Not About Angels
Disclaimer:I do not anything Victorious and whatever other crazy things I may stick in this story.
She sat at the guitar playing the instrumental of a song, but the words were unknown as of that moment. Tori Vega sighed and began to hum gently and then began to put words to the song that had been fluttering around her heart and head all night.
"I know
'cause I'd spend half this morning
Thinking about the t-shirt you sleep in
I should know
'cause I'd spend all the whole day
Listening to your message I'm keeping and never deleting"
She paused and wrote it down humming gently, then frowned it wasn't the beginning of it though, more like somewhere in the middle, she didn't hear her door open and brown eyes lock onto her figure as she played a warm smile on her face. The moment was disrupted when he was pushed in; he turned around to see the smirking Goth girl, her boyfriend behind her placing a warning hand on her waist.
"Vega!" Jade said the girl jumped startled and turned, smiling at them a blush on her face.
"Hey guys, what are you doing here?' she said turning, Andre stopped short seeing her as Jade and Beck sat on the couch, Tori was wearing one of his t-shirts it was red and read Hollywood Arts Academy with music notes on the back and HA on the front, considering their height difference the shirt dropped to her mid-thigh; he moved slowly towards her. She stood and ran a hand through her brunette hair as he came and wrapped his arms around her waist, she breathed in and wrapping her arms around his neck, her feet nearly off the ground.
"Figured you need some company with everything going on" Tori winced at Beck's words. Yesterday her parents had officially divorced, her mother leaving their family to be with her lover and her father's former partner Gary.
"How you been hanging in T?" Andre asked as he moved back, she shrugged and sat down on the piano bench putting down the guitar.
"I don't know, all of this makes me really wonder, you know?" she said gently as her front door opened again as Cat and Robbie came in.
"Hey Tori" Cat said smiling sadly, Tori smiled and waved at the two
"Hey Tor" Robbie said leading them to sit on the other seat, Andre moved and sat behind her placing his hands on her waist and pulling her into his chest. She took a shaky breath, her eyes burning; she closed them tightly, her hand squeezing his leg
"What we're you saying, now" Andre said gently ignoring his friends knowing look.
"Just, makes me wonder, what if this a Vega thing, you know bad luck with partners we always end up with people that we think care and end up cheating on us and leaving" she said, everyone in the room froze looking at her "if that's the case maybe it's better to be alone" she said, she didn't see Beck motioning for Andre to say something and quickly, Jade looked at Cat and stood, halting him.
"Vega…Tori you shouldn't think like that" she said moving closer, after the incident with Steven, Jade had followed Tori home and found her crying, after alerting the rest of the group, she stayed helping the girl collect herself and move on, since then she had become closer to Tori almost like a older sister they became each other's confident in everything, she leaned down in front of her and placed her hand on Tori's lap the girls eyes opening "don't think like that, there is someone out there for you, and for all you know he may be closer than you think, you just gotta give it time" she said smiling, the half-latina shrugged and didn't speak, Jade looked up at Andre and she could tell from his eyes his heart was breaking.
"Doesn't make any sense, are we bad people?"
"Never" Andre murmured in her ear, his head pressed to hers
"Come on, how about the guys stay here and me you and Cat go pick up some frozen yogurt?" Jade suggested, Tori looked at her and then up at Andre who smiled down at her almost sadly, he reached and pressed a kiss to her forehead gently
"Go head baby, we'll be right here" he said warmly, she smiled at him and nodded "when you come back I want to hear that song you were working on"
"It's not finished I have the melody but not the words, I've been dreaming a lot is all" she said "even with all this going on"
"So we'll work and figure out the words" he said, she nodded "besides you're not the only one with words stuck in their heart" he teased out gently, she hummed and stood taking Jade's hand and allowing her to be lead upstairs, Cat following them
"Dude you have to tell her" Beck said, looking at Andre who shook his head.
"She's not ready, look at her" he hissed "how do I get her to like me when she doesn't even believe in love, anymore"
"She's just distraught right now, show her what is means to love" Robbie said, Andre sighed as the girls came back down, Tori now had on a floral sun dress with his Hollywood Arts spring jacket, the black and red jacket hung on her stopping where the dress stopped, and he smiled standing up.
"You look good Tor" he said, she smiled looking up at him, though she was hurting she could feel her heart race as he complimented her, she loved him but he was much to good for her
"Thanks Dre, do you want anything back from the froyo place" he shook his head and handed her his card
"Naw, but get yourself something on me" he said, she looked at him confusedly "I'm serious Tori, buy yourself whatever comfort food you want to make you feel better, if you don't take it I'll give it to Jade" he said, she smiled wearily at him and took it slowly before leaning up and hugging him again "I know it hurts baby girl, but it'll get better, please, please don't give up on love because of this" 'not before I get to show you how much I truly love you' he pleaded she buried her face into his chest and nodded almost "good girl, now go and have fun we'll be here when you girls get back" he kissed her temple and she sighed her eyes closing.
"We'll be back soon" Jade said as Tori moved away from Andre, Cat kissed Robbie and Jade blew one to Beck before they left.
"Dude!" both guys rounded on Andre as he turned to them slowly
"Yes?"
"Oh come on, look at what you did for her, and tell me you don't love her"
"I do and I know I do, I won't deny it, that girl has me in every possible way my heart my mind and my soul. She makes everything seem lighter, and she is so beautiful but she doesn't even know it. I fell in love with like a rush of cold water on a hot summer day, it came fast and knocked the hell out of me, but it felt amazing afterwards and it's something I wouldn't trade for the world. Right now all I can do is wait, because she isn't ready"
"Dude while you wait, you better stake a claim, Tori may not be ready but that won't make other guys try" Andre growled almost in animalistic way, brown eyes flashing "exactly, you've gotten crazy possessive of her especially after Steven" Beck said, Andre sighed and sat down "dude she doesn't even have to know, you can do it very subtly"
"Naw man, because if a dude has goes up to her and tell her then what" he said, "just gotta keep her to myself" he grumbled, Beck and Robbie grinned at their friend who seemed annoyed thinking of any guy trying to get with Tori.
-With The Girls-
"Let's go get pizza, some wings and froyo" Cat said excitedly,
"Yeah, especially since lover boys given Tori his card" Jade teased, Tori flushed and looked away
"Guy's don't-" she groaned,
"Oh no you don't when are you going to tell that boy you love him"
"When hell freezes over" Tori mumbled "Andre isn't interested in me that way"
"Are you kidding?" they both asked her incredously
"What?" she groaned as Jade pulled into the parking lot, turning off the engine they looked at her
"Do you see the same shit we do?"
"Yeah! Andre does everything you ask him to unless it's deadly or something, that boy never tells you no, he doesn't do that with any other girl" Cat said looking at her, she sighed.
"He's my best friend, have you seen the girls that throw themselves at him"
"And he turns them all down especially as of lately" Jade said "you're torturing yourself, why?"
"Because, what if I tell him and it's a disaster or-" she stops at Jade's studying gaze "what?"
"That's not what you're scared of, you're scared of ending up like your parents" she stated, Tori flinched and turned away.
"That'll never happen though, Andre would never do that to you" Cat said,
"I thought that about my parents and Steven and Ryder, are you starting to see the connection, because I am" she said "let's just go get the food and go" she said getting out the car, and walking into the pizza shop. Jade and Cat looked at each other, this was going to be harder than they thought.
They ordered the pizza and then stopped next door, Tori got the largest cup and filled it with Cake Batter flavor before going to add pineapples, strawberries, bananas, pieces of chocolate chip and peanut butter cups and pouring caramel on it.
"Hey you made Andre's favorite frozen yogurt" Cat noticed as she bounced over holding two cup, Tori froze and thought 'no this is my favorite what on earth is she talking about'
"Cat this is my favorite frozen yogurt, what are you talking about?"
"No Vega, its Andre's he must have given you some once and it became your favorite that or he's just on your mind" Jade said grinning at her bringing two cups over as they paid and headed back into the car, driving back, the girls got back and walked into the house.
"Here you guys go, we got you something so don't you touch ours" Jade said handing Beck his as Cat handed Rob his, Andre looked at Tori who had a large one, she grinned sheepishly and shrugged.
"I figured we could share, I'm not gonna eat it all" she said as she took off her-his jacket and hung it up on the chair, Andre smiled and nodded as she came and sat next to him, he wrapped his arm around her shoulder and brought her closer, she sighed and inhaled his cologne, they shared the frozen yogurt and ate the pizza before she curled up into his side, he poke her and she looked up.
"Go get the guitar, see if you can finish the song you were playing earlier" he said, she thought about it before standing and grabbing the guitar. She strummed and began to play when Andre's hand grabbed hers.
"Don't think about it, sing whatever pops into your head as it comes, okay?" he asked
"Okay" she began to play again and this time she followed Andre's advice, taking a deep breath she began to play, letting all the words she had in her heart out this time.
"In the morning when you wake up
I like to believe you are thinking of me
And when the sun comes through your window
I like to believe you've been dreaming of me
Dreaming mmm mmm
I know
'cause I'd spend half this morning
Thinking about the t-shirt you sleep in
I should know
'cause I'd spend all the whole day
Listening to your message I'm keeping and never deleting
When I saw you,
Everyone knew
I liked the effect that you had on my eyes
But no one else heard
The weight of your words
Or felt the effect that they have on my mind
Falling mmm mmm
I know
'cause I'd spend half this morning
Thinking about the t-shirt you sleep in
I should know
'cause I'd spend all the whole day
Listening to your message I'm keeping and never deleting"
She finally looked up to see Andre's face was one of mixed expression, confusion, fear, and anger, she looked around and noticed her friends looking at her knowingly. She flushed and turned her attention back to Andre, who had moved away from her staring at her.
"So who's the song about Tori?" Cat asked oblivious to the tension between her two friends, Tori looked away from her best friend to look at Cat.
"This guy, I like him, but I don't think I can give him a chance, it'll end the same I'm sure" she said gently, Andre stood and before anyone could register what had happen he was out the door. A moment later as everyone stood in shock Tori stood and ran upstairs, Jade being the only one to catch the tears that had fell.
"I'm going to kill him" she snarled, Beck grabbed her and she went to follow the young man, he stood and shook his head.
"No, you stay here with Tori I'll bring you back a overnight bag I get the feeling things just got a lot worse for both of them and you'll be here until Monday, I'll go handle Andre" he said "Robbie, take Cat home, we'll text you" he said firmly grabbing his car keys and leaving, Jade stormed up the stairs, heading to Tori's room. She pushed the door opened and seen Tori laying curled up on her side, crying.
"Oh Tori" she said softly coming in, moving to the other side of the bed she laid down and wrapped her arm around the girl pulling her close to her, letting her sob it out. It was about an hour later that silence reined in the room, Jade noticed Tori had fallen asleep, feeling her phone vibrate she went and checked seeing the text from Beck.
Beck- Can't find or reach Andre, he's gone AWOL.
Jade - U can't but when I do I am going to murder him, Tori cried herself to sleep.
Beck- I don't get why he ran like that, he loves her so why did he get mad?
Jade- Don't care, I care that Tori was crying because of another person she loves hurting her, so he's going to die.
Beck- Babe….
Jade- Leave my clothes outside her door, goodnight Beck…
She put her phone on the small table beside her bed and curled up to the girl, falling asleep.
Monday came faster than they thought and no one had been able to get in touch with Andre all weekend, it was as if he had disappeared. Jade swore she was going to rip his head off the moment she seen him, Tori had been in bed all weekend and Jade hadn't left her side, trying to convince that Andre had probably misunderstood that was until they walked into school. Tori had walked in smiling wearily; her eyes were still a little puffy as she came in with her Jade and Beck, they ran into Robbie and Cat who smiled almost forced, as they tried to block their way from heading any further.
"What are you two doing?" Jade finally snapped, they looked at each other and stumbled over a half asses excuse when Jade finally snapped shoving them apart, what they seen made all three freeze. Right next to Tori's locker was a familiar girl, Sherry and attached to her lips was Andre, who was kissing her passionately.
"I am going to-" Jade was cut off, by Tori's closed off face "oh shit I think he's really done it this time" the girl took out her headphones plugging them into her pearphone and playing music loudly that it could be heard by the others, she walked over to her locker ignoring the couple singing under her didn't look up once as she got her books out of her locker, her friends waiting, she purposely slammed her locker hard and turned to her friends smiling as Jade wrapped her arm through her's and walked towards her class Robbie and Cat with them, Beck lingered and as Andre separated from the girl, he simply raised an eyebrow and shook his head at his best friend.
"Nice one, man, really" he said sarcastically leaving; Andre looked at Sherry's questioning look and shook his head before leaving her to go into class. Andre was shocked when he realized all his friends were surrounding Tori in a circle as if guarding her. Jade and Cat was glaring at him, making him wince and sit to the side by himself. As Sikowitz came in he immediately noticed the difference and tension in the class between his favorite students.
"Okay, what is going on here" he said eyeing them, the group on the right side said nothing,so he turned to Andre "I'm assuming you did something, so what did you do?" he asked, Andre looked at him and shrugged, leaning back.
"Honestly I don't know what I did, hell I'm trying to figure that out" he exclaimed, Sikowitz hummed and nodded
"Okay, Jade, Beck Andre on stage ABC-Improv" he said, Andre sighed and stood as the other two sat there "Now!" Sikowitz called, Jade huffed and glared at Sikowitz as Beck sighed and ran a hand through his hair and stood getting on the stage "begin" he called Andre started them off.
"Alright, what's going on?"
"Beck, you can answer that" Jade said
"Come on man, you really don't know" Beck said calmly looking at his friend
"Don't know what? I haven't seen y'all since Friday afternoon" he cried out
"Exactly, so what happen between Friday and this morning?" Jade spat out glaring at him
"For goodness sake, I don't know!" Andre snapped annoyed
"Good to know, you're completely oblivious Harris" Andre knew immediately Jade was utterly and completely pissed at him, whatever he had done was bad.
"How am I suppose to know what I did" he said exasperatedly
"I guess you won't know then, because we're not going to tell you here in a classroom full of people, but really think what happen between Friday to now that could have set us all off" Beck said looking at him, his eyes held a anger that made Andre flinched as he thought back. He scowled as he thought about the song Tori had written for some boy, he had went home and ignored everyone for the rest of the weekend to deal with his feelings and anger and then Sherry had text him Sunday night, asking to meet him Monday morning and when he had met the girl she kissed him.
"Just forget it, Beck do it"
"Alright I'm out" he said purposely using the letter A and going to sit down.
"Andre start with the letter K" Sikowitz said, the African American teen sighed and spoke.
"Kay, I'm not gonna fight this I don't know why you guys are mad at me, and until someone tells me I can't fix this"
"Go to hell, hey look I'm out" Jade said leaving and sitting, folding her legs, Andre sighed and his eyes looked at Tori, they were empty, he couldn't find any emotion within them, and that scared him, he still loved her God knows he did and he hated seeing her the way she was but he couldn't stand that she was falling in love with a guy that would possible hurt her again. He sighed and sat down crossing his arms, he'd talk to Beck after class.
"Well that was a bust, alright for your homework I am working with your creative music teachers you have to do a play with a song about your most recent emtion"
"Oh joy" Jade said sarcastically,
"Yes, yes alright you are all free to go to wander the halls" he said, everyone got up and began to leave , Andre quickly called Beck to wait. Everyone had a different class but Beck, Tori and Andre had their next class together.
"Go ahead, I'll talk to him, shall I tell him what he did?" he asked, Tori eyes flashed to Andre and she nodded just as he reached up to them,
"I'll see you in class Beck" she mumbled and walked off rather quickly, Andre sighed and looked at Beck.
"What did I do?"
"Do you love Tori?"
"Of course I do" he said, Beck nodded and looked at him
"Remind me again, how she makes you feel exactly"
"She…" he paused and sighed leaning against a locker "She make my heart race whenever I see her, she's makes my days light and my nights brighter, she's a breath a fresh air in every way possible to me, I love her and I swear I love her so fucking much, man now what happened? Why the hell does she look broken and Jade is about to murder me' he asked sliding down onto the floor putting his face in his hands, Beck thought, instead of answering he asked another question.
"The song she wrote, what made you leave?"
"She's in love with someone else" he grumbled
"Dude!" Beck looked at him in shock, "that song was about you!" he said shoving him "is that why you kissed Sherry today?"
"How was that song about me, man look Tori knows me, I don't sleep in t-shirts" he said "and yeah, she texted me Sunday"
"Because she steals them all that was the point she's dreaming about the tee shirt that you sleep in because-"
"Because she always takes them and sleeps in them, oh my god I'm an idiot" Andre said, banging his head into a locker. Beck patted his arm, in sympathy "I got to fix this"
"Yeah, but first you need to break up with Sherry-" as the words left his lips he caught Sherry walking away smugly and Jade running after her grabbing her by the hair and slamming her into the locker.
"What the hell?" both boys jumped up, Beck immediately grabbed his girlfriends waist and lifted her off the girl she was punching.
"Jade, what happen?" Beck asked, the girl snapped, her eyes locking on Andre.
"You, all of this is your fault!" she snarled, Andre started confused and looked at Sherry who even with a bloody nose had a smug look on his face.
"What did you do Sherry?" Andre asked, the girl simply shrugged.
"I simply told Vega the truth"
"Which is?" he gritted out, the girl smiled and moved closer to him placing her hand on his chest.
"I told her, that she may as well give it up, that you didn't want her anymore, you have me" she said, Andre froze, he nearly snarled at her before pushing her away harshly.
"I should let Jade do what she wants with you, but you aren't even worth that"
"She can be worth my butter sock" a drawling voice said, they turned to see Cat and Robbie with Cat's roommate Sam "I like that Tori chick, sweet kid she's also Cat's friend and I'm friends with Cat so if your messing with her, you're messing with me and I assure from what I know, between me and Jade we are not two girls you wanna piss off" she said,
"No butter sock, Sam" Andre said, sighing "I gotta go fix this" he said "I'll see you guys later" he said running out; he hopped in car and drove off, reaching Tori's house within ten minutes. He found the spare key he had and opened the door "Tori" he called looking around, he shut the door locking it before heading upstairs, he entered her bedroom. Seeing her curled up and breathing evenly in one of his shirts he sighed, stripping out of his shirt and jeans he laid down beside her, pulling her close and cuddling her to him "baby girl, I hate making you cry, but we'll fix this when you wake up I swear" he said, closing his eyes.