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In His Shadow

Chapter 18-Blissfull Morning Gone Bad and a Televised Confession

"So this is where you went." Tori said as she walked into the kitchen where Beck was making breakfast. "You didn't have to make us all breakfast especially since Trina won't be up for hours, something about needing at least ten hours of beauty rest on days we don't go to school."

"Your sister is so..."

"Weird?" Tori asked. Beck nodded and turned to flip the bacon over. "I know, its kind of hard to miss when you live with her. So did my parents head off to work?"

"Yeah." Beck answered taking the bacon out of the pan and putting on a plate. He held it out to Tori and asked, "Will you put this on the table Sweetheart?"

"Yes dear." Tori said taking the plate and putting it on the table. She walked over to the refrigerator and grabbed the orange juice. "So since I'm not going to school today and you're free today how do you want to spend the day?"

"Lying on the couch and watching mindless TV with my favorite person in the entire world." Beck answered as he cracked the eggs into the pan.

Tori smiled she couldn't really think of a better way to spend the day then lounging around the house with Beck. He placed her plate of eggs and a hash brown in front of her before taking the seat in front of her. He asked her why she had been so excited earlier and she answered that she was excited to perform her new song next week. It wasn't exactly a lie but it wasn't the entire truth and she could tell that Beck didn't really believe her. They finished their breakfast and as they were washing the dishes Tori heard her phone ring, she had set it on max volume so she wouldn't miss it when Tyler called. She ran up to her room and was met by a very unpleasant looking Trina trying to turn off her phone.

"Give me the phone Trina, its an important call." Tori said reaching for her phone.

"Why is Tyler Perry calling you so early in the morning, why is he calling you period?" Trina asked groggily as she handed Tori her phone.

"Trina its almost noon and he has somethings he wants to talk to me about." Tori answered.

"Does Beck know that your celebrity crush Tyler Perry is calling you? I think if he did he wouldn't be too happy about it, his jealous side has come out now that you two are dating." Trina yawned starting for her room. "Oh well not my problem plus if you two break up I have a chance with him."

"We're not going to break up." Tori called after her. She answered the phone when Trina's door slammed shut. "Hey."

"Good afternoon Miss Vega." Tyler said in a business-like tone. "I have the details that I didn't give you earlier when I was like half asleep."

"Oh give them to me." Tori said excitedly.

"Someone's excited." Tyler laughed. "Alright so apparently next week we're all going to be on the show on different days and you're performing on the day Beck guest stars on the show. Ellen wants to surprise him with a performance from his high school friends and you have to meet with Ellen before the show so you can rehearse and talk about what's going to happen on the show."

"Oh my gosh this is really happening." Tori said pinching herself again.

"Yeah it is." Tyler said. "You just have to come up with an excuse as to why you won't be able to go to the show since Beck know's nothing of this."

"Okay I'll come up with something." Tori said looking over her shoulder to make sure Beck wasn't standing in the doorway. "Thank you so much for this."

"Hey don't mention it." Tyler said and Tori could tell he was smiling. "Ellen will call you sometime during the week."

"Ah!" Tori squealed.

Tori slowly slid down the door to the floor, she had no idea how their do-nothing day had gone from blissfully perfect to realistically horrible. She pulled her knees to her chest and wrapped her arms around them as she started to cry. Outside Beck placed a hand on the door, he could hear Tori crying and the sound of her crying was breaking him on the inside. He sighed and cursed himself for letting the day get ruined. One minute Tori was lying on top of his chest laughing at a joke that one of the characters on the show said and the next she was telling him to leave.

"Tori please you have to hear me out." Beck pleaded.

"Go Beck, go home and then go on your trip around the world!" Tori cried. "I don't want to talk to you right now."

"I don't want to leave with our relationship the way it is." Beck said putting his forehead to the door. "Tori please, it was nothing it meant nothing."

"Beck go home." Tori said.

"Tori it was acting nothing more than that." Beck groaned.

"Just go." Tori said through her sobs.

Tori picked herself up off of the floor and walked up to her room before Beck could utter another word. She threw herself onto her bed and cried into her pillow that smelled like Beck. They were both a bit possessive of each other and they both had a jealous side, that's what had led to their first big disagreement as a couple. She supposed she lacked confidence in the success of her relationship with Beck when he was now a part of a world that had beautiful and talented women that would most likely find him attractive...she lacked confidence in herself. How could she really compare with actresses and models who were ten times more beautiful than she was. She had pushed down her feelings about herself but the moment she saw the pictures of Beck and Isabelle kissing those feelings began to resurface. The rational part of her knew Beck liked her but the self-consious part of her worried that the moment he started to embrace his new found fame he'd leave her and move onto ones of those models and actresses.

She knew that the program they were watching was all gossip but there was something about seeing the boy she loved kissing another girl that really bugged her. He told her that it was all an act and that she shouldn't get worked up about it since he didn't get worked up about her kissing Jack in the play. She told him that the kisses she and Jack shared had all been acting, they had been portraying different characters as oppose to the multiple kisses that Beck and Isabelle had shared. After that they had started tearing at each other until Tori told him to leave.

"That sounded intense, are you okay Tori?" Trina asked slowly stepping into the room.

"I don't know." Tori mumbled.

"Don't cry about it, we all knew it wouldn't last between you guys." Trina said and Tori glared at her.

"Here I was thinking you were trying to comfort me."

"I am, I'm telling you not to be sad over something that was doomed from the start. So do you think he'll go for me now?"

"We didn't break up, we just had a heated argument." Tori said.

"Tori its okay if you're ashamed of your break up." Trina said sitting down on the edge of her bed.

"We didn't break up we had a fight." Tori practically yelled. "Get out of my room!"

He was still going to tell the world that he was in love with Victoria Vega, he was going to convince her that he wasn't going to ever love anyone other than her. Her text message telling him that she wasn't going to be able to make the show cut him deeper than he thought it possibly could. He didn't care that she was going to be a no show he was going to proclaim his love with or without her.

"With some help of the kids at Hollywood Arts High School I managed to get some pictures and videos of you Beck." Ellen said snapping him out of his thoughts. The first picture on the screen would be one of him and Tori, the one where she's hugging him after their first almost kiss. "From what I understand of your school's website this was in one of your galleries as in you took this picture and captioned it."

"That's correct." Beck said and even to himself his voice sounded hollow.

"So according to this picture you have amazing her and this girl Tori is kind of cute." Ellen said showing the caption. "You do have insanely amazing hair, how do you get your hair to that level of amazingness?"

"Well you know quality shampoo and conditioner." Beck said with a laugh glad that she hadn't mentioned Tori. The next picture was the one of him and Tori at the baseball game not to long ago. "Are we still focusing on my hair?"

"Yes, how is it that it is too thick for a baseball hat?"

"I don't know maybe because its so insane." Beck shrugged.

She showed more pictures and videos, Beck came to the realization that a lot of his pictures had Tori in them both as friends and as a couple. They talked about his days at Hollywood Arts and how it was like filming a movie. Then they talked about the movie and how his life had changed since then.

"Well now you can't go out in public unless you want to get attacked by a million screaming teenage girls."

"Yeah but the bright side is that I've completely gotten caught up on my shows." Beck laughed.

"By shows you mean this one."

"Of course it's all I watch on TV." Beck said.

"Well I have a surprise for you Beck. I visited Hollywood Arts and met with some of your friends, I saw how talented they were and I've brought some of that talent here for today's show. So performing their new song LA Baby please help me in welcoming Tori Vega and Andre Harris."

Beck turned around, his eyes immediately locked onto his girlfriend. Tori gave him a small smile and he smiled back noticing what she was wearing, a pair of black shorts, a light grey tank-top, and his favorite red plaid button down. He turned around and asked Ellen if he could say something before they started their performance.

"I lied to you when I told you that I wasn't afraid of anything. I'm afraid of one thing and one thing only and that's losing the girl I love and if I go on like this I'm pretty sure that I will lose her." Beck said standing up and walking over to where Tori stood. "There's something I want the whole world to know, I'm in love with Victoria Vega."

Cliffhanger action right there haha. Don't hate me for the "fight" I put Beck and Tori through I had to make it somewhat more emotional...don't know if I succeeded though. Next chapter we'll get to see Tori's reaction to his confession and we'll get the song she and Andre had been working on since forever ago.

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