She was just beginning to fall asleep when her phone began buzzing excitedly beside her. Groaning, she rolled over in bed, intending to ignore whoever it was until morning. But of course, it couldn't let her off that easy. The persistent phone continued to go off, and off, and off. After what felt like the hundredth ring, Tori sighed and rolled back over, grabbing her phone. She intended to just shut it off; she hadn't had the best of weeks and she just needed to sleep. As she picked it up it buzzed again, Beck's name flashing across the screen. Tori frowned, Beck barely ever texted her unless it was something important; it was a habit they had gotten into back when he was dating Jade in order to avoid upsetting her. Sighing, she opened her inbox, revealing twenty unread messages from him, all varieties of the same thing. Groaning, she slid out of bed, and headed down the stairs to the front door. She reached it, her phone still vibrating with more messages from him, and opened the door, revealing a very stressed looking Beck.
"What is the deal?" She asked him, exasperatedly. "It's nearly one in the morning. I was trying to sleep."
"This is important." Beck insisted, moving past her into the living room. Tori sighed, closing the door. She dragged herself over to the couch, still not fully awake.
"Okay, what's so important?" She asked him as he paced around the room.
"You were right. I'm not fine with it."
"Fine with what?" Tori asked, attempting to shake her grogginess.
"Jade and Andre!" Now Tori was awake and listening.
"Oh you don't say?" She laughed slightly, cocking an eyebrow at her friend.
"It's not funny! I can't believe she'd do that! She knows he's my best friend." Tori gave Beck a look of disbelief.
"You can't believe her?"
"She's probably dating him just to make me jealous." Tori stared at him.
"Why are you blaming Jade for this?"
"Because she'd totally do something like this! She's probably just using him!"
"You know, I remember when you used to defend her to people who said things like that. What happened anyway, it couldn't have just been fighting that made you guys break up?" Beck swallowed hard, stopping his pacing to stare at Tori.
"You're telling me you think Andre came onto her?" He asked, avoiding the question. Tori hesitated, wondering if she should tell him what she knew, or if it would just aggravate the situation. She settled by shrugging.
"It's possible." She conceded. "Maybe they just both like each other, Beck." Beck glared at her.
"Jade doesn't like Andre. She's just using him." Tori sighed.
"Look, I don't like this any more than you do, but-"
"Then why are you being so cool about this?"
"Someone has to be, and it's obviously not going to be you!" Beck sighed dropping onto the couch opposite of her.
"Okay." He said slowly. "So what are we going to do?" Tori shook her head.
"We can't do anything Beck, not if they're really in love." Beck cringed. "Sorry."
"No, I'm sorry." Beck sighed, looking down at his hands. "You're right, I'm being a jerk." Tori shrugged.
"You're just upset. I understand, trust me." Beck frowned, looking up at her.
"Andre?" He asked. Tori nodded, looking away from his gaze.
"It sucks." She admitted. "To be in love." Beck laughed but nodded sincerely, knowing all to well the truth of her words.
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"It's not working." Andre sighed, voicing his concern about the effectiveness of the plan once again as he watched Tori at her locker Monday morning. She looked totally fine, just like she had the whole week before, not even bothering to glance their way.
"You're not being believable enough." Jade accused him. "Or she's a better actress than she lets on." Andre frowned, turning to his pretend girlfriend.
"I don't know." He admitted. "Maybe we should just stop." Jade glared at him.
"Do you want to get with her or not?"
"Well, yeah." He sighed. "I just think there's probably better ways to go about this. This plan makes me feel like bad person, and I promised my grandmother I'd never be a bad person."
"Yeah, yeah." Jade replied vaguely, obviously no longer listening. Andre frowned, following her eyes to see where she was staring. Of course, he sighed, Beck was here. He couldn't help but feel guilty whenever Beck was around. Even though he wasn't acting like it, Andre knew how much it must hurt him to see the girl he loved with his best friend. How had Jade made this sound like a good idea in the first place, he wondered, because no matter how he repeated it in his head, it sounded stupid. Still, the damage was done, he figured. They could play it for a while and eventually "break up" if nothing came of it. Jade nudged him and he put his arm around her, seeing Tori, Cat, and Trina approaching them.
"Hi!" Cat greeted them, chipper as usual. "How was your weekend? Did you guys go out on dates? Did you have a sleepover?" Andre and Jade glanced at each other awkwardly, not noticing that Tori was deliberately avoiding looking at the two of them.
"Cat, guys and girls don't have sleepovers." Andre explained, as if he were talking to a child.
"Jade and Beck did." All eyes were now on Jade, including Robbie who had joined the group just a moment before.
"So, moving on." Jade said awkwardly, not wishing to discuss her personal life with the group.
"Lucky." Trina muttered under her breath, adding to the awkwardness of the moment. Of course, Beck chose that moment to join the conversation.
"What's going on?" He asked no one in particular, taking in the tense atmosphere of the group.
"Beck, didn't you and Jade have sleepovers?" Cat asked, innocently unaware, increasing the awkwardness ten fold.
"Um." Beck frowned, wondering what he had just walked into. Luckily, the bell saved him from answering, scattering the group much quicker than usual. Jade was the first to leave the group, walking as fast as she could to escape the conversation. She pulled Andre roughly with her, who was still confused and somewhat amused by the facts he had just learned.
"Sleepovers, huh?" He teased her.
"Shut up." Jade mumbled, elbowing him in the side. Stupid Cat, that was the last time she told her anything.
Author's Note: I hope you guys like the chapter! I'm sorry if Beck's OOC in the first part but it's kind of impossible to write him with emotion without being OOC… haha. Anyway, you guys are amazing please keep commenting I will read and reply to every one that I can. You're the best!
PS: Did you see the new Victorious? I loved it, laughed the whole time. I dislike how harsh Beck has become with Jade though; it's like unnatural to see him snap at her. I don't like it. TSBJ can not come fast enough.
