"Cat, why are me and Jade at your house at the same time?" Tori Vega asked while glaring at Jade West, who was sitting on my sofa.
"Uh oh, Tori Vega doesn't know why we're here!" Jade yelled in her 'Tori Voice'. I couldn't help but giggle a bit.
"I don't talk like that!" Tori replied. "Do you even know why we're here? Jadelyn." Tori taunted. Jade hated her full name; she always thought it made her sound all girly and sweet.
"Vega..." Jade stood up and walked towards Tori with her scissors in her hand. They'd been in the same room for less than a minute and they were already at each other's throats.
"Uhh... Happy Valentine's Eve!" I interrupted. "Who wants to know why we're here?!"
"I know why we're here." Jade said sweetly (but evilly at the same time) as she walked to my side.
"Well I don't. Tell me!" Tori begged.
"Well-"
"Cat invited you to search for black widows in the attic and invited me to drag your dead body back to your house." Jade chuckled.
"No! That's not what I want to do! Tori, you have to believe me!" I cried.
"I know."
"Oh, yay! Sit down and I'll tell you why we're here." I gestured to my red sofa. "Well, when I was 8 and three quarters, I decided that since my last name is Valentine, and it's Valentine's Day, I should make up like, traditions, which I do every year." I stopped and surveyed Tori's expression.
"Cat!"
"Yeah?"
"What are the traditions?"
"Oh, right. Well, the first tradition is I invite my two closest friends," I nudged the girls cheerfully, "to my house on Valentine's Eve and give them a present that I know they'll love. Next, I try to set them up with a guy they like." Jade's face fell.
"I don't like Beck anymore, Cat."
"And I don't like any guys at all." Tori added.
"Yeah you do!" I reminded her.
"Tori, I don't even like you but I know you have a crush on Andre." Jade said. She smirked as Tori blushed. My awesome friend senses told me she was embarrassed so I continued my traditions.
"Finally I have to tell a guy that I like that I, you know, like him. Do you think my traditions are cool?" I asked.
"Do you have any flowers I can cut?" Jade asked.
"No."
"We'll see..." She muttered as she leapt from the sofa and walked into the garden.
"Hey, Cat, why wasn't I invited last year?" Tori asked.
"Well, I'd only known you for a few weeks, so you weren't really a close friend. I used to invite this girl called Theresa, but she moved schools, and even Jade doesn't know why." I grinned.
Tori faltered. "So, Cat. Who is the guy you're gonna talk to?" Gulp, I was hoping no-one would ask that. Jade never did, as if she already knew. Or did she..?
"Can I guess?" Tori asked. The look in her eye implied that she already knew too.
*DING!*
"Cupcakes are ready!" I squealed, dashing to my oven. "Come on, Jade!" Jade walked into the house batting pink petals off her jacket. It seemed she had found a victim for her scissors. I sighed.
I grabbed two tubes of icing and placed them on the cupcake tray. "Red Velvet Cupcakes!" I chirped. I positioned them on the wooden coffee table in front of the sofa and sat between Tori and Jade. "Look! I've got red icing and black icing this year!" I said enthusiastically. Jade had complained the year before because I only had yellow and pink. She really hated pink.
"On three we bite into them. One, Two, Three!" Me and Tori bit into them simultaneously while Jade purposely left a gap between our bitings.
"Ja-ade." I whimpered. "You did it at the wrong time." I looked into her eyes.
"Sorry! I wasn't hungry yet!" She claimed.
"So after two more seconds you were hungry?" Tori stated, seeing my hurt expression.
"Uglchh... Sorry Cat." Jade said a bit sarcastically.
"Yay! It's all happy now!" I said. "Ooh, your gifts, I nearly forgot!" I dashed upstairs and ran back down holding two bags, Peach for Tori, Black for Jade. "Here you go! Look what's inside!" I handed them the bags. Jade removed the tissue paper carefully, claiming she would save it for cutting up later. She then pulled out a woolly jumper with a big pair of scissors across the front.
"Hey, it's not disgusting." Jade said.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I screamed.
"Cat, it's lovely. Thanks." Jade told me with an eye-roll and a sigh, and maybe a teeny-weeny smile.
Tori ripped the tissue paper straight out of the bag, earning some scowls from Jade. After a moment she revealed a long shirt with a gold microphone surrounded by a red heart.
"Oh my god, Cat I love it!" She said.
"Well, what can I say, I know my two besties!" I hugged them both while Jade objected and Tori laughed.
"So Cat, who is this guy you like?" Tori teased.
"Do you really need to know?" I asked.
"Yeah, kinda." The two girls said simultaneously Wow, Tori and Jade had finally agreed on something.
"If you don't tell us," Jade threatened "we'll just keep guessing until we're right, and I can sniff a lie a mile away." I shivered.
"I pick you guess. Then it's a game!" I said. The two girls looked at each other then back at me.
"Robbie."
"Oh, my god, that is some creepy chiz! How did you know?" I asked.
"Face it, Cat." Tori started.
"We just know you too well." Jade gave a smirk. I realised she had finished Tori's sentence, and Tori wasn't an amazing ventriloquist.
"Let's prove it. What am I thinking of?"
"A unicorn," Tori started.
"With a red velvet coat." Jade finished Tori's sentence again, and seemed to have hardly realised. They weren't secretly... friends, were they? I quickly dismissed the thought when Tori said she had to leave and Jade mocked her by saying that 'Little Tori had to go beddie-byes in her wittle footie pyjamas'.
"Hey Cat, you wanna play a game?" Jade asked with a devilish grin. "I invented it myself."
"Remember last time you said you had a game. You tied me to a chair, gagged me and left. I don't think I'll play a game this time." I said. She realised she hadn't got the best of me.
"Next time..." she whispered, and she left with a slam of the door.