"Yo, Vega!" Jade pushed the slumbering girl's body, trying to get her to wake. After a full minute of repeating the previous phrase and action, the drowsy brunette finally opened her eyes. "Come on, Sleepyhead. Get up."
"Jade? Ugh. What time is it?" Tori sat up and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, while simultaneously looking for her alarm clock.
"It's.. I dunno. Something o' clock in what I assume is the afternoon," the goth looked out towards the window, the bright but relaxed sky illustrating her point. Tori was surprised to see that her crush was fully dressed, her hair wet, and holding a toothbrush. She concluded that Jade had just finished taking a shower.
"I've been waiting for you to wake up forever. Why were you asleep for so long?"
"I don't know," Tori got out of bed and yawned, stretching her arms in the air. "It's Saturday, isn't it? I always sleep in on Saturday."
"I understand sleeping in, but I mean, come on, Vega. It's like," Jade looked down at her Pearphone, "3pm. That's ridiculous."
"Why do you care how long I sleep in anyway, Jade?" Tori collected her things and prepared to go to the bathroom and take a shower.
"Because, I'm hungry and I'm your guest, therefore, you owe me a five-star complimentary breakfast."
"Do I look like I have five-star complimentary breakfast money?" Tori smiled and began walking to the bathroom, Jade following behind.
"Cook me something, then."
"I don't know how to cook." She entered the bathroom and closed the door quickly, leaving the other girl behind.
"Don't give me that bullshit, Vega!" Jade yelled through the bathroom door.
"Sorry, Jade, can't hear you! The shower's running!" Tori yelled back and turned on the shower, drowning out the sound of the girl on the other side yelling profanities at her.
"Hmph, and I had something awesome planned for our date tonight! Guess you won't mind McDonalds for our restaurant venue, huh?" Jade yelled over the sound of the shower, smirking.
"Fine, fine, Jade! I'll make you some food in a minute! But my first date regulations call for an 'Olive Garden' minimum, got it?"
"Yes, yes, my sweet Tori, I have it!" Jade cackled on the other side of the door.
...
Jade was sitting with Tori at the kitchen table, enjoying a nice brunch prepared by Chef Vega, when her phone rang. She immediately regretted not checking the caller ID when she answered, and a familiar shrill voice sounded on the other end of the line.
"Where in the hell have you been, Jade!" Mrs. Vega yelled into the phone, frantic because she hadn't seen or heard from her daughter in the past 24 hours. She was relieved, but pissed off. How dare she disobey me?
Jade held up a finger at Tori and walked away from the table, not wanting to get embarrassed in front of her. Tori looked on in concern as Jade spoke into the phone, "I'm at my friend Tori's house, Mom. Calm down."
"I will not calm down! Why haven't I heard a peep from you in the past almost two days?"
"Because I know how you get when I'm not at home, Mom. You always freak out and think I'm doing drugs or getting pregnant or something, and then when I do get home, perfectly fine- drug and baby-free, you decide to yell at me. Especially when you're drunk. I knew that you would be drunk. You're always drunk."
"No I am not!"
"Yes, you are! You are right now, aren't you? Aren't you?"
"Why should it matter if I am! I'm a grown woman, and at least I'm not out doing God knows what you and your freakish little friends do whenever you're out."
"Whatever, Mom. I probably won't be home tonight. I'll probably be back Sunday afternoon, but don't wait up."
"Jade-" Click. Jade hung up the phone and walked back to the table. Eyes red, tired and emotional from arguing with her mother. Tori wanted to console her, but decided against it, predicting that the girl might lash out at her, in typical Jade West fashion. She was surprised when the raven-haired girl was the one to reach out to her, swallowing her up in a rib-crushing hug. Tori just relaxed and relished in the contact, not being interrogative or judgmental, somehow knowing that Jade would tell her when, and only when, she was ready. Now just wasn't that time, sadly. Sadly.
...
"Can you just please tell me where we're going, and why I only need to wear a sweatshirt and jeans? I thought we were going out to a restaurant? I made you a nice breakfast and everything." Tori pouted, crossing her arms in the car next to Jade, who obviously was driving.
"Well, I had a change of plans. Just chill, honey, I know what I'm doing," Jade reassured her.
"Honey?" Tori looked over at the raven-haired girl and smiled, appreciating the pet name.
"Honey." Jade looked over at Tori and smirked, turning the vomit-inducing cuteness up a notch to annoyingly vomit-inducing cuteness. "Sweetie. Honeypie, baby. Goo-goo bear."
"Goo-goo bear?" The Latina raised an eyebrow.
"Goo-goo bear." Jade took Tori's hand in hers and kissed it, causing Tori to blush. That caused Jade to smile another one of her sweet genuine smiles, as she loved making Tori blush. Even though it was extremely easy for her to do just by being annoying and overly-seductive, she savored it every time. Tori was so beautiful and so perfect in her eyes. From her beautiful chocolate brown eyes, her perfectly framed cheekbones, to her full pink lips. Jade loved thinking about those lips. In fact, she loved thinking about them so much, that it caused her to almost crash into a car on the highway.
"Jade!" Tori screamed, which knocked the other girl out of her stupor. Jade swerved and narrowly missed the car, her quick reflexes being welcomed by a chorus of honks from the car she missed. 'Oh, you missed hitting me and killing us both, did you? Here, let me sing you the song of our people!' Honk! Honk!
Tori was pressed firmly the seat, breathing shallow, white-knuckling her seatbelt. Jade just laughed at the sight beside her, finding Tori's extremely justified fear excessively hilarious. So hilarious, her uproarious laughter causing them to nearly crash again. Thankfully, Jade's quick reflexes saved them again.
"What the chiz, Jade? Quit it! Are you trying to kill us?"
"Yes, but damn it, I fail every time." The reckless driver said sarcastically, and smiled.
"I'm glad."
"Wonderful, be glad."
"I am."
"Good."
"Fine."
"Great, delightful, that's nice and dandy and peachy!"
"Shut up Jade." Tori felt the corners of her mouth start to drift upwards at the sight of her crush's huge smile.
"You shut up, Tori. Don't tell me what to do."
"I will."
"You will not." The two continued to mindlessly bicker until they reached their destination, glad to find humor in the fact that had two near-death experiences just three minutes prior. These idiots are meant for each other.
...
Ha, isn't foreshadowing just delightful fun? Guess what else is? Breaking the fourth wall. Hmph, I was tired of that gaudy thing anyway.
...
You said today, you know exactly how I feel.
I had my doubts, little girl.
Now, I'm in love with something real.
It could be me, that's changing!
Oh how I love you.
Oh in the evenings.
When we are sleeping, we are sleeping. Oh, when we are sleeping.
Hope you guys enjoyed it. Sorry I haven't updated in a while (though by some of my fave fanfic author's standards, I'm doing great!). A freak storm came through my area and knocked out the power in my entire state. We've been without power (and water at points) for a week. Our power and stuff just came on this morning, so after taking a well needed shower, I jumped on here and started writing. I'm just happy a tree didn't fall on our house like it did to a neighbor. We've already gone through that, and that's why we moved here in the first place. I'll try to update more regularly from now on, just letting you guys know that I have an excuse. Lyrics and chapter title is courtesy of the band Interpol.
And to answer one person's question as to what significance the mention of Memory Police had to the story: I know that my summary is kind of misleading. Really, you have to listen to the song that this is based upon to really get it. To me, 'Memory Police' is a metaphor, like when I say "Or will their relationship become a victim of the memory police?" I don't mean an actual, factual memory police. I mean, "Or will their relationship cease to exist and become nothing but a memory?" I see Jade's mom as sort of the memory police (* oh yea spoiler alert *) and a force that can cause their relationship to become that way. As to whether or not their relationship will become that way, I have yet to decide. Just know that I tend to find happy endings boring. But they do have their place.
Anyway, hope I cleared that up for some people. If any of you are still wondering, you can review or shoot me a PM or whatevs. I love getting feedback from readers, it makes me a better writer. I'll shut up now, write my retarded disclaimers and we can finally shut this bitch down. Right?
Disclaimer: I don't own Victorious, nor its characters. I would so love to own the actors, though. They can be my personal sex slaves. jk jk. Shuddup. Also, song credits go to Interpol and whomever else deserves credit.