Moving One Heart At A Time

I DO NOT OWN VICTORIOUS.

AN: Sorry it's been awhile.

Chapter Two

Next Friday

Tori's POV

I walk into history class and I see that there is an empty seat next to Jade. I finally am going to talk to her. I know this might be weird but all this week I have been trying to find some courage to be able to talk to her. 'GAH! Tori! You got this. Just form words and form the words into sentences. AND BREATHE!' I walk over to the seat and sit down slowly.

"What's hey up?" 'Shit. I already messed up. Crap.' I cradle my head in my hands thinking I'm the stupidest person in the world.

"I'm sorry. What was that?" She asked back with a bit of chuckle. 'Breathe Tori. In. Out. One more time. In. Out. Good'

"Hey. What's up?" I breathed out. I can finally talk like regular person. Geez. That took a while.

"Hey." She chuckles at me. I've decided it the most perfect thing I've ever heard. I can't think of anything else to say so I say the stupidest and the first thing that can come out of my mouth.

"Ever been on a motorcycle?" I ask while my voice waivers.

"Um I can't say that I have. She responds.

"I'm sorry I really don't know why asked you that. I'm just really nervous."

"Tori it's alright. Can I ask why?" She asked with a smile.

"Do you want an honest answer or do you just want one that I just made up?"

"Well for starters. Lets start with the real answer and maybe we can move on to the fake answer?" She asked me as if she actually cared.

"Well today I have basketball tryouts and I've never been able to be on a basketball team since I've had to move so much. I mean I think I am pretty good, but I just I don't know how good the girls are here already do you have any tips maybe?" I say in one giant breath. I keep gulping down air after that answer and she just laughs at me. I know she is not laughing because I'm stupid, at least I think she isn't. Turns out that she's laughing at the fact that I said all that in one breath.

"Well to be honest I don't know much about the girls basketball team, since my boyfriend is the captain of the boys varsity team. I don't really have any tips for you, but I'm just going to say good luck and I hope you have an awesome time and I hope you get on the team."

"Thanks Jade." I replied.

"So your boyfriend…?" I say as I try to continue the conversation.

"What about him?" She answers back.

"If you don't mind me asking how long have y'all been dating?" I said.

"I don't, we have been dating since freshman year." She answered.

"That's cool." I say.

"Thanks… I guess." She responded. She started to say something but the teacher starts talking, so we both half smile at each other and start to pay attention. The teacher drones on about the Civil War and some other stuff. But I'm not really paying attention. My mind is all jumbled up because of tryouts and I am sort of freaking out. Quite a lot of time had passed while I was stressing. The teacher stops talking and gives the reading assignment out.

RING!

"Have a good weekend. See you all Monday." She said as everyone jumps up and beelines for the door.

"Bye Tori and good luck." Jade says as we walk out the door and our separate ways.

"Thanks Jade!" I yell after her. I really like this girl.

Finally, Basketball tryouts are here!

I walk into the locker room to get changed and sit down on the bleachers. I take out my phone to check and see if Rob got home okay and sure enough he did. The coach walks up and starts talking.

"Welcome to basketball tryouts for this season. I'm Coach Jamie Pooch* and I'm looking forward to see what you all have to bring to the team this year. First, some things I'll be looking for; handling skills, how well you shoot and where you can shoot, teamwork abilities, how well you work with drills. So before we start I need you girls to go get your physicals and bring them to me." All the girls hurry to get our physicals and hand them over to Coach. She looks through them and picks out some random ones.

" When I call your names tell me what position you're tryout for so I can see what spots we have. Jordyn Coleman." A girl with brown hair in a ponytail raises her hand.

"Here Coach, point guard." She responds.

"Alyssa Kirk?" The redhead next to me raises her hand.

"Here Coach, center."

"Victoria "Tori" Vega?"

"Here Coach, point guard. Can you call me Tori?" I say.

"Yes. Layton Vista?"

The Hispanic girl on the other side of me responds.

"Here Coach power forward."

"Morgan O'Connor?"

"Right here Coach, center." The girl behind me answered.

"Liz Ambrogio."

"Here Coach, small forward."

"Eryn Knox."

"Here Coach, shooting guard."

"Rony Malcolm."

"Here Coach, power forward."

"Mallory Wall."

"Here Coach, shooting guard.

"And Blaze Kingsley."

"Right here Coach, small forward."

"Alright, ladies let's get Vega, O'Connor, Malcolm, Wall, Kingsley on one team, you guys are gold. And Knox, Coleman, Ambrogio, Vista, and Kirk, y'all are red. We are going to a scrimmage to see how you guys work with each other." We run onto the court and get ready, Coach blows her whistle and we start. The girls are all really good. Jordyn and I really hit it off. She's real funny. I guess I can make more than one friend.

After two hours of drills and scrimmages, my legs are jelly and we are done.

"Alright, good job ladies. You all did great. Next week I'll post the list. You are free to leave. Have a great weekend." Coach said.

As I am walking to my bike, I spot a figure sitting on a bench in the parking lot. As I get closer, its Jade, and she is crying. I take a couple of breaths before walking over to her. Slowly I reach her, not trying to startle her I quietly spoke her name.

"Jade." She looks up at me, and I almost die. She looks miserable. Without saying anything, I reach out for her hand, and help her stand up. I pull out a napkin out of my backpack and give it to her. She wipes her face, only to have more tears fall again.

"Wanna talk about it?" I gently asked her. At first she doesn't talk to me at all. I send a quick text to my parents saying that something came up and I'll be home as soon as I can. We don't talk for a while. She leans her head on my shoulder and starts crying again. I'm really at a loss right now. I don't know what to do.

"Tori?" She asks as she wipes her eyes.

"Yes Jade?"

"Thanks for letting me ruining your shirt and your night." She said to me slightly sniffling.

"No problem Jade. I didn't want to leave you here all alone and I didn't know where you lived so I decided to stay with you because I didn-" I feel a finger on my mouth and I stop talking. I look at Jade and she smiles at me.

"You were rambling."

"Sorry…So want to tell why you were crying? You don't have to if you don't want to." I ask.

She takes a few minutes before saying,

"Beck cheated on me. I know its been happening for awhile now." 'WHAT!.' "I just let it happen because it's Beck. That's just how he is. He's all polite, gentlemanly, and charming at first. But then he gets all overbearing and super protective and I can't talk to other guys without him thinking I'm cheating. You would think that for 4 years I would finally get out of this relationship, but I just can't." As she says this I see fresh tears streaking her face. Man, I am throwing out the chances. I take another chance and reach to wipe her tears.

"Jade, I'm sorry, I don't know what you're going through, so I don't know how you feel. But what I do know is that Beck made the dumbest mistake ever." As I said this I watched her lips curve into a smile. I smirked to myself. 'Score.' I try to brighten the mood and I change the topic. "Now what do you say we get you home?" She nods. After she's done wiping her face, she gathers her stuff and we head to my bike.

"Ready for your first time?" I ask immediately regretting how I said that.

"On a bike. I'm so sorry. I can't believe I just said that." She cracks up and for the first time since I saw her after practice was over, she has the most beautiful and real smile on her face and I can't get enough of it.

"Let's do it." She responds and winks at me. I think I just died… I give her my helmet and I get on my bike and help her on. She gets on and her arms immediately circle my waist. "Oh shit."

She tells me how to get to her house. When I sped up, I could hear her yelp and scream throughout the entire ride and I loved it. Her arms would squeeze my waist every time and it gave me goosebumps.

The ride is over as quick as it started. I park in her driveway, but she doesn't get off the bike yet. She takes off the helmet so I chance it.

"Want me to walk you to the door or you got it?" I ask. I hop off the bike and nod my head in its direction.

"Yeah." She said with a slight nod of her head. We get to the door and we stop walking. We are just standing there, like we are waiting for something to come falling out of the sky.

"Jade I hope you feel better." I say as I smile and I turn to walk away.

"Tori." She said it so softly I would've missed if I hadn't been looking at her.

"Yeah, Jade?" She hugs me and I'm freaking out. 'SHE'S TOUCHING ME! WHAT'

"I want to say thank you for letting me take up your night with my sob story of a life."

"No problem, Jade. Anytime you want to talk or hang out, just let me know." I smile at her.

"Thanks. Bye Tori." She smiles at me as she steps through the door and shuts it. I walk back to the bike.

After I get back home and I am done showering and my homework is done, I settle into my bed and lay down for the night. I feel my phone buzz. Thinking it's probably Robbie or Andre. But it's not. It's a random number that I don't know.

Thx Tori. :) J.

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Deuces.

Chapter Title: Wanna Be A Baller – Lil' Troy.

Coach Pooch is from Harry Potter. I made up her first name.

Spanish/English Translations

Hey cariño – hey sweet heart

Hola m'hija – hi daughter