"You know she likes you right?" Andre and Tori were standing at her locker, watching Jade stomp away from them, pushing someone out of her path as she made her way through the hallway.

Tori smirked, "Mhm, I do." She laughed a bit, and turned her attention to Andre as she thought about the "conversation" she had just had with Jade.

"Well then why aren't you doing anything about it? Like, come on Tori! I know you've liked her since the first time you met! You might've fooled Jade into thinking you liked Beck, but not me!"

"Okay first of all, how do you know I've liked her for that long, and second of all I like watching her squirm. It's hilarious!"

"Okay Tor, I'm your best friend, so of course I know you've liked her that long! And what are you talking about it's funny? That's just jacked up."

"Seriously Andre? She's tortured me since I've known her and gets a kick out of it or something, so why is it so hard to understand that this is like my own form of torture on her and that I get a kick out of it?" Tori looked at him incredulously, thinking she was completely justified.

"Well… I guess when you put it that way… Okay yeah, it is pretty funny! I mean, who would have ever thought Jade of all people would like you?"

"Hey!" Tori hit Andre's shoulder, "Obviously I'm super awesome, which is why she likes me! But in all seriousness, if I try to make a move on her before she realizes it herself that she likes me, I would find myself on the wrong end of her scissors."

"Yeah, I guess that's true." Andre nodded in agreement with a serious look on his face.

"Right, so now I just get to watch her struggle with pretending not to like me until she accepts that she actually does. Also, it would be pretty funny to force her to make the first move. Besides you, I've been pretty good at hiding it anyway. I mean, we do go to a performing arts school after all! Even if I'm not good at hiding it, Jade won't realize it soon enough. I can't wait to see how awkward she's gonna be when she tries to ask me out! But I might take pity on her, we'll see."

"Well, good luck with that! I mean datin' Jade isn't gonna be easy. Do you remember what she was like with Beck?" Andre looked at her as if she was crazy, but

Tori just shrugged.

"Well yeah, of course I do! But I'm not Beck, so it'll be different. She won't be able to just whip one over my head, I'll make it challenging for her. I already do."

"I still think you shouldn't wait too long after she finally accepts her feelings for you. Like, put a time limit on it or something." Andre looked thoughtful for a minute, "Hey, here's an idea! How about if she hasn't done anything by Valentines Day, you confront her about it?" Tori just looked at him skeptically.

"Yeah, Valentines Day and Jade aren't so good a mix. But I guess maybe I could at least throw some hints at her by then. Maybe I'll do like a secret admirers thing or something. It is only a few weeks away so… I'll think about it." Andre looked pleased at that, at least.

"Good. You, Miss Tori, are a lot more devious than any of us imagined. Man, Jade has no idea what she's gonna get with you."

"I will take that as a compliment, and anyways, it's a good thing she doesn't know, it'll be so easy to surprise her then." Tori thought over what Andre had said after he had walked away. She could do some romantic things for Jade on Valentines Day and hopefully get her surprised and curious enough to reevaluate things a bit. If Jade was looking for someone who likes her then maybe she would come to the conclusion that she liked Tori much sooner. It was time to think of some ideas because she only had three weeks until the day, and her "romantic" gestures had to be on a level that would not leave Jade disgusted. They had to be nice and cute things, while simultaneously being dark and mysterious. She would have to get really creative on this one.

A week had gone by and Tori was no closer to thinking of Jade appropriate romantic ideas than when she started. She only had thought of getting her some black roses and maybe she would slip a pair of new sharp scissors with them just in case Jade would rather chop them up. She just kept over thinking things. Despite her panic over what to do for Jade, she was thoroughly enjoying watching Jade struggle. She would either be more irate than usual and just yell at Tori more, to which Tori would just smirk adding fuel to the fire, or else Jade would be acting surprisingly nice and then catch herself. Tori thought that maybe Jade was more annoyed when she caught herself being nice than when Tori wouldn't react like normal to Jade's angry outbursts. Yeah, to say Jade was confused right now would be an understatement. She would laugh with Andre at lunch about it, and Jade had caught them a few times demanding to know what was so funny, but they would both just laugh harder. She was more convinced about the Valentines Day plan though.

The problem she had with coming up with ideas had left her in the position she found herself today. That is, hiding in Jade's bushes while watching Jade through the window of her living room. She had actually never been to Jade's house, but her sleuthy side had come out and she had managed to interrogate it out of Cat. Well, interrogate may be an over exaggeration. She asked, and Cat simply told her. Sometimes that girl's obliviousness was just such a blessing. She had to figure out how to get into Jade's house while Jade was in it without getting caught. She had the idea that maybe if she looked around Jade's room she would be able to come up with something that Jade would like better.

Jade seemed preoccupied with something that was on the TV and had been sitting on her couch for the last 15 minutes. Tori took this as her cue, deciding that she had at least 20 minutes to snoop around before Jade would even think of getting up. She carefully walked around the house, searching for the room she thought would be Jade's. She noticed one of the second floor windows seemed to be completely blocked of sunlight and smiled. That one had to be Jade's room. Unfortunately, there were no trees or anything to climb on around her window. Tori made it back to the front part of the house where she could see Jade was still sitting. She snuck up to the front door, doing a few "ninja" rolls – really just awkwardly tumbling and hurting herself a bit – and then tried to see if the front door was open and it surprisingly was. No wonder Sinjin managed to get into her house so easily. She would need to have a talk with Jade about this when they finally got together. Tori's dad was a cop, so making sure the house was locked was like second nature to her. She was also surprised that Jade left herself in a vulnerable position to anyone who tried to break in, but then realized that if anyone came across Jade, they probably wouldn't be living for much longer after. That girl was crazily accurate with her scissors and she always had at least one pair on her. That was going to be another safety hazard when they finally got together because Tori never knew exactly where Jade was hiding them.

Somehow she managed to close the door softly and creep across to the stairs without Jade noticing anything. She had decided to forgo the ninja moves this time, which was probably a great idea. She didn't want to startle Jade and find a pair of scissors stuck in her body any time soon. The stairs were a little difficult, because they squeaked a bit as she climbed them, but Jade was watching 1000 Ways To Die, and it seemed she was too focused and oblivious to her surroundings to notice the slight noise Tori had made.

She easily found Jade's room and sidled into the dark room, managing to find the lights fairly easily. She had debated on keeping them off and using her phone as a flashlight, but she didn't want to bump into anything and also the things in Jade's room would probably be a lot creepier by phone light.

She was not at all surprised by the amount of black in Jade's room, but she was by all the red accents. She had figured they'd be blue or green or something because Jade never wore red in her hair. The second thing she noticed was a bunny in a cage in the corner of Jade's room. Awww! So Jade was a softy at heart! She moved towards the back corner where there was a pretty awesome armchair. The shelf that hung just behind it had a bunch of weird things like the jar with the fatty blob that Jade had gotten when they were at the hospital that one time.

She was just about to walk away from that particular shelf when she noticed a half empty bag of her blood. She already knew that Jade had it, but why was it half empty? Was Jade really a vampire? Before she could laugh at herself for that crazy idea she noticed a yellow sign that had "What I Hate" written in some red ink. She froze as the pieces finally connected in her brain. Jade wrote a sign using her blood? What was she getting herself into? Oh who was she kidding, she loved Jade's weirdness, it kept her on her toes too!

She vaguely remembered this being the corner that Jade usually shot her videos in. Maybe she should watch some of those to get an idea on what to avoid with Jade. She couldn't really remember much from Jade's videos, but she did remember that Jade always had a bunch of candles lit, and she could understand why, because despite the light she had flicked on, there was still a darkness hanging over the room, but that was probably from the fact that no sunlight was allowed in and her walls were painted pretty dark. The last thing she did before she left Jade's room was take some pictures of the butterfly specimens on her walls. She'd have to do some research for that one.

It had gotten a bit darker out by the time Tori had successfully made it down the stairs, which was actually convenient since she had a bit more cover this time. She breathed a sigh of relief as she closed Jade's front door once more, especially when she just heard the show's credit song start to play. Her brain was now working in overdrive to try to file away all she had learned. A huge smile was now on Tori's face since her previous problem of not having Jade appropriate ideas was solved.

The next day found Tori in an ecstatic mood. She was so ridiculously excited for Valentines Day this year. She could almost not wait for the two weeks left to go by. Even if Jade asked her out before then, which she was pretty positive wasn't going to happen, she could still give Jade all this awesome stuff for Valentines Day, and maybe she would get Jade not to hate it so much. She noticed that Jade had looked at her suspiciously all day, but that could have been because every time she saw Jade she couldn't help but laugh and smirk at her, way too excited for what was going to unfold.

At lunch Tori had made sure she got the seat right next to Jade and then also made sure to sit very close to her, making Jade jump every time their arms brushed. The red on Jade's cheeks made it so hard for Tori to try to keep her innocent and oblivious face on because all she wanted to do was laugh, and Andre wasn't making it any easier because he was cracking up from across the table. She could just tell that Jade was getting closer and closer to the truth and Tori was slowly breaking down her defenses. She could imagine by the time that Valentines Day came she wouldn't need to throw too many hints for Jade to get it.

That night Tori had rushed home so that she could work on getting everything set up for her plan. She used red notecards to write some cryptic messages, and had them all finished to go along with her gifts except the last one. She hadn't decided yet whether she was going to leave it anonymous and just have Jade try to guess who wrote them, or whether she was going to reveal herself. She decided to leave it to the day.

She went to bed thinking of what would come the next day. She had texted Andre and told him that she needed his help in shopping tomorrow and was too excited thinking of it all, so it took her longer than normal to get to bed.

AN: So at first this one was going to be more of a one shot, but it started getting kind of long, so I broke it up into chapters instead. Hope you all enjoy!

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