Tori POV
"Andre can I talk to you for a second," I asked walking up to meet him at his locker.
"Are you going to yell at me?" He snaps looking at me with a glare.
"No, I wanted to apologize. I shouldn't have gotten so mad earlier you were just looking out for me" I tell him nervously waiting for his reaction.
"I am looking out for you. You going to tell me what's going on now" he asks, I sigh nodding.
"What to come over after school?" I ask since the bell is going to ring any second.
"I'll meet you there or do you need a ride"
"I have a ride thanks, I'll see you then" I groan, suddenly feeling very nervous that I was going to be telling him that Jade and I were dating so far other than our family only Cat knew about it and she was thankfully okay with it. I really hope Andre is okay with it too, I don't want to lose my best friend. I turn the corner to my math class and walk straight into Jade.
"Oww," I groan reaching over with my arm that wasn't currently in pain to hold the other.
"Tori, are you okay? I'm sorry I didn't mean to" she rambles moving her hands around like she's not sure what to do with them.
"I'm okay, it's not serious for you to have to call me Tori," I tell her as the pain dies down a bit.
"What?"
"You only call me Tori when you're concerned about me, normally it's Vega"
"Oh, I didn't realize. Does it bother you that I call you Vega"
"No, I like it only you're allowed to call me that though," I tell her, as we walk into class and take our seats at the back.
"Did you talk to Andre?"
"Yeah, he's coming over after school. You are going to be there right" I ask, she rolls her eyes.
"Sure, but you're overreacting he's not going to care"
"It's just he's the first person that I've told. Everyone else just worked it out on their own"
"I know but it's going to be fine," she tells me grabbing my hand and giving it a squeeze, "how are you feeling?" She asks and it's my turn to roll her eyes she's been driving me a little crazy today I never knew she could be so protective, the poor ninth grader that stood a little too close to my messed up shoulder today had to get his mother to take him a new pair of pants to school.
"I'm fine, promise you made sure I've taken my meds and it's still in the dang sling since you adjusted the strap so I can't get it off on my own"
"You kept taking it off" she defends herself.
We pull into my drive seconds before Andre, Jade honking her horn when he tried to pull into the drive before her. She commands me to sit before jumping out of the car and running to open my door for me. I wasn't sure if I should be annoyed with her not letting me do anything or if I should just be grateful for all she is doing to help me. She leans down giving me a kiss and telling me that everything's going to be fine. I climb out the car knowing better to reach back in for my bag she's yelled at me enough for that today. She grabs both our bags and leads the way to the front door and opening it in time for Andre to have caught up to us.
"Hey Tori, Jade," he says Jades name with a tone I don't like, accompanied with a glare. Jade makes eye contact with me as she holds open the door for us to come in, I give her a shrug followed by a nod letting her know that I don't know what's wrong with him but I'll find out.
"I didn't know that she was going to be here," Andre tells me as we both sit down on the couch Jade heading straight for the kitchen.
"She is my ride and we were going to work on some homework"
"Right well, are you still going to tell me what's going on?" He asks as Jade comes back with three bottles of water and my meds, I have no idea how she is so good at keeping track of when I take them normally I need reminders on my phone or they are forgotten.
"Yes, well the thing is …. what's going on is…" I attempt to explain but I'm getting more and more nervous especially with the way he is glaring at Jade.
"Vega and I are dating" Jade blurts out.
"I know"
"Yes well it's still sort of new…..wait you know since when"
"I saw you both come in late on Friday and Cat confirmed it"
"Oh….. well, why have you been so concerned about my date then," I ask now very confused.
"He still thinks I did this to you" Jade mutters, and I can hear the hurt in her voice. I reach over taking her hand.
"Andre, Jade never hurt me why would you think that"
"You two don't exactly get along. You were so secretive about this date not just who it was with but where. then you come back with stitches and slings what am I supposed to think"
"You are supposed to think that I fell down the stairs like I told you. You could also trust someone you have known since the fifth grade to not hurt me" I snap my guilt over the lie being overruled by the hurt I heard in Jade's voice.
"I didn't hurt her Andre. I hate that she is hurt even more than the fact that she's doing an awful job of taking care of herself" she tells him looking at the ground.
"What about the blood and the bush daisies?"
"That was stupid and I feel awful about it, the blood was supposed to just get a little lost and freak her out a little but then they kept drawing more blood and I lost track of the first bag. I wouldn't have risked Vega like that. Plus Robbie needed it for surgery so I guess I wouldn't really want him hurt either" she explains it takes a few seconds to remember what they were talking about. "I never realized she was that allergic to bush daisies I thought it was a weird rash sort of reaction not she could stop breathing type reaction," she says still rambling, I grab her chin and make her face me giving her a kiss to get her to shut up. I ignore Andre's grasp.
"All that's in the past I'm fine and I already forgave you for it," I tell her seeing her eyes filled with guilt I give her one more kiss before turning back to Andre.
"I trust Jade completely, she won't hurt me" he looks between the two of us before nodding.
"Fine, but if I ever see you hurt her, I will be telling Trina and she can be scary when she wants to be," Andre says and I laugh when Jade does, in fact, pale slightly I know she was intimidated by Trina after watching her train. Speaking of Trina she comes bursting in the front door.
"Tori come help me lift these boxes to the basement, they are all from grandma" before I can say anything in response, Jade is on her feet demanding that I sit there and rest before walking out to help Trina. It's then that I realize that it must be some more Marx merchandise left over from Saturday.
"Okay, I believe you. Jade just willing helped Trina so you could rest" Andre says watching the door Jade walked out of.
"Yeah, she is amazing," I tell him, before sitting back and allowing him to ask a bunch of questions about how we started dating ignoring Jade and Trina arguing in the background.