A/N Sorry this isn't as long as the last. I have had less time to prepare. Thanks for the reviews! Enjoy! =3

Saturday Sink or Swim

"Breakfast is served." Tori handed Jade a plate of pancakes with fruit on top. Jade dug in, her sharp white teeth ripped through the fluffy pancakes with ease. Tori watched in fascination. Tori ate her own plate tentatively. Jade was an animal when she ate. It was just the two of them awake early that morning.

For some reason Jade hadn't killed Tori for waking her up early. Earlier upstairs, Jade had woken to find Tori sleeping on top of her. Tori's head was curled into Jade's neck. Tori's soft breath had tickled her neck.

Jade hade calmly nudged Tori awake. After sharing some looks, they had crept downstairs. Tori started breakfast while Jade got cozy on the couch.

Jade finished her food and lay on her side on the sofa eyes closed. She was still a little drowsy. Tori ate slowly watching Jade nap. Even with her jet black hair in tangles, Jade looked like a beautiful sleeping devil. Tori quietly set her plate down and sat on the floor by where Jade laid on the sofa. She started to rub her stomach.

Jade's eye peeked open then shut it. Stupid Vega and her perfect tummy rubs, she thought. Why does she have to be the good one, it makes it harder to be bitter at her. Then again I said I'd be her friend so I'll just deal. She sighed a little.

Tori noticed her sigh and blinked at Jade curiously, what was Jade sighing over? Does she want me to stop? Tori thought and rubbed. Tori had dreamt of Jade all last night. This was partly due to the fact that she was sleeping on her and breathing in Jade's scent as she slept. Her dreams were filled with images of them on all sorts of dates: eating at a restaurant, seeing a movie, going for a walk in a park together hand in hand. All of them perfect. She looked up at Jade's sleeping face wondering what Jade was dreaming of now.

"What are you guys doing?" Cat rubbed her eyes sleepily and bounced down the stairs over to Jade and Tori.

They both froze up. Jade looked wide eyed at Tori, "Say something." She growled softly at her.

"Nothing, Cat. Want some pancakes for breakfast?" Tori got up and went into the kitchen.

Cat nodded and followed happily, "Sure! One time my brother tried making pancakes. We didn't have a pan to make them in and when he was done they weren't really cake like either."

Jade sat up slowly stretching. Tori looked at Cat, "That's nice. Just don't tell the guys you saw me and Jade this morning doing anything okay?" Tori started to pour the ready-made mix into a pan on the stove.

"Kaykay." Cat smiled and sat on the counter smiling watching Tori make the pancakes.

Beck leaned on the stairwell hearing the whole thing. "What did Cat catch them doing?" He whispered to himself. He just heard them talking and didn't see anything. Tori was bribing Cat to keep her mouth shut, normally Tori wasn't that deceitful. "What were they doing?" he muttered again.

"What was who doing?" Andre stopped halfway down the stairs looking at Beck.

"Jade and Tori. They got up early and Cat caught them doing something. So now Tori's making Cat pancakes so she won't say anything to us," Beck explained.

Andre blinked and looked around the corner of the wall into the living room seeing Jade sitting on the sofa alone. "We should head down there."

Beck and Andre walked down the rest of the steps and went into the kitchen. "Hey can you make some more for us?" Beck asked Tori going over to Cat and petting her head. "Morning."

"Sure." Tori smiled and pulled out the mix again.

"Morning guys!" Cat cheered at Andre and Beck.

After a quick trip back to each of their houses in Jade's car Beck, Andre, and Cat picked up a bathing suit and anything else they needed, they returned to Tori's house ready to jump into her backyard pool and small hot tub.

Cat sat on the edge of the pool inflating her pink inner tube legs in the water. She wore a pink bikini that matched the inner tube's pink color. She just finished and popped the seal back in when something dark and black swam under her and grabbed her legs. "AHHH!" She screamed and was yanked into the pool clinging to her tube.

"Hahahahaha Got ya." Jade surfaced grinning wide her black wet hair stuck to her head green eyes gleaming at her captured prey.

Cat giggled, "You scared me." She clung to her inner tube and smiled back at Jade.

"Cannonball!" Beck ran and plunged into the pool just behind Jade and Cat. The girls only saw a flash of red from his red and black swim trunks. The girls both screamed. Cat in delight and Jade in anger as they both got splashed.

Beck popped his head above the water and chuckled, "Haha you're all wet now."

Jade huffed and swam off to the side and pulled herself onto the edge in annoyance. Cat just laughed more. "You're so silly Beck."

Andre swam over, sporting a pair of black and blue trunks, and they started talking.

"Iced tea and lemonade are on this table over here with the cups." Tori called placing a ray of pitchers on the small table.

"When where you going to tell me, Vega, that you had a hot tub?" Jade looked over at Tori arching her lower back, chest out. Her black hair lay in small curls about her shoulders. Little beads of water dripped down her pale skin.

Tori just blinked at Jade for a good minute then said, "I was but never got around to it. I know how you like them." She smiled gingerly and looked down walking over to where Jade was. Tori was wearing a navy blue bikini top and bottom. Jade had one of a similar design on which was black as her hair and had white strap ties that laces around her chest and over the back of her neck. Despite all of Tori's will power she could still feel her eyes gravitating towards the pale skin exposed on Jade's chest.

Jade noticed, "Something wrong Vega?" She cocked her pierced eyebrow at her.

"No! nothing at all." Tori flustered jumped into the pool and waded beside where Jade sat. "Just thinking. I was trying to remember where the pool ball got tossed. We could all play catch or something." She looked up at Jade. Being in the pool didn't help either. Now that Jade's hips were level with her eyes, she found her eyes heading towards them.

"Oh." Jade slipped into the pool, much to Tori's relief. She looked around a little. "Haven't seen it." She swam out into open water and floated on her back a while.

"Ok…" Tori saw Beck and Andre towing Cat around in her inner tube. Cat giggled at both of them. Tori slowly cracked a smile. Cat was so silly sometimes.

Tori looked back over to see Jade floating on her back in the pool. Her eyes were closed, the sunlight reflected on her wet skin catching Tori's eye.

"Hey Jade?" Tori waded over to her.

"What?" Jade barked while trying to keep afloat.

"Wanna go in the hot tub? It's probably already hot now." Tori offered kindly.

"Sure." Jade swam over to the edge and pulled herself out. Tori took the milder route hoisting herself up the ladder on the end of the pool. The girls walked around and slipped into the tub. Jade sat opposite Tori. She laid her head back against the side and closed her eyes feeling the jets beat against her back. "Mmmmm…"

Tori slid in as well getting in a position that wouldn't make the jets blow her around the tub. She closed her eyes as well letting the jets massage her skin.

Beck looked at Andre. They kept peeking over at Jade and Tori. They were relieved to see that the two of them were on complete opposite sides of the hot tub.

Cat noticed their distraction right away. "Hey I thought you guys were gonna play with me. Now you're just staring over at Tori and Jade." She pouted.

"Shhhh…" Andre begged her. "We were just thinking about getting in the hot tub too. Wanna come with us?"

"No thanks. One time my brother went into this hot tub at this hotel. And later he got really sick and had to go to the hospital cuz he got really really sick." She shook her head.

"Alright well we're going." Beck hopped out of the pool followed by Andre and got in the hot tub. "Hey ladies. How's the water?"

"Great." Tori smiled at both of them. Internally, she was cursing herself for not sitting by Jade. Now Andre and Beck took the empty space between them. "You guys sure we should leave Cat alone?"

"She'll be fine plus we can all see her from here." Andre shrugged and smiled as the jets massaged his back.

"Yep." Beck agreed and folded his arms behind his head.

Tori sighed in defeat and tried to space out and make the time go by faster.

Cat was the first person out of the water. She showered off and dried her hair. She sat on the couch watching cartoons. Andre and Jade got out next. Andre said that someone should watch Cat in the house. Jade was getting restless in the hot tub between Andre and Beck. She headed inside as well and said she would not watch Cat.

Tori sighed and went in with Beck after drying off to watch cartoons with Cat. Andre got out of the downstairs shower and Beck headed in.

"Jade probably almost done." Tori got up and stretched. "I'll go upstairs and check on her."

"Kaykay." Cat latched onto Andre as her favorite show came on. "Yay My Little Pony!"

"Ughhh…" Andre groaned.

"Rainbow Dash is awesome, Andre." She tried to cheer him up.

Tori smiled watching them and went upstairs into her room and knocked on the bathroom door. She couldn't hear the shower running. "Jade. Jade? Hey Jade? Jade!" She sighed and finally opened the door.

Jade with shampoo scrubbed into her hair peeked around the shower curtain.
"WHAT?" Jade shouted at her.

Tori froze eyes wide. "Uhh…"

"Oh." Jade calmed down a bit. Jade thought to herself, remember we're supposed to be friends. "You need the shower?"

"Yeah…" Tori nodded.

"Well then get in." Jade pulled the curtain back on the other side and continued scrubbing her hair.

"W-W-W-What?" Tori stuttered

"Get in. We're both girls anyway." Jade barked the order at her. Tori obeyed peeling off her still semi-wet bathing suit and got in. Tori was blushing massively not that Jade noticed. She was rinsing out her hair. Tori picked up a bottle and started to wash herself. Luckily Tori's shower was big enough for 2 people to stand in comfortably. "Seriously Vega, I've showered with Cat like a bunch of times."

Lucky Cat, Tori thought to herself trying to keep her eyes above shoulder level.

Jade turned and a pale arm reached past Tori's tan one and grabbed the bath soap. Jade faced away from Tori and started washing her body.

Tori's eyes flickered downwards for only a second catching a glimpse of Jade's back. In the small of Jade's back was the second tattoo Tori remembered Beck telling her that Jade got a while back.

It was a pair of silver scissors blades spread.

Small beads of water ran over Jade's pale shoulders and down her back. Tori blinked at them and wished for a moment that she could be one of those droplets sliding over Jade's smooth pale skin.

Andre looked around. "This is weird. Jade should have been down by now."

"Yeah…" Beck looked up at the stairs.

Cat was watching the ponies on the TV. Beck and Andre snuck up stairs.

"The shower is running." Andre leaned his ear to Tori's bathroom door. "I don't hear voices thought."

Beck leaned as well listening hard. "Nope nothing."

"I bet something's up. For sure now." Andre nodded to Beck.

Both Beck and Andre jumped back as the door swung open. Jade and Tori in towels walked out.

"Looking for something?" Jade sneered at them both walking past and into Tori's room with a bag of clothes in hand.

Tori followed her looking at the two of them wondering what they were doing. She closed the door to her room behind the two of them.

"I knew we shouldn't have poked around." Beck play punched Andre in the arm.

The guys picked an action movie to watch after dinner. Tori and Cat weren't into it but surprisingly Jade was. After the movie everyone settled into bed. Jade and Tori in Tori's bed. Cat snuggled between Beck and Andre.

"Jade?" Cat said softly.

"What?" Jade growled trying to get comfortable.

"Tell us a bedtime story? Please?" Cat begged. "You tell the best ones."

"Noooo…" Jade whined.

"Oh come on Jade tell Cat a story." Tori smiled at Jade.

"Ughhhh…" Jade moaned. "Fine you big bunch of babies."