The Meeting Aftermath

Short Chapter, Sorry for the late update had exams lol. Hope you enjoy the Chapter.

Tori's POV:

It really was a weird feeling you know, having Andre so unresponsive and down in the dumps. Just what the hell had happened at lunch? I continued delivering the meeting, Cat kept on interrupting as she does and Robbie had to make a joke or pun every time I paused to breathe. Trina was unusually quiet and I didn't like it, I can't believe she was actually kept to be the Rose Quartz when she failed her senior year. Everyone seems so out of it today. Was it the effect of the new girl? Jade was it…

"Look everyone, I know today not be the best day for the meeting and not everyone's in the best of moods." I turned to Andre as I said that, he was still slouching in his chair the whole time, "But we've really got to pull through and make this the best event the school has seen for all of our credibility's."

"All of ours or yours, Tori?" There it is. Trina's patronising condescending attitude. Can't say I love my sister at this very moment.

"Trina is that really necessary right now, Tori's trying her hardest out here and as the Prefects with the most power within the school, and possibly out of it, we should help." Beck stood up as he defended me, can the boy get anymore more handsome?...

"Trina, please, if you're going to say something in the meeting would it hurt you to make it actually useful." That got me a 'hmm'.

About 20 mins had passed and we had largely got all the details down, Andre barely spoke at all and I couldn't help but be bothered by it. It was so unlike him to act like this with anyone. Really, he's never been so cold to me before, it kind of hurts to be honest. Robbie's gonna sort out the decorations, Cat the MC and comedic acts, Trina the staff who will be trained dancers for a surprise flash mob scene, and Beck is sorting out the venue. I need to work with Andre for the selection of the music played, and the band, and who will perform but I want to talk to him privately about it. So I concluded the meeting and everyone started leaving to do their own thing. Before he left, Beck gave me a peck and let me know that he'll drop me home after school finished. We had about 20 minutes left of lunch still and I was about reaching under the table to pick up my purse and leave. And guess who was still slouching in his chair, staring into nothingness. Perfect because we need to talk about the music, Mr Diamond.

I started walking towards "Andre you there? The meeting's over. You haven't said a word in 20 minutes or 17 to be precise." Still no response, "ANDRE!" That got his attention.

"Tori, Jesus, why are you screaming at me?" He looked around the room and saw no one, he genuinely looked like a lost puppy, "And why is nobody else here?" He stood up about to take off but I blocked his path, he was only slightly taller than me with my boots on but it still felt like he was towering over me. It was intimidating in a non-threatening way, probably because of the way he was built.

"Andre what's wrong with you, it's like you're in this funk. All janky and stuff. We need to talk about the music arrangements for the Jam and who else better to do that than the Diamond." I placed both hands on each of his shoulders to jolt him back and forth as to wake someone up from their sleep. He put my arms down gently with a slight smile on his face, much more Andre-like.

He shifted left and put both hands on the meeting table, slightly bent over it for about 5 seconds. After the pause he shook his head violently, "Sorry Tor, something before the meeting got me deep in my thoughts. I'm okay now. What did you want to talk about?"

"Are you sure you're alright, you know you can speak to me about anything." I stepped closer to him

"Yh I'm good, was it the music, right?" He turned to me and I nodded. "I can get one of my parents' artists to DJ, they won't be too big of a profile yet but it will bang don't worry. He should be down to do the whole night as a favour cause he owes me. I can do a set, Cat mentioned she wanted to do a song and I'm sure you want to sing at least a couple of songs so that you have some live performances on record for your profile. We can do a duet. The 3 of singing will cover roughly an hour and a bit of entertainment because at the end of the day I want to enjoy my night too and relax and not have to play music. The band is already sorted, I've got the best in the school on rotation throughout the night to provide some authentic music to the ears. And if you want a special guest singer, I'm sure either one of us can sort it out."

I start to smile from ear to ear, he really did care about the Jam, I can't believe he had all of that sorted out already. Maybe I should've said something when I had a crush on him… I hold our eye contact slightly longer than the usual.

"What, is there something on my face, Tori stop staring at me like that."

"Thank you Andre, you really haven't changed. You've just made me feel a whole lot better about this whole thing." I don't know why but I felt a tear roll down my cheek, it wasn't because I was sad but rather overwhelmed with joy.

"Hey, hey, hey. Why are you crying? There's nothing to worry about. I knew how much this meant to you so I just made sure we were prepared." He got closer to me and hugged me. He really is the best.

"What would I do without you." I started crying into his shoulder just because it felt right to.

"I don't know, implode from the pressure of being the diamond." He chuckled at his own joke. I couldn't help but burst out from laughter at the terrible pun. "Now that's the Tori Vega I know, now all you have to do is dance for me muchacha." I give him a disappointed look with my eyes but with a smile on my face, he just radiates this positive energy.

As we're about to break away from the hug I grip him extra hard and say into his ear "I love you" and give him a kiss on the cheek. We stop hugging.

"Yh yh, I love you too, you know that. Listen you're a beautiful girl Tori, I hate to see you like that, so if the pressure gets too much to handle you know where to call…" We walk out the room together and I can't help but wonder what it'd be like, "…you know Beck puts you before anything, and when he's not around for you I will be back up, there to support you."

"Yh I know." We keep on walking down the corridor.

"By the way do you know where Beck and Robbie went, they're supposed to come to my house for lads night later."

"Well if you know them like I know them, they're probably in the usual spot. It is lunchtime after all. Why does this school have to be so big, its gonna take us like 10 mins to get there."

"Not if we run." Andre grabbed my arm and started dashing through the corridor full of wandering students, I couldn't help but scream in laughter as I ran through the halls with him not trying to fall.

"Oh yh I wrote a new song, it's a duet called 'Fun Ride', I would love for you to sing the other vocal. It's going to be one of the singles I release on my new album."

"I can't say no to you now, can I?"

"Nope." He kept running forward with a smile on his face, he's the best.

A little Tori focused chapter hope you liked it. Update to story will be out soon. AFJOC