A/N: Well, this is my fourth story in such a short time (I'm surely on a roll, huh?), and I'd decided I could try a crack at writing a multi-chapter fanfic, one a modified and longer version of my first fic, "Signs a Girl Likes You." I'm sure I have some more ideas, but they're lodged somewhere in the dark recesses of my mind and won't come out, so I hope the theme established established in "Signs a Girl Likes You" would help me to extend the story into, like, four or five chapters (or possibly more).
And then there's this thing called writer's block.
Without further ado, I present to you, "Do She Like Me?" Hope you like it.
Oh yeah. Before I forget, I don't own Victorious (which belongs to Dan Schneider). I also dont own whatever songs I might decide to insert in this story (unless I write them myself, and I suck at writing songs, lolz).
Chapter One: Signs A Girl Likes You
"You should give up, man." Rex Powers was saying as he walked with - or rather was carried by - his best friend. "You've been pining after them for some time now like a lovestruck puppy, and they had never shown even an ounce of interest in you."
Robbie Shapiro felt a pang of hurt in Rex's words. Perhaps he had a point there. After all, he had done everything humanly possible to catch Trina Vega's attention (the same going with Cat Valentine), and it seemed his efforts were all for naught. However, he wasn't the type of person to give up easily. He really liked Trina Vega and Cat Valentine (although he was feeling sorta torn between them, so he'd opted to go for the girl who showed him the most affections for him). Surely, that made him sound a bit like a player, and Rex seemed to partake in a certain pleasure in pointing that out - over and over again - but he felt like he had no choice.
"I never knew you had in you a player! Who would've thought it?" Rex had laughed one day, not to Robbie's amusement.
This presented another set of problems, however. You see, Robbie Shapiro had never gotten a girlfriend for the seventeen years he'd existed on Earth, much less attract the attention of the female species who would like him for him. While he was growing up, he was never noticed by girls; in fact, he was basically an invisible boy.
Indeed, he would never forgot that...humiliating moment in the fourth grade, when he told a girl he liked her that he liked her - only to have her laugh loudly in his face. He was picked on by just about everyone afterwards.
Everyone, including his friends (few as they were) and girls in particularly, merely saw him as an awkward, weird, geeky guy who carried around a dummy named Rex Powers. And Robbie knew he was indeed that person (although he wouldn't call himself weird. He knows who he is, and he's proud of it). Still, he remained something of a social outcast, and Hollywood Arts was no exception.
Anyways, back to the story, Robbie in short was attracted to two different girls, but was unable to discern of whether they were attracted to him back - mainly because he had no idea.
He sighed softly as he walked into his house, holding Rex in one arm. He greeted his parents, who greeted him back (well, his mother mostly. His father merely grunted a response as he was hunched over important-looking papers at his desk).
"How was school today, dear?" Mrs Shapiro asked.
Robbie shrugged. "Eh, it was okay." He said simply as he bounded up the stairs.
Entering his room, Robbie tossed his backpack into the floor, placed Rex on the bed ("Ow! Not so rough, Casanova!"), and plopped down on it. Sighing tiredly to himself, Robbie looked at his backpack - he had plenty of homework due tomorrow - before shaking his head and grabbing his laptop. He'd do that tomorrow; he had too much on his mind, particularly his...female dilemma.
As he thought about Trina and Cat, especially how they looked beautiful that day, Robbie was flooded with curiosity about how to attract girls - but one thought in particular stuck: what signs did girls usually exhibit when they were attracted to somebody? Like, how did they behave, talk, act, etc?
Piped with curiosity, Robbie went on Google and searched for that topic. Scanning the results, the second one caught his attention: 'Signs a Girl likes you.' He clicked on it, and scanned over it.
It said something like this:
Signs a Girl Likes You
- She acts shy around you:
If a girl's shy, her tone of voice may be a bit softer, and she might play with her hair or something (like twirl it around a finger, smooth it down, or flipping it over her shoulder), and adjust her clothes. If she likes you, she would laugh at your jokes, even if it's boring or lame, and she may giggle a bit (or lot); she may give you a pet name and compliment you.
- She stares at you:
If a girl likes you, she may stare at you whenever she think you're not looking. Depending on her personality, she may continue to look at you even if you catch her do so, or she may look away immediately (more the better if she has a blush on her face.).
- She flirts with you:
She may flirt with you such as bumping her hip against yours, or find excuses to touch you on the shoulder, arm, hand, etc. She may also poke you, wink at you, or anything to catch your attention.
- She 'accidentally' bumps into you (and her actions shows her true feelings):
She seems to show up everywhere you go. She may show a sudden interest in your activities or hobbies (such as going to a football game when she's not normally interested). Speaking of actions, she may do the following to try to catch your attention:
* Lick her lips, touch her neck, or generally expose her neck to you
* Point her shoulder, and align her body, toward you.
* Perform a shoe dangle, whether deliberate or not.
* Lean toward you, sit or stand close to you, or get closer to you.
* Mirror your movements.
- She acts like a 'damsel in distress':
She may pretend to be a damsel in distress to catch your attention, such as pretending to be cold (and publicly letting it be known) in the hopes that you would give her your sweater or jacket. She may also pretend to be bad at something (such as math or a subject that she's actually skilled in), hoping to spend time with you and get really close to you.
- Watch her eyes:
If she likes you, her pupils may dilate (careful, though, this can be easily confusing, especially when she's outside in a sunny day or something). She also will initiate eye contact and maintain it. If she constantly glances at you (such as looking at you and averting her gaze quickly when you catch her looking at you.
- She smiles at you:
Whenever you look over at her, if she always give a smile (a smile, not a smirk), she's probably interested in you. It doesn't matter if it's a big or small, as long as it a warm one (as in reaches her eyes, and not a fake smile).
- Her personality:
If a girl likes you, part of her personality may change. For instance, if she's normally a quiet, reserved type, she may become bubblier when she sees you. Likewise, if she's the outgoing type, she may become quieter whenever you're around her. This change may indicate that she has become more nervous around you because she likes you. But then, this depends on the girl.
- She asks about different girls:
If she asks you about your preferences in girls (such as inquiring about what you like in a girl or about whether you prefer brunettes or blondes, and the like), then she's probably checking to see if she fits your standards and interests.
- She gets jealous (and may try to make you jealous too!):
If she sees you with another girl, or if you talk about other girls to/in front of her, she may become jealous. For instance, she may respond in a cold way, make snarky comments, or look mad. This is because she likes you, and wants you for herself. On a similar note, a girl may try to make you jealous by flirting with other guys when you're around, or by taking about activities with other guys. She may look over to you to gauge your reaction when she does that.
- She kisses you:
Self-explanatory.
Robbie read the text carefully, his mind digesting the information. This was certainly...interesting and enlightening. He, however, could not help but chuckle at the last part - and blush a little as images of Cat and Trina kissing him surfaced in his mind.
It was interesting how something so simple (and yet emotionally provoking) as a kiss could get someone hooked up on a girl (or in his case, two), and yet it was precisely how his crush on Trina and Cat - and his predicament - began. Ever since Trina had kissed him in a stage act, he had developed a crush on her - and the same went for Cat when she kissed him in an attempt to prove that Trina's kiss was, well, a stage act.
The last part was obviously intended to get him out of his crush on Trina. Instead, it only strengthened it further, and caused him to see Cat in a different light. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get Trina and Cat's soft lips out of his head. Hence his 'obsessions' (he wouldn't call them that, mind you. More like 'crushes', which he hopes will become more).
Despite a...lack of positive attention on Trina (to be explained shortly) and Cat's part, he was still convinced that either of these girls harbored something like deep feelings for him given the intensity of their 'stage kisses' that they gave him. No one could put such intensity and effort in a stage kiss like that! Surely, they must mean something, right?
As he stared at his screen, Robbie's thoughts shifted from his crushes to the two objects of his affections. Trina Vega was...a beautiful young woman, that was for sure. Not only was her brown hair cascade down her beautiful and rounded face like waterfalls, but she had a great smile (whenever they weren't turned in a sneer), and curves in the right places (not that he ogled her like a lecherous pervert, of course. He wasn't the kind of person to do that. But still...he noticed).
Surely, she was a bit...bossy and demanding, and was typically an annoying girl who thought she was popular in school when it wasnt the case (so as he'd heard his friends state so, especially her younger sister, Tori Vega). But still, he was attracted to her, and wanted to get together with her.
...However, his clumsy attempts to do precisely just that was, to put it lightly, nothing short of an unmitigated disaster.
Not only had Trina dumped her food (or pushed his face down into his food) in more than one occasion, but she had slammed her front door in front of his face and even once barged into one of his classes (yelling at him and humiliating him in front of everyone in that class). And that list continued on. And on.
Still, he clung on the belief that beneath this all lay Trina's intense attraction to him, and that in his mind she was doing all this to get his attention (but did she really have to do this so violently?).
His thought shifted to Cat. She...well, she was generally the exact opposite of Trina. She was a truly sweet and adorable young woman, and it wasn't difficult to figure out why Robbie was attracted to her. Her magneta hair accented her beautiful face in a perfect way. She had a perfectly curved figure. Coupled with that, she had a bright outlook on life in general, and Robbie loved the smile that was always present on her face (and that always took his breath away). Surely, she could be a bit...ditzy at times and was suspected of being bipolar, but she was very friendly to talk to (albeit being a bit too sensitive: "What's that supposed to mean?" was quickly becoming a catchphrase, as Andre put it this way one day).
Despite her...'flaws', he was attracted to her. Surely he had always thought she was beautiful from the moment he laid his eyes on her, but that admiration was boosted into a fully-blown crush by the 'stage kiss' she gave him one day. And her actions (specifically, body language) seemed to reinforce the belief that she may have been attracted to him. For starters, she was always looking at him with her smile (oh that breathtaking smile). On top of that, she was almost always by his side, and seemed to want to spend her time with him. Then, there were all the flirting (or so he thought).
Poor Robbie didn't realize that she typically acted this way to everyone, particularly Andre and Beck.
Reading the website for like the...tenth time or so, and feeling a headache coming in from the sheer amount of thinking he did in this mind, Robbie groaned as he leaned his head back on his pillow, looking up at the floor.
Girls could be so confusing sometimes. If they liked him, why couldn't they simply tell him, or something?
"Because they could actually think you're too creepy but are too nice to say to your face!" Came the voice next to him.
Robbie blinked with a start. He hadn't realized that said the last part aloud to himself, which Rex conveniently 'overheard'.
"Hey! It's not true, and you know that! Back under the bed you go!" He promptly threw Rex under his bed.
Turning his attention to his laptop, Robbie remained silent for a moment before he got up from his bed and linked up his laptop with his printer on his desk next to his bed. He then proceeded to print the text out. Once printing was finished, he looked at the paper in his hand.
With this paper, and the useful information it contained, Robbie hoped he would be able to proper gauge Trina and Cat's true feelings toward him.
He looked at his backpack he'd tossed into the floor.
Perhaps he could write about his feelings for the assignment for Sikowitz's class tomorrow...?
He shook his head.
Nah.
*cue fanfare*
Here's the first chapter! Hope you like. Reviews would be awesome (and not to mention, you get cookies of your choice if you review. :3). Reviews are what keeps authors going, y'know.
Also, please forgive me for any mistakes or inconsistencies you may find in this story. I'm typing this up at three in the morning (what a night owl I must be, huh?).
Thanks. Love you.