A/N: Thanks for the suggestions as who to put Trina with... Since it was more or less a tie I'm going to go with... You'll see :) Anyway thanks for your feedback on this story. It means a lot to me!

Disclaimer: I don't own Victorious

Chapter Three:

Jade:

Tori left for work quite early leaving me in her place all by myself. I know I was living here now but it was still her place, not mine. I felt kind of miss placed in Tori's apartment, I knew that the furniture was mostly mine but the rest of it was kind of posh and expensive. It made me wonder how she'd managed to get a place so elegant as this and yet still not have enough money to re-in burse her missing furniture.

I led on the couch and sighed, life wa

s sure taking its toll on me. Every time I looked in the mirror at myself and I mean really looked in the mirror I was reminded of what an idiot I'd been. I had pretty much lost everything, I'd lost my apartment… yeah sure it was a cheap and pretty crappy apartment but it was in a descent location. I was in so much debt that I had borrowed eight grand from Beck to get back on my feet but stupid me decided to blow it on gambling and lost everything. I stood up and my bare feet landed on the cold living room floor. I walked through Tori Vega's apartment and into her room looking for towels.

As soon as I'd found two fluffy white towels I headed towards the bathroom. Her bathroom was big and I mean really big. When you walk in the door you are met with loads of space. You could probably create a whole dance sequence. Then as you walk further there is a bathtub and shower combined across from it is two sinks and a toilet. I stopped in the middle of the room and hung the towels on a rack by the bathtub then reached inside to turn on the shower, I then turned the music from my pear phone on shuffle before finally stepping into the hot water.

"Do we have to?" I complained later that day when Tori got back from work. She held her hands on her hips and nodded.

"Yes... They are the next people on our list to... convince that you and I are an item... so yes! We have to have dinner with my parents tonight" Tori explained.

"Fine! So what do you think I should wear?" I asked, I didn't have a lot of clothes left just a few that I'd brought back with me from my old apartment. Tori laughed a little before opening her mouth to speak.

"Anything would be better than that towel" She joked, I looked down at myself and suddenly realized that I'd been wearing a towel when Vega had arrived home.

"Oh right" I muttered, as I made my way back to the bedroom. I searched through the pile of my clothes in the corner of the room but I had nothing that I thought would impress Vega's parents so I went over to her clothes and picked out a dress that was fairly decent, then back to my clothes for my leather jacket and some underwear.

"Vega!" I called.

"Yeah" she called back from the living room.

"I'm borrowing your dress!" I informed her.

"Which one?" She asked.

"The green one" I told her as I started to get ready.

"That'll look good on you" she called, I rolled my eyes. Even when I'm borrowing something of hers without asking she's super sweet about it. What was wrong with this girl?

When I'd finished getting ready I walked back into the living room. I stood in front of the couch to show her my outfit and for a second there she just stared. I raised my eyebrow at her.

"Y-you look amazing!" She stuttered.

"Glad you like" I said doing a little twirl, although I regretted it after as I slipped and nearly landed head first on the wooden floor but Tori had caught hold of me before I'd had the chance. Tori held on to my waist and my arm as she tried to steady me. We looked into each others eyes for a minute.

"Damn tights!" I complained breaking the silence, she smiled a little at me then let go.

"You should be more careful" Tori said before she walked away. What the hell?

The drive up to Vega's parents house was silent and when we finally got there Tori grabbed my arm to stop me from opening the door.

"What?" I asked, turning back round to face my fake girlfriend.

"What if they don't believe us? I mean my parents were always good at knowing when I was lying" She panicked, I sighed.

"Don't think of this as a lie! Think of it as a part... in a play... You're acting the role of a girl who's dating a girl who used to torment her" I said, she nodded.

"Yeah, Okay. you're right! Panic over" She said before exiting out of her side.

As we walk up to her parents front door she freezes, then grabs my hand.

"Gotta play the part, right?" She whispers, as she uses her free hand to ring the doorbell. We wait hand in hand for the door to open for what seems like a decade and eventually the door opens to reveal Holly Vega who has her eyes glued to her phone.

"Come in" She ushers us inside without even looking at either of us, we walk inside and sit on the Vega's bright couch.

"Want anything to drink?" She asks, finally tearing her eyes away from her phone to look at us. At first she looks confused then she just smiles.

"Ah, you bought Jade!" Holly smiles at her daughter then at me.

"Yeah, you said I could bring someone" Tori reminds her.

"Yeah, I know" She smiles. "So... Uh.. anything to drink girls?" She asks.

"I'll have a coffee... please..." I say as politely as I can manage. She nods and Tori follows her out into the kitchen, leaving me alone with the TV.

Tori:

"I didn't know you were into girls, sweetie!" My mother says when Jade and I have dinner in my childhood home one Sunday. I'm helping mom out in the kitchen whilst Jade watches the TV in the living room.

"Yeah, well… you know Jade's a gem" I say, trying so hard not to make it sound sarcastic. My mom looks over towards Jade who is leaning on our couch with a bored expression on her face.

"She certainly is" Mom agrees, between clenched teeth.

"She grows on you" I say shrugging my shoulders. "So when is Trina getting here?" I ask my mom.

"She should be here soon... She says she's bringing Andre... How that boy puts up with her. I'll never know!" My mom tells me, shaking her head at the last bit.

"Andre's just super sweet... Besides they are just friends at the moment" I say. My mother gives me a look I can't determine.

"Honey, if Andre wasn't in to your sister he wouldn't put up with her as much as he does!" She tells me, I roll my eyes.

"Mom, she's your daughter!" I remind her.

"I know that sweetie!" Mom says before turning to the now boiled kettle.

"So you and Jade... Huh? When did this start?" She asks, I panic for a moment trying to think of something to say then I feel a pair of arms wrap around me and turn to see Jade's signature smirk.

"At Cat's wedding. We really hit it of" Jade tells my mother.

"Oh that's nice" My mother smiles.

"Yeah, I saw how beautiful Tori looked and I realized that I didn't want to be without her" Jade lies.

"I always thought you two would make a good couple" My mother muses.

"Mom. Just a second ago you said you didn't know I was into girls!" I remind her.

"Yes, I know that sweetie but I always thought if you and Jade were lesbians that you two would make a good couple!" She defends herself.

"What made you think that?" I asked. I knew I wasn't helping things much because if this had been a real relationship I probably wouldn't be making a big deal out of what my mom was saying.

"Just that you always talked about her. You still wanted to be her friend even though she tormented you! People wouldn't tolerate having iced-coffee spilled on them if they didn't have a crush on the person throwing at them!" My mom said, Jade raised her eyebrows at me. She did it because she knew it would bother me!

"Oh and don't get me started on Jade!" My mom added shocking us both, I looked at her and she gave Jade and I a look that said; 'It's sweet you don't know'.

"You wouldn't go to all that trouble teasing someone if you didn't have a crush on them" My mom explained, I gave Jade a look that said; 'Ha!'

Although it was good that people believed our lie, I found it un-bearably annoying how easily they believed it and even told us that they'd known all along. I mean this was a PRETEND relationship so how on earth had they known all along?

Jade was just a girl that I was pretending to be with, a girl that constantly got on my nerves, a girl that had done nothing but torment me throughout High-school. So as you can see there was no real feelings for my friends and family to have picked up on before this "Relationship" started so.

"So um... How long have you two been together? I mean because we know you've only just started telling people... Were you hiding it before?" Trina asked us during dinner. I bit my lip and looked over to Jade, she winked at me then turned to Trina.

"We started dating after Cat's wedding" Jade told her. Cat's wedding had only been a few days ago.

"Yeah... Well officially, we were already dating before that... but we were on and off... Right, Jade?" I corrected. I felt I had to because my sister wouldn't have believed that we were "In love" If our relationship had only started a few days ago... Besides there has to be a rocky path before you get to the marriage stuff.

"Yeah, Tori would come over all the time for..." Jade started but was interupted by Trina kicking her under the table.

"I was going to say to watch Horror movies and eat pizza! Gosh, Trina... your kicks hurt!" Jade winced in pain as she rubbed her probably bruised leg, Trina just glared at her.

"Sure you were..." Trina rolled her eyes.

"So how long have you both been together... officially or not?" My mom asked, turning to me.

"Umm.. I'd say about five months..." I lied. Jade put her arm around me and leaned on my shoulder.

"Yeah for five months it was just you and I" She mused. Jade was getting pretty good at this stuff... sometimes I'd forget myself and she'd have me convinced we really were in a relationship then she'd do or say something very jade-like and I'd be reminded that this was purely business... a show... a play... or whatever you want to call it.

"Wow that was eventful" Jade said on our drive back from my parents house. I stifled a laugh.

"How's your leg?" I asked, trying not to smile.

"It's painful!" She complained.

"The good kind?" I asked.

"NO!" She remarked, I laughed.

"So what is the good kind of pain?" I wondered, watching her drive. She shrugged.

"Things..." She trailed off.

"Come on you can tell me! I am your 'Girlfriend' after all!" I urged, she rolled her eyes.

"Actually you're just a girl who I'm pretending to be with..." She reminded me.

"Jade" I said, removing all silliness from before and gaining a serious tone. She glanced at me for a second and her face went serious too.

"Yeah?" She wondered.

"Umm. Like, what happens after we get engaged? I mean... to get the wedding presents we actually have to get..." I trailed off.

"Married?" She asked.

"Yeah... Like do we just get it annulled or do we get a divorce? I mean if we get it annulled it's like telling everyone that this whole thing was a scam and well if we wait for a divorce then we'd actually have to like... stay married..." I explained, Jade's face turned a sickly color.

"I-I don't know... You're not getting second thoughts are you?" Jade asked, looking a little worried.

"No, I'm just confused as to what happens next. That's all" I admitted. She nodded.

"We'll figure it out" She assured me as she put the car in park, and got out.

This whole situation was finding more ways to confuse me. I sighed and stepped out of Jade's car to follow her back to my apartment.

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