VicTORIous: One Crazy Summer

By Gantz Gurl

Episode 02: And It's JUST the Beginning

Disclaimer: Don't own vicTORIous DUH!

"A job!" exclaimed Andre.

Tori were in the kitchen getting something to drink out of the refrigerator. She just explain to her friends, Andre, Cat, Beck, Robbie (she doesn't count Rex), and Jade (Tori thinks they are friends more like frienemies) about what her father talked to her and Trina about. They were all sitting in Tori's living room chilling out on a Thursday because it was the last day of school.

"But that's not fair to you Tori, you're not the irresponsible one, Trina is." said Robbie. All of her friends agreed, even Jade.

Tori looked at her friends from the little island in the kitchen and said.

"I know but I kinda want to do it you know. It would be nice to have my own money instead of asking my parents all the time or getting an allowance." Beck nodded his head in understanding then asked Tori.

"So, where are you and Trina goin to be working."

Tori walked from the island in the kitchen with a Wahoo Punch in her hand and sat down next to Andre and said.

"We will be working at the Groovy Smoothie that was just built in LA. A detective at my dad's precinct son is the store manager and helped us get the job." Andre perked up at this news and said.

"That's awesome Tor because the studio I'm at is just around the corner from where the shopping center it's located."

Tori smiled at this and thought it would be awesome to get to see Andre more this summer. With both of them working she thought they wouldn't have time to see each other.

"Great Dre, at least this way I wouldn't be stuck dealing with Trina all summer and would have a close friend to spend my lunches with. By the way, what is everyone else doing for the summer?" Cat perked up first and exclaimed.

"OH, OH! Guess what I'm doing this summer?"

Everyone looked at her waiting for her to continue, but when she didn't say anything else Rex said.

"What WOMEN!" Cat looked at Rex with a confused look and said.

"What? WHAT?"

"WHAT, WILL YOU BE DOING THIS SUMMER?" exclaimed Rex.

Cat looked hurt and said.

"Why are you yelling at me like that?"

Before things got out of hand Tori told Cat to just tell them what she was doing this summer.

"Kay Kay, well I'm going to San Francisco with my uncle and uncle to work at their boutique for the whole summer and they said they might let me design some cloths and put them in their shop."

They all had looks of astonishment and there was a chorus of "nice," "awesome" and "congrats" around the room. Then Robbie spoke up and said.

"That's great Cat. By the way, I'm going to New York for the summer with my Aunt, who works at a local paper and she got me an internship with her, but she had one condition, I have to leave Rex here."

Everyone was shocked. No one thought Robbie was going a whole summer without Rex. Rex didn't seem to mind he said.

"That's fine with me I need the break from your "utter un-coolness" anyway."

Everyone laugh at that. Tori was amazed that her two friends were going to be doing something they love to do for the summer. She turned from Robbie and Cat to Jade and Beck and asked.

"So love birds what you guys doing for the summer?" Surprisingly Jade answered first.

"Well actually I didn't have any real plans but since you asked I was wondering if your dad could get me a job at the Groovy Smoothie with you?"

That was a surprise to everyone present including Beck. Tori starred at Jade for a few seconds then asked.

"Why on earth would you want to work with me or my sister, for that matter, for an entire summer?"

Jade looked irritated by the looks she was getting then answered.

"Well, Tori," Jade said Tori's name with a tone that said "you're so stupid."

"You're not the only person who wants to make their own money and plus I, really, you know."

Jade didn't want to say out right she had been trying to get a job for the past three weeks, but was turned down because of her, not so nice, personality. Tori looked at Jade and had a pretty good ideal why she need the help but wanted to hear her say it.

"No, Jade, I don't, really, like you know. So why don't you tell me." Jade looked on the verge of strangling Tori but she knew she need Tori so she said really fast "Ican'tgetajobbecauseIcan'!"

Tori looked at Jade and said.

"What was that, I didn't quite get that Jade try speaking a little slower so we all can understand you."

Tori was pushing it and she knew it. Jade jaw seemed to be locked shut but she was able to get out a tight reply.

"I said I can't get a job because I can't get through my interview because of my personality."

Tori was having fun with Jade but decided that it would be better for her health if she quite while she was ahead. Tori smiled and said.

"Okay Jade I'll talk to my dad for you."

Jade nodded and then leaned back into Beck's chest and he put his arms around her and kissed a spot just below her ear. Now that the tense moment was over Andre looked to Beck and asked.

"Yo, Beck, what are you up to for the summer?"

Beck looked up from messing with Jade and replied.

"Well my friends I'm going to be doing a movie this summer."

Now this got everyone attention because while Tori and Jade were having there thing Cat had started zoning out and humming to herself and Robbie was having a heated conversation with Rex. Cat asked Beck first what was on everyone else mind.

"OMG Beck what movie!"

Everyone snapped out of there stopper and began asking question all at once. Beck raised his hand to quite everyone so he could explain everything.

"Okay everybody, first off, it's just a short film that my cousin from the Vancouver Film School in Canada is doing for his final project this summer. I am the lead in it though and if it does well at the Vancouver Film Festival it could be my foot in the door!" Beck ends excitedly.

Everyone gives him there congrats on the awesome opportunity, except Jade because she already knew and was another reason she wanted a summer job so at the end of summer she can go to Canada for the premier of the short film. While Tori is sitting next to Andre, so close that she starts to lean into him subconsciously, she thinks how most of her friends are going to be doing great things for the summer and she begin to think about her on situation. On one hand she wants to work for the summer and get her own money but on the other hand she has to spend it with Trina and that depressed her to no end. Andre seeing his friend mood change like the colors on a mood ring and from the looks of it, it was changing from happy to depress. Andre lifts his arm around her and taped her other shoulder and said.

"What's up wit you Latina?"

Tori, startled out of her thoughts look up at Andre.

"Well it's about the summer." Andre looks at her and give slight nods for her to continue.

"Mostly everyone else is doing things they want to do that pertains to their future careers, you, Cat, Beck and even Robbie and all I get to Do is spend the whole summer with Trina." Tori said Trina's name like it put a bad taste in her mouth. Andre chuckles and said.

"I thought you wanted to work for the summer?"

Tori turns her body and looks more directly at him but before she could say anything else Cat, Robbie and Rex, Jade and Beck all get up and tell Tori and Andre they were going because they had to pack their things for their summer break abroad. Well Jade was going to help beck pack and spend time with him before has to leave. Tori gets up and walks everyone out and Tori and Andre wish there friends goodbye and to stay in contact through the Slap. After everyone was gone beside her and Andre, Tori went back to the chair her and Andre shared and she continued.

"Andre I do want to work this summer and my dad also said if I save enough money he would help me get a car to drive at the end of the summer for my Junior year." Andre looked at Tori in confusion and asked.

"Well, what's the problem, It seem everything works out in the end." Tori blew air past her lips and said.

"That's not the problem. The problem is Trina. You know how she can be when she really doesn't want to do something. I love my sister but you and I know she can be a very self-centered type of person." Andre nods in understanding and replies.

"Don't worry about that, you can't focus on the negative." Andre face spite into that boyish smile he has and continued.

"Think about it this way, I'm going to be right around the corner and we can have lunch everyday if you want, heck I'll even take you and pick you up from work if you want. I have to pass your house to get to the studio anyway."

Tori gave a small smile when Andre said this and gave him a tight hug. Tori thought Andre was the best friend anyone could have, he always know what to say to make her fill better. Tori pulled back and said.

"Thanks Dre that made me fill so much better." Andre looked directly in Tori's eyes and said.

"Tori, seeing you happy makes the rest of my day that much brighter." Tori was taken aback by his answer and it made her think about what he had said Sunday night, "I could never forget about you Tor" and it left a funny filling in the pit of her stomach. But before she could respond Andre stood up suddenly and started for the door, so Tori log this information away in her brain for a later day and got up to walk Andre to the door. Andre turns to Tori and asks.

"Do you want me to pick you up on Monday for work?" Tori looked at Andre and nodded her head in confirmation and then asked him.

"Andre before you go you want to hang out this weekend, you know with everyone before Cat, Rob, and Beck have to leave?"

"Yeah that would be cool; we can call everyone and make it a date."

Tori smiled at that and they said their goodbyes and tori closed the door with thoughts of the upcoming weekend her and her friends would plan and all thoughts of what Andre said and how it made her fill out of her head, at least for now.

Monday came around quick for Tori. She was in the car with Andre on the way to their jobs for their first day. Even though Trina and Tori were going to the same place, Tori would rather ride with Andre because Trina liked to sing along with radio and everyone who ever heard Trina sing would understand why Tori didn't want to ride with her sister. Besides, If Tori had to listen to anyone sing in the car she would rather listen to Andre. She always thought Andre had a sexy voice and right now he was singing along to Jagged Edge song 'Good Luck Charm' and it was making her want to be his good luck charm right now, but she let that thought go as they were pulling up to the Groovy Smoothie at that moment. Andre turned to Tori and said.

"So Latina, my lunch is at 2:00, where do you want to meet at?" Tori thought for a moment then replied.

"How about we go to that little sub and grill place it's located between both our jobs and we could just walk to it." Andre nodded and replied.

"That sounds good; well it's a date lady, 2:00."

"2:00" said Tori as she stepped out of Andre's little black Honda Civic coupe and waved goodbye.

It was 10:00 am and the smoothie shop didn't open until 11:00 but the one hour before was used to set everything up for business. Trina was already messing up because it was 10:15 am before she came in to work. Tori and Jade were already setting everything up when they turned to Trina walking in the front door with here uniform shirt one size to small, some khaki hot pant and six inch heels. Tori and Jade looked at one another and wonder what kind of job was Trina dressed for.

"Oh Trina the red light district is about 10 minutes south of here. You better hurry down there before your pimp come rolling around looking for you in a pink Cadillac." Said Jade in a sarcastic tone and a sneer on her face.

Trina gave Jade a stank look and continued towards the back of the shop. Tori just shook her head and approached Trina.

"Tina! Where have you been, your fifteen minutes late and how do you expect to get any work done in those shorts and shoes." Trina looked at Tori like she was stupid and replied

"Tori, first off I was late because I thought YOU and I were riding together and I was waiting for you to get up only to go in your room and see you already left. And second, there are a lot of hot guys in LA and you never know how you might meet. DUH!"

Trina then walked past Tori to place her things in the back in the locker she was assigned by Greg, the store manager. Tori rolled her eyes and followed Trina to the back to finish their conversation.

"Trina what are you talking about I told you last night that Andre and I were riding together for work, that's not an excuse." Trina huffed and said.

"We I don't remember you telling me that, so there." Trina then sticks her tongue out in a childish manner, which causes Tori to roll her eyes again but she besides to drop the matter and continue to help Jade with set up, before they had to open up shop.

Meanwhile, Andre pulled up at the studio to see Lee Wu, the talent agent that found Andre and helped him get this internship after the Diddly-Bop incident, standing outside with a pretty black girl talking. Andre got out of his car and walked up to them as they finished up there conversation. Lee turned to Andre and said.

"Hey Dre glad you could make it, by the way this is Iman Saito, she will be working along with you for the summer."

Andre and Iman turned to each other and gave a hand shake with a quick nod to one another. After the introductions where made Lee ushered both interns inside and continued to explain their duties.

"For this internship you will be doing a lot of work inside and outside of the studio." Both teens nodded for him to continue.

"To be honest most of the people here will have you doing a lot of leg work they don't want, think of it as, sort of, a hazing at a sorority or frat."

Both teens nodded again because they had an ideal that's what it was going to be like. Lee turned around to face both teens with a smile and continued.

"But don't worry, you will still get to work with one of our producers and writers and learn a few things."

Lee started to turn around and continue walking but stopped again and turned and looked at Iman and Andre, well more at Andre and said.

"But there is one more thing, the daughter of the head of the record label does her recording at this studio. She is a bossy, whining, insufferable bitch. Her name is Ivy White, with that said, Andre, stay as far away from her as possible without making her mad, Please, because I really like the both of you and think you would make a great addition to Starr Records and would hate to see ether of you blackballed in the industry because of her. Do you both understand me?"

Both teens looked at each other then back at Lee and shake their heads vigorously. With that Lee turns around with a satisfied look on his face and continues walking down the hall until they reach the forth door from the end of the hall. Lee was about to open the door and enter when Andre asked a question.

"Yo, Lee, is Ivy a good artist, I mean, can she sing?" Lee stopped and answered.

"She's okay, she's pretty and has an okay voice but that girl you sang with at school for the boss, her voice is ten time stronger, I mean, we have to do some work during the mixing process and us auto-tune to fill in some spots, but all in all okay."

Andre knew what kind of answer that was, that was a "this is the only nice way to say she sucks without getting fired" answer, but Andre accepted the answer and they all entered the room. When both teens walked into the room their jaws touched the floor. Andre was amazed, don't get it wrong Andre knew Hollywood Arts had an awesome studio but they didn't hold a candle to this place. Iman was just as amazed, her homemade studio wasn't anything to laugh at. I mean all the local rap wannabes came to her when they need to lay down a track, but this place was a producer's heaven. Lee stood back and took in their reaction but decided to say something before the started to drool all over everything.

"Okay guys, this is the place where you will be learning the ropes from and old vet in the industry, Alexander "Big 'Al' Sigmund," while Lee said this the tallest man Andre or Iman has ever seen walked in the room, he had to be at least 6"9' and about 280 lb. with age lines on his face around his eyes and mouth but other than that the man seem to be in great shape.. Big Al smiled down at Andre and Iman and gave a light wave. Lee continued with the introduction.

"Al here has been in the industry for 35 years, he have worked with artist such as, Donna Summers, Bee Gees, and Rose Royce to name a few from back in the day and in today music he has worked with Destiny Child, Musiq and Mary J Blige. You two should fill so lucky; you get to learn the ropes from the best in the industry." Andre and Iman were beyond stoked to begin their internship and Andre was thinking that nothing was going to mess up his summer, but oh how wrong he was because at that moment Ivy White came storming into the studio and walked right up to Big Al and gave him a look like he was short and said.

"LOOK HERE SASQUACH, you are supposed to be working on MY album, HOW DARE YOU keep me, IVY WHITE, the daughter of the man who signs your pay check WAITING?"

Andre was floored, how could this girl, no bigger than Cat, walk up to Big Al and talk to him like he was short, but Al didn't look fazed one bit, he was used to the brat and just turned to her and said.

"I'm so sorry Miss White but I had to meet my new inters, I promise that as soon as I'm done hear I will be right with you."

As Al was saying this Ivy turned her gaze to the two unknown people in the room and she immediately zoomed in on Andre. Ivy seem to ignore the rest of what Al was saying and took in Andre appearance, Andre had on an athletic fit t-shirt with the words "true lover of music" in purple letters on the front with a pair of khaki color Dickies on with some black, purple and white low top Levi shoes with long black socks. Let's just say Ivy liked what she saw and she didn't even try to hide it, she just walked away from Al a straight up to Andre and said in her "sexy voice."

"Hi, my name is Ivy what's yours?"

Andre didn't know what to do, Lee just told them, especially him, to stay away from Ivy. Andre looked at Iman and she through her hands up like "what am supposed to do?" So Andre just turned back to Ivy and said tentatively.

"a-a-Andre, my name is Andre" Ivy smiled and ran a manicure nail down the center of Andre's broad chest and said.

"That's Hot, well I hope I get to see so much more of you around." As she said this she was backing up to the door and then turned to Big Al and yelled.

"YOU HAVE 5 MINUTES TO FINISH HERE OR I'M CALLING MY FATHER!" then Ivy turned and stormed out the way she came.

Lee had his head in his hand, Big Al gave Andre a sympathetic look while Iman walked up to Andre and put her hand on his shoulder and said.

"Ooh sorry, seems the fates decided to sodomize you up the ass without lubricant, well sucks to be you man." Andre just turned at her with a look of "you think!" and put his face in his hands thinking how his day was going so well and then the she devil herself had to come in and ruin it. At that moment Andre was wondering to himself If Tori's day was going any better.

"TRINA, WHERE ARE YOU." yelled Tori from the register trying to ring up people, take orders and keep Jade from going for her scissors and taking everyone out. Speaking of Jade, she stomps up to Tori with a look that scream bloody murder and said.

"Tori, if you don't go find that LAZY sister of yours I will make your parents CHILDLESS!"

Tori nodded and ran to the back to look for Trina because at this point Jade wasn't playing around. Tori was ferocious herself, it was the grand opening and lunch time rush. The shop was packed and it was only Tori, Jade, Trina and another girl named Karin there at the moment. To add insult to injury it was blazing outside, and all the people inside demanding smoothies and ice cream, that's right this Groovy Smoothie sold ice cream, it would drive anyone crazy. Finally Tori found Trina in the back cooler siting on a crate and talking on her phone without a care in the world.

"TRINA, what are you doing, you're supposed to be helping take orders and fixing ice cream cones for customers." said an exhausted Tori.

Trina looked up at her sister then went back to talking on her phone like Tori hadn't said anything. Tori was hot, hungry and too exhausted to even yell at Trina. Tori just turned around and went back out in to the fray and began counting down the seconds until lunch and she could see Andre and hoped his day was better than hers.

After the lunch rush things quieted down at the smooth shop. Tori was happy to be on her lunch even though she was ten minutes late because of the rush. When Tori walked into the sub and grill restaurant she saw Andre in the far corner slowly munch on his burger. This made Tori smile for the first time since that morning. She walked over to Andre and flopped down into the booth he was in and saw he already ordered a Caesar salad with grilled chicken and water. As she reached for her salad she notices Andre hadn't even looked up at her from his plate.

"ANDRE!" yelled Tori. At that Andre jumped in his seat and looked at Tori like he have never seen her before, but after a moment he gave a half heated smile and said.

"Hi Tor, didn't see you sit down." Tori was puzzled by Andre's behavior, he had been talking about this internship for weeks

"Hay, what's up why so down, don't you love your job?" asked Tori.

Andre stopped playing with his burger and looked at Tori and said.

"Well I loved it until the boss's daughter showed interest in me." Tori looked at Andre puzzled then asked.

"How is that necessary a bad thing?" Andre decided to tell Tori the whole story about how Ivy was a bitchy, spoiled daddy's girl who if she doesn't get what she wants could completely destroys his career.

"Wow, sucks to be you" said Tori.

Andre looked at Tori and chuckled a little and said.

"That's kind of what Iman said" Tori looked up at Dre with curiosity and a sick feeling in her stomach and asked.

"Who's Iman?"

"That's the other intern that I'm working with for the summer. She's crazy talented, she can sing, dance, write and play about as many instruments as me. We already started talking about working together on some music." Tori just nodded at this but a nagging emotion similar to the one she had when Cat dated her ex-boyfriend came bubbling up to the surface but then Andre said.

"She kind of remind me of a slightly nicer version of Rex and Jade though." Tori laughs at that, with a sigh of relief and said.

"Well she must be a very interesting person to be around and helps the time to go by quick." they both shared a small laugh at that, but then Andre sobered up and said.

"I still don't know what to do about Ivy, I mean, I don't want to mess up this opportunity and if I flat out turn Ivy down my career is shoot, but on the other hand, boss's daughter or not, Ivy is not my type. I'm stuck."

Andre put his face in his hand with a sigh of defeat blow past his lips. Even with Tori's bad half day seeing Andre so defeated made her fill worse than Trina has so far. Then Tori got an ideal.

"Andre" at his name being called he looked up at her as she continued.

"What if you tell Ivy you have a girlfriend and that you two have been together for a while and you're not the type to cheat, that way you could turn her down without getting too much heat from her."

Andre seems to think about what Tori said then light up and a true smile spread across his for the first time that day.

"TORI that's BRILLANT! I could get her off my back with the minimal repercussions."

Andre then gets up and snatch Tori up in the process and gave her a huge bear huge and said.

"Thank you so much Tor, you're the best."

While Andre is hugging Tori she place her hands on Andre's broad shoulders and lightly plays with his hair and leans complete into him and breath in his scent, a mix of BOD Black and his natural smell, it was intoxicating. It took every ounce of will power not to moan, they were receiving enough odd looks as is. He finely let her go and they both sat back down. It's like Andre appetite came back with a vengeance and started to eat liking starving man. After he chewed his food and swallowed he looked at Tori and asked.

"So how have your day been Tor?" such a simple question but at the same time destroyed Tori fresh happy mood and she just responded with a wounded animal groan. Andre looked at her slightly amused and said.

"That bad huh?" Tori responded.

"You have not ideal, Trina keeps disappearing which triple the work load for everyone else, Jade keeps threatening me and everyone else with a slow and painful death and everyone looks to me to fix everything, I'm losing my mind Andre."

At that point Tori looked to be on the verge of tears and this hurt Andre deeply. Andre liked to see nothing but a smile on Tori's pretty face and to see anything but happiness there broke his heart. Andre got and ideal and said.

"Hey Tor, What if you blackmailed her or something." Tori looked confused and ask.

"Blackmail her how, unless she gets fired my parents aren't going to do anything and the shift manager Jason likes her and wouldn't make her do anything so I'm stuck" Andre smiled and said.

"I didn't say blackmail her like that, I mean take something of value of hers and use it against her. You know like take her favorite purse, shoes or outfit and say you would give it and a pair of scissors to Jade and tell her to have fun." Tori's face broke out into a huge smile by the time Andre had finished with his ideal and said.

"ANDRE! That's awesome; it would be like that time she held my favorite doll hostage when I directed my first play!"

As she was saying this she reached across the table and grabbed Andre's hand and caresses his knuckles lightly. Andre's heart nearly jumped out of his chest but he showed no outwardly reaction to the small jester. Andre began to be thankful for all Sikowitz's talk about how to not break character. Tori finely notice she was caressing Andre's hand and pulled her hand back slowly, missing the contact already. Andre noticed the atmosphere get a little awkward and looked down at his watch a notice the time.

"Wow, Tori our lunch break is almost over we should get back." Tori looked at her phone a notice Andre was right.

"Oh, I better get back. Jade is already mad at me better not give her more reason to kill me." They both laugh at that and got up and threw their trash away and walked out the restaurant. They said their goodbyes and walked in opposite directions to their prospective jobs for the rest of the day.

The next day Tori and Andre both implemented their plans to take care of their problems. Andre told Ivy he was in a relationship and was not the kind of to guy to cheat and leave his girl so easily. Ivy gave him a suspicious look, flipped her hair, said fine and walked away from him. Andre was so relieved he dodged that bullet and could acutely enjoy his summer at the studio. Tori had similar success with Trina. When Trina got to work Tori and Jade cornered her in the back room. Tori pulled out Trina's favorite bag that her dad let her keep from her shopping spree and told her if she didn't pull her weight she would give it to Jade with a pair of sharp scissors and tell Jade to have fun. Trina dropped to her knees and promise Tori and Jade she would do her work and would not goof off. Tori and Jade smiled and they all went back to work setting up shop to start the day. By the time Andre and Tori met for lunch at the sub and grill they were both in high spirits. They sat at the same booth from the other day, ordered and began to talk about their day.

"Man I feel so much better today" Said Tori.

"Now that Trina is acutely doing some work the lunch rush went by fairly smoothly and Jade didn't try to kill anyone."

They both laugh at that and their waiter showed up with their food and they began to eat casually.

"Hey Andre, did you they Ivy you had a girlfriend?" asked Tori.

"Yeah, she looked a little suspicious but accepted it and backed off." said Andre with a relived smile on his face. Tori couldn't help but smile at Andre's relief and hers for that matter. She was finely willing to admit to herself that she was having mixed feelings about her best friend but that thought had to wait because said best friend started to speak again.

"Man, you don't know just how relieved I am. I mean I acutely feel like I'm learning something now that I don't have to look over my shoulder all the time."

After Andre said this, the conversation drifted to other topics such as if they had talked to any of their other friends that were abroad and if Tori want to go to Andre's house and work on a song with Iman. After they finished their lunch they said their goodbyes and went back to their separate places of work.

Andre was outside with Iman cleaning the parking lot when out of nowhere, Ivy came stomping up to Andre.

"Andre"

Andre nearly jumped out of his skin, and then turned around.

"Dang girl you nearly scared me to death, what's up?" Ivy then walked even closer to Andre and said in a low voice.

"Andre, I was thinking, you telling me you have a girlfriend seemed a little to convent too me." Andre began to sweat a little that Ivy seen through his lie but he wasn't in an art school for nothing and said with confidence he didn't have.

"Ivy I'm telling you, I have a girlfriend. We started to date two weeks before school ended."

Ivy was about to say something when Andre's phone started to ring. Andre looked at his phone and saw it was Tori, so he told Ivy to hold on one minute and he stepped away from Ivy to answer his phone.

"What's up Tori?"

"Hi Dre, I'm just calling to let you know I'm getting off work now and on my way to the studio to meet you." said Tori through the phone receiver. Andre smiled and replied

"That's cool. We're almost finished over here, so by the time you get here we should be done okay."

"Okay Dre."

"Bye" they both said and clicked off their phones.

Andre was still smiling until he saw Ivy's face. She looked completely pissed off at being cut off like that.

"So, Andre WHO was that on your phone?" said an irritated Ivy.

Andre looked down at his phone and then back to Ivy and stared to say.

"Well that was." When all of a sudden he got a crazy ideal and said.

"That was my girlfriend Tori; she's on her way here now so I can give her a ride."

After Andre said this Iman almost choked on her gum and began to cough to get the gum out of her air way. Andre head snapped to Iman with a look that said "shut up now!" Iman finely got control of her breathing and continued with her work. Andre turned back to Ivy with a small smile.

"So you see I wasn't lying. I do have a girlfriend." Ivy looked at Andre with a scowl then it turned into a smirk.

"Okay, if she is really your girl I'll leave you alone but if you are lying to me and I find out, I will make it my life mission to see to it you never work as a producer EVER." She was about to turn around and go back into the studio when Tori walked into the parking lot.

"Hi Andre, Iman, are you guys ready to go yet?" Andre turned to Tori and walked up to her and gave her a huge hug and whispered in her ear.

"Just play along please." Andre pulled back from Tori and said.

"Hey baby, Yeah we're almost done here and then we can go." Tori does what Andre said and played along for now but wanted a full explanation later.

"Hey Dre, okay, I'll just wait on the bench in the shade."

Tori was about to walk away when Ivy cleared her throat unnecessarily loud that stopped Tori in her tracks and Tori turned and looked at her.

"So Andre, don't rude, introduce me to your girlfriend."

Ivy says the word girlfriend like it left a bad taste in her mouth while looking Tori up and down like she was insignificant and ugly. Tori already doesn't like this girl and Tori decided if pretending to be Andre's girl would piss her off she was going to rub it all in her face and if they stopped pretending and became real, that would be a plus. Andre looked between the two girls and the tension was so thick you could cut it with a chainsaw.

"Oh Ivy, this is Tori, my girlfriend I've told you about." Ivy made a snort sound and with a smirk then said.

"Really Andre, she doesn't look like much. I would think you could do better." Andre was shocked and before he could say anything Tori spoke up for herself and said.

"Oh, you must be Ivy White the pop singer, I heard you single."

"Oh so you heard of me, it seems you have some taste." smirk Ivy. Tori kept smiling and replied.

"Oh no, I said I heard it not that I liked it. The cats on my back porch at night sound better than you. There isn't enough auto-tune in the world to make you sound good." Iman, Andre and Ivy had their mouths open in shock. Then Ivy's face turned red in anger and exclaimed

"Why you little B…"

"Wow, okay, let's cool off a bit. Baby why don't you go and wait on the bench while Iman and I finish our work?"

Andre jumped in to stop this before things got to out of hand but before he could turn to Ivy and apologize; Tori turned to him and grabbed the back of his head and pull him into a deep kiss. The kiss was so intense that Tori temporarily forgot what was going on. The only thing on her mind was Andre and his soft lips. Andre ran his tongue across her top lip to ask for permission to enter. That seemed to pull Tori back down to earth and she pulls away from Dre in a slight daze gives Ivy a smug look and turns around walked over to the bench to sit. Andre was just standing there still dazzed by the kiss. That was the best kiss he ever had but when Iman cleared her throat, Andre snapped back to reality and turned to Ivy. He was about to apologize but before he could Ivy gave a primal scream, turned and stormed into the studio. Iman finally walked up to Andre and said.

"Well my friend, what a fine mess you've got yourself into an entertaining mess but a mess no the less." She then pated Andre shoulders and then walked over to Tori to tell her they were finished and they walked to Andre's car. Andre was still standing in the same spot thinking

"Man, all this drama and it's only the second day of summer.

End chapter 2

There it is, a long one. I probably could have broken it up into two or three chapters. But I think it's good because the first chapter was so short. Thanks for reading and review I really need the feedback.