Trini: Hey guys! Trini here!
Tori: And Tori
Trini: Enjoy the show today and you Tori, enjoy your date.
Tori: Yeah, yeah ranger girl.
Trini: Hey, that hasn't taken place…Yet.
Tori: Yet?
Beneath the Mask
Chapter Ten
"You sure you want to do this Tori?"
Tori nodded and handed Trina the clippers and said "I figured it was time for a change. Besides, having to deal with this lion mane has gotten troublesome."
Trina nodded and pulled Tori's hair into a ponytail and began to cut the sides of her head to a buzzcut. "You seem to want to go all out on this date. It's only that weirdo Jade."
"Perhaps I am going overboard but I'm hoping to get lucky tonight," Tori replied with a wiggle of her eyebrows only to flinch when Trina smacked the back of her neck as she cut back of her head.
"Pervert. Now I know you're really back," Trina said as she finished the undercut and started to frenchbraid two strands of hair on the right side of Tori's head. "I have to say kid, it's nice to see you back to normal…These last two years watching you be someone you weren't was messed up."
"It feels nice to be able to be myself again," Tori admitted as Trina pulled Tori's hair into a topknot and smiled as the braid perfectly fit between the line where the undercut and the thick hair of Tori's met.
Trina allowed a long back to loosen from the pony tail and let it fall down the right side Tori's face to frame it. Trina then stepped back and said "And you're all set. You look like a regular Beauregard Lionett."
Tori grinned a bit and tilted her head. She kind of liked the look.
"It'll take some time but I like it," Tori replied as she looked at herself. "Now to get dressed…" Tori walked out of the bathroom and into her room to find some clothes. After ten minutes, Tori heard a knock on her door and turned around to see Trina and Andre behind her.
Tori wore a simple button down black shirt with the first three buttons unbuttoned, dark green suspenders with a dark green belt, black slacks and black dress shoes. "Cute? I was going for something more drop dead sexy," Tori said with a lazy grin as she snapped the nice gold watch Jane had gotten her around left wrist.
"I think Jade may have a heart attack at the sight," Andre joked.
"Trina, mind if I use your car tonight?" Tori asked.
Trina reached into her pocket and tossed them at Tori, who caught them and grinned. "I want it back in one piece Tori," Trina warned.
"I'm not Auntie Jane Tri," Tori replied. "No car chases for me."
Trina smiled and while Andre said "Good luck tonight and don't do anything I wouldn't do."
"Like potentially knock up someone?" Tori questioned curiously. Trina and Andre blushed heavily which caused Tori to smirk as she put on a pair of gold stud earrings.
"Cat, there is no way I am wearing this dress…"
Jade stood in front of Cat's mirror, wearing a strapless satin Charming Sweetheart Dark Green Dress with Split on the left side of the dress that showed her bare leg, dark green lipstick and a pair of gold earrings.
"Why? You look very beautiful in it," Cat said with wide eyes.
"Yeah but this seems a little much. Especially for Vega," Jade said. Despite liking the look and wanting to look stunning to Vega, she had the image of a badass to maintain and this made her feel…Soft.
She didn't like the feeling.
"Don't worry about that," Cat said before the Cat's phone began to ring.
(When the working day is done
Girls just wanna have fun
Yeah, girls just wanna have f-)
Cat answered the phone and said "Hello Hello? Oh Hi Tori!"
Jade's heart began to thumb against her chest.
"Oh goodie! I'll let her know to come out. Have fun tonight," Cat chirped before she looked to Jade and said "Tori is outside waiting."
Jade looked back at the image before her and frowned.
"Well…I guess this will have to do," Jade said to herself before she walked past Cat and said "I'll see you after the date."
"Hmmm….Maybe," Cat said with a wink.
Jade stared at Cat's mischievous smirk for a moment and walked out her room, down the stairs and out of the house and down the walkway sat Tori Vega, who leaned against her car beneath the street light, showing her Tori's change in style.
Jade had never felt so nervous at the sight of a date before. Not even Beck caused the large amount of butterflies that were fluttering about in her stomach. 'It's only Vega…' Jade told herself within her head, albeit with a weaker voice as she approached Vega until she stood in front of her.
Despite being slightly shorter than Vega, Jade felt small as the other girl looked at her. Jade was used to being the big badass in the city but now she felt like a small bunny compared to Vega, who looked at her with hungry eyes and a large grin.
Vega twirled a strand of her hair with her index finger and said with a low, husky tone "I always thought you were attractive you know but now…You look good enough to eat."
"W-Wa…" Jade attempted to get out as her cheeks began to redden. "Why don't you take a picture? it'll last longer," Jade bite back but instead of making Tori stop, a smirk appeared on the other girl's face.
"I intend to later tonight," Vega replied with a confident tone in her voice.
Jade's mouth dried and her heart beat quickened at Tori's words but Jade also felt arousal from the words.
'Wow…This Vega is so different from the Vega I knew…This is really dangerous,' Jade thought as she swallowed and let out a soft breath.
Vega pushed herself off the car and opened the passenger side door for her and said "We better get going. Don't want to be late."
'Say something you fucking idiot!' Jade screamed inside her head but she was unable to let out the words she wanted. She simply got into the car and moments later, Tori got into the driver's side and drove off.
After twenty minutes of driving, the pair found themselves in front a large two story, white-stone building with two large bay windows on each side of the walls of the first floor, where Jade could see the various people talking or munching away at their food.
Jade then felt Vega's hand press against the curve of her back as she opened the cobalt blue door that held three glass panes that covered the majority of the right side of the door and held it open for Jade to enter.
Jade nodded and walked into the restaurant and was surprised at how cozy it felt.
The walls were Charcoal Gray in color with a pair of wall lanterns on each wall, each one with a square design with a cylinder glass in the middle of the square where a single light bulb sat but the light bulb wasn't bright.
It seemed to cast a soft glow onto the room, further adding to the cozy atmosphere Tali felt.
Jade then took notice of the tables and chairs were made of cherry wood but on top of the tables were royal blue placemat and napkins, with one royal blue napkin being folded in the pair of wine glasses to make the napkins look like a flower.
"Nice ain't it?" Vega whispered into her ear, which made Goosebumps form on Jade's body while the pair walked towards the maître d' stand where a bald man with salt-and-pepper goatee and a simple black suit stood.
"Welcome to Eternity," The man said with a smile. "Do you have a reservation."
"Yes, for Vega-West Vega said.
The man nodded glanced down at his book then nodded. "Welcome to Eternity ladies," he said before he motioned for the pair to follow him. The pair followed the man up the steps to the steps to the second floor, which looked similar to the first floor and just as cozy. The man led them to a seat by the window and said "The waiter will be with you shortly."
"Thank you," Vega said kindly with a nod of her head.
The man nodded back and walked away as Vega held out the chair for Jade, who sat down in it. Vega then pushed her chair in then walked to her own chair and sat down in her across from her.
"Wow…When you said a small restaurant, I didn't think it would have looked so cozy, you know?" Jade said, finally able to find her words after so long.
"Good thing I looked into it and decided to dress the part," Vega replied with a grin on her face.
"T-This is all so strange…" Jade admitted. "If you told me a week ago that I'd be sitting across from you, with me being the nervous one, I would have decked you in the face."
"Nervous? Why?" Vega asked. "I don't bite unless you ask me to."
Jade blushed a bit and said "That's why…Y-You were never so forward before. You seemed to shirk away from anything close to attraction and trip over yourself when you did do something."
"I had a part to play," Vega said. "No one expected me to be a fighter like this but here I am…back to what I feel comfortable with. I know it'll take some time for you to see me other than what my mask allowed you to see. So tonight, I want you to really see me…All of me."
Vega paused as her grin turned into a seductive smirk. "And hopefully by the end of the night, I get to see all of you."
Rain: And the date has begun. What will happen in the next chapter? Only one way to find out!
Tori: See you then.
