Andre walked into Hollywood Arts Thursday morning. Immediately, he saw two of his best friends, Tori and Cat. As he came up to them Cat seemed to be telling a very vivid story about her brother, as always.

"…And then we had to take him to the emergency room because the turtke wouldn't let go of his pinky toe." Cat finished.

"Sup Lil' Red, Tori." Andre said.

"Andreeeeeeeee!" Cat squealed an hugged him as if the hadn't seen each other in years, even though he had just seen her yesterday.

"Hey Andre." Tori smiled. It was a smile that made his heart melt. Not that he felt that way about Tori, I mean they were just friends, but she was so pretty and…

"Look! It's Robbie! Hi Robbie!" Cat yelled across the hallway. To Tori and Andre she said, "I'm gonna go tell Robbie my story. See you later!"

"Wow," Tori said opening her locker, "That girl is something else."

"Tell me about it." Tori handed him her history book. "So."

"So what?" Tori asked. She closed her locker, took her book back form Andre and put it in her messenger bag.

"How do you think we'll do on our scene tomorrow?" Andre asked as they walked to first period.

"I think it'll be awesome!" Tori smiled.

"Really? I'm kind of nervous about it."

Tori looked at him confusedly. "No need to be nervous. You were great yesterday."

"Huh. You think so? I think maybe we need to practice the kiss a few more times." Tori's face turned white. "Tori what's wrong?" She seemed to recover quickly from whatever it was.

"I'm fine. But, uh, I don't think we should practice the kiss anymore. Don't wanna make it too rehearsed." She said in a rush.

"I guess you're right." He looked at Tori again. She still looked sort of pale. "You sure you're okay?"

"Yeah, I'm great. Never better. Why?"

"You just seem kind of wazzed out, I guess."

"Nope, I am totally fine." Tori said as she rushed off in front of him to her class, leaving Andre standing in the middle of the hallway.

"That was weird." Andre said to himself.

In 4th period advanced piano, the only class Andre could use to think because the teacher pretty much let them do their own thing, he thought about why Tori was acting so weird.

Yesterday, she went all wacko and stared at him, like he had gown two heads. Today he talks about rehearsing the kiss in their scene more and she just shuts down.

The kiss! Maybe the kiss was weird and awkward and bad and she didn't want to endure kissing him anymore times than she possibly had to. He wondered what went wrong. Everything seemed fine on his end. He closed his eyes and tried to remember everything he could.

Her big brown chocolate eyes staring up at him. Her hair glossy under the soft light. Her lips soft and pink and tasting like…

He knew he was getting distracted. He thought about all the things that could go wrong when you kissed someone. He could've had bad breath or could've used to much tongue but he brushed his teeth just for the occasion (because he's a germ-a-phobe like that) and not tongue wasn't involved at all. He could've burped in her mouth or thrown up in it (like Robbie did to a poor unsuspecting girl once), but that hadn't happened either.

Was he a bad kisser? None of the girls he had ever dated said so (especially not Sherry), but it was still a possibility. He tried again to recall the kiss in detail.

Her lips pressing against his. The smell of her shampoo filling his nose, intoxicating him with vanilla sweetness. The way she leaned into him and sighed with contentment. The way she looked after he pulled away, eyes closed, glowing like an angel…

The bell rang.

Andre met Tori in their usual spot to walk to the Asphalt café.

"Andre!" Tori waved to him. "Missed you best friend!" There goes that perfect smile again.

"Hey Tor." Andre said as he wrapped his arms around her in a tight embrace. She seemed to be back to her normal self. "You ready for some grub?"

"Ew." Tori made a face. "Don't say grub it grosses me out." Andre laughed. His best friend was back.

Through out lunch, although the banter and chitchat should have kept him preoccupied, his mind found its way thinking about the kiss again. Everything seemed fine with him and Tori; Andre felt a slight shift between them. He cornered Tori about it in the janitors closet after lunch.

Tori felt trapped. And she knew she was. Andre claimed to want to talk to her about something, but she could think of plenty of other things to do in there.

"Why am I here?" She asked Andre.

"Well, I wanna know why you freaked out on me this morning and yesterday."

Was she really that obvious? She was an actress! She needed to pull herself together. She decided to play dumb. "What are you talking about?"

"Don't 'What are you talking about?' me!"

"Whoa there. Relax."

"I know that you think I'm a bad kisser and don't want to have to rehearse the kissing parts of the scene with me because of it!" Is that what he thought? That she thought that he was a bad kisser? Tori laughed out loud. "What's so funny?"

"You. Seriously? You thought I thought you were a bad kisser? In fact…" Tori stopped before she'd say something she'd regret.

"In fact what?" Andre asked.

"Nothing. You are not a bad kisser. You are a great kisser."

"Prove it. Right now."

"What?" What did he just say?

"Prove it." Andre stated again. "Kiss me right here in this janitor's closet."

"Um, no. I am not kissing you right now in this janitor's closet!" But Tori really did want to kiss him. Right on the lips for forever.

"Why? Is it because you think I'm a bad kisser?"

"No, it's because we have class!"

"Well, then. Since you won't kiss me now, tonight I'm coming over again to practice the scene with both kisses."

"Fine, I have to get to class and you're blocking the door!" She pushed him aside.

"See ya later, Tor!"

Later that night, Tori lay in bed thinking about the events of the day. First, brings up the kiss and talks about how he wants to rehearse it again. She gets nervous because she thinks he's making fun of her but realizes even if he knew he wouldn't do that. Then after lunch he brings up the kiss again because he thinks she thinks he's a bad kisser, which is laughable. I mean the boy can kiss. Then he demands to come over and practice the scene with both kisses (which was no easy feat for Tori because it took a lot of self control not to be all over the boy), just to be sure she wasn't lying to him. She sent him a text just to make sure.

Hay is everything ok?

Yea it is.

Ok gudnite Andre

Gudnite Tori

They are sitting on the couch at his house, just talking and eating snacks when his soda explodes on him.

"Crap. I gotta clean this up." He takes off his shirt. Her eyes travel from his face down to his chest. The perfect abs he has right below his perfect pecs right beside this amazing biceps. He caught her staring. "Looking a little hard there aren't we?"

"What?"

"I said 'You're looking a little too hard.'" He replied. "You want some of this Vega?"

"What? No." She shook her head.

He came a sat right next to her on the couch. Very close. He squeezed her thigh and whispered in her ear, "You sure about that?"

Tori sat straight up. She looked at her clock. "3:22. Danggit." It was going to be a very long night.