Tori is pacing back and forth, practically pacing herself into a rut when she hears someone knocking loudly on her door. She pulls the door open with wide eyes and Andre is a bit taken aback by her frantic state, "Whoa, Tori. What's wrong?"
She walks back to the spot she was before and begins pacing again, she runs a shaky hand through her hair and lets out a struggled breath, "It's Jade, I—I think she said that sh-she, uh, loves me." She stops her pacing and turns to look at Andre with his mouth and eyes wide open.
"Wh-what!" He throws his hands in the air and brings them down to his mouth, "What do you mean you think she loves you?"
She brings her hands to her eyes and roughly rubs at them, "Well, remember how we left school early Friday?" Andre nods his head quickly urging her to go on, "Ok, well she came home with me Friday and we stayed up all night. We played some games and the last one we played was Truth or Dare. It was her turn and she chose truth so I kind of asked her if she… you know, liked me."
Tori drops to the couch and buries her face into the cushions, she can't believe she's saying this out loud… and to Andre. He takes a seat next to her and softly shakes her shoulder, "Well what did she say? Did she even answer?" Tori grunts and shakes her head.
"No! Trina came down at that moment and interrupted us. I'm pretty sure was going to answer then too 'cause it looked like she was thinking." She sits up and rests her head on Andre's shoulder. He brings up one of his hands and softly rubs the top of her head.
"Oh my God, I forgot to tell you that she hugged me after we sang together! But I'll you tell that later."
"Wait what?" Andre shakes his head trying to comprehend everything he's being told but he's failing, "Ok, well tell me what her answer was!"
Tori sits back on the couch and hugs a pillow tight to her chest, she takes in a big breath and lets it out slowly, "Ok, there's so much. So its morning and she was about to leave but my parents came down and started talking to us so she stayed a little longer. They left and she was about to leave but she stopped at the door and told me that she had a good time!" Tori looks at Andre with a big smile on her face, "She had a good time, with me!"
Andre laughs and shakes his head, his hair waving back and forth, "Awe, that's nice but get on with it! She's gone, then what?"
Tori glares at him playfully but continues on, "Right, ok. So she's gone and I'm bored. So I walk to that corner store not too far from my house and right when I enter, I crash into somebody causing them to spill their hot coffee on both of us! It was burning hot and we were both mumbling some bad words and stuff and when I looked up to apologize, there's Jade!"
Andre falls back next to Tori and starts laughing. He's clutching his stomach and rocking side-to-side and trying to catch his breath, "Are you for real?" He says in between laughs.
Tori groans and closes her eyes, "Yes!"
"Wow, girl. You two have, like, some sort of magnetic pull to each other, huh?" Andre is chuckling now as he gives Tori a sympathetic look, "Twice in a day, wow."
"I know! But get this, ok, she walks outside to where her bags are at and pulls out a shirt. She takes a quick look around and pulls off her shirt! In public, ok, like it's nothing." Tori sighs and a small smile forms on her lips as she remembers the view she had.
Andre looks at her suspiciously and smirks when he realizes that that smile on her lips is probably because she saw something she liked, "Why are you smiling? Were you watching her change, Tori? You pervert!" Tori's eyes widen and she roughly shakes her head no and Andre starts laughing again, "I'm kidding, I'm kidding. But go on!"
"Well! I asked her if she had an extra one I could borrow and she gave me one. I'm not as brave as her so I asked her if she could block people's view with her jacket and she did except she was facing me."
Andre's eyes widen and he looks at her with shock, "Wait, what? She was facing you? While you were gonna change?"
"Yes! She was like, well you got to see me change it's only fair that I get to see you too, or something like that." She looks at Andre and sees that he's still kind of in shock, "Right? Ok, so I took off my shirt –and I was shaking pretty badly because she was staring at me pretty hard – and I dropped the shirt she gave me. So I bent down to pick it up when someone honks causing me to head her in the stomach and pushing her back. Jade turns around to see who it was and I stand back up clutching the shirt to my chest."
"Who honked?" Andre asks curiously.
"Beck. She called Beck to pick her up and there he was looking at Jade and a half-naked me!" Tori groans and brings her hands to her face to cover the rising blush.
Andre pats her head sympathetically and then wraps his arm around her shoulder, giving her a small hug, "its ok, but do you think you can get to when Jade says she loves you?"
Tori playfully slaps his arm and settles herself, "Ok. So I changed, her and Beck left and I go home. I saw that she left her phone charger here so I texted her and she told me to bring it to her house at 6. So I go over at that time and she lets me in. We're sitting there, awkwardly, and I finally mustered up enough courage to ask her to answer my Truth or Dare question. I re-ask her the question and she stands up and walks me to the door. I'm standing outside and she asks me if I think she likes me, I tell her that I think she just tolerates me. She looks at me and smirks and says Well I don't hate you and I was like that doesn't answer my question!"
Tori practically yells the last part and covers her face with a pillow, hiding the growing frustration.
"Out with it, Tori!" Andre yells back at her.
"She closes the door enough so only her head is sticking out and says Let's just say that I don't hate you but I don't exactly love you." Tori turns on Andre and grabs hold of his shoulders, shaking him roughly back and forth, "I don't hate you but I don't exactly love you!"
She groans loudly and grabs a fistful of her hair, tugging slightly, "What does that mean!"
"Wow," Andre whispers and he lets out a soft sigh. He stares at Tori and sees the emotions flicking across her eyes, he sees the way her forehead scrunches up and her eyebrows furrow together. He sees her chest heaving and her eyes glisten as tears form, he reaches for one of her hands and squeezes it. She turns to look at him and a single tears slides out, she quickly wipes at it and shakily sighs.
"What does that mean?" She whispers.
He squeezes her hand again and gives her a sad smile, "I don't know, Tori…"
They sit there in silence as they let everything that's been said sink in.
Jade closes the door and stares it as she replays the answer she just told Tori, "I don't hate you but I don't exactly love you." She stands there for a few minutes before she loudly groans and walks back in to the living room.
"I can't believe I just said that! What was I thinking?" Jade falls back on to the couch and covers her face with a pillow and screams into it until her lungs and throat burn.
She keeps the pillow over her face and bites it, getting little pleasure from the pressure on her teeth and gums. She removes the pillow and throws it across the room, frustration and panic growing inside of her.
Jade's never been one to sulk and mull over feelings but she can't help to sink into her thoughts and it pisses her off. She gets up and connects her charger, plugging in her phone and quickly sends a text.
Hey, can you come over? I need another pair of ears. – J
A few minutes pass by and she receives a reply, I'm on my way. X
…
20 minutes later and there's a knock at her door, she opens the door roughly and growls, "What took you so long?"
Cat smiles sheepishly and holds up a bag of food, "Sorry! I was hungry, but I brought you something too!"
Jade rolls her eyes and pulls Cat inside leading her to the dining room and pushing her into a seat. She grabs the bag of food and looks through it, picking out a chicken sandwich and some fries.
"So what's up?" Cat smiles and grabs her own food.
Jade sighs and looks up at the girl sitting in front of her, "Remember a couple of months ago I told you about these feelings I had for someone who wasn't Beck?"
Confused, Cat stares at Jade as she tries to remember who she was talking about, when realization dawns on her. "Tori? What about her?"
Jade looks around, making sure no one was around, and looks back at Cat, "Well… I kind of – I think, in a way – told her that I, uh, that I love her…?"
This is the second time in their entire friendship where Jade has ever showed fear, hesitation, and uncertainty about anything or anyone and this shocks Cat. "What do you mean you told her that you love her?"
Jade goes and tells her about their night together, about singing together and the hug, about the incident at the store and what she felt when Tori came over a little earlier to drop off her charger. She tells her how Tori re-asked her the question and how she answered.
Cat's eyes widen and she brings a hand to her mouth. "You didn't! Those were your exact words?"
Jade drops her head letting her hair fall and cover her face, to hide the blush. "I did… I said, I don't hate you but I don't exactly love you, and I closed the door."
She groans and falls back, turning away from Cat and to hide her embarrassment. Cat rubs her back softly and tries to repress the nervous laugh making its way up.
"It's okay, Jade. Maybe she didn't notice?" She says.
"No, no. Its Tori, Cat! She hears everything!" She can't believe this is happening to her.
"Do you want me to talk to her?" Cat suggests.
"NO!" Jade yells, turning to face Cat, "No! Then she'll know something is up… or more up."
"What about Andre? He's Tori's best friend. She probably talked to him."
Jade thinks about it for a moment and then nods, "Only if you can bring it up without being suspicious. Or you know what, bring Tori up and ask about her and stuff."
Cat nods and stands up, heading toward the door, "Ok and don't worry, Jade. I got this." She smiles and opens the door, "Well, I got to go. We have family therapy for my brother. Talk to you later!"
She's gone and Jade is alone and she can't help but worry that this might be a huge mistake… but she hopes that it works out in her favor.
Cat walks about a block away from Jade's house before she pulls out her phone. She checks the new text message from Andre and reads it.
Just finished with Tori. She's a mess! How'd it go with Jade? – A
She's not doing so well either but I don't think she's so much in denial now. - C
Haha! Alright, so are we gonna do this? Like, for real? – A
Hehe, yes! It's obvious they want this and now that Jade's feelings are out in the open, sort of, we just have to get Tori on board. Do you think she'll come clean? – C
Oh yeah, you should have seen her! We just have to figure out a way to confess her feelings. Any ideas? – A
I'll think of something! But I gotta go, family therapy! I'll talk to you later, bye! – C
And with that, Operation: Get Tori to confess her feelings for Jade and then get them to go out with each other, also known as O: GTTCHFFJATGTTGOWEO, is set into action.
A/N: Sorry for this! I just started writing and this is what happened. I kind of like it tho? So... I don't know.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this, my mind has a mind of it's own.
OK, sooo... review! Tell me what's up or what's not up, I don't know.
Whatever floats your boat. :-)
Hope you enjoyed!