Wow, thanks for all the reviews, follows and favorites everyone! I really wasn't expecting it to be popular, but I'm always wrong so I probably should have expected it. Here's the next chapter. Enjoy.
[Tori]
She had just told Beck the truth, why she couldn't kiss him. Once she saw the looks of shock, disappointment, and something unreadable upon the handsome actor's facial features, she immediately regretted blurting out her secret. She hadn't even meant to do it, Beck just kept pushing and pushing for her to kiss him, and it just slipped out.
"Oh my god, Beck, uh," Tori stuttered, unable to find the right words to explain what had happened.
"You're in love with her?" Beck practically spit at the youngest Vega, when she didn't make eye contact with him, he started laughing hysterically.
Tori looked up at Beck with a confused expression, silently asking him what was so funny. When he finally calmed down from the unexplained laughter, he spoke up.
"How can you be in love with someone who has done nothing but treat you like shit ever since you got to Hollywood Arts?" Beck seriously asked, fighting back the urge to burst into laughter once again. Tori blushed and shrugged her shoulders.
"I don't know," she answered, trying to avoid the subject, then sighing in defeat when she realized she had nothing to lose, "I didn't even realize it myself until Sikowitz forced us to go out for our 'date', and it was that night I found out the only reason I tried so hard for her to be my friend in the first place was because I liked her as more than a friend. And eventually, over time, I started falling for her more every day." Tori concluded shrugging her shoulders slightly, looking Beck straight in the eye.
"She's not that great you know. She has our faults just like everyone else, except she has more." Beck stated without remorse. Tori was taken aback from what she just heard.
How could someone who said he was in love with a girl for two-and-a-half years suddenly stop feeling that love? You don't just wake up one day and decide that you don't love someone. Love is confusing, painful, and extremely difficult, but at the end of the day, when you lay in bed at night next to the person you fought so hard for to win, none of that stuff matters. And that's not just something that you can easily throw away.
"Well that's your opinion, Beck. I happen to like her faults. Like the way her eyes light up when someone gets hurt, or the way she smiles when I make a fool out of myself, I like Jade the way she is, and I wouldn't change her for the world." Tori said, now smiling idiotically as she remembered how Jade's face lit up when Cat handed her a rare pair of scissors used in her favorite move, 'The Scissoring'.
"Suit yourself, Tor. But Jade's not an easy person to love, trust me. When things get complicated she runs. You saw it yourself the night we broke up. Not walking out that door after her tore me apart inside, it was the hardest decision I've ever had to make. But our relationship wasn't healthy, and I didn't do what I wanted that night Tori, I did what I had to do." Beck explained calmly, standing up from his place on the couch next to the Latina, to grab his coat from the arm of the said couch, and swiftly slipped it on.
"You could've fought for her, she's worth it." Tori said quietly, ducking her head, not wanting to see Beck's reaction.
"Jade was the first girl I ever seriously dated. We dated for almost three years, and we started bickering about two weeks into the relationship, and a couple of months after that it was full-blown screaming and shouting. I won't deny that we did have some good times, but we were fighting more than anything else. I'm just not strong enough to fight for her anymore." The insightful actor said, resting his right hand on Tori's shoulder before pulling her into a friendly hug then turned around to leave.
"Oh! And Beck, please don't tell anyone about my, err, situation?" Tori said nervously. She didn't want Jade to hear it from anyone else; she had to be the one to tell her.
"Sure thing, Tor. Night." And with that, Beck left, and Tori was once again alone, only this time she wasn't moping around all unhappy.
Not sure what to do now that she was all alone and had nowhere special to go, Tori decided to relax on the couch and watch some reruns of Criminal Minds, drifting off into a peaceful sleep about halfway through the episode.
About two hours later Tori's Pear Phone went off, startling her from her slumber. Without looking at the Caller I.D, she answered.
"Hello?" She said, yawning almost silently.
"Hey Tori! Are you busy?" The cheerful voice asked, it took Tori about thirty seconds to recognize the voice belonging to Cat.
"Not really, I was just taking a nap, why? What's up?" Tori asked in half awake/half asleep mode.
"Can me and Oliver come over?" Cat asked, a little too peppy for Tori in this state of mind.
Tori didn't know what to say, she had already made one slip-up about Jade tonight, and that was just with Beck, what would happen if Cat was there? Cat and Jade were best friends, if Cat found out that Tori liked Jade, the perky redhead would tell Jade without a second thought.
"Uh, sure!" Tori hesitantly said, trying to put most of her enthusiasm into it.
"Good, because we're already here! Can you come open the door please?" As if to prove a point, Cat repeatedly pressed the Vega's doorbell nonstop.
Tori slowly hung up her phone and walked to the door, unlocked it and walked back to the couch to relax. Cat and Oliver entered immediately after hearing the little 'click' indicating that the door had been unlocked.
"Hi Tori!" Cat said jumping in her spot, happy to see one of her close friends.
"Hey Cat." Tori said, now sitting up on the couch offering Cat and Oliver the seat beside her, and the duo gracefully obliged.
"Are you mad at Jade for taking your spot at the awards show?" Cat asked with a worrisome expression upon her face as she nervously bit her nails.
"Cat, Jade has done terrible and unexplainable things to me in the past that should make me hate her, this is just another one of those things. So no, I don't hate her, I fact I-" but before she finished that sentence she quickly recovered and corrected herself, "I don't hate her." Tori finished, giving Cat a bright smile.
"Okay!" Cat exclaimed, now cheering.
"Is that all you wanted?" Tori asked.
"No, there's something else," Cat said, motioning for Tori to lean in close, whispering Cat said, "Do you have any bibble?" Tori stopped herself from laughing.
"Sorry Cat, I don't, and besides, I'm sure Oliver would hurt me if I tried to give you some."
"Yes I would." The tall, intimidating man added.
"Kay Kay. Are you going to go to the awards show tomorrow?"
"I don't know yet, maybe."
"Kay Kay, goodnight Tori!" Cat said as she and Oliver both frolicked out the Vega's front door.
Tori got up and locked the front door, turned off the television and went upstairs to her room to get ready for bed, and get her possible outfit for the next day ready. Once she had her outfit picked out and folded neatly on her vanity she grabbed a pair of fuzzy pajama's and headed to the bathroom to brush her teeth and so on before bed.
When Tori returned to her room she turned off the light and grabbed her PearPhone, logging onto the Slap quickly before going to sleep for the night. There were three notifications; they were all status updates, one from Beck, the second from Cat, and last from Jade.
Beck Oliver; had an amazing night, can't wait to do it again.
Cat Valentine; my brother's pet rock bit me!
Jade West; throwing scissors at my door.
Everything seemed pretty normal except for Beck's status, Tori couldn't figure out what he meant by it, but she would find out as soon as possible. Tori quickly updated her status before she retired for the night.
Tori Vega; tomorrow should be interesting, can't wait!
And with that she plugged her phone in the docking station and set an alarm for nine in the morning and curled into a ball in the middle of her bed, comfortable drifting off to sleep.
Okay, so, that's chapter two! I hope you liked it, please review. I'm still not really sure where I'm going with the story yet, so if you have any ideas please feel free to shoot 'em at me.