It's been a month since I've made it my goal to show Tori I'm not some little girl she can try and fix. I've spent that month learning everything there is to know about Ms. Tori Vega.
I know her and Mr. Harris are just friends which makes my life so much easier, I know she's single, I know she has a need to make everyone happy all the time, I learned her favorite music, I could go on for days but most importantly I learned she just can't say no.
I head to Becks before school to talk to him about my plan to see Tori outside of school for once. I pull up to his RV and walk in without bothering to knock.
"Hey loser." I say before lying on his bed.
"Jade." He says before turning his attention back to his phone.
"I need a favor."
"Sure what's up?" he says before putting his phone away and looking at me.
"Your cousin is still a promoter right?"
"Yeah why?"
"I need tickets a concert."
"Sure what concert?"
"The xx."
"Sweet, I'll get the three tickets before Saturday."
"I need four not three." I say hoping he doesn't ask me more but of course Beck being Beck just has to know everything.
"Why do you need four tickets, who's the fourth for?" Beck says sounding suspicious.
Ugh I know I hate almost everyone but is it really that surprising I could want to hang out with someone other than him and Cat?
"Tori." I say sounding bored.
"Tori? As in Ms. Vega?" He says with his mouth hanging open.
"Yes that Tori, why are you so surprised?"
"Oh I don't know maybe because she's our freaking teacher and you are inviting her to go to a concert with us on Saturday night!"
I look at him and roll my eyes before responding.
"Yes Beck she's our teacher and I'm inviting her to hang out with us on Saturday because talking about history and hanging out in school all the damn time isn't going to get me any closer to fucking her! I've gotten as close to her as a student can get to a teacher and now I need to get her to stop seeing me as a student and start seeing me as a grown ass woman and Saturday is going to help with that."
"I get the whole point of it, but do you really think she's going to say yes to spending a Saturday night with three of her students at a concert?" Beck asks sounding unsure if he should even be asking that question.
"Trust me there's no way she's going to say no." I say before flashing him a devilish smirk.
"How?" He asks not flinching under my eyes that were currently piercing his.
"Because Beckett they happen to be her favorite band and I also happen to know she wanted to go but the show sold out before she could get any tickets. So today after class when I tell her I got four tickets for my friends and I and one of them bailed, there is no way she is going to say no." I say standing up and heading for the door.
"I swear you scare me sometimes." He says smirking.
I smile at the complement before telling him to hurry the fuck up if he expected a ride from me.
Because of my conversation with Beck we get to school as the bell rings. He walks me to class before saying bye and heading to his.
I drop down in my seat next to Cat and wait for Vega to start the lesson. I'm texting some freshman whose name I can't remember when I hear Vega's voice and I look up.
I drop my phone along with my jaw when I see her. She's hot, no that's not even close to describing her right now, she looks fucking stunning. She has her hair pulled up into a bun so you can clearly see her face, she has on a maroon button up shirt that is clearly too tight for her, a pencil skirt that does her ass justice and heels that remind me how perfect her legs are.
When my eyes are done raking over every inch of her body they land on her face. I've never really noticed how noticeable her cheekbones are, or how much her eyes sparkle, or how she bites her lip when she's nervous like she's doing right now.
I'm broken out of my trance when she finally begins to speak.
"Alright guys we've been working on the original colonies for the past few weeks and the unit is about to be over, so instead of giving you a unit test I thought it would be more beneficial to pair you up and assign each group a colony to present about."
There was a collective sigh from the class, everyone including myself was happy to not have to take a test even if it did mean we would have to do a project.
"Well since it seems everyone is happy with the project we can get started right away. The groups are pairs of two and I will let you pick your partners as long as you can manage to get your work done. I'll give you three minutes to find your partners before I hand out the requirements." She says before heading back to her desk
"Yay we get to work together Jade!" Cat yells before tackling me in a hug.
I sigh and let her hug me for a second longer before shoving her off.
She frowns before quickly smiling again. We talk about the concert on Saturday and how excited she is until Vega starts to hand out the requirements.
She hands one to me and cat and I give her a smirk before focusing my attention on the piece of paper she handed me.
This had been going on the past few weeks, I smirk at her and occasionally wink and she smiles back or laughs it off. Not the reaction I'm used to but I understand Vega isn't the normal girl I can just smile at and automatically throws themselves at me.
The rest of the class is spent with the groups being assigned a colony and then having the rest of the time to plan out the project with each other.
The bell rings and the herd moves out of the class while I head towards Vega.
"Hey Jade." She says in her annoyingly sweet tone.
"Hey beautiful." I say smirking.
The look on her face is priceless. She goes through about five emotions in two seconds and her face turns bright red before she looks down and finally responds.
"Um you can't say stuff like that to me Jade." She finally manages to choke out. She's embarrassed but not because of anything that she would deem inappropriate, I can tell I'm the queen of inappropriate. It bothers me, I know the only reason she's blushing is because I called her beautiful and that's how she gets when anyone gives her a compliment.
I keep calm and remind myself that soon enough when I make her blush it will be for a completely inappropriate reason.
"Why not? Were friends and I think that your beautiful, can I not tell my friend that she looks nice?" I say sounding confused and slightly hurt.
"You can it's just that I don't want people to get the wrong idea about or friendship." She pauses before adding "or you."
Finally, I've been waiting for this for the past few weeks, waiting for her to finally tell me that were just friends and that's all we can be. It sounds weird but I needed her to acknowledge the fact that I flirt with her every second that we are together; it makes it easier for me to play it off as innocent and how I am with all my other friends. And in a few weeks when my plan has started to move forward she won't be able to help the fact that she thinks about me flirting with her every second we are together.
"What do you mean?" I ask innocently.
"You know what I mean Jade." She says not taking her eyes off of mine.
I hate these moments, when she can see through my bullshit. It doesn't happen all the time, and when it does she thinks I'm just trying to play into the 'character' she's convinced I play for the benefit of those around me. It's dumb and I don't know why, probably because it's easier to manipulate her but I let her believe her little theory.
"Nothing's going on between us, I may not be able to keep it in my pants but I'm not dumb enough to try anything with you." I say laughing.
She smiles but I can see that it's a little forced and there's a little less meaning in it, but as quickly as it came its gone and the happy go lucky Vega is back.
I can't help the wicked grin that appears at the sight of her slip up, it doesn't mean much but my plan is moving forward slowly and I couldn't be happier.
"So Jade what did you want to see me about?"
I look at her confused before I remember why I stayed after class.
"Right, um I got tickets to go see the xx this Saturday with my friends but one of them bailed so we have an extra ticket and I know how bummed you were that you couldn't go so I wanted to see if you wanted to come with me." I finish with my signature grin.
I could see the internal debate she was having, part of her wanted to say yes and go while the other part knew that she shouldn't go out with a student on a Saturday night.
"Um would it just be you and me?" she asks chewing on her bottom lip.
"No Beck and Cat are coming."
"I'm sorry I would love to, but I'm a teacher and I can't go to a concert with three of my students." She said not sounding sure of her answer.
I took her sign of weakness and exploited it.
"Come on Tori you know you want to! You said it yourself those rules are ancient and you told me how much you wanted to go and how sad when you found out it was sold out; you have to go."
She still looked unsure so I continued knowing it was only a matter of time before she gave in.
"come on its gonna be an amazing show, don't let dumb rules that don't even apply to you or the situation stop you from going to a fucking amazing concert with your friend and her friends who are way cooler than any other off the dumbass five year olds that go here. You got to come Tori; I really want you to come." I add a little more husk to my voice when I said the last sentence, what can I say I couldn't help myself.
It worked though because I see Vegas eyes go wide before she can collect herself again.
"It'll just be friends going to a concert together, you won't be my teacher and I won't be your student, okay?" I ask giving her a reassuring smile.
She's quite for a while and I begin to panic thinking that she will actually say no, I didn't have a back plan for that, I didn't think I needed one.
"okay." She finally says.
"Okay?" I ask surprised.
"okay." She says smiling.
"Great! The concert starts at 9 so I'll pick you up at 8." I say before pulling out a piece of paper and pen.
"Give me your number and we can talk about the details later." I say.
Surprisingly she gives me her number without any hesitation.
"Alright well I better leave don't wanna be late for class, again." I say sarcastically before looking at the clock to see second period started ten minutes ago.
"What the hell? Where's your class second period started ten minutes ago?" I ask confused as hell.
"Oh my gosh I forgot we have an assembly today." She says while grabbing her phone along with my arm and heading out of the class.
I groan before asking her what the assembly is about.
She smiles shyly before answering.
"Abstinence."