Author's Note: This one's even longer than yesterday's. And this also has lyrics to It's Not Christmas Without You, but only partial lyrics, as I didn't think I could add it all. I don't like songfics, so I didn't want to make this like a songfic. But I kind of needed to add the song, so deal with it if you hate songfics, haters.

jk i love you all.

This one isn't very funny, but it wasn't really meant to be. This is a biggin'.

Character(s): Andre, Cat, Tori, Jade, Beck, Robbie, Anthony

Pairing(s): Bade, Cabbie(?), and Tandre

December 21st, 2011

It was the last day of school during the calendar year for the students of Hollywood Arts, and there was a half day so the students could have their Holiday Bash. It had just started, so there were dimmed lights, music, and a snack table with a huge bowl of cheese dip.

Their usual cheese fountain had been banned from all school functions after it had been used at the last Kickback for a weapon. A weapon that sprayed hot cheese in people's hair.

The student's in Anthony's song writing classes had been performing the holiday songs they wrote on top of the main staircase. Almost all the songs had been amazing and earned thunderous applause. The barbershop quartet got about three pity claps.

There were intermissions between each song, so most of the students took a break from dancing and mulled around. Andre was at the snack table, stuffing his face with chips and cheese. He ate when he was nervous.

And boy, was he nervous.

He didn't usually freak out about girls. Keeko and Sherri had been easy to ask out, since all he had to do was smooth talk and tell them he was a musician. Chicks dug musicians.

But this was Tori. Tori was different. She was special. This had to go off without a hitch.

Except he'd probably throw up his cheese and chips halfway through the song. That probably wouldn't be good.

"Hi!" Cat skipped up to him, holding a platter of meat with frilly toothpicks in them. "You're on after the next person! Are you excited?"

"That's one way to put it," Andre quietly said, walking away from the table. Cat followed.

Honestly, he was trying to look for Tori. He hadn't really seen her much that week and he wanted to talk to her before he went on. He sure as gravy wasn't going to tell her what he was about to do, but he just wanted to make sure she didn't go to the bathroom when he started singing.

Not that he thought she'd do that. Tori never missed his performances.

"Christmas beef?" Cat stuck the tray in his face, making it difficult to scan the main hallway. "My brother made it!"

"Yeah, I'll pass." Andre gently pushed the tray away.

By the expression on Cat's face, he might as well have snatched it away and thrown it on the ground. Or a puppy. "Why not?"

"Remember his Valentine's Day duck?" Andre put a hand over his stomach, the memory of that funkish meat making his stomach flop. "I was a mess until he started making Easter chicken fried steak."

"Aww." Cat frowned down at the platter. Her brother had worked so hard on that beef! He used at least three bottles of acrylic paint to make it just the right color!

Maybe Robbie would have some after he came out of the bathroom... He had better come back soon, or else he'd miss the big surprise Tori had for Andre! Nobody would wanna miss that!

She still couldn't believe she had been able to keep the secret from Andre. She usually wasn't good at that. Maybe love had something to do with it.

If there was one thing the Fairly Odd Parents taught Cat, it was that you can't tamper with true love.

That, and that corn is nice.

/ /

The intermission was almost over. Tori was wearing a Santa hat and a trench coat, which got her quite a few looks from other Hollywood Arts students, and let out a deep breath. She turned back to Jade, who was next to her and Beck in the upper staircase, and said, "Um, maybe this wasn't a good idea."

"All my ideas are good."

"Yeah, but... I think I'm going to have an anxiety attack."

"Don't."

"Great advice, babe," Beck quietly said, earning himself a glare from his scary girlfriend. He ignored it. "Look, Tori, it's going to be fine. You're gonna go out there and be amazing and Andre's gonna love it. Okay?"

Tori let out a deep breath, but nodded. "Okay. Thanks, you guys."

As she slowly made her way down the staircase, Jade cast Beck a relatively deadly look. "Oh, so now Vega's amazing? I bet if I was going to sing, you'd say-"

Beck interrupted by holding a finger up to her lips and saying, "That you'd be the best one out there and no one could even come close to comparison."

"... Ugh." Jade pushed his finger away. "Why are you so lame?"

"I love you too."

/ /

After putting her headset on and making her way down to the Christmas tree they had set up twenty days ago, Anthony made his way back up, a microphone in his hands. "Okay, quiet down, everybody," he said, gesturing for the audience of students to shut the heck up with his free hand. "Now, one of my star students, Tori Vega, was supposed to perform her song with her partner Courtney Van Cleef, but due to Miss Van Cleef's severe laryngitis, she will be performing solo."

Tori convincingly nodded, but winked at Courtney as soon as he turned away from her. They had agreed to tell Anthony that beforehand so it would be less suspicious when Tori starting singing a completely different song to a guy she liked, which was one thing Anthony did not know about.

Courtney was actually kind of decent, once you got past the fact that her brother was a huge nut block.

As he began to walk back down the steps, he announced, "So here she is, Tori Vega, singing Christmas Pants!"

There was another reason why Tori was glad she wasn't singing the song she and Courtney wrote.

The students standing in the hallway let out wild cheers and whoops, and Tori just sort of stood there and nervously waved. What she was about to do was finally starting to sink in. "Hi, everyone." Tori clasped her hands together. "While I will be singing for you, I won't be singing… Christmas Pants."

Robbie, who had come back long ago, muttered, "Christmas pants?" between bites of Christmas beef.

"Shh!" Cat popped another piece of Christmas beef into her date's mouth and looked over at Andre to see his reaction when Tori would say-

"Actually, I'm going to sing It's Not Christmas Without You, an original song that was recently written by Andre Harris."

Andre dropped the handful of chips he had just scooped into his hand onto the floor.

Tori looked right at him and, all of a sudden, the butterflies in her stomach vanished. "Andre, I listened to the song last night… It was the most beautiful Christmas song I have ever heard." Tori grasped the belt keeping her trench coat tied and smiled. "It was genuine. It was from the heart. And I want you to hear it from my heart too."

To Andre's surprise, after hearing that, he didn't toss his cheese like he thought he was going to.

As the music started playing, Tori removed the coat, revealing the sparkly red top, knee high boots and candy cane striped shorts and scarf she was wearing. "Carolers singin', sleigh bells are ringin', it's that time of year…" She started to dance, her glance still locked with Andre's.

As she continued to sing, the weight that had been on Andre's shoulder for two weeks seemed to be instantly lifted. Tori liked him back.

"Something's missing and I'm wishing, wishing that you knew, just how much it would mean to spend this Christmastime with you…"

Tori Vega, one of the most amazing girls he had ever met in his sixteen years of life, felt the same way about him as he felt about her. It was a feeling he had never felt before, so it was strange, but he knew it felt good.

"'Cause it's Christmas, and the start of something new…"

Wait, what was he going to sing? He couldn't very well sing the same song right after she did. How could he go up against that?

"… And I hope you feel it too."

"I do!" Andre blurted out without thinking about it, but he was drowned out by the instrumentals and the sounds of the dancing feet of his peers as they jammed out to the zesty beats Tori was laying down.

At least that's how Robbie would have described it.

"All of it means nothing, without you." Tori pointed at Andre, returning the huge smile he was giving her.

Andre looked over at Cat, who had put down her brother's beef and was dancing with Robbie. "Cat." Robbie stopped spinning her and Cat smiled at her friend. "Did you know about this?"

"Maaaybeeee…" Cat bobbed back and forth on the heels of her feet, making her lie even more obvious. Not that it wasn't obvious before.

"…'Cause it would mean so much to spend this Christmastime with you."

"Harris," a voice behind him called out. He spun around to find Jade there, holding out a light up microphone to him.

"Just trust your heart, 'cause I can't wait to hear you say…"

"If Vega can put it all on the line, then you can too."

Jade… She was right. Tori had made the first move. She had taken a big leap in their formerly platonic relationship. That wasn't fair. She deserved more than him just standing there looking like a dope.

"Well it's Christmas, and I hope you feel it too…"

"Gimme that." Andre gave Jade a thankful smile as he handed her the microphone and, the words flowing perfectly out of his mouth, belted out, "Everyone together sings, silver bells and golden rings," as he slowly made his way up the staircase and to the girl he had fallen head over heels for. "All of it means nothing…"

Their two voices became one as they looked into each other's eyes and sang, "Without yooouuu…"

Cat and Robbie had gone back to dancing with pretty much everybody else at the Bash. Jade, on the other hand, had walked back over to Beck, who was waiting for her by his locker and watching his friends dance and sing together in perfect harmony. "You're nicer than you give yourself credit for."

He wrapped his arm around her waist and she just grumbled something unintelligible. Something she probably shouldn't have said.

"Seriously. I'm proud of you." Beck tilted her chin up so she'd actually look at him and, over Andre and Tori's voices, told her, "And you would have sung it way better than Tori."

Dang. It was like he could read her mind and knew just what to say.

Maybe that's why she put up with his lameness.

But his lips were really warm, so all his lameness was totally worth it.

"It's not Christmaaaaas withoooout yooouuuu." As soon as the song ended, they wrapped their arms around each other in a much more loving manner than they ever had before and their friends and peers gave the duo the loudest applause out of any other performance they had heard that day. How could they not? It was by far the best!

And the most interesting. Anthony sure seemed like it had given him something to think about.

He walked back up to the two, specifically looking at Tori. "I'm pretty sure that's not how Christmas Pants went."

Andre and Tori separated, and Tori suddenly looked guilty for deceiving her teacher. "Well... I just, uh-"

"There's no need to fidget." Anthony smiled at her. "I totally got what you did."

"… You did?"

"You wanted to show me how powerful Andre's song could be when sung between two people with such chemistry. It… It really made the song."

"It did?" Tori cleared her throat and quickly added, "I mean yeah, of course it did."

"Andre..." Anthony sighed, crossing his arms. "I was wrong to grade you and Cat so harshly. After hearing the song again… It doesn't deserve a D."

Dude, this had to be the best day of Andre's life. "Wh-What did it deserve?"

Anthony uncrossed his arms, slowly smiled and held out his hand. "An A."

Andre couldn't even hear Cat's excited squeal of delight, as there was more applause and he was pretty sure his head was going to explode from joy. He managed to give Anthony a man hug and then went back to give Tori another hug.

"So… You wrote me a song, huh?" Tori quietly asked as the crowd began to calm down.

"Yeah… You sing it better than me though."

Tori laughed, resting her head on his shoulder. Being in Andre's arms, in a way she had barely been able to imagine a few days ago… It felt amazing.

Andre could only sum up his emotions in seven words.

"This is the best Holiday Bash ever."

This fic ended up being a lot more Tandre-ier than I thought. Curse my love of Tandre and their adorableness.

Sorry if you don't particularly like Tandre. I'll try to write more about something besides Tandre.

Unless y'all want more Tandre?

Or less?

I'LL WRITE WHATEVER THE WAZZ I WANT.

... iloveyouguys.