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In Tori's opinion, the sound of fire crackling is one of the most beautiful sounds on earth. Well... Always behind music of course.
It has gotten much darker by now but the fire lights all their faces.
They all have long sticks in their hands, holding and eating marshmallows.
Tori feels like she has eaten enough for a while now but she just can't stop. She knows that the others feel the same.
While they are eating, they play a little game. They ask questions, like what's your favorite food, and then go around and everyone has to answer.
They have all known each other for quite a while now, even Tori is friends with them for over two years now. But they still do discover new things of each other as they answer. And they laugh a lot at some of the things that are said.
Jade of course claims it's stupid but she does answer as well each time.
Now it's Tori's turn again to ask a question. "What about..." She has to think about it. They have been through quite a lot already. Soon enough nobody will have a question anymore. But she is determined to not let it stop on her. And then she has the idea: "Your favorite sport?"
They haven't talked about sport at all. They have all said their favorite musician, favorite music group, favorite song to sing to, to listen to and to dance to and favorite instrument but sport is probably the furthest from all their minds.
Yes, some of them may do sport to keep them fit but art is so much more important in each their lives.
"Favorite sport to do or to watch?" Andre asks.
"Doesn't matter," Tori decides after she has thought about it for a second. "Pick the one you would over all call your favorite."
The round always goes counterclockwise.
Tori sits together on a log with Andre and Robbie, right between them. They barely fit together. The logs are small as is their fireplace but it's enough.
On the log to Robbie's side sits Cat, then Jade, then Beck. Tori notices that while there is no room left on her log, there might even fit a fourth on theirs as Jade practically sits in Beck's lap and also lets Cat sit surprinsingly close today.
Whatever... Robbie is the first who has to answer: "Ping-pong."
Jade snorts. "Nerd."
Robbie acts like he hasn't noticed the insult. "I still think we should have had that ping-pong team for real."
"Yeah, because everyone except you and possibly Jade were so good in it," Beck says.
"And Tori," Andre adds which makes Tori feel good. It always feels good to have your abilities acknowledged. And after all, she had beat every one of them.
"And Tori," Beck nods. "But she came in later and there probably wouldn't have been a ping-pong team left after the defeats we would have suffered through."
"That's true," Andre agrees with a grin and Tori turns to Cat: "Well... How about you, Cat? Favorite sport."
Cat looks as if she has desperately waited for her turn – she looks like that each round: "I've seen this video where they've done a running competition, they didn't run though but were in these gigantic balls instead and had to roll down a slope. That looks like fun."
Tori furls her eyebrows. She isn't sure what video Cat has watched, if it hasn't just been a dream, or if it counts as a sport if it is for real. But she won't question it.
The others seem to decide the same thing although everyone looks at her a little confused.
Jade has raised her eyebrows at Cat but answers the question: "I still think this is dumb..."
"We know," Tori cuts through with rolling eyes and gets a glare from Jade before she slowly continues as if nobody has interrupted her: "But my favorite sport is hockey."
"Wait," Tori directly says. "For real?"
Jade narrows her eyes. "Yes. Why?"
"I..." Tori starts, confused, but lamely ends: "I just never knew."
"Wow, surprise," Jade states sarcastically. "You don't know everything about me."
Beck gently pulls her even closer which seems impossible with how close they are already sitting, and explains: "I got her into it shortly after we started dating. I watched a game with her I just had to watch as a true Canadian and she realized that hockey is even more brutal than football and there is a lot more blood, so she watched some more and became a fan."
"I like seeing people get hurt."
Tori feels Robbie shiver next to her and she gets it. The way she said that and looked over to them with the fact they are in the woods without many witnesses and the way the fire lights her face... It came out pretty creepy and scary.
Tori sees Jade's eyes light up for a second as if she had seen that she successfully scared them.
Beck smiles and gives her a kiss on the temple, before he finally answers the question himself: "I will go with drag racing."
"Ugh," Jade makes but he obviously doesn't mind.
Andre gives his answer next and Tori also replies herself but she has to say she is still hung up on that hockey thing.
The thing is... Her mind directly wandered to Moose because he's the reason she has ever watched a game which she didn't understand and found stupid.
But she pretended back then that she was totally into hockey, so that Moose would be interested in her.
If Jade was really into hockey, why didn't she use it?
They had that little competition going on after all. With her love for The Scissoring and her love for hockey, she could have probably easily won.
Well... If a boy was to be won. Moose didn't like any of them, so...
But maybe he would have liked Jade after all if he had known that. Even if she was still crazy and not Canadian...
She did win in the end. Tori knows she made out with Moose as the only one of them. But she is pretty sure she didn't use hockey even then, although she tried to trump Cat and espeically her, Tori, another time.
But Tori looks at Jade and Beck, sitting there, Beck with his arm around Jade, Jade one of her legs over one of Beck's. Beck looking at Jade as she answers the question, Robbie has posed, about their favorite time of day, and laughing lightly as she gives creepy reasons, for why her answer is 'night'.
She understands, though she never would have thought that of Jade. Especially after Jade made out with Moose although he was a good friend of Beck's.
But while both of them and Cat were competing over that other boy and while Jade definitely wanted to win, she still hadn't felt like using hockey to do it. Because Beck is the one who introduced her to that.
Yes, she now is a bigger fan of that sport than Beck is and doesn't need him to watch the games but it's still so deeply connected to him and their relationship.
And they were broken up quite a while when Moose came along, so Jade had no problem making out with him although she had to know Beck would find out about it.
But Tori understands that Jade didn't use her love for hockey because of Beck, out of respect for him and their relationship, with regards to their shared history.
And Tori has thought that only Beck had cared after their break up. Obviously she has been wrong.
