Heeeeey guys. How ya doing? Sorry I've been gone for a while. This story was a little hard to write after everything that happened with my friend Dana. It was all a lot to take in and writing this story was really hard because of it, but I have returned! I hope you guys enjoy the chapter!

Patrick is based off of actor, Alexander Ludwig, Amanda is based off of actress, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Angela is based off of actress, Hayden Panettiere.

Disclaimers: I don't own anything with Victorious except the characters I create. Victorious is owned by Nickelodeon and Dan Schneider.


Let's Make Plans

The party had gone off without a hitch well beside the group maybe drinking a little too much, but Robbie was happy to see that his friends were connecting really well with Patrick. Especially Tori. They two of them were obviously infatuated with each other which Robbie thought was good because Patrick's last three girlfriends were nightmares that had made fun of Robbie when Patrick wasn't looking.

RockRobster started a chat with ScissorLuv, ToriVega, GotBeck, AndreH, HappyCat, and PatMan

RockRobster renamed the chat: SQUAD

RockRobster: hey guys!

HappyCat logged on

HappyCat: Hey Robbie!

ToriVega logged on

AndreH logged on

ToriVega: Hey!

AndreH: what's up?

RockRobster: I was wondering if you guys want to come over and watch movies tomorrow since we don't have school because of teacher enrichment?

HappyCat: I love movies! I'm in…but only if Jade doesn't get to choose them.

PatMan logged on

PatMan: why am I even included in this? I'm within pillow throwing distance of you and plus it was my suggestion.

RockRobster: so you could feel included in the djakf;kjoiwef

ToriVega: Robbie?

RockRobster: Pat threw a pillow at me

AndreH: Well I'm in.

ToriVega: Me too.

ScissorLuv logged on

HappyCat: Hi Jade!

ScissorLuv: it's Beck. I can't find my phone…did I leave it at your place Cat?

HappyCat: I can check and let you know!

ScissorLuv: Thanks.

ToriVega: where is Jade?

ScissorLuv: still sleeping…we had a long night. {winky face emoji}

HappyCat: Ew! Ew! Ew! {monkey covering eyes emoji}

ToriVega: Anywaaaay, are you two in for movies tomorrow?

HappyCat: AND JADE CAN'T CHOOSE!

ScissorLuv: She will fight you on that, but sure. Sounds like fun. My lady is waking up, I will see you all later.

ScissorLuv has logged off

ToriVega: Gross

RockRobster: GUYS! HELP! I'M BEING BOMBARDED WITH PILLOWS! If I don't make it out…tell my mother I love her and Cat…?

HappyCat: Yes?

RockRobster: you were the best girlfriend a man could ask for.

RockRobster has logged off

HappyCat: Robbie!

HappyCat has logged off

AndreH: I wonder if she realizes that he is just joking.

ToriVega: probably not

PatMan: Who says he is? It's a war here at the Shapiro house…I can't guarantee that there are no casualties or that Robbie won't be locked in the basement for the next three hours. War is hell.

PatMan has logged off

AndreH: Man, my friends are weird.

AndreH has logged off

ToriVega has logged off


THE NEXT DAY

Tori, André, and Cat pull up in front of Robbie's house at around noon. Robbie hadn't responded to anyone's text so everyone else decided that noon was late enough in the day that someone in the Shapiro house would be up and about. They notice Beck's car a little further up with Beck and Jade laying on the trunk hood, to most of their surprise, just cuddling and enjoying the warmth of the California rays.

"They're so cute," Cat beamed at her best friend and her boyfriend.

"Yea, if you forget that Jade is a scissor wielding banshee."

"André, that's mean." Cat opens the car door and gets out, skipping up to Beck and Jade, who greet her with a smile.

"Just cause it's mean doesn't mean that it ain't true." Tori let out a little snort before both she and André leave his car and approach their friends.

"Hey, have you guys heard from Robbie?" Tori looks down at her phone, "because I haven't heard anything from Pat," Jade whips out her phone.

"'Hey, Robbie, what time today?' Nothing. 'Shapiro answer someone'. Nothing. 'I swear to God that I will come over, cut up all of Rex's clothes and chop off all of his hair.' I got a reply from Rex from that one to which I will not share because it contains words that shouldn't be heard by little Cat ears," Jade looks up from her phone with a smile, "so to answer your question, no."

"Do we just go in then?" André looks over at the entryway.

"I mean, he did invite us." Tori starts making her way towards the door, and the group follows her lead but with a little more caution. Tori raises her hand and rings the doorbell to hear a circus theme enter the house.

"What the…?"

"Robbie's dad is an engineer, so he likes to mess with their doorbell sound. This one is my favorite, sometimes it's duck quacks or a telephone ringing." Cat smiles at the group.

"Good to know that Robbie gets his weirdness from his dad," Jade states as she snuggles closer to Beck's side. As she does, the door opens to a very shirtless Patrick with just a towel on, and his smile fades into a wide-eyed look of surprise as he looks at the group, "oh look, it's Tori's dream last night." Tori ducks her head down as a blush creeps up to her cheeks as she secretly keeps looking at Patrick's very toned and muscular body. Cat's mouth is agape as she looks on at her boyfriend's cousin, and André raises a hand to close it.

"Now that! That's what I want to look like. How do you look like that?"

"Um…uh…martial arts and kickboxing," Patrick stammers as he looks between everyone in the group, a deeper shade of red appearing on his cheeks.

"Pat, is that the food?" Robbie walks up, "guys! What are you doing here?"

"You're the one who invited us for movies, Robbie," Jade rolls her eyes.

"But you didn't…" Robbie's eye flick to his cousin, "Pat, go put some clothes on!" Patrick's eyes go wide and he hurries off down the hall. "Come in guys." The group wanders into the household, but Jade places a quick peck on Beck's cheek.

"You look better." Cocking a smile and walking ahead of him, she misses his smirk and the confidence that exudes off him.

"Why didn't you guys text us?"

"We did. All of us," André gestures to the group, "multiple times,"

"Right? Angie hid mine and Pat's phones last night because we kept having a slap war,"

"Oh! That new feature on theSlap!" Cat pulls out her phone and a slapping sound fills the room as Tori looks at her phone.

"I got slapped!" Cat giggles while she goes to Jade's profile.

"You slap me on Slap, I'll slap you in real life." Cat looks nervously at her phone before slowly putting it away.

"Yea, Pat and I were like at eighty slaps in like five minutes, so Angie stole our phones and we still can't find them,"

"Who is Angie?"

"My big sister," Patrick comes back into the room with a pair of sweatpants on and a shirt in hand.

"I said put clothes on not just put pants on!" Patrick laughs while pulling the shirt on while walking through the kitchen door. Tori looks on with her mouth slightly agape.

"Hey, Vega!" Tori turns to Jade.

"Yea?"

"You've got a little something here," Jade wipes the side of her mouth. Tori mimics her action and to her disgust, she notices some drool, "keep it in your pants until the bedroom. I don't need to watch that,"

"You and Beck are on top of each other all of the time,"

"That's better to watch because we are two hot people in a relationship. In your coupling, Patrick is doing all of the work." Jade smiles and walks over to the cabinet of movies to start looking at the selection.

"No, Jadey! You don't get to pick the movie!" Cat runs over to her best friend and starts looking for it.

"I swear to God if you choose a princess or animated movie, I'm going to hang you upside down." Cat gives her a big smile.

"No, you won't. You'll sing along with me and you know it." Cat and Jade start laughing to themselves.

"So, Angie stole your phone?"

"Yea, and she hid them somewhere and she just took their mom to her appointment,"

"Oh? What's wrong with her?" Tori tries to lean in such a way to catch a glimpse of Patrick in the kitchen. She sees him in the fridge taking the final drinks of the orange juice, and he turns to catch Tori's eye. She smiles and he winks at her while putting the carton into the recycling. Tori feels her heart turn to putty and melt onto the floor.

"Um…" Tori's daydream is interrupted by Robbie trying to come up with a story, "she's…uh…"

"It's a family thing," Patrick smiles when he enters the room, standing close to Tori, "hey,"

"Heeeeeey," Tori smiles and feels herself blushing while shrinking away from Pat.

"So, movie?" Patrick looks over to Cat and Jade who have a few movies in their hands.

"I mean that's why we showed up." André goes over to the two girls and starts to debate movies with them.

"My lady." Patrick sticks out his arm for Tori to take and she takes it with a smile.

"Oh my, what a gentleman."

"To the basement!" Robbie runs towards the stairs before sprinting down with André and Beck racing behind him.

A few hours later, Patrick and Tori find themselves on the walkout of the basement talking about whatever comes into their minds.

"And then Trina dumped a whole plate of spaghetti on me!"

"All because you wouldn't let her wear your top?"

"Yea! My sister is insane." Patrick and Tori laugh, and a somber look passes over Patrick's face, "what's up?"

"Talking about spaghetti got me thinking about Amanda," Tori feels her heart drop.

"Amanda?"

"Oh man, spaghetti was the first meal we made together. We were like ten and our parents left us alone for the first time to go to something and Angie was at her boyfriend's, but we were hungry," Tori watches as a soft smile plays on Patrick's face, "so we got the noodles and the water, but we didn't know what we were doing. I think we put them in for like five minutes and poured cold sauce all over it. It was awful but man were we proud of ourselves. We ate those bowls with smiles on our faces while we watched cartoons. Thankfully, our spaghetti got better over the years but every Friday…we made spaghetti. For seven years, Friday night was our night and we made spaghetti and watched movies,"

"She sounds great," Tori falls back into her chair in defeat. How am I going to compete with that?

"Amanda is…was great," The sadness that seeps into Patrick's voice causes her to turn to him, "she would have loved you. She always talked about moving here when we graduated. She was a writer and she was so talented. Won a bunch of awards in Arizona,"

"Was?"

"She passed away about a year ago," Great now she's the dead girlfriend, just great.

"Oh wow, must have been hard to lose your girlfriend so young," Tori places a reassuring hand on Pat's shoulder. She feels it move and sees that Pat is laughing, "what's so funny?"

"Amanda wasn't my girlfriend, Tori," Patrick takes her hand off his shoulder and puts it in his, "she was my best friend. I was the wrong gender to be anything romantic to her, but that didn't stop her from scaring away about half of the girls I liked,"

"She was gay?" Patrick nodded with a smile. A feeling of relief washed over Tori as she smiled at Pat.

"But I'm not going to lie before she came out to me, I most definitely wanted her to be. I loved her. No, I still love her. I always will. I told her everything. She was my partner in crime, the mac to my cheese, the lyrics to my beat,"

"What happened?"

"It's a long story," Patrick's thumb gently starts stroking Tori's hand. Tori feels her heart speed up and her smile gets bigger, "and I don't think I want to scare you away with it,"

"Well, can I see her then?" Patrick took out his phone and showed Tori the background of his phone. It was a photo of him looking very displeased with a flower behind his ear and a girl containing her laugh next to him. Tori had to do a double take at the girl with bright blue eyes and a nose ring. "She looks like…"

"Jade, yea. I had to do a double take when Robbie introduced her, but don't worry…they were nothing alike. I mean…head-strong and honest with a no-nonsense attitude, but Amanda was less…mean? Is mean the word I'm looking for?"

"I usually use sharp and pointy when describing Jade. Like a hedgehog. Spiking and mean on the outside, soft on the inside," Patrick laughs.

"Good analogy,"

"Well, Jade will grow on you,"

"I'd rather if you grew on me," Tori and Patrick lock eyes and a look of panic appears on Patrick's face, "I mean…um…"

"Do you want to go get sushi?" Tori holds her breath as she waits for her answer.

"Yea," both of them smile, "I would love to go get sushi with you."

"Hey nerds!" Tori and Patrick look at Jade through the large windows leading into the living room, "we picked another movie!"


Sorry, this was quick, but I have to keep the story moving and sometimes that means not so long chapters.

Hope you guys enjoyed it!

Until next time!

-KMA