Disclaimer: I don't own Victorious or any of the characters or anything else.

A/N: I know it's not really a bade scene, but I wanted to do the 'how they got together' scene without doing it the normal way. R&R.

The Great Ping Pong Scam

"So…"

Beck sighed and looked at Tori patiently. He had been waiting for her to get to the real reason she had been sitting outside the dance studio with him for the last twenty minutes. He was waiting for Jade, but he was pretty sure Tori didn't know that since Jade refused to talk about her biweekly dance sessions. He stopped calling them lessons when he learned that Jade was in there by herself. "Yes?"

"You and Jade…" Tori looked around expecting Jade to stomp over and yell at her, but the hall was empty.

"What about me and Jade?"

"You guys have been together for two years." Beck didn't say anything. "And you guys created the ping pong team two years ago." Beck nodded as she stared at him expectantly. He got what she was asking, but he wanted to see if she would really ask. "You're going to make me ask, aren't you?"

"I am."

"Were you and Jade together?" Beck took a moment to think back, then shook his head.

"No?"

"Not yet." People always tried to ask Beck about his relationship with Jade, but usually they chickened out before they got to ask the question they wanted.

"But it was around then, right?" Tori concentrated as she did the math in her head. When they had broken up Jade had mentioned only being together one year and eleven months.

"It was." Tori waited for him to say something more, but he stayed silent.

"When did you guys get together?"

"A few weeks later." Beck was thinking about counting how many questions she would ask to get the full story instead of just asking how.

"But you weren't exclusive, right?" Beck looked into her eyes surprised. That wasn't usually something people guessed. "Your profile video," Tori explained.

Beck nodded remembering how Jade had mentioned it. "We weren't. It took us about six months."

Tori paused waiting for more information, but gave up quickly and asked, "Her idea or yours? Cause I'm thinking that Jade wasn't really into that."

"Actually is was both of us." People never thought Jade would do well with casual dating, but she had been the one that insisted on it. He had been seeing other girls at the time, but he offered to break it off with them. She declined.

"But she's so jealous." Tori couldn't imagine Jade willingly sharing Beck.

Beck laughed. He had been surprised by her jealousy at first. She had never seemed to care much before they were exclusive. "I know." Jade's explanation that he was her's now that they were exclusive and, therefore, her's to be jealous over had been more endearing than he had expected.

"Well, what happened?" Beck looked at her stupidly. "I mean how did the you guys progress from casual to exclusive."

"It just happened. I was seeing her and two other girls regularly. There were a few other girls that I went out with once and never saw again. Within a few months I was blowing off the other girls to hang out with her. I told her then that I thought we should go exclusive, but she said no."

"Wait, she said no?" Tori asked shocked.

"She said no," Beck confirmed.

"Wow." Tori took a minute to absorb that fact, then said, "Continue."

"I kept seeing the other girls, until one got jealous. She told me to pick between her and whoever else I was seeing. I didn't choose her."

"So you were only with Jade and that other girl?"

Beck nodded. "One night Jade asked me who I was dating and I told her that there was only one other girl. She didn't comment on it, but a few days later she told me she wanted to be exclusive."

"Wow." Beck wondered if her curiosity was satisfied or if she would ask something else. "Why pick her?"

Beck never knew how to explain how he saw Jade to other people. He had tried, but it never seemed to come out right. "She's different, special." Tori nodded along as if she understood, but Beck could see she was just as clueless before he answered.

"Beck, I'm done, let's… Vega." Jade snarled coming out of the door beside Beck.

"Bye Beck! Bye Jade!" Tori yelled over her shoulder as she made her way down the hall.