"Jade" Tori screams up the stairs, scrambling to get her jacket on as she stumbles, almost knocking over the vase near the front door. "I'm leaving for my meeting. I'm not sure when I will be home"
"Okay, good luck" a distracted Jade yells from her office. "Love you, text me on your way home and ill start dinner"
"Alight love you too" Tori yells as she runs out the door pulling on a cap and sunglasses glancing back towards the door paranoid as she makes her way down to the parking garage. As a black car pulls up in front of her.
"Did she see you?" asks from the driver's seat, Tori shakes her head pulling on her seatbelt on given another glance back to make sure Jade is nowhere in sight. "Good, now let's go find her a ring I still can't believe you asked for our blessing without having bought a ring"
Two months earlier
Tori paces outside the West residence almost tripping over her carry-on as she does so having driven straight to the house from the airport. "Come on Vega get it together you can do this" taking another breath she knocks on the door instantly regretting it what am I doing I can't do this she mutters to herself considering hiding in the bushes but quickly discards the idea Dr. West would probably kill her for trampling on her flower bed.
"Tori get in here, this better be the conversation we have been waiting for," Mr. West says, helping her carry her bag into the kitchen where Dr. West is preparing the cups of coffee.
"Took you long enough I thought you were going to be sleeping out there," she says lifting her mug to cover her amused smile, a small part of her enjoying the panicked expression on the young girl's face.
" , Dr. West," Tori says looking between the two "I love you daughter, and I have for a long time. We have been together for seven years and in two months it will be eight. We have made it through high school, then university including that awful semester where she was away in England, and now we are living together and she has started work on her first play which we both know is going to be amazing because she wrote it and she's amazing, And I know that I'm maybe not the type of person that you would want for a daughter in law but I love Jade more than anything and all I want is to make sure she is safe and happy" Tori cuts herself off mentally beating herself for going completely off-script and becoming a rambling mess "I'm here to ask you both for your blessing to marry your daughter" The Wests stare at each other having a conversation entirely through eye contact and years of being together before finally turning back to the anxious Tori.
"Victoria" Dr. West sighs "I admit that at first I was not happy that you were dating my daughter but you have proven over and over for the past seven years that you love Jade"
"And there is no one in this world that we would rather be here asking for our blessing" Mr. West cuts in "Honestly we expected to have this conversation a long time ago" Tori looks between the too in shock, having expected a lot more resistance, especially from .
"So I have your blessing?" She asks, needing the verbal confirmation.
"Yes, obviously" Dr. West groans placing her now empty cup on the table "Now let us see the ring"
"Well…." Tori trails off.
Present time
"Jade is a nightmare to shop for at the best of times, I don't want to risk getting a ring she hates, it could make her say no"
"Don't be ridiculous, you could give her a ring pop and she would say yes"
"Do you think that would work?" Tori askes completely serious, Dr. West doesn't even waste time glaring at her.
"Oh no this is awful, This is our fifth store we are never going to find a ring and she's going to say no and leave me" Tori rambles as Dr. West trails after her reminding herself that Jade loves Tori and would be devastated if anything were to happen to her. Tori instantly wonders over to the display cases leaving Dr. West to greet the salesperson as she is in the middle of explaining the style of ring they have been considering Tori grabs her arm dragging her over to a display case she opens her mouth to snap at Tori for touching her but feels her breath escape her as she sees the ring.
"Oh Tori it's perfect," she says as they look at each other grinning.
"Jade I'm leaving for my meeting. I'm not sure when I will be home" Jade hears Tori scream from downstairs. She runs over to the office door sliding the unused lock into place, a grimace forming on her face as a loud grinding sound echoes through the room hoping Tori doesn't hear it, she yells out a reply.
"Okay, good luck. I Love you, text me on your way home and ill start dinner" she hears Tori yell up in agreement as the front door slams shut, turning around to face her desk as Trina lets out a loud laugh even going as far as throwing her head back in amusement.
"Way to keep your cool West" she chuckles, collapsing onto Jade's chair fiddling with the adjustments ignoring the twitch in Jade's eye as she glares at her. "So are you going to show me the ring or what?" Jade rounds the desk pushing Trina out of the way and pulling open the bottom drawer.
"This was my grandmothers she gave it to me before she died. It wasn't her engagement ring but I think it will work for Vega, I just want her to know that she will be part of the family, you know?" Jade asks and Trina does a double-take at the vulnerability she sees in her eyes, feeling tears well up in her own eyes. She nods forever grateful for the fact that the West family had not just welcomed Tori into the family with open arms but her as well.
"Jade this is " She gasps, having grabbed the ring from Jade, the tears no longer could be held back as her happiness for her sister grew. "I doubted you when you told me you didn't need help picking a ring but, your right this ring is perfect"
Two months earlier
Jade bursts into Trina's apartment looking at Gibby as he cleans up the bowl of cereal he spilled all over himself as he jumped at her entrance. Trina comes running from the bedroom "Jade what are you doing here? Is Tori alright?" she rushes out in a panic.
"We need to talk?" Jade demands stomping over the living room and sitting on the sofa Trina following closely behind as they sit down, Jade continues "I came to tell you that in a few months I'm going to be asking Vega to marry me and if you have a problem with that you will just have to deal with it" She tells her, before letting out breath knowing that it's not true if Trina had a problem with this she would work harder than ever to prove to her that she is worthy of her little sister. "Please?"
Trina lets out a relieved breath. She had thought something was wrong, honestly, she never expected Jade to ask for her blessing, even if she did ask in the most Jade-like manner where the ask was more of a demand. Although Trina had grown close enough to Jade that she knew that if she did have a problem Jade would work that much harder to prove she loved her sister.
"Honestly I expected this conversation a long time ago, Jade there is no one I trust more with my little sister than you," she tells her honestly noticing how Jade's posture instantly relaxes and all her defences come crashing down "Now the important part, when are we going ring shipping"
"Well…"
Night of Proposal
"Check again have you heard anything?"
"Trina, I checked ten seconds ago you check" Dr. West demands from her side of the sofa where the two are both curled up under a blanket with a glass of wine each.
"Nothing, should we call maybe something went wrong. Ugh this all your fault I knew I should have told Jade Tori was planning to propose tonight"
"Don't you dare call them you could interrupt. I'm sure they will call soon" Dr. West tells her although she is also feeling quite nervous.
"What if they end up fighting you know how ridiculous they both can be"
Gibby watches the two worry from his place on the opposite sofa, as he sees both their phones light up on the coffee table in front of them waiting for either of them to notice then quickly loses his patience leaning forwards to grab Trina's phone.
SHE SAID YES!