A/N: I apologize for my absence and thanks for being patient with me! Thanks to all of my supporters, old and new! :) Enjoy!
I sat in the stall and calmed myself quickly. Why am I crying? I knew why, I just didn't want to admit. I was getting a bit tired of fighting this war between my head and heart. So really when it ultimately comes down to that, what do you decide on?
"Tori?" I heard Beck concerned voice echo through the bathroom.
"Beck… go away!"
"Tori, if you don't come out I'm comin' in." He made it sound like a threat, but I knew it was a promise. I sat very still with my feet up and the stall locked. I didn't answer him because I knew it would only make things harder.
Next thing I knew I saw Beck's head pop over the stall. "Unlock the door."
"No." I buried my head in my knees.
"Tori, you're killing me." I listened as he climbed over the top of the stall. I heard his feet clump to the floor, and I looked up to find Beck standing there in front of the locked stall door.
"Really?" I asked in a sobbing tone.
"Well, you made me. I tried to do it the easy way. I held my arms around my knees still and looked up at him.
"You're gonna get us into trouble."
"Eh, Sichowitz is the only one who knows where I went to… and everyone else is in class."
He seemed so relaxed that my body melted into the comfort, and I released my knees. I looked at beck's face again and saw him smiling down at me.
"What?" I asked him.
"Even when you're sobbing in the girl's bathroom stall you are the most adorable damn thing in the world."
My stomach swirled. "Beckett!" I felt the blood rush to my face.
I stood up to okay fully hit him on the chest, but as soon as I did we were closer than I thought'd we'd be. I hadn't put any thought into the fact that these were bathroom stalls made for one. Now we were chest to chest, and I was staring in his gorgeous, chocolate brown eyes. I had never noticed the tiny flecks of gold dancing around the edges until now.
"God…" he whispered right before his lips met mine. I let him kiss me for a second, then I felt his lips slide so smoothly over mine that I couldn't help kiss him back. I moved my top lip over his bottom and sucked just a little and his hands moved, one to the top of the stall and the other around my back. He pulled me closer and kept kissing me and I let my balance give just a little leaning into his grasp. My back arched on its own and I was in another world.
"Tori…" he whispered when our lips parted. His forehead touched mine. "…Victoria…" he seemed out of breath, but so was I.
"What just happened?" I gasped for air.
"I have no idea, but I know that I'm in love with it." I stared at his eyes, and they never left mine. "You are quite the addiction, Victoria Vega. Be careful with me."
I was sure what the meaning was of what he'd just said, but it sounded like velvet rolling off his tongue. I let it linger in the air for a second or two… or three, then I reached behind him and unlocked the stall.
"We have to go." I made sure he knew it wasn't an I want to. I just knew someone would come looking soon, and well, finding us locked in a stall together, wrapped up as we were, that would not be a good thing.
Trina was taking me home and I realized that I didn't really wanna go there. I had done nothing but think about Beck and me all day and I wanted to be with him. I picked up my phone to send him a message and it blinged. It was Beck. It was crazy how just seeing his name light up my phone made me smile. I opened the text to read:
"Can you come over? :)"
"To where?" I texted him and waited for what seemed forever.
"The Silver Streak?" He'd messaged back.
"Why can't you just call it your place silly? :)"
I looked up from my phone. "Trina, drop me off at Beck's please?"
"Why?" My sister looked at me like she was scared. She probably was, but I was good to hope that she was over her crush on Beck by now.
"Because he invited me over. Now, take me there." Trina sighed and looked longingly at the road ahead. She made a right turn and headed for Beck's.
I texted Beck back. "On my way, but I'll need a ride home unless you want Trina to hang."
I waited for his reply. Bling! "I'll take you home if we have to walk.
