A/N: Well, I took your reviews into account, and decided to write the second and final chapter of this story. So, read on, enjoy, and review. Hope you like. :)
Once again, I don't own Victorious.
Chapter Two: Taking it off
Robbie couldn't stop thinking about it.
About what had transpired so recently in Jade's dressing room. When he helped her get into her hamburger costume. When he pushed her breasts into the hamburger. When he touched Jade's breasts.
Never in a million years Robbie had ever expected to be in a situation where his pale hands would ever make the forbidden contact with the mounds that protruded from Jade's chest in the form of breasts.
His mind felt somewhat like a blank, his legs still a bit weak, as he absentmindedly picked up Rex's form from the floor, and ignoring Rex's whining, walked over to his dressing room and changed into his pizza uniform with little difficulty.
He still couldn't believe it.
Walking out into the stage clad in his pizza costume after leaving Rex in his dressing room, Robbie saw the others...especially her. Beck was dressed up as a hot-dog, Tori as a strawberry ice-cream, Andre as spaghetti topped with tomato sauce, Cat as a broccoli, and Jade, of course, as a hamburger. Large crowds of young children with parents or guardians, were seated in front of them, eagerly awaiting the show to start. The birthday boy, Henry, was seated toward the front with his father and Lane.
For some reason, when he locked eyes with Jade, Robbie felt...something weird course through him. It felt like his stomach was churning a bit, and his heart beat a bit faster than normal, as a feeling similar to awkwardness (or was it nervousness?) flowed through him. His hands even began to tingle a bit. He didn't know what it was that he was feeling, or why he was even feeling these in the first place. Jade apparently felt the same way as she immediately averted her gaze away.
Now, it was probably the lights, but Robbie had sworn that Jade seemed to be...blushing, or something. But then he didn't know. He never did when it came to girls.
Heaving out a sigh, and mentally shaking his mind to clear out the...thoughts that flooded his head, Robbie took his position on the stage besides his friends. When the music began, Robbie danced to the beat of the song, Favorite Food, moving about the stage, waving his hands on conjunction with the others. Whenever he said his part, "Mine is Pizza!", Robbie noticed his gaze drifted over to Jade, and she did the same when she said the next line, "And I like hamburgers too!"
For some reason, that line also ran through his mind, and for another reason that he knew perfectly why.
One time, when he was circling around Tori and Jade on the stage, his waving hand somehow - and accidentally - brushed Jade's. What surprised, and confused, him was the jolt of electricity that shot through him, shooting up his arm and sending a strange tingling feeling in its wake.
And this caused his stomach to clench up a bit more tighter, his heart to beat a bit more faster, and his face to warm up a bit.
This, coupled with the act, continued on for a while, being punctuated by the song and cheering and clapping from the children. When it was finally finished, and the audience stood up and gave a thunderous applause and cheering, Robbie felt somewhat relieved that it was, well, finally over.
He also felt kinda good, because he helped make the children happy like they were now. Flashing a smile and a wave at the audience, Robbie let out a soft sigh as he turned around and began to walk toward the back of the stage, intending to change out of his costume.
He was still thinking about...that. Yes, he had apparently become a bit obsessed about it (although 'obsessed' probably wasn't the proper word to describe the fact that he couldn't stop thinking about what had happened earlier today).
No sooner had he gotten out of his costume did he hear a knock on the door. Opening it, he saw Cat standing at the door, still wearing her broccoli costume, a smile on her face.
"You did a great job!"
Robbie smiled as Cat gave him a hug. "Thanks, I guess. You too." He said with a little chuckle as he awkwardly returned the hug (awkwardly mainly because of Cat's costume) and proceeded to place his costume in the closet.
"Jade wants you to help out with her costume."
Robbie turned around, his eyes slightly wide, blinking. "...Really? She wants me to help?" Robbie inquired, his eyebrows lifting a little as the strange feelings came flooding through him, ones that he still couldn't figure out.
Cat giggled a bit. "Yeah, the hamburger isn't exactly easy to get out, y'know. You know how difficult it was getting into one in the first place."
'Yeah, I know.' Robbie found himself thinking. 'Especially when I touc - euch!' He immediately suppressed that thought, a small blush creeping into his face.
"Um...sure, I'll be there in a bit." Robbie said, nodding. Cat grinned, her dimples showing up on her cheeks. "That's great! I'll let Jade know." With that, she was gone.
Like the way she had left him alone in the dressing room with Jade in the first place.
Robbie took in a breath in an attempt to calm himself as the feeling coursing through him intensified, making him feel nervous and jittery. He changed out of his brown body suit that he had been wearing beneath his costume, putting on his usual clothes before taking another calming breath as he walked out of his dressing room.
Before he knew it, Robbie was in front of Jade's dressing room.
For some reason, he felt some hesitation before he mustered up whatever...courage he had inside him and knocked on the door gently.
"Come on in." Robbie heard Jade's voice ring out.
Opening the door and closing it behind him, he saw Jade standing in front of the mirror in her dressing room, still in her hamburger costume. She turned around, locking her dark eyes into his, an unreadable expression on her face. A moment of silence reigned over the room as Robbie felt the...tension and awkwardness inside the room ratchet up considerably.
"Um...uh..." Robbie began to say something to break the silence, but felt his throat constrict up a bit. "Um, Cat told me you needed my help."
Jade looked at him for a while before she opened her mouth, breaking the silence, her facial expression not changing a bit. "I know, that's why I told Cat, didn't I?" She said in a mildly sarcastic tone. "Come help me get out of this." She said as she put her hands up.
Robbie silently nodded as he tentatively took a step toward her, making her way toward Jade. As he put his hands on the hamburger costume, Robbie locked eyes with Jade once again. It seemed that they were having an...unspoken communication, like they were thinking of the same thing, about what had happened earlier in the day, in this very room.
Trying to calm his fluttering heart, Robbie took hold on the costume and began to lift it up, with some difficulty because of the unwieldiness of the costume. Jade began to wiggle her way out of the costume, retracting her head and hands from the slits at the same time Robbie continued lifting it up.
Apparently the costume was difficult to take off like it was putting it on, and Robbie felt himself struggle with it a bit as it became somewhat wedged half-way up Jade's torso. "Uh, I'm gonna try to get it off you, hang on." Robbie stated as he began to pull more harder, feeling a tinge of accomplishment as the costume began to slide out more and more, with Jade doing her part.
Adjusting his hands on the costume, Robbie had an idea. "Hey, lean over." As soon these words left his mouth, he wanted to take them back, feeling himself blush heavily at the implication of these words.
"What?" Jade's muffled voice rang out from inside the costume.
Mentally cursing himself, Robbie opened and closed his mouth again and again in an attempt to say something. "Um...uh...I-I mean, lean over so I can take the c-costume off you. It's easier this way." Jade seemed to understand as she began leaning over, and Robbie continued his job, pulling on the costume repeatedly, feeling it slowly but steadily slide out of Jade's body. The whole time, Robbie kept on beating himself up mentally, trying not to let his mind...wander off about all this.
Finally, the costume was off, and Robbie stumbled back a bit as he took hold of it in his arms before lowering it to the floor.
So far, everything had been going good, and he didn't touch her...breasts this time.
Jade straightened up, combing through her hair with her hands as she apparently tried not to look at him. He noticed that her pale cheeks were slightly rosy. Robbie tried his best not to let his eyes wander over her shapely figure that were encased in the tight black body suit, finally opting to scan over the room as he fidgeted a bit.
The dressing room was thick with tension as the awkwardness was palpable in the air. After looking around the room, Robbie placed his eyes on Jade again, his dark brown orbs locking into Jade's blue ones. His voice had apparently become asphyxiated as he was unable to muster his voice to say anything, anything to clear the tension between them.
Luckily, Jade broke the silence first.
"Um...thanks for helping, I guess." She said quietly as she shifted a bit. Swallowing a bit, Robbie nodded, trying to muster up a smile. "Y-you're welcome..." His voice was slightly strained.
The silence was back once again, with a vengeance as Robbie and Jade stood in front of each other, both not sure what else to say or do.
"Well...I gotta go. D-don't wanna keep Rex w-waiting, you know." Robbie spoke up as he began to make his way toward the door.
"Wait."
Robbie, whose hand was nearly on the doorknob, turned his head toward Jade. She strode over to him so they were standing close.
"Like I said, thank you for helping. I appreciate it." Jade said, her voice more level, a small smile tugging at her lips. Before Robbie knew what was happening, Jade put her hands on his face and pulled him down to her.
Robbie swore his heart skipped several beats, and time ground to a standstill, as he felt Jade's soft lips graze him, sending jolts through him. She apparently felt it too, pulling back after several moments.
Feeling the corner of his lips tingle where Jade had kissed him, Robbie stared at Jade for what seemed like forever (but actually was a moment) before he blinked several times.
"Um..." Robbie opened his mouth, seeing Jade's cheek redden up. "...like I said, y-you're welcome." He said with a small smile as he twisted the doorknob, pulled the door open, and with a lingering glance at Jade, left the room.
His knees had never felt so weak, so wobbly before in his life like they were right now.
A/N: Well, that's it. The conclusion of the chapter and story. Hope you liked.
It seems that I cant finish a story without Robbie and Jade kissing, one way or another, eh? lol
Well, I'm gonna try to tackle my story, 'Fateful Decisions', sometimes in the near-future.
GallaudetLurker, proud member of the Rade Revolution.