Tori bit down on her lower lip as she drove towards Nozu to meet Jade and have a so called 'talk.' She had a feeling that the Gothic girl had figured out that she was writing the blog and that she wasn't going to be too happy that it was about her. Pulling into the parking lot she looked over and saw that Jade was already there and more than likely inside waiting for her. Knowing that it's best not to keep her waiting, the half Latina climbed out of her car and made her way towards the front door and inside to start looking for her… 'appointment' When she couldn't pinpoint Jade she made her way towards the bar and sat down catching the attention of the man behind the counter.

"Can I help you with something?" He asked walking over to her.

"I'm looking for someone, she' s my height, brown hair, pale," Tori explained looking around.

"Hm…I think I know who you're talking about," The man said sighing, "she's over there in the corner waiting for you, seemed…pretty serious when she said that she wanted to be left alone until her…friend came."

Nodding, Tori walked off in the direction that the man told her and noticed that Jade was sitting there waiting for her with a looked of contemplation. When she noticed that Tori was walking her way she narrowed her eyes, trying to analyze the woman, before starting to tap her finger on the table. Sitting down the singer began to look around hoping to find a nearby escape but saw that the way Jade had placed them, she wouldn't be able to get away without being caught.

"So…what did you want?" Tori asked looking at Jade finally.

"…You're the one who wrote the blog aren't you?" Jade asked after a minute of silence.

Tori didn't know how to answer that as she looked at the Jade, who was looking at her expectantly waiting for an answer. Her worst fears had been realized, Jade figured out that it was her, but she wasn't angry like she thought she would be. Tori actually thought that Jade would be throwing a hissy fit about it and telling her off for even thing about wanting to date her. But here she was, as calm as could be waiting for Tori's response. Opening her mouth to answer she was cut off when she saw Jade's hand go up.

"Your silence was all the answer I need Vega," Jade said as tears formed in Tori's eyes.

The two sat there neither looking at the other as the waitress walked up and noticed that they looked uncomfortable. Muttering that she would return, the girl walked off towards another table when Jade finally spoke up.

"How long?"

"What?" Tori asked looking up.

"How long have you liked me?"

"…since the time that you came to my house and asked me to help you get Beck back," Tori muttered looking back at the ground.

Jade's eyes narrowed as she remembered that event, but that was way back when Tori had first joined Hollywood Arts. How did she manage to hide the fact that she wanted to be with her for that long? Shaking her head, the play writer took a deep breath and attempted to push the conversation forward.

"Why did you fall in love with me?"

"I saw how broken up you were about Beck leaving you and I wanted nothing more than to care for you so…I helped you by getting you back with Beck, even though it didn't feel right in my heart," Tori explained fiddling with her hands.

"Then why did you do it?" Jade asked leaning forward.

"I…I wanted to help you."

Leaning back, Jade looked at Tori before standing up and walking over to her and tilting the singers head up so that they were face to face. Looking into her eyes Jade could see that Tori wasn't lying, that she really did love her with all of her heart. A feeling of happiness filled her heart but with it came a feeling of fear. She didn't know if she was willing to date Tori or any other girl for that matter. Seeing that Jade tensed up, Tori lifted her hand and placed it on Jade's arm causing the other girl to jerk back and turn away.

"Jade…"

But Tori's sentence was lost because the next thing she knew was that Jade was walking out the front door. Standing up and running after her she was blocked as a group of Northridge students walked in front of her. Side stepping she ran out the front door only to see that Jade's car was pulling out of the parking lot.

'Jade,' Tori thought with tears in her eyes as she trudged over to her car, 'I guess…it just wasn't meant to be.'

The car ride home for Jade was long as thought of the half Latina singer filled her mind and it was all that she could do not to lose what little control she had at the moment. So when she did park in front of her house, she was never as glad to see it then she had been in a long time. Walking into the house she ignored her step-mother's question and walked upstairs, into her room, and then locked her door before falling on to her bed. She spent what felt like the next couple of hours laying there when she heard the bedroom door open and then reclose making her wonder who had managed to get into her room.

"Something you want to talk about?"

'Mom,' she thought before turning around and sitting up to look at her.

The older West woman was standing there wearing a t-shirt and a pair of pajama bottoms holding two cups of coffee. Taking one of the offered cups Jade sipped on it alongside her step mother in silence when she spoke up again.

"Jade is there something that you want to talk about?"

"…It was Tori all along," Jade explained as Mrs. West nodded.

"I see and was your theory correct about it being about you?"

"Yeah it was about me."

"So what did you do at Nozu that brought you back so quickly?" Mrs. West asked looking at her step daughter.

"I…I ran," Jade muttered looking at the ground.

Mrs. West didn't say anything and just sat there drinking her coffee as Jade replayed what happened earlier that day. She knew that she shouldn't have run away but she was afraid that she would do something to hurt the singer or…that Tori would do something to hurt her. Not that Tori would ever purposely hurt her, she couldn't even bring herself to hurt a fly with a fly swatter. It was what the play writer did though, she threw up shields so that others can't hurt her but in the end it always played against her.

"I don't need to say it do I Jade?" Mrs. West asked looking at her step daughter.

"No, I screwed up and I know it," Jade muttered, "but I was afraid, I mean this is the first girl that told me she wanted to date me so what was I suppose to do?"

"Give her a try," Mrs. West said sitting her cup down, "I had a couple of girlfriends when I was in high school."

"You did?" Jade asked amazed, "does my dad know?"

"Yep in fact he helped a couple of girls try to impress me when we were in high school."

"I forgot that you two went to school together," Jade muttered setting her cup down, "so…what do I do now?"

Standing up, Mrs. West picked up the cups and walked over to the door before she turns around and says…

"What does your heart say to do?"