U is for Un-pretty

"," Cat sang, skipping down the hallway. She was in a great mood. Robbie had given her an entire bag of Hershey's Kisses! All to herself! And she loved Hershey's Kisses because they made her feel loved and beautiful. So Hershey Kisses given to her from Robbie meant…

She was so blinded by her glee, she almost ran straight into Beck, Jade and Tori. Beck was holding something out to Jade, and Jade was accepting it.

"What's this?" Jade asked grumpily, unwrapping a silver necklace with a heart shaped ruby in the center.

"A present for the most beautiful girl in the world," Beck whispered to her. Jade hid her smile and allowed Beck to hug her, then kissed him hungrily.

"Aww," Tori said, but her face told Cat that something was wrong.

"Just because you don't have a boyfriend to lie and pretend that you're pretty doesn't mean you can watch me with mine," Jade snapped, pulling away from Beck's lips.

"Lie, like Beck does to you?" Tori asked her eyes unusually shiny.

"Weather he lies or not, at least I have a boyfriend," Jade laughed cruelly. "A boyfriend you want, obviously."

"I don't want Beck," Tori said, her face growing pink.

"Hi I'm Tori Vega," Jade started in her Tori Voice. "It's the second day of school, and I'm gonna use an acting exercise to kiss Jade's boyfriend! That's the only way I'll ever get to kiss a real boy without paying him!"

"Beck wanted to kiss me," Tori said, her voice unusually steady. Her eyes were still extra shiny.

"Oh really?" Jade looked to her boyfriend.

"Uh, not exactly," Beck said. "I just didn't want to be rude. Sorry, Tori."

"You know what? Fine. That's just fine," Tori said, sprinting off towards the girls' room. Judging by the tone in her face, Cat was almost positive that Tori was the opposite of fine.

"Uh, I gotta go," Cat said, watching as Jade and Beck started making out again. She took off towards the same bathroom Tori had ran to.

"There you are," Cat said, out of breath. She realized why Tori's eyes had been so shiny. They were filled with tears.

"What Cat?" She sobbed, hunched over the sink.

"I just wanted to see if you were okay."

"Do I look okay?"

"No," Cat said softly. "I'm sorry."

Tori just cried harder.

"Why don't you feel okay?" Cat asked, twisting her red hair anxiously.

"Because Jade's right," Tori whispered. "She's right about everything…"

"No she's not," Cat said. "Sometimes she's wrong…"

"Well, she's not today. She's right. I am ugly."

"Tori, no you're not," Cat argued.

"Look at me, Cat," Tori demanded. Cat obliged, and saw Tori's usually pretty face was damp with mascara darkened tears. Her hair was all over the place and her cheeks were puffy from crying.

"Tori, even though right now you don't look pretty on the outside you are always pretty on the inside," Cat remarked, hugging her around the middle. "I know that sometimes you don't feel pretty, but you always can be."

"How?" Tori asked her voice hardly more than a whisper. "Makeup and new clothes and all that?"

"No," Cat smiled sadly.

"Then how?"

Well, you've got to let your inner beauty shine out of you."

"How do I do that?" Tori demanded. "No matter how much inner beauty I have, Jade focuses on the outside."

"No she doesn't," Cat defended her friend. "She likes you, Tor. She's just jealous of your relationship with Beck…Jade doesn't like it when girls flirt with him, and I think that kiss you had with him still hurts her. See, that wasn't a beautiful thing to do."

Tori nodded slowly.

"I regret that," she whispered. That was the first time Tori had ever said that about the kiss. It haunted her, and she wished it had never happened, but hadn't told anybody the way she really felt.

"Really?"

"Yeah," Tori whimpered. "But that doesn't help at all. Nothing will help."

"Tori," Cat said softly. "You have to shine as much as you can on the inside and allow it to shine through on the outside. Aren't you the girl that can always make it shine?"

Note: Hey guys. So didya like it? Sorry there wasn't that much Cabbie, but I included a little in the beginning for all the shippers. And the next couple chapters won't have that much either, I'm afraid. But the last few will, okay? BTW, any ideas for Z? And if you haven't already, check out my poll that has almost nothing to do with Victorious..LOL. Review! Or else I will call Tori to come and try to steal your boyfriend. She's good at that…Sorry, no Tori bashing…Sometimes I can't help it though ;p