DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN VICTORiOUS.

Chapter 7

A Big Deal

Beck's POV

I take Jade's hand and walk over to the kitchen table and sit down. She sits down next to me and places her head on my shoulder. This has been one hell of a day. Somehow, I had a feeling this was gonna be a bad day.

Flashback. This morning at Beck's RV. 8:20.

I hear this buzzing from nearby. I twitch a bit and groan from it disturbing my slumber. I need to get up and turn it off before my phone is destroyed by Jade. Again. I had to replace two phones since I started dating Jade two years ago.

I stir and start to sit up but I am shoved back down by Jade, who was also awakened by the damned phone. With a growl, she got out of bed and moved towards my phone.

"Jade! Don't do it!" I shout, but too late, my phone is thrown against the wall with incredible force and I hear it break against the wall. The buzzing stopped after the impact and landed on the floor. I throw Jade a reproachful look. She glares back at me.

"Dafuq did you do that for?" I groan as she came back into bed with me and pulled the sheets up to her chest.

"Your phone woke me up, again!" she retorted, closing her eyes.

"And why the hell couldn't you turn the alarm off?" I shout at her. Her eyes fly wide open and she gives me her death glare. Being her boyfriend for so long and surviving makes me immune to the effects of that glare.

"Why the fuck is your alarm going off in the first place? Its summer vacation!" she replies.

"I forgot to turn it off." I glare at her. I kinda like these pointless arguments. Anything to push her buttons. She just looks sexy when she's mad. Right now, in a bra and panties, she couldn't look any sexier. Ok, down boy.

"Whatever; what's for breakfast?" she asks, now bored from the argument. Ugh, this is gonna be a painful morning.

After breakfast, I literally had to drag her to Tori's to spend the day. She was really cranky today because of my alarm. My phone surprisingly survived Jade's wrath, but I'll need to replace it again. I'll make sure it's made of steel. The screen and frame were cracked. I have not a single clue how it's even functioning anymore, but I'm keeping it off, before I get electrocuted by it or have it explode in my pants.

End Flashback.

I hand Tori back her notebook with the day log in it. I reach into my pocket and pull out my phone and turn it on.

"What time is it?" Andre asks.

"A little past 1." I answer, turning my phone off again and putting it back in my pocket.

"I'm getting hungry," Cat moaned rubbing her stomach.

"Yeah, me too." Tori added.

"How much should we eat?" Robbie inquired.

"Not too much, obviously." Jade replied quietly. I moved to the kitchen, where the non-perishables were still on the table and countertops. I organized them by category. Cereals, crackers, chips, nuts, pretzels, popcorn, candy, cereal bars, nutritional bars, fruit snacks, and miscellaneous for that shit I don't know nor care about. Whatever.

"I organized the stuff so it'll be easier for us to get what we want." I explained, turning back to the others who were watching me intently.

Jade's POV

Beck just finished organizing the food we have into categories. I'm pretty hungry right now. My stomach has been growling for quite some time now. I walk over to Beck to grab food and am followed by the others. There's not much of a selection but anything will do. Not like we have a choice.

I grab some strawberry Pop Tarts and open a package. I take a bite and spit it out. The damned thing is stale. I check the box and see they expired last month. Perfect.

"Vega! You're stupid Pop Tarts expired last month!" I shout causing everyone to jump. Vega looked at me annoyed.

"Well excuse me for not eating Trina's stupid Pop Tarts!"

"Um, how are they Trina's?" Andre asked confused.

"Did you not see the tag on the box?" Tori pointed out. I lifted the box and turned it to see a black strip of paper on the box that says Property of Trina Vega. Of fucken course.

"Does she do this regularly?" Robbie asked. Tori nodded. I roll my eyes. What is wrong with this family? The parents are stupid, one of their daughters is a psychopathic bitch with no talent and the other is a talent hog who keeps trying to take my Beck from me despite claiming not wanting Beck.

"Well, that's one less thing we can eat." Beck said, grabbing the box of stale Pop Tarts and tossing them in the garbage. We started to check the boxes for expiration dates. Expired food we threw on the ground. Initially, we started with a couple. That couple turned to a handful. And that to a few. And soon at least a quarter of the food boxes were on the floor. Shit, this isn't good.

Tori's POV

We are staring at the boxes of food on the floor. Those boxes have expired food in them. I frown at how many there are.

"This complicates things a bit." Robbie stated.

"Agreed." Andre added.

"How much food de we have now?" Cat whimpered, clutching her giraffe tightly.

"Much less than what we started with." Beck informed her. Cat squealed and ran to the living room and curled up in a ball on a couch. Robbie went to comfort her.

"Vega, why don't you check the boxes for expiration dates?" Jade asked annoyed.

"I don't know! So we have a few boxes gone, what's the big deal?"

Andre's POV

"What is the big deal? Are you nuts?" I shout at her. She looks at me shocked. How naïve can she be? We're stuck in a giant house with limited supplies and now we have several expired boxes. Soon the whole house is in uproar.

"Oh c'mon!" Beck yelled.

"What you fucken serious, Vega?!" Jade shouted.

"Really?" Robbie and Rex groaned loudly.

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Cat squealed.

"Calm the fuck down everybody!" Tori shouted in retaliation.

"Everybody stop!" I yelled louder than all of them. They ceased and stared at me. "Let's not bug out, alright?"

"Dude, we have less food now than we did a few hours ago." Rex pointed out.

"Don't mean its Tori's fault." I retorted.

"It kinda does." Beck stated. Beck come on dawg. You're supposed to be on my side.

"I'm sorry that my family doesn't check the expiration dates too often." Tori said apologetically. She looked upset. I moved towards her to comfort her but she takes a step back. She pointed her finger at me accusingly.

"You and I are supposed to be together, Andre." She whimpers before she stalks off towards the stairs.

"Tori, babe wait-"

"Don't!" she snarls before she runs upstairs and I hear a door closing. I turn around slowly to see the others staring at me expectantly.

"Since when were you two together?" Beck asked.

"Since a few hours ago." I shrug.

"And now you've broken her heart. Congrats, dude." Jade sneers.

"Jade I swear to God, I will break you." I snarl, taking several steps towards her.

"You'll have to go through me first." Beck stated standing between Jade and I and giving me a threatening look.

"Oh, I would love to see you try, Oliver."

"Cut it out!" Cat screamed running in between Beck and I. "This is not helping us at all!"

"She's right." Rex agreed.

"Jade, you've gotta stop being so mean to everybody! Beck, I don't understand your love for her. Andre, you need to go to Tori and fix this. We all need to work together." Cat stated. You know for a bipolar teen with a personality like a child, she does say some pretty smart things time to time. I look at Beck and Jade. Beck seemed annoyed by Cat's remark. Jade seemed insulted. I shrug.

"Sorry guys." I said.

"'S cool." Beck said bored.

"Whatever." Jade replied. I turned and headed upstairs to Tori's room.

Tori's POV

I am lying on my bed crying. I am crying for many reasons. Firstly, we're stuck in my house with no means of communicating with the outside world. We have dwindling food supplies and have to toss more food now. And Andre really hurt me earlier. I am not nuts. That really hurt. I am already suffering with Jade here, now Andre is at my throat. He's said he'd protect me and he wouldn't hurt me. Some promise!

There's a tiny knock on my door. I already know who it is and I am not in the mood to hear his voice.

"Go away, Andre." I sniffle.

"I just want to talk." He muttered from behind the door.

"I said 'go away'." I repeated irritated now.

"But-"he began.

"Leave me the fuck alone!" I shout. Suddenly my door opens and he steps inside and closes the door behind him. I stand up and move towards him. My eyes are red and my face tear-stained.

"What part of 'leave me the fuck alone' did you not understand?" I ask threateningly. He rolled his eyes and smirked at this. How is this funny? I walk up to him and slap him across the face. He turns back to me slowly, his face burning in anger. I faltered and took a step back. I've never seen him this way before.

"Don't ever do that again." He said slowly. I keep moving backwards until I meet my bed and sit down on it.

"I-I'm sorry. D-d-don't hurt m-me." I choke out, causing more tears to fall. I crawl up the bed a bit to keep my distance. He was really scary. He took a step towards me. "Don't hurt me." I whimpered out.

Chapter 7. Sorry for taking too long to update. Been busy with school and work. I'll try to update more frequently.