WHOA!
An update! You didn't see that one coming, did you? :D
I'm not even gonna start with silly excuses, but I hope you still enjoy reading, although you had to wait ages.
Thanks again for all those encouraging, fantastic and cute reviews, also for my other stories!
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AND OMG!
Did you watch the last two episodes of Victorious!
Amazing Cat/Beck action!
It was incredibly cute how Beck kissed her on the hair in Stuck in an RV!
Or how she clinged to his leg in Robarazzi! Cute!
The excitement didn't die down all afternoon. I hadn't stopped smiling on my way home.
Mr Sikowitz entitled us the best working pairing in his class.
Jade's face was wonderful!
I'm usually not much of a sadistic person, but I enjoyed seeing her surprised and rankled by my achievement and my obvious chemistry with her boyfriend.
While I was deep in thoughts, a motorbike suddenly stopped next to me.
Don't be surprised , but I'm usually a little scared when there is a man who seems to appear from nowhere, dressed in all black and leather, looking like he could cat-nap me easily. So now, all the excitement turned into adrenalin rushing through my veins.
But then, the supposed hijacker took off his motorcycle helmet.
"Oh, it's just you!"
" 'Just'? What's that supposed to mean?" Beck grinned at me.
I giggled.
"You wanna celebrate our A+?"
"How?"
"You know, grab a smoothie, sit down somewhere."
Oh, he was being so nice to me!
I think I started to realize, why every girl in school was head over heals for him.
"It's okay if you planned anything else. You don't have to come with me."
"No! Sure I wanna come!"
He exhaled happily. "Well then, jump up! Here you go." He took his back up helmet and handed it to me.
Being myself, silly and clumsy Cat Valentine, I nearly dropped it.
But Beck wouldn't be Beck if he hadn't caught it. I considered it quite a tour de force, since he could still keep his bike safe.
Instead of getting all aggressive, because I nearly ruined his helmet and bike, he laughed it off, deposited his bike and came up to me.
"Wait a sec, I'll help you."
He was standing so close to me. I would have loved to just close my eyes and enjoy his presence, but that would've been pretty awkward.
With one hand, Beck hold the helmet, with the other one he carefully put some strands of hair behind my ear and opened the visor of the helmet.
To adjust everything perfectly, he bent his knees slightly and charily put the helmet over my head. When everything fit, he knocked on my 'head' a little.
"You're okay?"
"Great."
He put on his own one and then told me to hold on tight while driving.
No problem!
We didn't drive far. The nearest and best smoothie place was 'L.A. Groovy Smoothies', which was like 5 minutes away.
Nevertheless, being that close to Beck's body for 5 minutes gave me chills up and down my spine. I just wished he could have hugged me back.
The ride was way too short.
When we got into 'LA Groovy Smoothie', I was relieved to see that none of the students from Hollywood Arts were there. I didn't want them to start the gossip.
I was already nervous about Jade's opinion towards this. I wanted to know what she would think about me and Beck coming here alone so badly, but I didn't dare asking him.
He took off his leather jacket and sat down on one of the purple tables.
"It's stupid, but this is my favorite table. It's kinda aside from all the hustle and bustle."
He was right. I hadn't been at 'LA Groovy Smoothies' often, but this was indeed a very quiet corner in the busy restaurant. The table was the furthest from the entrance and moreover it was a little separated from all the other tables, because of a little desk for the used trays besides it.
I sat down opposite to him and grabbed the menu. Lime-Strawberry, Orange-Dragon fruit, Apple-Litchi, Mango-Egg liqueur... There were so many choices. I wanted to taste everything! I sighed. A Cat Valentine decision could take hours!
Beck chuckled slightly. "I'm gonna choose Pear-Pineapple, so you could just take the same if you don't have any idea..."
"No, no, no. That wouldn't be fun. Choosing different smoothies makes it possible for us to try from the other one's smoothie. I think I might choose..." I closed my eyes and pointed on a random smoothie: "...Elder-Lemon, is that okay?"
He nodded and waved to the waiter.
After he had ordered, I begged for him to start the conversation. I usually felt great around him, but now... I was strangely nervous. I couldn't think of anything to say.
As usual, I needed something to play with. So I took the tea light from the table and whirled it around with my fingers.
He cleared his throat quietly.
"I know I've said it before, but you were brilliant."
I felt my cheeks burn.
"Thanks... again."
Smiling.
The waiter, whose name was apparently Cooper, according to his name tag, arrived with our smoothies. "Yo guys, great choice. And speaking of choices, Beck, I notice you listened to my advice and dumped that creepy West girl. Haha, but you did find I good replacement."
He winked at me.
Okay, awkward.
I didn't know what to respond. And neither, if I should respond.
Beck looked down on the table and spun his smoothie mug around.
"Urm.. Well, in fact I didn't break up with Jade. She's still my girlfriend, and believe it or not, she's nice. This is merely my acting class partner, Cat."
Merely...
I shortly waved at Cooper, who looked a little embarrassed for a brief second, but then his face went back to I-don't-care-about-my-customer's-love-life.
After the waiter left, it was silent for a moment.
Since the topic had already been touched, I decided to take my chance.
"Why do you think many people have a negative perception of Jade?" Many people would include me in this case.
"Maybe it's because it takes her such a long time to like someone. She's got an immense trust issue, so she's extremely jealous. That's why she doesn't like any of the girls at school. Some may also say she's ruthless. Apparently lots of people have a problem with that, too. Fine, she can be a handful, but I'm glad I have her."
"Why?"
"Hm.. She's always been around. She's different from others, so it's always an adventure with her." Beck laughed.
I didn't want to know how great Jade was, I didn't want to hear anymore about her, so I changed the topic.
We started talking about music and singers ("I don't get why tons of girls like a 16 year old boy with a high voice who's constantly flipping his hair.") which led us to soundtracks and movies, which again led to future jobs in the movie business, which in turn led to all the world and his brother.
At about six, the reasonable Cat Valentine came forward and reminded the easy going Cat of all the homework and school assignments.
"I think we should get going. I still have lots to do."
"God, you're right. Time went so fast..."
He smiled and put his hand up to tell Cooper to come.
Being a perfect gentleman, Beck payed all the smoothies I had.
I got so close to him in the few hours we had together.
Not physically, of course, but through talking, I felt like I knew him better than... Tori or even André.
I didn't know what happened inside me, but suddenly I felt the strong urge to be that close to him physically, too.
The reasonable Cat inside me shouted: 'No, no, no, no!'
But I didn't care.
Instead, I leaned in, eyes closed.
Then, all I heard was: "Whoa, Cat! What ya doing?"
I opened my eyes to see him staring at me like he wondered what had gotten into me.
Seriously, what had gotten into me?
Idiot.
"Never mind." I mumbled.
He handed me his extra motorcycle helmet but I shook my head. I felt so embarrassed.
"I guess, I'm gonna take the bus, it's not far."
"Come on, I don't mind driving an extra mile for you."
He was about to put the helmet on my head, when I stepped back.
"No, really, it's okay."
I turned around to not see his reaction and walked faster than usual.
I knew he wasn't coming after me, when I heard him adjusting his helmet and starting the machine.
I was a complete idiot.
Kissing him? Really, Cat?
What was I thinking? Uuuuhrg. I was so angry with me! Now, he probably thought of me as another dumb girl who had a crush on him.
What did you do Cat Valentine?
When he drove past me, Beck slowed down a little.
"Catie?"
I looked up.
He shouted: "Never mind, okay?"
An emotional rollercoaster for Cat, right?
I can't say if it's actually a good chapter, but it's okay. :D
I already have (hopefully) great ideas for the last two chapters!
PS: How cool is the German Eurovision win? I don't know, if you even have any idea what Eurovision is, but check out Lena with her song Satellite. :D
And Germany has such a great national footbal team! 4:1 against England, yeah!
Sorry to all of the US fans ):
Have a great day/night! (:
I do not own Victorious or any of its characters.
And I do not own Groovy Smoothies, but I thought it was a funny idea to have it as some kinda restaurant chain.