Sorry I took so long to get something out. I've had writer's block for a while, and I only thought of this to post something. I originally had a different idea for this, but it's 10:30 at night, and I don't remember the original idea. So, instead, I thought of this, and I don't remember if Jade and Tori were friends when Tori was dating Beck, so because I'm too lazy to check a previous chapter, they were frienemies/rivals in high school but became friends prior to Tori and Beck dating. If I have any continuity errors with previous chapters, I apologize. It's been a while since I last wrote them, and I haven't read over them before writing this. So if there are any errors, feel free to let me know, and I'll fix what I can. Though, I might keep Tori and Jade's past as it is in here since I don't really feel like changing that from a previous chapter.
So, without further delay, here's how Tori and Beck met, started dating, and got enganged. Part two will have when they got married, had a daughter, got divorced, and Tori and Jade got together. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own 'VicTORious' or any characters/songs seen below.
No POV
When Tori Vega was fifteen years old, she met who would be her husband in six short years. And though it wasn't a 'love-at-first-sight' moment, they bumped into each other, apologized, then walked away in opposite directions only to see each other again during lunch, it was the moment that lead Tori and Beck, the boy she bumped into, to where they are now, to adults in their mid-late twenties (27 to be exact) watching their daughter sleep on Jade West's, Tori's old school rival and now wife, lap while an old Disney movie plays on the flat screen t.v. As the scene plays, both Tori and Beck think back to their first meeting, and the rest of the day.
Tori POV
12 Years Ago
Normally, the first day of school isn't a concern when you've gone to the school for a few years and you've gone to school with virtually everyone there since Kindergarten, but when your older sister ('By one year', she never lets me forget) rushes you because there's a new boy in school and she wants to know what he looks like, you're not exactly in a stress free mindset. Though, this might have more to do with her waking me up an hour before my alarm, only to tell me I can't use the shower because she used all the hot water, again, and rush you out the door, half asleep, hungry, and wondering where your cop father keeps his back-up gun at home, then leave me in the hallway to look for said new boy.
With a sigh/eye roll as she jogs away, I head for my locker, now not so happy it's not even a yard away from the main entrance since I don't see any of my friends, it is a half hour before I usually get here, after all, and open it to put my afternoon books away.
Turning around after closing the locker door, I head to the first floor cafeteria where they sell quick breakfasts of toast, bagels, multiple cereals with pints of milk, various fruits, and orange juice, I bump into someone. Barely looking up, I see a teenaged boy around by age, his hair a darker shade than mine and shoulder length, give a quick apology before heading down the locker hall.
"Must be new. That or he's as awake as I am and doesn't remember his locker combination or something." I mumble as I resume my trek for breakfast, pulling a five out of my wallet to pay for my bowl of 'Cinnamon Toast Crunch', milk for the cereal and to drink, a pint of orange juice, and a banana.
"You're here early." A familiar voice says behind me. Looking over my shoulder, I see Jade West, a girl around my height with long, curly brunette hair with various colored stripes through it, today she went with dark green, blood red, and white I notice, strutting towards me. "Let me guess. Trina wants to meet the new kid?" She asks, choosing today, or this moment at least, to be friends instead of rivals.
"Congratulations. For your correct answer, you win a banana." I say, pushing the yellow fruit towards her. "What are you doing here so early?" I ask, raising an eyebrow when she gives me a dollar for the banana.
"My dad left for a business trip, and my newest step-mom threatened 'mommy-daughter time' before school today. So, after I got dressed, I left like a bat out of hell and rode my bike here." Jade answers, peeling the banana and taking a bite. "You see the new kid yet?" She asks after swallowing her bite.
"I don't know. Maybe." I say, shrugging my shoulders. "I bumped into someone on my way here. I didn't get a good look at him, but he didn't look familiar, looked kinda lost, and had somewhat fluffy hair to his shoulders." I say after seeing her confused look.
"Yep, that's him. Becket 'Beck' James Oliver. Born ten days before you, same month and year, and recently moved here from Canada." Jade says, nodding with a displeased look on her face.
"You stole his school records, didn't you?" I ask, knowing that's where she got that info from.
"It's not stealing if you never leave with them." Jade says as more students start to file in, a smirk on her face. "Later Vega. Thanks for letting me eat your banana." She says with a wink as a senior walks by us, laughing when he stops and stares at us with wide eyes.
"One of these days, I'm sewing your lips shut." I tell her as she walks away, going back to eating my now soggy cereal.
"Promises promises." I hear as she leaves the cafeteria.
No POV
Present
Looking around, knocked out of her daze by her daughter Cat's jumping on her stomach, Tori smiles and lifts the almost three year old up. "You ready for your birthday in a few weeks?" She asks, knowing Cat can't answer properly yet, smiling when the two year old giggles and tries to get closer to her mother.
As Tori plays with Cat, Beck thinks to when he and his ex first started dating, a small smile on his face as he remembers that day.
Beck POV
11 Years Ago
"For the last time, stop sitting with us." Jade tells me as I sit down across from her and beside Tori.
"Relax, Jade. I invited him." Tori says, rolling her eyes at her friend's behavior.
"Why?" Jade asks, staring at Tori. "Oh, Goddess. Don't tell me you two are fucking?" She asks, a disgusted look being sent my way as she gags slightly.
"No!" Tori says, louder than intended. "Unlike that slut Justine B, I still have my virginity and no rug burns on my back." She says, lowering her voice.
"Or knees. Or palms. Or elbows. Or ass. Or tiny tits." Jade lists, smirking when the 'school mattress' walks by. "Oh, did I offend you?" She asks with fake innocence. "Good. Walk away before your massive vagina swallows the school whole." She says, waving her off. And, with Jade's ability to make anyone, even a gang member who once killed twenty people (or so he claimed until he slapped Jade's ass a few months ago) piss himself and see every God and Goddess in known religion, Justine quickly did as commanded.
"You know, one of these days, you're going to meet someone not afraid of you." I point out as I eat my lunch, glad I brought my own since the school lunches look pre-chewed. And that's the pizza and sandwiches. I don't want to see the soup.
"She already has." Tori says, proving her point by throwing her dirty napkin at Jade, smiling when it bounces off of Jade's head, down onto her breasts (I agree with Tori that Jade should start wearing less cleavage revealing tops. She's sixteen and they're not easy to miss) and then her tray of food. "What?" She asks when a student a few feet away from me stares at her with fear in her eyes.
"Stop staring at my tits." Jade says, snapping me and every other student, both male and female, who was staring at where the napkin bounced off of, and looking up. I was at least smart enough not to get caught since I looked away after noticing where it bounced. What? You want Jade West skinning you alive? I sure don't. "Anyway, back on subject. Why is he sitting with us?" She asks, nodding towards me.
"I invited him, as I already said. We have a project to work on, so I invited him to lunch to plan it." Tori answers, handing Jade a napkin, clean this time, to clean up where the previous napkin touched both her and the table.
"You working after school?" Jade asks, raising an eyebrow.
"My house. Dad's picking us up." Tori says, eating her lunch.
"Have fun, Becky." Jade says, smirking. "Tell your dad to call me if he needs help getting rid of a body without getting blood all over the place." She says seriously as she casually goes back to eating her lunch.
"She's joking, right?" I ask, eyes widening when Tori doesn't answer and mirrors Jade, casually eating her lunch. "Is it too late to write a will?" I ask to no one in particular, not liking the smirk growing on Jade's face.
Of course, as I found out when my dad picked me up from Tori's, I learned that although Jade was joking about the body removal, I should've taken the warning more seriously. After all, I asked Tori out, she said yes, then we kissed. All with her father in the kitchen. With the very sharp kitchen knives.
No POV
Present
Knocked out of his thoughts when Jade 'accidentally' hits him on the head as she passes by with Cat in her arms, Beck shakes his head and looks around, forgetting he was at his ex's house hanging out and planning Cat's party. "What'd I miss?" He asks, standing up and following Tori and Jade to the stairs.
"Tori and I ate each other out, Cat poisoned you, and my father-in-law is writing up the suicide letter you'll be found with." Jade says, a serious look on her face, as she heads towards Cat's room.
"Relax." Tori says, calming down the freaked feeling she noticed I was experiencing. "You won't feel a thing, and my dad's writing it with your laptop. No one will know what really happened." She says dismissively, stopping me from going in with them. "But she's lying about us eating each other out."
"I knew what. You two don't do anything sexual around Cat." I say, hoping she's joking about the fake suicide letter and the poisoning.
"Go home, Oliver. We got a baby girl to put to bed and you're not welcome here anymore. Thank you for playing, feeding, and changing Cat when she pooped on you, and thanks for the new screensaver on my phone by the way, but after we put Cat to bed, we're showering and going to bed too. So, adios, Senor Oliver. See you at the party." Jade says, handing Cat to Tori then pushing me away.
"I need more male friends." I say, making my way down the stairs, realizing I hang out with the mother of my daughter and her wife more than I do Andre and Robbie.
Jade POV
As Beck leaves and Tori cleans and changes Cat, I think back to the day I realized how I really saw Tori and the day that broke my heart. Okay, so I didn't actually have a broken heart, but I wasn't too happy about it.
Six Years Ago
After graduating high school, the four of us (a nerdy boy named Robbie joined our group senior year because he and Beck became quick friends) postponed college. Now, a few years later, the four of us sit in our old school, the school having a mini concert open to the public, watching as the new music teacher, Andre Harris, plays piano with the school band and a group of seniors fail to sing 'Livin' On A Prayer'.
"If they don't shut up in the next five seconds, I'm skinning them alive for killing that song." I say through gritted teeth, getting nods of agreement from Robbie and Tori, Beck zoning it out by listening to music on his iPod. "Cheater." I say, pulling the earbuds out.
"Dude, we've been over this. I'm the lead, not you." One of the guys, a stereotypical surfer boy with short bleach blonde hair and a tan, stopping the screeching and staring at the guy playing bass, the idiot wannabe rockstar still holding the microphone to his mouth.
"Okay, that's enough." Andre says, pressing a button to shut off the mics before announcing that the five minute intermission is starting.
"Well, they suck." I say, getting up and walking over to the snack table, grabbing a plate and filling it with nacho cheese Doritos. "What? It's all they have that doesn't look like snot." I say, seeing the looks from Tori and Beck.
"Can I talk to you in private, Tori?" Beck asks his girlfriend of five years, both ignoring the gag I let escape at the thought of Tori still dating him.
"Uh, yeah. Sure. We'll be back." Tori says, hesitant to leave since the words 'we need to talk' or 'can we talk in private' rarely end well for couples.
Five minutes later, after getting to know and becoming somewhat friends with Andre, Tori and Beck return, a wide smile on Tori's face and a satisfied smile on Beck's. "If you tell me you two had a quickie, I'm cutting his dick off." I whisper to Tori when we sit down for the second half to begin and Andre announces a female group will be coming out to sing 'I Love Rock and Roll'.
"No. Don't be gross, Jade." Tori says, showing me her left hand. Specifically, the ring around her ring finger. "Beck proposed in the locker hallway, where we bumped into each other his first day." She says, gushing and near vibrating in her seat.
"What?" I whisper, ignoring her excitement, as I stare at the diamond ring around her finger.
It is now 11:45, so I'm ending part one here. I can't promise when part two will be out, but I'll try for before the end of October or early November. I also have another idea involving Nailah, the wolf from chapter 2 that becomes the family pet. I'll start that when I'm done with the next chapter.
I know I said in my 'Defensive' two-shot that I'd be working on a remake/rewrite of my zombie fic, I just wanted to get this out since I forgot about it when I wrote it a while ago. Sometime this week, I'll have the first chapter of the rewrite out.
Thank you for reading, hope you liked it and review.
Blessed Be.