Tori was just putting the finishing touches on her makeup when she heard a knock at her door. "Come in!"

There in the doorway stood Trina, who was staring Tori down like a hawk. Probably judging her dress, makeup, hair, even her posture. Trina always looked for things wrong with her sister just so she wouldn't be as insecure, but as she could tell that the younger Vega was going on a date, she decided to spare her the criticism. "Big date, huh?"

"Yep." Tori was too preoccupied with curling her hair to give an answer exceeding one word.

"Who is it? Is he cute?" Trina surged with interest when Tori nodded at the "cute" question. She was already devising a plan to steal him from her when she got the chance. Trina loved attempting to steal boyfriends from Tori, it just blew air into her already over-inflated ego, not that she ever exceeded though. By the time Trina's terrible attempts at seduction worked, Tori had already become bored with the boy. Tori never kept a boyfriend for long, for some reason. Maybe this one will be different, Trina thought.

"His name is Ren, and yeah, he's really cute. He's sorta tall, like 6'2", and nice. He has this dark brown hair with black tips, and he's a really great singer..." Tori trailed off when she saw Trina staring into space, devising a plan. "Uh uh, no. You're not gonna try and take this one from me, Trina. I actually kinda like him."

"Fine, whatever." Trina shrugged her shoulders and walked out of the room, not really planning on listening to Tori's demand.

"Tori! There's someone here for you!" Mrs. Vega yelled upstairs. Trina was out the door before Tori even got a chance to put her hair supplies away.

"One minute!"

Downstairs, Ren was sitting on the couch in the Vega's living room, enduring intimidating stares from Mr. Vega. "So," Mr. Vega began.

"Yes, sir?" Ren immediately straightened his posture, not wanting to give Mr. Vega any reason to hate him.

"Where are you planning on taking my daughter, -?"

"Oh! It's, um, Ren, sir. And I'm planning to take her to dinner, then maybe to a movie. Just, you know, to have a nice time..." Ren trailed off as he saw Mr. Vega's hostile look increase.

"Yes, well," he looked over at the staircase Tori was descending down, "don't have too much of a nice time." Mr. Vega faked a smile and shook Ren's hand, all while keeping his eyes narrowed at the awkward boy.

"No, sir, I mean, yes, sir, I mean..." Ren tripped over his words until Tori came up behind him and grabbed his elbow, pulling him away from her father.

"Ready to go?"

"Yeah..," Ren smiled at the beautiful girl beside him, relieved at her touch, "I am. Bye, Mr. Vega!"

Mr. Vega grunted in response as Tori and Ren disappeared out of the front door.

...

As Ren and Tori pulled up to her house after their date, Tori noticed a strange black BMW sitting in front of the house. With the windows tinted, she couldn't see who it was, but she decided to ignore it. After all, her father was a cop, and just inside. Nobody inside that car could hurt her.

Jade was texting with Cat until she noticed Ren's car pull into Tori's driveway. She didn't know why she was here, after all, she could've just stayed at Beck's place, cuddling with him, but she decided to come and ruin Tori's date. She had been sitting here for the past two hours, waiting for them to arrive so that she could enact her plan. She switched over to a message sitting in the 'Drafts' box on her phone and hovered her thumb over the send button. She just had to wait for the right moment...

"I had lots of fun with you, Tori." He said, as they neared Tori's front porch. He noticed the black BMW too, and worrying that something would happen to the girl, decided to walk her to her front door.

"I had nice time with you, too, Ren. You're a really sweet guy." Tori smiled one of her award-winning smiles and Ren's heart literally melted. He quickly felt the blood rushing to his cheeks.

"Ah, well. Um, can we do this again sometime?" Ren flinched again, expecting rejection. The dude really had insecurity issues.

"Sure, I'd really love that."

"Okay... Well, goodnight!" Ren turned and tried to walk quickly off the porch, embarrassed. He was stopped by someone tugging on his arm, though.

"Where do you think you're going?"

"Home...?" Ren said, oblivious to what Tori was alluding to.

"Aren't you going to kiss me goodnight?"

"Um, yeah. Yeah. Yeah!" He facepalmed himself at how he could be so stupid. Just as he and Tori leaned in for a kiss, in the black BMW across the yard, a thumb hit the send button. Ren's lips hit Tori's forehead as her head dived down to look at her phone, a pop song playing to indicate that she had received a text. I just met you, and this is crazy. Well here's my number, so call me maybe...

"Umm, I gotta go!" Tori ran inside and shut the door on her date as soon as she noticed the text was from Jade. She didn't want Ren to see her literally shit her pants like she was about to.

Ren shook his head and walked to his car, disenchanted. Jade just raised her fist in the air, victorious. "Boo yeah! Ow!" She yelled as her fist hit the roof of the car hard. Ren's head shot up at the outburst, looking straight at Jade's car. She knew that he most likely couldn't see her because of the tinted windows, but she ducked down anyway. He just shook his head, climbed into his car, and drove home.

Tori ran up to her room, ignoring her parents' questions about what had happened that night. Once the door was locked, she took another look at the offending text that had made her heart start and stop:

I hope you had fun, Vega.
Be prepared for your
punishment tomorrow.
Expect bruises.

From: Jade West Sent: 10:23pm 4/16/2012

Tori gulped as she typed out her reply. She doesn't know why she decided to send it, as if she had any choice in what was supposed to happen tomorrow, but she did.

..

Jade smirked as she looked down at her phone, reading the text that Tori had sent her. Of course Tori would send me something as trivial as this. It's laughable that she thought she even had a choice in the matter. I didn't ask her a question, Jade thought.

Okay.

From: Tori Vega Sent: 10:25pm 4/16/2012

Jade decided to send Tori another text. Then, she started her car's engine and drove to Beck's house. Anticipation for tomorrow's events made her crave some company tonight.

..

Tori looked down at the text Jade had sent her. She just rolled her eyes, and saw from her window, the mysterious black car outside her house rolling away. So it was Jade, Tori thought.

After she had her pajamas on, she turned on her phone so that she could read Jade's text again. She read it over and over, hoping to find some reason why it bothered her so much. She didn't.

Stop flirting with me, Vega.
We're not dating.

From: Jade Vega Sent: 10:29pm 4/16/2012

So, another update. I quickly got this one written out after the first one. It was like watching a television episode, I couldn't handle the commercial break and had to quickly see the next part. Anyway, please review, blah blah rabble rabble. Funfact: When I came up with the OC, Ren, I really wanted to use a character that I already had developed emotionally and such. And, what better choice than my alter ego? So, yeah, Ren's actually the socially retarded alter ego of socially retarded me.

Disclaimer: I don't own Victorious. If I did, the show would probably be on Skinemax.