Music pulsating, bodies radiating extreme heat, this house party was insane. With Trina having gone away to college, and with Tori's parents gone to San Diego, she thought it was the perfect opportunity for her to throw a party. Anyway, it was her senior year wasn't it? She should take a risk to have this experience with her friends while she could. She just didn't forsee them inviting so many strangers. Hell, she was sure that half of these people weren't invited. That's Los Angeles for you, yell 'Party!' and everyone and their cousin comes a-runnin'. She just didn't think that there would be this many people, damn.

Tori grabbed a cup off of the refreshment table and wadded through the crowd, upstairs to her room. She needed to get away from the noise.

She screamed when she realized that she wasn't the only one who had come into her room to get away from the commotion downstairs.

"Gah!" Tori screamed when she saw Jade West sitting on her bed. The goth girl was sitting down, shoulders hunched, masscara running down her cheeks. Tori heard sniffling. Why is she crying? "Why are you crying, Jade?"

"Just leave me alone, Vega, go back to your shitty party!" The raven haired girl yelled at Tori, then broke down in sobs.

"I'm not sure if you've noticed," Tori motioned around the room, "but, this is my room. You can't tell me to leave."

"Well, I guess we're gonna have to share the space, then!" Jade answered, and then returned to her crying.

Tori began feeling uncomfortable standing there, saying nothing, while her 'sort-of' friend and 'she-sort-of-hates-me' crush sat there crying. She wanted to reach out to her, but knew that Jade would probably bite her arm off if she did. The youngest Vega just opted to stand there, and silently be there for Jade in case she changed her mind. She did.

"Beck dumped me, okay. Granted, he's drunk, but he still broke up with me so that he could make out with those two slutty Northridge girls downstairs."

Tori had seen Beck arm and arm with two girls, but she was too busy dancing and flirting with some of the Northridge guys to notice. She immediately wished she would've said something downstairs. And then maybe this beautiful girl that she really cared for would still be in the arms of a jackass who didn't really love her. Where was she going with this?

"Well?" the pale-skinned girl asked with hostility toward Tori.

"Huh?"

"Huh? I was wondering if you had any input to give on my situation. You seem to any other time."

"Well, ummm. Okay, well, I think that you don't need him. You're a beautiful and talented girl and you don't need to be with Beck to be happy, especially if he's going to treat you like this, drunk or not."

"Really, you think I'm beautiful?" Jade had stopped sobbing, but her head was still down. Tori could make out a bit of a smirk through Jade's dark tendrils of hair.

Tori blushed. "Yeah..."

"Do you think I'm.. sexy?" Jade pulled Tori over to the bed and made her sit down. She then adjusted her postion so that she was leaning over Tori, their faces less than an inch apart. Tori could smell the alcohol on her breath.

"Yeah..."

And their lips met.

I've been waiting,
I've been waiting for this moment,
all my life.

But it's not quite right.

Tori realized just how much power she had over this situation. Yeah, Jade had made the first move, but it was Tori who made the final choice in whether to cooperate or not. She's been waiting for a chance to kiss Jade West for almost a year, but this wasn't right. Jade was drunk. Tori wasn't victorious, she was just a cheater.

And this 'real'.
It's impossible,
if possible.

At who's blind word,
so clear but so unheard.

But maybe this was the only chance that Tori had to create something with Jade. And hell, who's to say that she isn't drunk too? She was. But she didn't care. At all.

I've been waiting,
I've been waiting for this silence,
all night long.

It's just a matter of time.

Tori didn't know how she had just gone from sharing a kiss with Jade to having sex with her, but she didn't care. A part of her felt bad, yeah, bad for exploiting Jade's inability to make decisions, but that part was drowned out by the fuzzy feeling that Tori got as she held the pale-skinned girl in her arms.

She thought of all of the times she had been staring at Jade in class, only to get a response in the form of an annoyed and disgusted look. She hated that, and had many daydreams in which she would have this same type of experience with the girl she cared about.

To appear sad,
with the same old decent lazy eye,
that's fixed to rest on you.

Aim free but so untrue.

...

Tori left the beautiful girl in her bed behind as she got up, got dressed, and went downstairs to check the party. She glanced at the clock on her way out and realized that it was 7:24 in the morning. Good God.

Everyone's so intimately rearranged.

Everyone's so focused clearly with such shine.

Everyone from the night before was still there, just in passed out form. There were people of all types everywhere, some naked, some covered in vomit, some obviously still in the middle of having sex before they passed out. Crazy. Tori just sighed, went to kitchen to fetch two cups of coffee, and returned upstairs. She didn't want to deal with on the disheveled and disgusting display downstairs until she was fully awake.

...

"Thanks, Vega, I mean, Tori," Jade caught herself when she called the girl by her last name when Tori handed her a cup of coffee. She was no longer angry, it was just a forceful habit that she wanted to get out of.

"No problemo, Jade."

"What is that, like, Spanish or something?"

"I dunno. I guess."

"Cool."

The air was very tense and uncomfortable, as neither of them wanted to mention what had happened the night before, but both were clearly thinking about it. And what a mistake it had been.

They both sipped their coffees in silence until Jade finally forced herself to make small talk.

"So, umm, did you do Mr. Henderson's calculus assignment yet?"

"No, did you?" Tori looked up at Jade, and the goth girl quickly cleared her throat and looked away.

"Yeah, I finished it the day he assigned it. You do know it's due Monday, right?

"Yeah, I'll get on it."

"Don't you have to take care of that monstrosity downstairs first?"

"Yup."

Lost and loaded,
still the same ol' decent lazy eye,
straight through your gaze.

That's why I said I relate,
I said we relate,
it's so fun to relate.

They ended up talking about other schoolwork, plays, and music. Once Tori got lost in those mysterious green eyes, she found herself agreeing to everything Jade was saying, even if she had absolutely no idea who the Silversun Pickups were. She would agree with Jade West if the girl said the Earth was flat.

The sun came through the windows beside Tori's bed and the light hit Jade at the perfect angle as they spoke. The Latina loved seeing Jade's face light up everytime she would smile.

It's the room, the sun and the sky.
The room, the sun, and the sky.

I've been waiting,
I've been waiting for this moment.

So, there we go. Song is Lazy Eye by the Silversun Pickups. Credit goes to them and the makers of Victorious. Reviews would be great, if I have any readers.