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In His Shadow

Chapter 12-Video Chat is Keeping You With Me

Tori turned her locker on and smiled at it when it lit up, she started humming Make it Shine. She took out her books and put in some of the ones she wouldn't need until later. It was the day before the opening night of their rendition of the fairy tale of "Snow White." For the past couple of days Sikowitz had Tori and Jack performing the big kiss scene and she was glad that for the rehearsal later that day they were going to perform the entire play.

"Hey Tori."

"Oh hey Jack." Tori said. "What are you doing here?"

"Well assuming that you're talking about what I'm doing here by your locker and not what I am doing here at Hollywood Arts, I'm talking to you." He said with a smile that showed of his perfectly straight pearly whites.

"I meant what are you doing here so early?" Tori laughed.

"My brother has an early class on Thursdays so I'm always here at this time." Jack answered with a shrug. "Don't tell anybody but I don't have my license yet."

"Oh my gosh." Tori gasped in mock surprised. "You're a seventeen year old boy without a license, thats unnatural."

"Hey I came from a small town where everything was within walking distance."

"I'm only teasing and I don't have my license either. That's why I'm here so early, that and my boyfriend decided to take me out to breakfast since he's going out of town for a while." Tori said fiddling with the hem of the red and grey plaid shirt she was wearing.

"He's going to miss seeing you in the play." Jack said looking genuinely sorry for her.

"Yeah but he couldn't get out of it." Tori sighed.

She and Jack walked over to the Grub Truck so Jack could get a breakfast burrito since his brother had been running late and had dragged him out of the house before Jack could pour himself a bowl of cereal. They sat together at one of the tables and talked about random things that popped into their heads. Tori found that he was a great distraction, he kept her laughing instead of thinking about the fact that Beck would be gone for an entire week.

"That's a cool shirt you're wearing, where did you get it I think I've seen it before?" Jack asked pointing to the plaid shirt she was wearing.

"You know what I have no idea where this shirt came from, you'd have to ask my boyfriend about it because its his." Tori said unable to suppress a smile. She had quite a collection of Beck's clothes despite the fact that they hadn't been dating for that long, though some clothes she's had since before they were dating. "Its one of his favorites too and he doesn't know I have it or if he does he's not saying anything about it."

"Does your boyfriend go to school here because I've never seen you guys together and you guys seem to really like each other for you to never be together." Jack said.

"He used to go to school here, he's home-schooled now."

"Oh thats a real bummer. Well it was nice talking to you Tori, I wouldn't leave you but I have some questions I need to ask my teacher about the assignment that's due tomorrow." Jack said standing up and gathering his things. "I'll see you in class Miss Fairest of them All."

Tori Vega: Not liking being in a glass coffin, this scene needs to be over soon. Feeling: Claustrophobic :(

Beck Oliver: My bed at home isn't even remotely close to as comfortable as this one. Feeling: Sleepy :o

Jade West: Thinking about locking Sinjin in the glass coffin. Feeling: Devious :|

Andre Harris: Playing a medley of songs for the cast of Snow White and rockin' the stage. Feeling: Musical :D

Robbie Shapiro: Watching Jade try to shove Sinjin in the glass coffin, I hope I'm not next. Feeling: Frightened :S

Cat Valentine: Last minute alterations on Tori and Jade's costumes, they look so good. Feeling: Creative :)

Beck clicked "ok" when Tori requested to video chat. She greeted him enthusiastically and started talking about her day. She told him how Jade managed to lock Sinjin in the glass coffin and how it took them a good hour to get him out of it, they had to break it and since they were short a glass coffin Sinjin had to make another one before the play. He liked how animated she got when telling him about what went wrong during rehearsal and what went right.

"So what did you do today?" Tori asked him when she was finished telling him about how dinner had ended with Trina and her father covered in spaghetti.

"Well I had an early breakfast with a beautiful girl, headed to LAX at nine thirty so I could catch my flight to New York, spent five and a half hours on the plane not really listening to my publicist, had dinner with everybody at the hotel restaurant, and then came back to my room and took a much needed nap." Beck answered. At the mention of his publicist Tori wrinkled her nose in disgust, it was funny and really adorable. "Somebody doesn't like somebody."

"Yeah well..." Tori started but was interrupted by the loud pounding on Beck's door.

"Beck, man I need to talk to you." Tyler shouted over his pounding.

"No need to break the door down Ty." Beck shouted back. He gave Tori an apologetic look though she didn't look too disappointed that they were interrupted, she was a fan of Tyler's after all. Beck sighed, "Come in."

The door swung open and in walked a disheveled looking Tyler. Tori squealed rather loudly gaining Tyler's attention.

"Oh my gosh you're Tyler Perry." She said excitedly. "I loved you in The Final Dance and in Voyage to the Earth's Core."

"Thank you. You're Tori Vega, I loved your performance at the PMAs." Tyler said with a smile. "You have amazing cheekbones, did you know?"

"Yeah she knows." Beck said slightly irritated. "Now what did you need to talk about?"

"Whoa Beck's protective of his best friend, no need to worry I don't bite...much." Tyler said with a wink.

"I have a boyfriend." Tori said with a giggle.

"Ah well he's a lucky guy, but seriously you were amazing at the PMAs and you should perform again." Tyler said.

"Thank you." Tori said her cheeks red.

"Tyler you wanted to talk to me." Beck said running a hand through his hair.

"I'm going to this party and I am in desperate need of a wingman, I was wondering if you'd go with me. We could get you a girl, not that you need my help getting one. They just throw themselves at you." Tyler said not noticing the scowl on Tori's face. "Hey Tori did girls throw themselves at this guy when he wasn't a celebrity?"

"Yeah they did, though a lot of them were Northridge girls and they throw themselves at anybody." Tori said bitterly.

"Dang Beck's got game." Tyler said letting out a low whistle. "So what do you say man, you want to go party it up NYC style?"

"Nah, I'm kind of in the middle of talking to my girlfriend." Beck said.

"Girlfriend? You lucky bastard! I thought you were single, whenever you get asked if there is someone special in your life you always say..."

"That everybody is special in my life, well it's true." Beck shrugged.

"Apparently some are more special than others." Tyler said with a winking at Tori. "Oh well then I'll let you two have your fun. I'll go and ask Isabelle if she'd like to go out, she's really fun when she lets her freak out."

"What do you mean?"

"She's like a caged animal and when let loose she goes wild, you should have seen her at the Titan Movie Awards' after party it was crazy." Tyler said starting for the door. "It was a pleasure meeting you Tori, I hope to see you perform again sometime in the near future."

"It was nice meeting you too." Tori said. When the door closed behind Tyler Tori squealed like on of Beck's many fangirls. "I just met Tyler Perry!"

"Yay." Beck said sarcastically.

"Beck." Tori sighed the excitement quickly vanishing from her face. "He was my favorite actor and for me it's kind of a big deal to meet him or any celebrity really since I don't see them everyday."

"I know and I'm sorry."

"I guess its a good thing you're not going to be able to watch the play, who knows what you'd do to Jack after watching the kiss scene." Tori joked.

"Are you implying that I am being rather possessive at the moment?"

"Its possible."

"Yeah it is with a girlfriend like you."

The cast took a bow and posed for a silly cast picture before walking off of the stage. Needless to say that their rendition of Snow White was better than the two versions that came out in theaters. Tori, Jack, and Jade posed for a picture that was immediately uploaded onto The Slap by Robbie he captioned it, "The Princess, the prince, and the wicked witch."

"Tori these flowers came for you." Cat squealed handing Tori a bouquet of red roses.

Tori took them from her and found the card.

Tori,

I may not have seen the play but I know for a fact that you were amazing, after all we did spend a lot of time rehearsing while also goofing off. I wish that I could be there to hand you these in person and kiss you senseless, but I can't and will make it up to you when I get back. Going a whole week without getting to wrap my arms around you and kiss you is really going to be difficult but thankfully things like video chat were invented and I can talk to you as if we had all the time in the world, it is keeping you with me this week. Have fun at the cast party and be safe. Goodnight beautiful.

Beck

Tori smiled and brought the roses up to her nose so she could smell them, Beck truly was the best boyfriend she's ever had.

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