Picking Up The Pieces

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Andre refused to speak to Tori for most of the remaining school year (which, granted, was only a couple of weeks). He wouldn't eat lunch with her, sit near her in class, or do any work with her. The only times when Tori ever saw Andre now was whenever they had class together but that wasn't much better because Andre still refused to speak to her, sit near her or even make eye contact. Even when, by some sick cosmic joke, Andre and Tori were paired up to write a script for Bradsteen's class for their final project, Andre refused to work with her. He merely wrote the script by himself and turned it in under his and her name while Tori tried to contact him again and again. At least he put her name on it but it didn't repair their relationship. Beck, Robbie, Cat and Jade watched in agony as two people who were once best friends and then lovers drifted apart. It was painful to watch their close friendship die and it was definitely discouraging. The four of them alternated between sitting with Tori or Andre at lunch, both of whom had seemed to close up to them as well. Did anything matter to either of them anymore?

One day, close to the end of the school year, Cat, Robbie, Rex, Beck and Jade all sat together at lunch, deciding not to eat with either Tori nor Andre this time. They had pretty much given up on trying to talk to either of them during lunch time for Tori had become a mess and Andre acted as if he were on his own island. None of them were really in the mood to eat. Naturally, Tori and Andre's deteriorating relationship was the predominant thought in each of their minds. They knew they had to talk about it.

"What are we going to do about them?" asked Cat.

"I don't know. Tori's going to cry if we bring up Andre to her and Andre will knock our lights out if we try to talk to him about Tori," said Beck.

"But we can't just sit by and do nothing. This is destroying them both, especially Tori," said Robbie.

"Well, it's all Vega's fault," snapped Jade.

"It's always Tori's fault, isn't it?" sighed Beck.

"Well it is. She's the one who killed Andre's sister. You can't make any excuses for that."

"But there was no way Tori could have known she was Andre's sister. It wasn't entirely her fault."

"Why do you have to defend her? She still did it!"

"I'm not defending her, I'm just stating a fact!"

"So am I! Do you want to break up so you can go running off to Vega?"

"No Jade! Why do you have to keep being so paranoid about me and Tori?"

"Because I don't want you running off with that slut!"

"Why do you have to be so mean to her? She's going through a hard enough time as it is! She didn't even do anything slutty!"

"There you go defending her again!"

"What's happening to us? We're falling apart!" screamed Cat in sadness. Everyone turned to Cat who was now on the verge of tears.

"No, we're not. Everything's going to be OK," Robbie said, trying to comfort Cat. He wrapped his arm around her shoulder and allowed her to rest her head on his own shoulder.

"Nice move, Robbie," said Rex, but Cat reached over, put her hand on Rex's face and pushed him off the table. Robbie was too preoccupied to care at the moment.

"Can we get back to the topic? How can we possibly fix this?" he asked.

Beck and Jade set their argument aside, at least for now.

"We definitely need to talk to them," said Beck.

Jade sighed. "Beck's right. As much as I don't care for Vega right now, I won't sink so low as to let her friendship with Andre die. Neither of them deserve that; they're the best thing that ever happened to each other," she admitted.

"I guess we should try to stop by their houses when they have some more privacy. They won't talk to us at school, especially about each other," said Robbie.

"Yeah, we can do it on Saturday," said Beck.

"I think Jade and I should try to talk to Tori and you and Beck should talk to Andre. It'll be easier that way," suggested Cat.

Everyone seemed to nod in agreement. It wasn't much but it was a plan. And it was very likely that neither Tori nor Andre would be willing to talk to them when they came over. But they had to try. For both Tori's and Andre's sakes.

Supporting characters to the rescue!

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