Jade walks down the hall at school and to her locker. She and Tori are now in the eighth grade. "Hey Jay!" Her brother Justin calls her as he's walking towards her. "Hey Justin." She says. "What's going down at home?" He asks concerned, he moved in with his best friend after their parents kicked him out and disowned him. Jade's been having problems with her parents lately. She hasn't really smiled at all lately since Tori's been on vacation to see her grandma in Cancun. "Same shit, different day. They still bitch about everything." Jade groans. "Hey, don't take offense to this question–" Justin starts and Jade looks at him. "But are you and Tori going out?" Justin asks. "What? No." Jade says. "Why would you think that?" Jade asks. "You guys are just really close. And I mean, really close." Justin says. "And?" Jade demands. "Nothing. But people are starting to talk." He says. A person walks up behind Jade and covers her eyes. "Guess who?" The voice whispers in her ear, the voice sending chills down her spine and there's only one voice that can do that to her. "Vega." Jade smiles and Tori moves her hands and walks around the front of Jade. "Hey." Tori smiles and hugs her. "I missed you." Jade whispers in Tori's ear. "I missed you too." Tori whispers in her ear and before she pulls away, she kisses Jade on the cheek. When Tori does pull away, Jade blushes slightly and looks down, suddenly interested in her black high top DC's. "We'll see you later Justin." Tori smiles and takes Jade's hand and walks down the hall.
Jade and Tori usually walk home from school together every day. And today was no different. As they walked home, Tori kept looking down and blushing at the things Jade was saying. "You know your beautiful right?" Jade whispers. Tori looks down and blushes, suddenly becoming interested in her glittery red vans. "Hey, what happened?" Jade whispered. "Nothing..." Tori mumbled. "Tori..." Jade said warningly. "Have you been listening to what Brittany says?" Jade asks and Tori nods slightly, still looking down. Brittany was some girl in the same grade as Jade and Tori who bullies Tori constantly. The only reason Jade won't do anything is because the school said they'd expel her if she got in another fight. "Don't let anything her, or whatever her little bitch barbies say, get to your head." Jade says. "You are so much more than they say you are." Jade whispers and nudges Tori's arm with her own. Tori smiles slightly. "You know, I remember the eight year old Tori who would sing Britney Spears songs into her hairbrush in the bathroom mirror," Jade smiles and looks in front of her. Tori looks up at her, blushing. And with the light hitting her face at just the right angle, and the wind blowing her hair slightly; Tori can't help but find her best friend beautiful. "She wasn't listening to anything anybody said about her. Except maybe when her sister said she wasn't as good as her, even if her sister is horrible and doesn't know it yet." Jade smirked and they walked on, their hands brushing slightly before Tori slipped her hand into Jade's and intertwined their fingers.
Just to be clear, Jade and Tori are just best friend's until it's said that they're something more.