This is the final chapter of 'The Morning After'. I have another story in the works called 'Tori Vega-Abandonded'. It's a Tori-centic story where Tori gets kidnapped by Ryder, and her friends do nothing to help after they find out and she gets back. I'm still working on the sequel to 'New Beginning', but I still don't have a name and it's taking a while to get the story going. Thank you all for reading and reviewing, and I hope you look up my other stories and leave reviews if you like them.

Disclaimer: I own the VicTORIous soundtracks on iTunes, and nothing else.

Jade POV

After the dinner, Tori takes me home. We're still a little awkward with each other, even though we've gotten close that night. Here we are, a month later, and we keep getting closer. Jordan and Cat seem incredibly close, and I'm glad about that. I know I didn't like Jordan at first, but Cat and she make a good couple, even though they decline it. We haven't seen much of Beck. Apparently, he switched classes and eats lunch in the BlackBox, away from everyone. He originally ate in the janitor's closet, but I found him and kicked him out. And between the legs.

I regret nothing.

André and Robbie are okay with us. They don't seem to care about Tori and I, or Cat and Jordan. Robbie seemed upset at first, but it's only because everyone knows he has a thing for Cat.

Trina and I have become close, surprisingly. I've been spending a lot of time at the Vega house, and she has taken a liking to me, I guess. She was a little hesitant to be close to me at first because she know it was because of me that Tori became the way she is. She eventually warmed up to me when Tori explained everything. She still avoids me at times, but she doesn't insult me or anything anymore.

Mr. and Mrs. Vega are different stories.

Mrs. Vega was excited when she found out that Tori and I started hanging out again. She was apprehensive at first because of what happened to Tori, but got used to it when I was over at their house everyday. She was even more excited when Tori started acting like her old self.
Mr. Vega, however, watches me like a hawk. He still doesn't trust me, which is understandable. It got uncomfortable when Tori invited me over for dinner a few days ago.

Flashback

"Jade, I'm so glad you're here." Mrs. Vega says as I walk in.

"Thank you for having me, Mrs. Vega." I say, shyly.

"Please, it's Holly."

"Holly. Thank you for inviting me."

"It was Tori, who insisted. Come in, come in. Tori'll be down in a minute."

"Thank you. Hello Trina, Mr. Vega." I say as they step into the living room.

"Hey Jade. What are you doing here?" Trina asked as she started helping her mom in the kitchen. Yeah, she changed a bit as well when Tori became Victoria.

"I was invited for dinner."

"Cool. Tori just got out of the shower, so she'll be down shortly."

"Thank you, Trina. For everything you did for Tori."

"Anytime." She says with a smile, going back to help in the kitchen.

I sit on the couch, waiting. After a few minutes, Mr. Vega sat down a few spaces away from me, on the other couch.

"Evening, Jade."

"Evening, Mr. Vega."

"Jade, hey. You're here." We all turn when we hear Tori walking down the stairs. I smile at the sight. Even in jeans, purple shirt, and her usual boots. Her hair is in a simple ponytail, with her glasses on.

"Hey, Tori. You look good." I say, watching her.

"Dinner will be ready soon. Everyone come sit." Holly says, noticing how close Tori and I have gotten without realizing. We snap out of it and go take our seats. Mr. Vega sits on one end, Holly on the other end, directly across from the other. On the two sides, there are two chairs on one, and one on the other. I see Tina go to sit on the side with just one chair, but Mr. Vega insists on her sitting on the other. I end up sitting on the chair closest to Mr. Vega, and Tori tries to move her chair so it's across from me, but Holly stops her, having her move it where it was before.

We eat in somewhat silence after some small talk at the beginning. After everyone is done eating, Mr. Vega decides to speak to me. I feel bad because has asks me a question as I take a drink of water and accidentally spit it on Tori.

"So, when are you and Tori getting married?"

"David!" "Dad!" Holly and Tori say at the same time. Trina's too busy laughing at me reaction to say anything.

"Excuse me, sir?" I say after a small coughing fit.

"Well, you two are close, I just want to know what you're plans are with my baby girl."

"What about me?" Trina says, offended.

"Not now, Trina." He says to her, turning back to me.

"Well, I'm still working on getting her to like me, but after that, who knows?"

"Why wouldn't she like you?" Mr. Vega says, glancing at Holly who is giving him a dirty look. I glance over to Tori who looks like she'd rather be anywhere but here, not that I blame her at the moment.

"Well, I wronged her a bit ago, and I'm working on proving that I won't do it again."

"I assume you're talking about New Year's, the night you called a stripper over to my house?"

Everyone freezes at that. I look at Tori who looks like she's about to be sick.

"Yes, sir." I say, barely above a whisper. "How'd you know?"

"I'm a cop. It's my job."

"No more questions, David. Let's leave the girls to some privacy." Holly says, breaking the tension. Mr. Vega gets up and walks over the the stairs behind his wife, turning before he goes up the stairs and looks to me.

"No 'fun' girls." He says with a smirk, making Tori and I blush, Trina laugh, and Holly to yell at him again and drag him up the stairs.

Soon after, Trina goes upstairs, telling us that if we do 'have fun', to be quiet. We blush again as she goes upstairs.

"That was awkward." Tori says after Trina gets upstairs.

"Oh, yeah. I can't believe he knows about the stripper."

"Neither can I. I don't hate you, you know."

"I'm surprised, then. After the way you reacted that morning, I would've thought the hot coffee was far from the end."

"I was planning on more, but the song you sang at the Full Moon Jam helped."

"I'm glad. I should go. Don't want your dad to have more of a reason to hate me." I say as I get off the couch and grab my jacket from the top of the couch I set it on when I walked in.

"He doesn't hate you. He's just looking out for me. Stay for a bit. We can watch 'The Scissoring?'"

"You want to watch a horror movie?" I say, sitting down beside her again.

"As I've said before, a lot about me has changed."

"You're on. You can cuddle with me if you get scared. I'll protect you."

"Dream on, West. Since when do you like to cuddle? I thought Big Bad Jade West doesn't cuddle?" She says smugly.

"Shut it, Vega. Just put the movie in."

"You got it."

I watch her go to her room to grab the DVD, I assume. It takes her a while, and when she comes down, she's smiling and is putting her phone in her pocket.

"Who was on the phone?"

"Jordan. The four of us are double dating this Saturday at Nozu."

"When did you plan this?" I say, some anger seeping through.

"You said you wanted to prove yourself to me. Here's your chance."

"You play dirty."

"Duh. I learned from the best."

"I appreciate it."

"I didn't mean you." She whispers to me as she goes to put the DVD in. "Jordan taught me a lot, remember?" She says, and I can't tell if it's a joke or serious.

"You learned from me, and you know it."

"Believe what you want."

Flashback over

Yeah, surprisingly, she didn't freak out during the movie, like I thought she would. We still cuddled. I don't know how it happened, but it did. I left shortly after the movie was over, heading home. The date that Saturday went well. Tori and I have become a lot closer because of that night. It was also the night that Jordan and Cat decided to say that they were dating.

We were not surprised.

After that night, The gang, minus Beck, started hanging out Saturday nights at the Vega house. David, as he insists I call him now, doesn't interrogate me anymore. Things are going well for all of us now.

André started dating some girl he met at Karaoke Dokie one night while performing a song. I think her name is Valerie, and she's a cute chick of Asian descent.

Robbie started to date a new girl to Hollywood Arts. We were all surprised when he told us. Her name is Barb and she made him keep Rex at home. We were all proud of her for that.

Cat and Jordan are still close, maybe closer now than before. Cat's not as hyper as she used to be, but she is still far from calm. I don't know Jordan too well, but she seems protective of Cat, so I have no problem with her.

Okay, maybe a little. I'm still jealous of her because she still hangs on Tori at times, and I think she does it just to make me mad.

Tori and I are possibly dating now. We hang out alone every Friday night at either Nozu, Karaoke Dokie, or her house. We don't go to my house.

Trina's still Trina. She's not as full of herself as she was before. I think that has to do with Tori channelling Victoria at times. I like it.

Tori still has her 'Jaded Beauty', as she calls it. When I'm not driving us anywhere, she's driving us around on her bike. She had a helmet made for me too. It's the helmet she gave me to use before, but now it has 'Jadelyn' on the back, with a star on each side. I asked her why the stars, and she told me it's so Vega keeps my head safe. I didn't ask what it meant, because I know there's a star named 'Vega'.

A few weeks after she gave me the helmet, I asked her out. She was confused because we always go out, but I told her it was as girlfriend and girlfriend. It took her a while to figure it out, then she jumped and hugged me, agreeing. Then she hit me because I said I wanted a 'Victoria' reaction with a laugh to let her know I was joking.

A few weeks later

Tori and I have been officially a couple for close to a month now. André and Valerie are still going strong. So are Robbie and Barb, and Car and Jordan.

Tori told her parents and Trina that we were a couple and their reactions were different. Trina said finally then walked upstairs. Holly cheered and hugged us. And David glared at me with a smile on his face. I was worried until he said that I should remember that he's a cop and I should be careful what I do to Tori. I smile and agree, then they walk upstairs, leaving us alone.

I'm glad Tori and I are together. I admit, it's better than I would've thought. I went from hating her to loving her in a couple of years. Yes, I Jade west, love Tori Vega.

She ended up telling me first during a date, and said that she was scared to tell me. Not that I blame her for being scared, but I'm glad she did. After I told her, we had a heavy make-out session at her house, stopping when her dad walked in and yelled "Freeze, LAPD!", scaring the piss out of us. Ok, not really, but still.

We learned a valuable lesson that day. If we do that again, not at her house. Her dad watches me and makes sure he's always home when I'm there so there's no repeat. It was fun though. I think anyway.

Well, I guess there's not much else to say. Beck's not worth mentioning anymore, and everyone's relationships are going well.

Who would've thought it took a drunken New Year's night to set in motion the events that got Tori Vega and I together?

I apologize if the ending is a little rushed, or it doesn't make sense or something. I couldn't think of any other way to end it, and I felt like I was stretching it out as is.