JADE POV
I wake up when something tickles my face. Opening my eyes I try to see since the room was still in darkness, a dull light still coming from the tv. Moving my hand in front of my face it connects with someone's hair pushing it away Vegas face comes into view she groans suddenly moving closer and burying her head into my shoulder looking over her head at her clock, I see it's two in the morning. I consider getting up and moving to the guest room since I only came into her room to watch the scissoring since her parents were watching tv in the living room. When her arm comes around me."Go back to sleep" she mutters. I stare at her a few second to see if she realizes that she is currently using me teddy bear but she's already asleep again. Getting myself comfortable again I close my eyes wrapping my arm around her, trusting her to not mention this to anyone since apparently fake threats would no longer work in keeping her quiet.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
"Nooooo" I groan digging my head into my pillow to get away from the noise. Only to discover that Vega and I switched positions again and I'm now using her as a pillow.
"Sorry" she mutters sliding out from under me and silencing the alarm.
"No come back" I demand not fully awake.
"Go back to sleep. I'll get you some coffee when I come back" she says pulling the blankets back over me before I hear her rummaging through drawers and walking out closing the door behind her.
A few hours I wake up to find the usual coffee on the bedside table and grab it sitting up. I groan feeling very self-conscious, after asking Vega to come back to her bed. Starting to head downstairs I figure it's better to face her now and get it over with. Tori is sitting at the kitchen table with her breakfast, a bowl of fruit and is currently signing a stack of…..posters. I take a deep breathe keeping my face blank as I look at the poster with her in a fighting pose. Quickly looking away I take a seat still gripping my coffee.
"Thanks for the coffee"
"No problem," she mutters not looking up and I can see a blush start to cover her cheeks "sorry about last night"
"Sorry about this morning"
"How about we just never mention it again," she asks hopefully.
"Mention what?" I ask she finally looks and me and gives a smile. "What is with all the posters?"
"It's for the fight next week a portion of all money raised from the signed posters will go to charity"
"Shouldn't you have done that before?" I ask realizing she won't have much time.
"I've done most of them these are just for some sponsors and friends"
"You give out posters of yourself to friends"
"Yup, not that Shelby has many friends, to begin with. Sam sells hers and I've heard gets a good amount of money for them" she tells me and I try to think if she has mentioned a Sam.
"Wait, Cat's room mate Sam," I asked shocked that they knew each other.
"Yeah, I keeper in contact with the icarly team after we did an exhibition match"
"Oh yeah, you did that spit take the thing on the show. That must have been what a few months before you started Hollywood Arts?" I ask, mad at myself for not realizing the resemblance before.
"It's what made me decide that I wanted to back to school," she says having mentioned yesterday that she was home schooled at the beginning of her career. We sit in silence for a few minutes as she signs the last of her posters handing me one as she packs the rest up.
'Jade West, never sneak up behind me again especially when I'm working on the bag. ~ Shelby Marx'
I roll my eyes she apparently wasn't going to let that go. Thanking her for the poster, I put my mug in the dishwasher before heading upstairs to get ready, saying a good morning to David as he stumbles downstairs making his way to the coffee.
"You ready?" Vega asks as we head out to the garage. I grab my helmet in response jumping on her bike before her and holding out my hand for her keys. "Yeah, we are no way near the point of you being allowed to ride my bike, yet"
"So there's a chance in the future"
"Sure, after you pass the David Vega test. Which is much harder than the one to get your license" she answers as she climbs on in front of me and I slide my arms around her had gotten more comfortable with this form of transportation, especially having to sit this close to her.
"I'll work on that. Now let's go. I want to see you beat this guy up I'm still in denial"
A few hours later I realize this whole training thing is boring to watch glad that Vega insisted that I take something to do. As I sit in the corner working on my play, at some point Trina showed up and is sitting a few meters away working on….something I lost interest in. Suddenly there's a loud grunt and the sound of a body hitting the floor, I look up to see Juan on the ground and Vega standing over him with a grin or as much of a grin she can give with a mouth guard in. As Juan stands up there is another burst of movement and I can feel my mouth drop open but have no power to stop it or close it again. I watch them as they continue to bounce around the mats, Vega only goes down once in the entire hour that I watch before Trina rudely demands that I stop ogling. By the time it's over, my play has pretty much been abandoned in order to watch Vega.
"You alright Jade?" Vega asks, I blink and can feel a blush covering my face as she somehow is now standing right in front of me, Juan being helped to a bench by Trina.
"That was….um ah cool" I stutter, hating myself for sounding like a complete idiot.
"Right" she smirks "very cool, now I'm going to shower then we can go out to wherever you picked for dinner" I continue to stare after her even after he door closed behind her trying to get my thoughts back in order.
"So where you taking my sister for your date?" Trina asks I look over at her, oh no I knew there was something I was forgetting.
"I'll be right back" I yell back as I run out of their private training room.
"Come on pick up" I mutter as I hear the phone ringing in my ears.
"Hello, How's my favorite niece doing?" I hear Matthew, say and I let out a sigh of relief.
"I need a huge favor. Is there any way we can have dinner at your restaurant" I say, being perfectly willing to beg him have to I can't believe I forgot.
"That depends on the we, how many people"
"Me and um Tori," I tell him and wait for his reaction he is the only one that knows about my feelings for her.
"YOU ASKED HER OUT" I hear his excited shout from over the phone.
"It's complicated, and I'll explain later but, she's just changing from work. I was sort of supposed to have had this planned out more this morning"
"Let me guess, you also didn't mention that you were taking her to a five-star restaurant"
"Well no, and you don't have to remind me how many stars your restaurant has," I say rolling my eyes at him. He manages to slip that into a conversation whenever possible.
"Don't worry I will take care of everything just you take her to the private entrance, I have been waiting for this date since you first talked about her" He quickly hangs up and I can imagine him running around yelling at his workers. Sighing in relief I head back inside to pack up my things.
"What was that about?" Trian asks as soon as I'm back inside.
"Just making sure, our reservation was ready"
"You forgot didn't you, wait, reservation for where are you taking her"
"The Eastern" she stares at me like I'm crazy, before snapping out of it.
"How did you get a reservation there? Wait, does Tori know about this?"
"I know a guy" I answer vaguely. Vega chooses that moment to come out, wearing black jeans a purple shirt and has a leather jacket that I'm now used to seeing her in. I'm stuck staring at her again as she snaps her fingers in front of my face to get my attention.
"Are you sure you want to go for dinner we could do it later? You seem a little off" she asks in concern, Trina lets out a laugh whispering something in her ear causing her to blush before heading out reminding me to get her home by curfew. I roll my eyes at the ridiculous statement since I'm still stuck with no car and relying on Vega to drive us.
"I'm fine, you look um good" I attempt a compliment.
"You don't look too bad yourself. Now, where you taking me?"
"You will just have to wait and see," I tell her as we head towards her bike.
"You need to tell me I'm driving," she says.
"You're just going to have to trust my directions"
I direct her to the back of The Eastern, she follows me up to a black door looking around confused since there was no way to know what building we are at from this angle. I knock on the door.
"Password?" I hear Matthew shout from the other side.
"Open up before I stab you with my scissors" I shout out and the door quickly opens revealing Matthew standing there.
"Now, is that any way to talk to your favorite uncle," he says opening his arms for a hug I quickly give him one before stepping back closer to Vega.
"Vega, this is my Uncle Matthew"
"Matthew this is Vega," I say pointing to them when I say their name.
"Hello Tori," Matthew says holding his hand out for her to shake and putting emphasis on her name I roll my eyes at his insistence that I call her Tori.
"Hello, Sir, it is nice to meet you," she says as she shakes his hand.
"Oh I like her a lot more from the kid that needs a haircut, but please call me Matthew," he says as he leads her inside. He leads us down a hall and into one of the private rooms which is more for a meeting than people having dinner, but he has made it look good with flowers and candles covering the table.
"Alright, you kids have fun on your date," he says before not so subtly whispering to me "Jade I expect a phone call later telling me all about it"
"Sorry about him," I tell Vega as we sit down. She looks at the menu in front of her finally seeing the name of the restaurant.
"This is The Eastern?" she asks her eyes wide in shock "Jade this place is crazy expensive"
"It's fine you're not the only one that knows the owners to restaurants. Matthew owns the place I get a very good family discount" she looks at me nervously before giving a nod. We look at the menu in silence only talking again to give the waiter our order.
"Um, Jade is this a date?" Vega nervously fiddling with her napkin.