Chapter 3 «Second Day – Early Mornings and Hot Sun »

A/N Okay so that may be the last chapter in awhile. I'm really sorry, but I'm caught head over heals in the after vacations work and my teachers are trying to kill me, I'm telling you, kill me. I'll really try, but it'll not be regular. And on top of that, I have a huge writer block. Wish me luck! Still sorry, you guys :(

And I just remembered I forgot to put disclaimers in the last chapters, so here : I don't own Victorious, Dan Schneider does. But I so wish I would... :/

The sun was up early that morning. At five thirty sharp, the tent was light up in a mix of brown and green.

Both Tori and Jade hated the sun. Normally, they were up late and woke up late.

"Fuck" groaned Tori as she opened her eyes. One look at her PearPhone – six forty nine – and she was pissed off. But she knew she wouldn't be able to go to sleep. She was one of those many people who just couldn't go to sleep after they wake up.

Shrugging and muttering, she got up and out of her sleeping bag, shivering a bit. It was pretty cold! She put on a large and warm sweater over her tank-top, then stretched.

"'Morning Vega" Jade whispered, her opened eyes filled with the same desperation and anger that Tori's.

"Hey" the Latina replied. "I hate early mornings"

"Yeah." she yawned, got off of Beck's embrace then stretched. "Where ya' going?"

"Bathroom. Wanna come?"

"I guess. Give me two minutes"

"I'll wait outside"

"Okay"

While Tori was unzipping the tent as quietly as she was able of, Jade quickly got out of her slipping bag, trading her little shorts for a pair a legging and putting her leather jacket on. She then fallowed Tori outside.

The sun was up and shiny, as if he was laughing at the girls' anger. The grass and tent were covered with a tiny film of water.

When they came back to the tent, André was also up, reading a book – Nifty Shades of Beige. Jade let out a chuckle, before sitting next to Beck and putting on some socks.

"Good book?" joked Tori, sitting on her own bed.

"Don't joke about books"

Tori laughed a bit, then took his guitar. "What about we wake them up with a little song?"

Jade shrugged "I'm in" She smirked. "Beck hates early morning"

"You're not supposed to love him?" ask André, nodding to prove that he was with the idea.

"I guess. But the sun pissed me off"

Tori and André shrugged, than the boy took his guitar. "I'll make a melody, you girls just take turns and sing whatever you want"

"Kay"

"Whatever"

He started improvising a melody. Cat, her body completely covered with her sleeping bag, started to move.

"Hum…" started Tori, searching for a good idea. "Hey you guys, it's time to wake up" she sang, shrugging nervously.

"Yeah, wake up, get up and move your butts" continued Jade, smirking while searching for good words.

"The birds are singing, the wind is blowing and the sun is shining" Tori, enjoying the groaning of Beck, Robbie and Cat and avoiding Jade's angry looks because of her poor lyrics.

"Hey you guys, it's time to get up, get up…" Jade's smirk was growing bigger, seeing the three teenagers covering their faces with their pillows.

"HEY GUYS, WAKE UP, GET UP!" the girls yelled. Tori got up and started jumping on her mat, flipping her hair everywhere (yeah, the tent was big enough). André's song became more louder while Jade started a crazy high note, passing her fingers through her hair.

"Oh yeah, get up, it's time to wake up!" Tori was singing the end of the little song, while Jade's note was passing from high to low and low to high, like she didn't need to breathe. She finally finished it, and the girls put an end to the song harmonically: "It is time to wake up…" they let the note die, before starting cheering with André.

"You girls rocked!" André was smiling widely, putting his guitar on his bag.

"Always" joked Tori, with a high-five.

"I know" Jade was presently being dragged on her mat by an angry Beck.

"You guys are mean" yawn Cat, despite her wide smile. "Although, it wasn't bad"

Jade smirked, then lay down on the mat and kissed Beck languorously. Tori, André and Cat started booing friendly.

"Take a room" launched André, laughing a bit.

I won't describe Jade's finger move after his words – sorry, you guys. I'm a good girl (well, actually, not really, but yeah).

"Jade!" Cat held her breath, then let it go with a giggle.

"Hey Robbie!" Tori shook the curly guy a couple of time, until his head moved from under his pillow.

"I hate you" he groaned, his hand blindly searching for his glasses case. "All five of you"

They only laughed. Robbie put his glasses on, then sit up. "It's freezing" he complained.

"Put on a jacket!" exclaimed Cat, as cheerful as always – even if it was seven a.m.

Robbie shrugged, a bit annoyed due of his lack of sleep, but fallowed her advice mechanically.

"I just wanna say, it's really cool to be on a camping trip together, guys" Beck had stop trying to swallow Jade's tongue – well, kinda. They were still both really close to each other, under their sleeping bags.

"Yeah, much better than school" Tori fell down on her bed, sighing happily.

Cat let out a little laugh, before falling on her own bed, laying her head on André's lap. He started playing absentmindedly with her red hair.

"Yep" Robbie nodded.

Tori took her hair brush and passed it through her brown curls.

"Princess Vega" joked André, who then got a friendly hit on the shoulder from his best friend.

"You don't understand who much work long hair needs" she explained, flipping her hair over her head to make a lazy bun on the top of her head.

"Well, for some persons, including my Grandma, my hair is long" replied André, passing his fingers through his dreads.

"Whatever" Tori shrugged, having visibly found nothing to say better than that.

"Your hair isn't that long" Cat left her arm and felt the dark dreadlocks, her normal smile lighting up her whole face.

"Thanks, Little Red" he grinned at her, then turned to face cuddling Beck and Jade. "You guys aren't gonna be that couplely all week, right? 'Cause it kinda makes everyone feel awkward."

"Well deal with it" Jade, just to bug André, approached Beck face with hers, visibly going to kiss him. The boy threw an apology look at him but couldn't refuse a kiss from his girlfriend, especially when she's in that good a mood.

The gang laughed quickly, then returned to their stuff. André continued his book, now hiding the cover with his sheets. He knew Robbie and Cat wouldn't like this kind of book. Tori and the redhead started a super complicated paper game that included at least three random adjectives, five deadly verbs and two crazy adverbs. Go find why. Robbie traded his joggings for a pair of camo pants, a warm brown jacket and leather gloves, and disappeared outside the tent, without a word. And Jade and Beck kissed, cuddled and acted like a normal couple – it's not that normally, they weren't a normal couple, but a cuddly couple? Not really. But it was good for everyone to see them lose a bit and have fun.

It was not before ten thirty, when everybody started sweating and screaming for water, that Jade got up and stretched. It was still a shock to see her without her streaks or her piercing, since she decided to be simple during the trip. Her hair were tied up in a ponytail and she wore jeans short and a dark purple tank top, stole from Tori's suitcase.

"Okay, I'm starving. I'm gonna make pancakes." she launched, putting her flip-flops on.

"You? Cooking actual food?" a sceptic André ran a hand through his dreads and looked at the raven-haired girl.

"You should know that Jade is an amazing cook" interrupted Beck. "Really talented"

"I'll have to see it with my own eyes" shrugged André.

The whole gang fallowed the gothic and went outside of the tent. The sun was up, heating up the forest and tanning their skin. The sky was a pale blue, filled with small cottoned clouds. Robbie, who disappeared hours ago, was relaxing under the shadow of a huge tree.

"Hey man!" greeted André, waking him up by a hit on the top of his head. "What were you doing?"

"Sleeping" grunted Robbie, eyes still closed.

"Hate to ruin the atmosphere – I honestly don't care – but while I'm making pancakes, someone has to make a fire" screamed Jade, heading towards the truck to get some food.

"I'll do it!"

"Robbie, stop fooling around. André and Beck will do it" Cat designed the two friends who shrugged. The afro guy frowned and hide behind a sulky silence.

Nobody took Robbie's side and he himself didn't talk while André and Beck were struggling with the matches. None of them ever made a fire, and they didn't even know any basics.

Jade came back with a box of pancake preparation and powdered milk. Helped by Tori, who measured everything precisely, she made the pastry and added water.

"Cat, start the charcoal!" she ordered.

The red-headed did as she asked without a word and soon enough, the pancakes were happily sizzling.

"Okay, I give up" sighed Beck.

Many broken matches laid on the ground, and a small log, barely even burned, still laid in the middle of the campsite, surrounded by benches and other vertical logs. André and Beck, sweating, they hair attached and not even wearing shirts, seemed exhausted physically and emotionally. A little smirk lit up Robbie's face as he got up and headed towards them.

"Need a little help?"

"Yes, please" signed André, approved by Beck's nod.

It took only the time to grab some herbs, barks, small branches and to light up a match before the fire was devouring happily whatever came to him.

"Good job Robbie" Tori patted him on the shoulder and offered him a smile. She had a plate in her hand and two pancakes, drown in maple syrup, laid, ready to be eaten. "Breakfast's ready!"

While the rush of starving teenagers coming for food, the Latina sat comfortably on the two-person bench and attacked her pancakes happily.

"Oh my god, Jade, this is good!"

"Hey, I just cooked them. I didn't made the preparation"

"It's good anyway!"

"Thanks, Vega"

"You know, my name is Tori"

"Yeah"

Tori shook her head and returned to her pancakes.

After washing the dishes, the group separated in three: Robbie wanted to show André something and they disappeared in the direction of the truck; Cat and Tori decided to walk up one of the three mountains who made the large bowl with the camping site in the very middle; Beck and Jade also decided to walk, but in the direction of the river, to fill up the bottles.

Cat and Tori climbed the smallest mountain, a half an hour lazy trail to reach the top. The view was beautiful. The valley they were in was small and the campsite took most of the place. It was called Heaven, and the three mountains were named Zeus, for the tallest, Poseidon for the one in the middle and Hades for the littler one, the one Cat and Tori were on. Big trees, huge trees, surrounded the camp and trails meandered through the wood. The truck was park in a little place just after the trail they came from, between Hades and Zeus. A creek with clear water ran from the left of Poseidon, followed the side of the mountain and disappeared to the right of it.

"This so pretty!" squealed Cat, clapping her hands. She only was wearing a bikini top and light jeans shorts, her tan skin glowing under the hot sun and her red velvet hair tied up in two French braids, courtesy of Miss Tori Vega. Her smile was wide and her dimples, more appearing than ever.

"I have to agree, it's beautiful. Hey, look! It's our tent!" pointed Tori, her finger in the direction of the dark tent in the middle of campsite.

She was wearing a yellow tank top cut long ago just under her bra, tangling. Her dark high waist jeans short were, well, short and a pair of strong brown walking shoe seemed odd, looking at the rest of her outfit.

"We should go" added Cat, stretching her arms a bit and smiling under the caress of the hot sun. "I can see Beck and Jade coming from the creek. We'll help them with the water."

"But it's only noon!"

"But I'm thirsty!"

"Kay, whatever."

Cat grinned and led the way.

Meanwhile, the two lovebirds walked to the creek, Beck's shirtless chest attracting more attention from Jade than she would ever say. He was wearing khaki short and flip flops (manly flip flops, of course, not girly ones). They both had at least six bottles each and Beck was also carrying a huge empty container. None of the bottles were actually someone's – they all drank into them without thinking, being friends since a least three years and not really caring about that.

The creek was strong and clear. They filled their bottles and added these little chemical drops that kills bacteria, but for some persons tasted horrible. It was stronger added to mint, but the rest of the time, it was perfectly okay. The time they came back to the camp, sweating and panting, the water could be drank and they emptied a whole bottle only the two of them.

"We ate breakfast late, I'm not gonna make lunch. Eat a snack if you're hungry" Jade launched, while Cat and Tori were coming back from Hades.

The gang nodded in synchronization. Robbie and André, both wearing long jeans short and white T-shirts, were napping under a tree. Part of Robbie's afro, on the top of his head, was tied up in a little fountain, Cat being bored during breakfast.

"Hey babe, come here" Beck caught Jade's wrist and led her to another tree. He sat on the ground, and her raven-haired girlfriend smiled and sat on his lap.

"I love you" was all he managed to say before his girlfriend's hand curled into his 'fluffy hair' and her lips crashed his. They didn't really care that people were around.

Tori laughed and grabbed her book – Percy Jackson, couldn't blame herself for being a fan - from the tent. She plugged her headphones to a little music machine with a small pear on it, and listened to her favorite songs.

"Robbie!" screamed Cat, bored. He jumped a little and opened his eyes with difficulty.

"Hey Cat, stop screaming, you woke me up!"

"That was the point. Come here, I want to talk to someone."

"You're serious, aren't you?"

"I am. Come on!" she begged, twisting her braid between her fingers.

He murmured "fuck" before getting up and stretching. Cat grinned and patted the log beside her. She didn't want to go under a tree – the sun was shinny and she liked it, so why escaping from it?

"I can't believe you actually make me do everything. Everything" Robbie grumbled as he sat down.

"That is not true!"

Robbie turned his gaze to her and she giggled.

"Okay, maybe. But you're my friend!"

'Sure', thought Robbie, 'her friend'.

"Yep" he said out loud.

And they continued on and on, teasing each other and talking about nearly everything, from the rumors that Sinjin had a nose job to how fire came to the humans, by different mythologies. The sun kept warming up the woods and André kept snoring, soon followed by Tori, her head on his lap and her book in her hands. Jade and Beck kept kissing and laughing and talking like they normally did in Beck's RV. It was one of these most calm but not boring afternoon, where you go to sleep tired when you did nothing.

And when the sun came down and they started to put on way more clothes, when they changed into their PJ's, when the fire slowed down a little, the gang's hands glued by the marshmallows and the chocolate, and when they got into the tent, no one talked like the night before and everybody went to sleep, peaceful and tired by the hot sun.

Hello fellas!

It took me ages to finish this chapter. I had a huge writer block 'cause I kept thinking of the rest of the story (it's all planned, so I already know what's going to happen) and I was so excited, but there's still one chapters and another one, not really important, before the fun starts. It's a chapter per day – and I still try to find some things to say, but sometimes, I just feel I'm running in circles. Do you think I'm running in circles? Answer me in a review :)

Talking of reviews, you know they make me happy, right? Happy me makes happy chapters!

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