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.

"You're so useless." Jade complained, dragging her feet across the tile while rubbing her face. Tori's head snapped around and she narrowed her eyes at Jade, "move." Jade nudged Tori with her hip out of the way and continued mixing the batter Tori was making.

Tori frowned and leaned against the island counter, watching Jade prepare the pancakes that she'd been trying to surprise her with, "well if you cook any slower I'm going to have to leave before I get to eat." Tori grumbled, crossing her arms over her chest. Jade looked at her over her shoulder and raised her eyebrow, stud glinting in the pale kitchen light.

"Vega, you'll be missing out here, not me. Your clothes are in the dryer, the room on the left by the stairs." Jade says, "get them, change, and your food will be ready." Tori rolls her eyes and drags her heels over to the laundry room. She dug through the clothes inside, eventually giving up and taking all of them down to Jade's room.

She sorted them out; eventually finding her own, put Jade's away and got dressed again. Grabbing her bag before going upstairs to the kitchen where Jade was setting plates down, "I folded your laundry." Tori commented, slipping into the chair beside Jade where a plate of pancakes was sitting.

"Thanks." Jade replied, crossing one leg over the other and spreading butter over her pancakes. The girls eat in silence, Tori tapping her foot through the air while she eats, "so what big plans do you have for the day that breakfast had to be fast?"

"I need to stop for gas, do my own laundry, I promised to go see the kittens, I do have a life you know. And don't you have work today?" Tori asked stabbing a bit of pancake with her fork.

"Yeah I do." Silence fell over them once more. The only sound was the forks and knifes scraping their plates, "am I the only one who thinks this is really weird? Us sitting together calmly, eating breakfast, talking civilized. You folding my laundry?"

"It is weird. These are good pancakes, though." Tori said, setting her fork on her now empty plate, she glances at Jade's, "I'll wash these and let myself out." Jade hands Tori her empty plate, Tori stacks it on top of hers with the forks and knifes, grabs the butter and syrup and goes into the kitchen.

It doesn't take her long to wash and dry the dishes, and only a few minutes to figure out where everything was supposed to be stored and then she went out to her car as fast as she could, speeding off to the gas station, the weirdness of the situation creeping up on her suddenly, fear choked her and she was hyperventilating by the time she pulled up to the pump.

With shaking hands she cut the engine and pressed her forehead to the steering wheel, taking a deep, shaking breath and letting it out before she found her wallet and stepped out of the car. On autopilot she paid for her gas, pumped it into her car and got back inside. Her hands were no longer shaking as she started the car, but she was still panicking.

She was not supposed to be acting normal with Jade, passing out in her bed, cooking breakfast, doing laundry. It was all so weird. Disturbing. But Tori didn't feel like it was such a bad thing, being familiar with Jade. Being friends with Jade, having breakfast with Jade, having sex-Tori blinked, where had that thought come from?

After visiting Lynn, Heather, and the kittens Tori pulled up at her house and shut off her car. Her head was aching and she just wanted to sleep-something she found odd since she'd slept almost a full 8 hours at Jade's-but she knew she had her laundry to do, so she dragged herself into the house, dropped her bag on the couch and went around collecting dirty clothes and dragging them into her laundry room.

While the clothes washed she cleaned out her fridge, created a grocery list, and found some of the food money her parents had left behind-planning on going grocery shopping later. She tucked the money into her purse with the list so she wouldn't leave them behind later. While she's in her bag she grabs her pearpod, and locates the vacuum. After popping the buds into her ears she turned on the vacuum and set to work.

Her mind was buzzing as she vacuumed the entire house, mostly with thoughts of Jade. The only thing she managed to do was come to the conclusion that she cleaned a lot when she was stressed, but she didn't figure out why she felt so awkward around Jade, or why every time she thought of Jade her stomach got butterflies and she couldn't stop smiling.

After her vacuuming session she mopped the kitchen, bathrooms, and the laundry room-switching the loads over beforehand- and then she went upstairs, cleaned her toilet, tub, sink and the counters above, and then the stuff below, re-separating things Trina had stolen from her side of the counter and stealing a few things for herself.

Once she was finally done cleaning, including the windows, doors, mirrors, bedding, and the garage, she was not any less confused, but way more awake because she'd had at least 8 cups of coffee throughout the day to keep her from crawling into her bed. She was making her bed around 5:30 when her door bell rang. She frowned and threw her top sheet and comforter onto her half made bed and trudged downstairs.

Without checking the peephole she unlocked the door and pulled it open. Jade was standing on the other side, one arm crossed, holding her other elbow while she stared at her phone, "shut the door behind you." Tori mumbled, leaving the door open as she walked back upstairs. She heard Jade close the door and listened as her boots came up the stairs.

Tori balled up her comforter and set it on her chair while she laid out her sheet and tucked it in, tossing the comforter over it once she was done. Jade stood in the doorway watching her with disinterest, "so did you spend your whole day cleaning the house after I left?" Jade asked.

Tori turned and gave her an annoyed glare while smoothing out her messy comforter, pausing to take in what Jade was wearing. A pair of tan shorts, a black tank top and an open tan button up shirt with the shop logo on it, it was almost shocking to Tori that she'd missed what Jade was wearing, but she figured she was just too exhausted to care. She also noted that Jade's hair was pulled up in a tight ponytail on top of her hair that was perfectly curled.

"You look lovely today Jade, tan really suits you." Tori comments straightening and raking her fingers through her hair with a smirk on her face when Jade's expression turned into a glower, "so why are you here?"

"My house is boring. I'm out of food, too." She frowns, "I was hoping to steal some food, eat it and bail."

"I've got nothing." Tori shrugs, "you're welcome to come grocery shopping with me, though."

"I'd rather stick rusty spoons in my eyes." Jade pushed away from the door jam and buried her hands in her pockets.

"I don't have any rusty spoons, either." Tori walks over to her dresser and grabs a clean shirt and pants. She pulls off her old shirt, puts on the new one and swaps her shorts for her jeans before slipping on a pair of flip flops, "you can still come with me, I'll even make you dinner. Or you can leave." Tori gently shoves Jade's arm and prods her in the back to make her go downstairs.

Once their out the front door, Tori pausing to grab her purse from the couch, she locks the door and unlocks the car. Jade stands by the passenger door, looking back at her car for a few second and then opens the car door, sliding into the passenger seat without a word. Tori just smiles, starts the car, and heads toward the grocery store.

"Jade, you shouldn't have done that!" Tori ranted, jerking her cart to a harsh stop, "he was just being friendly!" she jammed her key into the trunk and opened it.

Jade snorted and laughed, "yeah right Vega, he was totally trying to put the moves on you!" Jade protested, grabbing two of the bags and putting them into the trunk. Tori turned and glared at Jade as she walked around to the other side of the cart and grabbed two bags to put into the trunk.

"No he wasn't, Jade." Tori snaps, Jade grabs two bags and Tori grabs the last two and they set them into the trunk, Tori slams it closed, "and even if he was why did it matter to you? I'm not your girlfriend!"

Jade narrows her eyes but remains silent as she snatches and cart and storms off to put it away. Her face is red and her nostrils are flaring, her knuckles are white from being wrapped around the cart to tight and she lets out a frustrated scream as she shoves the cart into the cart return before storming back across the parking lot to the car. She gets into the passenger seat and sits there, one foot in the car, one foot out.

Tori turns to look at her, poised to scream at her to get in the car, when Jade suddenly leans over, tangles her hand in Tori's brown hair and kisses her roughly. Tori is caught off guard and doesn't react at first, and then kisses Jade back, reaching forward and grabbing her shoulder to drag Jade closer. Jade pulls away first, breathing roughly, eyes hooded, lips parted, "Vega…" she says nervously.

Tori promptly turns around, smoothing out her hair and staring straight out the front window, "Get your foot in the car, West." Jade drags her foot inside the car and closes the door, putting her seatbelt on without another word. Tori unlocks the trunk, grabs as many bags as she can hold and then unlocks the front door. Jade grabs the rest of the bags and puts them away while Tori start's to cook.

"Tori, can I use your shower? And borrow some clothes?" Jade asks, Tori shrugs and just waves Jade away, intently reading the box of macaroni she already knows how to cook. When she hears Jade's shoes on the stairs she turns and looks up at her before she turns around the corner. With a dejected sigh Tori leans back against the counter, her hands going to her lips. She licks her bottom lip; it tastes like coconut lip balm from Jade. She closes her eyes.

"Why, why, why…" she whispers. Her stomach is doing flip flops and she wants nothing more than to go upstairs and pin Jade against the wall, rip her clothes off,-she cuts her thoughts off there, curling her hands into a ball so tight she left half moon dents in her palm. Out of the corner of her eye she could see the pot of macaroni starting to boil over. She jumped up and blew on it, "stop, stop, stop!" she hissed.

"Useless." Jade mumbled, entering the kitchen with a towel drying her hair. She draped the towel of Tori's shoulder and nudged the girl out of the way, turning the stove down and blowing away the bubbles, "cooking is not your forte, is it?"

Tori scowled, "I guess not."

Jade turned away from the pot and smiled at Tori, leaning forward and giving her a quick peck on the lips, "Flaws make you loveable." And then she turns around, blushing, questioning why she said that to Tori, "measure out the milk and butter, Vega."

"Kay." Tori says, biting down on her lip to keep from giggling. Instead she just smiles like an idiot, walking over to the fridge and getting out the milk and butter, measuring out each and setting them beside Jade, "so I'm loveable, huh?"

"Get some hot dogs or something to go with this."

"You think I'm loveable."

"Yeah, like a bunny." Jade grumbles.

"You love bunnies." Tori counters, sashaying over to the fridge and finding some hotdogs, she pulled them out and turned to Jade, "what should I do with them?" Jade pointed to the counter, Tori set them down and leaned on the counter and watched Jade lean over the macaroni, tucking her hair behind her ear and stirring the macaroni around.

"Find us something to watch." Tori rolled her eyes and pushed away from the counter, walking into her living room and swiping the remote from the couch. She flipped through channels until she found a Bones marathon.

"We're watching Bones." Tori called into the kitchen, not tearing her eyes off of the screen. She tucked her legs under her body and lost herself in the episode until a hot bowl was shoved into her hands. She blinked and tore her eyes from the screen, looking first at the bowl, and then at Jade who was standing beside her with her own bowl.

She took the bowl, "thanks."

"Sure thing." Jade murmured, sitting down beside Tori, kicking her feet up onto the table and crossing her legs at the ankle. They ate in silence, both absorbed in the show. When they were done eating Tori took the bowls into the kitchen, washing the dishes with her eyes glued to the TV.

"She totally killed him." Tori said.

"No way."

"Yes way." Tori argued, "or she hired someone. It was totally her."

"Well then she hired the limping guy." Jade stated, "There is no way anyone that planted the bomb and hung around the garage left unaffected. And besides, he has access to the shit." Tori finished rinsing the dishes and sat down again beside Jade.

"I hate that you're always right." Tori grumbles when the episode ends. Jade simply grins triumphantly, "Oh great, a Time to Kill is on." Tori grumbles not hesitating to change the channel.

"That's a good movie."

"It's depressing."

"It's history."

"I hate history."

Jade sighs and stretches her arms over her head, "so tomorrow there's supposed to be this party at some dudes house in Northridge. I was thinking about going, you interested?"

Tori thought it over and frowned, "I've got nothing to wear." Yeah Tori that's why you don't want to go to the party with Jade.

"Go shopping tomorrow?" Jade suggested.

"I do have my mom's credit card…" Tori muses, knowing her mother wouldn't even notice anyways. The lawyer had enough money she probably wouldn't even care-if she noticed the charge on her credit card anyways.

"Then it's settled. We go shopping and head over to that party. I need a break." Jade glanced at the clock, it was nearly 10 now. She was a lot more tired than she thought, covering her mouth with her hand she tried, and failed, to fight a yawn.

"We should probably get some sleep. Long day and all." Tori said, fighting a yawn of her own, "you can sleep in my room if you don't want to drive home." Tori reached forward and grabbed the remote, turned off the TV and threw the remote onto the other couch.

"I'll go home; can you bring my clothes back down?" Jade asks.

"Yeah, after I get changed." Tori replies, walking upstairs dragging her feet behind her, it was as if she was just now suddenly aware that she was completely exhausted and she couldn't stop yawning. She dragged her clothes off and her pajamas on, almost prepared to drag herself into bed when she spotted Jade's uniform on her chair.

With a groan she grabbed the uniform and dragged herself down stairs, "here's your unifo-you're asleep…" she shook her head and set the uniform down on the piano bench, walking over to the couch and grabbing a blanket from the back of it, she draped it over Jade, "sweet dreams, West." She dragged herself upstairs into her room, flicking off the light and crawling under her covers, her face buried in her pillow.

The sound of raucous laughter woke Tori up the next morning. She was under her sheets, head under her pillow, and when she sat up she found she was lying sideways. Confused, she shoved the pillow off her head and kicked her sheets off ungracefully crawling from her bed on her hands until her knees fell down onto the floor. Using her bed as a prop she boosted herself up from the floor and stood in the middle of her room, pushing her fingers through her tangled bed hair.

The laughter erupted from downstairs again, "what the hell is Jade doing now?" she grumbled shuffling out to the living room where she dropped onto the other couch glancing at the TV where Darleen was showing Roseanne a box full of doll heads that were apparently DJ's.

"I used to do that." Jade commented.

"I'm not surprised. Psycho." Tori teases, tucking her legs beneath her.

"Watch your dolls closely, Vega." Jade says mock-evilly, brandishing her scissors with a glint in her eyes.

"I will shave your head while you sleep, West." Tori retorts almost instantly. Jade looks at her like she's almost impressed, but she doesn't say anything turning her eyes instead back to the TV. Once it was over Jade shut the TV off before the next show came on, "so breakfast and shopping?"

"Sounds good. I'm going to head home and change, I'll be back in like an hour." Jade told her, getting up and stretching. Tori's eyes followed the path of the shirt up Jade's pale stomach and then back down as she brought her arms down, "for someone who freaked out seeing me topless you sure stare a lot."

Eyes wide, jaw hanging open, Tori just gaped at Jade a red blush creeping over her cheeks as she tried to think of anything witty to say, "shut up." She settled to mumble, ducking her head while Jade picked up her uniform and walked out the door.

A few minutes after hearing the car pull out of the driveway Tori went upstairs, stripped down, showered and went into her room to blow dry her hair into waves before adding two feathers to her hair and then getting dressed. She dragged a pair of black jean shorts on and hooked on her bra, searching around for a shirt. She settled on a plain baggy grey shirt, put a sports bra on first, and then dragged the shirt on.

By the time she shoved her shoes on her door bell was ringing, she grabbed her wallet and her phone, shoving them into her pockets as she skipped down the steps. Jade was waiting down by her car in a pair of black shorts and a tight fitting white and black striped tank top with a skull near the hip. Her hair was curled and she had a pair of sunglasses perched on her nose, "ready?"

Tori turned around and locked her door, "Yeah, lets go." She heads down to Jade's car, slides into the passenger seat and buckles herself in. Jade gets behind the wheel and restarts her car, backing out of the driveway and heading down the road, "Where are we going?"

"McDonalds and a strip mall. I'm not doing huge crowds of stupid at the mall." Jade said, pulling into the drive thru at McDonalds, "what do you want to eat?"

"Bagel eggs and cheese and a large sweet tea, and a hash brown." Tori said, reaching into her pocket to get her money.

"I'll pay." Jade replies, leaning out the window to place their order, when she leans back into the car she pulls forward, blinding digging through her bag in the backseat and stopping at the first window. She pulls out her wallet, fished out her money, and handed it to the cashier, taking her change and pulling to the second window.

Tori crossed her legs and stared out the window tapping her foot through the air, "Look alive Tori." Jade snapped, shoving a drink and a bag of food into her hands, she pulled away from the window and left the parking lot. She pulled into a strip mall parking lot and shut off the car, grabbing the bag from Tori's lap.

She handed Tori her breakfast and then took her own, eagerly unwrapping it and devouring it. Tori watches Jade eat in a hurry for a few minutes before unwrapping her own and eating slowly, drinking her sweat tea between bites, "I forgot my own drink." Jade complained, dropping her fist against the steering wheel.

"You can have some of my tea." Tori offers around a mouth full of her bagel. Jade glances at the drink and then at Tori before sighing and picking the cup up taking a few sips before putting it back down and snatching a hash brown from the bag and eating it.

Tori crumbled up her wrapper and got her own hash brown from the bag, eating it quickly and taking a few sips from her sweet tea before handing it to Jade who snatched it and took long sips from it before handing it back to Tori while putting all of their garbage into a bag.

On the walk up to the store the girls finished off the tea and tossed it into a trash can before entering a small clothing store. There was soft music playing and only two other people inside besides the two workers who flashed equally forced smiles before returning to what they were doing.

Tori wandered around the store for a bit, not sure what she wanted to wear, while Jade made a beeline for a rack of mostly black and dark purple clothing, ignoring Tori as she tried to find whatever it is she was looking for.

Tori, however, wandered throughout the store picking at random articles of clothing until she came across a draped one shoulder top that caught her eye. She glanced over at Jade who was ignoring her and pulled the top out holding it up to herself. She checked the size and shrugged, there weren't many things didn't fit her and she was too lazy to go try it on. Instead she draped it over one arm and continued searching for the rest of her outfit.

On the other side of the store Jade had found her outfit, a dress and a pair of shoes but was still looking for the fun of it, noticing Tori wasn't done when she'd last looked up. After finding a pair of jeans and a necklace she liked she went up to the counter and rang up her items, Tori behind her a few minutes later. Jade drove them back to Tori's house; Tori put her clothes upstairs and Jade put her clothes in her car and they sat down to watch TV.

This took so long. I spent most of the past week in bed or cleaning up my flooded garage while writing an essay on Macbeth, which makes me want to stab my eyes out with rusty spoons. Enjoy the chapter, sorry there really wasn't much going on this chapter.