NEW DAYS
A/N: I have had this idea in my head for well over a year now. I love Victorious, and being the well-groomed, brilliant author that I am, I decided that I would write a fanfic for it :) . Anyway this fic will be centered mostly around my OC, Tori, Beck and Jade. I know people don't really do well with OC's in victorious fanfics but I've thought this one through, I guarantee you guys will love it. I'm bitching too much so I'll let you get on with the story. Plus please don't let the fact that it's rated M or probably going to rated M later, drive you away from this story. I promise I'll keep it appropriate *laughs*. Oh and this is my first fanfic, well my first fanfic for my new account.
"speech"-
'thoughts'-
flashbacks and other necessary things-
Stress(on a word)-
SHOUTING-
Disclaimer: I do not own victorious. All I own is Mikey Rodriguez.
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Chapter 1: Pilot
Tori's POV
I was back in school and it felt great! I mean I loved my weekends as much as the next person, but this particular weekend was ridiculously draining. A freakin' six hour drive from L.A to San Francisco to see my grandparents who I loved, but they were the most insanely religious people I had ever seen in my sixteen years of life. Yeah! Sixteen as in I graduate in two years. A lot had happened in the one year I had been at Hollywood Arts. I had made some really crazy and wonderful friends and well...Jade. I smiled to myself as I reminisced about everything I had been through from getting arrested in another country to willingly dressing like a blind clown just to get famous.
I closed my locker weakly since I was still alittle drowsy from getting only four hours of sleep. As my locker shut I nearly jumped out of my own skin as a certain tiny red-head jumped from behind it.
"Hey Tori!", Cat greeted, alittle too loudly considering I was centimeters away from her.
"Hey Cat! I'm right here you know." I told her with a smile plastered on my face, because you just couldn't not smile around Cat, or twist your face in confusion...or fear. Cat batted her eye lashes as she smiled up at me.
"What's got you in such a good mood?" I asked holding on to my bag over my left shoulder. Cat dressed up today, going for a red sundress complimented with a red belt with blue flats matching the blue flower design on her dress.
"I heard something" Cat said putting her hands on her waist waving it ever so lightly. I giggled at her antics.
"And what did you hear?" I asked now shifting my body to stand in-front of her.
She looked around us as if trying to spot anyone trying to eavesdrop on what she was about to say, she leaned her head forward to me alittle before whispering.."It's a secret." , I shook my head at her and before I knew it she grabbed my right wrist and was pulling me across the hallway, but I didn't complain knowing she was dragging us to class. Just as we were about to cross the door into Sikowitz's class, I caught sight of someone talking to Helen at the beginning of the hallway leading to her office.
From what I could make out in the two seconds I witnessed the sight, it was a boy, raven black hair and looked quite tall.
We were in the classroom now, Cat walked to the front of the class to take her seat beside Robbie. I walked to my seat on the third of four rows in the class and sat down. I had Beck and Jade to my right on the other side of the directly behind me and the empty seat on my left. I practically slumped in my seat and let out a groan of fatigue.
"Sup Baby girl" I heard from behind me, and only one person greeted me like that. I turned my head around to face Andre and I was greeted with a warm smile that I returned.
"Hey Andre!" I replied with as much strength as I could gather, my actions seemed to have amused Andre as he chuckled.
"Rough weekend, huh!" he asked leaning back into his seat. I gave him a groan signifying that his assumption was correct.
"Yeah! Six hour drive, Religious grandparents, 1 hour church photo-shoot." I told him as I gave a sigh of frustration.
"It's ight' . I'm very sure you've been spiritually blessed.", he teased me with a mocking pastor voice that he surprisingly nailed.
"The only blessing I've gotten is a bad back", I said matter of factly.
"The Lord works in mysterious ways." he answered mockingly yet again, and I had a nice laugh at his joke.
"Where is Sikowitz?" I heard Jade ask in frustration. I turned my head to look at her and Beck, it was one of those days that they going for her usual black leather jacket over black long-sleeve that covered half of her palms, a dark blue flannel skirt and her black combat boots.
Beck was dressed in a black leather jacket as well, over a white v-neck, he went for dark slim jeans that made his legs look long even sitting down and he went for black boots as well.
"You're never in a rush to start class. What's wrong?"Beck asked turning his head to face Jade.
"Because he distracts me from focusing on the fact that I like barely anybody in this room" she answered like it was meant to be obvious, but I guess I should have expected that kind of answer from Jade.
The sound of the front door swinging open drew me from my thoughts as I turned my head towards the front of the class. Sikowitz walked in with his trademark coconut with a green straw in his left hand. He walked to the front of the little stage in-front of the class to face us.
"Good morning high schoolers, you're all looking milky today" he said getting a look of confusion and disturbance from everyone in the class. He dropped his coconut on the small cabinet by the window and turned to face us again.
"So! I have some great news." he said using the front edge of the stage as a seat. He then looked up and faced us...without speaking. Everyone in the class looked at him in confusion.
"Um..Sikowitz?" I heard Andre ask from behind me as Mr. Sikowitz turned to look at him. "You said you had some great news." he finished.
"Ah yes! Wonderful news"he said once again finishing and just staring back at us.
"Aren't you gonna tell us this news" it was Robbie who asked this time.
"Oh yes! It's quite exciting actually." he finished and yet again just sat there and stared at us.
"You know to share how exciting it is you're probably gonna want to tell us what it actually is." Beck offered still as calm as usual.
"Well yes, it wou-"
"WHAT IS IT!" and Jade had finally had enough. Sikowitz' body jumped rather ungracefully before he stood to settle himself.
"Alright alright, you could have just asked!" he replied as Robbie shook his head as in bewilderment, raising his arms for emphasis.
Mr. Sikowitz straightened out his various scarfs and cleared his throat. "Well as you all know I am a dancer.", he said causing everyone to get a what! look on their faces.
"Sorry, wrong crowd", he stated embarrassingly, ookay...I was gonna let that one go. "What I meant to say was, Hollywood Arts is having a new student..in this class."
"Hey that was supposed to be a secret!" Cat exclaimed at Mr. Sikowitz, and she seemed genuinely sad that she didn't get to say it herself, you'll never understand that girl. It clicked in my head that the secret Cat had told me about was the new student, could it be the boy who was talking to Helen earlier?
"Uum..no Cat, it wasn't." Mr. Sikowitz said with a weird smile. "Helen gave him an entry halfway through his audition so the boy is quite talented, maybe even a prodigy." he continued with a smile plastered to his face, Mr. Sikowitz seemed really impressed with this new kid that I now knew was a boy.
"So I'll go get him, just a minute class" he says turning his back on us and walked through the door, not a second later he rushed back in to grab his coconut off the cabinet then turned back towards the door.
"A new kid, huh!" I heard Andre say from behind me. "You guys think he'll be as awesome as the last one", he said and I smiled at him knowing he was talking about me.
"Is that a trick question?" said none other than Jade from my right. I turned to give her a slight glare as she sneered at me.
"It is actually! He won't even come close" said Beck smiling in my defense that earned him a hard glare from Jade, which he shut down by rolling his eyes. I smiled in satisfaction at Jade's situation.
"Maybe he'll be the next ventriloquist" Robbie said hopefully.
Cat smiled at him cutely as she lightly brushed his arm with her palm. "Aww Robbie!" she said as Robbie smiled at her. "Let it go." she finished with a smile still on her face as she left Robbie's arm and turned towards the front of the class. Robbie looked like a wolf had just clawed out his heart, it was really interesting how blunt Cat could be sometimes.
The door swung open as Mr. Sikowitz came back in still with the coconut in his hand."Okay everything's been sorted out" he said raising his hands in the air above him."Come forth, child!" it's Mr. Sikowitz, we'd heard weirder.
The door swung open as a boy obviously the new kid, seeing as how I hadn't seen him before, walked through it. Did a vampire from one of the Twilight movies just walk into our class, because I think it's scientifically proven that humans can't look like that.
He had raven colored hair that was messy to perfection, it looked like no effort had been given to it yet it was so...alive, it reminded you of Damon from Vampire Diaries(oh you know you watch it too). He had tan skin and pink lips, a silver piercing adorned his left earlobe. He looked just slightly shy of six-foot, having an inch on Robbie, two on Andre, and matching Beck's height exactly. He wore a body-hug dark blue long sleeve tee that covered his palms halfway, it outlined his perfect athletic build beautifully. He went for dark jeans and dark purple high-tops. I noticed last that he wore a silver chain on his neck but it was tucked into his T-shirt.
This boy..was...wow! Just...wow!
"Go on, introduce yourself." Mr. Sikowitz said as he stepped back so the boy could stand before us properly.
He took a noticeable breath as his lips twisted into a very very sexy smile, he parted his lips as he got ready to speak. "What's up guys, it feels great to get accepted into such a cool, artistic school like this.", he spoke with a voice that got beneath my skin. For God sake I don't even know this guys' name yet, I need to relax.
"My name Is Michael Rodriguez, call me Mikey..please" he said jokingly electing chuckles from the class. Wait! Mikey Rodriguez? Where have I heard that name before?
"I just turned seventeen and I've always wanted to join a performing arts school. I thought this was the perfect place...plus Helen threatened to send a video of a girl named Trina singing, as my portfolio to any other school that wanted me. She made it sound really scary for some reason."
The class erupted in laughter more at how Mikey said it than the fact that Helen threatened him. That was something everyone knew she could do.
"Anyway I'm looking forward to having a lot of fun here, I'm alittle crazy so I hope that's okay. Also I'm pretty talented so I'm probably gonna be way more popular than you guys after graduation", he said lowering his head and pursing his lips in a joking manner. Where was my camera when I needed it.
The whole class was laughing yet again, well except Jade she was trying not to look at Mikey, she seemed angry with him. She glanced at him then shut her eyes as if she had just sinned by looking at him, what was up with that?
"Good way to introduce yourself Mikey, oh and one question." Mr. Sikowitz said as Mikey turned to face him. "Do you like milk?".
The question seemed to throw Mikey of balance as his face fell in bewilderment. "Uh..yah.", he answered uncomfortably as Sikowitz laughed and gave him a light slap on the back.
"Excellent! You'll fit right in. Okay go take a seat beside-".
'Oh no! This was it, I just knew it was gonna be me. Chill out Tori, there are four empty seats in this class. What are the odds he'll tell him to seat beside y-'.
"-Tori", I heard finish. Oh God!
He followed Mr Sikowitz's pointed finger and his eyes landed on mine. I wanted to look away but I couldn't, because telling myself I wanted to look away was a lie. He smiled in my direction and I smiled back on pure reflex.(What! that's totally what is was). He walked towards my direction, I noticed that he walked with alot of confidence, his broad shoulders complimented that well. He never took his eyes off me as he took his seat beside me, he was barely a centimeter away from me now and I got a proper look at his eyes. They were a marvelous grayish blue, his hair was slick and silky yet it was still wild, seriously what was this boy?!
I was so busy assessing his features that I hadn't noticed I had been staring until he spoke.
"Take your time okay.", he said teasingly as his smile turned into a smirk.
I held down a gasp of embarrassment that threatened slip out of my throat. I looked at my palms on my lap as I gave a giggle."I'm so sorry", I said embarrassed. He gave a small chuckle.
"It's okay. I'm just teasing you.", he said with that smile that was already unique.
"Sorry Tori, Mikey, are we disturbing you guys?" asked playfully as most of the class turned to us.
"Yes actually!", Mikey replied with a playful smirk as the whole class burst into laughter as I tried to bury my head in my hands to hide the insane shade of red my face probably was. I heard Mikey laugh as I raised my head back up and faced him.
"I hate you!", I told him unable to wipe my smile of my face.
He rose his right eyebrow and looked at me as if sarcastically saying ,really, do you really. I playfully smacked him on the arm as he laughed again.
I faced now, still smiling uncontrollably. I felt like I already knew Mikey, I mean here we were acting like we had known each other for months. He made it that easy, I glanced back at him through the side of my eye and saw him still smiling at me. I stopped glancing at him and faced forward again, giggling to myself I couldn't help but think that these were going to be an awesome last two years of High school.
I stood in-front of my locker tossing in the unnecessary books so my bag wouldn't be too heavy while I headed for lunch, but my mind wasn't even where I was standing, it was still in Mr. Sikowitz's class smiling ridiculously at Mikey Rodriguez. I was still trying to figure out how that name sounded familiar. I hadn't noticed that yet again my thoughts had taken over me and I was just staring into my locker.
"Am I still disturbing you and Mikey up in there up in there.", a voice drew me out of my musings and I turned my head to see it was Andre with his finger pointed at my head. I blushed and shut my locker so I could keep my attention on him.
"Hey, stop it.", I said with a greeting smile that he returned.
"Okay. I guess when a girl practically studies a guys' face it's normal", he replied with a teasing tone.
"I was not studying his face" I replied with a failed defensive tone.
"Sure looked like it from where I was." he said teasing me yet again. I forgot he sat directly behind me.
"You probably had something in your eye." I said brushing his comment off.
"Guess I did, so you probably don't want to know where his locker is then?" he said in his now favorite teasing tone, my eyes widened slightly as I realized I actually didn't know where his locker was. Andre noticed my change in expression and burst out laughing. I tried my best to punch him playfully but he either dodged or caught my hand while laughing.
After I gave up and dropped my arms, Andre's laugh died down and he smiled at me. "You know, if you weren't so stuck in your head you would have noticed he's right down the hallway.", he said to me still slightly amused. I knitted my eyebrows in confusion before allowing my head to follow Andre's direction, and there he was.
Mikey stood in-front of his locker down the hallway, which I noticed was right in-front of Beck's. He was being assaulted with girls talking to him from left, right and above(yeah...I wasn't kidding). He seemed pretty un-bothered by all the girls around him, almost as if he was used to it, which he probably was. He raised his head up and looked around aimlessly until for the second time that day, our eyes met.
We held our gazes for a while before he threw me that trademark smirk. My face lighted up immediately, I saw him say something to the girls as they giggled and waved him goodbye, he waved back and started walking towards me and Andre.
"Look! he's walking in our direction all of a sudden. What could he possibly want?" Andre said in mock shock. I rolled eyes at him while he chuckled. Mikey reached us with his friendly smile plastered on his face and we gave him ours.
"Hey you guys!" he greeted.
"Hi", I replied beaming.
"Hey man! We haven't officially met, I'm Andre Harris", he greeted giving his hand to Mikey who took it as they shook hands firmly.
"Sup' man. It's awesome to meet you, I saw you perform at karaOOKAY once.", Mikey answered nailing lil' Jon's pronunciation of karaoke as Andre and I laughed. It was funny how that was actually how the place was pronounced.
"Are you serious.?", Andre asked seeming excited that someone saw him perform.
"Yeah you killed it! It was just another reason why I made sure I would definitely come to this school.", Mikey praised Andre who gave his thanks.
I looked at the two of them talk and I remembered Mikey came here to talk to me. Meaning once he was done talking with Andre he would turn to me, was he gonna start the conversation? What if he just turned and expected me to talk?. I sighed mentally, this was ridiculous, I just met the guy. I was gonna start the conversation.
Once I had made up my mind Mikey seemed to just finish with Andre seeing as he turned towards me.
"So Mikey do you wanna sit with us at lunch?" I asked with a glint of hope. He shook his head lightly as my hope turned to disappointment.
"I still got a bunch of stuff I gotta take care of with Helen, I cant bail you know, Helen" he said giving a faint shudder. That woman scared everyone.
"Hey no problem man! There's always next time." Andre offered friendly.
"Yeah! maybe tomorrow?" I offered hoping I didn't let my hope slip through my tone. Mikey smiled in thanks at both of us.
"That would be awesome. So anyway, gotta head to Helen's office, life at stake and all." he joked electing chuckles from me and Andre. We waved him goodbye as he walked towards the second hallway, he turned his head revealing his smile and waved back at us.
"See you around klutzy." he said to me, but before I had time to even process the name I had just been called, he had already disappeared around the corner. I stood there in wonder, klutzy?, that sounded...familiar, especially from his mouth, what was up with that?
"Wow! Pet names on the first day, I think you guys are moving alittle fast." Andre's voice tossed me out of my thoughts as I playfully glared at him for what he just said which just caused him to laugh.
"Come on. Everyone's probably wondering where we are." he said as we started heading in the direction of the food court outside. My body was walking and so was my mind, how did Mikey Rodriguez know a nickname for me that sounded familiar. Better question, how did the name Mikey Rodriguez sound familiar, I had never seen him or heard his name before this morning, had I?
"Hey guys!"
"Sup' y'all.",
Me and Andre respectively, greeted our friends who were all seated around our usual table at the food court. We got greetings back from our friends including an "Aloha!" from Cat.
"What took you guys?" Beck asked as me and Andre as we took our seats opposite him and Jade. I placed my food tray down and dropped my bag under the bench I sat on. I looked up to face Beck.
"We were talking to Mikey." I answered his question.
"Oh the new kid who made you wet your seat this morning!" Jade said smiling bitterly at me, causing me glare daggers at her. She was so frustrating it was actually tiring.
"Unnecessary assault." Beck stated to her as if she just failed an assessment. She looked up at him with a shocked face.
"But c'mon it's Vega. You know how it is with her." Jade argued gesturing towards me but keeping her eyes on Beck.
"She's a person and our friend, you're one down." he replied strictly as Jade made to argue but Beck pointed at her strictly and she kept quiet. I smiled slightly, Beck and Jade were that couple I would never understand, you didn't know who was in-charge there. Just when you think it's Beck snap! Jade does something evil and she takes control. It was beyond people (me included) how that relationship functioned.
"He's awesome, y'all should talk to him sometime." Andre said taking a bite off his sandwich.
"Yeah right". Jade said scoffing. I didn't get it, she hadn't even spoken to Mikey and she already seemed not to like him.
"What's your problem with Mikey?" I asked genuinely confused. She dropped a frie back on her lunch plate and looked at me. "I mean you haven't even spoken to him." I continued.
"Yeah why Jade? He's funny and has nice slick hair." Cat said running her fingers over her hair, she was adorable.
"Maybe I just naturally hate the new kids you know?" she said with a sick sneer. I give up, why do I even bother!
"You could've just answered the question" Andre said to Jade, now taking some soda, half done with his sandwich.
"Maybe next time", she answered with a sarcastic smile, Andre just shook his head with an amused smile.
"So Tori...", Robbie said to me from his position beside Cat.
"Yeah?" I replied taking a sip of my juice box.
"Did you guys get anything important out of him" Robbie asked hopefully, and I was completely lost.
"What?" I replied.
Andre sighed from beside and turned so he could face Robbie. "He is not a ventriloquist dude." he told Robbie flatly.
Robbie's face fell as his back slumped alittle on the bench.
"My brother was a ventriloquist" Cat mused out loud.
"Was? What happened?" Beck asked and looked like he regretted it immediately.
"The dummy he was using called 911", she said to all of us with that ever present smile. We all took at least three seconds to process it, and when it finally sank in we all widened our eyes in horror. Cat just giggled and sipped on her juice box.
It took everyone alittle time to recover, we probably wouldn't anyway, the things Cat said unfortunately stuck to one's mind. Fortunately though my mind was bothered with something else.
I just recently remembered where I had heard that nickname klutzy, it was from summer camp just before high school. I was alittle clumsy so I never really did well on the exercises we had to do, hence the nickname, but it was just a couple of mean girls who gave me the name, and there was a kid who helped me so I could do the exercises and got those girls to stop bothering me.
But that was like three or four years ago, how did Mikey know that name?
Mikey's POV
So I was finally here, this place was not overrated. It was fucking awesome, I wasn't nervous about being the new kid at all, people here seemed really nice except for this goth chick in my first class who looked at me like I was her douche-bag ex or something. I shrugged at the thought, I was a trouble maker and if she wanted trouble she was gonna get it, it'll probably be fun.
I had just left Tori and Andre cuz' I had to go see Helen, I was surprised at how fast she accepted my audition, well not really, I was awesome. But really though, it showed she has alot of faith in me and I wasn't gonna let her down. I was walking towards Helen's office for something she wanted to talk about, in all honesty I thought my dad and I cleared everything up, I wondered what this was for.
I had reached a door that read 'PRINCIPAL' so I assumed I was in the right place. I knocked on the door lightly a few times. When I heard no answer I knocked again before hearing a "Come in!" from the other side. I pressed down the door handle and stepped in calmly.
The room was brighter than I expected, who would have thought Helen would have such a beaming office. The dark green that covered the walls took the edge off alittle though. I looked at Helen who was seated behind her mahogany desk with her elbows propped up on it.
"Good afternoon Helen." I greeted with a smile, she looked up from her paperwork and just gave me a nod then motioned for me to take a seat on the one provided in-front of her desk. There was a taller than average African American man standing beside where Helen was seated. He gave me a friendly smile as I sat down, I returned it and I turned towards Helen.
"So you said you wanted to see me?" I asked Helen politely.
"Yes! I did." Helen replied formally.
"I thought I filled all the forms and my dad took care of the payment?" I asked again.
"Except the performers' form, which students are supposed to fill on their own." Helen told me as she handed me a form, I took it and placed it down on the desk in-front of me without looking at it.
"So this doesn't even need to be checked by my guardian" I asked looking at Helen.
"Mhm!" she replied and I smirked, so this school had an activity that were based completely on their students' choices. I was gonna like it here.
"Okay!" I said letting my excitement slip out, the man in the room gave a small chuckle at my action. I grabbed the pen Helen handed to me and began filling the form, it was pretty basic, just things like how much time I would give to projects, how often I would perform, the kind of performances I would do.
"Mr. Alexander will be the one to show you around for the remaining of the lunch period, unless something occurs then you have to meet Tori Vega to escort you.", the plan to ditch Mr. Alexander was already halfway done.
"Oh! Okay." I answered handing the form back to Helen, her eyes quickly scanned through it and they darted back up to me.
"This is a daring form Mr. Rodriguez." Helen said to me sounding alittle surprised at how I filled the form.
"I try my best to do the little I can." I said with a confident smirk knowing full well that didn't correlate with how I filled my form.
I heard a laugh of excitement from Mr. Alexander and just the faintest glint of a smile from Helen's lips. "Don't you be growing on me boy." Helen told me and I laughed.
"Well that's what I needed you for, Mr. Alexander will show you around now." she said dismissing me as I stood up from the chair. Mr. Alexander walked towards me as we both exited the room.
"Thank you for escorting me Mr. Alexander" I said to him once we were outside the room, trying to start some form of conversation.
"No problem Mikey, and please, call me Lane" he said politely. I smiled and nodded at him. "So let me show you to the auditorium" he offered as my formulated plan sprung to action in my head.
I was about to execute the first step with the classic "What's that", he would turn exposing his back pocket that contained his phone to me(why did anyone even do that?.). Just as I was about to point at the ceiling and talk, I heard a very unpleasant screech.
"MR. LANE!", it was from this brunette in a blue top and skinny jeans. She ran over to where Lane and I stood. He looked tired just laying his eyes on her. "What's wrong Trina?".
Trina? So this was the living threat Helen had on me. "Mr. Gardner is getting on my nerves" she said and huffed out angrily. Her head turned as her eyes landed on me, her face fell on sight of my face which was alittle uncomfortable, she was looking at me like I was glowing gold or something.
"Oh my God! I don't think we've met." she said smiling seductively at me, wow! I've literally known the girl thirty seconds. I smiled anyway, I was still friendly lil'ol me after all.
"Yeah we haven't, I'm Mikey. I've heard about you" I replied to her crossing my arms over my chest still with a smile on my face.
"Oh really?" she asked flipping her hair over her left shoulder. "Trina there's no time for this. What is the issue with Mr. Gardner and why didn't you just go to Helen?" he asked as Trina seemed to have forgotten that was the reason she was here in the first place.
"Oh well she's scary so I thought you would be better to talk to." she answered giving probably 10% of her attention to what she was even saying. I heard Lane sigh from beside me.
"You're acting out because you didn't get the lead role in his new play, aren't you". he said letting out a frustrated sigh.
"Can you imagine the nerve of him!", she alittle more attentively, probably because it was about her acting.
"I would say I'm busy but you wouldn't give up anyway". Lane let out another frustrated sigh and turned towards me. "Sorry about this Mikey, Tori should be in the food court, she'll show you around."
"WHAT! How come Tori gets to show him around". Trina argued quite angrily.
"Because the last two new boys who you showed around, filed a restraining order against you". Lane answered.
"That was a long time ago!" she argued again. "Yeah because last week is such a blur". Lane answered sarcastically and started pulling Trina towards the hallway on the left, she struggled to turn her head so she could look at me before she was pulled into the hallway, I caught sight of her mouthing a 'next time' as she was dragged into the hallway. Well I was definitely going to start avoiding that one, she had just made my plan easier though. I smiled to myself as I started walking towards the food court. Here I come klutzy.
Normal POV
Mikey found the food court easily, well because you know, it was a food court. He stepped through the doors leading to the food court, his nose was immediately hit with the smell of junk food and ice cream...and alittle tequila, which was pretty scary considering he wasn't even standing close to anyone.
He stood and used his eyes to scan across the food court in search of Tori, he laid eyes on a boy with a curly mini-Afro and he recognized him from his first class. He noticed the boy sitting with five people, he recognized the goth girl too beside a dude with really great hair (Seriously how did he pull that off). Then he noticed two people in-front of them, even though they had their backs to him he knew it was Tori and Andre.
Mikey smiled as he started walking towards their table, the goth girl seemed to have noticed him, he heard her say "Hey, there's your walking porno now Vega". 'Well that was blunt', Mikey thought to himself, he was gonna have an interesting two years with that one. Everyone on the table looked up to the position Jade did as Mikey reached their table.
"Mikey!", Tori said beaming up at him and he returned the motion gladly.
"Hey man, what're you doing here" Andre asked him smiling as well.
"I'm supposed to be escorted around school, you know first day and all. Mr. Lane got caught up with that Trina girl so Helen told me I should come meet Tori." he answered Andre's question.
"Really?" she asked, her eyes glinting. ""Mhm!" Mikey answered with a wiggle of his eyebrows that made Tori laugh. "That's great, let me just get my things." she said and made to grab her bag from under the bench.
"It's okay don't rush if you don't need to. I can stand and wait." he insisted as she smiled up at him and sat back up.
"We're here too!" Robbie said drawing Tori and Mikey's attention. Tori laughed embarrassingly.
"Sorry" she said to her friends excluding Andre since Mikey knew him, she turned back to Mikey and motioned to each of them.
"These are my friends. Robbie Shappiro." Robbie gave him a friendly wave to which Mikey gave a friendly nod.
"Cat Valentine". Cat waved excitedly as she exclaimed a "Hi!", Mikey gave a small laugh and replied with a "Hey!".
"*sigh*...Jade West". "Yeah I'm not really her friend" she said with a scowl. Mikey just chuckled and rolled his eyes, which caused Jade's eyes to soot right at him.
"What was that?", she asked with a dangerous glare.
"It's called chuckling, you know that thing people do when they find something funny." he replied completely unfazed by Jade's glare. Her glare deepened which caused his smirk to widen. "You can google it", he finished.
To say Tori and her friends were surprised would be the understatement of the generation. Never, as in never had they heard anyone talk to Jade like that, I mean with the dark aura surrounding her you would think someone would get the hint.
"I still don't know one person" Mikey said pointing to Beck with his eyes.
Beck shook his head alittle to try and sink in what just happened. "Uum..I'm Beck" he said actually giving a small chuckle once he processed the situation in his head. "Beck Oliver". Mikey smiled and nodded at Beck. "Nice to meet you man". "So Tori, are you gonna take me now.?" he asked turning towards Tori who was still wrapping her head about what happened not twenty seconds ago.
"Um..yeah!" she replied and started gathering her things. Mikey who now kept a normal face turned back towards Jade actually wondering why she hadn't reacted till' now.
Jade's face turned to a sick smirk."You have no idea what you just did do you?" she said with the tone of a threat in her voice.
"Left you speechless for twenty seconds. I'm pretty sure what I did" he shrugged nonchalantly.
Everyone, Beck included, didn't say anything because this seemed out of any of their hands. It really was just harmless bickering but that was the problem, someone was bickering with Jade.
"Well look who's stupidly confident", Jade said with her smirk still on.
"Sorry for the stupid confidence, goth is contagious", he replied. At Mikey's retort Andre, Cat and Tori accidentally let out laughs, how Robbie and Beck held theirs in was beyond them. Jade shot an instant glare towards the three who shut up on reflex.
"You ready Tori?" Mikey asked deciding he was done with his 'conversation' with Jade. Tori nodded and stood up with her bag hanging behind her. She waved to her friends and started walking towards the school building with Mikey in toe.
Mikey quickly looked back at Jade with that cocky smirk, "Later West." he said then turned so he could follow Tori who was trying to hide her heavily amused face from Jade's view.
Jade on the other hand had the opposite expression on her face, did he just call her West,nobody called her fucking West! she knew her friends were amused. Just who the fuck was this kid, she would show him, he'd picked the wrong person to bicker with today.
Once Tori and Mikey were inside the school building she turned and gave him a playful shove, his reaction was a surprised laugh.
"What?!" he asked still laughing.
"Where did that come from?" she asked referring to his interaction with Jade. She finally stopped trying to push him and they both stood still laughing.
"That was me having a conversation with one of my classmates". Mikey replied with a smile. Tori laughed as she shook her head.
"Just when I thought I could at least have a friendship excluding Jade", she said as they started walking down the hallway.
"Hey she was the one who thought she could just step on me." he defended himself.
"She's like that to everyone." Tori said as she led him towards the auditorium.
"Well yeah, but now there's someone who won't take her bullshit" he said cockily. Tori rolled her eyes at him. "You are really cocky."
"All part of the Rodriguez charm." Mikey replied with a wiggle of the eyebrows which made Tori laugh, now he knew that one always got her. "So where are you taking me " he asked.
"Oh Miss. eh? I just might ask you to keep calling me that until your tour is done." she told him replicating his smirk. MIkey smiled as he squinted his eyes and smiled at her.
"It has taken me just barely a day to rub off on you." he said poking her shoulder.
"I'm always like this" she said giving pout. What was she doing? It was beginning to scare her how comfortable she was around Mikey, it was like she was used to talking to him, like she knew him. They kept on walking through the hallways still deep in conversation with jokes from Mikey and the occasional playful shoves from Tori as they both laughed.
"Uum...Miss Vega?" he asked teasingly as she snapped back to reality.
"Yes!" she replied with just as much tease, making him chuckle. "Where are we?"
Tori's face twisted into confusion as she looked around at their surroundings, her face broke into mild shock. They got so carried away in their conversation that they had ended up in the hallway leading to the student's lounge (Yes. Hollywood Arts was that awesome).
"Wow!" she laughed in embarrassment. "Sorry! I got carried away".
"It's okay, I'm addictive like that" he said with a playful wink. "Beside you were never that good at paying attention".
At that statement Tori's whole body froze. 'You were never that good? As in I've seen you not pay attention before' she thought to herself. "What?" she asked trying to understand what he was saying.
"Back at summer camp three years ago you were awful at remembering what the exercises were" he answered her shrugging.
Tori's eyes bulged out of her eyes, did he just say summer camp three years ago. "You..you weren't..." she tried saying as her mind was desperately trying to remember every last bit of that summer camp. She turned to Mikey who just rose an eyebrow expectantly.
"Really! You can't remember? I'm so hurt" he said playfully touching his heart for emphasis.
Tori looked at his action and then it clicked in her head. "Wait..."
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She was laid on the grassy ground, her face directly on the dirt for the 'umpteenth time that hour. Tori didn't know why she let her parents talk her into coming to summer camp knowing full well she could barely stay on her feet, talk-less of running across a moving log.
Thirteen year old Tori got herself into a sitting position as she tried dusting off her camp uniform, she was barely concentrating on that though seeing as how the hysterical laughs that surrounded her could not be removed from her attention.
"We haven't even done an activity yet and you've practically already failed".
"Maybe you'll be the log since you're most useful on your stomach anyway." Cass and Tabitha mocked her as all their friends laughed at Tori. Tori just kept her head buried from their view.
"Aww look guys klutzy's gonna cry" Cass said bending down to look at Tori, her blonde fringe almost hiding her eyes. The campers better known to Tori as Cass and Tabitha's minions were all laughing at her.
Tori hated this, she wanted to go home and leave this stupid camp, there was nothing here for her...nothing.
"Oh! Mikey!" she heard Tabitha say. Then light footsteps sounded beside her and stopped right in-front of her. "Hey I haven't seen you around." she heard Tabitha say with a giggle, typical of her to look for who to crush on during summer camp.
"What the heck are you guys doing?" she heard the boy now known as Mikey say.
"What do you mean." Tabitha asked confused.
"Don't play dumb Tabitha!" he said with alittle anger. This caused Tori to slowly move her head up to witness the situation.
"Why're you guys picking on this girl just cuz' she's alittle clumsy."
"Alittle! She's the biggest klutz I've ever seen" Cass interjected.
"I see your make-up everyday but you don't see me calling you a klutz" Mikey retorted as the campers burst into laughter and Tori kept her head back down so she could laugh secretly.
"Why're you being such a jerk Mikey" Tabitha said as Cass now looked sad and completely speechless.
"I'm only a jerk to fake people who deserve it" he answered with a glare. Tabitha now looked hurt as well. "She's just someone who wants to try her best to have a good time here without being an outcast, just like all of us".
Tori looked up, why was Mikey standing up for her, she didn't even know him.
"You minions are no better", he said to the campers behind Cass and Tabitha. "You all should be ashamed, it's pathetic what you're doing." Mikey said as he turned towards Tori while Cass, Tabitha and the demoralized campers walked away from the scene.
"Hey". Mikey bent down so he hovered over Tori slightly but still be able to see her face in line with his. She rose her head up and looked at him. "I'm Mikey, Mikey Rodriguez" he said with a friendly smile.
His smile made it easy for her to smile back. "I'm Tori Vega." she replied.
"Oh she does talk" Mikey said feigning shock as Tori shoved him playfully, he laughed and stood up as he offered his hand, she took it as he helped her stand up, he had about two inches on her.
"Thanks."she replied shyly after getting a look at his face, okay she couldn't blame Tabitha for having eyes for that.
"Now come on, we got a long day ahead of us." he said pulling his bag pack over his shoulder, Tori looked startled as she turned to him.
"We?" she asked in surprise, was he really offering to help her through summer camp, just like that? Mikey turned back to her with an expression that said "Well that is what I said isn't it".
"Are you serious?" she asked, it wasn't her fault found it hard to believe him, nobody here seemed like they wanted to help her and here Mikey was all of a sudden acting like her...friend.
He turned back to her with a smile. "Yes! I'm serious, we're gonna get through this together klutzy." he smirked before throwing her bag pack to her, she barely caught it and in the process of trying to balance it on her hands she tripped.
She waited for the impact she was used to, but it never came, she opened her eyes to find herself firmly in Mikey's hands.
"Careful there klutzy" he laughed as he helped her stand straight, she joined him in laughter but hers was out of embarrassment.
"That's gonna be happening alot" she told him shyly, trying to hide her cheeks behind her hair.
"And I'll always be there to catch you." Mikey replied with his trademark smirk as Tori smiled back at him, back at her friend.
"Now come on!" he said leading her away from the lake side and back towards camp and she gladly followed him.
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Her flashback ended there as she stared at Mikey her mouth agape, her jaw threatening to fall off.
"And you still have that shoving problem" Mikey said as he rolled his eyes. She couldn't believe it, the boy who got people to stop picking on her, the boy who was her partner on every camp exercise, the boy who gave her his sleeping bag when someone took hers and chose to sleep on the grass, the boy who got her through summer camp.
She looked back up at him, her hands shaking with excitement. "Mikey..?" she asked still wanting to reassure herself. He smiled down at her and opened his arms wide inviting a hug and that was all she needed as she squealed and jumped on him, wrapping her legs around his waist and her arms around his neck.
"MIKEY!" she squealed so happily and loudly that she was sure the whole Hollywood Arts heard her. "AAAHH!" she continued to squeal and squirm in his arms as he laughed at her antics.
"I missed you too" he answered still laughing, his voice slightly muffled since Tori was hugging him so tightly. She hesitantly got down from him as she tried to settle the excitement in her body.
She looked up at him, smiling uncontrollably as she looked at him in disbelief still laughing with joy.
"Oh my God! It's you...I mean you're here..I mean AAAHH!" she squealed unable to form any words out of excitement. Mikey laughed as he looked at her glowing form.
"In the flesh" he said raising his arms up.
"Three years! Where were you, how have you been, what-".
"Breath klutzy". He chuckled ans he motioned for her to breath. Tori took his advice and calmed her breath, she then looked at him still smiling.
"We have way too much to talk about" she told him through her barely quelled excitement to which he smirked and nodded.
"Waaay to much" he replied. The school bell rang not a second after Mikey spoke as he turned towards Tori. "I think lunch period is over". he said to her.
"Oh! I hope you enjoyed your tour of Hollywood Arts ." she smiled as she asked knowing full well she had shown him absolutely nothing.
"Well I must say I wasn't expecting just a student lounge, but the school is fantastic." he answered with just as much mock as she asked (He taught her that..so).
She laughed and walked to his side holding his arms, she looked up at him laughing, now she knew why she was so comfortable around Mikey. He was her friend before anyone here, he was there at an important phase of her life and he changed her. She said these were going to be an awesome last two years of high-school, with Mikey here words couldn't describe how great these two years would be.
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A/N: And that was chapter one guys. It's pretty long, future chapters will be probably much longer though, seeing as this was just the intro to get Mikey into the story, I have really big plans for this story and I hope you stay on board for the ride. So how do you guys like Mikey, do you like him? love him? hate him? , how about his little spat with Jade? (I liked that), his history with Tori?. Review and tell me what you think.
I'll try and post weekly, I can promise though it won't be two weeks before updates. Love you guys. Read and REVIEW! Until next time guys. Nuel out..~