So I'm not sure how I feel about this one yet and I just got to say that I really liked writing chapter 7, its by far my favorite chapter that i have ever written. Thank you all for reviewing and for favoriting this story. Enjoy the chapter. (:

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In His Shadow

Chapter 8-Telling the Gang and Playing Games

Tori asked him if she could see his phone, when he asked her what for she merely smiled at him. He watched as she tapped away hoping that she wasn't changing their relationship statuses on The Slap, their friends would kill them if they found out about their relationship via the internet. He didn't realize that Tori had snapped a picture of him until he heard her laugh.

"That is so going on The Slap." She said holding his phone just out of his reach. She looked at him and then down at the picture she had just taken with a pensive look on her face. "What should the caption be?"

"Let me see and I'll help you make one up." Beck said getting up from his seat and sliding in next to her. He tried to look at the picture but she covered the screen. "Let me see."

"No you'll delete it."

"Do I look bad?"

"You could never look bad." Tori said. Beck put his arm around her shoulders and she snapped a picture of them with his phone. "You can caption this one."

"Why are you using my phone instead of yours?" Beck asked.

"My phone's acting wonky, I need to go to the Pear Store to see if they can fix my phone or if I need to buy a new one." Tori said leaning her head on his shoulder. "When do you think the guys are getting here, sitting in this food court smelling the pretzels is making me want one."

"What kind of pretzel?" Beck asked looking at the pretzel place.

"Salted, why?"

"I'll go get you one."

"You don't have to do that, I can get it myself."

"What kind of boyfriend would I be if I didn't pay for your pretzel?" Beck asked. "Plus I really want some lemonade."

"But you paid for everything at the drive-in and the frozen yogurt." Tori said standing up. "The least I could do is buy my own pretzel and buy you a lemonade, what kind of girlfriend would I be if I never got you anything."

"Relax Tori, we only just started dating there will be plenty of time for you to get me things, not that I expect you to." Beck said standing up. "Now sit and let me treat you to a pretzel."

Tori sat back down and Beck found her pout adorable. He walked over to the pretzel place and got in line behind to girls more or less his own age. The curly haired girl on the right turned around and Beck could tell that she recognized him. She turned around and whispered something to her ginger haired friend, slowly the ginger haired girl turned around and unlike her friend she squealed...loudly.

"Ohmigosh! You're...you're...do you know who you are?" She asked pointing to him.

"Well yeah I've only been me for sixteen years." He laughed running a hand through his hair.

"You're Beck Oliver! You play Ky in the movie Paired." She practically screamed.

"I am and I do." Beck said.

"Will you take a picture with us?" The curly haired girl asked, she was clearly the more calm out of the two though Beck could tell that she was still pretty excited about seeing him.

"Yeah sure." Beck said with a smile.

"There's my best friend Tori." Andre said drawing Tori's attention away from the crowd that had now gathered around Beck. "Where's my boy Beck?"

"Over there." Tori sighed pointing to the pretzel place. "Lost in that crowd of girls."

"And so it begins." Jade said taking a seat in front of Tori.

Andre slid in beside her and asked, "What?"

"He's made a movie that is guaranteed to be bigger than The Dusk Saga, ugh pathetic excuse for vampires, and has two more on the way. He's going to be a teen heartthrob and pretty soon he won't be able to go out without being mauled by crazy teenage girls. There will come a day when he won't be allowed to be seen with us because we're just students from a performing arts high school." Jade said as she tipped the salt shaker over. "I'm going to go get a pretzel."

Tori and Andre watched as Jade made her way to the pretzel place. Their eyes widened as they watched her yell at everybody to get lost. She hissed at a couple of ganky girls who told her that she had no right to tell them to leave. The crowd of girls left muttering on about how Jade was insane. Jade made her way to the front of the line without so much as looking at Beck.

"This could have been avoided if he let me buy my own pretzel." Tori sighed.

"Why didn't he?" Andre asked.

"Because he wanted to be a good boyfriend and pay for my pretzel." Tori said propping her elbows onto the table and plopping her chin onto her fists.

"Pause and rewind sister." Andre said loudly. "Did you just call Beck your boyfriend?"

"Did I?" Tori asked.

"Did you what?" Cat asked as she and Robbie joined them. "Sorry we're late my brother..."

"Don't worry about it Cat." Tori said not wanting to hear what bizarre and random thing her brother did this time.

"Her brother almost ran over Rex!" Robbie exclaimed. "He took one look at Rex, called him the Demon Puppet from Hell, threw him onto the ground, and almost ran over him."

"What stopped him?" Jade asked ripping a piece of her pretzel. "I would have given him a medal for running that puppet over."

"Robbie got in the way." Cat said.

"So?" Jade said taking her seat beside Andre. "I still would have done it."

"Jade that's not nice." Cat said.

"I'm not nice." Jade said flicking a piece of salt at her.

"Tori what happened last night you didn't come over and you didn't answer any of my messages." Cat asked sitting down beside her.

"My phone's acting wonky and I wound up spending the night at Beck's." Tori said quietly.

"You did what now?" Andre asked.

""Slept over at Beck's." Tori said looking at her best friend straight in the eyes. "I've done it before."

"Yeah I know but that was before..."

"Before what?" Cat asked.

"Before we were dating." Beck said calmly. He handed Tori her pretzel and slid in beside her.

"It's about freaking time!" Jade hollered and everybody else nodded in agreement. "Watching you guys desperately pine for each other was making me sick."

"Don't do anything stupid, I don't want to be an uncle so soon." Andre laughed.

"We're not related." Tori and Beck said to him. They looked at each other and laughed.

They sat around the table poking fun at the new couple for a while before leaving to go find Robbie pants that were actually meant for guys. Tori got a new phone, Cat took it so she could take a picture of Tori and Beck that she then set as Tori's background. After prying Robbie away from the male makeup they all tried to cram into a photobooth after Robbie put a twenty dollar bill in and didn't get any change, he wasn't aware that they didn't give out change. Their first attempt ended with Jade in the booth by herself, the second attempt had all of their faces in the pictures in some way. The third set of photos were of Jade and Andre while the fourth set were pictures of Tori and Beck. The three boys took a set of hilarious looking pictures as did the girls. Beck put in an extra dollar so they could get a seventh set and shoved Robbie in the booth with Jade shoved Cat inside. After their photobooth session they all drove down to the nearest grocery store and piling up on the snacks for their game night.

"Scissors, death, blood, monkey fur!" Jade yelled before Andre even started giving her the clues to the word dragon.

"Its a mythical creature that breaths fire and has wings." Andre said not understanding how Jade couldn't get the word.

"Why didn't you say that?" Jade said. "Its a dragon."

"Woman you never gave me a chance, you just started hollering your favorite things." Andre sighed.

"Well those things should be on these disks." Jade said folding her arms across her chest.

"Why don't we make our own disks then?" Tori suggested.

"We all know what would be on Jade's disk." Robbie said. Jade took the timer and threw it at him it missed him by a narrow margin.

"Next time I won't miss."

"Who's up for a card game?" Beck asked deciding that they had enough fun with Catchphrases and that if they'd continue someone was seriously going to get hurt.

"Oh me! I'll get the candy." Cat squealed.

"We're playing canasta this time." Robbie said.

"What are you afraid of hammer time?" Jade asked arching her eyebrows.

"No I would like to play a game that I actually know how to play." Robbie said.

Trina walked in then asking if se could join them and Jade in her usual fashion told her that no one liked her and threw the game at her. Everybody agreed to keep things that could be thrown and cause pain away from Jade and went on to play their card game. They were even nice enough to let Trina join them, she sat as far away from Jade as possible and close to Beck.

"Tori I think you should tell your sister that you're going out with the guy she's desperately trying to flirt with." Jade said a while into their game.

"Tori what is she talking about?" Trina asked.

"Beck and I are dating." Tori said.

"What? How could you go for Tori when I am prettier and more talented?" Trina yelled standing up and walking upstairs to her room.

"Finally, I thought we'd have to deal with her all night." Jade said clearly happy that the older girl was gone.

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