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Jade was a bundle of nerves as she drove from Chase's school to Starbucks the next day. What if Tori stood her up? She would be humiliated AND she'd have to explain to Chase that Tori didn't want anything to do with them... She was probably so overwhelmed at the amount of responsibility she had to take on looking after Chase that she didn't want to be a part of Jade's secret anymore, Jade thought.

As she pulled up into the Starbucks car park she looked up at the coffee shop and much to her amazement Tori was already sat in the window with two cups of coffee! Jade quickly locked her car and entered the shop sitting down opposite Tori on the comfy seats she'd managed to save.

"Hey Jade! How are you this morning? How's Chase?" Tori babbled in her excitement that Jade hadn't bailed on her.

"Tori! Calm down! I'm fine, even better now... I mean, now I have coffee... not now I'm with you... Whatever. Anyyywaayy, Chase is great. He actually asked me something, urm, interesting to say the least this morning." Jade felt her face begin to flush; now she was the one babbling!

"Oh, urm Jade look, if this is about Disneyland its fine you don't have to invite me-"

"CHASE REALLY WANTS YOU THERE... and I do have three tickets..." Jade was visibly cringing at how awkward this conversation had become and Tori didn't look like she was far off from running out the shop.

"Why do you even have three tickets Jade...?"

"I brought one for my dad... I know it's ridiculous and he was never going to come but I had hoped seeing as it was for Chase that he might agree this time. When I emailed him asking I got a reply from his secretary telling me he was already busy and wouldn't be able to 'attend'. He's probably fucking her..." Jade was staring into her coffee now. It was black, just how Tori knew she liked it.

"God, Jade. I'm so sorry, it must be hard for you to not have a relationship with either of your parents?"

"I have Chase, so I don't care…" Tori could see from the look in her eyes that she was lying. Jade was missing something, someone. When it came to Chase she was the adult, always taking care of him, and even though he loved her unconditionally she had no one to rely on. Nothing to fall back on. Maybe one day Tori could fill that void... But then again Jade would never want her to. Jade wasn't even into girls, was she?

"Jade, I'd love to come to Disneyland with you guys... If that's what you want."

"It's what Chase wants so it's what I want..." Jade wanted to tell Tori that she desired her to come more than anything in the world, but she wouldn't. Tori could never reciprocate her feelings. Tori wasn't even into girls, was she?

They had both finished their coffee's now and they left the store getting into their respective cars for the short drive across the road to the HA parking lot. They parked their cars next to each other's at school and made plans to meet the next day (which was a Saturday) to take Chase to the beach.

For the rest of the day the girls acted like the past few days had never happened. No one at school needed to know about it.

oooOOOooo

Tori pulled up outside Jade's apartment building at 8:00am the next morning. She had her bikini on under her tiny denim shorts and bright yellow flowing tank top. Okay, so maybe she was showing a little more skin than necessary but it was an extremely hot day and she wanted to look good for Jade... She had a towel in her bag along with a change of underwear. Taking her stuff she made her way up to floor 20 knocking on the door cautiously. Chase answered.

"Torrrriiiiii!" He squealed leaping into her arms. She hugged him gently.

"Hey Chase how ar-" Tori was interrupted by an angry looking Jade.

"CHASE WEST! What did I tell you about opening the front door?!" Chase's face fell.

"You said don't open it Jadey...Sorry." His bottom lip began to quiver and Tori squeezed him tighter.

"Hey Sweetie don't cry, Jadey isn't mad, I just couldn't live if something bad happened to you and you don't know who could have been out there!" Tori passed Chase into Jade's open arms she hugged him lovingly.

"B-b-but I knew it was Tori, Jadey!"

"I know, but please don't answer the door again baby, even if you know who it is, okay? Can you do that for Jadey?" Chase nodded and pushed his face into her neck through her long dark hair. She lightly kissed the top of his head before turning around and setting him down on the couch, placing tiny beach shoes onto his feet. Once that was done she grabbed a large beach bag and locked the door to the apartment.

Chase was buzzing with excitement all the way to the beach whilst Jade and Tori sat upfront chatting.

"I'm glad we're doing this today Tori, just so you know."

"I am too Jade. Thanks for inviting me..."

oooOOOooo

When they got to the beach they hired two sun loungers and an umbrella on the sand not too far from the water line. Tori turned around from laying out her towel to be confronted by a bikini clad Jade laying in the sun. Her mouth dropped open. Jade was so beautiful. Her black hair was now pulled into a low ponytail but two shorter parts of hair still hung loose framing her face. Her pale skin was striking against the black bikini and it accentuated all the right parts of her. Tori had to admit, Jade had the most amazing breasts and the bikini cupped them perfectly.

Tori's staring was interrupted by a small cough and her eyes flew up to Jade's face. She felt herself turn bright red when she realised what she'd just been caught doing and to save herself any more embarrassment she spun around and ripped her own clothes off revealing a luminous pink bikini before putting some large sunglasses on to cover up her mortified expression.

Jade whipped her head round quickly as Tori turned back to face her, not wanting the half-Latina beauty to see how she had been staring at her petite rounded arse.

She quickly rubbed factor 50® sunscreen all over Chase making sure his pale skin wouldn't burn before allowing herself to be dragged to the sea by the hyperactive 5 year old. When they reached the water Chase let go of her hand and ran splashing into the shallows, Jade shouted after him to be careful. He knew she wouldn't follow him in. Jade never actually went into the water she just stood at the edge and watched her younger brother ensuring his safety.

Tori had followed the pair and wadded in after Chase giving Jade a quizzical look.

"You're not coming in Jade?"

"Jadey never comes in!" Tori looked at Chase then turned back to Jade.

"I've had bad experiences in the sea before okay, Tori?"

"Is this about the dolphins that Beck said one time?" Jade only nodded. "Awww Jade! It'll be fine, I'll protect you! Please just come in with us!" Chase splashed Tori and she giggled before slowly approaching Jade gently grabbing her hand and tugging slightly. She had expected Jade to pull away at her touch but when she didn't Tori tugged a little harder moving closer to Jade and whispering to her.

"Jade, I promised you that I would never let anything hurt you... that promise includes dolphins." Jade looked up at her to check if she was being serious. Tori's concerned look gave her all the confirmation she needed and she allowed the tanned girl to pull her out into the ocean to where Chase was playing.

The three of them splashed and swam around in the sea for a good half an hour. At one point Tori and Jade's legs brushed together under the water and at the feeling of their wet skin sliding against each other both the girls blushed. Neither of them moved away though and for the rest of the time they allowed their legs to slip together whenever the current moved them.

After swimming they sunbathed for a while, drying off before going to a diner for lunch. By the end of the day Chase was shattered and Jade had to carry him to the car after helping him get changed into the pyjama shorts and t-shirt she had brought in case he was so tired he would fall asleep in the car and she could put him straight to bed when they got home. Tori put all their stuff in the boot before getting into the passenger seat.

The ride home was silent, they didn't want to wake Chase and they were both pretty tired anyway. Back at the apartment Tori carried Jade's stuff up whilst she took the sleeping child. Once she had tucked him into bed she went out into the apartment to find Tori asleep on the sofa.

"Tori, Tori!?" Jade whispered.

"Mmmm, whattt." Tori mumbled sleepily. Jade knew there was no way Tori could drive home in this state and she didn't want to leave the girl to sleep uncomfortably on the sofa. The apartment didn't have a spare bed so Jade scooped up Tori, one arm round her torso and the other under the crook of her knee's, carrying her into her own bedroom where she laid her gently on the bed. Jade then went round the other side and lay down next to the sleeping Latina. She pulled the sheets up over them both and turned on her side facing away from Tori.

A few minutes later Jade was startled from her bedtime thoughts by the feeling of Tori's arms snaking round her waist, her body snuggling against Jade's back and her face pressing against the back of Jade's neck, her breath tickling against Jade's skin. Her body went rigid at the realisation that she was now in a big spoon/little spoon situation with Tori and she was the little spoon. However after the initial surprise she relaxed into Tori's arms and soon found her mind being clouded with sleep.

"I really do love you Tori." She mumbled as she drifted off into one of the best sleeps of her entire life.

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