DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN VICTORiOUS. This chapter is from Cat's POV.
Chapter 6
"I die every day."
Five minutes after learning that we were trapped.
"I can't take it! I can't take it! I can't fucking take it!" Jade shouted, flipping out. Jadey, please calm down; you're scaring me. I want to be under my bed!
"Babe, please calm down and catch your breath." Beck tells her.
"Does anyone have cell reception?" Robbie wonders. We all pull out our phones and I see no bars. No reception at all. A cell tower must've been knocked over by flying cars. Everyone says they have no bars. Sad day.
"Do you have a radio?" Andre asks Tori whose eyes widen and a smile appears on her face.
"You bet we do, Andre, let me go get it!" she says cheerfully before running upstairs. I hope the radio works. Because, it looks like we'll be here for quite some time, and we'll need to be updated on the latest. I hope my parents are ok. I worry about my brother a lot. He is such a disaster area. He can't help it. My parents are just as weird as my brother and I are.
Tori comes back from upstairs, carrying a radio that seems to be battery powered. She sets it up on the piano and turns it on. A faint buzzing can be heard from it. Tori claps her hands excitedly and turns the volume up so the buzzing fills the house. I smile excitedly from the sound. The buzzing hurts my ears though. Tori sits on the piano bench and starts tuning it. The entire house is staring at Tori intently awaiting for a voice to come out of the box. Eventually she stops and a woman's voice comes out of the radio.
"Citizens are told to stay indoors at all times until the storm blows over and take shelter if they have any until further notice." the woman said. The reception was better than I expected which is a good thing. Yay! I love good things!
"Reports are coming in about severe flooding, rain storms, and major damage to all of Los Angeles." the woman continued.
"Holy shit, this is bad." Andre stated. I covered my ears from his swearing. I'm too scared to tell him not to say 'shit' again. Shit! I just said it! Aaahh! I did it again!
"Agreed." Robbie replied. I see Beck look over at Jade who has been silent for several minutes. I watch him walk over to her and as soon as he was within arm's length, she suddenly wrapped her porcelain arms around him and squeezed tightly. Beck wrapped an arm around her and pulled her in closer. I notice how close they look and I look over to where Andre and Tori are on the piano bench and I too notice how close they are and wonder if they will get together. I feel Robbie looking at me. I'm still on the floor, clutching Mr. Purple as tight as I can. He moves over to me with Rex and sits down next to me and wraps his arm around my shoulders and pulls me to him. I don't object. I even puts my head on his shoulders. He'll look over me.
"I'm under my bed." I whisper to him.
"I know; I'm scared too, Cat." he said in a reassuring voice.
"We have got to do something; we can't just stay here with our thumbs up our asses." Rex stated.
"But what do we do? We're trapped in Tori's house." I whimpered. I need to be free, I can't stay here!
"I don't know." Tori replied.
"How about a window?" Beck suggest. "There has to be one big enough for us to fit in."
"But the woman on the radio said we have to stay inside." Robbie pointed out.
"Who gives a fuck what the bitch said? We need to get outta here!" Jade shouted letting go of Beck and runs upstairs with Tori, Andre, and Beck following her, leaving Robbie and I alone with Rex.
"How are you ok, Cat?" Robbie asks after a few moments of awkward silence.
"I'm under my bed!" I squealed, clutching Mr. Purple tighter than ever.
"Don't worry Cat; if you join my Rex's All Hot Chick Volleyball Squad, I'll protect you." Rex stated. Ugh, its sooo annoying the way he behaves and feels that he has to hit on every girl he sees.
"Fuck you, Rex." I whispered. I gasp and put my hands to my mouth. I can't believe I just said that! I haven't swore in forever.
"I thought you hate swearing?" Robbie clarifies.
"Does it matter? We're trapped here." I retorted sadly. What else am I going to say?
I squeal a little and clutch him and Mr. Purple tightly afraid to let go. At least I'm close to Robbie. Yay I love being close to the people I love!
"It's ok, Cat; we'll be fine." he reassures me.
"Will we be ok, Robbie?" I ask sadly.
"Yes we will be ok, Cat; we have to be."
"Kk." I reply. We sit there in awkward silence for a while. The others still haven't returned yet from upstairs. I hope everything is ok and that there's a way out. Robbie looks at me again and just stares, slack jawed. It's freaking me out a little, but he looks cute that way. Yay I love cuteness. I wonder what he would look like if he were a unicorn, because he's cute and unicorns are cute.
"Robbie, why are you so awkward around me?" I ask, breaking the silence between us.
"How would you like me to answer that?" Robbie replies. Well, they is only one way to answer.
"The truth of course, silly." I giggle. He smiles embarrassedly.
"Because the thongs he wears squish his privates." Rex replies. I squeal and grab Rex and throw him as hard as I can across the room. Rex yells as he soars through the air and grunts when he lands on the ground hard. Robbie looks upset with my action but doesn't chase him for whatever reason.
"I die every day." he answers. Huh?
"I die every day without you, Cat Valentine." he explains as lovingly as he can, which isn't much.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I squeal confused. Seriously, is he dying!? How can I not being with him be killing him!? What's going on!?
"I mean that I die every day without you as my girlfriend." he explains. I look at him and smile widely. I don't understand it, but he wants me to be his girlfriend.
"You want me to be your girlfriend?" I clarify nervously.
"Yes."
"Really?" I clarify again, moving closer to him.
"Really, really." Robbie replies. Before I know what's happening, we are moving closer to each other. Inch by inch, our faces get closer until we are mere inches apart. I am paralyzed by some force and can only move my head.
Our lips then touch and we are kissing each other. His lips are actually nice to kiss and I'm hooked. We are in sync and are so lost in each other's lips.
The sound of footsteps reach our ears and we break apart and look around. The others are coming back from upstairs, defeated looks on their faces. Apparently the windows are blocked upstairs. I hope we aren't blushing nor made it look too obvious that we were kissing not even ten seconds ago.
"Anything new?" Jade asks.
"Storm's heading north; SoCal is in ruins. L.A. seems to have taken the brunt of the hurricane." Robbie informs them, turning the radio up so they can hear. A man's voice is explaining the situation.
"Hurricane Rick has all but wiped out Los Angeles and is now currently in the northern areas of SoCal. The power plant is currently having issues maintaining power." the man explains. Shortly after finishing, the radio starts buzzing, signaling the loss of signal, most likely from the power going out altogether.
Robbie starts to fiddle with the tuners and changes channels, receiving nothing but buzzing. There has to be an active radio station around somewhere.
"Power must have gone out." I tell sadly, earning myself another crushing squeeze from Cat, causing him to gasp for breath. "C-Cat, loo-loosen up a bit!"
"Sorry." I whine before loosening my grip. Robbie turned the radio off and the incessant buzzing stops. My ears are cheering from being freed from that noise.
Everyone gathered in the living room and sat down somewhere. Tori and Andre sat together on one of the red couches; Beck and Jade sat together on the other couch. Cat and I sat down together next to Tori and Andre.
"How long do you think we'll be here?" I wondered.
"Awhile." Beck replies. That's not much of a response. I mean awhile could be anywhere from a few hours to several days and possibly even longer.
"We need to ration all the food in the house." Beck states.
"That's a good idea; let's get started." Tori responded jumping up from her seat and walked into the kitchen and started opening cabinets that held food in them. Andre, Jade, and Beck followed and started grabbing food out of the cabinets and placing them on the tables and countertops. Robbie and I stayed in our seats and observed them cleaning the cabinets which had a lot of food in them.
"The food in the fridge will have to be eaten first before they spoil; I'm not sure what to do with all the frozen foods, since we have no power." Tori stated as she motioned to the fridge.
"We could start a fire and do it the old fashioned way." Jade suggested innocently.
"That's really dangerous, Jade." Tori replied with a worried expression.
"Yeah, how are we gonna make a fire in here that's large enough to cook meat, but small enough that it's manageable?" Andre pointed out.
"Whatever; it was just a suggestion." Jade said nonchalantly. Then something just hit me and it needed to be said.
"Wait a minute, we have no power in the entire house, right?" I said out of the blue, earning several confused looks directed at me.
"Yeah, what about it?" Beck replies.
"Well, with no power, we won't be able to charge our phones and we might need them if we're gonna be here for awhile." Robbie point out. Their expressions changed to realization and they all agreed.
"Yeah, let's turn them off." Tori replied, reaching in her pocket and pulling out her phone and turning it off. Everyone soon follows suit and all our phones are off. We have no signal and no internet, so why kill the batteries?
With all the foodstuffs on the counter, save for the refrigerated goods, they started to ration the food to last us for a few weeks. A few weeks? What if we're here longer? What will we do then? Eat each other? Well, Jade will do that, but what about the rest of us.
"Do we have water?" Andre asks Tori. Tori shrugs and moves to the sink and turns the faucet on full blast and water does come out.
"Phew, at least we have water." Tori says relieved. Robbie and I get up and join them in the kitchen to help with the rationing. I have calmed down and I don't have Mr. Purple with me.
"Do you know what we have for food in the fridge?" Robbie asked. Tori's eyes wandered to the ceiling as she struggled to remember what food is in the fridge.
"Not really and I don't want to open it; we need to keep it cool for now." Tori replies. "We should only open it only when it's absolutely necessary." she added.
"It is absolutely necessary, Vega." Jade snapped and walked to the fridge and opened the door before anybody could object. They walked to the fridge to look inside. Robbie and I loitered in the background. We can't get close enough to see what food is inside. Jade then shuts the door to trap the escaping cool air after a while.
"Not much, but it's better than nothing." Beck state. Everyone nods.
"Agreed; at least we have some idea what's in there." Jade replied.
Tori left the kitchen and headed for the stairs.
"Where are you going?" Andre asked.
"Getting a notebook and a pen." Tori replied without looking back. She ascended the stairs and vanished.
"Why would she need a notebook and a pen?" I asked quietly. We all shrugged.
Tori returns after a couple of minutes with blue notebook and a pen.
"We'll make a journal entry of our stay here." Tori states at our confused looks.
"Why? That seems unnecessary." Jade replied, her confused look contorting to an even more confused look.
"Well, we need it in case we..." Tori started. She looked at us all expectantly. Beck understood and nodded his head. Jade and Andre nodded as well. Robbie and I didn't reply. Robbie looks a little uneasy.
"I don't get it." I say, thoroughly confused.
"We'll need it in case we don't make it, Cat." Andre told her. I gasped and grabbed Robbie again.
"Yeah; we'll each take turns writing a day out?" Tori suggested as she sat down on one of the couches and pulled the coffee table closer to her and put the notebook down and opened it to the first page after the cover. Tori looked back at us and we all nod.
"Ok, then I'll start." Tori said shakily. She doesn't find this easy and I don't find it easy either. Jade wraps her arms around Beck again and pulls him close to her. I notice how close they are and I wish I could be that close with somebody. I hope that somebody is Robbie. Tori starts writing on the first page. Andre, Cat, and I went into the living room to see what Tori was writing. Only Beck and Jade remained in the kitchen, wrapped together like a giant piece of candy.
"What are we gonna do about sleeping arrangements?" Andre asked without looking up from the notebook Tori was still writing in.
"Beck and I will take the master bedroom after we clean the glass off the floor." Jade replied automatically. She grabs Beck's hand and drags him upstairs and they vanish to go clean the master bedroom of glass before anyone could say anything.
Robbie and I moved to the piano bench. We sat down close to each other. We both sit in awkward silence, wishing that Andre and Tori weren't in the same room so that we could make out again. You can tell that I seemed pretty desperate to want to kiss him again. He actually is a good kisser and his lips are nice and soft.
"Finished." Tori said after a few minutes. She passes the log around and we all read it. Yay I love reading logs! They remind me of my diary!
"Hey you guys." Tori greets them as they enter the living room.
"Tori finished with the day log." Robbie explained to them.
"What did she write?" Beck ask. Tori takes the notebook and hands it to him. He takes it and hold it so Jade can read it with him. There were many crossed out words.
Day One June 12th, 2011:
Hurricane Rick has hit Los Angeles and the city is all but destroyed. The roads are most likely blocked and the power is out. SoCal took the brunt of the storm. I am writing this daily journal so that should anyone find us too late, they'll know what has transpired here.
My name is Victoria Vega. I'm a student at Hollywood Arts high school and this is my house we are trapped in. My friends are as follows: Andre Harris, the boy with dreadlocks; Robbie Shapiro, the boy with the afro and the glasses and his puppet, Rex; Caterina Valentine, the little redhead with the purple giraffe; Beckett Oliver, the boy with the long hair; and Jadelyn West, Beck's girlfriend, with the highlights and twenty pairs of scissors.
We are trapped in my house and all entrances and exits are blocked by debris and vehicles. We have managed to ration what food we have in the house and we have a source of water. The food supply should hopefully last us until the end of the month.
The radio told us what has happened but we lost the signal due to the storm, leaving us cut off from the outside world. We have no signal on our cell phones, which we have turned off to conserve the batteries.
End of log.
"Where did you get the idea that I'm your friend, Vega?" Jade asked as soon as we finished reading the log. "And I do not have twenty pairs of scissors! I have fifty-nine!" she adds and that scares me. Why would someone own sixty pairs of scissors?! Why?! I hope she doesn't have any of them with her. I hate to wake up and be without hair or see anyone else without hair.
"I'm trying to be nice to you, Jade!" Tori defends.
"Why?!"
"We may die here! Do you want to die alone with me and feel nothing but hate for me?" Tori asks. Jade contemplates this for a moment.
"Yeah." she replies. Tori rolls her eyes in defeat.
"But, Jadey, why can't you and Tori get along?" I asked desperately.
"Don't call me that! And I don't want to get along with Tori because she's fucking annoying!" Jade replied. I covered my ears tightly. I hate swearing. I really fucking hate it! Oh no! I just said the F bomb! Aaaaaah! I'm going crazy!
"It's a good start, Tori." Beck comments on the journal to change the subject.
"Thank you, Beck." Tori replies with a smile. Jade rolls her eyes in annoyance. Seriously, Tori's gotta stop smiling at Beck if she doesn't want Jade to slice her open with her scissors.
This will be a long stay. Full of sleepovers. Yay I love sleepovers! It won't be so bad if there are sleepovers!
Chapter 6. Cat's POV. I'm back. I finished Love Darkness and will work on Dark of the Storm. For the rest of the story, the chapters will have interchanging POVs between the characters and sometimes 3rd person. R + R plz. Suggestions welcome. Sorry to keep you guys waiting.