The Great Ping Pong Scam

Beck's POV

We all get into Sikowitz's van, and I sit next to Jade. She smiles and grabs my hand, resting her head on my shoulder.

"How long a ride is it?" Tori asks, sitting next to Andre.

"About a half an hour," Andre explains.

"That's so long!" Cat squeals. "Oooh! I know how to pass the time!" She realizes. "99 cartons of milk on the wall 99 cartons of milk! Take one down, open the spout, drinkety drink till the milk runs out!" Cat chirps. Coon, Tori and Andre join in. Jade covers her ears.

"Kill me." She demands. I hate it when she says things like that. I pull her tight into my chest and whisper,

"Never, although I admit, they are really annoying,"

Jade is relieved when the other occupants in our van sing about each and every carton of milk on the wall, but I think her sanity is about to crack when Cat says "No more cartons of milk on the wall, no more cartons of milk, go to the store, buy some more, 99 cartons of milk on the wall!"

"99 cartons of-" The singers begin again.

"NO!" Jade screams. They all shut up.

"We're here!" Sikowitz exclaims, pulling into the parking lot. Jade smiles.

We go into a public restroom and all get changed into our fancy clothes, Tori sees us, and looks bewildered.

"Tori," Jade says, smiling. "Where's your dress?" She asks evilly. I roll my eyes.

We go into the restaurant and I sit next to Jade. We order our food, and toast to ping pong.

"Yes! I'm wearing a ping pong uniform!" Tori exclaims angrily. I look over at my girlfriend, who is wearing a sparkly purple and black dress to match my black and purple tux.

I lean over and whisper in Jade's ear, "You look amazing," In her ear. She rolls her eyes, smiles, and kisses my cheek, but I think I'm pretty sure this was a distraction so she could steal a piece of my steak. Whatever.

"How could you not think to bring a fancy dress?" Andre asks Tori. He was probably looking forward into seeing Tori all dressed up.

"I don't know I just didn't okay," Tori says, clearly annoyed.

"You said you reminded everyone to bring nice clothes," I remind Jade.

"I did." Jade insists.

"You didn't remind me."

"Whoops." Jade says sarcastically. I roll my eyes, and so does Tori, then I go back to enjoying the delicious food.

"How's everyone doing?" The waitress asks as she comes by. We all answer something along the lines of 'good', and the waitress goes away.

"This food is amazing," I tell Jade again.

"I know," She says, a mouthful of greens still in her mouth.

"Don't talk with your mouthful!" I scold.

"What are you my mom?" Jade asks.

"No! I'm just scolding you on your lack of manners," I correct her.

"Excuse me, you think I'm the one without manners? Beck, Tori's wearing a ping pong suit!" Jade exclaims.

"Alright, alright, you have good manners," I agree. Jade smiles "Happy?"

"Very." She responds, taking another bite of her food.

"what do you think Robbie's doing?" I ask. Jade shrugs.

"Probably asking for a separate chair for Rex." Jade suggests. I laugh, then a man appears overhead and asks,

"Is everyone happy today?" A chorus of yes's rang through the room.

"How is your drink sir?" The man asks Sikowitz.

"Very moist!" Sikowitz responds. Jade groans.

"What?" I ask her.

"I HATE he word moist." She reply's.

"Oh yeah. Why?" I wonder.

"'Cause.. It's just like.. 'moist, 'moist' moist'" Jade imitates. I roll my eyes.

"Whatever," I say. "Are you coming over after this?" I ask. Jade smiles.

"Yeah I guess! It would be cool to see Death again!" Jade smiles. I laugh, Death is fish in my tank that Jade seems to have bonded with, because she saved him from drowning in his castle.

"Yes, he has missed you," I say.

"He better have. I saved his life." Jade tells me.

We eat our food for a while until I see Jade isn't eating anymore.

"You done?" I ask her. Jade nods.

"I'm sooo full." Jade groans. I look at her plate, there is a huge chunk of meat she didn't eat.

"Can I have that?" I ask.

" Sure," Jade allows, rolling her eyes. "You're such a pig. And you wonder why you have like no muscles." Jade says smiling. I take her leftovers to finish.

"I do too have muscles!" I defend. Jade smirks.

"Yeahhh." She says sarcastically.

"I have an entire six pack! I can demonstrate that later," I challenge. Jade roll her eyes.

"Sure Beck, Sure." She says, rolling her eyes again.

Soon, we trade out our dinners for huge pieces of cake, that are even better than the dinner.

Jade has barely taken two bites of hers when she says, "I'm done."

"No no." I say, grabbing her fork. I drag it up to her mouth while she screams in protest.

"No Beck! Stop! Don't you want a skinny girlfriend?" Jade screams while I try to force some cake down her throat. Eventually, she caves and I'm able to get some in.

"Beck!" She says, although her cry is muffles from the cake in her mouth.

I do the same thing to Andre, although, he didn't squirm around, and actually appreciated my help.

Overall, all went smoothly before we got the check.

"It's 13 hundred dollars!" Sikowitz clarified for us. We all stared at him, shocked.

"Way to go Tori!" Jade yells. It's not Tori's fault.

"Wait wait, I see the problem. They mistakenly charged us an extra $600 for caviar." Sikowitz realizes. Oh, why would they do that?

"Excuse me, sir," Sikowitz says.

"Hi is there a problem?" The man asks.

"Yes, we were mistakenly charged for $600 worth of caviar." Skiowitz explains.

"Oh, that's not a mistake," Huh? "That awkward young man over there ordered a large bowl of caviar." The waitress explains. Everyone at the table faces Robbie.

Of coarse, Robbie tries to blame it on Rex. Sorry Rob, that excuse won't work this time.

Our table burst into argument, and the guy, who I think is the owner, has to shush us.

The owner tells us that if we don't pay, he's gonna call the police, which causes Sikowitz to ditch us. Great.

The owner has to leave for a moment because someone is complaning again about how there is no live music. Then, Tori stands up.

"Uh, guys. I think I may be able to fix both our problems," tori says. She walks over to Jade.

"Give me your dress!" Tori orders. Oh, Tori wants to sing to pay off our bill and create live music. I sigh, why does she have to make Jade give her her dress, why can't Jade just sing. Jade's better.

"What?" Jade asks with a mouthful of fruit.

"Give me you dress," tori explains.

"This one?" Jade points at her dress.

"Yes that one! Come one!" Tori exclaims.

Jade's POV

I give Tori my dress and change into her stupid ping pong uniform.

I can't believe this. I really hate Tori. Before she came, if we had to sing at a fancy restaurant, I would be the one to do it. Now, even if I'm wearing a pretty dress and Tori's not, she still gets to perform.

I sit next to Beck as Tori performs one of Andre's songs that is secretly dedicated to her, called 'tell me that you love me'. All she is doing is walking around like an idiot and people are clapping. Why?

Halfway through the song, Beck whispers in my ear, "You would have sung it better," I smile.

"I know," I answer.

At the end of the song Beck kisses my cheek, and I turn expectantly, and he kisses my lips, quickly, but sweetly.

"I love you" He whispers so quietly only I can hear it. I smile.

"I love you too." I reply