A/N: Thank you for your continuous support on this story, even though I'm not regular with the updating part of it all. I'm sorry about that. I hope that everyone had a good Christmas and New Year! I hope you all got what you wanted... And Happy Birthday to anyone who's birthday it may be today... Because hey, It's someone's birthday... everyday!
Disclaimer: I do not own Victorious... Although I'm sure it would be cool if I did... But I don't!
Chapter Seventeen: June 3rd
Flashback:
The phone rang on and on until the pale thirty-eight year old was forced out of bed to reach her cell-phone. She looked at the time on her alarm-clock on her bedside tale: Five-Thirty am.
"Vega!" Jade moaned as she placed the phone to her ear.
"Sorry… I just wanted to make sure everything was ready… that you'd decided on where you were taking, Alex yet?" Tori explained, hurriedly. Jade could hear rustling in the background and it seemed as though Tori had been up much longer than she herself had, desperately trying to prepare everything.
"Yes! Everything is ready and, Yes. I have decided on where I am taking Alex… Do you think I'm going to let their sixteenth birthday's go by without being prepared?" Jade say's as she scrambles out of bed and into her dressing gown and too small, pair of slippers that had been given to her as a Christmas gift that year.
"Okay, good! Where are you taking her?" Tori asked, curiously.
"The science museum, I'm going to make Jennifer breakfast in bed then… you and Alex will come here and we're swap them … You take Jenn and I'll take Alex… then we'll all meet later for dinner and spend the day together as a family" Jade explains as she carefully rushes down the stairs hoping that today off all day's that she doesn't actually slips.
"Okay but please don't say it like that… Swap our daughters… just like the hospital did" Tori cringes.
"Sorry, I didn't mean it like that… Anyway… meet you at Twelve pm at my house?" Jade arranges as she hurries to her kitchen to start up the pancakes.
"Okay, see you then… I…" Tori begins but it's as if the courage to say those words disappears.
"What, Vega? You what?" Jade desperately begs.
"Nothing… I'll see you later" Tori replies before the phone call ends. Jade shrugs off the desperation to hear someone say those words to her. To hear, Tori say those words to her and begin preparing breakfast.
"Good morning, Alex!" Tori beams as she walks into her now, sixteen year old's room with a tray filled with a glass of orange juice, a plate full of bacon, egg's, toast and sausages.
"Mom, Really? Breakfast in bed... What a surprise!" Alex says groggily as she opens her eyes and sits up. Taking the tray from her mother.
"Oh sweetie... There are plenty more surprises where that came from" Tori assures her.
"Oh..." Alex murmurs, excitedly. The third of June... her birthday... It's finally here.
"Yep, so eat up... get ready... then come downstairs to open, some of your presents!" Tori told her, before leaving the teen's room to clean up downstairs.
"Thanks for breakfast, mom" Alex, thanks her mother as she arrives down stairs in a pair of jeans and a GAP T-Shirt.
"No problem, Alex." Tori smiles, then gestures to a pile of presents on the living room floor. "Open Up".
Alex smiles as she digs head first into the pile, trying to decide which present to open up first. She finds a present from her grandparents, Holly and David, Tori's parents. She open's it tearing the wrapping paper hungrily. Inside is a camera... a really good camera, a film camera instead of a digital camera... where she could take real pictures, and a photographers book, giving her tips on how to capture the best image.
Alex then heads for the next present in the pile, it's from Cat and Robbie. She tears at the paper excitedly still not getting over the fact that she's now sixteen years old. It's a make-up kit and some nail-varnishes, not really her thing but the thought was nice. The next present was from, Andre. He always gave good presents, It was a signed CD. It was his own CD, of course but then there was another one... One with Tori and Jade on the cover, signed by them both... Huh?
The next present was from Beck, it was a series of little things. First there was a can of lemonade that said, Ask your mother. The next was a DVD, with HA performance's written across it then there was a science book. Alex smiled as she reached the next, present from her Aunt Trina.
"Is this the last one?" Alex asked, noticing it was the last in the pile and she hadn't yet received a present from her mother... either of her mothers.
"You'll get your presents from, Jade and I later... Don't worry" Tori assured her little girl. Of course she wasn't so little anymore, she'd been growing up so fast and of course so had Jennifer but Tori hadn't gotten the chance to see Jenn grow up...
Trina's present was a photo album... or collage of some sort... filled with memories... but enough space for Alex to finish it with more memories.
The first picture was of, Tori in the hospital the day after she was born, holding her. Then pictures of her and her cousins as she and they grew up, a picture at the hospital just recently that must have been taken without her knowledge. It was herself, Jade, Tori, Jenn and Patrick. Then there was just empty pages waiting for her to fill them in with future events, Alex smiled and picked up the camera that her grandparents had bought her and took a quick snap of her mother on the living room couch.
"Hey!" Tori complained.
"Don't blame me, blame the Grandparents!" Alex joked, Tori rolled her eyes and smiled as she held out her arms to hug her daughter.
"So... How was it?" Jade asked, eagerly as Jennifer appeared downstairs, with her empty dishes.
"How was what, Mom?" Jennifer asked, poking her tongue out at her mother.
"Breakfast, Silly. As you know... I don't cook often... and you're supposed to be this amazing Chef!" Jade pointed out.
"It was great, Mom. Honestly, don't worry!" Jennifer smiled.
"Yeah, mom. You're breakfast is Yummy!" Patrick agrees from his place on the kitchen, table.
"Good, So is our birthday Girl ready for presents?" Jade wonders. Jennifer nods.
Jade picks up a big gift bag filled with presents and hands them to Jennifer. The first present that she opens is from, Andre. It's a C.D with Jade and Tori on the cover, followed by their signatures, a picture of a younger Tori and a CD signed by him, which of course is his CD. The next present is from, Cat and Robbie, A little necklace with her name and birthstone on it, and a chef book filled with loads of different recipes in it. Then there's one from her grandparents, Jade's parents. It's a book on law... (Clearly picked out by her grandfather) and a perfume bottle. Then there's a present from, Beck. It's a can of lemonade (He does this every year) a DVD with HA performances written on it and a clothes voucher. Then surprisingly, there is a present from Trina, Tori's sister she remembers. It's a photo album, filled with pictures of Tori as she grew up... Jennifer guessed it was an insight on what, her biological mother was like growing up. Then there started with pictures of Tori, being pregnant. (With her) Jennifer smiled as she realized that she, herself was inside her mother in those pictures.
"You, done?" Jade asked. Jennifer nodded.
"But... What about?" She asked, worriedly.
"Don't worry... There are more presents to go" Jade assured her. Then the door bell went and the now sixteen year old rushed to answer it, it was of course Tori and Alex. After everyone said their hello's and happy birthday's, both girls were surprised as Jade took Alex and Patrick with her to her car and Tori took Jennifer with her to her car... What was going on?
Tori took Jennifer to a real-life field Hockey game, not one that was school students but one with real life Field Hockey players that did field Hockey for a living. She even got to talk to one of the players after the game. Then when they were done there they met, Jade, Patrick and Alex for dinner where they were then finally given presents from both of their parents.
Jade got Alex clothes a necklace, she got Jennifer clothes and a bracelet. Tori got Jennifer, a nail art kit and a watch and she got Alex, a watch and a book from her favorite author, Ally Carter.
"Thanks!" They both beamed as they took turns to hug both of their mothers.
"Don't forget, Me!" Patrick said as he handed them both more presents. Patrick had gotten them both the same thing, (Thing 1 and Thing 2 T-shirts) Jennifer was Thing 1 and Alex was Thing 2. He laughed when he saw their faces.
A/N: Those girls seem a bit spoiled, don't you think? Oh well... I hope you liked this chapter, even though it doesn't answer questions you might have wanted answered? In case you didn't notice, this was entirely a flashback... so it's before the vacation... Hope this doesn't confuse things? Thanks for reading!