End of Senior Year
Jade POV
"Can you believe this is our last week here?" Andre says from his seat next to me.
"Yes, I can't wait to get away from you all," I tell him, ignoring the feelings that come with thinking of leaving Hollywood arts.
"Nice try Jade," Beck says from his seat behind me, "but we all know Tori has made you soft"
I turn to grab my scissors from my boot but before I can jump at him Vega has caught me as she has walked into class.
"Jade, we have been over this you can't kill someone with this many witnesses around," She says taking a seat and pulling me on to her lap. I sigh leaning into her and putting the scissors back in my boot.
"And Jade has made Tori as crazy and violent as her" Andre says. I can practically feel Vega rolling her eyes.
"You punch one guy and you never live it down" she sighs, I laugh remembering back to Vega having to step in to save Andre and Beck being pummeled by some guys from another school that were twice their size after they had been hitting on their girlfriends.
"Guess what, guess what, guess what, guess what" Cat yells coming to sit next to us as we wait for Sikowitz to show up.
"What's got you yelling red?" Rex asks from Robbie's lap, I roll my eyes just when I thought we had gotten rid of the damn puppet he makes a surprise appearance in out last week.
"Well you know how Shelby Marx is retiring" Cat starts, and I feel both myself and Vega tense up. I see Andre nod, but Robbie and Beck look confused.
"The fighter, remember you said she had a hot girlfriend," Andre tells Beck. I lean over giving a Vega a kiss as she practically growls.
"Of Yeah Liz East," Beck says, turning his attention back to Cat.
"Guess who get tickets to her last ever fight," She says with a grin.
"No way" Andre shouts "You got tickets to the last ever Emília Martha vs. Shelby Marx fight," he says now standing up from his chair.
I look at Vega slightly panicked and see the panic in her eyes too. "How did you know it was me?" I hear Cat ask from behind me. As I prepare myself to lie to our friends one last time. We both hate the lying but we both know that our friends would end up telling someone not mentioning it by mistake.
"How did you manage that," Beck asks.
"Oh my roommate Sam is friends with her and got me some," she says handing out tickets to the guys.
"You only got four," Robbie asks.
"Well yeah, Jade and Tori won't come because they have to go and see Tori's grandmother" I look at her in surprise, nodding with Vega.
"Oh sorry, guys that suck this is going to be awesome," Andre says practically jumping up and down.
"Why did you give Sam tickets?" I ask as I climb on the back of Vega's bike.
"Well I didn't know she was going to give them to Cat," She tells me as we pull out of the parking lot, heading towards my house.
"What if they find out," I ask.
"They won't" she attempts to reassure me "while they probably won't I mean they haven't found out in four years so" I just nod against her back tighten my hold closing my eyes letting out a sigh. As I try to stop worrying about this on top of the fact that I have graduation, a play and two performances to get through by the end of the week before Vegas last ever match.
A part of me is still shocked that she decided to no longer fight, her claims that it was a high school job and should end with high school I still found partly ridiculous but mostly I was just relieved that I wouldn't have to watch my girlfriend being punched and kicked.
"We are home" I yell as, walk into the house.
"In the kitchen" Dad yells back, we ditch out helmets and bags at the door before meeting my parents in the kitchen for dinner.
"How was school?" mum ask as I walk over to help her carry over plates to the table.
"It was good, Robbie fell in rehearsal so that was a bonus," I tell her with a smirk.
"What time do you have training Tori?" she asks rolling her eyes at my answer.
"I have another hour before I have to head to the gym" as she walks in with our drinks. "Only one more week and then I never have to deal with training again," she says with a grin.
"I'm still upset that you didn't tell me you were retiring I could have made a bet on that" Dad grumbled.
"That would be cheating," We all tell him, he ignores us continuing to grumble.
"And how is the packing going?" Mum asks us, and I let out a groan, you would think we were leaving tomorrow, not in August.
"Mum, we have time to pack"
"Not much time, remember you have your vacation and you will want to spend time with your friends then you need to ship you boxes to the other side of the country," she says with a glare at the end. She still wasn't a hundred percent happy with our decision to move to NYC.
"I'm just glad Tori is also going to New York, you guys had me worried with all your we aren't going to tell each other about our plans until after we decide on them on our own, nonsense" Dad sighs, I roll my eyes again if it were up to him I'm sure he would have already married me off to Vega.
"Hey, you said we were being mature about not planning out futures around each other" Vega says offended.
"Yes, but then you had me worried that you were going to break up"
"Well apparently we don't need to worry about that, the nerds got into the same school," Mum says with a smirk.
"You can't act all tough now mum you cried when I told you I got accepted"
"Well sorry I'm proud of my kids," she says, I let out another sigh Vega becoming closes with both my parents were going to be a nightmare.
"I can't believe this is it," Beck says, we are all gathered near Vega's locker we had just finished our ceremony and were now high school graduates. "In a few months we will be spread all around the country and forget each other," He says staring at his feet. I hear myself let out a little sob as the tears I had been holding back all week finally break through.
"Damn it Beck why did you say that" I turn to bury my face into Vega's shoulder. I feel her wrap her arms around me and start rubbing circles into my back.
"Guys come on stop being dramatic" I hear her say but the crack in her voice doesn't help, as I cry harder against my will. "We aren't going to forget each other. I mean we will remember each other when we watch an awards show. I mean we have the best singer, best songwriter, best actor, best costume designer and not to mention the most amazing ever singer, actress, and writer" she says giving me an extra squeeze at the end and we all let out a laugh. "I better be mentioned in your acceptance speeches," she says and it helps me stop crying for a few seconds.
"She's right we are going to be awesome and see each other all the time" Andre but I can see he has tears in his eyes also.
"Or we will end up back here working in the asphalt café," Robbie says.
"At Least we would all be together" I grumble a bit too loudly, as they all let out awe. I bury my head back into Vega to hide my blush.
"Group Hug" Cat suddenly lets out, jumping at us quickly followed by the guys.
"We have all summer to be depressing and sad, let's get out of here and party," Andre says pulling away first. We all pull away wiping at our faces trying to be discreetly. We bend down grabbing out locker doors that we had already taken down. Linking arms we walk out Hollywood Arts High School for the last time.
"Alright, come on the last match," Trina says in the locker room, we are all wigged up and ready for our last time as Shelby Marx's entourage.
"Just need to win this and I will retire undefeated," Vega says and I let out a sigh.
"No, you need to finish this with no injuries, because we have a flight to catch in three days," I tell her.
"Yes, ma'am no major injuries," she says giving me a mock salute. I open my mouth to tell her no injuries at all but know it is pointless no matter how much I hate her getting hurt.
"Are you ready?" I ask her seriously, knowing that being Shelby Marx was important to her.
"Yeah, I'm excited to me in New York with my amazing girlfriend without the fear of having bruised ribs. What about you are you ready to let go of Liz East?" she asks with a grin.
"Yes, I can't wait to burn all these darn pink clothes," I tell her seriously, thinking of ways to also get rid of all the posts on social media of Liz East in her pink clothes.
"It's time" Someone yells through the door, I sigh giving Vega a kiss.
"Be careful"
Tori POV
"All right your all clear," the medic says, before grabbing his equipment and leaving the room. Jade is already climbing on to my lap and giving me a kiss before I get the chance to move.
"I guess it's official, I'm dating someone that's retired," She says with a grin.
"Yup, you are so old" She gives me a glare slapping my shoulder. She reaches up pulling off her wig and glasses and throwing them on the bench beside us.
"Are you sure your okay?"
"I'm great, I finished High School, I have an amazing girlfriend, we are going on vacation and I just retired as an undefeated champion," I say slightly smug.
"Don't let it go to your head?" she says leaning back in for a kiss that we both get lost in until we hear the door opening followed by multiple gasps. We look over to find our friends in various stages of shock standing behind Sam. Jade and I turn to look at each other before looking back at our friends.
"Surprise," we both say as Cat starts jumping up and down.
"I knew you were the same person" Cat screams.
The End