Before I went to bed, I texted Cat "911, I need to talk to you!" and almost immediately she texted back "Are you okay? Is it a real emergency or a bff emergency?" I responded "I'm fine, I just need to see you soon! Tomorrow right?" She responded right away, "Yeah, I'm coming home tomorrow morning! I'll be there early! Around 9 or 9:30!" I sent a final message "Alright, I'll be up, lol. Night Cat! Love you!" She texted me back "Kk! Love you too" With that I turned my phone off and went to take a bath. After soaking until the water was cold, I went to bed.
I rolled over for the hundredth time. Maybe it was two hundred. I wasn't keep count or anything, but I knew I had been up almost all night. I simply could not sleep. I knew Cat would be getting home soon, I look over at the clock, it's 6:45 AM, so Cat will be home in a few hours. Her parents only live about an hour or two outside of LA. I decided I might as well get out of bed and occupy myself. I certainly wasn't too tired.
I curled up on the couch and grabbed the remote, I smiled to myself when I noticed a few episodes of my favorite show had been recorded. Well they were reruns, but still Will & Grace was the best show ever. I stayed on the couch and after all 4 episodes were watched a deleted, I checked the time again. I sat up in a hurry, it was almost 9, and that meant Cat would be home soon! More excited than a kid on Christmas morning, I hurried to take a shower.
After I was cleaned up and made up, I headed to the kitchen, it was 9:20, where the hell was Cat? I decided on waffles for breakfast. I texted Cat "Making waffles, will u be home in time to eat?" I didn't get a response right away so I put my phone down and decided to make enough for both of us, figuring she could heat hers up later. I tried to distract myself by gathering all the ingredients and utensils for making waffles, laughing to myself as I reached for the waffle maker in the pantry. Waffles will forever remember me of the time Cat and I had argued about buying a waffle maker, she said we'd make waffles all the time, I disagreed. Let's just say, I'm glad she was right.
Not five seconds after I turned the waffle maker on, I heard keys in the door. Two seconds later, the door was swung open to reveal my short best friend, her long bright red hair tied up in a bun. She rushed into the house "Tori where are you?" she hollered. "Uhh Cat…I'm right here in the kitchen…Right in front of you!" she looked at me and we both started laughing. I guess she hadn't even noticed me, it wasn't unlike Cat to miss things as simple as a girl in her kitchen. "Ohh yeah waffles sound great!" she sat down on the bar stool while I finished preparing our breakfast, "So are ya gonna tell me? What was so 911?" I sat down on the bar stool next to her, and took a deep breath.
I told her everything that had happened and she sat and quietly listened, which is surprising. She isn't always the best listener. Once I had finished, she just sat there next to me, with a wide deer in the headlights look on her face. She seemed more surprised than I was, but I did have two days to get used to Beck and I bumping into each other. "Say something Cat!" She gulped and slowly blinked, then shook her head and blurted out "But what about Jade?" She looked worried. "Uhh, Jade didn't exactly come up, but I did hear that they broke up after high school." I told her, which didn't seem to calm her down. "Tori, Jade hates you, well hated you. I don't know if she still does, but don't you think she'd kill you if she knew you were dating Beck or something?" That thought hadn't occurred to me. I never got to know Jade very well, but she was never very rational. Now I was worried. I shook my head as I went to finish making breakfast. Cat filled me in on her weekend with her parents.
After breakfast we moved to the living room and sat on the big couch in the living room, Cat proceeded to drill me with questions about Beck and what had happened between us, I don't think she noticed that she was mostly repeating herself, "Ugh Cat let's change the subject, I've told you every detail at least five times, and you know everything that happened. Everything." I said teasingly punching her in the arm. "Ow Tori that hurt!" She grabbed her arm and started pouting dramatically, I rubbed her shoulder and apologized and she forgot the whole thing. We decided to spend the day shopping.
As we were browsing the enormous sale section of Forever 21, I looked at my phone again. I hadn't heard from Beck all day. I started to get nervous and anxious. Cat noticed me checking my phone, though I imagine she had noticed more than once, and she finally spoke. "Tori, you should call him. You obviously want to hear from him. What's the worst that could happen?" I nodded and took a deep breath. I dialed Beck's phone number and pressed send, nervously I lifted the phone to my ear. Shit maybe I should have just sent him a text message, I thought. But on the 4rth ring, he answered. "Ahh! Ms. Vega how are you? I was just thinking about you." I blushed and silently thanked god that he wasn't in front of me, "I'm great Mr. Oliver, and yourself?" I played along. We made small talk about how we were, I told him that Cat and I were at the mall shopping at Forever 21, he asked if he could meet us for lunch. We decided to meet at the food court in an hour, then we said our goodbyes and I hung up the phone.
I gulped and walked over to Cat, who had wandered off to give Beck and I privacy, on the phone. I told her that Beck wanted to have lunch with us in an hour. She seemed really excited about the whole thing, but that being said, Cat was excited about 99% of the things that happened. We continued our shopping trip and wandered to Sephora to look at the makeup. I checked my phone and it was just about time to meet Beck so we wandered down to the food court, when we arrived I sent him a quick text message. "Just got to the food court, look for Cat's bright red hair! Lol" A few minutes later, Beck arrived.
Before he could even take a seat, Cat was out of hers and in his arms. "BECK OH MY GOD IT'S SO GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN HOW ARE YOU YOU LOOK SO GOOD OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN UP TO YOUR HAIR LOOKS SO-" Cat was cut off when Beck finally tore her away from him. He laughed "Hi Cat, I'm fine, how are you?" I shook my head as I laughed. As overwhelming as Cat was, she sure did make you feel loved. We all ordered our food, I got Chinese, Beck got pizza and Cat got a sub sandwich. We sat down and started catching up.
After about 40 minutes, I noticed that Beck and I had been kind of in our own conversation, and Cat was being really quiet. I looked to my left and noticed she and her things were gone. I started to freak out, I reached for my phone and noticed a text message from Cat, "Hey Tori sorry 2 run! U & Beck were having a good time! Cya later…much later hopefully! ;) LOL! 3" I laughed to myself, and let out a big sigh of relief. I thought something had happened to her. I explained to Beck where she had gone and we both laughed at ourselves. Had we really been so into each other that we didn't even notice Cat? I suddenly felt bad., but I knew Cat wasn't worried.
Beck shook me out of my thoughts when he reached across the table and grabbed my hand, "So you gotta any more plans for today Tori?" I squeezed his hand, and looked up at him. "I'm all yours." he smiled at me and stood and picked up my things, I followed him out to his car and he started driving. A few miles down the road, I wondered where we were heading. Beck must have read my thoughts because he answered me before I could ask, "So I was thinking we could maybe go for a walk at this park down by my apartment, if you want. It's really nice, kinda..ya know..romantic." I could feel Beck was a bit nervous asking, but I thought it sounded perfect, so I told him it sounded really sweet. Beck smiled and reached to grab my hand, the rest of the drive was spent in comfortable silence.
When we arrived at the park, Beck hopped out of the car and ran around to the passenger side to open my door, never failed to make me smile. We held hands as we walked around the park, he was right; it was beautiful, trees, flowers, a little pond. We walked around the park just talking about things when I got a phone call. It was Cat, I answered on the second ring, "Hey Cat what's up?" "Hey Tori, you gonna be out much later? It's getting late and I'm hungry and stuff.." reality set back in, I had no idea what time it was or how long I had been with Beck, "Uhh what time is it?" "It's 6:30" I couldn't believe it was so late, sadly the night was over. "Wow 6:30? Okay I'll be home soon, thanks for calling!" "Kk see you soon!"
I turned to Beck, "Do you mind taking me home?" I asked him, I wished he would say no, but I know he'd never force anything on me. He just nodded and wrapped his arm around my shoulder pulling me in close to him. I wrapped my arm around his waist and just melted into his body. Beck held my hand all the way home, when we got to my door, he kissed me again. It was official. I, Tori Vega, was falling for Beck Oliver. I couldn't be happier.
A/N - Okay so this chapter is a lot shorter, my chapters seem to get shorter each time I write one. Idk why, but I want them to be longer. I'm not sure where Tori and Beck are going, but I want it to be slow and natural. Realistic is what I'm going for. :) I also have big plans for Jade Robbie and possibly Andre. Don't forget to review! They mean a lot to me! :)