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Sorry I just wanted to share because I just discovered this- and sorry I haven't updated in forever. I just started college so I've been semi preoccupied/ we haven't had a new victorious episode in FOREVER, and I really want to keep things canon so gwaaa, but anyways new chapter!
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Cat and I are sitting in 'Acting for the Stage". She was down this morning, but she seems have calmed down. In fact, she seems cheery. Of course, it's not unusual for Cat to have mood swings.
"You seem to have cheered up" I say to Cat when class ends. She stares at me with her big eyes.
"I have?" she asks.
"Well you seemed" I gesture with my hand tenatively not wanting to upset her "a bit upset this morning."
"Oh" she replies "I was."
"But you aren't now?" I press. She shakes her head.
"No I am, but I'm not" she replies "Jade and Tori are going to drive me to San Diego!"
"San Diego?" I retort. It's a school night, and San Diego is quite a ways away. "Why San Diego?"
"Because Mona Patterson died!" Cat snaps as if offended.
"Mona Patterson from 'I married my mom?'" I offer, and for some reason Cat seems to relax, a smile appearing on her face when I reveal my knowledge of Mona Patterson.
"Yeah! Jade is driving me to visit her house! And Tori is coming!" Cat explains cheerily.
"To San Diego?" I repeat.
Cat nods fervently "We're driving my brother's car!"
"Why don't you take Jade's car?" I question, when our teacher walks in the room, and Cat's eyes become wide before se presses her fingers to her lips in an effort to silent me. As we start the class I'm busy thinking about Jade not driving her own car. I want to ask Cat after class, but I know it will take a long time to get to that point again with Cat and so I resolve I'll mention it at lunch to Tori. Even if Tori doesn't know, she'll make it her business to find out.
Jade, Cat and Robbie head out for lunch, so it's just Andre, Tori and I sitting around the table. Robbie said they were just heading down the street- walking. I took note of that when I sat down with my pizza at the table.
"See when you hear the word boobs" Andre is saying to Tori as I sit down "you think of boobs- you know- on a person. But when you hear the word 'boobies' you just think of boobs alone, floating around in space." Tori is staring at Andre, her eye brows creased.
"No" she finally says shaking her head and returning to her food. Andre looks at me, in hopes I'll say something helpful, but I just shrug. He lets out a long sigh and returns to his lunch.
"Where is everybody" I ask before taking a bite of my pizza. "I feel like Rex would have some great input at this moment."
"Robbie, Cat and Jade are going out" Andre said "They're walking over to Roscoes."
"Why don't they just drive?" the question comes out awkwardly, and I try to play it off. I know why Cat and Robbie can't drive. Neither has a car.
"Well Jade can't" Andre says, and the tension grows between he and I, a tension that Tori is unaware of.
"Why not?" she demands.
"She had her car taken away" Andre explains, looking at Tori, but nervously glancing at me. "After her parents got Sinjin's hospital bill, and some other bill they took her car away." I know what the other bill is in an instant. The bill for the window when they were dog sitting.
"That blows" Tori says, playing with her food. "How has she been getting to school?" I know the answer. Cat's brother drives her, and Jade fights with him too often. Robbie's parents drop him off, or he bikes, and Jade would never ride with Robbie. Trina drives Tori, and Jade would rather stick her tongue in a food processor. I'm not driving her. She won't drive with her mom.
"I've- uh- been picking her up and dropping her off" Andre tells us. Tori chuckles.
"It must be a pleasant drive" Tori teases, still unaware of the tension.
"Uh- yeah" Andre says, and I take a breath. I can't hold this against Andre.
"She's quite the character to drive with" I try to say lightly "And even scarier to been driven by." Tori laughs.
"I can't even imagine" she comments.
"No my poor heart wouldn't dare dream of it" a mocking voice echoes, and Jade Cat and Robbie join us at the table.
"I don't talk like that" Tori snaps and Jade smirks. She's sitting between cat and Andre, and it's weird not having her next to me. "How was lunch?"
"Great!" Robbie exclaims.
"Yeah I love chicken and waffles!" Cat chimes.
"I still don't believe that poultry and breakfast belong together" Rex comments.
"Well you're a puppet so no one cares what you think" Jade snaps, cruel and harsh. She hasn't even looked at me.
"Please don't use the word puppet it's-" Robbie begins but Jade's glare cuts him down mid sentence.
"Oh wait! Guess what we're driving to-" Cat begins but the bell cuts her off and we all head to class.
The rest of the day drags on.
I can't help but think of Jade, trapped, unable to drive away, unable to escape. I think of how sad and angry she must be, how trapped she must feel. I know how much she hates it and this time, I'm not there to pick her up. I'm not there to help her escape. I've left her alone.
After school Andre and I sit outside and get work done. We're particularly silent as we thumb through pages of our respective books.
"Beck" Andre says, looking up from his book. I turn to him. "you know you're one of my best friends right?"
"Right" I reply, a faint smile on my mouth at his use of the term 'best friends'. Andre, still uneasy, goes to return to his book.
"Thanks" I say solemnly and Andre looks up. He looks at me, guiltily, but I don't have to explain what I'm thanking him for. Or that I'm sincere. His shoulders aren't as tense as before. And we talk, and it's nice and I realize that this is what I have to get used to. Not being able to help Jade. Her not wanting my help. Her wanting no part of me.
Short chapter I know, the next will actually have interaction between the two of them. GWA. It really bugged me that Jade drove Cat's brother's car in Cat, Rain and Fire because Jade has her own car so it just didn't click in my head. And then that spoiler gif with Andre and Jade!?
But I have plans for the next few chapters which won't take years to come and GWA CANT WAIT FOR THE NEW EPISODES GOTTA KEEP THIS CANON.
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