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Chapter Five: Staying at the West's
The rest of the evening had gone by smoothly. They'd all had chocolate cake and talked about old times.
"Well thank-you for having us, Jade" Cat said as she gathered her children. "And it was good seeing you again, Tori. Don't become a stranger!" She added giving each of them a hug.
"Miranda we're going now!" Cat called to her eight year old who was engrossed in a nickelodeon show on Jade's TV.
"I won't" Tori promised.
Robbie and Cat's children followed their parents to the front door and waved at Tori and Jade. They waved back and as Jade shut the door behind the Shapiro's both Jade and Tori sighed.
"They are very hyperactive" Tori observed. Jade nodded as they headed to the living room and collapsed on the couch.
"Yep, that's what you'd expect from the children of Cat" Jade agreed. Tori looked around the room.
"Where are the kids?" Tori asked. Jade shook her head.
"I don't know, let's go find them?" Jade suggested, slowly they got up and Tori followed Jade upstairs.
"This is Jennifer's room" Jade told Tori as they got to the first door after you've climbed up the stairs. Jade knocked on the door.
"Come in" Jennifer's voice called from the inside.
Jade opened the door and Tori followed her inside. Jennifer's room was painted a deep purple color and had a black carpet. There were posters of her favorite TV show's and bands plastered in various places in the room. She had a huge window above her bed which gave out a great view of her street. There was a desk to the left of the room with a pink laptop on it. Alex and Jennifer were sitting on Jennifer's bed watching a movie.
"What are you watching girls?" Tori asked.
"Bridesmaids, it was out back when you were young" Jennifer said, poking her tongue out at them.
"You'll be our age someday; don't mock it till you've tried it" Jade teased her.
"That was a great film" Tori added, giving a smile to each of them.
"How long's it got left?" Tori asked.
"I don't know, are we going yet?" Alex asked sounding disappointed.
"I'm not sure, it's up to Jade" Tori said, not really wanting to leave yet herself.
"Please can they stay longer? I promised Alex I'd show her another great movie after this" Jennifer begged.
"Well only if Tori's not already bored" Jade joked.
"You're not bored are you mom? Please say you're not" Alex asked eagerly.
"No, I'm not bored. Jade and I may be as you put it "Old" but we still know how to have a good time." Tori chuckled.
"Can Alex stay the night?" Jennifer suddenly asked. Jade and Tori smiled at each other;
"Yes" They said in unison, kind of glad that the two were getting on so well all of a sudden.
"Where's Patrick?" Jade asked.
"In his room I think" Jennifer replied, Jade nodded and led Tori to the next room. She knocked on her son's door and he quickly opened it.
"Hi, Mom" He said, walking back over to his bed.
"Did you and Charlie have fun today?" Jade asked. He nodded uninterested and went back to his portable game device.
"There's no talking to him when he's on his games" Jade told Tori.
"I know my nephews are the same" Tori mentioned as they left the room.
"Trina has kids?" Jade responded, shocked. Tori laughed as they went down the stairs.
"Yeah, she has twins; Kyle and Kevin and a little girl on the way" Tori revealed.
"Wow, new things surprise you every day" Jade said, astonished.
"Trina's grown up a bit since High-School… She's more bearable now" Tori admitted, Jade nodded and they collapsed back on the couch again.
"Do you want to stay the night too?" Jade asked, as she poured them each another glass of wine. Tori sighed.
"I suppose, I'd better. I'm probably way over the limit" Tori admitted.
"Cool, you can sleep on the couch?" Jade suggested.
"Any where's fine really, I barely sleep lately… between the music company and having a teenage daughter, sleeping becomes something I get very little of" Tori admitted.
"I hear you; I'm either trying to resolve conflict between cast members on one of my productions or doing that very same thing at home with the kids… I sleep well in the mornings though." Jade stated.
They both sat there for a minute in silence sipping their wines.
"So… who do you like? If you like anyone" Jade asked, turning so that she was facing Tori and resting her head on the back of the couch.
"I don't know if I like anyone" Tori admitted, mimicking Jade's actions.
"What about you?" Tori wondered, wanting to know more about Jade West.
"I don't really know, either… I barely see anyone…" She admitted.
"So I'm wondering, what happened to Beck? I mean you were dating at the end of High-School… but you didn't end up together?" Tori wondered. Jade sighed; nobody had asked her about hers and Beck's previous relationship in years.
"We did continue to date after High-School but we just ended up falling out of love, it was a mutual thing. Nobody got hurt" Jade explained truthfully.
Jade thought about Tori's question as they chatted about random things. Who did she like? Statistically when someone is single there is always at least someone they like but was that true in her case?
"So… Do you still see Beck?" Tori wondered. She hadn't seen him since they'd graduated.
"Occasionally, He's not always in town… like right now he's filming in New York. He's married though; his wife is beautiful I probably would have killed her if he'd met her during High-School." Jade admitted, both of them giggling at the last part of the sentence.
"Do you still see Andre?" Jade asked. Tori nodded.
"Yeah, He's Alex' God father… Trina's her god mother. Andre's done quite well for himself, sold loads of albums" Tori admitted.
"Yeah, I know. Jennifer's got all of them… She really likes his music" Jade admitted.
"I kind of played some a bit during pregnancy" Tori admitted.
"I still don't think that's why she likes it" Jade admitted, with a chuckle.
"The kids are settled in bed, Alex' is on the pull over mattress in Jennifer's room." Jade told Tori as she came back downstairs, holding bed sheets and pillows. She handed them to Tori and sat on the couch.
"I hope this is going to be comfortable enough for you?" Jade asked. Tori nodded.
"I'm sure it'll be fine. You know it's weird to think of you as caring about me being cosy... considering you used to hate me" Tori pointed out. Jade looked at the ground.
"Yeah, I'm sorry about that... I guess I was jealous, I thought you'd steal Beck from me or something?" Jade said. Even though she thought that was why she'd tormented Tori all those years ago, Jade still had this aching feeling at the back of her mind, there was more to the story?
"I had no interest in dating Beck" Tori sighed. Were they still going to fight about this? After all this time.
"Okay! I'm sorry I made your life miserable for no reason apparently!" Jade held up her hands in defense.
"Do you remember graduation?" Tori asked, suddenly.
"Yeah, bit's a pieces... You were a wreck!" Jade remembered. Tori had barely been able to stop crying.
"Yeah, I was wasn't I" Tori said, laughing at herself. Jade laughed along with the half-Latina.
Jade studied the woman in front of her with deep interest. She loved the way Tori smiled with her eyes. She tucked a strand of her long hair behind her ear and stopped, looking at Jade with confusion on her face.
"Jade?" She asked confused. realizing she was staring Jade looked away, blushing slightly.
"Uh, sorry..." Jade mumbled a response. Tori lifted Jade's head so that she was facing her. The contact sent tingles through Jade's body.
"So um... do you wanna watch a movie?" Jade asked, stepping away from Tori. Tori offered a weak smile;
"Yeah, sure..." she agreed.
"We'll watch the Scissoring 3" Jade announced, popping the movie in the DVD player.
"They made a third one?" Tori asked.
"Yep!" Jade replied as she sat back down on the couch. They relaxed and watched the movie in silence, Tori kept sneaking glances at Jade throughout the movie, as if she was trying to figure her out.
A/N: As always your reviews are very much welcomed, I'm working my way into a Jori relationship but I'm not exactly how sure it will go. Let me know what you thought, it's always nice to hear what you have to say :)