Jade Fleming is a former student at Waterloo Road. She was portrayed by Paige Meade, who is also a singer and rapper with the stage name Paigey Cakey.
Jade joins the school at the start of Series 8 after she and her boyfriend, Drew Kelly, have been on the run from London and hiding out in an derelict house after they absconded from a children's home in Hackney as Drew stabbed his care worker. Jade wants her chance to get a decent education, but the new life she envisaged may not be as easy to achieve as she thinks. Jade and Drew both make the choice to enrol at Waterloo Road and their façade soon starts to break down. Michael advises Jade to get checked out by the school nurse. There, she discovers she is pregnant with Drew's baby, which she had already suspected, this suspicion being the reason she wanted to enrol. Drew hurts Jade and she therefore has to go to hospital. Later, Drew threatens the lunch hall and Michael Byrne with a kitchen knife. He is subsequently arrested, and writes Jade a heartfelt letter, hoping her and their child will be happy.
Later, she puts the baby up for adoption and gets interest from who she thought were the perfect couple, however she later finds out they were actually divorced. Jade's water breaks with only Scout and Mr Budgen on hand.
Trivia[]
In the episode that Jade Fleming first appeared, Michael Byrne referred to her as being named Jade Willis. This was due to Jade and her boyfriend Drew both having to use fake names as Drew was on the run from the police.
Quotes[]
- Jade: "I found it, alright? I didn't know how to tell you." (first line)
- Drew: "Tell me what?"
- Jade: "I wanna go Waterloo Road, Drew. It's a school. The headmaster sounds brilliant, wanting everyone to come, no matter how poor you are."
- "I can't. I'm carrying our baby. We can't do this any more."
- Jade: "There's more than just us now, Drew. We can't go on the run with a baby."
- Drew: "What are you saying?"
- Jade: "I need to stay at the schoolhouse. For our baby's sake."
- Janeece: "How you feeling?"
- Jade: "Knackered. Excited. Scared. There's gonna be this little person, and it's completely up to me to look after them. You're dead lucky you've got Mr Chalk. He'd do anything for you."
- Janeece: "Not any more."
- Jade: "So why did I see him shouting at Mr Byrne, getting you your job back?"
- Barry: "She's going to hospital to get her gut stapled cos she's a fat get."
- Jade: "That's not funny! People get anorexia listening to people like you."
- Jade: "You just gotta push through the pain barriers, isn't that right, miss?"
- Rhiannon: "I'll remind you of that when that sprog's ready to pop."
- "Please...my baby...don't hurt us." (when Bolton was holding the class hostage)
- "Course, this isn't a goodbye, my little baby. Just a see you soon, if that's okay. Cos when you're all grown up and ready, I really hope you'll wanna see me again that day. Then I'll finally get a chance to say how much I loved you, and wanted this to turn out some other way. But the truth is, I'm just not ready. I don't think I ever was, and that's okay. Cos one day we can finally meet again, when I'm done with all my growing up here too. And in the meantime, if I can find someone else who loves you, even if it's just by themselves and not as two, then surely that's the best place for you to be right now, and the right thing for me, and for you."
- "He's had that for ages, ain't you worried?" (final line)