"Never felt like this before, are we friends or are we more?"

6 years ago in Los Angeles.

Flashback to two days before, at Tori's house.

"Beck, I told you. I'm fine now."

Beck looked at Tori and said, "I don't believe you."

Tori smiled. "Well, I feel a lot better. And I'm serious. Trust me Beck."

He wanted to, he really did. But a part of him knew that she wasn't okay and that part of him really wanted to know why. He had this weird feeling that it was because of him. Not that he knew what he could've possibly done to upset Tori this much.

"Are you sure you're okay?"

Tori laughed. "Yes, I'm sure!"

Beck felt his phone vibrate in his jeans. He knew it was Jade and he really didn't want to answer.

"Is uh, is that your phone?" Tori said.

Beck sighed and nodded. "Yeah it's…"

"Jade, of course." Tori said and interrupted him. "You should probably go, didn't you have plans with her today?"

"Well yeah, but…"

"No, Beck. She's your girlfriend right? Then you should be with her."

"But you're upset Tori. You-"

"I'm fine. You should go." Tori looked down at her bed and Beck sighed.

"But Tori, what if I don't want to?"

Two days later.

Beck Oliver sat at the table eating his lunch when he heard footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw Tori Vega, who he hadn't seen since he'd left her house two days ago. She'd been avoiding him, it was so obvious.

"So um, can I sit here?"

Beck smiled at her and said, "Yeah of course."

She smiled and sat down and Beck felt the tension rise. It was so awkward and it shouldn't be. Being alone with Tori should be easy and comfortable. But it wasn't. It was awkward and painful right now. Beck looked down at his food and tried to come up with something to say. But no, nothing. Nothing inside his brain was interesting enough for Tori to know. Apart from the fact that he thought he was madly in love with her. He heard Tori sigh and he wanted to scream. How could it be this awkward?

"So I saw on The Slap that Trina had gotten an audition for some TV show?" He heard himself say. Why Beck, why bring up Trina? He wanted to punch himself. Jesus, was there nothing better to talk about? Apparently not.

"Yeah, uh, some Spanish TV show. She said it was "high quality TV and top notch acting" or something like that." Tori rolled her eyes and Beck smiled.

"Well I hope she gets it"

"Yeah I'm not so sure I do. She'll be bragging about it for ages and God, you know how annoying she is when she's like that, right?"
Beck laughed. "You've got a point, Vega."

She smiled and he thought that maybe it was okay now. Maybe it would go back to normal again. He hoped so. He cleared his throat and said,

"About the other day…"

He could see the panicked look in Tori's eyes so he continued quickly. "I just want to say I'm sorry if I upset you? I didn't mean to just show up at your house like that, I should've called first. And I should've left when you asked me to. Sorry about that…"

Tori smiled a little and said, "No it's fine. I'm uh, I'm glad you were there. You're a great friend Beck."

He smiled back at her and he was just about to say something when André walked over to the table. Moment ruined. Great. Beck sighed and André started talking to Tori and Beck just felt so ignored. He didn't really care though, because they were discussing new song ideas and he couldn't care less. He wanted to be alone with Tori. He wanted to spend every minute of the day with her. But he couldn't. Because he was dating Jade. Why was he even dating her?! Because she wanted him. And Tori clearly didn't. He was dating the wrong girl, he knew that. It wasn't like he didn't have feeling for Jade, no. He really did like Jade, but there was just something about Tori that he liked more. He just felt a connection with her. But he had to be with Jade right now. Even if she was the wrong girl for him. He knew he'd find the right girl one day. He looked at Tori and she smiled at him. Huh. Maybe he already had.