VicTORIous: One Crazy Summer
By Gantz Gurl
Episode One: Trina, Tori's Job
I DON'T OWN VICTORIOUS OR ANY OF THERE CHARACTERS. IF I DID I WOULD NOT BE WRITING ON THIS SITE. THANK YOU
Summer break is soon approaching. It's Sunday evening and Andre and Tori are at her house sitting at her kitchen table getting some last minute studying in for their math exam tomorrow at school. Evan though Hollywood Arts is an extremely wacky art school for extremely wacky and talented students they still had to complete the general course study of any high school. As they studied, Andre placed his study sheet to the side, they had been studying for about an hour and his eyes needed a break. He turned to his best female friend, who with her simple black framed glass was so immersed in her studies to notice much. As Andre studied Tori he wonder, who would have guessed Victoria Felicia Vega, one of the most popular girls at school, was a nerdy book worm, mind it, a beautiful nerdy book worm but a nerdy book worm none the less. At the end of that thought Andre called Tori's name to get her attention.
"Tori, Tori."
After saying her name a second time Tori looked up from her notes to acknowledge him.
"Yeah, whats up?" With a goofy grin on his face he asked her what she was doing for the summer break.
"So Tor what are you going to be doing for summer break?"
Tori looked at Andre for a second and was about to answer him when he interrupted her and asked.
"Guess What I'm a be doin this summer?"
Tori Look as Andre look like he was going to vibrate out of his chair with excitement about the information he was holding inside him. Tori chuckled to herself and simply asked him.
"What Dre, what are you doin for the summer?"
After she said that it was like his grin got even bigger, if that was possible and he replied.
"My dream job, you remember that record label that wanted to sign me during that whole Diddly-Bop fiasco." Tori nodded her head that she remember and for Andre to go on.
"Anyway they offered me a paid internship at one of their studios in LA and I accepted!"
After hearing this Tori's face lite up and she jumped up and gave her best friend a huge, tight hug and congratulated him.
"Oh my god Dre that's amazing! I'm so happy for you, when do you start." Andre smiled and replied.
"I start two weeks after school lets out. I can't wait, I know they just goin to have me runnin errands and sweepin up the parkin lot and chiz like that but that's okay because this is my foot in the door for bigger things."
Tori had a grin on her face about as big as Andre's, but she couldn't help but send a friendly jab his way.
"Uh oh your moving on up in the world, don't go forgetting the little people when you make it big!" said Tori.
After Tori said this Andre could only thinking to himself, "Tori would be at the top long before I got there," but he decided to keep that thought to himself.
"Don't worry Tor, I could never forget you."
Tori was a little taken aback by his response but before she could completely process this information or how it made her fill, Trina came busting through the door with so many bags it was a wonder she made it in at all.
"Heeeeyy people, look at wat I got?" said Trina in a voice that Tori likes to call "I'm so happy because I just bought up half the mall" voice.
Trina proceeded to place all the bags on the floor in the living room. Tori and Andre walked over to see what Trina actually bought. As they looked through some of the bags Trina perked up with excitement and exclaimed.
"It was all on sale! So I said to myself, Trina you would be insane to pass up a deals like this, so watcha you think little sis? Am I a smart shopper or what?"
Tori were thinking more along the line of, or what, but keep that to herself. So Tori proceeded to look at some of the price tags then looked up at Trina and asked.
"Trina did you buy all this with the credit card dad gave you for gas and emergencies?"
Trina just looked at Tori and shook her head vigorously in confirmation. Tori just shook her head and said
"Well in that case I be thinking Dad's going to kill you."
Trina looked up-fronted by her sister's accusation, but before she could respond their dad walked through the door holding some mail and the top envelop open with a deep scowl on his face. When he looked up and saw all the shopping bags on the floor it didn't help his current disposition. David Vega is not one to be quick to anger, matter-of-fact he would be considered a very laid-back person, but after taking one look at Trina's credit card bill it would make even a preacher curse. He stopped and took one look at the only none Vega in the room and simply said his name.
"Andre!"
"Yes Sir!"
Andre got the message clear as day and turned around packed his school bag, told Tori he would see her tomorrow at school and disappeared through the door without hesitation. After Andre left David turned back and looked at his beloved first born daughter and again at the bags on the floor and that was it, this was the straw that broke the camel's back. David took a seat and took several calming breaths before he addressed his two girls.
"Trina, take a seat." He then saw Tori, his more responsible youngest daughter, try to slip upstairs.
"Tori I want you to stay here for this also." Tori made an annoyed groan in the back of her throat but sat down anyway. David continued addressing Trina.
"Now Trina do you know what this is that I hold in my hand?" Trina shook her head no, too afraid to speak at the moment.
"This, Trina, is a notice from the credit card company concerning your credit card bill. It says here that you have maxed out your credit card. Trina, how could you have maxed out your credit card, which was supposed to be used for gas and emergencies only, when you only had it for two weeks?"
Trina sat there for a moment in silence before she replied to her father.
"Daddy, I couldn't help it, there were so many sel..."
But before she could get the word sale out of her mouth her father exploded.
"Katrina Alexandra Vega that is not an excuse, you are seventeen years old, not a child. You should know better than this, you know better than this."
Trina and Tori both flinched back in fear. Neither one of them have ever been yelled at by their father like that before. David seeing this squeezed his eyes shut took three measured breaths and pinched the bridge of his nose. After he calmed himself down some he begin to speak again.
"This is your mom and mine fault. We tried to give you everything we didn't have growing up and we spoiled you." Tori hearing this interjected for the first time since the conversation started.
"Dad, that's not true, you and mom have been great parents and I wouldn't wish for anyone else."
While Tori were saying this, Trina was shaking her head in agreement. David looked at his daughters and gave a small smile but it dropped in the next moment.
"But that brings me to a point. Your mother and I didn't grow up in the upper middle class like you are now. We both come from lower to lower middle class; we had to work for everything we got. We understood the value of a dollar. Your mother is a registered nurse, she had a few scholarships, she got some grants and loans but it wasn't enough, she had to work during the day and go to school at night. I had to get a job at sixteen to help out my parents around the house." David paused in his speech to allow what was said to truly sink in to his two daughters then he continued.
"Now Trina first off everything you bought today will be returned to the mall today and I'm going to take your credit card." Trina nodded her head in understanding. David continued on.
"And Trina you are going to make payments on the credit card you used." Trina head snapped up at this and her reaction was panic.
"WHAT! How am I supposed to make payments, I don't have my own money?" At this David gave a sneaky kind of smile and replied
"That's on to my other point, you don't have your own money. So your mother and I have decided that the both of you are going to get summer jobs."
End of episode one
I hope you guys like how the story started. This is my first time writing any type of narrative since college. Sad I know right, but I decided to start writing because I have all the story ideals in my head and I need to get them out. Some are original story ideals and some are fic ideals. But there is one BIG thing I lack and that is confidence in my abilities. So I turn to . I need feedback beside my own because I'm my biggest critic. In my eyes nothing is ever good enough. And this will be a Tandre story. I ship Tandre because Andre is the only person Tori in canon could date successfully and both parties could be happy. I don't remember what grade they are in. I think they are sophomores in the show but for the sake of this story this is the summer before junior year for the simple fact I want Trina to still be in school, and this is the summer before Trina's senior year.
