AN: Here it is, a Christmas special that I'm not exactly (but whatever) proud of. This is way longer than my Breakfast Club one shot, and I barely have enough patience to witness a crashing Safari, so I broke them into three parts. Part two will be posted on Christmas Day, and part three will be posted on December 26th. And, happy Christmas, Chanukkah, Kwanzaa, December 25th, hangover day after December 21st, Mayan April Fools Day, etc. from, your beloved and wonderful, blue wigged thespian
Disclaimer: I don't own, nor I will intend to, own any of the children's shows Victorious and Kickin' It.
Christmas is coming, and the exceptionally large, talented, and weird high school is in a frenzy. The principal makes it a requirement that every student must participate in Christmas carols around the Los Angeles area, and a lot of students in the school decided to pick their own groups. The groups have a minimum of seven, so everyone can pick whoever. But for the young girl Tori Vega, she's been picked by multiple groups all day. Too bad she already made her own group, consisting of six people, including herself (and, no one would pick her sister Trina and she felt bad,) so she needs one more person. Then she can go to her crazy teacher Sikowitz to find out where exactly they are going because each faculty member has a specific place for them to spread Christmas cheer.
"We need one more person," Tori groans.
The group of students, who were already her closest friends, agree with her. "Half of the entire school has their groups already..."
"What about my brother?" Cat asks. "He can sing pretty well... Even after that time when—"
"It has to be someone who attends this school," Tori interrupts, fearing what the redhead would say about her mentally disturbed brother. Knowing specifically how her brother operates due to the many stories that Cat has told her about the deranged sibling, she probably doesn't want to meet him either. "Plus, I don't think he's stable enough to join us."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Cat defends.
Tori sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose. Now isn't the time to be whining and getting defensive, she thought. "No one knows anyone that can sing well and join us?"
"What about Jade?" Andre asks. "You two are together and—"
"She hates Christmas," both Beck and Tori reply, and then they glare at each other. Tori still doesn't understand why he is in this group, given that they dislike each other, but Andre insists.
"Come on, who hates Christmas?" Andre groans.
"Apparently Jade," Tori shrugs.
"How would you know, you didn't even ask her," Andre points out.
Tori cocks an eyebrow in annoyance. She did ask Jade... yesterday to be exact, and she replies with a big 'HELL NO' and proceeds to walk away to her next class. "Yeah, I kind of did."
"This is a requirement, you know," Trina says matter of factly. "If she doesn't do this, she will fail for the semester. Although I don't really care—"
"You shut up," Tori shuts her sister off, tired of the older sister being the narcissist that she is, "Maybe I can ask her again... Since this is a requirement, and I don't want her to fail."
Since the brunette and the goth started dating, everything changed within their group. Jade wouldn't do anything without Tori, so she's been around more often, and then Beck started hating their relationship, since he's still in love with Jade, but the reason why he's still in the group is because of his best friend Andre. If it wasn't for him, Beck would give a one finger salute to the whole group and be on his own from now on. Cat became less air headed, and more levelheaded, since she sensed tension between the group, but her addiction to bibble has worsened due to her stress, and ever since Robbie got rid of the puppet... Let's just ignore that for now.
"So, go ask her. She won't do anything if her beloved Tori isn't there with her," Andre jokes, making everyone, besides Beck, in a fit of giggles.
Tori frowns. "Okay I will. But when she says no again, we're going to find someone. I will not fail the semester because the principal is stressing over this Christmas assignment..."
As Tori leaves to go find her girlfriend, the group stays silent. However, someone has to break the silence, not that anyone cares. "What about for those who don't celebrate Christmas? Do they fail?" Cat asks stupidly, albeit being a very good question.
The question raises eyebrows, and makes everyone think deeply. They came up with nothing at the end of their lunch break.
-x-
Jade slams her locker shut in complete, blind anger. If there's a holiday she hates the most, it would be Christmas. It's the holiday that brings in annoying in-laws and fights between her and her father about who should do this and who should bring that. Christmas in the West household has always been a disaster, and now that it's a requirement to go around and sing annoying Christmas carols, she finds herself rather taking the fail for the semester if that means not singing annoying, repetitive Christmas songs, wearing itchy Santa hats, the colors red, green, and white, and let's not forget, the nauseating smell of pine, Christmas cookies, and Yule.
"Jade," she hears her name being called. "I have something to ask you."
Knowing exactly who it is, she replies angrily, "If it's about that assignment, please count me out, if you know what's best for you."
Tori frowns again. "Come on. I don't want to fail this semester. I worked hard on it!"
"Okay, then find another person willing to sing stupid Christmas songs with," she growls. "I love you and all, but I cannot force myself to sing stupid Christmas songs with people I barely like, let alone your sister, and wear itchy Santa hats all day long in a city that probably doesn't give a single fuck about Christmas as much as me."
"I don't want you to fail this semester because you hate this holiday," the brunette frowns, causing the goth to roll her eyes ridiculously.
"I'm still not doing it."
"Oh come on," Tori groans. "You get to see me in a Mrs. Claus suit."
The couple starts to laugh; the last time they had Christmas at HA, Jade particularly enjoyed that Santa shorts Tori was wearing. And if she wants to see that again, she has to go Christmas caroling with her girlfriend, her annoying friends, Tori's narcissistic sister, and her resentful ex-boyfriend. "Fine."
Tori beams, and gives a chaste kiss on Jade's lips. "Great. Meet us at Sikowitz's room at the end of the day."
As Tori leaves her, Jade mentally slaps herself on the forehead. Of course, she has to fall for the brunette's charm... every time.
-x-
"So where are we going?"
Sikowitz looks at his clipboard, and makes faces at the list of places they can go to. While he doesn't agree with the Christmas caroling being a requirement, he still has to do it, in sake of keeping his job. He loves Christmas, but sometimes the constant songs brings him melancholia, especially the ones about having someone with him. Being a lonely person has a negative impact for some people.
"Come on crazy, we don't have all day," Jade says impatiently.
"Calm down students," the eccentric teacher says, even though the room is quiet minutes after Jade's outburst. "Apparently we have no more stations around Los Angeles."
"What?" The group yells.
"Well, that's a delight to hear," Jade beams, and gets up from her seat.
"Wait a minute," Sikowitz stops both the angry goth, and the flabbergasted students, and looks again at his clipboard. "There is one place. Bayview Mall."
"Where is that at?" Tori asks.
Sikowitz looks at the clipboard again and frowns deeply. "Seaford."
"Isn't that in New York*?" Cat asks, causing everyone in the room to look at her questioningly. "What?"
"Yes, there is one in New York, but this one is in California," Sikowitz states. "It's an hour from here, precisely."
"Yes it is, because from my maps app on my PearPad," Robbie pulls out his PearPad and starts tapping random letters, "It says it would normally take sixty-one minutes to get there, from the school, if we leave from the school to there."
"And keep in mind," Sikowitz points out, "Seaford hasn't celebrated Christmas since their riot five years ago. They resent anyone who celebrates the holiday. So if they pelt you with garbage, don't take offense to it. That means you, Jade."
"Well that's great," Jade complains. "We're going to a small mall, in a small town, who hates Christmas as much as I—"
"Can you stop complaining for one second?" Beck complains. "It's bad enough that we have to go to a small town that hates a happy holiday."
Both Jade and Tori glare at him, in which he ignores. "It's bad enough that you're here."
Beck argues, "Well blame your girlfriend for putting me here, because I wouldn't be in this group if it wasn't a requirement. There wasn't any options—"
"Oh please, Beck, you have countless girls breathing down your back. You have plenty of options!" Jade argues back. "Instead, you just stayed here because despite the many girls coming after you, you don't have any real friends!"
"Oh this is grand, coming from you—"
"We'll do it!" Tori yells, and feigns a smile at Sikowitz, for everyone to shut up. "And you two, if you're going to argue, then don't talk at all. And by the way Beck, the only reason why you're here is because my best friend insisted that you come with us, not because of me only. I, personally, don't want you here."
The angry brunette leaves the room, with Jade following her after.
"Hawkward," Sikowitz sings out in a high-pitched tone.
-x-
The gang sits around in the parking lot, waiting for the only designated drivers to get them to Seaford without public transportation. They decided to wear their best Christmas sweaters instead of the skimpy outfits the girls had to wear last Christmas, and most of the girls are wearing red or green leggings. The group is basically quiet, except for a few words exchanged by Andre and Cat.
"I think something bad is going to happen today with those three," Cat points out."They've been at each other's throats ever since Jadey and Tori started dating."
"I know," Andre agrees. "But let's see if the Christmas cheer would lift their spirits up."
"I doubt it," Cat says pessimistically. "Jade hates Christmas, she hates Beck, and he hates Tori. It's impossible for them to feel any holiday cheer since they all hate each other."
As if they sense that the group's talking about them, both Jade and Tori appear, with cross looks on their faces. They just finished arguing about who should go with who since Beck decides to show up, and while they have to deal with the resentful ex, they already sense the drama whenever he makes an appearance. "Okay, um... Cat, Robbie, and Trina, in my car. Beck, Andre, in Jade's car."
"Looks like they've been arguing..." Cat whispers to Andre before separating from the dark-skinned individual. He walks up to both Tori and Jade, who still have angry looks on their faces. "Are you two sure about this? Beck says he can call—"
"We need to make sure that everyone gets there on time, and we both didn't want him at all... However I had no choice," Jade glares coldly at her girlfriend, "And so he's going in the car with me. We both agreed to put you there to even the temperament."
Andre nods, but he can sense that things will not go well with the two exes in the car. "Well, I definitely call shotgun." As if he read Jade's mind to take the passenger's seat, he walks over to her car and applies himself there. The rest of the gang enter the respective cars, waiting for the drivers to get in.
"I don't even want to do this," Jade complains. "He's going to ruin everything, and make this holiday even worse than it already is."
"And this is why I assigned Andre in your car," Tori smiles, and hugs Jade. "Don't worry, there's nothing he can say or do that would change anything. Okay?"
Jade hugs back reluctantly, and glares at her ex in the backseat of her car. "I guess. But this better go smoothly."
"Don't worry," Tori lets go of her. "If he says anything, I'll put him in his place."
The girls both giggle and after one last kiss, they go to their respective cars. Both cars are silent as they enter, and even more silent as they leave the parking lot.
-x-
Seaford, California has always been a close-knit small town in which everyone knows each other. But as the holidays go, no one even respects the Christmas holidays. Ever since a riot happened five years ago on Christmas Day, the Seaford individuals have never celebrated the holiday ever again. Sixteen year old Jack Brewer learned that the hard way. He spends his holidays in Colorado for the last two years; Christmas always brought happiness in his home, despite his disgraced cousin and his shunned father.
However, unfortunately, the Brewer household cannot leave Seaford for the holidays this year. Seaford has even went so far as to canceling the holiday recess this year, so everyone is definitely going to school on Christmas Day. His family plans are thwarted, so he has to stay here in bland, boring, pessimistic Seaford for the holidays.
"Well, there goes my holiday vacation," he sighs putting his head down on the school desk.
"What do you mean Jack?" His best friend Kim asks him after noticing his head on the desk.
"I have to stay here for the holidays," he groans.
Kim shrugs, although she really does care about Jack's observation for the holiday. She doesn't celebrate Christmas after watching the riot on television when she was younger, and after noticing no Christmas trees in her living room after that, she has resented the holiday herself. "Christmas is an idiotic holiday."
"Don't you think you guys need to get over the five-year old Christmas riot?" He asks, already tired of everyone's resentment and anger for an innocent holiday.
"It's not in my control," Kim replies. "Even if it was, we will never celebrate Christmas ever again. However, Hanukkah is observed."
"That explains Milton's absence," Jack mutters. "But... Christmas is all about spreading joy. Why can't we spread some joy to Seaford? This would be a happier place if Christmas is observed again."
"Doubt it," Kim denies. "Until this year where we cancelled the holiday recess, December 25th is the day where everyone burns down pine trees, since the smell of pine brings in Christmas. They also participate in anti-Christmas activity, kind of what singles do for anti-Valentine's day or what paranoid people do for anti-Halloween."
"Yeah, but don't you ever want to be kissed under the mistletoe?" Jack asks nonchalantly, causing both of the teens to blush uncontrollably. "Don't you ever want to hang that star on top of the tree, or create garland out of popcorn, or—"
"There was a time when I actually celebrated Christmas, I know how it goes," Kim spits. "But I don't mind spending December 25th doing absolutely nothing. But since I gotta go to school..."
Jack immediately drains the blond girl out, and hopes that a Christmas miracle would happen to Seaford. He would rather spend Christmas with his friends, and definitely her, than to escape to Colorado with family. If only, if only...
-x-
The teens get out of their cars and watch as a rush of people to in and leave the Bayview Mall. It's a small shopping center, but the adolescents can make do with the small capacity. They walk in, and immediately, they get glares from the Seaford individuals. There are no Christmas decorations anywhere, which surprises the adolescents, but makes Jade smirk.
"I could live here," Jade jokes, causing Tori to glare at her. "What? I hate this holiday, and so does the people of Seaford."
"Where should we set up?" Andre asks.
Tori grabs a map from the directory office next to her, and studies it. There has to be a central place where everyone hangs out at. "How about the fountain in the middle of the mall?"
"Sure," Beck says sarcastically, "In which no one can see us. That's wonderful, Tori."
"Are you done over there, negative Nancy?" Tori growls. "Great, let's go."
The gang walks all the way to the fountain, where a group of kids sit down by a martial arts dojo, and where a lot of other adolescents hang out at. Beck rolls his eyes, and complains again, "There's chairs everywhere!"
Everyone ignores him and sets up for the Christmas caroling they have to do. No one wants to do it, since the city is basically anti-Christmas, but they need their grade so they have no choice. "What song should we sing first?"
"Silent night?" Cat suggests.
They all shrug and clear their throats to get ready to sing the Christmas song. While the Christmas song is mostly about Christmas nights, they find themselves singing it at broad daylight. Trina stands there doing nothing, since she is well aware that she cannot sing. During the car ride, both her and her sister Tori argue if she should sing or not. Cat suggested that Trina should mouth out the words, and now that's what she's going to do.
A group of passengers glare at the teens as they start to sing the song in different harmonies and pitches. The group of teens that were sitting by the dojo also get up and glare at the teenagers, but one kid, who has nice hair and a tanned skin complexion equivalent to Beck's skin color, looks at them in adoration.
The angry passengers start booing and throwing garbage at the teens as soon as they finish the first song. Although Jade is particularly happy about the hate the Seaford people have for Christmas, she immediately gets angry when she gets hit with stale falafel balls.
"Alright!" She yells in complete anger. "Which one of you Seaford hicks threw a falafel ball at me?"
"Oh god," Andre mutters. "Here we go, someone gets Jade angry."
"Answer me!" The goth shrieks again, and the passengers scurry out of the premises before Jade could lunge at any target she thought was suspicious. However, the teens from the dojo stay in their place.
"Look, it's best if you don't try to spread your Christmas disease over here," the pale, skinny teen speaks up. "Although my family observes Hanukkah..."
"He's right," the blond girl growls. "Go back to wherever hole you came from. We don't need you to spread your nightmare holiday in Seaford."
The gang starts to walk away, but the same kid with the look of adoration, stays in place. He looks over to his friends who still don't notice that he's around. The Hispanic teen, however, looks back, and glares at him. "Jack, are you coming? We have practice."
"I'll meet up with you guys later," Jack replies, and casts his head down. The Christmas carols look at Jack, with a weird look.
"I'm really sorry for that," Jack starts. "Seaford really hates Christmas."
"I would sympathize with them if they didn't hit me with disgusting falafel balls!" Jade complains in anger, and removes another falafel from her curly hair. "God, this is not even well cooked!"
"Uh..." Tori raises her eyebrow, ignoring her girlfriend's outbursts. "Are you the only one who likes Christmas here?"
Jack nods. "I moved here a few years ago, so I don't know about the Christmas riot. What I do know is that I've wanted Christmas in Seaford for a long time. They even cancelled Christmas recess because they hate Christmas that much."
"Cancel recess?" Jade asks in flabbergast. Despite her hate fixation on the holiday, she particularly enjoys the winter recess since she doesn't have to deal with the idiots in her school. "Okay, that's where I draw the line."
"Exactly," Andre agrees.
"So what do you do for the holidays?" Beck asks the younger teen.
"After the despicable outrage my mom and I received for putting decorations around our house," Jack sighs. "We go to Colorado for Christmas cheer. That's where I lived before moving to Seaford."
"I could've sworn there's only a Seaford in New York..." Cat mutters mindlessly. The gang, and Jack, stares at her weirdly, although her location is correct. "What?"
"So should we just leave?" Tori asks.
"Not yet," Jack stops them from packing up. "Can you help me? I want to make Seaford see the happiness of Christmas again."
"How can we do that?" Robbie asks, his face full of surprise and doubt. "This place hates Christmas more than Jade does."
Jade glares at the dark-haired boy, then glares at her friends, who look at her with a hopeful glance. "Oh no... hell to the no. I will not participate in this! I swear to god—"
"Please, for me?" Tori pouts. She knows that the pout works every time, even for making Jade do something she hates.
Jade rolls her eyes. "Fine whatever, I have pounds of garland in my storage closet anyway."
"No, I want to make the garland," Jack smirks. "With popcorn—"
"Do you have any bibble?" Cat interrogates the teen, who backs up from her. "Please tell me Seaford has bibble! I need bibble! Do you understand me, I need bibble!"
Jack backs away some more, startled. "Is she always like this?"
"Only when she's in a new setting," Jade answers lamely.
-x-
"What took you so long?" Kim starts interrogating Jack, after Jack makes a deal with the Christmas 'miracles'. He should be meeting up with them this weekend to decorate a tree, and the homes and the mall; make Seaford Christmas-friendly again, as the Jewfro kid lamely put it.
"I had to make sure they were leaving, you know, because their kind isn't allowed here," Jack lies.
Kim narrows her eyes, but she walks away, still sensing something suspicious about Jack. "Well anyway, we're sparring together. So get ready."
Jack sighs and goes to the back of the dojo to put some more comfortable clothes on. As the teen disappears, Kim still raises her eyebrow in suspicion.
"Something's not right with Jack," she says.
"Really, I haven't noticed," the pale teen Milton says sarcastically. "You really need to pick up on his lying quicker."
"Shut up," Kim growls. "I'm serious. Do you think he talked to those people about spreading Christmas cheer—"
"Can we like, not say that word?" Jerry complains. "It's cursed, I tell you, whenever someone says that word, something bad happens."
"Let's replace the word with Voldemort!" Milton jokes. The two of them laugh stupidly, and Kim glares at the two. If they weren't best friends, Kim would automatically think they were dating, since they almost agreed on everything and they always appeared together on many occasions.
"Whatever. So, I think Jack's trying to spread you-know-what to Seaford," she says.
"What's you-know-what?" Their sensei Rudy appears from his office and since that was the only thing he picked up from the conversation, he decides to intervene.
"Kim thinks that Jack is trying to spread Voldemort cheer to Seaford," Jerry says lamely, which causes everyone to raise their eyebrow at Jerry's stupidity.
"He meant Christmas cheer," Kim explains. "But since he says we can't speak of that word..."
"I get it," Rudy interrupts. "But why? Christ—I mean, you-know-what—"
"Voldemort," Jerry mumbles.
"Whatever," Rudy exclaims annoyingly. "The holiday hasn't been celebrated in Seaford for half a decade. If he's seriously trying to do that, then he's in for another angry mob towards his house."
"Exactly," Kim agrees. "If he dares spread that hick holiday to Seaford, we can't talk to him anymore. He'll be the pariah of the town."
The dojo stays in silence over Kim's statement. They know she's right, but they don't think they can stand being away from Jack. The guy has helped them from getting into fights with the Black Dragons, ever since the first day he showed up at school. They don't want that to happen, especially when Kim secretly, but not so secretly to some people, has a crush on the black belt. She definitely doesn't want to stop talking to him.
"So what can we do?"
As Kim opens her mouth to reply, Jack walks in and notices the quietness of the group. He heard the conversation a minute ago, but he decides not to say anything on the issue. The more he intervenes, the worse the issue will get.
"So, are we going to practice?" He asks, acting completely clueless about the issue.
Kim sighs, and nods, but not after noticing Jack's indifferent demeanor.
*Fun Fact: there is an actual town named Seaford in New York. I was still confused as to where Seaford was located when I first watched Kickin' It (still am, by the way), so sorry if my coordinates from Seaford to Hollywood are wrong. But yeah, Seaford is in New York, and it's near a body of water (also known as the Long Island Sound but whatever) so I guess that's why it's called Seaford. It's a small town, and I never heard of it until I started watching Kickin' It, but that Seaford is in California, so. (: