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I'm really sorry about the super late update and for keeping you guys waiting. I been dealing with school and moving which lead me to just lose motivation to write but seeing the kind words that you guys left for me made it so much easier to keep holding on to the hope that I will eventually get back to this story. So, here is the next chapter to make it up to you guys :)
Italicized Text is Thinking
Regular Text is Talking
Bold and Italicized Text is Text messaging
Jade POV
I feel a sense of pride that Tori is willing to step out of her comfort zone with this. I can feel the room get lighter with each passing moment. I look at the clock on the stove to see that it was already 11:13 AM.
"Wow, we have been talking for about two hours already." I realized.
Beck must have been thinking the same thing too. "So, I think that is everything that we need to talk about it today," he started, "Unless either one of you has anything more to add?" He looks at the both of us waiting for either one of us to speak up. We both shake our heads, both feeling pretty good about everything.
"Cool, so since Jade fix breakfast, how about Tori, you help me clear off the island and help me wash the dishes?" He asked in a tone that only had one answer to it.
"Yeah, sure. I would be happy to help." She says excitedly as she got up from the island and start picking up the plates and cups.
I release the breath that I didn't know that I was holding, pleasantly surprise of Tori's answer. Not going to lie, I was feeling a bit arrogant for being right about Tori. She jumps right into the role immediately. I met Beck's eyes and smirk. He rolls his eyes as he follows Tori's lead and heads towards that sink to start washing the dishes.
I sigh, no matter how many times I told Beck that I own a dishwasher and we don't need to do the dishes by hand but that man is so damn adamant about doing the dishes by hand because "it is good practice for when there is no dishwasher around and that the dishwasher doesn't properly clean the dishes anyways." I roll my eyes at the words that I heard a million times already. I sit there and watch them clean up the kitchen. Once in while throwing in my inputs for the random conversations that would pop up here and there.
When they finished up the kitchen, we move back to my room. Tori and I flop down on to my bed while Beck slid into the chair. We stayed in a comfortable silence until Tori decided to break it.
She lifts herself up on her arms and looks at the both of us, "So, we are starting the trail right now, correct?" We nod our heads, curious on where she is trying to go from here. "What are supposed to do now? Are there any chores that we have to do or any types of orders that I need to carry out right now or…" We jump up, seeing Tori is about to talk herself into a freakout.
He grabs the sides of her face and gently forces her to look at him while I wrap an arm around her. "Woah, woah, woah. Tori, baby. Calm down and focus on my voice. How about you slowly breath in for me?" She follows his directions, "Then slowly breath out. Breath in….breath out...in….out. Now continue to do that as I talk. I'm not going to lie, I was expecting the notorious "Tori Freak Out" to be happening but I wasn't expecting it this soon." He lets out a small chuckle, "I guess better for it to happen now than later on when we can't be there. Look right now, we don't need you to do anything but be our beautiful, sassy, smart, talented girlfriend that we want to spend as much time as we can with before we have to give you back to the rest of the world. Can you do that for us?"
She nods her head with a shy and embarrassed smile on her face. She looks to be significantly more calmer now but I can tell that we are not out the woods just yet. Beck moves his hands down to gently grab her hands
I pull her more closer into my arms, "Hey there is nothing to feel embarrassed about. I know that this is something new and you want to be perfect about it. I hate to tell you this but this is something that you can't rush or will ever be perfect at." She made a noise in confusion as she looks up at me with doe eyes, "Tori, you are only human. You will make a ton of mistakes throughout this trial and beyond if we shall continue after the trial period is over. That is a given. I have been doing this for a lot longer than you have and I still make mistakes. That is why Beck is there to help me...us learn from those mistakes. Whether that helps is through the rules, punishments, etc." I pause to think over my next words, "However, that doesn't mean Beck is perfect either and when the times when he makes his own mistakes, we have to help him with love, patience, and respect. You understand what I mean?"
She thought over my words, let them mull over her head some, "Yeah, I think...no, I know that I got it." She sighs, "It just going to be hard to not obsess over how perfect something has to be or how perfect that I need to be."
We chuckle, "This is why we have talked about your need to overthink and obsess over things. This is a great example of what we are talking about. Not even an hour went by since that talk and we are already hitting our first road bump." Beck says as he pulls himself off the ground and slides in on the other side of me so Tori can look at the both of us at the same time. He sits his head on top of my shoulder.
She blushes and let out a nervous laugh, "Yeah, it's starting to hit home for me."
I hum and brush a piece of hair behind her ear, "Well, sometimes it's hard to notice our flaws until other people point them out to us and it's even harder to break those flaws." I give her a soft, understanding smile.
Not much has happened in this chapter but this is just me getting used to being back. I hope you guys like it :)
Thank you for reading. This is my first story, so please leave any comments (both good and bad) that you may have.