"I can't believe it actually worked" Beck says when we enter his RV.
"I can't believe you actually doubted how much of a ladies' man I am."
"Wouldn't it be ladies' woman?" Cat asks while sitting down on Becks bed and pulling candy out of her bra.
"Whatever the point is I'm in, she even said it herself that were friends, hell I'm on a first name basis with her and it's only the second day of school!" I say smugly while grabbing a soda out of becks mini fridge.
"You so don't even get all of the credit here man she thinks she's helping you out that's why she's letting you call her Tori and why she said you guys were friends" Beck says while flipping through the channels looking for something to watch.
"Either way it's the second day and I got her first name, the role of her new friend, and a hug. I'm totally in." I say smiling.
"Jade's right Beck we've seen her do this too many times and it always starts like this, poor Ms. Vega doesn't have a chance." Cat said frowning at the end of her sentence before focusing back on the tv.
"Ha-ha I almost feel guilty but the extra 500 bucks in my pocket will help sooth that guilt."
"Yeah and knowing you tapped the hottest teacher in the history of Hollywood Arts will help your guilt too." Beck says sarcastically.
I smile before answering. "It definitely won't hurt."
"Hey!" Cat shouts after a few seconds of silence.
"What?" Beck and I ask together.
"I just remembered the new Ryan gosling movie came out today do you guys wanna go see it tomorrow?"
"After you made me watch the notebook four times I think I'll pass." Beck says.
"There will be a movie theatre full of girls looking for a hot guy to sweep them off their feet." Cat says smiling.
"I totally forgot I heard it was supposed to be pretty good." Beck says running his hand through his hair.
I laugh before pulling out my phone and checking my messages.
"Yay! So we can all meet here and leave together tomorrow."
"Sorry red I can't, I'm TA for Ms. Vega Tuesdays and Thursdays during seventh starting tomorrow so it'll just be you two."
"You're her TA? It's like the second day of school how the hell did you get that job it's not like she's busy yet?" Beck asks clearly surprised.
"Ha-ha she asked me to be her TA after we became friends today." I say smirking.
"It's annoying how gullible she is." Beck mutters.
I simple laugh before we turn our attention back to the TV.
I get home at nine and spend the rest of the night in my room planning my next move for tomorrow. I decide to tone down my flirting for the next few weeks, as much fun as it is it will be easier to become real friends with her if I don't have to worry about her being concerned about our "student teacher relationship".
Another day another dream about Tori Vega. This girl has earned herself a recurring role in my dreams and I don't mind at all, hopefully realty is as good as my imagination.
I sigh and roll out of bed heading to the bathroom, I take a quick shower and head back to my closet trying to decide what to wear today.
I don't want to be slutty but I also don't want to be prude, I want to show her exactly what she can have but not look like I'm trying too hard.
I finally decide on my blood red leggings with upside down crosses, my black tank top that stops just below my belly button and my knee high black boots.
I grab my coffee and head out the door. Once again I take the short cut instead of the long route and get to school 30 minutes before the bell rings.
I head to Ms. Vega's room and arrive just in time to see Mr. Harris giving her a hug goodbye.
I forgot to ask Cat if she found out if he's single or not and now I'm really regretting it.
I walk forward and knock on Ms. Vega's door.
"Come in."
I walk in and see her back towards me as she is writing on the board.
"Hey Tori." I say walking in and sitting on her desk.
"Hello Jade, how are you?" she says turning to look at me.
"Well I have my coffee so I can't really complain."
"Ha I understand I can't talk to anyone before I have my caffeine in the morning."
"So what are we doing today in class?"
"Partnering up to talk about the thirteen colonies."
"We get to pick our own partners right?" I ask before taking a sip of my coffee.
"Ha-ha I know better than to try and separate teenagers from their friends, as long as work is getting done then I'll let the students pick their partner."
"Good the last time someone tried to separate Red and I she had a fit and started throwing candy at our teacher."
"Red?"
"Cat valentine, she sits next to me in class, bright ass red hair."
"Ha-ha oh yes Cat is certainly a unique girl."
"Yeah a unique girl who hates being separated from me." I smile into my coffee
"Well thanks for the heads up I'll be sure to keep you two together so I won't have to suffer through a barrage of candy."
"That's what friends are for." I say giving her me infamous smile.
Yeah I said I wasn't gonna flirt but I'm Jade West I don't know how to not flirt.
She smiles and opens her mouth to respond but the bell beats her to it.
I smirk and head to the back of the room and plop into my chair.
Once again the rest of the day went my fairly quickly, flirted with some randoms, made out with some new girl, threatened a couple freshman, and got detention that I have no intention of attending. Before I knew it the six period bell was ringing and I headed in the direction of Tori's room.
I walk in without knocking ad take a seat at the front of the room.
"Hello Jade."
"Hey Tori, so what are we doing today?"
"Nothing right now I meant to catch you at lunch to tell you that you didn't have to come today as I don't have any work yet. So you can leave if you want we probably won't have any real work until next week."
"If it's okay I'd rather stay here; my friends already took off so I don't have anything else to do."
"Of course you can stay; although it will be pretty boring since all I'm doing is planning for tomorrow's class."
"it's cool I can just help you plan; after all I love any chance I can get that puts me ahead of the idiots at this school." I say smirking.
"Such a lovely way to speak of your fellow students." Tori says laughing.
"Hey I speak the truth." I say smiling.
"Can I ask you a question?" Tori asks after about five minutes of silence.
"Sure." I say.
"Why don't you show this side of you to other people?"
I look at her confused but right as I open my mouth to speak she continues.
"I know your reputation Jade, you been suspended for just about everything there is, vandalism, cussing out teachers, skipping, smoking on school property" she looks down and I can see a slight blush appear before she continues. "Having sex on school property, but that isn't who you show me when you are around me, why?"
Okay what the hell happened to gullible Tori I liked her so much better.
"I'm the same person right now as I was when I screwing the head cheerleader behind the school." I could hear my voice waiver and I hate it.
I don't know why but it came out way more defensive than I meant it to.
"Jade it's just me and you; you don't have to put up this façade that you try so hard to maintain." Surprisingly Tori showed no emotion or any type of reaction to me bitching at her, she was the same caring woman as she always is. It made me nauseous.
"It's not a façade, I'm sorry if I made it seem like I was someone else but I'm exactly what you've heard about, I'm exactly who everyone thinks I am." I say not bothering to look her in the eye.
"I think who you are when we are together is who you want to be and who you are when you are with everyone else is who they want you to be."
My first instinct right now is to run, run as far away from her as possible and don't ever look back but I can't, I don't think I really want to run away.
What the hell did I just say? It must be the bet messing with my head.
"Can we not talk about this right now?"
"Sure Jade just know I'm here for you when you're ready to talk about it."
"Um yeah okay."
The rest of the period went by in silence as I sat and thought about what Tori said. I've heard those things before but only from Beck and Cat, people I've known for years, people I consider family. So how the hell did this woman who yesterday I thought was naive manage to say things that only people who have known me for years have said?
It bothers me, actually it pisses me off where the hell does she get off acting like she knows me, like she knows who I am and why I do the things I do. My first instinct was to run but now my only instinct is to win, all I want is to show her that she has no idea who the hell I am. That's all I want in the world right now, and I'm Jade fucking West, I always get what I want.