Hey y'all, I guess I'm back, sort of :P
No more Canon Jori, and that makes me sad :( But I plan on finishing the story, I still have about 6 chapters thought out... Once again, thank you so much to all of you who review, you guys are my rocks :D
Previously, on West: A Side-Story:
Jade was looking straight ahead, shaking. Tori used her left hand to gently turn Jade's face towards her. "Jade, just don't think about it, nothing is going to happen." Jade stopped trembling, focusing her attention on coffee-colored eyes. Tori had a warm smile, and Jade felt the scent of caramel and chocolate cookies, and Tori's cool hand on her cheek. Tori didn't realize how close she had placed herself next to Jade, until in a literal blinking moment Jade's lips were on hers.
The stop took longer than usual, as the guy on the carriage behind them had bribed the controller for extra time at the top, as he was proposing to his girlfriend. A shriek was heard from his now fiancé, which made fireworks shoot across the sky. Tori and Jade however, didn't notice any of this, they didn't hear anything and had their eyes closed. They hadn't noticed the carriage starting to move, instead Jade grabbed Tori's waist with both hands, Tori lowered her right hand along Jade's back and pressed the girl closer to herself. Jade was lightly suckling on Tori's bottom lip. Tori sighed, and was about to unseal her lips, attempting to deepen the kiss, when a jolt signaling the approach of the end of the ride caused Jade to jerk and stand up in a flash. The doors opened almost immediately after Jade stood up, and she jumped out, moving briskly to the parking lot. Tori breathed out and exited the carriage, grabbing her forgotten stuffed unicorn. Jade started to slow down her pace halfway, letting Tori catch up to her. After the silent walk to the car's spot, Jade exhaled and turned to Tori "So… That happened…"
Not looking at Jade, Tori deadpanned "Yeah, I guess it did."
Jade ran her right hand's fingers through her hair, stopping at the back of her neck, "I'm sorry, Tori, I, uh…"
Tori got closer to Jade and covered the other girl's mouth with her hand, smiling softly "Don't, Jade." She let go of the girl's mouth.
"I guess you lied then."
Tori looked at Jade confusedly "What are you talking about?"
"You said that nothing was going to happen." Tori burst out laughing, Jade following.
Tori jokingly said "Well how was I supposed to know you would be taking advantage of me?"
Jade didn't reply, running a hand through her hair, turned from Tori, walking to the driver's side, unlocking the car doors and getting in the car and buckling herself in. Tori exhaled and got in the passenger's side. Jade ignited the car and drove out of the parking lot. "Look Tori, I was freaking out and did something stupid that I shouldn't have done. Let's just forget about it."
"No."
"What do you mean no? Are you going to hold it against me or something?"
Tori turned to Jade, who was focusing intently on the traffic-free roads. "No, Jade."
Jade sighed deeply " I regret it, and thus apologize for my actions."
"You're lying."
Jade turned briefly to Tori, turning her attention again to the front "What? No I'm not!"
"We both know neither of us regrets it." Jade squinted and started grinding her teeth lightly as they approached Tori's neighborhood "But I get it, we all have to lie sometimes."
"I have no idea what you're on, Vega."
Tori exhaled irritatingly, then spoke in the kindest voice she could muster. "How about we watch Edward Scissorhands tomorrow, everyone's out"
Jade breathed out annoyed while stopping the car in front of Tori's driveway "What?"
Tori took out her seatbelt and turned her whole body to face Jade, and lightly held Jade's chin to face her, this time keeping a safe distance between them. "As I was saying, I get it Jade, we all lie sometimes." Jade looked at Tori confusedly, while Tori sighed "Look, I could tell you that I'm nice to you because that's just the way I am, I could tell you that I haven't offered people money just to get the chance to see you smile, and I could tell you that the hue in your eyes isn't my favorite color in the world. The problem with all of that is that I would be lying." Jade appeared to be processing mentally as Tori let go of her chin and opened the door, putting her right foot out of the car "So, tomorrow, around three-ish?" Jade, still bewildered, turned her head to the front of the car, nodding as more of a reflective seizure. "Great, see you then!" Tori closed the door and made her way to her home, as she took two steps Jade started speeding, almost leaving skid marks on the road, Tori smiled as she looked back to her now empty driveway.
Jade wasn't sure if she should go to Tori's house, she had a plethora of other things to do on a Saturday afternoon. Yet on that day she had woken up at eight in the morning, feeling somewhat high-spirited, considering she hadn't slept much that night, as well as her being, well, Jade. She had spent most of the morning picking out her outfit, leaving her room in a mess, settling on a black-laced skirt and leggings and a light blue tank top with a black corset. She made herself a batch of black coffee, leaving it to brew while she showered. Jade had cranked up her music to be heard all the way around the lower floor of her house, and was in a particularly intense karaoke session when Alma caught her mid-song. Alma shook her head while smiling and picking up the clothes left strewn around Jade's room. After getting ready and finishing the last remaining essay due on Monday, when the school holidays would officially end, Jade went to the kitchen when Alma had prepared some chicken fajitas.
At 2pm Jade left her house, saying goodbye to Alma, who was finishing the last preparations for the arrival of Jade's mother and brother the next day. Jade arrived at Tori's neighborhood in less than 15 minutes, parking at the side street closest to the Vega household's street. Jade spent the next 50 minutes with her car turned off and her head leaned on the car's wheel.
At 3:18pm, Jade was seen exiting her car in a flurry, an audible "Fuck it" followed by an incoherent rant. When Jade got to Tori's driveway, the other girl already had the door opened. Jade stopped a few steps from the door and gave Tori a skeptical look "So you knew I was coming?"
Tori smiled "We have a really good neighborhood watch, they called more than a half hour ago to ask if the 'crazy girl' knocking her head on her car's wheel belonged to one of us."
Jade entered the house, pushing Tori aside "I belong to no-one." Jade sat on the couch and put her feet up on the coffee table, between two large bowls.
"So, I made chocolate-covered popcorn and salty ones, wasn't sure which one you'd prefer." Jade put her feet on the floor and took a handful of each of the popcorn options on the table, munching on both as Tori went to get drinks from the fridge, smiling "What would you like to drink?"
"Soda's fine, so are we going to watch the movie or not?" Jade spoke with her mouth full.
"Calm down!" Tori walked to the living room carrying two bowls with two glasses on top of them, with a large bottle of soda. She stopped next to the couch where Jade was sitting, raising her eyebrow "Are you going to push me off the couch if I sit next to you?"
Jade looked at Tori with a smug look, smirking "I make no promises."
Tori rolled her eyes and sat next to Jade, at which the pale girl responded stiffening herself, Tori nudged her lightly "Chill Jade…" Tori laughed gently "Wow, I never expected to tell Hollywood Art's Ice Queen to chill."
Jade looked irritatingly at Tori, "So you think I'm the Ice Queen?"
Tori scooted closer to Jade and with her pointing finger started softly tracing patterns on Jade's shoulder "I thought so before, but then yesterday you changed my mind…"
Jade took the other girl's hand and placed it on Tori's lap. " How about we focus on the movie."
Tori pouted dramatically "Oh? So no torrid love-making today?"
"Fuck it, I'm leaving." Jade starts to get up. Tori stops her without much of a fight.
"Ok, Jade, I'll stop joking, relax. I'm just grateful you aren't trying to kill me."
The pale girl replied sardonically "Oh, so you did all of this just so I'd be nice to you?"
Tori came back with a coy smile "I was actually just looking for a new squeeze."
"This is ridiculous." Jade said exasperatingly as she resumed her exiting.
Tori grabs her arm and turns the other girl, effectively stopping her. "Jade, I'm sorry, but I'm tired of pretending. I get it, it's all a game to you, but every time you take a jab at me and act like you are the freaking ice queen it hurts me." Jade looked down at the arm Tori was holding, Tori grabbed a lock of Jade's hair and put it behind her ear. "Would it kill you to stop pretending to be mean to me, to maybe send a smile my way once in a while?"
Jade sighed. "It might." Both girls smirked. "Alright, let's finish watching movie." Jade walked back to the sofa, Tori took her hand and followed her. Jade sat down, the tanned girl sitting closely next to her, on her left side. Tori grabbed Jade's arm and put it around her own shoulders, and snuggled into Jade's torso, the pale girl gave out a small smile at the gesture.
"I'm getting real tired of these shenanigans, Jade."
"What are you talking about?"
"Me having to pull you in, and having to…" Tori didn't get finish her train of thought, as Jade had silenced her by cupping her face and fusing their lips together. Tori was left for a second as a fish struggling for water, then opened her eyes, revealing that Jade had turned her attention back to the movie and took her arm off of Tori's shoulders.
"This is the good part!"
Tori huffed and crossed her arms around her waist, whispering, "I thought so too."
Jade maintained her gaze on the movie, yet smirked at Tori's whisper "Come now Tori, if you get your feathers all ruffled up with a simple kiss, imagine when we get to the good parts."
Tori perked up and uncrossed her arms "So we will get to the good parts?"
Jade leaned back to the sofa and looked briefly at her classmate, with a saddened look "Be patient, Tori."
Tori smiled and whispered "I'll take that as a yes" and reached inside the bowl of salted popcorn with her left and chocolate popcorn with her right, taking one of each, getting a crave for the mixture after tasting them in Jade's lips. She thought the mixture somehow managed to sum up Jade. She originally thought mixing both types of popcorn to be strange and somewhat revolting, yet they complimented each other, chocolate calmed the saltiness, and the salt enhanced the flavor of the mix, leaving you hungry for more. "So Jade…"
Jade turned to face Tori "Yes?"
"What are we going to tell everyone about…" Tori motioned between the two of them "…this?"
Jade shrugged "Well, in the very unlikely event of anyone finding out, we can just say we are getting our 'experimenting' out of the way before college."
Tori got up irately, and opened her front door. "Get out."
Jade looked at the other girl bewildered "But what's..."
"OUT!" Tori physically pushed Jade out of the door, grabbing the other girl's bag and tossing it at her, closing the door with as much strength she could summon.
Heh, I'm sorry, I wasn't feeling this chapter. It was more like writing a ping-pong match than anything, hence the really crappy choice of song, Enrique Iglesias... I doubt next chapter is going to be smutty, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be fluffy as hell to make up for it. But anyways, I appreciate everyone's input, so tell me what you think.