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Chapter 1: Back To Hollywood Arts Again
Author's Notes: I don't own iCarly or Victorious. If I did, parents would be angry at me for making Jade and Tori get together. Thoughts and flashbacks are in italics. Sorry if Jade's a little OOC.
Sam has admitted her feelings for Freddie with both her words and her lips as of iLost My Mind.
Sam has been thinking though, thinking about somebody else who seemed to be having problems admitting her feelings for someone she supposedly 'hated': Tori.
It had been a while since she saw Tori, but she remembered where she went to school. Time to pay her a visit.
"Hey Fredfudge," Sam called.
"Now that we're dating," Freddie started. "Could you at least ease up a liiiittle bit on the nick-"
"No," Sam interrupted. "Anyway, I'm gonna go see that Tori girl again."
"Why?" he asked, putting out his arms.
"…Nice muscles," she said, trying to distract him. Then she pulled the door open, smirking.
Freddie knew she was up to something. The night before, he saw her on Jade's Splashface page saying things like "me and my 'enemy' have gotten together, now it's your turn."
He wasn't sure WHAT she was up to, but if there was one thing he had learned, it was that Sam was going to do what she was going to do.
Meanwhile…
Sam walked into the halls of the school. Don't make eye contact, Puckett, just look for Tori, she thought to herself.
When she finally spotted her at her locker, she noticed Tori was talking to Jade. Ah, she's talking to her closet buddy. Where's the popcorn? She watched them talking with loving eyes. They were fighting with each other as usual. That's how it started with me too, Tori. That's how it started with me too.
When they finally stopped talking, Sam walked over to Tori. "Hey Tori."
"Oh, hey Sam," she responded happily. "What's been going on with you?"
"Oh, you know, just the usual. Dating guys I pretended to hate, teasing people I like, you know, that sort of thing." She cleared her throat. "What's been going on with you?"
Tori looked irritated. "Ugh. Jade won't stop being mean to me, and I don't even know why. It's not like it's my fault she and Beck are having troubles."
"I bet it isn't," she whispered to herself sarcastically.
"She hates me, and I don't even know why. I'm trying to be nice to her but she-"
"…And you like her," Sam interrupted.
"What?" Tori put on a confused face, but her eyes said a different story. Sam was right.
"Yeah, I don't know if you remember, Tors, but… I used to tease Freddie, torture Freddie, prank Freddie, heck, I still do most of those." She smiled. "But you know why I did all those things? Because I love him. He had a problem with it for a while, but secretly, I think he kind of enjoyed the attention I gave him. Just like you do with Jade." She moved closer. "Listen Tori, I know these things. I know what it's like to want to get with them even thought they supposedly 'hate' you-"
"She does hate me," Tori interrupted.
"No, trust me Tori, she doesn't. Now, I can understand why you would be afraid of getting help from me seeing as how I can be very threatening, but I know what Jade's thinking."
"It's not the same though," Tori said suddenly. "Look, I appreciate you trying to help but – there's a difference. Freddie isn't another girl."
"Might as well be one," Sam responded.
"Unlike you and Freddie's relationship, it's more than just hate. It's the fact that she's straight."
"Oh really," Sam said, getting something out of her pocket. "I wouldn't be so sure. Also, here you go."
It was a black bumper sticker with white lettering that read, "I kissed a girl".
"You took this from my locker?" Tori was shocked Sam would do such a thing, but at the same time, she really wasn't.
"Yep," Sam winked. "Just remember, I'm always here if you need me." She walked away, going to Jade's locker.
Jade was standing with her locker open, looking confused.
Suddenly, Sam appeared behind the locker door and slammed it. She smirked. "Worried about something?"
"I don't know what you're talking about," Jade lied, and her voice showed it.
"Let's see," she said. "Your orientation, your obvious love for Tori, your settling for Beck… where to start?" she stepped back, tapping her chin and smirking.
The anger on Jade's face told Sam she was right.
Jade grabbed her arm and pulled her straight in front of her. "What do you know, Puckett?"
To her surprise, Sam sighed happily. "You remind me so much of myself, Jade. For I too am in love with a person I pretended to hate."
Jade sighed, murmuring, "here we go" to herself. She was expecting a long story about how she fell for that dweeb Freddie, but to her surprise, no such story came.
"Listen, Jade, I know it's not exactly the same, but I can help you. I was exactly like you. Just let me know." Sam started walking away, leaving Jade looking confused and almost like she was about to cry. Before she could though, Sam turned back around. "Oh, by the way, you might want to check the bumper sticker Tori has in her hand." Sam winked and left her.
She turned to Tori, who was still looking at the bumper sticker, studying it as if to try and see if it was really hers. Suddenly, she realized Jade was looking and quickly hid it behind her back.
Outside, Sam's cell phone started ringing to the sound of "My World" by Ginger Fox.
"Hello?" Sam picked up.
"Where are you now?" Freddie asked.
"Hey Freddork," she responded, rolling her eyes at the fact that he forgot already. "I told you. I'm at that Tori girl's school again."
"Why?" He asked in a super confused voice.
She sighed, looking around the parking lot to make sure Jade, Tori, or their friends weren't around. "I really can't tell you, alright? I'll be back soon."
"Alright, but come back as soon as you can because I miss you," he then started making kissy noises into the phone.
She wasn't sure whether to say "aww…" or "eew" now that they were dating, so she just kept quiet until he was done. "Bye."
"Wait, Sam," he said, just before she was about to hang up. "No meddling." Just then, he heard a 'beeeep' that let him know she hung up. "Yeah, she's meddling."
Sam chuckled, putting her black-colored cell phone back in the pocket of her blue jeans.
Just then, a crying Jade came outside, her mascara smeared and her eyes just barely still open.
Sam wasn't usually a hugging person with anyone but Carly, but she saw the sadness in Jade's eyes; it was a worse pain than what Sam had felt when she was working at Chili My Bowl. So for whatever reason, she went up and wrapped her arms around Jade. They sat down on a white bench on the sidewalk.
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