-Set after Tori's song in 'Beggin' on your knees'-

"Hey cowlick!" Jade was walking quickly down the hall and had finally caught up with Ryder Daniels. She had a bone to pick with that stupid 50's knockoff loser. He had hurt Tori. Her Tori. Nobody hurts her Tori. Sure, Jade thought it was fun to mess with the girls feelings, but not to mess with her heart. That was a different matter. Tori had genuinly liked this guy. This shrivilling ball of testosterone, and he had screwed her over. Jade was not going to let him get off lightly.

"What?" the boy answered back. He stopped in his tracks and Jade walked up closely to him. Ryder had made a fool or Tori, and Jade was having none of it.

"You think you can just play with girls feelings like that?" she asked him. Ryder smirked.

"Well, I just have" he answered back "And just because your little friend just sang a song 'exposing me', doesn't mean I'm not gonna do it again" Jade felt like strangling him. She couldn't explain why, but she felt the need to be protecting Tori right now.

"What you did to her was sick" she told him, poking a finger in his chest "And if you ever do anything like that to her or anyone else again, you better bet there's a special place for your balls on the heel of my boot". She felt proud of herself for that one.

"Vega was stupid in the first place for trusting me" Ryder told her. Her anger suddenly sprung out, and she suddenly kicked him in the chest with all the force she could. The tall boy fell to the floor on his hands.

"Don't call her Vega" Jade shouted at him "Don't you ever call her Vega. Only I call her Vega. She's my Vega, not yours. She doesn't deserve to be treated the way you treated her, god dammit"

"Jeez, someone's a little obsessed" Ryder laughed, rubbing the place that Jade had kicked him. Jade fell silent. She pursed her lips a little.

"No, I'm not" she replied very unconvincingly "I just, don't like to see her getting hurt" Ryder smirked. Again.

"I thought you hated that chick" he said, trying to pick himself up off of the floor. But Jade's boot had other ideas, and he soon fell back down to the floor.

"Don't call her a chick. She's not a chick. In fact, don't even talk about her at all"

It was then that Jade had to ask herself.

Why am I doing this?

Why do I care so much about stupid Vega?

"I'm starting to wish I'd picked some other girl. Tori isn't even that fit anyway and-"

"What did you just say?" Jade interrupted.

"That Tori's not all that"

That was it. Jade bent down and grabbed Ryder's stupid black shirt with his pale fist. Her face was right close to his now and she could feel his breath against hers.

"How can you say that" she hissed "How can you sit there and tell me that? Don't talk about her like that. You don't know what your talking about, you little greaseball. Vega's...Vega's amazing and don't you ever think otherwise"
"Uhm..."
Jade turned around, and surely enough it was her. Tori Vega. Standing there in her stupid skinny jeans and her stupid purple top.

"What's going on here?" she asked, walking towards the bundle of people on the floor.

"Why don't you ask your girlfriend" Ryder laughed. Jade swung a punch, not realising how hard it had come. Ryder was sprawled across the floor, looking as if he was unconscious.

"Ohmygod, Jade? What did you do?" Tori asked, running over to Jade.

"Can't say he didn't deserve it" Jade shrugged. She stood up and turned to leave, but someone had grabbed her wrist and was stopping her.

"Jade, wait"

It was Tori. Obviously.

"What?" Jade said.

"Why do you care so much that Ryder hurt me?" she asked the girl. Jade turned to face her.

"I don't" was the first thing she thought to say. Tori raised her eyebrows.

"You kicked him in the chest and knocked him out cold" Tori argued.

"Yeah we should probably call someone" Jade shrugged again "Okay byeeeee-"
"Wait!"
Tori had grabbed her wrist again. Jade rolled her eyes are turned to face her again.

"Why'd you do it?" she asked. Jade shrugged her shoulders and let her eyes wander aimlessly around the room.

"Because..." she was saying quietly "We're friends. Sorta"

"Since when have you ever called me your friend?" Tori asked with a laugh. Jade shrugged her shoulders again.

"We hang out with the same people" Jade argued. Obviously this wasn't the reason that she had been defending Tori. She just hoped Tori would figure it out soon, for gods sake. That girl was so stupid.

"I guess" Tori said "B-but you said something else too"
Shit. Jade hoped that she hadn't heard that.

"No I didn't" Jade tried to lie. Tori raised her eyebrows.

"Yes you diiiiiiid" she said in her annoying 'Tori love' voice. Jade found this annoying, but also kinda cute, but also annoying.

"Did not!" Jade was still trying to argue her point, but now Tori was pulling the 'Tori love' face.

"You called me amazing" Tori told her. Jade gritted her teeth.

"Did not"
"Did too"
"Did NOT"
"Yes you diiiiiiid" Jade didn't bother arguing back this time. There was no point if Tori had heard it anyway. She decided to put on her 'Tori Vega voice'. She knew how much this annoyed her.

"Wowee, Jade West thinks I'm amazing. I'm gonna go and tell all my friends down in lollipop land and we'll sing and dance and give each other sweet sweet kisses!"

"I do NOT talk like that!" Tori insisted. Obviously Jade knew that she didn't actually talk likoe that, but it was funny to imagine it.

"Whatever, I'm leaving now" Jade tried to leave for the third time during this conversation, but yet again Tori pulled her back.

"You really think I'm amazing?" she asked, now in a more hushed voice. Jade gritted her teeth again.

"You're alright" she mumbled. Tori was smiling.

"Awww, thanks Jade" she mocked "What am I amazing at exactly? Is it my voice, is it my sense of humour, is it-"
"Oh for gods sake, Vega, take a hint"
Before Tori could say any more, Jade's lips were on hers. Only briefly, but it was enough for Tori to realise why Jade had called her amazing. Why she knocked Ryder out, and why she cared so much that he hurt her.

"Don't tell anyone about this" Jade said firmly after pulling away. Tori nodded. "This never happened" Tori nodded again "This was all a dream"

She started walking away, her boots clicking against the floor. She had almost turned the corner of the lockers, when she could have sworn she heard Tori mumble something.

"Best Dream Ever"