Victorious episode 2: Comic Cons and BG Drag Racing.
"Where are you taking us, Beck?!", Jade asked aggressively, making Robbie and Andre shiver.
Beck didn't keep his eyes of the wheel and just smirked at her attempt of intimidating him.
He knew she'd never harm him.
Not physically at least.
"We're almost there dear."
"Never knew you were the ones for sweet talk.", Jade mumbled.
"Only for you."
"Cut the PDA a little! Geez!", Tori said grumpy.
"Seems like someone's a little jealous."
Tori glared at Robbie and he cowered back.
"What does PDA mean?", Cat asked.
"Public Display of Affection, lil Red.", Andre smiled at her.
She just giggled.
"Hehe, public."
Sinjin popped up from seemingly nowhere.
"Oh, you guys are here.. Wait.. Then where was I?", he wondered mysteriously.
"Oh, and I forgot to ask.", Tori asked while she looked disgusted.
"Why is he here?"
Beck didn't gave an answer and just smiled. "We're almost there."
"The beach didn't take that long to get there last time.", Jade pointed out.
"That's because we're not going to the beach.", Beck announced. Everyone started groaning and complaining.
Except for Robbie and Sinjin, who smiled at each other.
They looked like they were planning something.
Beck parked somewhere and everybody started to look out the window to see where he brought them in his RV.
"Comic-con?! Why would you bring us here?!", Tori complained.
"Yeah, that's not cool Beck. Not cool.", Andre said disapproving of his friend's behaviour.
"Why would you even want to go there?", Andre stopped. "Unless, you want to go drag racing with Jade!", Andre said, surprised at his own revelation.
Jade pushed Sinjin hastily out of her way and looked out of the window, Andre was right.
Next to the giant Comic-con building.
BG Drag Racing.
The place Beck wanted to bring Jade since their very first date.
Jade looked menacingly at Beck who walked out of the driving side and opened the door.
"OH"
Beck smiled sheepishly while scratching the back of his head.
"I had a deal with Robbie and Sinjin."
"Ah Robbie and Sinjin!" "Ah hell no
Everyone instantly went mad, and started complaining, knowing exactly where this was headed.
"So that me and Jade could go drag racing, and Robbie and Sinjin could go to comic-con, without feeling like nerds"
They all exploded. All five of them, Andre, Tori, Jade, Cat and Trina.
No wait, Trina?
"No not Robbie and Sinjin!", she realized everybody stopped and were looking at her.
"Errh.. Heey!"
"Trina!", Tori whined. "What are you doing here?"
Trina came out of the same
place Sinjin was in, making them wonder what they did there, it was even more surprising because she was fully in her bathing suite.
"I wanted to go to the beach too! You guys rejected me when I asked if I could!", and for the thousandth time this night, everybody started complaining, including Robbie this time.
Trina felt offended however, and started arguing, forcing Sinjin to stick up for her, creating a big tangled mess until Beck knocked hard on a window, capturing everybody's attention.
"Stop!", Beck half shouted. "This is not going to work. We're incompatible if we all hang out with each other. We need to split up in teams."
Nobody disagreed.
"Okay, me and Jade go drag racing together with Trina and Sinjin."
Trina immediately had something to say. "Eww! I don't wanna go with Sinjin!", she whined. "I wanna go with you Beck.", she said seductively, touching his shoulder.
Scissors scratched her cheek.
"I'll go with Sinjin!", Trina suddenly decided.
It was obvious what changed her mind.
"Yeah, Cat and Andre and Robbie and Tori are compatible enough to hang out. Assuming Robbie doesn't do something weird.", Beck announced.
Everybody nodded, that sounded plausible.
"Off we go!"
Everybody marched out of the door, the girls and Andre not as excited as the rest were.
Beck and Sinjin brought a race car out of Beck's RV, apparently they made it them self.
"Why are we here again?", Trina asked, her voice not hiding that she was annoyed.
"Well, me and Sinjin made a race car together. We plan on joining the amateur drag racing tournament. I'm the driver, Sinjin's going to help repair and make sure that the car works on its full potential.", Beck explained.
Trina acted like she gave a chizz, Jade didn't look entertained however.
Beck toke a step forward, pulled Jade towards him and whispered something in her ear, causing her to give a plotting smirk.
"What did he say?", Sinjin asked casually, acting like he just didn't ask about something private between a couple.
She had no shame. "Beck said that if he wins, then he'll take me out to a fancy dinner, and afterwards watch both Scissoring movies."
She glanced at Beck and squeezed his hand.
"You better win, Tiger."
"Can I come?"
"No sinjin", Beck said, surprisingly nicer then he should have because of the slight friendship that is forming between.
"Sorry.", Sinjin looked apologetic, like he didn't know that he was being creepy.
"You're up against the Blonde Drag.", Sinjin said, looking at the list.
"Isn't she the fastest amateur racer?", he asked casually, because you know.. He's Beck, he says things casually.
Sinjin nodded.
"And she's feisty.", he used his binoculars to peek but Trina kungfu chopped it out of his hands.
Beck smiled at Jade. How high are our chances?", he asked Sinjin, but he didn't stop looking at her.
"Our top speed is at 25 km/h, hers is at around 45, with a hand made race car too."
Jade looked disappointed. "Seems like you guys have no chance"
Sinjin shrugged. "I hope she gets a defect or something", he underlined Beck's race on the list.
"Lets prepare.", Beck stopped looking at Jade and walked back to the changing room, Sinjin skipped the same direction
"Why did Beck keep on staring at you?", Trina asked curiously.
Jade didn't smirk but smiled.
"Because he remembers."
Most of the usual gang walked in the comic con.
"This is.. Heaven!", Andre said excitedly.
The whole comic con was full of beautiful, model-level girls that were cosplaying in outfits only familiar to Robbie.
"Robbie, are you seeing this! I like this already", Andre gave Robbie a high five.
"Yeah i know right. They captured the outfit of the heroines really well, unlike last year.", Robbie said casually, excited to talk about his passion, totally not noticing their looks like he usually would.
"Yeah Heroines, fun. I'm going to talk to them, see ya!", Andre called out.
"Andre wait, what if you get lost!", Tori tried to pull his arm, but he was too fast and already disappeared.
"I'd like to be a heroine. Phooey.", Cat mumbled.
"What's wrong sweet heart?", Robbie asked.
"I toke my Cat costume with me, but I left it in Beck's RV.", she said disappointed.
Robbie grabbed her hand. "I'll take you there.
Tori looked at agitated at them leaving her here, but they didn't notice. "Well.. Maybe if Andre finds some cute girls, then I should find some cute guys.", she tried.
Nerd approached her.
"NO!"
Jadelynn West sat on the tribune, looking at the drag race that was about to happen, while chewing a gum contently.
Trina was suspicious, it wouldn't be the first time she sabotaged something for their friends at an amateur contest.
"Did you do something?", Trina asked while looking at Jade.
"Sssshh baby girl.", she petted Trina's head. "Just enjoy the show.", the smirk that was already apparent on her face grew even wider.
"What did you do?", Trina was suspicious to the bone.
"Oooh, there's my boyfriend in his hot racing costume.", Beck walked up to them and gave her one last kiss before putting on his helmet and getting ready to race.
Sinjin came out of the changing room right after and sat next to Jade, with a slight smirk on his face similar to Jade had.
"Why are you so happy?", Sinjin asked, Jade did not look as disgusted as she usually does because he seemed to become friends with her boyfriend.
"I may have pulled some tricks that will ensure victory,", she said proudly.
Sinjin nodded while beeping the speed of the current racers.
"I did too"
Jade gave an approving smirk, this
stalker wasn't that bad if he wasn't creepy.
"Look, they are starting.", he said, grabbing two other binoculars and giving them to Trina and Jade. Trina immediately redirected it to a trash can, but Jade was interested in the outcome of her little sabotage.
She was getting good at this, she remembered the earlier days of her sabotaging tricks.
It's much more advanced now, a lot better then it used to be.
She was in her prime.
And there was no stopping Jade West until she got out of it.
Tori and Andre found each other, but they lost Robbie and Cat.
"Where are they?!", Andre was becoming wonky. "Robbie can't even work his own zipper!"
"Relax, I'm sure they're fine, Robbie knows this place better then his own house. Mostly because he's actually welcome here.", Tori comforted.
"In fact, there's Robbie, stay here", she said, seeing curly hair in the middle of the nerds, she quickly walked there.
"Hey, I think I see lil Red.", Andre said, seeing a flash of red hair and immediately following after her, catching her attention by tapping her back.
She turned around and hugged Andre.
"Where were you guys?", she asked.
"We were looking for you, where's Robbie?", he replied.
"He's right here", Cat giggled as she pulled Robbie next to her, however, she never pulled anything.
She quickly turned around.
"I think we lost him! He'll never survive, he can't even work his own zipper!", she panicked and started running into a small circle.
Andre stopped her by standing in a part of the circle, making her bump into him.
"Its okay, he knows this better then his own home.", he said, thinking about what Tori said.
"Where's Cat?", Tori asked Robbie. "She's right here.", he turned around. "Kitty?", he saw nothing.
"You lost her!", Tori whined. "Just when I thought we found everyone and were ready to have some fun in this...", she looked around. "Never mind, I couldn't have fun here.", Tori pointed out.
Robbie nodded in agreement, she wasn't smart enough, she didn't have the intelligence to understand the base of comics.
She may be able to study hard, but that didn't equal to intelligence, in Robbie's opinion.
"Where's Andre?", Robbie asked.
"Oh, he's right here.", she turned around, fully expecting to be greeted by Andre, but she was greeted by the sense of perfume that only professional models would be able to buy, and the smell of nacho's from some nerdy guy.
"You lost him?", Robbie retorted, referencing to her saying almost the exact same thing about him losing Cat.
"Oh, shut up."
Beck sat in his race car, his focus was on maximum as he glanced at Jade. His biggest motivation to win, besides the passion he had for drag racing.
He looked at his opponent, a slender blonde girl at his age.
Others would find their attractive, but Jade was better.
Jade was always better.
"GO!"
Dang, he didn't hear the countdown, he started driving.
But suddenly, the car dismantled, every part started falling off until it was completely stripped naked and he was just sitting there, being embarrassed.
"What the.", he stood up, but not one referee said something.
He looked with a sad look on his face at Speed Demon driving forward, she was going to hit the finish, but her car literally stopped before it did, ending just before the finish line, and exactly the same happened to her, her whole car got dismantled
"What?!", Jade stood up, surprised.
Her mouth hanged open when she became paler then she already was.
Her face went through different colors, Sinjin thought she was a rainbow for a second.
She finally got the consequence of her actions.
All the sabotaging and destroying to get her way.
It all dawned upon her.
This was karma's doing, and she did way too much for just this to happen.
Karma was going to make Beck break up with her.
Its done, she can't do anything anymore.
The damage has been done.
This happens when she wanted to play the antagonist again, so desperately that she just sabotaged a car, despite not knowing which one was Beck's.
She had remorse that she crushed other people's dreams with her sabotaging and insults
Not to mention she was proud about them a few minutes ago.
When she tried to, and almost succeeded in destroying Tori's prome.
When she almost killed Tori by making her donate three pints of blood in one day.
Or when she almost killed Tori by making breaking her legs and throwing her in a ring with bodybuilding wrestlers..
Was she following a theme here?
She was a horrible person and should change.
Or when she regularly made her friends feel bad, and told them that they weren't her friends in front of their face.
"I.. Never knew..", all the booming confidence in her voice was lost..
Jade west was literally at a loss for words.
"That I was so horrible..."
Trina and Sinjin glanced at each other, they were experiencing a turning point in the history of Hollywood arts.
It would be better if they said nothing momentarily.
"I'm sorry Sinjin for breaking your leg when I ran over you.", she said, tears in her eyes that never reached her cheeks.
Sinjin patted her shoulder. "I forgive you."
Jade was on a breaking point, she struggled against it.
"I'm sorry Trina.. For bullying you. I.. Always picked on you and I-"
She looked Trina dead in the eye.
"And I truly am sorry."
Trina smiled, but didn't say anything.
She grabbed both of their hands, the tears almost escaping her eyes.
"From now on, I'll change. So you'll be the first friends of the new me."
Beck's car started working again and he beat Speed Demon.
"Nah, screw changing, I hate you guys again.", Jade stormed away.
Andre tried to talk to another model but desperately failed, the model walked away immediately when she saw Andre approach.
"Why does it never work!", he complained, making Cat laugh.
"One time my brother saw a model, then he was sued because she didn't want him to touch her, and he still did.", she explained.
Andre looked shocked. "Are yo.. Do you realize that.. Your brother is one messed up guy."
Cat giggled and pulled on Andre sleeve to catch his attention. She looked at one model and an average girl talking to each other.
"I know how to get a model's attention", Cat said.
"Shoot lil Red.", Andre was desperate for any advice he could get.
She stood on her tippy toes and whispered something in his ear.
He nodded, "It's worth a try"
He walked to the model and girl Cat stared a minute ago, noticed that they were almost getting ready to leave, and his confidence wavered, but flared right after.
He didn't give a dang and continued.
He looked at the average girl, she looked like she was actually passionate about comics, . He completely ignored the model.
"Hey girl, can I have your number?"
Her smile was big, she hurriedly she gave it to Andre, but the model grabbed it just before he got it and wrote her own number there too.
"We'll speak you later.", they gave him a wink and walked away.
Andre turned around and looked at Cat, she gave him the thumbs up.
He walked back to her.
"You really are something else you know.", Andre lifted her up and hugged her.
She smiled so bright that her dimples started showing.
He carried her to a restaurant and sat here down.
"Now, we need to talk about your brother, because he's one messed up guy." Cat nodded in agreement.
"I know all these stories are true, I've been in your house before.", he stopped and looked at her.
She nodded, her brother wasn't here anymore though, he went to a special doctor in Idaho.
She missed him and his weird actions.
"Well..", Andre waited, but Cat was just confused.
He looked around, came closer and whispered: "What kind of mental disorder makes him act this way?"
"Oh..", Cat shifted nervously in her seat.
"Cat..", Andre gently touched her arm, but she whimpered.
She looked like she was about to cry.
"Uhm.. He has Schizophrenia, but he wasn't that crazy until he became eighteen", she whispered.
There was a silence, until Cat broke down, she buried her head in Andre's chest, the only sound left was the sound of her crying.
She was scared, what if the same would happen to her?
A lot of people already said she was crazy.
"Cat.. Its okay.", he went through her hair "I have the same problem.", he told her.
She looked up, and Andre noticed that her eyes were tear stained.
"Speak"
Andre sighed.
"My grandmother... She lost her mind on thirty year old.", he clutched his seat with anger. "She was almost Vice-President for gods sake!", he started crying too.
"What if I end up this way too?!", they both said at the same time, Andre buried his head in her back and they started crying together.
Almost whole comic-con started surrounding them.
They felt for them.
In fact, they started to queue, patting their back comfortingly on their turn.
It was a rare sight.
"Oh my god! This is actually interesting.", Tori gushed. "I thought comics were all about fighting and wearing ugly suites, but I didn't know beautiful stories like that were hiding behind those ugly faces."
Robbie decided to ignore the ugly comments.
"Yeah, you know which collection I know you'd love?", he asked.
She looked around the comics that were in front of her, before pointing at Wonderful Women.
"Exactly. She is an amazo-""Spoiler alert Robbie! Geez, taking away from the experience.", she joked, taking the first ten issues and stood in line.
Robbie poked her side, making her giggle.
"Is that supposed to hurt me, Robbie?", she playfully mocked.
"Just wait until my venom takes effect", she chuckled at Robbie's joke.
She bought it and hid it in her purse so nobody else would see.
"You know Robbie, you might be a nerd.", she patted his hair. "But Nerdy isn't bad."
Robbie gave a confident smirk, which was probable because he was in a familiar surrounding.
He would probable be ol' insecure Robbie when they get back to school.
So it was best if she told him now that nobody could find out about her nerdy side, instead of kicking him when he's low.
"You do know that nobody of Hollywood Arts, may ever know this right?", she asked.
Robbie nodded, understanding fully. " Yeah, but you are the only one who completely understands the intelligent base of it!", he whined.
"Okay okay! We'll have a Nerd Day once every other week where we talk about comics, are you happy?", she asked.
Robbie gave a content smile, similar to a kid getting ice cream after his mom originally didn't want to buy him ice cream.
"Deal"
They went to sit down in a restaurant and ordered a giant pizza and two colas.
"Can I tell you a secret?", Tori asked.
"Sure!", Robbie said, a little bit too excited.
Tori looked weirded out, but choose to continue.
"I think my dad's cheating on my mom!", she said softly.
Robbie stood up and took her hand, grabbing her in a hug.
"Its okay, sometimes I think my dad's ashamed for me too.", he whispered in her ear.
Tori's eyebrows raised and her mouth fell open.
"My dad isn't ashamed of me!", she felt offended.
"Oh.. Its just me then.", Robbie awkwardly said, they sat again.
"Why do you think she's cheating? And with who?", Robbie asked.
Her eyes casted down on the ground. "Well.. You know the police officer that brought Ponnie in?", she stopped. Robbie nodded.
"Well, his name is Gary, and he is a co-worker of my dad.", she explained. "I think its him."
Robbie started putting dots together. "Wait, didn't he tell you to say hi to your mom because she's a 'special lady?"
Tori nodded her head excessively, she looked distressed.
"Yeah, and she always texts him, but I can't see the texts like they are some big deal! Not to mention that she said he was handsome on multiple occasions !", Tori actually shouted this time.
"Its okay, Tori.", he put his hand on her hand, she looked weirded out, but didn't pull her hand away.
"Its literally driving my whole family apart Robbie. My family used to be loving and close, now everybody's distant, we rarely talk to each other", Tori grabbed her cola and chugged it down.
" They just ignore me and Trina when we ask for help!"
Robbie toke a careful slice of the pizza they were sharing.
"Do you think your dad knows?", he asked.
"Yes! I think he's distancing himself from the family because it hurts him too much. While mom distances herself from the family because she is a grunch that likes Gary's family more.
"I have an idea that could bring your family back together?", Robbie offered.
"What is it?", she closed the distance so Robbie could whisper it in her ear, and he did.
"That's a good idea!"
Beck wasn't allowed to see his friends when all the races were done.
Needless to say, he didn't look happy.
He walked up to Trina and Sinjin who were still sitting at the tribune.
"Tell me where Jade is.", he didn't even ask it, he demanded it.
"Behind you", Jade looked downcast.
"Jade..", Beck said softly, she looked so vulnerable..
It was rare to see that in public.
"How..-no", Beck's voice hardened again, and all her hopes of staying a couple were crushed.
"What do you have to say for yourself Jade?"
Jade was silent..
She wanted to react after thirty seconds, but Beck was faster.
"Someone could have died Jade. I could have died! This is exactly the reason we fight all the time. Can't you just cool it off with a these horrible pranks?!", he caused a scene, but he didn't give a dang.
Jade couldn't look Beck in the face, her eyes were aimed at his shoes. Actual tears were streaming down on her face this time, she would never get him back.
She was done for.
"You know what Jade, I hope you're happy with the result. I wanted to be nice, but you just had to do this again!"
Sinjin couldn't handle it anymore, he grabbed Beck's arm, sighed and did what he had to do.
"It wasn't her Beck. It was me.", Sinjin lied through his teeth, but Beck wouldn't know.
"You did what?! So not only did you betray me, and put me in danger, but you made me yell at my girlfriend instead of telling the truth before I did so?", Beck's voice was full of emotion.
But he lost that emotion in his next sentence.
"Sinjin, never talk to me again. We are not friends.", he toke Jade's hand and stormed away.
They walked to Beck's RV, but he still looked pretty distant.
An uncomfortable silence was in the air during the whole walk, he was still mad.
They finally reached it after five minutes.
"Jade.. I'm sorry for blaming you, it was wrong an-"
"It was me.. But I did it because I wanted you to win! I just sabotaged the wrong car and-", she was silenced by a kiss, Beck pulled her closer by her hips and deepened, until he let go.
"I saw you sabotaging that car, Jade."
Jade looked surprised, shocked even.
"Well, a plan went through my head, and I texted Trina and Sinjin, they helped me and acted like they didn't know", he explained.
Jade pinched her eyes, wondering what kind of plan he was talking about.
She did knew he mainly was on Hollywood Arts because of acting.
He screwed Jade over.
"I didn't know you would cry, babe. Sorry about that.", he said sheepishly.
"I have something to make up for it, though.", Beck said, Jade just raised her eyebrow.
"We currently are in Los Angeles.. But in which part?", Beck acted like he didn't know, irritating Jade.
"You were the one that drove us here, how should I know?", Jade retorted.
"Just walk with me", he grabbed her hand and they walked for around ten minutes, until Beck stopped in front of a house.
Not just a house, however.
Jade's jaw dropped until it punched the floor.
"The house where the Scissoring was filmed!", Jade started touching everything she could touch, causing Beck to chuckle.
"Wanna go inside?", she asked.
"Hell yes!", Jade said like it was obvious, probable because it was.
Beck led her inside.
"I'm hungry.", Cat said. "Well, lets eat lil Red.", Andre reacted. "I see a restaurant already", he pointed to one nearby.
"Kaykay.", she skipped over there and was met by Tori and Robbie joking around.
She stood in front of them and giggled.
They reacted surprised.
"We couldn't find you guys, where were you?", Tori asked curiously.
Cat was about to tell what happened, but Andre hastily appeared and put his hand on her mouth.
"Nowhere important", he lied. Nobody should ever know that Andre Harris cried.
"Well then, lets go home.", Tori said.
Cat bought some food to eat later and they left, but they were intercepted by Trina and Sinjin on their way.
"Beck is doing something with Jade, he said that we should wait before we went"
Well, they expected that anyway.
One hour.
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Two hours..
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Three hours.
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They left Beck and Jade there.