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091. Birthday
Much as Jade hated big deals, she knew Cat didn't. So with Tori's help, they planned out Cat's extravagant twenty-first birthday, complete with a song penned by Tori herself.
When Tori had first presented the scrap of paper with Jade's name written on it in Tori's familiar hand, Jade had been wary of the bright grin on her face. But Tori had pressed the paper into her hands, so Jade had unfolded it and scanned the contents.
"What is this?" she asked when she'd finished, eyes flicking up from the lyrics penned on the page also in Tori's handwriting.
Tori beamed at her. "My birthday present. You like it?" She looked up at her like a child awaiting their mother's approval, and Jade wasn't going to disappoint.
"Yeah, and I'm sure Cat will too." She folded the paper back on its creases and made to hand it back, but Tori just grinned and pushed it back. Jade raised an eyebrow.
"I'm sure she will," Tori remarked cheerily, ignoring Jade's suspicious expression, "considering you'll be the one singing it."
Jade's other eyebrow raised, then both eyes narrowed. "It's your song," she pointed out, jabbing a finger at the paper. Tori shook her head, prying open Jade's fingers and curling them back around the lyrics. Then with a pat and a smile, she turned and ran, leaving Jade standing in the middle of a set that wasn't hers.
"Vega!" she roared, dashing after a laughing Tori.
After a week of rehearsal – with the added bonus of learning how to play the song on the piano – Jade was ready. After a small bit of negotiating, she, Tori, and Andre eventually agreed that Jade would perform the song for Cat after everyone left. Jade had been apathetic, Andre had wanted to help play it, and Tori had thought that it should be performed private. Eventually and unsurprisingly, Tori won, Andre throwing his hands up in surrender with just a slight grimace.
The party went off without a hitch, Cat loving every minute and Jade spending more time than she should have drooling over the food. Tori and Andre were the last ones to leave, having helped clean up. Andre gave them both a hug before skipping out, keys spinning on his finger.
While Cat saw him out, Tori crunched Jade's ribs with a hug and hissed in her ear, "You're so gonna owe me after tonight." Jade's eloquent response was a suggestion of where Tori should stick her gutter-level thoughts and a hearty shove out the front door. Tori just laughed and waved, bounding over to the car.
Cat reappeared a minute later as Andre pulled the car out of the driveway, and after shutting the door, Cat gave her lover a warm kiss. "Thanks, Jade," she breathed against her lips.
"No problem, baby," Jade said with a smile. After another brief kiss, she wrapped one of Cat's hands with both of hers and hauled her toward the piano. "Now c'mon, I owe you a birthday gift."
Headcanon: Tori wrote several songs from each of her friends' point of view. She dedicated them most of the time when she performed them.
