and hurt her feelings, or not tell him and let her see him chasing after me which would destroy her, and then watching that happen to her at all, let alone because of me would destroy me. "Niall, can you leave us for like, 2 minutes?" He looked like he was about to argue, but I pulled all my inner Jade to the surface and gave him my best death glare. He held his hands up in mock surrender. "Ok ok, I'm going! Don't want another one of those slaps." He shuffled towards the door and closed it behind him. I looked at Cat. I've never grovelled before...

"OhMyGod Cat, I'm so sorry I had no idea who it was, he just walked in and kissed me and I had no idea what to do. I kind of tricked myself into believing it was Beck... I can understand if you're going to hate me forever, but I draw the line at letting you punch me in the face like you did to sort out boyfriend problems with Tori."

"Jadey-"

"Since you can't punch me, I know you're going to want to do something else..."

"Jade."

"I don't know what that is,"

"Jade."

"And since you're Cat I don't think it'll be that bad but I hate it when we're not talking and-"

"JADELYN AVERY WEST!" I stopped speaking and my mouth stayed open like a moron. It was the shock. Cat's never yelled at me before, or used my full name. I didn't even know she knew my full name!

"Jadey, I was never mad. I don't get mad, I just get upset. Well I get mad sometimes like at Tori, but not at you. You're my best friend. She's not. I love you." She gave me a little sad smile.

"Thanks Kitten, but we do have a little problem." She tilted her head to one side and furrowed her eyebrows. "Like the fact that you're like completely in love with the old blonde suckfish out there, yet he's here after me." Luckily she was too busy laughing at my description of Niall to really pay attention to the last part.

"Blonde suckfish..." She repeated, giggling her little red head off. I smiled at her. It was getting easier, all this smiling stuff. Except this wasn't a time for smiling, we needed to sort this mess out.

"You have a choice to make... Either you tell Niall how you feel and you see what happens, whichever way it goes; or you don't tell him, and you could end up seeing him trying to flirt with m- other people..." I felt so bad for making her choose like this, but it had to be done. However, if it was Tori in this situation right now, I'd have a bowl of popcorn and my 3D glasses by now.

Cat let out a loud sigh. " I don't want to tell him though... I'll mess it up! And then he'll know how I feel and still flirt with other people!" She went silent, and then her face lit up, and she just stood there, grinning at me. It would have been unnerving if I hadn't been the old Jade for so long.

"Caaaat..." I raised my eyebrows at her and she carried on smiling. I got it. She wanted me to do her dirty work for her.

"Cat, are you sure that's a good idea? I mean, he just kissed me and you want me to tell him you like him?" Cat nodded her red-velvet-cupcake coloured hair excitedly.

"Are you sure? I mean it's just..." Cat went all serious on me.

"Tell him."