AN: The girl's deal with a homophobe, Tori has a doctors appointment, a bad mood, and they plot a scene that Sikowitz lets them redo.

~•~Jori~•~

Jade and I were sitting in the quad after lunch on Monday, a free period on both our schedules due to our teacher being sick.

Thankfully, the rest of our group wasn't in the class, I don't know how I could deal with Beck's death glare any longer.

"I have an idea," I said, stroking my hand across Jade's palm lightly, watching as she studied a textbook with her other hand, and write notes.

"An idea?"

"Yeah, how do you feel about going away with my family and I?" I asked a little nervously.

A weekend at my house I'm sure she could barely handle, mostly cause we pretty much stayed locked in my room and watched movies, but I don't think I could bear this upcoming family vacation without Jade being near me for a week.

"Away where?" She asked slowly, her hand twitching beneath my fingers.

"Out of town… To visit more of my family?"

"As in where you go every year?"

"Yeah, you and I can go exploring… I can show you the places I hung out growing up," I said, searching her face for anything to say she didn't want to go- or even if she thought I was insane for asking.

"When?"

"Christmas."

"That's half a year away," she said with wide eyes.

"Yeah, I know. I just wanted to book you ahead of time," I said, lightly bumping our shoulders, making her laugh at me.

"Book me? I'm yours whenever you need me, Vega," she said, kissing my cheek.

A throat clearing pulled us away from our closeness, making us look up and see a teacher standing over them.

"What?" Jade asked, a bite to her tone that made my insides tingle.

"The quad is closed now that the lunch period is over," the teacher said, both Jade and I looked up at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes, we know. But we're seniors, which means we get to spend our free period here. Or anywhere else in the school grounds as long as we're not disrupting classes." The teacher looked at me as I spoke, and although I'd been here for four years, I'd never seen her face before. "Who are you?" I asked her.

"Mrs Bastian," she said, standing a little straighter.

"Right, well, are you new?" Jade asked, and the teacher nodded. "So you can go ask another more knowledgeable teacher the rules of seniors and sitting wherever the hell we want."

I rested my hand off Jade's thigh, giving it a gentle squeeze. "Jade, must you either scare everyone or piss them off?" I asked her with a small smile tugging at the corners of my lips.

Jade nodded, looking back towards the teacher who looked mildly furious along with stuck with trying to fire back any form of sentence.

"Babe, just stop," I said, patting Jade's thigh to get her attention.

Jade looked at me while the teacher let out a noise of disgust.

"Did you just call me babe?" Jade asked, raising her eyebrows.

Wincing a little, I shrugged with a nod.

"It slipped out, sorry," I murmured, pouting.

"I liked it," Jade said before she smiled as she gripped my chin, pulling me into a kiss.

The clearing of a throat pulled us away again, making Jade groan as I licked my lips with a blush tinting my cheeks.

"I really don't think you should be doing … that on school grounds."

"I can kiss my girl whenever I want, no one can really stop me," Jade said, getting defensive. I knew I should stop her from getting too worked up, but I can't find it in myself to care when she just called me her girl.

"There has to be a rule against PDA," the teacher said, crossing her arms.

"What if I said we were studying our lines for a play and you're distracting us so if we screw up on opening night, which is tonight, it could be your fault."

I shook my head at Jade's lie, rubbing my fingers further up her thigh. "Jade, lets just go to the auditorium and practice," I said softly.

"If you're playing partners in a play, that has to be against rules of some sort also," the teacher said with a bite to her tone, and disgust dripping from her words.

"So you have nothing against pda, it's against two females?" I asked, frowning. "I think you better check yourself before you go trying to take that up with a few teachers who are openly gay, along with the Pride group this school strongly supports and a lot of our grade alone are in."

She seemed to falter at my words, so I stood, putting a hand on Jade's shoulder. "I'll just go see Lane to report the obvious harassment," I said to her before kissing Jade and trying not to smile against her lips as I felt her lips twitch upwards.

She's going to kill my bad mood by one kiss, I just know it.

~•~Jori~•~

The rest of the day went by with little hiccups like this morning I did. The teacher, thankfully was only a substitute for one of the lower grade's classes and was quickly replaced with one complaint against her to the principal about everything that had happened earlier.

As Jade and I picked Riley up from his school and took him straight to my house for an afternoon by the pool and dinner, things picked up.

My father was happy to see Riley again, I think he'd grown attached to him very quickly, Riley obviously felt the same way.

As we sat on the couch, Riley watching his tablet, Jade and I watching an episode of Criminal Minds, we'd forgotten about any responsibilities, such as getting Riley home and in his own bed.

So when my father came down the stairs nearing midnight with a look of disapproval at him still awake, Jade quickly kicked into gear and packed their items up.

"Are you sure you're okay with him? What if he falls asleep in the car?" I whispered, kissing her gently as we leaned against her car door.

"I'll wake him, it's okay. I'll see you tomorrow?"

I nodded, kissing her once more before stepping back as she pulled the door open.

"Call me when you get home?" I asked softly.

Jade leaned back towards me, kissing me once more before taking a seat in the car and starting it up.

"As soon as he's in his bed, I'll call you."

"I'll stay by my laptop so we can talk," I said, waving goodbye as she rolled down the driveway slowly.

~•~Jori~•~

As soon as I'd gotten myself ready for bed, my phone and laptop were ringing simultaneously.

I launched myself onto my bed, answering the call on my laptop.

"Hey, you working out?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.

"No, why?"

"You look out of breath… Unless you were doing something else," she said with a teasing tone.

"No, I was just finishing up in the bathroom and bolted for my bed when I heard it ringing."

"Riiiight," she smirked.

"Shut up, did you get him into bed?" I asked, pulling the covers back before situating the laptop on the spare side of the bed.

"Yeah, he thankfully lasted till we got home, so I sent him straight up to bed. I let him know that if he's too tired in the morning he can stay home."

"Shouldn't that be left up to Alice?"

Jade only shrugged before she started stripping and readying herself for bed.

My mouth dried up at the sight of her bare body as she crawled up her bed towards her own laptop.

"Tired?" I asked as she yawned.

"A little, been a long day. The heat sure drained me."

I nodded, snuggling beneath my blankets before shifting my laptop to face me and turning the brightness down on it.

"Ready for bed?" She asked.

"Definitely. I'm exhausted," I said, running a hand through my hair to push it off my face before rolling to my side to face her properly.

"Let's get some sleep, do you want me to come get you in the morning? We can go get breakfast."

"I have a doctors appointment in the morning, my mother made it for me," I said, biting my lip.

"Everything okay? Do you want me to take you?"

"Maybe… I don't think mum was pleased that she had to get to work late."

"Well, I'll take you, we can go get a coffee and breakfast after it, okay?"

"That's a good plan, I'm not allowed to eat anything before it, it's just blood tests."

"So a lot of water, right?" She asked.

I nodded, rubbing my eyes before a loud yawn slipped from my mouth.

"Get some sleep, Tori," she whispered softly and I looked at her, bringing a hand to my lips before blowing her a kiss.

"Night, Jade."

"Night… Oh, and Vega?"

"Yeah?"

"I really liked when you called me Babe today," she said, making me smile softly.

"I'll try to remember that… Babe," I said, a small smile tugging at my lips as she smiled just from me saying it.

"I never liked it before. But it feels right when it comes from you."

"If I ever say anything that you don't like, Jade, please tell me."

"What times your appointment?"

"Nine, that okay?"

She nodded, her eyes slipping shut as she struggled to stay awake.

"Love you," I murmured, grabbing my blankets and pulling them up high above my shoulders.

"You too," she whispered, my eyes flicking open quickly to see her smiling with her eyes closed.

"Yeah?"

"Mhm," she nodded.

My heart and stomach erupted and did something I'd never felt before.

~•~Jori~•~

I woke the next morning to Jade's alarm blasting through the speakers on my laptop, I couldn't control the whine that left my mouth, nor the swear words that slipped out after it.

I really didn't feel like I slept well despite the fact that I remember not waking at all throughout the night.

"Sleep longer, I just need to go make Riley's lunch cause I didn't last night."

"Mm, no, I should get up and shower."

"No, you should sleep, Vega. You look exhausted. Text your mother so you don't have to get up and let her know I'll take you to the appointment, okay?"

I searched my bed for my phone, huffing when I couldn't find it. I sat up a little and looked around, lifting the blankets, looking under my pillows, down the side of the bed.

"Where's my phone?"

"How should I know?" Jade asked, making my glare in her direction. "I'll call it, relax."

That only made me feel more annoyed.

"Yeah, relax… right," I grunted and got up from my bed, looking beneath it.

I could hear my phone ringing, so moved towards the sound, groaning as I found it on the floor by my bathroom door. "Got it," I said.

The phone silenced in my hand and I made my way back o my bed as I sent off the text to my mother before I dropped it between my pillows and sat in my spot, feeling it still half-warm from where I was laying.

"You going to sleep longer?" Jade asked.

"Maybe, I guess I'll try. But I should probably just get up and shower and start drinking water."

"Okay, well, I'll be there around eight, eight thirty after I've gotten Riley to school, I'm driving him today cause he wants to take some shells in for show and tell, I'll put them back in my car when I leave him."

"Does that mean you have to stay to watch him present?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Can I get dropped off at your place by Trina or mum if I hurry so I can come see too?"

"I can come get you if you can be ready in thirty minutes?"

I nodded.

"Yeah, sounds good. I'll get in the shower now then," I said, standing back up and adjusting my bedding so it was half made.

~•~Jori~•~

I stood outside my house, a bottle of water in my hand as I clung to my phone in my other hand. I heard Jade's car coming before I saw it, the blasting music only meant that she didn't have Riley with her at the moment.

She pulled up at the end of my driveway, turning the music down as she leaned across to push the passenger door open for me.

"Hop in, I'll take you for the ride of your life," she said as she song stopped.

I blushed a little, sliding into the passenger seat and pulling the door shut behind me, turning a little to face her and meet her half way for a kiss as I pulled my belt across my body and clicked it in.

"Feeling better?" She asked.

I frowned, tilting my head a little.

"You seemed a little angry up until I mentioned Riley earlier," she said as she turned the car around to head back in the direction she came from.

"Sorry, I didn't sleep well at all. I shouldn't have been so snappy."

"You don't like mornings, do you?"

"Not really, no." I shook my head, resting my hand on Jade's thigh.

She pressed a button on the wheel, the music muting and a beep coming through the speakers.

"Call Rose," Jade said, and the speakers beeped again before signalling that they'd call Rose.

She quickly moved to turn the volume down as it rang loudly before the call connected.

"Rose, we're just a few streets away," Jade said, and I smiled, stroking her thigh slowly.

"Not a problem, Riley's all ready and waiting, I'll stand out the front with him now."

"Thanks, see you in a minute," Jade said before ending the call and turning the music almost all the way down.

Jade brang a hand off the wheel and rested it on top of my hand as she pulled up in front of her house, then leaned over and kissed me.

"Good morning," she whispered against my lips, kissing me once more as we heard the back door open. Both of us turned our attention to Riley with wide smiles.

"Ready?" Jade asked him.

Riley nodded as soon as his belt was clicked into place, and we were off.

~•~Jori~•~

After Jade and I gave Riley a hug goodbye and collected his seashells, we made our way out to through the halls of his school, we were about to sign ourselves out of the office when I heard him call us back.

"Jay!"

Jade turned so fast she almost fell, but I quickly had an arm around her waist to steady her as Riley ran up to us.

"What's wrong, Riley?" Jade asked, crouching down a little.

Riley's hands moved quickly as he signed before he pulled a slip of paper from his pocket and handed it to her.

He then gave me a tight hug around the waist, Jade a quick squeeze also, and ran back towards his classroom.

"What's that?" I asked as Jade then turned her attention to the paper she'd been given.

"He said it was a note from his teacher, who funnily enough is the second person to think I'm his mother."

Jade unfolded the paper as she turned back around, continuing her walk to the office as she read the paper aloud.

"He's in a class play, that's so cute. He'll be one of the signers, obviously. I've been officially invited to come to the opening night with an extra ticket along with. Two more are getting sent in the mail later on. Would you be my date?" Jade asked, looking at me with a smile.

"Try and stop me," I said, leaning in to kiss her gently.

~•~Jori~•~

"Alright, Ms Vega," The doctor said coming into the room with a clipboard in hand.

"You mother mentioned you haven't had your period in a while when she made the call, are we just going to do blood tests or are you thinking it could be related to the pill?" The doctor asked and I felt my cheeks warm at the openness of it all.

Maybe I shouldn't of asked Jade to come into the room with me.

"Want me to leave?" Jade asked softly, her hand resting on my thigh.

"No, it's fine." I swallowed my. nerves before looking you at the doctor.

"I'd like blood tests, please. I haven't eaten anything since six last night and have been drinking water all morning. I would also like a rush on the results so I can stop worrying sooner if that's at all possible," I said, laughing softly as the doctor nodded and looked around his office briefly before he grabbed the necessary items he needed to take my blood.

He grabbed two tubes, a needle, a swab to clean my arm, some cotton-gauze and a bandaid that was a small round circle.

The size of the needle made me nervous as I stretched my arm out across the desk so he could look at my veins, but Jade grabbed my free hand and slipped her fingers between mine, causing me to ease up and let out a breath of relief.

"Alright, slight pinch," the doctor said, and I looked Jade in the eyes, finding calmness in them that made everything easier.

"Good, one minute, and we'll be done. Very good veins," he said, and I nodded, not taking my eyes off Jade- who'd noticed me looking at her and smiled up at me and gave my hand a light squeeze.

~•~Jori~•~

Jade and I got breakfast after the appointment, and by the time we got to school, it was lunchtime.

I wasn't feeling particularly hungry, and neither was Jade, so we grabbed a coffee and made our way to the usual table, Cat was babbling away about something her brother had done.

Beck was starting to ease into the idea of Jade and I being together, he still looked uncomfortable whenever we'd kiss goodbye to head to class, or when we'd share a meal or coffee.

Just as the bell rang, my phone started ringing, causing everyone to look at me cause it was so loud.

I grabbed it from my pocket, waving everyone off as I looked at the number on the screen.

"It's just my doctor," I said and everyone except Jade left, she kept a tight grip on my other hand as I answered.

"Hello?"

"Is this Tori Vega?"

"Yeah," I said sitting in the table, resting my feet on the seat.

"We need you to come in for your results, they're best not discussed over the phone. As quick as possible would be best."

"That doesn't sound good," I frowned, and jade looked at me, her free hand resting on my knee. "I'll come in after school," I said, hanging up the phone.

"You okay, you look a little pale," Jade said.

"They said I need to come in for my results as soon as possible," I told her.

"It'll be okay, whatever it is. I'll take you as soon as school's finished, come on. Let's get to class."

I nodded, slipping off the table and grabbed my coffee after I'd put my phone in my pocket.

"Thank you, Jade."

I couldn't help but feel like all this was just her treating me like a charity case.

Like she didn't really want to be here with me. Or have me loving her.

When we got to Sikowitz's class, we took a seat in the back of the class just as he walked in with coconut in hand.

"Class, today, we're going to do something a little … not different," he said with a slight sway to his body and a wave of his coconut filled hand.

"So, different for you?" Jade asked, smirking at the teacher.

Sikowitz only nodded at her and smiled.

"I'm giving you two a chance to make up that grade you missed out on. Are you in?" He asked.

"What about the rest of us?" One of the 'shruggers' asked him.

"Hush, little one," Sikowitz said, sending a few snorting laughs spreading across the room.

"You two have ten minutes." He looked right at Jade and I. "The rest of the class, go away."

Everyone picked their bags up and filed out of the room, leaving Jade and I alone with Sikowitz.

"Ten minutes?" I asked.

"No, Twenty. Until the bell rings. And, begin!" He clapped, Jade was already pulling a notebook out of her bag and writing instantly.

"Same topic?" I asked, just make sure Jade wasn't writing for no reason.

Sikowitz nodded, taking a seat on the step of the raised platform while he waited on us.