Tori sighed as she walked down the stairs to make sure that everything was in order for when everyone came over later. Drinks were out, she had orders some pizza that was on its' way and the living room had been cleaned, no thanks to Trina. Sitting down she started to wonder what Jade was planning and how she was going to advert it. From the way the text came out nowhere she figured that Jade had a plan. When she finally heard the doorbell ring she figured that it would simply be Cat, but Tori was surprised when she saw Jade standing there, arms crossed, smirking.
"Surprise Vega," she said pushing past her.
"JADE! Wh-what are you doing here?" Tori asked backing up.
"Well I called the meeting therefore I should be here," Jade pointed out plopping down on the couch, "where's the annoyance known as Trina?"
"Out with my mother…why?"
"She annoys me and I don't want her here," Jade commented turning on the TV.
"You do know she lives here right therefore she has just as much right to be here then you do," Tori replied sitting down on the couch only to get pushed off by Jade's foot, "and it's my house too so I could kick you out."
"But you won't," Jade challenged with a smirk.
'Damn it why is it her that I have to have a crush on?' Tori thought sitting on the recliner next to the couch, 'Oh right it's because she's as hot as hell.'
The two sat there watching TV while they waited for the others to get there when Tori remembered that Jade had called them there for a reason. Looking over at the Gothic girl she cleared her throat causing Jade to growl, but turn to face her.
"What Vega?"
"Well I was wondering why you called us here," Tori asked tilting her head.
"My mom gave me an idea yesterday, the person who posted the blog would have had to use a computer obviously, so there for there would be an IP address that we could use to find out where she blogged from," Jade explained making Tori's blood to freeze.
How could she have been so stupid, she was pretty much handing herself over on a silver platter waiting to be ridiculed. Pardoning herself to the bathroom, Tori darted up the stairs catching Jade off guard when she heard the doorbell ring. Walking over to the front door she opened it to see that the others were all there now.
"Where's Tori?" Beck asked looking around.
"Bathroom," Jade said glaring at him.
The gang started to get set up with Jade telling them what was going on and telling Robbie to get his gear set up. After watching the puppeteer get his things set up, Jade began to wonder what was taking Tori so long and headed up the stairs to find her. When she finally made her way in front of Tori's bedroom door, Jade leaned in when she thought she heard the sound of someone typing on a computer when it suddenly stopped. Frowning, the play writer grabbed on to the door knob and flung the door open startling Tori who was on her computer looking like she was about to panic.
"What you doing Vega?" Jade asked walking over to her, "Typing something?"
"K-kind of," Tori stuttered as Jade looked down at the computer, "I was just sending an email to a friend of mine."
"Benson?"
"Freddie Benson, the tech producer from iCarly," Tori said biting her lower lip.
"You talk to him?" Jade asked confused.
"I talk to all of the iCarly gang, well except for Gibby, I keep asking him for his email address but he never gives it to me, you know sometimes I wonder why he's on the show but then I remember that he's hilarious and…"
"TORI!" Jade yelled shutting her up, "your rambling and I hate when people ramble, now what were you sending to Freddie?"
"I was just asking him a question that's all," Tori said as Jade glared down at her.
"And that question was?"
"Why do you care?"
Jade growled and turned to leave before telling the singer to get her butt down stairs, and then walked out of the room leaving the youngest Vega girl by herself. Sighing in relief, Tori looked at the laptop next to her and saw that Freddie had replied to her email already making a feeling of hope rise up in her. Opening the email Tori smiled when she read his reply…
I'm working on getting the IP address deleted as you read this. Although both me and Carly agree that you should just come out and tell her that you like her. Anyway it should be deleted in about one hour so all you need to do is stall them until then. This is the only time I'll do this though Tori so start using other computers so they can't track it to just one. FYI Carly says Hi.
Freddie
'Oh thank God,' Tori thought as she closed her laptop, 'okay now all I need to do is figure out away to stall them while Freddie works his magic.'
Walking down the stairs Tori was relieved when she saw that they were just starting to get set up. Her guess was that they were trying to get Cat calmed down seeing as the red head was practically shaking and that there was a mass of candy wrappers around her. Shaking her head Tori figured that the only way to stall would be to somehow crash Robbie's computer but the only way she knew how to do that would be to spill a liquid on it. Groaning at the thought of having to buy Shapiro a new computer, she sucked it up walked into the kitchen and grabbed a glass of water before looking at the others.
"So all I need to do is start the search and I should be able to…."
"How fast can you get it done?" Jade growled losing what little patience she had.
"I-in about twenty minutes," Robbie said afraid for his life.
"Ha! Your afraid of a girl," Rex laughed making Robbie frown.
"I'm not afraid," Robbie said attempting to defend himself.
Shaking her head, Tori walked into the living room and saw that the search had already started. Looking at the ground for any excuse to trip, the singer groaned inwardly seeing that there was nothing on the ground.
'Damn it mom, why did you have to clean up last night?' she thought walking forward.
When Tori was close enough she took a deep breath and began to wonder if she wasn't able to pull it off, how would her friends react. Suddenly afraid the singer actually tripped and spilt her water on the laptop causing it to spark a little bit. After a startled cry and a few minutes of being gripped at by the others Tori sat down on the couch and sighed in both relief and guilt as Robbie started to dry his laptop off muttering prayers that his computer would still work. Looking at Jade from the corner of her eyes, she could see that the Goth was annoyed and was glaring at her causing a pang of pain in her heart.
"Can you get your damn computer to work?" Jade asked looking at Robbie.
"We won't know until my laptop dries off and that's going to take a little bit," Robbie replied, "we should be able to know if my laptop is working in about forty-five minutes."
Growling, Jade glared at Tori before sitting down on the chair and rubbing her forehead and taking a deep breath to calm down. She figured that she was getting to worked up about this and that she needed to relax about something that wasn't really that important. She had another reason to find this person now. After she had gotten home last night and told everyone to go to the Vega household, she was getting ready for bed when she decided to look at the blogs again. It was at that point she came to a pretty bold assumption that the blog was written about her. Everything fit so she was sure that it could be her, but there is the chance that it wasn't so she wanted to find this person and ask. Time seemed to go by slowly as they waited for the laptop to be dry. Looking over at Tori though she could see that the singer seemed to have calmed down by now and was carrying on a conversation with the red head. When the time had finally came Robbie was pleased to find that his laptop was still working and got the search started back up again. The next twenty minutes flew by and finally the search was completed when Jade saw something that made her frown, the IP address was deleted.
"What the hell?" Jade asked confused.
"Someone deleted the IP address," Robbie said frowning, "only really good tech people know how to do that so either this girl is really smart or she has a smart friend."
"Look let's just call off the search," Andre said rubbing the back of his head, "I mean come on this is stupid Jade, we don't need to find this person."
"You don't but I do," Jade hissed glaring at the song writer.
"Why?" Cat asked tilting her head.
"Because…because I think this blog might be about me," Jade sighed in defeat.
"That's pretty bold of you to say that Jade," Beck said raising an eyebrow, "what makes you think that it's about you?"
"Because Oliver," Jade growled, "I read the blogs and everything fits, besides I said I think it is not that I know it is, I just want to find out if it is about me."
"What would you do if it is?" Robbie asked.
"I…I don't know I…I just want to know alright," Jade said clenching her fist, "if it isn't then whatever I got my answer, if it is then…I don't know I've never thought of being with another girl, I would have to think about it."
After everything was said and done, and the laptop was packed up Tori said good bye to her friends and watched as they all left when her mother and Trina pulled up. Stepping to the side, mainly so she wouldn't be plowed over by her sister, Tori smiled as her mother walked in and sighed.
"So how was the trip?"
"Don't ask," Mrs. Vega muttered sitting down on the couch, "so how was your day?"
"Well they didn't find out that it was me," Tori said sitting down.
"Well that's good I guess," Mrs. Vega responded turning on the TV, "but you know that you can't keep this away from them forever Tori."
"I know, Jade already thinks it's about her," Tori sighed.
"Then you should tell her."
Tori groaned and walked up the stairs to her room, closing the door behind her before turning towards her laptop to check her email. After seeing a email from Freddie telling her it's done, she quickly sent him a message back telling him thanks before she noticed a text message on her phone. Picking it up she saw that it was from Jade and, opening it, she read the message before freezing…
Meet me tomorrow at Nozu at seven o'clock. We need to talk. – Jade
