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Fully clothed now Tori looked around Beck's home, open mouthed. The living room was bigger then her and Danny's apartment, way bigger. Big white and spacious, with large white leather furnishings, a large glittering light hung from the ceiling and from her spot near the couch she could see into the large clean, obviously never used kitchen. Nice… The only set back was the large white and black self-portrait mounted to the wall of Beck. How conceited can he get?

Speaking of Beck, the man had vanished into a room off to the left returning a moment later with a role of duck tape. Tori realized she was alone with this man who obviously didn't like her. He yanked at the tape rather dramatically and walked towards her, Tori took a step back then another matching his.

He then bent and stuck the tape on the ground and marked off the hallway she had backed herself into.

"This is your half… everything else is mine." He told her crossing his arms over his chest, his eyes dared her to argue.

Tori had every intention to argue. "How am I suppose to cook? I'm not made of money I can't eat out all the time like you."

"Apparently you also have to blackmail to get room and board." His eyes narrowed. "You can touch that, nothing else though. I hardly use it anyway." He turned away from her and angrily stalked away.

She wanted to yell and ask about using the bathroom, since that was on the other side of the home as well, but made a decision not to test her luck.

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He was doing something weird in the living room behind her, some type of vocal exercises - whatever, anyway it was weird and downright annoying.

She ignored him though as she marveled over the high-tech kitchen, making her self busy cooking herself dinner. She had went to the grocery store earlier and got chicken and vegetables, if she wasn't an aspiring actor it would of certainly become a chief.

She checked on her noodles smiling broadly down at her work, stirring the contents carefully. She was in bliss, that is until the annoying rhythmic hum Beck was doing turned into a type of gurgling yelping sound. Her jaw clenched. Seriously…

She turned around and glared at the man in the living room, standing in pair of grey sweats and a white T-shirt, head bowed, eyes closed.

"Feel the character…" He began to chant.

Her eye brow twitched. "Is that absolutely necessary?"

"No," he answered to her surprise, "but I'm going to do it anyway."

"So, what your saying is you're only doing that to get on my nerves and it isn't an actual part of being and actor?"

He blinked at her, "yeah, that's what I'm saying."

"Oh," she carelessly shrugged turning to her meal, beginning to finish up.

"I got a hold of your headshot. You wanna be an actor huh?" He asked innocently enough wondering into his kitchen, getting out a bottle of water.

She glanced at him uncertainly. "That was my plan."

"What's your plan now? Stealing other peoples hard earned money?" He asked seriously, taking a sip of his drink.

Her face went blank, "how about you don't talk?"

"How about I can do what I want in my house."

"Well talk," her voice annoyed now, "but I'm not going to listen."

"What you thought blackmailing me and invading my house was going to be easy?"

Tori rolled her eyes and began fixing herself a plate of food, smirking upon hearing Beck's stomach growl. "You're welcomed to any of my food if you want."

He grunted moving back into the living room flopping on the couch, picking up a talk out food menu from the coffee table. "I don't need your poison."

Shrugging she took a seat at the little table in the corner of his kitchen, happily eating her meal. Listening as he ordered his Chinese food. About ten minutes later the chime of his door bell filtered throughout the home. He looked up confused.

"That's fast," he moved towards his door, "Who is it?" He called.

"Jade, who do you think?"

His eyes widened and he backed away from his door quickly. "You need to hide." He was yanking Tori to her feet by her arm. The young woman squirmed in his hold, fork still in her hand.

"What in the hell?"

"It's Jade," he was talking quickly pushing her down the hall to the bedroom he had said was hers. "She never comes here, but apparently now she wants to make a change. You have to stay quiet and out of sight, if you don't the whole thing is off. I'm telling you, not a peep."

He quickly slammed her door closed.

Tori blankly stared at the closed door, then shrugged. She turned around looking around her new bedroom and started to busy herself by going through her suitcases, then lost interest and decided to listen to what was going on with Beck and Jade West.

"Are you still mad at me about what I said Friday, that's sort of petty don't you think?" An annoyed female voice was saying. "Why can't you understand my feelings and wait until I'm ready?"

"I'm not asking you to marry me tomorrow, Jade. I'm asking you to at least think about us getting married. It's been a long time…"

"I have thought about it!"

Whoa, this is interesting, Tori thought. If the money thing didn't go through today she could always sell this story to the tabloids.

Beck began to speak in a whisper seeming to remember he had a visitor in his home. Tori frowned, she needed to hear this. She very slowly cracked the bedroom door open, she could hear them a little better now, but it was still hard to hear. She came to a decision to risk it and move a little out of the bedroom and stay low as she quietly crept to the end of the hallway, they're in the living room.

Tori pressed herself against the wall and listened.

"I do love you, Beck." Jade was saying softly. "I…"

"I believe you and I love you too… I - "

Tori attention went from the gushiness of the couple to the huge, like very huge, enormous, spider crawling down the wall next to her head. Her eyes met the creatures beady black ones, a beat later she loudly yelped springing up and out into the open. She barely even cared that her cover was blown as she continued to scream and point at the large black creature.

"What in the hell?" Jade yelled springing to her feet upon seeing Tori. Then her eyes landed on the gigantic spider sitting on the wall and she also let out a frightened yelp, springing backwards. "Beck, oh my God," she began hitting her boyfriend's arm, "kill it!"

Tori also moved over to Beck and joined in on Jade's chant to destroy the colossal spider, also hitting him in his other arm and yelping as the thing moved.

Beck also finding his gaze on the monstrous spider, scratched the back of his head. "Are you crazy? That thing is as big as your mother's dog."

"Wait a minute, who is that?" The blue eyed woman took a break from her freak out and pointed at Tori, who now looked sheepish.

Beck bit his lip. "It's coming this way." His words got both women shirking and pushing him towards the thing.

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