It's been a while since someone reviewed this story. It brought me back almost ten years into my past. I read all your reviews! I don't always reply because on top of having this amazing hobby of writing on my spare time, I'm a mom of two. Very different from where my life was then to where it is now.

Tori's story was very much my own. I wrote what I could remember feeling from my past onto this next chapter. Sorry if it's not my best work, or if it comes off short.

But someone requested a prequel. And gosh darn it. I'm delivering one.

Enjoy!

Sophomore year

Tori pushed back her curls, behind her ear as her tongue peaked through the corner of her mouth. After getting accepted into Hollywood Arts High she had to memorize a new school, a new locker combination and find new friends. The last thought made her stomach sick with nerves. She was having the oddest feeling about today. She's never had a first day in the middle of her high school career. But Trina insisted they go there if they wanted to make their name for themselves, at least that was her story she told her parents. Tori knew there had to be a boy behind that. Tori just liked to sing and she thought it came natural to her, so when she got accepted doing that, she thought what the hell.

After taking a year and a half finding her locker and getting the combination down, she looked at her sheet with her classes written on them. She read her first class, Intro to Improv, and sighed. While looking down she bumped into someone tall, who smelled like outdoors with a bit of musk. His thick boots clunked with every step, and that biker jacket looked tough. He looked mean, but nice, welcoming, a little intimidating. But that seemed to draw her into him.

"Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't see you there with your head hanging low." He smirked.

His voice sounded like velvet, and in that moment, Tori knew she was in trouble. She was going to want to hear that voice everyday.

"Sorry. I'm,"

"Tori! Oh! Hi sister!" Trina's voice boomed from down the hall.

Trina came sprinting next to them and Tori noticed her older sister looked more flush than usual.

"Hi, Beck." Trina batted her eyes.

Tori looked at her sister, odd, then back to 'Beck'.

"I'm Beck if you didn't get that by now." He laughed.

Tori could fucking melt in that second.

"Walk me to class?" Trina batted her eyes again.

"Tri, is there something wrong with your eyes?" Tori asked, going up to reach for her face.

"Oh! No! I just had something in,uh, my eye!" Trina stuttered. She moved around Tori and hooked her arm around his, dragging him the opposite side to where Tori needed to go.

"Bye!"

"Bye, I'm Tori if you didn't know by now." Tori smirked.

Beck smirked back, sending her a wink.

Beck and Tori became close friends after that. They had two classes together and he always made it a mission to sit close by, not necessarily next to her, but close enough where he could send her a wink, or flirty messages without being caught. Their friendship was complicated to say the least. They flirted under everyone's eyes. They shared more of a conversation over text messaging than they did in person.

And that was because of her.

Are they or aren't they?

That's what everyone wondered.

Tori wondered that a thousand times a week, every day was something different with those two. Everyone knew not to mess with her and everyone knew not to mess with him because they weren't anyone's but theirs.

Sounds a little territorial but that's how their relationship survived. Because they were both crazy for each other but it drove them crazy. They couldn't stand to get along more than a week at a time.

Some days they were making out in the quad for everyone to see, then they were having a screaming match in the parking lot for everyone's entertainment.

That's where Tori knew to be on standby. On the bad days, she was there to console him, in ways only Tori knew how.

On their good days. Tori slept alone, walked with her friends to class, and left afterschool on time, instead of lingering waiting for him to get out of rehearsal.

But those bad days kept her waiting and wanting more. More than what he seemed to offer but she knew one day he was going to pick her. Just like he promised, and kept reassuring her.

But slowly, she started to see how empty those promises started to become.

Junior Year.

He finally ended things. Beck didn't want to go public with their relationship just yet, because Jade spent half her summer vacation visiting family Beck hadn't found the right time to tell her.

"I want to tell her in person, you understand that right?" Beck said, placing a sultry kiss on Tori's lips.

Tori sighed, her heart weighed with something she couldn't put her finger on, and gave Beck a nod before she laid onto him. They were behind the school's dumpsters, not the most romantic but the only place they had to themselves.

It wasn't always behind the dumpsters, sometimes it was empty hallways, empty classrooms, in his car or hers an hour after the school cleared out, right after his rehearsal, and the occasional visit at Tori's house.

Beck was charming, and he knew it. He made Tori fall in love with him and he knew it too. She didn't even have to tell him, he knew, and her parents loved her new 'boyfriend'.

Trina was long over him, finding her own boyfriend, she was so distracted to even remember who Tori was in school. Tori liked Chad. Chad was good for Trina.

Tori was walking down the hall to her next class when she felt her phone vibrate, it was a phone call from her doctors office. She snuck into the bathroom and took the call.

"Hi, can I speak to Tori Vega, please?"

"This is she."

"Hi, is it okay to speak about personal information over the phone or would you like to make an appointment to come speak with the doctor?" Tori's heart was in her throat.

"Over the phone is fine." Tori hung to her phone.

"Okay, well Dr. Martinez left a few notes on the test results, and wanted me to let you know you can call his office at any time and leave a message, he will get back to you as soon as possible."

"Mhm."

"Well it looks like all your blood work came back negative except one," Tori closed her eyes tight, "it looks like you have low thyroid levels, we will start you on a medication to help with that. That's probably why you haven't been menstruating regularly, if the medicine doesn't help make another appointment and we will run more tests. Also, using another form of protection while having intercourse will be mandatory, unless you're trying to have a baby." The nurse laughed.

Tori let out a nervous chuckle, everything else was a blur. Tori was two weeks late, she started feeling strange, and in a panic made the first available appointment to see her doctor. She couldn't tell Beck there might be a baby, not after spending the summer wrapped up in each other. She knew somehow he would blame her or accuse her of wanting to trap him. Everything that went wrong was automatically Tori's fault. But she didn't know how to close the door on Beck.

He always charmed his way back in.

After ending the phone call, Tori splashed cold water onto her face and realized she was going to be extremely late to her class.

On the way there she saw them.

Beck had Jade pressed against the lockers, mouths attached, hips grinding with their lip movement.

"I missed you." Beck moaned.

"Me too baby, having no reception was therapeutic, but I missed you a lot."

"We have time to make up for." Beck smirked.

Jade giggled and nodded her head.

Tori left school early that day, telling her parents she got sick from the cafeteria food. Giving her the perfect excuse to skip school for a few days.

Beck reached out, wondering where she had gone after school and why she wasn't there waiting for him like they had planned.

Tori didn't have to fake it, she threw up everything she ate at lunch. Her parents worried, worried about their daughter and her refusal to talk to them or touch her food. They knew it had to do with the boy she brought home, the one they saw her slowly fall in love with.

Day four she started to talk herself into forgetting Beck, knowing the whole school knew Jade and Beck were once again an item.

Tori was laying in bed, scrolling through her Tumblr page, when a knock brought her back to Earth.

"Come in."

Beck's boots hit the ground with a heavy thud, and in an instant her room smelt like him, she didn't dare look up at him. A loose thread on her sheets seemed more interesting than him.

"Hi. You weren't in school today."

"Yup."

"What's wrong, darlin'?"

Tori sighed, as she felt the bed dip as Beck sat down. Tears welled at her eyes, she swore she wouldn't cry in front of him.

She swore she wouldn't do a lot of things in front of Beck Oliver at that moment. This was also the first day she would lie to herself, over and over again.

Tori looked up at Beck, everything she had rehearsed in her mind went out the window. She was in love with a guy who was completely unavailable, but yet made her feel so special like she was the only one for him.

Tori battled with herself, with her friends and family who warned her to stay away from him time and time again.

Tori made empty promises to herself, swallowing her pride, making up excuse after excuse. She felt like she was on a ride, a ride she couldn't come down off of.