Welcome to Love Songs, Sort Of . A collection of random jori related song fics, I have a lot of song fic ideas so I'm just going to make an entire story dedicated to them. Each story will have a different rating, and it will be stated at the beginning along with the song that inspired it.
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Bruises (Train)
Jade and Tori meet again after 10 years.
Rated T.
One Shot.
Tori hadn't been back to California for longer than a night in years. Not since she took the first plane out to New York. She couched surfed for a 8 months before she got a record deal, couch surfed another two months before she landed her own apartment and got a mattress to put in the corner and some clothes to hang and fold up in the closet. She'd never been one to have more clothes than she'd needed.
But she was back in California, sitting at the Jet Brew next to her old high school waiting for the school to open. She'd been invited by Sikowitz to help judge some competition for his students. She was barely awake, like she always was, because she'd stayed up all night in her hotel penning new song lyrics and hosting a midnight live chat, not going to bed until 7 am and waking up roughly around five pm, but as soon as a familiar body stepped up in front of her she was wide awake.
"Jade."
She looked almost the same, a little older, a little taller but still the same. She was still beautiful. Her hair still had a few blue streaks but it was longer and straightened, framing her face. She was in a pair of tight black jeans, a black tank top and a leather jacket that bunched at the elbow. Her makeup was lighter, but still pretty dark. Her eyebrow still had a half ring through it and she had the stud in her nose. Her fingers were wrapped around a Jet Brew cup, drumming against the sides of it as she stared at Tori.
"Tori." She pulled out the chair, revealing that she still had the rebel star tattoo on her forearm, "it's nice to see you." She sat down and placed her coffee cup on the table.
"You too." Tori replied, smiling at Jade and sitting up slightly, "How are you? how are your kids? And Beck?"
"I'm good, just wrapped my third movie-well third I've directed. My kids are good. My oldest just turned five. The other is three now." She pulls her phone from her pocket and shows Tori a picture of two pale kids with brown hair, the oldest has Jade's blue-green eyes and the youngest Beck's deep brown eyes, "Beck left about two years ago, went back to Canada."
"That's too bad." Tori tried to sound like she meant it, she doubted Jade noticed that she didn't mean it. Jade forced a small smile before she sipped her coffee and glanced out the window where the sun rise.
"How is she?" Jade managed to ask.
"Happy with some plastic surgeon, I heard they're living in Manhattan." Tori replied, "she left a few years ago, after a year-long affair with him. Guess he's got a big dick or something." Tori picked up her cup and took a long sip from the cup.
"So Sikowitz invite you here too?" Jade glanced down at her phone, scowled, and flipped it so the screen was on the table.
Tori's mouth pulled up into a smile and she ducked her head, nodded, and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. Jade smiled at her when she met her gaze, and reached across the table to tuck a piece of Tori's hair behind her ear that had fallen, her fingers lingered for a moment before she sat back down.
"I haven't been back here in almost ten years." Tori mused.
"It's already been ten years? Damn." Jade picked up her phone and pocketed it, standing up and grabbing her coffee, "come on, lets walk over together. I don't wanna risk my car in that parking lot."
"Okay." Tori whispered, grabbing her cup and standing as well. They chatted as they walked, and in the five minutes it took to reach the school they had decided while they were famous that had utterly boring lives.
"I mean being on tour I pretty much slept through all day light hours and I stayed up until five. I still can't sleep right." Tori groaned, pulling open the door for Jade. They both paused inside to look around at the school. The graffiti was still the same, but there was a new addition in the hallway. A glass case full of locker doors, when they stepped up to it it didn't take long to find their lockers.
At the very top Tori's locker door was lit up beside Jade's locker, still covered in scissors and painted black. Their names were beneath them along with actor and director 2013 under Jade's and actor and musical artist 2013 under Tori's. Cat's was beside Jade's beneath it read Broadway 2013, Beck's was beside her's with the word actor 2013 beneath it. Robbie's sat below theirs with the word comedian 2013, and Andre's producer 2013. Trina's was there too, a giant mirror with mini-bulbs and her name over it in bejeweled pink letters. Below her name was comedian-2012.
Tori pulled out her phone and took a picture of it that she planned on tweeting at some point. Jade took a picture, too, and then they wandered on. The school was pretty much the same, not that it was shocking, but walking through the halls was startling, ten years but it was like no time had passed and they were still in high school, still students with wide eyes and promising futures. But they weren't.
Tori held the door to the Black Box open for Jade and followed her inside. There were kids running around and setting up. Sikowitz was on the stage yelling at some kids, and a few seats were filled with lazy kids who were texting. A large table sat up in the front, it had 9 chairs sitting at it, a few were already filled.
Jade stopped short and Tori bumped into her, grabbing Jade's shoulder to steady herself and then she turned to the table. Beck was sitting at the end beside Andre, there was a blonde woman beside him sitting in one of the theater chairs. From the rock on her finger Tori guessed this was his fiancé or wife.
"Jade! Tori! You're here!" Sikowitz yelled from the stage. Tori stepped up beside Jade, grabbed her hand and tugged her into motion once more, "sit on the end there." He pointed to the two chairs farthest away from Andre and Beck. Tori forced Jade into the chair beside her and sat down.
Andre came over to talk to them, giving them each a hug, and then returned to his seat. A bouncing, bubbly Cat showed up next and sat beside Tori, after crushing the pair in a hug, and she dragged Robbie down next to her. Trina showed up to, and it was shocking to see her-well shocking for everyone but Robbie and Tori. She was in a pair of jeans, a baggy tshirt, some converse that were on their last steps, and her hair was hanging around her head like she hadn't done more than brushed it.
"Hey sis!" She greeted, giving Tori a one-armed hug before she took a seat next to Robbie, "quit staring Jade, it's weird." By the time the talent competition and the voting was over Tori was wide awake while the others were dragging their feet. They all said tired goodbyes and crawled into their cars while Tori and Jade walked back to Jet Brew.
"So where's your car?" Jade asked, stopping in front of her car.
"I don't have one, I was just going to get a taxi." Tori replied, "after I get another cup of coffee."
"I've got to go get my kids and put them to bed, but I can make you coffee." Jade offered, lingering half in her car, she locked eyes with Tori and Tori felt like she really was back in high school, back in the days of sneaking off to Jade's house, or the janitor's closet, or anywhere and just being together. Just the promising stare Jade had made Tori's heart jump.
"Sure." Tori smiled and stepped off the curb, opening the passenger seat door, she slipped into the seat and pulled on her seat belt. Half way to Jade's house, her kids asleep in the backseat, she reached over and took Tori's hand. Tori laced her fingers through Jade's and smiled at her.
"I still can't believe he cheated on you." Tori muttered, "What an ass."
"We picked assholes." Jade agreed, Tori smiled and sipped at the beer Jade had given her, "I'm really glad I ran into you. I missed you so much, Tori." Tori leaned closer to Jade and tucked her hair behind her ear, her fingers lingered.
"I missed you, Jade, but I had to leave. I couldn't sit around and watch you with him." Jade reached up and cupped Tori's hand, pulling her closer and kissing her softly. Tori set her beer on the table without breaking the kiss and pushed Jade back against the couch. Jade pulled Tori over with her.
Around 3 am Jade was fully asleep. Her hair was fanned across her pillow, her sheets were tangled around her limbs and her chest was moving up and down in a slow rhythm. Tori was shimmying into her jeans next to the bed as quietly as possible. She watched Jade's face twist into something horrifying for a fraction of a second before the muscles in her face relaxed again. Tori sighed softly, she pulled her jeans back off and crawled into the bed beside Jade, pulling what she could of the sheets up before she closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Let's do this soon again, ten years is that what it's been? Can't believe how time flies by Leaving you makes me wanna cry. These bruises make for better conversation loses the vibe that separates it's good to let you in again you're not alone in how you've been everybody loses, we all got bruises. We all got bruises.