Disclaimer= I do not own Victorious.
A/N=That prom-themed Victorious episode is coming up next weekend. I will be out of the country during the airing of it. I leave in a few days, so I will try to finish this story before I leave. Please forgive me if the subsequent chapters that are posted come out rushed and characters are ooc. This story will be one that I know you all will enjoy to read :)
It's the fifth month of the year. May is usually the time of month that people take off their shoes and be all like, "Summer! Time to show off my beach body!" For the students of Hollywood Arts, this month is when they will get to go through an experience that they have dreamt of long before such an announcement was made- I'm talking about prom.
The decibels that rang out made more of an impact than Ned Bigby's simultaneous toilet flush mission. Students stormed out of their classes, excited that they get to have a prom. For the Hollywood Arts 7, such excite did not escape them because they got just as rowdy. The next few weeks were a blur for everyone as they all went through plans, what to wear, etc.
"Do any of you know the theme for our prom," Trina asked, once again making her unwelcome input that the 7 grew accustomed to. Tori told her sister that none of them had any idea.
"Sikowitz said it was a surprise," Cat chimed in, causing the attention to come to her. She played with her hair in nervousness; half expecting that someone would change the subject, a form of heat deflected off of her.
"Hey guys, stop looking at her like that, don't we all forget things?" Robbie stepped up to say something to ease the awkward silence. Cat winked at him in gratitude, which Robbie responded with a curt smile.
"Has Hollywood Arts ever had a prom?" Tori was the next to speak. Being the newbie to HA, she hadn't the knowledge of the school her other friends did.
"Golly no, this the first prom our school shall have!" Jade quipped in Tori's Bird Scene voice, pissing her off and setting off more uncomfortable silence.
" You know Jade, you making fun of me every chance you get from that time mad me very mad at first, but it's kind of funny now."
"Make sure you work on your word choice because if you poke fun at the wrong person…" Tori purposely let her sentence trail, which Jade took note of and got up and started to head into her direction. Andre, ever the observer, told both to chill. He asked how they were going to go about planning to go to prom as a unit. Cat chimed in once again.
"Before prom starts, way before it starts, people ask each other to it." That got everyone buzzing. When it comes to that sort of thing- asking people out, especially to prom- it causes even the most mature of teenagers to get all giddy. Some expect certain people to ask them out, while others like to be surprised.
"Where's Beck?" Jade got a little worried because while everyone was talking to each other, Beck seemed to have sneaked out for an unknown reason. The doorbell was pressed, and Tori got up to answer it.
"Move out the way, I'll get it,"
"Rude!" Tori let that go, as she did most insults nowadays that Jade said. The new hair of Jade's glistened as she opened the door to see Beck in a snazzy tuxedo.
"Looking fresh bro!" was what Andre commented, but he quickly shut up when Jade glared at him.
"You are looking handsome,"
"Just handsome?"
"You know what I mean."
"Anyways, I ran home to change clothes and found that this tux mysteriously was lying on my bed. So I put it on." Jade would not stop smiling at her boyfriend, whom seemed awkward in his tuxedo. Beck snapped his fingers in remembrance and gave Jade a box.
"What might this be?"
"Open it and find out." Jade did as she was told, and out came a rose and a card attached to the stem. Tori, Cat, and Trina awed when the rose appeared, but they instinctively kept quiet immediately afterwards, an action that made Jade not look back to glare.
"Will you go to prom with me?"
"Of course I will!" Everyone started to clap at the couple. They did not clap at Beck's action because they all knew Bade was going to prom together, but rather the action lowered Jade's defenses- this side of Jade, her reaction to Beck's asking of her to prom, was a "real" side of Jade that people did not really get to see.
After laughing at the end of a horror movie, everyone grew quiet the moment the television was turned off. Cat suddenly got up and exclaimed that she had to leave because she had something to do with her mom the following morning.
"It was funny watching the movie and fun hanging out with you all once again, but… see ya." Cat trotted out of the Vega residence, leaving everyone floored with her demeanor. No one seemed to notice the subtle glance she gave at Robbie, that kind of glance that meant that she wanted him to do something for her. A little while later and Robbie said that he too had to leave for home, to which no one really seemed to care.
"You do realize that Cat wants you to ask her out to prom right?" Jade turned to look at Robbie with a bewildered face, as if to say, "You should've asked her out in front of us."
"Yeah, you better go ask her before someone else does."
"Don't pressure me guys!"
"She's right, someone may have already asked her." Robbie grew irritated with Jade and Trina's badgering, so he left to Cat's house in a full sprint.
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Cat could not sleep, so she decided to watch some boring shows on television in order to try and get her to go to sleep. After several minutes of flipping through channels, she gave up and did something she liked doing in her spare time while at home- stare at the ceiling. A couple of years ago, she came home crying from school for some unknown reason. She looked up and her ceiling was painted like the sky- part of the ceiling was painted like a typical day, another like a sunset, and the last part was painted like the night sky, complete with stars and a wishing star.
Cat usually stared at the sunset part of the ceiling, but she instead turned her attention to the wishing star. Everyone knows what to do when one of these pass by you when you are staring at the night sky. Cat knew what to do- she closed her eyes and wished for something in silence. Her answer awkwardly came in the form of a doorbell ring. Stepping cautious to the door since she never had any visitors at this hour, she opened it to find a shivering Robbie.
"Hey Cat," Robbie greeted in between shivers.
"Oh you are chilly, come inside I'll make some hot cocoa." Cat brought Robbie inside and tossed him two of her thickest blankets. A couple of minutes later , Cat came with two piping cups of cocoa, handing Robbie a steaming cup. He thanked her and took a sip, and almost shrieked in pain.
"Teehee, you sipped it like a second after I handed it to you,"
"I'm impatient I guess." Cat looked at the shivering Robbie and suddenly started scratching her head, as if to put pieces of a puzzle together.
It is May, a time that is usually warming up for June, when it gets really really hot. Why would Robbie come to my house at 2 in the morning, shivering? Oh yeah, prom is coming up. No one has asked me…
"Sorry to have bothered you Cat, I'll be going now,"
"Were you waiting outside for long,"
"A few hours." The bluntness of Robbie's reply got Cat all confused. Why would he wait outside of her house for a few hours. She was just scratching her head, acting pensive.
"Yesterday night, Beck asked Jade out to prom, and she said yes." Robbie finally came out with that, which got Cat's attention. She knew where he was going and she knew what she was going to reply with.
"I was outside your house for several hours because I didn't know what to do. Beck was just one of many examples of guys going out of their way to ask a girl out to prom." Robbie hadn't looked at Cat the entire time he was inside of her house. He stopped shivering, which made her even more attentive.
"I was shivering because I was really nervous. I went back and forth about how to talk to you about what I want to talk about. Should I do what the other do? When I walked inside of your house, my decision was made- I would say it outright, without the use of the fancy stuff."
"Go on…" Cat's eyes widened as she grew more excited. That curt smile of Robbie's came back as he said the following:
"Want to go to prom with me Cat?" Cat lunged herself towards Robbie and hugged him fiercely.
"Yes!"
Another Friday comes around, and the 7 are chilling in the lounge, playing ping pong and making no plans to eat dinner at Maestro's. If there was an actual team, Tori would be the de facto #1 player. Everyone was hanging around the table like spectators, but Robbie and Cat were talking and laughing on the couch, in an intimate distance from each other.
"What's up with you two?" Tori asked in between ace services. Robbie was starting to speak, but Cat blurted that she and Robbie were going to go to prom together.
"Finally, you two were an obvious choice to go together."
"Jade and Beck, and now Robbie and Cat." Tori mused that her friends were pairing off to go to prom together. Jade and Beck were given since they were already a couple. Robbie and Cat going together was interesting, she thought, but it was a cute couple they made nonetheless.
"So uh Andre, you asked anyone to the prom?"
"Andre is not here." Tori was dazing off into space and did not notice Andre leave the lounge. Seems that during the hour or so that the 6 out of the 7 were in there, Andre was uptight. Jade was the most observant one of the group, and she wanted to 'get back' at Tori for not feeling more hurt for her insults, so she purposely did not tell her about Andre's uneasiness.
"Andre is probably hanging out with his prom date." Those nine words took the wind out of Tori's sails. She desperately wanted to know who asked Andre out to prom.
"He probably went home to check out his grandma,"
"I don't know. I've known him longer than you have, and he never gets like this."
"What are you trying to say Jade huh?"
"Relax Tori, he likely did go home." Tori was not convinced. She felt a wee bit betrayed once again by her friends for not telling her what was up with Andre's behavior. They were hiding something from her, and she felt that as a friend of theirs, she wanted to know what the big hoopla was about. The following happened two hours after the gang left the lounge:
Hey Andre, you desperately wanted to talk to all of us on live chat?
Yeah, it's about prom. Good that Tori is not online.
Why, she's one of your friends too,
Yeah, but…
But what man, spit it out.
A girl asked me to prom
Whew! It's a good thing that all of us are going to prom together.
…
Andre?
Andre you there?
Yeah.
Why are you being quiet?
You are going to prom with Tori, you should be happy,
Tori did not ask me out to prom.
Andre quickly logged off and sat on his recliner, mentally exhausted and stressed out about the prom. He could not imagine how Tori would take it when he would tell her that he was going to prom with someone not named her. Would she cry? Would she push him and leave crying? Andre did not want to think about all that. He too was getting a little emotional because he did not want to hurt Tori like that. The negative thoughts continued to run rampant when his phone rang crazy.
It was Tori.
*Andre is going to have that talk with Tori. Next chapter: Tori's reaction and prom preparations for HA students go into full swing*