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A/N: Finally I finished typing this chapter, things will get interesting from now on. There will be more of Alyssa she will play an important role on the story, you could say that she will be there when the Jori finally happens. Thank you so much for reviewing, and following this story. Sorry if I have some grammar mistakes. I hope everyone enjoys this chapter, and if you like this, don't forget to review.
Chapter Two: The Bird Scene
(Tori's Pov)
I have so many books since I'm a little behind in my classes, I'm almost all caught up, it still sucks that I have to take all of my books home.
"We're here Tori, hurry up." Trina tells me as she shuts the door of her car, and she leaves me with these books, again.
Yesterday I fell as we left the parking lot, and when I asked Trina if she didn't see me she only said " I saw it, it was really funny." and she laughed, what kind of sister laughs at that? Well I would have laughed too if it had happened to her, but I would have help her too.
I slowly get out of the car and I thankfully enter the school without falling this time.
"What took you so long?" Trina asks.
"Well I" and that's all she lets me says.
"Oh! The new play roster! Hold my coffee." And she puts the coffee on top of all my books.
She runs and takes a play roster, it doesn't surprise me when she pushes all the people who were waiting to get one.
"Oh my god! All of these plays are amazing, I'm perfect for all of them." Of course she is, and I'm one hundred percent straight.
"Hey is Moonlight Magic there?" That's the only play that I know of and it's thanks to André.
"Yeah, number four, why?" Trina asks me with this weird look on her face.
"André wrote the music for it, he wants me to try out for the lead." I say with a smile on my face, this could be my first play.
"You? Why?" I really don't like how Trina said that. Does she really think that she's better than me?
Instead of answering her, I give her back her coffee and tell her to go.
She leaves and I make my way to my locker, one of my books almost fell, I barely caught it.
I didn't notice Jade walking by until she was standing in front of me.
"Need some help?" She asks me with her sexy voice, she never talks to me first, so I'm kind of happy.
"Yes." I say with a dreamy look on my face. I couldn't help it, not only was she being nice to me, but she looked so hot today, specially with those really tight skinny jeans.
Instead of helping me I see her take a sip of her coffee and she gives me a devious smirk. "Interesting." that's all she says and she walks away. I should have guess that she wouldn't help me.
It seems like she hasn't forgiven me for rubbing down on Beck, every time that I try to explain she either threatens me or simply ignores me.
I walk to my locker and I barely manage to open it, I put all of my stuff on my locker and closed it.
"My locker is full, I feel complete." I say with a smile on my face, I swear my hands would have probably fallen off if I had carried those books any longer.
"No it's not." I hear André say behind me.
"What do you mean?" Don't tell me there's more books, because there's barely room as it is.
"You got to customize it, it's mandatory and a Hollywood Arts tradition." I hear Robbie, or puppet boy as I like to call him, say as he stands in front of us. I didn't pay too much attention to him because I was more concentrated in Rex and why he had a piece of gum in his forehead.
"Why does he" I say as I gesture to Rex's forehead.
"This fool dropped me." I nod my head as I see Robbie getting the gum out of the puppets forehead. I still don't understand why his always arguing with him.
"It wasn't my fault I was helping someone!" and they start fighting again.
"What did you do for your locker Robbie?" I wasn't really that interested I just wanted him to stop fighting with his puppet they always give me a headache specially when I'm trying to figure out, why he talks to Rex like his a living person. Is it like an imaginary friend or something?
"Well, I made a mosaic using all the baby bottle nipples from my childhood." I, What? Why would someone do that?
I just look at him like he had lost his mind. But seriously, why would he do that?
It seems like he saw the question in my eyes because he says "They remind me of a happier time!"
I don't say anything, what was I suppose to say to that? Instead I turned to André and asked what he did with his.
"Check it out." He takes me to his locker, which I have to admit is really cool. It has a customized keyboard! I'm really amazed but I'm more curious about how he did that.
I mean how is that even possible? And if the locker opens when you press certain keys, doesn't that mean that anyone could open it? Now that I think about it that doesn't sound like such a good idea.
"Hey André, Robbie that squirrel is back in my office again!" I turned around to look at the teacher, I don't really listen to their conversation I'm more curious about how the squirrel got into his office, in the first place. Doesn't he close the windows?
I have really weird friends, André and Robbie left me to catch a squirrel, I turned around and noticed that my locker is completely weird, it's the only locker that looks so dull, I should really do something but what?
"I don't know what to do with my locker." I shook my head as I try to think of something, that's when I heard a creepy voice behind me.
"Wanna see my locker?" I turned around to see this weird guy behind me, he gives me the a creepy smile, and so I say the first thing that comes to my mind.
"I guess." What's the worst that could happen? Maybe this will help me think of something.
We walk to his locker and let's just say that Robbie's idea for his locker doesn't sound so weird now.
"These are pieces of food that I chewed but never swallowed. I spit them out" And that's all I hear as I continue to look at his locker. Why in the world would someone do that? I, that's so wrong, so very wrong.
"Pretty cool huh?" he says as he looks me up and down. I don't say anything instead I just turned around and run as fast as I could from there.
Why, why do I always get the creepy guys? Is this someone's way of telling me, that if I didn't swing both ways, I would end up with someone like that? And Trina asks me why I also like girls.
Now that I think about it, I wonder how Jade's locker looks? It has to be the scariest one, and it probably has some scissors on it, I want to see it.
I enter Sikowitz class to see that everyone has already arrived, even Jade is here.
As the class progresses Sikowitz asks Jade and Cat to act some weird scene. I was really surprised with little kitty Cat she is an amazing actress, and let's not forget about Jade. When she gets into her character you feel every emotion that she wants you to feel.
If she was a famous actress now I would totally buy all her movies, each one of them, specially with that body of hers, her beautiful eyes, and with her personality, let's just say that she's the perfect description of sexy.
As I continue to look at Jade I see a ball flying straight to kitty Cat's face, and she falls with a scream, that looked like it hurt.
"Sikowitz." I hear Jade say with a calm voice, but I know for a fact that she's pissed off. Since she doesn't talk to me, I find myself trying to figure her out. I know that when she sounds calm she's actually really upset.
"What!?" Sikowitz exclaims he sounded like he didn't know why Jade called his name. I really don't understand him, why would he hit Cat? What does that have to do with acting?
I see kitty Cat standing up with her hand on her cheek she looks at Sikowitz and says with a teary voice "You hit me on the face, with a ball!"
His only answer is that " A great actor can stay on the scene no matter what's happening around them." I actually get that, but that wasn't around her, the ball hit her on the face, how is that something that's happening around the scene?
The bell rings and everybody leaves to go to lunch. I made my way to the door only to have a ball pass right by me and hit a picture on the wall. I'm so glad that didn't hit me.
I turned around and look at sikowitz as I ask "What was that for? I'm not acting now."
He smiles at me as he says. "We need to chat." So he almost hit me just because he wanted to talk to me?
"And couldn't have you asked instead?" I say with a tired voice.
He doesn't answer and I wait until everybody leaves the room. I sit on my seat as I wait for him to talk.
"I heard that you want to audition for a play." He says as he walks from one side of the room to the other.
"Yes I did, it's for Moonlight Magic." Is he going to tell me that I shouldn't? Oh I hope he doesn't I'm actually looking forward to it.
He stands in front of me. " You should, but." and he leaves me hanging after saying that.
"But what?" When someone ends their sentence with a but, that's not a good sign.
"You can't." and I knew it! Here comes my downfall, it probably would have hurt less if he had hit me with the ball.
"Not until you pass the bird scene!" he hands me a little book and I look it over, bird scene that doesn't sound so bad.
"It's a scene that every Hollywood Arts student has to take and pass before they can audition for any and all school productions." Okay so I just have to pass this scene, maybe I can audition for the play after all. I turned around to see Cat entering the classroom.
"Hey Sikowitz, I have a question about the homework" and he throws another ball at kitty Cat, I'm glad that she managed to dodge it, as she ran away from the classroom.
I turned around and look at Sikowitz, I don't say anything as I wait for him to explain, why he threw that ball, but instead of giving a real answer he just says "We will never know her question." and he left threw the window.
How did he became a teacher at this school?
I left the classroom and I made my way to my locker that's when I saw Jade standing in front of her locker, I was still really curious about how her locker looked, so I went and talk to her.
"Hey Jade, what are you doing?" She doesn't say anything she just opens the locker and puts her stuff in it, before closing it.
"What does it look like I'm doing?" That's so like her, I don't answer her as I keep looking at her eyes, and then at her gorgeous lips, I would do anything just to feel them against mine.
"Vega!" and she screams my last name, it would be so much better if it was my first name instead.
"Vega! Are you listening to me?" She asks me as she grabs my chin and I find myself unable to breathe, her face is so close to mine. I feel her nails digging into my skin, I know there's going to be a mark, but I don't care.
"Uh-huh" I answered I really don't know what she told me. How could I? When she's so close to me.
She let's go of me and she just bites her lip, I know she does that unconsciously, but I can't help it when I think that she looks so sexy, and extremely good. She would look better with my teeth biting her lip instead though.
"Uh fuck it, I really don't care." and she leaves, I wonder what she doesn't care about.
"Jade wait!" I scream but she doesn't listen, she continues walking and my gaze follows her, until I can't see her anymore.
I look behind me and I'm not surprised when I see that her locker is cover in scissors and in paint that looks like blood. I shake my head leave it to Jade to make her locker look like a murder scene.
I spent the rest of my day daydreaming of her, I really wish I could be as bold as Alyssa. When she likes someone she just goes with it, even if they have a boyfriend.
After school I spent the rest of my day practicing for the bird scene, I really want to take part on the play, but most importantly I want Jade to see that I am a good actress, that's when I remember that Alyssa has a white umbrella cockatoo, I really don't know why but she does, so I call her.
"Sup, Tor." I don't waste time and I tell her everything.
"Okay, let me get this right, you have to pass this bird scene first before you can audition for a play." She asks me.
"Yes." that's all I say.
"And you want to borrow my white umbrella cockatoo so you can impress the girl who spilled iced coffee on you." Yes, of course I do.
"Yes, I do." I hear her laugh and I immediately blush.
"I mean no, I want to make a good impression." That doesn't sound like it actually helped me.
"Of course you do." I hear her say with that sweet voice of hers, she only talks like that when she knows that she beat me in an argument.
"Aly! Are you going to help me or not?" I really need to practice my scene now, after all I have to do it tomorrow.
"You know I will love, I'll be right there." she doesn't live that far away from me so it only takes her twenty minutes before I see her knocking on my window.
I make my way and opened it for her. " Why don't you ever used the door?" I ask as I shake my head.
"Where's the fun in that." I see her smirk as she walks to my bed, she takes a sit, and that's when I notice that she doesn't have her cockatoo.
"Where's the cockatoo?" I see her smile and I can also see a glint on her eyes but she doesn't answer instead she whistles and the cockatoo comes flying through the window and lands on her shoulder.
" Here she is." I kept looking at her and then back at the cockatoo, that was so cool, that could actually help me with the scene.
The cockatoo flies and lands on top of my book shelf. Alyssa moves her finger, beckoning me to her.
I stand in front of her and she grabs my arm causing me to fall into her lap. She doesn't say anything as she grabs my hair and pushes my lips against hers, it's not a passionate kiss, just her usual way of greeting me.
As we pull away I see her beautiful smile " So do you mind if I stay here and watch you practice your scene?" I shake my head and I give her a small peck as I stand up.
"Of course not, I can always use your opinion." I say as I take my glasses off and I start to practice the scene, after I'm finish I tell her what I want the white cockatoo to do and she just nods her head.
"It's a great scene Victoria, but you should do it with your glasses on." I turned around as I raised my eyebrow at her.
"Why?" I ask, knowing her she's going to tell me something that has nothing to do with the bird scene.
"Obviously, because you look so much hotter with glasses on." she tells me with a serious face, I can't help but laugh at that.
"Seriously?" that's all I say.
"Seriously, and even if your iced coffee girl is straight and has a boyfriend, she will be checking you out." She says with a smirk on her face.
I can't argue with that, I don't know if Jade would actually check me out, but I don't have anything to lose, well maybe I do I never like to wear my glasses on public because I think that I look like a dork.
"Are you sure? I always thought that I looked like a dork with them." I say and she stands up and grabs the glasses she puts them on me.
She then puts both of her hands on my cheeks, she leans in, and I can feel her breath against my lips, she smiles as she says. " You don't look like a dork and even if you did, you would be a really hot dork." and she lets me go.
I immediately blush and she laughs.
I continue to rehearse until midnight, she stands up to leave but I grabbed her hand, I won't feel good if she left this late at night.
I tell her to spend the night and she just says "Sure." I don't have to offer her pajamas or anything like that because both of us sleep the same way, only in our underwear.
I wake up to the sound of my alarm clock and it doesn't surprise me when I notice that she already left. I look up to see the white umbrella cockatoo on top of the shelf and beside him is a small note.
" Don't forget to wear your glasses, and P.S. Good luck my hot dork, oh and I'm picking you up after your bird scene and you will be in so much trouble if anything happens to my cockatoo!" I laugh as I read the last part, she seriously can't live without her pet.
It doesn't take me long to get ready for school, I take the cockatoo with me, Trina doesn't even notice that I have it. We arrive a little earlier then what I planned but I don't mind, this way I won't have to explain why I have a large bird in my arm.
I arrive to Sikowitz class to find it empty, I opened the window and the cockatoo flies to the tree that its outside the window.
Soon enough everyone arrives and I take a seat on my chair. I know this will be a great scene.
"The time has come for our new student to tackle the bird scene!" Sikowitz says as I stand up, I smile as I put my glasses on, I even put some music, let's get this started.
I close my eyes and I take a deep breath I start to talk with a country accent " It was 1934 and my husband left me, alone. Living on the prairie was a dreary insistence. No telephone, no radio. Only a large majestic bird with whom I shared my feelings." As I finish saying that I whistled and the white umbrella cockatoo flies in.
I see Cat squeal as she looks at the bird, André nods impressed, I look at Jade and she just raises her eyebrow her head resting on her hands.
I also hear Sikowitz ask Beck " You see the bird too right?" he asks with a worried voice.
Beck stares at him before answering " Yeah." Sikowitz smiles and says "Fantastic." He takes a sip out of his coconut and I cannot help but wonder what is his actually drinking.
I continue with the scene " One day I was feeling low I said to him 'oh bird, you can fly. You can fly miles from this place yet you stay. Why?'" I shake my head and the cockatoo flies back to the tree.
I'm really glad that Alyssa has her really well-trained.
"And apparently my question rang true becasue that afternoon, the bird left, and so went my spirit." I finish the scene with a sad look at the audience before I closed my eyes.
Sikowitz stands up and applauds. "That was really impressive."
I smile as I ask "Did I get it right?"
As soon as I said that I see Jade smirk as she shakes her head.
Sikowitz gives me a small smile as he answers "Nope."
I smile I knew I did good. Wait what? How did I not get it right? That scene had to be one of the best! How in the world did I not get it right?
"Wait, why? " I ask.
"Well Tori because" and I don't let him finish as I question how I did not get it right.
"How? I know I did great, I know you're a great teacher but anyone can see that it was a great scene, I don't care what you say I won't do it again, I'm proud of it." As I finish saying that I take a sit on my chair, and I take my glasses off. I never like talking back to anyone but I actually practice for hours, and I know that it was impressive, because even Jade was paying attention.
Nobody says anything and I'm started to question my acting abilities but then I hear everybody applauding and I turned around and I see that even Jade is applauding me, she looks straight into my eyes, and I can see a small smile on her face.
I immediately turned around before anybody can notice my blush. But wait, why are they applauding? I fail, did I not?
"You just passed the bird scene!" I hear Sikowitz screamed. How did I pass it? Didn't he just tell me that I didn't?
"The whole point of the bird scene is to teach young actors like yourself to believe in your own choices no matter what others think." He says and I smile, I passed, I really passed!
The bell rings and everyone makes their way to lunch. I see Jade waiting at the door, and my heart starts beating faster, I know that she's probably not waiting for me, so I don't stop until I hear her beautiful voice.
"Vega." That's all she says as I turned to look at her she gives me an awkward pat on the shoulder and leaves not before saying.
"Not bad, not bad at all, Vega." and I can't help it when I blush, not only did she not insult me, but she complimented me. I know I have a goofy smile as I walk to my locker I put my stuff on it and make my way to lunch, I have to tell my friends that I'm leaving now. After all I can't possibly leave the cockatoo all day on the tree.
I arrive to our table and I see all of them eating.
"Hey Tori aren't you going to eat with us?" asks André.
I shake my head as I tell them. "No, sorry I'm leaving already, my friend is probably waiting for me outside."
I wish I could stay a little longer maybe I could actually get Jade to talk to me more but if I don't go out Alyssa will probably come and get me.
"Oh! Whose your friend?" Kitty Cat asks me with her usual chirpy voice.
I smile as I tell them. "She's a friend from my old school, she's also the girl who lend me the white umbrella cockatoo."
"Cockatoo?" asks kitty Cat, with a really cute face, she sounds so confused.
"The bird that I used for the bird scene." I tell her and she immediately nods in understanding.
"Who is she?" It surprised me who asked that, and it seemed like I wasn't the only one, everyone turned and looked at Jade.
"What!?" She asks with that vicious look in her eyes. Just as I was about to answer I felt two hands in my waist, I immediately stiffen until I heard the chuckle.
Alyssa puts her head on my shoulder as she looks at all of my friends. "So are this your friends Victoria?" Alyssa asks and I silently nod as I see Jade giving me and Alyssa a murderous look, Alyssa only laughs as she pulls me closer to her.
None of them say anything they all have their mouths open except for Jade.
"Oh hot!" I hear Rex say and Robbie immediately puts his hand on Rex's mouth, Robbie has a blush on his cheeks. I really don't want that boy to have fantasies about us.
I should have known Alyssa wouldn't wait for me, this is so like her. I turned around to talk to her only to realize how close we are, our noses are barely touching, and she has that glint on her eyes that tells me she's having so much fun with this predicament of mine.
I really didn't want to come out to my friends like this, and I specially didn't want Jade to see me like this. I know me and Alyssa are not dating but I can tell that all of them think that we are, well everyone except Cat.
Kitty Cat is too oblivious to notice, I don't know how I'm suppose to explain this to everyone, specially to Jade.
"Aly, I thought you would wait on the car?" I asked as I notice that her hands were going a little too low.
"I got tired of waiting love." She answers as she kisses me on the lips. I stand there shock that she would do that, well if I think about it, it doesn't surprise me as much. She loves to make me feel uncomfortable.
I hear my friends gasp well not only my friends but everyone in the cafeteria and I try to pull Alyssa away from me but she only grabs my hair and deepens the kiss.
She finally lets me go but not before giving me a light peck. "I'll be waiting at the car, hurry up Love!" and she leaves me, how am I suppose to explain that?
I turned to see everyone looking at me, well everyone except Jade. She had a scowl on her face and she refuses to look at me.
"Jade I" she doesn't let me finish, and I'm glad because I don't know what I'm suppose to explain.
"Vega, leave your little girlfriend is waiting." She makes a little gesture with her hand. I feel like she just slap me across the face, her words sounded so cold, and I thought that we were making some progress.
"But Jade I" and again she cuts me off, this is not fair. Why is she so upset all of a sudden? I didn't do anything? Oh god, don't tell me she's one of those homophobic people? Please don't tell me I fell for one of those? there's no way I have a chance now. I shake my head as I try to hold my tears.
" Didn't you hear me? leave, god you're such an eyesore." I turned around and I ran, I don't look back as I hear my friends calling my name. I ran as fast as I can and I find myself in front of Alyssa, she was waiting for me outside her car.
I don't say anything as I hug her tight and I silently cry on her shoulder, even if I'm upset I know that it's not her fault. Alyssa would never hurt me, I feel her hands on my back and her lips on top of my head.
"Love, what happen?" I shake my head as I continue crying, we stayed like that for several minutes. I feel her gaze leave me and I could tell that she was looking at someone, I try to turn around only to have her kiss me on the lips.
"Let's go my Victoria." she tells me as our lips are barely apart, I silently nod as I get into the passenger seat.
She whistles and the bird lands on my lap. I smile as the bird's head lightly caresses my arm.
I thought that this would be a great day, I even passed the bird scene, but I feel horrible for how Jade talked to me. What did I even do? I still don't understand why her sudden change in her attitude. She even gave me a small smile, and a compliment.
Alyssa starts the car, and soon enough we're leaving Hollywood Arts behind.
"Love, are you sure that your coffee girl is straight?" I turned around to look at Alyssa. I know I was giving her a puzzled look because I hear her chuckle.
"Of course she is, she has a boyfriend." I answer with a little sadness in my voice.
"She didn't look so straight to me, specially with the way she looks at you." I, wait what? How does she look at me? She was practically murdering me with her look.
"What did she tell you when I left?" what does that have to do with anything?
"She told me to leave, with my "little girlfriend" and that I was an eyesore." I answer and she stops at a stop sign and looks at me with a smile on her face.
"Based on how upset she was when you rubbed her boyfriend, she is the jealous type right?" She asks with a raised eyebrow.
"I, uh, yeah." I really don't know where this is going.
"Perfect, well Tori do you want to pretend to date me?"
"Okay." I answer without actually paying attention to her. She gives me a light peck on the cheek as she continues driving. Okay so I'm going to pretend to date Alyssa that doesn't sound so bad. Wait what? I mean Alyssa is gorgeous and it would be great to date her, even if it was pretending, but why would we pretend?
"Don't think too much about it, I'm getting tired of you moaning about her, sometimes you're too shy, specially when it comes to your feelings, I'm going to give both of you a gentle push into the right direction." She tells me as we arrive to my house, I just nod my head as I silently open the door, we enter my house and it doesn't surprise me to find it empty.
"I'll help you get the iced coffee girl, I think that you guys will be a great couple, and she's so much better than Danny." I smile, she never liked Danny the funny thing is that she didn't have a problem with him, she just disliked him because he was a guy.
"You just say that because she's a girl." I hear her beautiful laugh and she nods her head.
"That's one reason, she's also gorgeous, if you both got together the sex would be amazing, and you're too hot to be wasted on some douchebag." I shake my head as I try to control my blush, leave it to her to think of only sex.
Danny wasn't that bad of a guy, the only problem that I had with him, had to be his controlling personality.
I don't know what Alyssa plans to do but one thing is for certain, she always gets what she wants, that's one of the things that I really like about her.
I still feel sad for how Jade talked to me, but if Alyssa is right than maybe just maybe I might have a shot with Jade.