AN; Wow guys okay hay I just wanted to apologise for taking so long to update, college work has been keeping me crazy busy and yeah I'm super sorry!
Jade sat, slouching in her chair as she half listened to the teacher talk about the importance of emotional expression in acting. It wasn't anything Jade, or most of the class, didn't already know and it was quite impressive that the teacher had managed to speak about it for the majority of the hour long lesson. She was near enough falling asleep, head now resting against the desk, as the teacher continued to drone on. The rest of her class mates seemed to be just as bored. Well, all except one kid who was constantly jotting down notes and asking questions. He seemed genuinely intrigued by the lesson but Jade supposed someone had to be.
"And so for this assignment you will need to work in pairs." Jade sat up straight, wondering if she'd heard the teacher correctly. Pairs meant she could work with Tori although, as she glanced over to the girl, she realised she'd have to fend off the competition. The teacher went on to talk about whatever their project was as Jade pulled out her phone from her pocket, being careful not to get caught as she sent a text message to Tori. Want to work with me? The reply came a few minutes later accompanied by a confused look by the brunette herself. Why? Jade frowned slightly, looking up from her phone to raise an eyebrow at Tori.
"Miss West if you and Miss Vega have something to talk about I suggest leaving it until the end of the lesson," the teacher said loudly, looking at Jade disapprovingly as if it were all her fault. Sure maybe she'd started the conversation but Tori had replied so she should have had to suffer the dreaded look of disappointment from their teacher as well. The teacher went back to talking about the assignment and Jade went back to not really listening, instead doodling on her desk until the bell rung and they were allowed to leave.
Jade was quick to pack away her notebook and hurry out the class, not wanting to wait in there a minute longer in case the teacher decided to start questioning her about the lesson. She paused when she was in the hall way, waiting for Tori and smiling in what she hoped was a friendly way when she saw the girl. "So, will you be my partner or not?"
"Sure but … why?"
"Well we're friends now, right? Friends work together." Tori looked unconvinced and Jade sighed, crossing her arms. "I'm just trying to be nice, we don't have to if you don't wa-"
"No! No it's fine, we'll be partners," Tori said quickly, stopping Jade mid sentence with a smile. "You can come round my house after school and we'll start working on it."
"Great," Jade replied with a grin which, judging by Tori's reaction, came off as a bit creepy. She was going to have to work on that.
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"So, what's this project actually about?" Jade asked from her position on the bed. She was currently laying out, staring at the ceiling of Tori's bedroom as the other girl sat at her desk, turning on her laptop.
Tori sighed, glancing back at Jade before saying, "did you not listen at all in the lesson?"
The response Tori got was laughter because, apparently, the answer was obvious. Tapping in the password for her laptop, Tori swivelled her chair to face Jade who appeared to be tracing patterns in the air.
"Stop staring at me Vega and tell me about the damn project." Jade was willing to bet Tori had rolled her eyes.
"We have to write a dialogue for three to four characters, keeping to a certain theme and showing extremes of the emotions that would be felt-" Tori began, talking rapidly as she turned back to face her laptop and open up a word document for them to begin.
After a few minutes of explaining Tori realised Jade had tuned out and was not staring intently at the bed covers, having rolled on to her side at some point. Frustrated, Tori grabbed a pen off her desk and threw it at Jade, smirking as it hit the other girl on the arm.
"The hell was that for?"
"You weren't paying attention."
Jade muttered something under her breath that sounded vaguely like 'why am I doing this' but she sat up anyway and gave her full attention to Tori who then began to re-explain exactly what it was they had to do.
Half an hour later and Jade is busy scrawling ideas for what theme they could use for their short dialogue. Writing plays, for her, was something enjoyable but with a constant distraction coming in the form of one Tori Vega she began wondering if maybe she'd made the wrong choice.
"So what themes have you come up with so far?"
"Death, betrayal, loneliness and regret," Jade says, chewing on the end of Tori's pen as she spoke.
Tori, who was now sitting cross legged on the floor, glanced up from her laptop to speak again. Glancing at her pen in Jade's mouth, she paused for a moment, trying to remember what on earth it was she wanted to say because damn that was distracting. "So nothing cheerful then," Tori managed to say, coughing slightly as she dragged her attention away from the pen and back to her laptop screen, looking over what she had written.
"Death can be cheery," Jade replied with a smirk, amused by the look of terror on Tori's face.
"You can be really freaky sometimes."
"Hurtful, Vega."
Tori stuck her tongue out in reply, pushing herself up off the floor. "Come on, I'm starting to get hungry and I think we deserve a break," she said, pushing open her bedroom door.
"We haven't done much," Jade said, amused, as she followed Tori downstairs, flopping down on the sofa as Tori walked over to the kitchen.
Tori laughed, rooting through the fridge before pulling out bacon. "But we've done enough to deserve a bacon sandwich," Tori declared, holding the bacon up for Jade to see and grinning when the other girl smiled brightly.
It didn't take long for Tori to fry the bacon and butter up the rolls, although it would have happened quicker if Jade had helped her. Tori had asked but Jade just groaned from the sofa and so it was obvious that help was not going to be given.
"I'm not sure you deserve this you know," Tori said with a scowl as she finished the sandwiches, putting them on two separate plates and walking over to Jade.
Jade rolled her eyes, making to grab for the plate but only to have it held out of her reach. "You wouldn't have wanted my help, Tori! Remember last time me and you were in the kitchen?"
There was a long pause and then Tori handed Jade her plate, not quite meeting her eyes. "Yeah, at least there was no icing for you to get everywhere though," she joked weakly, sitting beside the darker haired girl but leaving a considerable gap.
Jade bit in to her sandwich, picking up the TV remote off the coffee table and switching the TV on, using the sound to fill the awkward silence that had started to fill the room. She shouldn't have mentioned anything, it was one of those things that should have stayed forgotten.
"Oh look Ace Of Cakes is on I love that show!" Tori said happily, stealing the remote from Jade's hand and putting the show on.
"Brilliant," Jade muttered under her breath, hardly sharing Tori's enthusiasm. The only thing she could think about was that damn kiss and that wasn't what she wanted. She ate her sandwich in silence, staring intently at the TV screen and not once daring to glance at Tori.
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"No Jade just put that-" crash "down," Tori finished, wincing slightly as Jade dropped Tori's mirror on to the floor. It wasn't on purpose, or at least Tori didn't think it was. Jade had been carrying it around the room as she spun around and, typically, the mirror had fell from her hands, smashing on the ground.
"Heh, whoops," Jade said, backing away from the shards of glass quickly before she could hurt herself. "I guess that's seven years bad luck for me."
Tori rolled her eyes, carefully edging her way around the mirror. "That mirror was a birthday present," she said simply, facing Jade with an annoyed look.
"It was an ugly mirror, I was doing you a favour," Jade replied, shrugging. For a second or two she thought Tori was going to hit her but then the brunette just laughed before heading downstairs, returning a few minutes later with a dustpan and brush.
Tori handed the dustpan and brush to Jade with a smirk. "Here, you get to clean it up."
With a scowl, Jade snatched the dustpan and brush from Tori's hands and swept up the broken glass that had fallen on the floor. She threw the broken glass and mirror frame into the bin in Tori's room before the girl could protest and then flopped onto her bed. "Happy now?"
Tori sighed and sat down on her desk chair, turning back to continue writing the notes as Jade went back to annoying her endlessly.
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At half ten at night, Jade finally decided it was time for her to leave and pushed herself up from where she had been sitting on the bed. "Well this has been fun, bravo us for getting so much work done, I'm going."
"Bravo us? You did hardly anything!" Tori protested, standing up and following Jade who was walking downstairs.
"I offered moral support."
Tori snorted, resisting the temptation to lightly hit Jade on the head. "Sure, whatever you say. Same time tomorrow?"
"You mean we aren't finished yet?" Jade whined as they reached the living room.
"Maybe if you'd have helped more we'd ha-"
Jade held a hand up to stop Tori talking, shaking her head as she slung her bag over her shoulder. "Yeah, yeah I get it Vega. I'll help more tomorrow."
"Promise?"
"Promise."
"Are you sure?"
"For fuck sake Tori! Yes, I'm sure," Jade snapped, glaring at Tori who only smiled, apparently not fazed by Jade's tone.
"Great, tomorrow we'll order in pizza," Tori informed her as she opened the front door.
Jade nodded in response, shifting the position of her bag and smiling as she stepped outside, unsure of how to leave. Before she could really give much thought to it though Tori had pulled her into a hug, saying a quick goodbye before shutting the door quite abruptly.
"Well that could have been weirder," Jade mumbled, staring blankly at the door for a moment before shaking her head and walking down the drive, calling up her mum to come pick her up.