I do not own Victorious.
With the Hollywood sun beating down, Jade West made her way onto the Asphalt Café lunch in hand. Though it had been about a month since her and Beck's breakup she still didn't have the heart to sit at her old table with her normal group.
She bypassed their table making her way towards her new secluded eating area when she noticed it was now being occupied by a new boy she'd seen around campus. She made her way to the side of her table opposite him dropping her bag down with a thud. "Move!" she said, giving the new kid a bored look.
"Excuse me?" the blonde teen replied with an equally bored look on his face.
"You heard me. This is my table, move."
The boy looked under his bench, poked his head under the middle of the table, and then stood next to Jade, dipping his head under her part of the table as well.
"What are you doing?" she asked him confused
"Well miss unless your name is Made In China then this is not your table" he replied, slipping on dark shades and sipping his smoothie.
"Look you must be new here so let me spell it out for you, when I tell someone to do something they do it!" Jade said with an edge to her voice. His only response was a roll of his eyes followed by an audible sigh.
Fuming internally at him she yelled "Sinjin!" across the courtyard at the curly haired teenager. Multiple people in the concrete courtyard look to the actress, wondering why she'd be calling her known stalker, her old gang included. Sinjin, who'd just gotten his lunch from Festus, dropped it immediately recognizing the voice calling out to him.
His eyes found her at her newly designated lunch spot. "Yes Jade!" he called loudly in her direction.
"Jump!" Jade yelled. Sinjin began jumping in place, blonde curls bouncing wildly. He hopped away from the lunch area and disappeared into the school building still hopping away.
She noticed everyone throw envious glances towards her at the power she had over some, her old clique included, though their looks were more humored than envious. She really noticed how one pair of brown eyes belonging to a shaggy haired actor caught and held her eyes for a second longer than she'd like to acknowledge.
"Impressive" the blonde boy said "Now can you make someone roll over or..?" he trailed off clearly amused.
Jade smirked. "Yeah he's blonde, annoying, and two seconds away from me-" Jade stopped suddenly looking intently at the kid.
The boy looked around startled "What?" he asked.
"Is that a Mona Patterson t-shirt?" Jade asked staring at the boys light blue shirt with a blackened image of the actresses face.
"Yeah, I love her why?"
"Nothing it's just that I met that witch not too long ago."
Cat, Tori, Andre, Beck and Robbie (Rex included) were now watching the exchange between Jade and her assumed new friend. "He's hot" Tori stated, with Cat nodding her head in agreement.
"Yeah" Robbie replied, earning looks from all at the table. "Boy you ain't right" said Rex from Robbie's side.
"I've seen him around and think he's new" Andre said.
"Why's he talking to Jade" Beck replied "She doesn't really do the whole friendly thing" he said looking at the pair along with the other lunch goers outside.
Cat piped up sadly "Maybe she's lonely? We should all go sit at her new table!" she stated brightly. Her suggestion was met with unenthusiastic murmurs. "Well I'm going" she said picking up her belongings and going towards her friend.
Cat came upon the group with Jade's blonde friend breathless from laughing at the story Jade was telling him of their encounter with Mona Patterson.
"Jade" Cat whispered "We aren't supposed to talk about that night."
"Whatever" an amused Jade said smirking at her lunch mates.
"Mona Patterson sprayed you with a super-soaker after all that!" her friend said with tears in his eyes.
Cat jumped in "Yeah! After we bought a candle and everythi-"
Cat immediately cut herself off after Jade shot her a glare.
"Wait" the boy asked "You weren't the one who-"
"Who are you?" Jade quickly cut him off changing the subject before he could place them at the scene of Mona's house fire.
"My name's Tate" he responded.
"What are you here for?" Jade asked, moving the conversation towards introductions.
"I'm a playwright, trying to get a leg up on the competition early" he responded brightly.
"Cool, so am I along with singing and acting." Jade replied "What are some things you've..."
The patrons at Tori's table looked on at their friends talking animatedly with the 'hot' new student. While Andre and Tori noted how he must be pretty nice if even Jade's getting along with him, Beck can't help but feel a slight pain in his chest. Jade was practically beaming at the new guy, wearing a look on her face he missed more than he'd admit to himself.
The most he'd gotten out of her since their split were awkward hi's and an accusation of him stalking her Slap page. One he wondered if she noticed he didn't deny. As much as he hated the fact that he and Jade broke-up, he knew it was for the best.
Her jealousy was out of control and their cute disagreements that usually led to intense make-out sessions for a while had been ending in them both pissed at each other and not talking. The break-up was the best thing for them he kept telling himself. Though looking at Jade and the new guy laugh together like they used to, he pushed back the little voice in his head whispering liar.
After almost letting slip that she'd lit the candle that burned down Mona Patterson's house one too many times, Jade finally told Cat to leave the table and go fix her make-up. "Another one of your minions at your beck and call?" Tate asked.
She hesitated a moment caught of guard by the word beck
"Umm no, she's my best friend, believe it or not."
"Oh, where's the rest of your court then Queen Jade?" asked Tate.
"Look around" Jade stated "They know their places" Jade said with a smirk.
Tate returned the smirk. "OK Queen Bee, you can have your court but don't expect me to bow down" he said jokingly, pulling out a pearpad, sighing and beginning to delete photos.
"Oh you will. They all do eventually" Jade said in a devious tone. They both began to laugh, when a picture on Tate's pearpad caught Jade's eye. It was of Tate and an equally hot guy on the beach shirtless. What caught her attention was that he and Tate were kissing in the picture.
"Who's that?" Jade asked more interested than she let on.
"Ugghh that's my ex Lucas. Delete!" Tate said erasing the picture with about fifty others.
"You're gay?" Jade asked intently.
"You think a straight guy could have hair this nice?" Tate asked running a hand through his golden locks.
"Dude trust me, they can" she said stealing a glance at her fluffy haired ex. Was he staring at me? Jade wondered to herself. I swear he was.
"Earth to Queen Jade!" Tate said snapping his fingers near her face.
"What!" she asked annoyed.
"Isn't it about time class started again?" Tate said pointing at the time on his pearpad
"Yeah" Jade replied, picking up the contents of her lunch and following him to the nearest trash bin.
"Looks like Jade made friends with the hot new guy" Tori said. "Awww I want to be friends with hot new guy" she whined.
"Chill out muchacha" Andre said poking his friend. The group was on the way to their next class. No one seemed to notice the longing look the tan skinned actor was giving his gothic ex-girlfriend.