Hey there guys thanks for all of the reviews and support, I'm really surprised I never thought the sotry would get that many reviews so quickly so thanks. Here's chapter three and Im not quite sure how I feel about it. I hope you guys like it.

I don't own Victorious.

In His Shadow

Chapter 3- Waiting For Her

"Tori! Get the door!" Trina yelled from downstairs.

Groaning Tori closed her laptop and walked out of her bedroom, it was beyond her why Trina couldn't get up from the couch and open the door herself. Tori was at the bottom of the stairs when the doorbell rang again, Trina turned around and yelled at her to open the door. Tori didn't bother to stifle her laughter at the sight of her older sister's face.

"Trina you have enough avocado on your face to make four bowls of guacamole." Tori laughed.

"I want to keep my skin free of blemishes." Trina said in a tone that suggested that Tori should have known why she had caked four bowls' worth of avocado on her face. "Answer the door."

"Why don't you get it?" Tori asked walking toward the door.

"My toes aren't dry, duh." Trina said pointing to her freshly painted toenails. "I'm hungry."

"Grab some chips then and eat some of the avocado off of your face." Tori said opening the door. Beck was standing there with an amused look on his face. "Beck? What are you doing here?"

"Visiting my good friend Tori." He said with a smile. Tori smiled back at him, his faded just a bit and Tori knew that he could tell that her heart wasn't into it.

"Beck!" Trina shrieked as Tori stepped aside to let Beck in. She scrambled to get up off of the couch.

"Did an avocado explode?" he asked pointing to Trina's face.

"I have to go call my grandmother for her birthday!" Trina said running out of the living room.

"Grandma's birthday is in three months!" Tori yelled after her. The only response she got from Trina was the slamming of her bedroom door. "So what's with the unexpected visit? Not that I'm not happy to see you because I am, I just thought that you'd be busy doing I don't know movie stuff."

"Where's your laptop?" he asked taking off his jacket and draping it over the back of the couch.

"You came all the way to my house to use my laptop?" Tori said arching her eyebrows.

"No silly, I came here to see you but there's something I want you to explain to me." He said softly.

"Its in my room, I'll go get it. There's fresh-squeezed lemonade in the fridge, help yourself." Tori said as she started up the stairs. "The cups are in the same place they've always been."

Beck poured himself some of the fresh squeezed lemonade, it seemed like Tori always had lemonade around he didn't know whether it was for him on the off chance that he'd visit or if Tori had developed a love for lemonade. He took a seat on the couch and waited for her to come back. She came back moments later and handed him her blue PearBook.

"You're wearing your glasses." He said as he clicked on the Internet icon.

"Yeah I can't wear my contacts for a while." Tori said looking down at her polka-dotted socks.

"Why not?" he asked logging onto The Slap.

"Allergic reaction, the doctor said that if I wanted to keep wearing contacts I have to wear my glasses for a while." Tori said pulling at her sock.

"Ah well we wouldn't want you to damage those pretty eyes of yours now would we?" Beck said scooting closer to her so she could see what he wanted to show her. She smiled shyly at him before looking at the computer screen, he had the video of the scene she had performed earlier in class pulled up.

"Why are you showing me this?" Tori groaned. "I've seen it already, its not one of my best performances."

"Your emotions were real Tori, you weren't acting." Beck said.

"I know." Tori said fixing her gaze on the ring Beck was wearing on his index finger. "Its just that I really connected with Piper, I've been in her shoes but I didn't get her ending. I guess the scene just brought out everything I've been feeling and put things in perspective, if that even makes any sense."

"Tori…"

"I miss you Beck but I'm really happy for you. You're living your dream, just like I did even if it was for that one moment and just like you were there for me I'm going to be there for you. Just please don't leave me or any of us standing in your shadow, I guess what I'm trying to say is don't forget us Beck." Tori said looking at him, he could see the sadness in her chocolate brown eyes. "We're your friends."

He closed her laptop and set it down on the coffee table next to the plant that he gave her he got her fired from the Platinum Music Awards, she was really good at taking care of things if it's still alive. He briefly found himself wondering if the dog was still in the freezer. He shook that thought away and looked at Tori, she was sadder than she was letting on and he could tell that she wasn't telling him everything but he wasn't going to press her. He wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her close, she leaned her head on his shoulder.

"I could never forget you Tori," He said seriously. To lighten the mood he added, "You're my ringtone after all and my phone rings quite a lot."

Tori laughed and wiggled out of his hold. He quirked an eyebrow at her questioningly, "The night is young Beckett, lets go do something I don't like being all mopey."

"I'm starting to regret telling you my full name." Beck sighed picking up Tori's shoes and handing them to her. "What did you have in mind?"

"Lets go to the drive-in, I've been wanting to see The Avengers but Jade and Trina aren't into superhero movies and Robbie, Rex, Cat, and Andre already saw it." Tori said putting her dark purple jacket on over her ripped City of Angels t-shirt.

"Alright but lets stop by my place first so I can change into something a bit more casual." Beck said standing up.

"Why are you dressed so fancy?" Tori asked.

"Dinner with my co-stars and the director of the second movie." Beck said.

"Oh." Tori said.

He waited for her to get some things together, namely a couple of blankets, snacks, and drinks. Once she had all they 'needed' they left her house. Tori was more than a little touched when he turned on his truck and the song that was playing was Finally Falling, she had made him a CD of all of their group's songs and he never left without it, it was like having his friends with him wherever he went. He'd played the songs enough times for his co-star to know the lyrics to some of their songs.

"Isabelle says that if we were doing a different movie she'd fight to have Make it in America on the soundtrack." Beck said. "She fell in love with it after listening to it once."

Tori smiled and continued singing along to the song. He smiled back and thought about how he would do anything to see Tori happy and how it made him happy when she was happy. He knew he liked Tori and he respected the fact that she had pushed aside a relationship with him because she didn't want to hurt Jade. He was sure that after Jade had told them that it was okay if they dated they'd simply start going out but it hadn't happened. He figured it was because Tori wasn't ready, but he was willing to wait until she was ready, even now that he was going to have millions of girls throwing themselves at him he only wanted to be with Tori.

Well there it was and I'm not sure if Tori wears contacts or not but for the purpose of this story she does. Please drop a review and I'll see you guys next chapter