While stranded at Jade's house during a bad storm the pair plays a game of truth or dare, but what happens when truth or dare goes just a little too far?
Rated: M.
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They'd driven to at least three different parks so Jade could find things to take pictures of. She could spend twenty minutes in one spot and take at least a hundred pictures; it shocked and amazed Tori that she could find something to snap a picture of. She'd sit and write lyrics or just doodle on some of her pages, occasionally staring at Jade as she stood on her tiptoes to capture a picture or lay on the ground to get something Tori just couldn't see.
They were at park number four now. Tori was standing on a bridge looking down at the turtles in the water while Jade practically hung over it by her ankles trying to get a picture of a turtle. "Vega, help me up." Tori rolled her eyes and walked up behind Jade, grabbing her hips and pulling her back over, the pair almost toppled over.
Before Tori could say anything Jade sprinted across the bridge and crouched down trying to snap a picture of something Tori couldn't see. Tori leaned against the bridge, crossing her arms over her chest and watching Jade, "how exactly do you manage to take so many pictures? Surely there can't be anything worth taking a picture of."
"There's always something worth taking a picture of, Vega. Always." She stands up and turns the camera on Tori and snaps a few pictures, "There's always something beautiful in everything. Always something worth remembering." She turned around and left Tori leaning against the bridge.
It was almost three when the girls pulled up at a small diner, stomach growling and Jade in need of her tenth coffee of the day. The diner was and old building with bright white painted walls and a red door. Inside was like walking into the 50's, or at least what Tori imagined the 50's would be like. Silver and red. She smiled at the old fashioned feel of the place.
"Take a seat anywhere! I'll be with you two in a minute!" someone called. Jade hadn't actually stopped walking since she walked in; she was already sitting up at the counter with her bag on a stool next to her, twisting in her chair idly looking at a menu. There were a few people inside, but they were at booths minding their own business. Tori examined the place, taking in everything she possibly could as she walked to a seat.
The black and white checkered floor tiles, the old juke box in the corner, the glass bottles of coke sitting in a freezer behind the counter, pin-up pictures on the wall, two large gumball machines, one at either end. Tori couldn't help but admire the place with her mouth hanging open, only Jade's soft chuckling dragged her attention back to her menu with a light blush tinting her tan cheeks.
"Good afternoon, girls." A kind voice greeted followed by the appearance of a woman in a light pink uniform with a smile on her face, a notepad in her hand. She glanced at Tori and then at Jade and her smile got even wider, "Jade West, I haven't seen you since you were a little girl."
Jade's eyes finally left her menu and she examined the woman in front of her with a confused expression, she blinked a few times, "Max?" the woman nodded and Jade's mouth broke into a huge grin, she boosted herself up on the stool, leaned over the counter and gave the woman a hug before plopping back down, "I didn't expect you to still work here."
"Well I own the place." Max replied, "Can't trust anyone else to treat my customer's right. Can I get you a milkshake like always?"
"Yes, and a cup of coffee, please." Jade replies, "and a milk shake for my friend here. They're amazing." she tells Tori with a huge grin on her face. Tori shrugs her shoulders and when Max looks at her for conformation she nods, her eyes still mostly on Jade who is grinning happily, spinning on her stool.
"So you came here when you were little?" Tori asks resting her cheek on her hand. She crosses one leg over the other and completely turns herself toward Jade.
"Yeah, my dad and I would come here every other weekend because he'd be out of the state, or even the country, and he'd always bring me a present and take me here to show me the cool pictures from everywhere else." Jade replied, picking at the end of one of her curls.
"Sounds nice."
"It was. We used to sit right here." She points to her seat and the one her bag is resting on, "Max would make us each a milkshake. He'd get a burger, I'd get a hotdog. We'd share French fries dipped in chocolate milkshakes. I miss it, I haven't talked to him since that night he was at my play."
Tori does the math in her head, the play was over two years ago, a frown pulls down on her lips, "I'm really sorry." She reaches over and rests her hand on Jade's knee. Goosebumps shoot across her flesh and she flinches away from Tori's touch as if Tori's hand were fire.
"Not really touchy feely, Vega." Jade mumbled inot her hand, her eyes over Tori's head and a wide grin on her face. Tori turned, her elbow sliding across the counter painfully. She grabbed it as Max set a shake down in front of her, one in front of Jade and a cup of coffee.
"What can I get you two to eat?" Max asks.
"Hot dog and some fries for me, please." Jade said, sticking her menu back in the menu holder. Tori flipped through her menu for a minute before ordering the same thing as Jade and putting her menu back.
"Should be up soon, girls. Enjoy your shakes." Max smiles at Jade and then walks back into the kitchen. Tori went back to looking around at the restaurants décor while Jade messed with her cell phone and glanced back and forth between Tori and her screen. Eventually Tori turned her attention to her shake.
"This is so good." She said, between sips. Jade laughed and nodded, finishing her coffee before she too started to drink her shake. Max dropped their food off and walked down the counter to serve two older men who came in. Jade kept dipping her fries into her shake, which grossed Tori out.
"It tastes good." Jade says, shaking a French fry at Tori before dipping it into her shake. She pops it into her mouth and moans, "so yummy."
"You are so weird." Tori snaps, dipping her French fry into mayonnaise.
"Look what you're dipping yours into." Jade replies, taking a huge bite of her hot dog, "that's what's really gross."
"Mayo tastes good on French fries!" Tori says defensively, "Try one."
"Dip one in your shake." Jade challenges. Without hesitation Tori picks up a fry, dips it in her shake and waits with an eyebrow raised at Jade. With a sigh Jade picks up a fry, dips it into Tori's mayo and holds it near her mouth, "1, 2, 3, go."
Together they pop the fries into their mouth, Jade's eyes narrow suspiciously and she grabs another French fry and dips it into the mayonnaise. Tori swallows her fry and seems to ponder it for a moment, before grabbing another fry and dipping it into her shake.
"Okay, it tastes good." Jade says, "But the shake tastes better."
"It does, but I still like my mayo dip." Tori replies, even so she dips her next fry into her shake. The girls finish off their food and shakes, Jade orders a second coffee and two Coke's for the car ride.
While Jade paid Tori wandered to the gumball machine and got both of them gumballs, one pink, one blue. "You come back soon, Jade." Max calls as they're leaving. Jade smiles back at Max and then ducks out the door behind Tori.
She tosses her bag into the backseat gently and slips in, starting the car and putting down the roof. Tori turns on the radio to a station they can both agree on and then Jade pulls out of the parking lot. Tori is singing at the top of her lungs, off key without a care in the world. Jade smiles and turns up the radio, Tori sings even louder.
When the song is over Jade turns it back down a little so the commercial isn't blasting, "so I never asked, what kind of animal did you want to get?"
"I want to get a rabbit. I used to have one named Lopsy." Jade answered, "I'll show you the one I want, since the pet store is on the way to my house." Tori nods her head and stretches out, "after that do you want to go swimming or something?"
"That'd be nice." Tori says, "we can stop by my house so I can get a suit first and see if I got any calls from my parents."
"Okay." Jade agrees turning the radio back up and speeding up a bit with a huge smile on her face as the wind ripped through her hair. She turned the radio off when they got to the store. She put the top back up, shut the car off and grabbed her bag.
Tori slung her bag onto her back and pulled her hair up into a ponytail to get the hair off of her neck, "so you're a rabbit person, huh?" Tori said as they made their way across the parking lot.
"Yeah, rabbits and cats. Animals in general, but I miss my rabbit." Jade replies, "I'll be able to get the new one in about two days." Jade sighs in relief when the air blows her hair back and then frowns when she realizes its hot air. She walks straight past the isles of food over to a sanitizing station, she disinfects her hands and then walks to an open case of rabbits; she leaned on it with her arms and smiled down at them, scooping up one with almost brindle fur.
Tori uses the sanitizing station too, "He's such a cutie." Tori says, scratching the bunnies head with one of her fingers, "I've never really had any pets. I took in a stray cat for a day, but then we found its owner so I had to give it up and my parents wouldn't get me one."
Jade frowns at that and sets the bunny back into the cage with the others, checking the food in the cages around the bunnies. They all seem to have food. She uses the hand sanitizer again, so Tori does as well. Looking into the other cages. There were birds, another cage of rabbits, dogs, cats, snakes and even a few tarantulas.
"Jade? Tori?" Heather called, a huge smile on her face, "hi girls!"
"Heather!" Tori said with a huge grin on her face, "It's nice to see you!" they hugged each other while Lynn and Jade exchanged head nods.
"How have you been?" Heather asks, Tori follows her to the cat food isle. She tells her all about the kittens and invites Tori over to see them sometime, Tori agrees to come over the next day and see the kittens around 11.
They stayed for awhile chatting before Lynn and Heather had to leave, Tori and Jade went back to playing with the animals before Jade drove them to Tori's house and then back to the house. "Mom!" Jade yelled as she walked in. Tori closes the door and locks it behind them.
"She's gone, thankfully." Jade replied, "I've never been so happy that most of her clients are in New York. Come on." They went down to Jade's room and Jade pulled out her camera, hooked it up to her laptop and sat down in her chair, "go change in the bathroom while I do this, then I'll change and we can go swimming."
"Okay." Tori said, grabbing her bathing suit, she locked the door behind her, peed and washed her hands, changed into her bathing suit and unlocked the door, "Jade, where's you hair brush?"
"Left drawer." Jade replied, Tori peered at her. She was hunched over her laptop, she hadn't even turned around, but she was in her bathing suit. Tori shrugged and brushed out her hair, sprayed in her leave in conditioner and wandered back into Jade's room, sitting down on the bed cross legged, staring at the back of Jade's bed.
"Almost done?" Tori finally asked.
"Huh?" Jade blinked a few times, minimized her screen and turned to Tori. It didn't go unnoticed when her gaze swept down her body and she licked her lips. Tori smirked, "right, let's go."
Jade grabbed two towels and followed Tori upstairs. Outside she threw the towels onto a chair and then turned on her outdoor radio. Tori didn't hesitate getting into the pool. She stepped onto the diving board, ran, and launched herself into the pool, diving nearly silently.
Jade followed her in, coming up in the middle of the pool for air and doing a backstroke into the shallow end where Tori was lounging at the edge of the pool kicking her legs through the water, "I haven't been swimming in so long."
"I used to swim a lot." Jade says, "Now every time I come out here I just grimace. It's so sunny and bright. It really hurts my eyes."
"It's not so bad." Tori replies before going down under the water and swimming across the pool without hesitation. Jade leaned against the pool wall and watched her swim back and fourth across the pool. Tori broke the surface right in front of Jade, her hands hitting the wall to keep her from slamming body against body with her.
"I think you're right; it's starting to get a lot more interesting." Jade smirks, Tori grins at her, takes a few steps back and splashes water into Jade's face, kicking off from the bottom and swimming fast across the pool. Jade splutters and swims after her without hesitation.
When she finally gets a hold of her Tori manages to break free in seconds and swims back to the shallow end, breathing deep when she breaks the surface. Jade is right behind her and splashes the side of her face. Tori spins and jumps on her, dunking her under the water, keeping her head above the water.
Jade grabs her around the waist and drags her down to the deep end until she's underwater. When she can't breathe anymore Jade lets Tori go and swims up to the surface and swims to the edge of the pool. Tori swims over to the shallow end and wades in the water. Jade eventually makes her way over and drags herself onto a pool chair under her umbrella.
"Do you ever go into the sun?"
"Not unless I have to." Jade replies, "the sun makes my skin all red and blotchy."
"Guess it sucks being pale." Tori comments walking out of the pool, "how long have we been out here?"
"About an hour, you were swimming around for awhile. I'm ready to be out but you can keep swimming." Jade says, Tori shrugs and grabs one of the towels, drying off her skin and then her hair. She wraps the towel around her chest.
"Can I use your shower? My hair gets gross after I swim." Tori asks.
"Yeah whatever but make it quick so I can shower, too." Jade replies, drying herself off. She walks to the door and drags it open, letting Tori go in first, "there are towels in the cupboard in the bathroom, and wash cloths."
"Thanks." Tori mumbles, walking into the bathroom and shutting the door. She locks it again, tosses her towel on the ground and turns on the shower. While it heats up she grabs herself a towel, a wash cloth and then pulls off her bikini and steps into the shower.
She tried not to think about how weird it was to be in Jade's shower, hanging out with Jade and just having a good time. She quickly shampooed her hair, rinsed it out, washed her body, rinsed again and stepped out of the shower, dried off and wrapped a towel around her chest. She dried her hair with a second towel, picked out her hair and sprayed in her conditioner.
"Vega!" Jade grumbled, Tori heard the lock pop and Jade stepped in, "hurry the hell up, I said I need a shower."
"Fine, fine, all yours." Tori said, brushing past Jade, "what do you want me to do with my suit?"
"I'll take care of it-out!" Jade said and slammed the door in her face once she was out. Tori glared at the closed door until the lock clicked. She turned around and then frowned, realizing her clothing was locked in the bathroom. She sighed and walked over to Jade's chair and sat down, crossing her legs and propping them up on the bed.
She scrolled through her feed on theSlap, checked her text messages and then tossed her phone onto Jade's bed with a scowl on her face. She listened to the water rushing in the bathroom, she started singing to herself. When she started singing lyrics that sounded good she pulled out her song book and scrawled the lyrics down. She had half a page of lyrics written before Jade got out of the shower.
"Tori, I kind of soaked your clothes. I didn't know they were in there, I'm sorry." Jade says, holding out the soaked pile of clothing, "I'll get you something to wear."
"Okay." Jade digs through her drawers and throws Tori an outfit, Tori takes it into the bathroom and changes into the shorts and tank top, "you know I don't know how you missed a pile of-oh you're naked-sorry!" Tori slaps her hand over her eyes and turns around blushing.
Jade laughs, pulling her underwear on and yanking a shirt over her head, "you know, you've seen me naked like 3 times, is that really how you're going to respond."
"Circumstances were a lot different." Tori argues, turning around and glaring at her, "we a) got caught up in whatever it was b) I was half asleep c) drunk!" she says, "I didn't expect you to be naked when I came out!"
"Well, that's your fault." Jade says, "Next time make sure I'm clothed."
"Next time don't be naked!" Tori yells back.
"It's my bedroom, if I want to be naked I'm going to be naked!" she yelled, "in fact I don't feel like wearing a shirt now." Without hesitation Jade pulls her shirt off, Tori narrows her eyes at Jade and then simply walks past her and sits down in her chair.
"Fine, be topless. I don't care anymore." Tori snaps, she picks up her phone and pretends to be invested in something while Jade grabs her laptop and lays down on her bed with it. Tori catches herself staring at Jade about four times before she frowns and stands up in a rush, nearly knocking her chair over.
"Can I get a soda? I'm going to get a soda. Do you want something?" she starts up the stairs without looking back, her face warm.
"Doctor Pepper please!" Jade yells after her. Tori jogs up the stairs and into the kitchen. She slowly gets glasses down for each of them, get some ice in the cups and pour the soda in slowly. Her heart was beating in throat and her face seemed to be on fire.
She leaned her hands against the counter and ducked her head, taking deep calm breaths between sips of her soda. She bent down and rested her forehead on the counter on her folded arms. "It's not that big of a deal. I've seen it before. Calm down, Tori." She mumbles to herself.
Once she's sure her face isn't bright red she picks up their glasses and heads back downstairs. She's not sure why she didn't bother just leaving when Jade started making her uncomfortable. She moved down the steps nervously, taking calming breaths.
Fortunately for her, Jade was wearing her shirt now, still laying on her bed with her computer on her stomach, Tori sat down set Jade's drink down on her nightstand and picked up her phone again, "we should watch a movie or something." Tori says, "I'm so bored."
"Grab a VHS and put it in the TV." Jade says without looking away from her computer screen. Tori dragged herself out of the chair and over to the bookshelf. She searched around and found a copy of Scream that could distract her for a little while. She put it into the TV, turned off the lights and sat back down in her chair to watch it.
Half way through the movie Jade put her computer aside and stretched out on her bed to watch Scream, "I ordered pizza. You're welcome to stay the night or leave after dinner." Jade said, curling up on her side, "wake me up when the pizza gets here." Jade mumbled.
"Okay." Tori says, kicking her legs up onto the bed and leaning back in the chair to enjoy the movie. When the door bell rang she didn't even have to bother waking Jade up. The girl woke on her own, her eyes snapping open creepily fast.
"Take this up there, I have to pee." Jade shoves her wallet at Tori and then runs into the bathroom. Tori swings her legs off of the bed and skips upstairs. She takes the pizza from the pizza boy.
"How much?" she asks.
"32.50." she hands him forty and kicks the door shut, turning and going back downstairs with the pizza. Jade's sitting on her bed with two plates and a projector aimed at her wall. She hands Jade the receipt and tosses her wallet at her, sitting down in her chair.
Tori has no idea what they're watching, and it doesn't matter because after she eats the pizza she curls up next to Jade and falls asleep. Jade cleans up silently, taking the dishes and pizza upstairs, shutting the movie off when she comes back down and carefully pulls the sheets out from under Tori and crawls into her bed next to her, shutting the lights off the rest of the way before closing her eyes and falling asleep.
