A/N: There isn't much cabbie in this chapter, I had to do all the boring setting the story part first (sorry) but don't worry there will be loads of cabbie in future chapters I promise :D I love this ship and i'm just getting started with these two ;)

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in Victorious, even if I wish really hard on the blue star, it's not gonna happen.

Cat sat cross-legged on her bedroom floor squeezing Mr. Longneck against her chest as tight as she could, resting her chin on the top of his head. Peering through the open crack in her door she could see into her brother's room, where he was currently having a screaming fit whilst her parents shouted, shouted at him to stop, to calm down, shouted at each other to control him, at each other to handle it. It went the way it always did, her brother screaming and shouting for what seemed like days, her parents trying to calm him, her parents ending up shouting at each other, her mum breaking down into tears, her dad bundling her brother and mum into the car to visit the 'special' doctor's, her dad sometimes remembering to tell her to heat some soup up for dinner, that they would be back soon, other times they would leave without so much as a backward glance at Cat…

That's how it always went, they always left her, but Mr. Longneck never left her, her stuffed giraffe was always there when she was forgotten. Her brother hadn't been as bad when they were younger, she was three when he was born and had quite liked the idea of a baby brother to play with and he was okay for the first few years she hadn't minded him. But as he got older his tantrums got more violent and her parents started to worry for his safety, so they took him to a 'special' doctor. Cat didn't really understand exactly what was wrong with him, her parents didn't tell her much only that sometimes he had to go to the 'special' doctor because he wasn't very well.

Cat had gotten used to his 'episodes' as her parents called them, she had also gotten used to her parents being so preoccupied with him, that they barely had anytime for Cat. They often missed her school performances and sometimes wouldn't notice if she had come home or not, it got worse as the years wore on and her parents became more stressed. Her mother became distant over the years and her father was always running around doing one thing or another that there wasn't much time for anything that wasn't urgent, like if Cat got a part in the school play or what grades she was getting. She knew they didn't mean it, they had a lot on their minds, but it did hurt sometimes when they didn't notice her and lately it all seemed to be getting a lot worse…

That night Cat fell asleep on her pink fluffy rug on the floor, holding Mr. Longneck tight to her chest.

She woke up groggy and aching from sleeping on the floor, she had slept in till 12 since it was a Sunday and her alarm clock wasn't set for Sundays. She crossed the hall to peek into her brother's room, he wasn't there, her parents weren't in their rooms either and their beds were not slept in, they must have not come home last night. This had been happening more often lately, but Cat didn't mind having the house to herself, it meant that she could have the telly on whatever channel she wanted and could have it as loud as she wanted because her brother wasn't there to be disturbed. She spent the whole day watching telly and eating whatever she could find that didn't require cooking, cereal, an apple, she even had some of her brother's favourite ice cream, which she didn't normally get the chance to have.

She had fallen asleep on the sofa with the telly still on, she awoke with a star at the front door opened, she was disorientated as it was now completely dark outside and the only light source was the flickering television.

"Turn that telly down" her dad barked at her as he carried her brother through the living room and up the stairs.

Cat turned the telly off immediately afraid to wake her brother, yawned and trudged up the stairs to her bedroom, she could hear faint whispers coming from her brother's room,

"the doctor said the sedation would last until morning, come on lets get some rest" she overheard her father whisper to her mother,

Cat crept into her room and shut the door behind her, shutting out the world; she picked up Mr. Longneck and climbed into bed falling asleep almost immediately.

The next day started off as any normal day did, Cat got dressed for school as normal, she went downstairs and started on a bowl of cereal standing at the kitchen island as normal, but today her parents seemed even more oblivious to her than normal. Usually they would nod at her or murmur some sort of greeting in her direction, this morning they didn't even glance her way as her mum got her brother ready to go to the 'special' group he went to in the mornings and her dad organised himself for work. Her mum had quit working a long time ago so that she could dedicate all of her time and energy to looking after her brother, this put more stress on her father as he was their sole income, Cat could see the grey hairs shining through his dark hair and the wrinkle lines formed from too much frowning.

She heaved a sigh as she dumped most of her uneaten cereal into the bin and washed her bowl, setting it on the side to dry, maybe it was just because of the major episode her brother had had the other night, maybe they had just stopped caring about her. Cat often had these kinds of thoughts but always tried to brush them aside by being happy and carefree, pretending not to care about much and pretending not to understand things that she didn't want to understand.

She looked down at her watch, if she left for school at precisely 8:17 she would bump into Robbie on her way, he lived on the next street over to hers and always left at 8:15 for school. Once her watch showed 17 minutes past she stepped out of her door and sure enough as she was closing it she heard

"Kitty Cat!"

His nickname for her made her squirm inside and she smiled at him

"Hey Robbie!" she practically sung as she skipped down her drive to meet him, there was something about Robbie that made her happy, made her forget about her parents and her brother and she liked that.

"Do anything interesting at the weekend?"

"Not really just watched some telly, what did you do?" she liked to hear Robbie talk, his voice was comforting, she also liked that what he talked about was easy to listen to, nothing was ever complicated with Robbie.

Time seemed to not want to move on that day and when the bell rang for lunch Cat let out a loud "finally!" tilting her head back and closing her eyes.

Andre patted her head as he stood up to go "hungry little red?"

"Starved!" she replied grabbing her backpack and rushing out of the room, even though the real reason for her joy was that time was definitely moving even if it was slower than normal and half of the day was over.

She sat next to Jade at their lunch table opposite Robbie, blushing slightly and smiling down at her food as he greeted her in her favourite way, "Hey Kitty Cat"

As she took a bite out of her sandwich she realised how hungry she was, she hadn't eaten properly yesterday and had thrown out most of her cereal this morning.

Cat liked this, sitting at the lunch table listening to Tori tell them about what weird beauty tips her sister had tried over the weekend that shed read about on the Internet, one was soaking bread in milk and sticking it to any spots she had in order to get rid of them. She liked how she didn't have to think about much when she was with her friends, she also liked how they kind of babied her, simplifying things for her and looking out for her. She didn't have to think too hard with them, or worry about much, this right here was her favourite place, surrounded by people that cared enough to do these things for her, and she wished she could stay here forever. But she couldn't, and just then the bell rang and everyone started to move, clearing away their lunches and grabbing their bags.

The rest of the day dragged and when the last bell of the day finally rang, Cat didn't feel relieved as she thought she would, she felt anxious. Anxious to go home to her ever growing distant parents, she wasn't afraid of them being distant towards her, she was afraid of how much farther they had drifted away from her. They seemed to be drifting away much faster lately and Cat felt as if she were helplessly trying to pull in a full sized ship by herself with a thin piece of rope and her bare hands… and the rope was slipping.