Omg, guess what guys? FIRST CHAPTER IS UP! YAHOO! I actually had time to write it! ...Well, in Creative Writing class and at 2 am today, so to speak. This is just a neutral chapter that gives the background of the story. There are friendship moments, but no romance yet. That is still to be decided... which reminds me. LAST CALL TO VOTE! You can vote both on here on my profile page and the Victorious wiki (look up my username, Jjmags1611, and go to the blog "2nd Fanfiction poll for new story- COUPLES!"). The voting will end when I acquire time to write the next chapter. Happy reading!

"Man, why is that hippie always late for class?" Rex whined as the late bell echoed throughout the classroom. "We were supposed to start ten minutes ago and I already have to wazz!"

Robbie sighed. "Why didn't you just go before class like I told you to before?"

"You're not the boss of me! I will wazz when I want to, and I need to wazz now!"

Jade, clearly frustrated with the loud argument going on from the opposite side of the room, stood up abruptly from her chair and proceeded to grab the puppet off of Robbie's hand and throw him into the nearest trash can. "There's a bucket. Enjoy your wazz!" she yelled and huffed back to her seat.

"Jade!" Robbie protested.

"Robbie!" Jade mimicked him with a high-pitched voice.

"Geez Jade, you're a lot meaner than usual today," Tori commented, observing the scene with attentive eyes. "What's going on?"

"Why should I tell you, of all people, my problems?" Jade snarled.

Tori gave her a pleading look, and Jade gave in with an irritated groan. "Fine, I had another argument with my dad and it really pissed me off. Happy now?"

"What was the argument about?"

"None of your beeswax!"

Tori put her hands up in defeat and slouched back in her chair. Robbie, who was sitting to Tori's right, fiddled with his now-empty hands and Andre sat behind them examining something on the back of Tori's chair. "Cat, is that your bibble-flavored gum on the back of Tori's chair?" He pointed to a splatter of pink spread across the yellow plastic head of the chair.

Cat bounced over from her place next to Beck on the opposite side of the room and looked at the chewed-up gum. "Oh my gosh, it's still there!" she exclaimed. "Yay!"

Andre gave her a weird look. "Why did you put it there?"

"So someone else can find it and chew it! Duh!" She giggled and patted his shoulder playfully, then skipped back to her seat.

The room regressed into silence (as it usually did when Cat made a random or confusing comment) until Beck spoke up. "Does anyone know where Sikowitz is?" He glanced down at his watch. "He's now twenty minutes late."

"Haha, that's so funny!" Cat laughed. "I love the number twenty! I once read a story about a woman that had twenty cats, but she died old and alone at the end. So then I started to cry and then my brother-"

"Just find Sikowitz and get me out of this janked-up bucket!" a muffled voice shouted, interrupting Cat mid-sentence.

While Robbie reluctantly got up and pulled Rex out of the trash can, a devious tint twinkled in Jade's eyes. "I bet five bucks that he's having another one of his hallucinations again from those stupid coconuts."

"No way, he's probably down the hall talking to Helen about the new play he's directing," Andre objected. "I heard that we may be doing a rewrite of Pocahontas for our end-of-semester project this year."

"Nah, I bet he's at the store doing groceries for his mother again," Beck chuckled.

"Uh-uh, he did that yesterday!" Robbie protested. "He must be at the male-makeup store. I gave him a free coupon yesterday for a free dandruff shampoo with every purchase and he got so excited about it!"

"But only hairy people can have dandruff! Sikowitz is bald!" Cat grinned widely and pushed her tongue against her teeth. "I think he's sitting on a red velvet cupcake and giving money to hobos!"

"How can you sit on… Oh, never mind," Tori sighed. "Fine, I'll bet that he's dressed up as a giant lobster tackling people in the hallway."

"Why a giant lobster?" Beck asked.

"Remember on April Fool's day, a giant lobster kept tackling me during that game show we played?"

Everyone stared at her blankly. Tori groaned. "How do none of you remember that day? It was the weirdest day ever!"

"Tsk tsk," Robbie scolded her. He lifted her chin gently with his index finger, as if he was talking to a five year old, and gave her an amused smile. "Oh, my naïve little Tori. Nothing weird ever happens here at Hollywood Arts."

As soon as she was about to slap Robbie's hand away, Sikowitz dived through the open window and rolled up to his feet in a ninja-like stance. "Give me my wallet back!" he shouted to no one in particular.

"Ya snooze, ya lose, hippie!" a gravelly voice shouted from outside, and the gang could faintly hear footsteps pounding away from the school.

"Sikowitz!" Tori exclaimed. "Where have you been?"

"Oh! Am I late?" he exclaimed. "Good Ghandi, why do I always keep losing track of time?!"

"Why are you late?" Jade questioned him.

"And who was that guy outside?" Beck fired at him soon after.

"That hobo stole all my money after I went to a fundraiser for a 'Feed the Homeless' program! We sat on beanbags and gave money to homeless people as they walked by. Ah, you should've seen the smiles on their faces. They were like coyotes gathering around a fresh meal…" A wistful look came upon Sikowitz's face as he drifted off in his thoughts.

"EARTH TO SIKOWITZ!" Jade yelled suddenly, causing him to stumble back in surprise.

"Oh, yes indeed! Thanks for the wake-up call, Jade." Jade shrugged nonchalantly and rolled her eyes.

"Oh, and Cat…" Sikowitz pulled a small, red beanbag out of his satchel and handed it to her. "The beanbag they gave me was shaped like a cupcake, so I thought you would like to have it."

"Eeeep, I won the bet!" Cat shouted gleefully and hugged the plush pillow to her chest. "When do I get my five bucks, Jadey?"

Everyone gawked at her, not believing that Cat, of all people, was the one to hit the teacher's whereabouts spot-on. "What… How…?" murmurs could be heard across the room.

"I'll give you the money when pigs fly, Cat," Jade snorted after recovering from the initial shock.

"Kk!"

Andre raised his hand. "So what are we doing today, Sikowitz?"

"Hmm… I don't know. What should we do today?"

"Ooh, can we do an improv scene?" Robbie asked. "I like doing those."

"Of course! Excellent! Jade, Cat, and Robbie, come up to the front, please!" Sikowitz said.

The three students walked up to the stage- well, unwillingly dragged herself to the stage, in Jade's case- and stood in a triangle-like formation. "Cat, you will be a woman who loves catching butterflies-"

"Oooh, they have pretty wings!" Cat clapped excitedly.

"Robbie, you will be a starving artist so desperate for inspiration that you're willing to paint anything. And Jade…"

"What?" she growled at him.

"You will be the artist's girlfriend that wants to be in all of his paintings."

"Ew, I have to be Robbie's girlfriend? Well, this day just keeps getting better and better," Jade muttered.

"I feel for you, baby," Rex chimed from Robbie's seat.

"Shut up, Rex!"

"And ACTION!" Sikowitz yelled.

Startled, they all jolted into action. "Why, hello there, fair maiden!" Robbie greeted Cat as he pretended to approach her. "Would you care to be my artistic model for an hour or two so I can use you as a muse?"

"Wait for it…" Cat stared at the wall intently and then pounced. "And… got it! Isn't he pretty?" She pretended to show the butterfly to Robbie. "I'm going to name him Buttercup!"

"Honey, I can be your buttercup!" Jade exclaimed, and the class laughed as Robbie brushed her off his shoulder.

"Baby, not now, I'm trying to paint a picture!" Robbie scolded her.

"But she doesn't want to do it! She's too busy catching butterflies!" Jade pointed at a busy Cat prancing around the stage and clawing at the air, as if she was really catching butterflies with her hands.

"Ah-hah! That's it!" Robbie pointed at the spectacle in front of them. "The perfect picture to paint! The youth of a young woman pouring out of her through her fascination of butterflies…" He quickly pulled up a chair and sat down. "I must get started on this immediately!"

Before he could start, his chair was pulled out from under him, and he tumbled to the floor. "Hey Picasso, paint a picture of me! Fun, sweet, drop-dead gorgeous…" She used the chair to demonstrate each characteristic of hers with a pose. "I've got it all!"

"Sweetie, I love you and everything, but don't you think I've painted enough pictures of you? They're all over your room; I can prove it!"

"Why don't you love me?!" Jade screamed and slapped Robbie in the face.

"Ow!" he cried and broke character. "Sikowitz, that really hurt!"

"And scene! Good job, kids. Back to your seats you go." Sikowitz took a sip of his coconut milk and grimaced. "I think this coconut is rotten."

"Why don't you throw it out?" Beck asked as Robbie and Jade returned to their seats and Cat continued to skip around the room in circles. It was like she was stuck in her own little world again.

"Because wasting coconuts is a horrible crime to commit," he replied seriously. "Okay, class dismissed!"

"But Sikowitz, we still have 45 minutes left of class," Andre commented, furrowing his eyebrows in confusion.

"Do we now? Interesting…" Sikowitz went to sit as his desk. "You are free to wander the halls, everyone!"

The students cheered and a sea of people burst through the door… except for Sikowitz's six (well, seven, if you count Rex) favorite students, whom he had called back to stay for a couple of minutes.

"Is there any way you can get your sister to join us as well, Tori?" His left eye twitched as he took another sip of his rotten coconut.

"Yeah, sure." Tori made a thinking face and then sent a speedy text off her PearPhone.

Within seconds, Trina burst through the store. "Oh my gosh, you met Josh Hutcherson? Where is he? I'm so on Team Peeta, Joshy!" she squealed.

Tori smacked her forehead with the palm of her hand, exasperated at her obsession with famous people. "Trina, I lied! He's not here in our classroom."

Trina looked mortified. "Oh… Well then why am I here with you losers?" she scoffed and sat down in a chair near Tori's seat.

Sikowitz leaned back in his chair and started tapping his fingers on the wooden desk. "I'm selecting you all to be guinea pigs in a new project I'm trying out. I'm thinking about giving this out as a final project next year for those who wish to graduate and obtain a theatre arts degree," the balding teacher said. "It would be worth 20% of your final grade and will be required in order to receive that type of degree, as well as earn credits for certain theater arts classes in college."

"Ooh, sounds interesting!" Jade said. "Oh wait, I don't care."

"Let him finish, Jade," Beck sighed with irritation.

"You're not the boss of me, Beck!"'

"Romeo! Juliet! Shush!" Sikowitz ordered. "Now, how would you kids like to do something… life-changing?"

The teenagers gave each other nervous glances. "Um… what exactly do you mean by that?" Trina piped up.

"Your assignment would be to read the horoscope corresponding to your birth date one day per week and follow exactly what it says for the duration of the day, no matter what outcomes may result from your decisions. You then must record everything that happened in a diary and turn it in to me by the end of the year."

"Horoscopes? I thought only old people read those," Cat said.

"Yeah, me too," the others chorused after her.

"No, they're not! People of all ages read them!" Sikowitz defended.

"So what's the point of doing this?" Tori questioned, changing the subject.

"Think of it as an acting exercise… except it's not acting a character- it's performing a certain task." His gaze focused on the boy with the curly afro and glasses. "For example… Robbie, would you ever not do your homework if I assigned it to you?"

Robbie squinted his eyes and tried to figure out what he was trying to say. "No, I always do my homework."

Jade fake coughed in her hand. "Nerd."

"Ignoring that," Robbie said crossly.

"But would you not do your homework if your horoscope told you to be rebellious and not be a goody two-shoes?"

A look of realization zipped across Robbie's face. "Maybe…"

"You see what I mean? In some cases, basing your decisions off of a horoscope is very much like acting- you're taking chances and doing things that you may not do otherwise. You may explore new interests; find yourself in wacky situations, whatever the stars have in store for you! But basically, the project is made to teach you a lesson about both acting and making your own decisions."

The gang exchanged looks and nodded in understanding. Sikowitz could be pretty kooky sometimes, but he definitely knew what he was talking about when it came to acting.

"Sounds reasonable," Beck agreed.

"So what do we get out of it if we become your 'test dummies'?" Jade said. The gang gave her annoyed looks. "What? It's true! We are test dummies in that sense?"

"Do you really have to be so negative all the time?" Tori complained.

"Silence!" Sikowitz said before the arguing could escalate into something bigger. "If you do this for me, you will not have to do it in your senior year before graduation and your credits will have already been fulfilled."

"Yay! More time for graduation parties! And cupcakes!" Cat chirped.

"Exactly! But the choice is ultimately yours, kids," Sikowitz said and took a sip of coconut milk. "Choose wisely."

They all huddled up and whispered to each other before coming to a unanimous decision. "Sure, we'll do it," Andre spoke for everyone. Why not get this chizz over with and spend the second half of senior year spending time with each other? The decision was a total no-brainer to their adventurous minds.

"Fabulous! Now here's the name of the app you have to install on your Pear products…" He gave them all a piece of paper including the app name and login password. "All you just have to do is type in your information and you'll be all set. Have a good day, everyone."

Everyone picked up their backpacks and got ready to leave until Tori's voice echoed from the opposite side of the room. "Sikowitz! What day are we going to be assigned to read horoscopes on?"

"Holy gravy, I almost forgot!" Sikowitz stopped in his tracks and dashed to the front of the stage to face everyone. "Tori, you will read yours on Tuesdays, Andre will have Fridays, Robbie- Saturdays, Cat- Sundays, Beck-Mondays, Jade- Wednesdays, and Trina- Thursdays." He smiled, clearly satisfied with how everything turned out. "I think that deserves a round of applause."

He bowed as everyone chuckled and clapped for him. "Now get out! I have work to do!"

They sauntered out of the classroom and stopped awkwardly in the middle of the hallway. "So what is today's date, exactly?" Robbie asked everyone.

Andre looked at his Pearphone. "Today is a Tuesday."

"Cool, so it looks like Jade will be the first one starting the horoscope project," Tori commented.

Jade scowled. "Yeah, whatever. I'm going to get some food."

She stormed off towards the Asphalt Café, not bothering to wait for the others. She gave off an aura that suggested she didn't care about the project- but in the back of her mind, she was thinking the exact same thing as Tori, Cat, Beck, Andre, Trina, and Robbie were- what the heck were they getting themselves into?

So... whadaya think? Off to a good start so far? Sorry, this chapter was kinda strange cuz I have major writer's block right now.

So Jade's horoscope is up first! That should be interesting... lol. Here's the order for the rest of the story starting Wednesday (in Victorious land):

Jade- Wednesdays
Trina- Thursdays
Andre- Fridays
Robbie- Saturdays
Cat- Sundays
Beck- Mondays
Tori- Tuesdays

(Note: The whole improv scene, the day the project was originally assigned, and the days the characters were assigned to read their horoscopes on were all completely random and thought off the top of my head)

Please review and tell me what you think! And another thing... should I write about each horoscope in first person (example: Jade's point of view on her horoscope experience) or write it from third person? In first person, you only read about the one person's thoughts, but in third person, it's a little different.

Also, I included Trina in this because I wanted to use all 7 days of the week and there are only six main characters, really, if you don't count Trina.

I won't beg for reviews, but they would be nice! Thanks so much for your patience and I'll update when I can!