Title: Who Knew
Chapter Three: Partnered Up
Summary: When Tori Vega stopped talking to her long time best friend Jade West she never expected the heart break she felt, and now that she's found her again she wont let her go.
Rated: T for now, but possibly M later on. I'm not sure.
Disclaimer: I don't own Victorious, unfortunately.
A/N: Wasn't gunna pair them up, but it just happened. Enjoy!
Something must've bit Trina in the ass this morning, I decided as I slowly trudged down the sidewalk toward school. She'd left me at home because I was taking too long to put on my shoes. I'd posted a status on theSlap complaining on my way as a distraction from the looming storm the weather channel had promised.
I was in no way even thinking about trying to swing a ride from someone, I didn't even consider that, but when Beck's truck rolled up beside me and he told me to get I was smacking myself for not thinking about finding another ride.
Jade was glaring at me from the passenger seat as Beck leaned over to push the door open, "just ignore her and get in Tori, or you're going to get caught in the rain." Beck told me, sitting back.
I thought about protesting but thunder boomed through the sky loud enough to shake the ground, I tossed myself into the cab without a second thought. Beside me Jade was chuckling as I tried to hide my shaking hands inside my hoodie.
"Still scared of storms Vega?" she teased mirthfully. I ignored her. She knew I was, and always would be, frightened of storm thanks to her. When we were 6 it started thundering at the beach a few blocks from our houses, then the rain poured down.
We were heading quickly to the house when lightening struck and Jade decided she wanted to find out what lightening did to sand, and being the devoted friend I was, I followed her.
She was admiring the sand that she'd seen struck and lightening hit the ground a few feet away from us, I could smell the burning and I ran screaming down the road back toward my house shaking like a leaf the whole time. It was a wonder I didn't fall down.
As soon as I got home I dove into my bed cowering. Jade came in a few minutes after I had and crawled under the covers, pulling me into a hug, apologizing again and again until I stopped shaking. Ever since then I'd uncontrollably shake whenever there was a storm.
As we drove thunder shook the car and lightening cracked through the sky. I was shaking more and more as the storm got worse. I could hardly see the car in front of us; it's lights were a red glowing blur in front of us, I was thankful I wasn't driving.
After a particularly loud crack of thunder that made a scream rip from my throat, Jade leaned forward and turned up the radio, when she sat back her arm was pressed up against mine. She didn't look toward me, but she leaned a bit closer each time thunder cracked and slowly my shaking subsided to a slight fidgeting in my fingers.
Through the ride Beck tried to keep up small talk, but eventually gave up because neither of us would reply. Jade was just being a pain in the ass and I was worried about my voice shaking and squeaking, not needing to be more embarrassed then I already was.
At the school Beck dropped Jade and I off at the over hang so we stayed dry and I sprinted inside ahead of her. I searched through my backpack until I found my cell phone and I texted Andre to meet me in class.
I had to act out my stupid bird scene and I needed to set up the stage, Andre had offered to help me hang up the backdrop. I went and changed afterwards, when I walked into class Sikowitz had me start right away, and afterwards when I asked if I passed I said no, snapping at him that I thought I did good.
Then he started clapping, slowly followed by a few of my classmates. He explained that the whole point of the bird scene was so that I learned I needed to be proud of my performance.
"Okay, you can go change now." He said, waving me out of the room. I picked up my bag and walked into the bathroom, locking myself in the handicapped stall so I had room to change.
I untied the skirt and let it pool around my ankles, kicking off the ugly shoes I'd been wearing as well. I pulled off the shirt and folded it up, stuffing it back in the bag I'd had. The music in the stall beside me got suddenly louder when the song changed. It sounded like a rock song.
I couldn't see who was in the stall beside me; they had their feet pulled up onto the toilet with them or something. Whatever, it wasn't my problem. I stuffed the skirt into the bag as well, pulling my shoes, jeans and black tank top out of the bag.
I shimmied into my jeans, slipped on my converse and went to pull on my shirt when my beloved blue pearphone, which had been tucked into my bra, fell out and skittered across the ground into the next stall.
I hastily pulled my shirt on, shut the bag and hauled it over my shoulder, unlocking the door to the stall and knocking on the door for the stall next to mine. The person didn't seem to hear me over their music so I waited for the song change, and then banged my hand violently on the door.
The music shut off and I heard the person get up, it was too late for me to recoil when the black Doc Martians peeped out from under the door and Jade jerked it open, narrowing her eyes at me.
"What?" she growled.
"My phone fell and slid into your stall." I replied, pointing to it. Jade turned her head to look at it, her mouth pulling into a scowl. She bent down to get it, whipping her hair around so fast it was a wonder it didn't hit my face.
She flipped her hair back around and this time the strands danced across my cheeks, she held the blue device out to me like it was garbage, but I was too distracted watching the way the waves of her hair tumbled down her shoulders and over the swell of her breasts, falling at the top of her ribcage.
"Quit staring Vega." She hissed, shoving the phone toward me.
"Sorry." I whispered, taking the phone. Our fingers brushed and her hand recoiled quickly, like she had been burned.
I slid my phone into the back pocket of my jeans, adjusted my bag and walked quickly toward the bathroom door. But just as I was pulling it open a pale black nailed hand shoved the door shut. Jade's body was pressed up against my back.
"What do you want now?" I hissed, craning my neck to look over at her. Her face was mere inches from mine; her mouth parted slightly her eyes roaming my face, looking for something. I couldn't figure it out, "Jade?" I squeaked.
She pushed on my arm and spun my around, slamming my back against the door, her mouth crashing down on mine. Her lips tasted like cherry, but the rest of the kiss tasted like French vanilla coffee. Her lips were soft, but the kiss was rough. Her teeth caught my bottom lip and nipped it hard, I was sure there would be blood.
Her hands on my hips shoved me up against the door while her body pressed flush against mine, her teeth nipped and pulled on my bottom lip until I knew there was a few cuts on my lips, her mouth then trailed down my jaw and neck, she sucked on my neck, on the space just where my neck met my shoulder, bit down hard enough to make me cry out and then she pulled me away from the door and shoved me until I fell to the ground, my tailbone smacking hard against the tile.
Angry tears were spilling down her face, "Just stay out of my head. And away from me! Why did you have to come back!" she yelled, glaring down at me, her jaw shaking as well as her clenched fists.
She spun quickly, picking up her bag as she did, yanked open the door and ran out of the bathroom. I sat on the ground stunned for a few minutes before I finally remembered I was needed in class, after adjusting my hair, cleaning up my lips, and pulling my hair over my bruised neck, I returned to the room.
I pushed the door to the classroom open and everyone's eyes swung toward me, "Ah! Tori good! Just in time, go sit over there with your partner Beck." I nodded silently and sat down beside Beck, feeling Jade's angry glare on me the whole time.
"Now as I was saying, you and your partner have to write a script based on the relationship and feeling you pull out of the hat, it's due tomorrow. The hats are going around as we speak." Sikowitz said, then dropped down into a chair in the back of the room and started drinking his coconut.
"I can come over to your place after school if you want." Beck offered, "we can work on the script and run over it, it's up to you."
"Sounds fine with me. I'll text you my address after school." I told him, taking the hat from Cat, who was sitting in front of us with Jade. I snatched a paper out of the hat and passed it on as Beck snatched a paper out of his hat, "best friends."
"In love." Beck supplied.
"Fantastic."
I'd left school early and went home and crashed in my bed, I was still sound asleep when I heard Trina scream, and then her feet stomped toward my room and the door was pushed open, "Uh, are you sure Trina…" Beck was standing on the other side of the doorway.
"She'll get up." Trina shrugged and walked away.
"It's fine Beck." I called, stretching and sitting up in my bed, "flip the light on." I told him as he stepped through the door. He did as I asked and then walked over and sat down in my desk chair while I tried to wake myself up.
He was looking around my overly-girly room quickly, his eyes landing on my cork board. There were pictures of all of my ex's and old friends up there. Including more then 3 of Jade.
His eyes were glued on a picture, "you can take it down if you wanna get a closer look." I told him, rolling out of my bed finally.
He glanced over at me, "I don't need to, Jade has the same picture on her book shelf." He replied, the hummingbird living in my stomach fluttered a little. Jade still had a picture of me in her room, "ready to get started?"
"Yep." I walked over to my second desk chair and dropped down into it, turning on my laptop while Beck got out his notebook so we could work on our assignment. Jade was brought up again while we were writing, and soon we were acting it out.
Until my phone ringing interrupted us. I walked over to my bed and scooped it up, hitting accept before checking to see that it was a blocked number, "Hello?"
"Where is he?" a familiar voice snapped in my ear.
"Jade?" I asked into the receiver, ignoring her question.
"Where is he Vega?" she sounded more annoyed then freaked out.
"Why is your number blocked on my phone? And how'd you get my number?" I countered.
"What's Jade want?" Beck asked, he was scribbling something down in his notebook.
"To know where you are." I replied, dropping down on my bed, "is that a bed Vega?" she asked at the same time I replied, "Yes, West, it is. I sat down."
"Tell her I'm at your place and I'll see her later." Beck told me, Jade hung up before I could say anything, so I tossed my phone behind me and Beck and I got back to work. Twenty minutes later Andre showed up so we could work on a math assignment and a music assignment he needed done.
Beck left around 9, and then Andre left around 9:30, I went upstairs, showered, changed, finished up my homework, dried my hair and then crawled back in bed to go to school the next day.
Jade spent every class I had with her glaring at me, only stopping when she and Cat had to do their skit and Beck and I had to run through ours. I couldn't figure out why she was glaring. Was she jealous of me? Because I spent time with Beck?
Stay out of my head. The words rung absently through my head, did she really mean she was thinking about me? Or was she just being a bitch? "Alright!" Sikowitz shouted loudly, "Now we'll be doing another project-and no complaining!" he said the last part in a mock complementary voice.
"First, I'll pull names from at hat to partner you up!" he starts partnering up everyone in the class until there are four of us left, Sinjin, Eli, Jade and I. "next we have Sinjin." Please, please, please pull Jade's name, or mine even I don't care. "And Eli."
"Chiz."
"Shit."
"That means Jade and Tori, you're together."
"Yeah, no chiz!" Jade snapped sarcastically, slumping down in her chair with a little pout.
Sikowitz ignored her outburst, "now you will be stuck with each other for forty eight hours." Groans went around the room. I was suddenly thankful I wasn't with Sinjin, "you will need to be able to imitate your partner by the end of the forty eight hours."
Well, I knew I could imitate Jade, and I bet she could imitate me with little problem. So we wouldn't really have to spend time together right? I don't think I'd survive the weekend with Jade. Not together forty-eight hours.
"You will go to one partner's house one night, and the other the next. Then arrive at school dressed an acting like your partner. You will have to act like them all day." People were complaining, especially Andre who didn't want to act like Robbie. I sniggered when I realized Beck was paired with Cat, "and I'll be calling a random times to make sure you're always together."
"We'll to your place first Vega." Jade muttered behind me, "we're starting this Saturday, right Sikowitz?"
"Yes Jade, you get your Friday night to yourself." Sikowitz said in a mocking tone, "now I want you all out of my room!" he said, "go to lunch or something."
We only had like two minutes of class left, so everyone got up and headed out to the asphalt café. I stopped at the grub truck to get a salad, "Hey Tori can you get Jade and I burritos?" Beck asked, "I've got to go finish my math homework and she's got her Spanish homework."
"Sure thing Beck." I stepped up as Beck walked away and ordered my salad and their burritos, paid and wandered over to our table. Nobody was sitting there except for Jade and Beck. Nervously I stepped up to the table, peering around to try and find everyone else. They were nowhere in sight.
I set my salad down on the opposite side of Jade and sat down, passing the pair their lunch. Beck glanced up and muttered a thanks and Jade ignored it. I silently opened my salad and started eating, pulling out my phone and scrolling through my messages.
Eventually Beck shut his math book and started eating his burrito, "so where did everyone run off to?" I asked, Beck glanced at Jade. She was glaring angrily at her Spanish book.
"They offered her help and she bit their heads off." Beck supplied, "I've gotta go turn this in. I'll be right back, babe." He pressed a kiss to the side of her head, gave me an apologetic glance and then walked toward the building.
"Jade…" I called after she screamed and balled her paper up, "do you need some help?"
"No Vega. I don't need any help." Jade snarled, I ignored her angry tone and moved to sit next to her, peering down at the page in her book, "Vega." She warned, her voice a hiss. I ignored her and snatched up her pencil, un-balling her paper to look at her answers.
"You were doing just fine Jade." I told her, "the only bit wrong is this line. You said that you wash your washing machine with your clothes, instead of washing your clothes with your washing machine. It'd be 'yo lavo mi ropa en la lavadora' not 'yo me lavo la lavadora con la ropa'. Other then that your fine."
She grunted in response while I erased her sentence and wrote the correct one down, she leaned over to look at it and then asked me how to say the next thing, and in a few minutes we had all of her work down and I sat back in my original spot to finish my salad and scroll through my status feed on theSlap.
"Thanks." Jade mumbled after awhile, pulling her burrito box open. I shrugged and stuffed the last piece of my salad in my mouth. I tossed the box into the garbage and sat back down at the same time Beck and Cat returned to the table.
"Hey Jade! Tori!" she chirped, and soon everyone else gathered around the table. Plans were discussed around the table. Cat was stuck watching her brother, Robbie had to go to his Grandma's house, Andre was writing a song and Beck was going to an Aunts house, and I was going to the mall with my mom.
When the bell rang we all filed into our separate classes, Andre, Cat and I went to Math. We had to work on a 50 question assignment for the rest of class and I wasn't anywhere near done by the time the bell rang to dismiss us to our 6th class of the day.
Thankfully mine was just History and I could just space out during class, since all we were doing was watching a dumb movie. Once the bell finally rang I slung my bag over my shoulder and ran outside to Trina's car.
She was already gone when I got there, "I'm going to kill her." I muttered under my breath, letting my bag drop to the ground as I peeled off my jacket and shirt so I was just in my tank top. It was way too hot to be walking around with my jacket on.
I stuffed them into my bag, put it back on my shoulder, put my headphones in my ears and started my music before beginning my walk home. I was barely 6 minutes away from the school when a car rolled up next to me. It was a white Ford truck. The passenger window rolled down.
"Come on Vega, I'll give you a ride home." Jade offered, I looked at the car, then back at the sidewalk bathed in sunlight before me. I didn't really want to walk home, but did I want to trap myself in a car with Jade?
I found my hand pulling the door open before my mind could answer and I hopped in beside her, pulling the door closed and clicking my seatbelt on silently, she asked me for my address and the rest of the trip was made in silence.
She pulled into my driveway, "Sikowitz said we start at midnight. So I'll be back around then I guess." She told me, her eyes trained on my garage door, her fingers drumming on her steering wheel.
"Just call me when you're on your way so I make sure I'm awake. Since you obviously have my number." I slip out of the car and head up to the front door, the second I walk in I'm greeted by the angry screams of my mother, yelling at Trina.
"I'm home." I muttered, neither of them heard me, and I didn't really care. I trudged upstairs, dropped my bag in my desk chair and peered around the room, where was Jade going to sleep?
My eyes scanned the messy floor, the messy bed and my messy window seat area in front of my window, and I had a feeling no matter what I said somehow Jade would make me sleep there. At least it had a pull out bed under it.
I slowly cleaned up my room, tossing my dirty clothes into my hamper, returning books to their shelves, putting pictures of her I'd had out up into the back of my closet so she might not find them, and then I vacuumed, by the time I was done Trina had already stormed into her room and mom had passed by to see what I was doing.
Once I put the vacuum cleaner away I made my way downstairs to find my mom so we could go shopping, "can you drive sweetheart? I have a big headache."
I shrugged and took the keys from her as we left the house, leaving dad in charge of Trina and her temper tantrum. The whole way to the mall I tried to figure out how to explain to mom what my assignment was, and eventually I just blurted the words "Jade's coming over tonight."
"Jade's coming over? I thought she hated you." Mom asked, sitting up to turn down the radio.
"She does, we have to do this assignment for Sikowitz's class. We have to be able to act like each other, by spending forty-eight hours together. So Jade's coming here tonight and then I'm going to her house tomorrow."
"Alright. What time will she be here?"
"The forty-eight hours starts at Midnight, so she said she'll be over then." I answered, flicking on the turn signal and pulling into the mall parking lot, "you're okay with that right?"
"Sure sweetheart, just don't make too much noise." I nod and pull into a parking space, shutting off the headlights, then the car and undoing my seatbelt before we head up to the mall entrance.