1 month later
Cat's POV
I walked through the hallways, smiling at all the students around me. I could see girls dressed like me and my smile got bigger. It felt nice to have people talking about me and looking up to me. I felt someone grab my wrist and turned around to see André and Tori.
"Oh, hey guys" I said happily but pulled my hand away.
"Cat, where were you last night?" Tori demanded.
"I was with Jade, she was telling me some stuff about Kenzie in the year above" I said, blowing a bubble with my pink gum and smirking at the memory.
"That's fantastic but we were supposed to be working on our music project together" Tori said.
"I thought you guys were writing it and then I was singing?" I said.
"No, it was a group effort. We were all going to work together" André said, frowning at me.
"When you're ready to put some effort in then we'll include you, but for now we're presenting a duet and you can fend for yourself" Tori said, before she tugged André's arm and they walked away.
"Wait guys!" I yelled, running after them in my pink heels. "You can't just drop me from the project!"
"Cat, it's not just the project" Tori said. "We were meant to have a girl's night in last week and you blew me off last minute to hang out with Jade!" Tori said.
"Yeah and when I got us all tickets to that concert, you didn't show up because you said Robbie was taking you somewhere better" André said.
"You've barely spent any time with us since you became a golden!" Tori cried. "We were the first people to talk to you in this school and now you act like you're better than us?! Whatever, I'm done trying" she said, shrugging and walking away. "André, you coming?"
"See ya Cat" he said, a sad smile on his face. They walked away, not looking back at me and I felt a pang in my stomach. It was quickly replaced by anger as I growled under my breath and stormed over to my locker, putting in the combination and opening it forcefully.
"What's up Cat?" I heard Jade say as her and Beck approached our lockers, wrapped around each other.
"André and Tori just dropped me from our music project because 'I've been ignoring them since I became a golden'" I snapped, making quotation marks with my fingers as I angrily shoved stuff in my locker.
"Ugh, I never liked that Tori chick anyway" Jade said, scowling. "So what are you doing tonight?" she asked opening her locker.
"I have to do-" I began but was cut off when I saw someone out of the corner of my eye. I turned and saw a boy stood near me, a smirk on his face.
"Hello?" I asked nervously.
"What's up sweet?" he said, before winking at me and walking away.
"What was that about?" Beck asked, looking at the boy confused.
"That's Daniel Forth" Jade said. "He's got a thing for Cat but I didn't think he'd actually act on it." Then she turned back to putting stuff in her locker.
I frowned at the boy's retreating figure then turned to Jade. "So what are you up to tonight?" I asked her.
"We're on a date" Beck said, wrapping an arm around her waist and nuzzling his face against the side of hers.
"It's not a date" she said, scowling.
"She's meeting my parents" he said, ignoring her comment with an amused look on his face.
"Looking forward to it" she said, sarcastically. I smiled at them and giggled, looking around for Robbie.
"You with Robbie tonight?" Jade asked.
"No, I have to do my music project - ALONE" I said, scowling at the thought of André and Tori again.
"Any idea what you're going to do?" Beck asked.
"I dunno" I shrugged. "Probably write a song about Robbie."
"Ew" Jade moaned.
"Hey Valentine!" I heard a voice shout. I turned around to see-
OH MY GOD.
"GIBBYYYYY!" I screamed, dropping my folder and running up to him, enveloping him in a huge hug. He hugged me back so hard that he lifted me off the ground. After about a minute, he put me down and I saw three smiling faces around us. The first belonging to a very pretty brunette, Carly Shay. The second belonging to an equally pretty but also quite scary blonde, Sam Puckett. And the third belonging to a good looking brunette guy, Freddie Benson.
"What are you guys doing here?!" I asked, a smile covering my face.
"Well you stopped talking to us for like 2 weeks so we came to check you weren't dead" Sam said.
"Two weeks?! Are you sure?" I asked.
"Yep" Gibby said, holding up his phone so I could see his call history. His last call from me was exactly two weeks ago.
"I'm sorry guys" I said, "I've just been busy settling in."
"You've settled in pretty well by the looks of things" Freddie said, gesturing to the sea of students around us. "More than half these girls are dressed like you."
"Yeah Valentine, what gives?" Sam added.
"Well I'm in this group here, the goldens. They're like the most popular people in school" I said, blushing.
"Wow" Carly said.
"Yeah, how did you manage that?" Sam said in surprise. It was no secret that she always found me a bit strange, but I never minded.
"Well…there's a guy…" I mumbled.
"A guy?" Carly said quickly, standing next to me in a flash. "Who is he?!" she demanded.
I scanned around the corridors but there was no sign of Robbie.
"I can't see him anywhere" I said shrugging.
"Well tell us about him" Carly said, lightly slapping my arm.
"Well his name's Robbie and he's SUPER hot" I said, grinning. "And a complete bad boy."
"Does he collect pee wee babies?" Sam said snickering and I laughed along with her. Carly had been unfortunate enough to find a bad boy who collected the children's toys, and he was completely obsessed with them. They weren't together for much longer.
"Shut up" Carly said, pouting. "We're supposed to be hearing about your boyfriend!"
"Does he treat you right?" Gibby said, in a rare show of seriousness. I sighed and rolled my eyes at him. I'd been friends with Gibby since I was 3. Nobody would play with us at pre-school because we were both weird and different, so we made best friends with each other.
"Yes, he treats me right" I said sighing. "He's a little protective to be honest. He 'taught some guys a lesson' because they were flirting with me."
"Alright, he sounds like my kind of guy" Sam said, smirking.
"So, what we doing today?" Freddie asked.
"I have lessons" I pointed out. "Which reminds me, why aren't you guys at school?"
"We had a half week because of some teacher training thing so we thought we'd come visit you" Sam answered.
"Well luckily I finish early on a Friday, I get to leave at 2 instead of 3" I said smiling.
"How come?" Freddie asked.
"Because Robbie said so" I replied, looking pointedly at him. "So, shall I meet you guys at my house at 2:30 and we can hang out all weekend?!" I said excitedly.
"Sure" they agreed.
"See you at your house, red" Sam said, as the trio walked away.
"I really missed you" Gibby said once we were alone.
"I missed you too" I said, reaching up to hug him. "I'll see you later" I said, waving over my shoulder as I went to first lesson.
It was lunch and I was swapping my books and getting my purse when my locker door slammed shut in front of me.
"What the-?" I began but stopped when I felt someone stand flush against my back, pushing me into my locker door. I had to turn my head quickly so my nose wouldn't be squished. "Robbie, what the hell are you doing?" I said angrily.
"I heard a nasty rumour that you were hugging a guy this morning" he spat.
"Yeah, I was" I said, not sure why he was angry.
"Dammit Cat" he growled, pushing away from me and punching his locker with the side of his fist.
"What is wrong with you?!" I yelled, grabbing his hand to stop him.
"You know how angry I get, why would you flaunt other guys in my face" he snapped, a dark look in his eyes. I felt rage bubble through me and dropped his hand, stepping away from him.
"You think I'm rubbing other guys in your face? To wind you up? Why would I do that?!" I shouted, ignoring the crowd we were attracting.
"Because you can!" he replied. "You know how many guys are into you and you're loving all the attention you're getting from everybody!" he yelled.
I stared at him, gob smacked. "You think I'm that shallow?" I asked quietly. "That is sick!" I hissed, before running out of school, ignoring his shouts. I ran all the way home and mooched in my room for a couple of hours until I heard my doorbell ring. I looked over to my pink bedside clock and saw that it was 2:30 exactly. I got out of bed and shuffled downstairs to the front door, opening it and letting my friends inside.
"What's up with you?" Sam asked.
"I had a fight with Robbie" I said, pouting.
"What about?" Carly asked.
"He got jealous of Gibby and thinks I'm rubbing guys in his face because I love attention" I spat.
"He's jealous of Gibby?!" Sam asked, laughing. "Why would anybody ever be jealous of that potato?!"
"Like you weren't jealous of Tasha!" Gibby countered.
The smile dropped from her face and she glared daggers at Gibby who squealed and ran to hide behind Carly whilst the rest of us rolled our eyes.
Freddie chuckled and put his hands down on my desk, accidentally knocking off a sheet of paper.
"Oh sorry" he said, bending down to pick it up. "What is it?" he asked, handing it to me.
"Shit!" I hissed, reading the top of the paper. I looked up and saw them all staring at me in disbelief. "What?" I asked.
"Where did that come from?" Gibby asked.
"Yeah, if I'd have known you were such a potty mouth, I would have hung with you before" Sam said, smirking.
"Sorry, bad habit" I said, realising what had just come out of my mouth. "Look you guys I'm really sorry but I have to do this assignment for my music class. I have to write a little bit of a song that's like 1 minute long and I have nothing. It's due in for Monday" I moaned, looking at them all sadly.
"How come you haven't done it already?" Carly asked.
"I was meant to be working with a couple people but today they ditched me because I missed a couple rehearsals to hang with Robbie" I said, frowning.
"Wow. Avoiding homework for this guy. Must be special" Sam said, eyebrows raised.
"Well do you think you'll be finished tonight?" Gibby asked.
"Probably not" I said, pouting. "I'll try and finish it tomorrow and then we can hang out Sunday yeah?" I said.
"Okay but we're leaving at 2 on Sunday" Gibby said, a sad tone to his voice.
"I know, it sucks" I moaned, walking down the stairs with them.
"Text us when you're done okay?" Carly said.
"Will do, thanks for coming all the way over to see me guys" I said, as they walked out the door. "I wish I had more free time to spend with you."
"Do your homework next time" Gibby said, jokingly, pointing at me. I stuck my tongue out at him then waved them off as the walked down the path. Shutting the door, I took a deep breath and tried to think of inspiration for a song.
I rushed into music class Monday morning, sitting down in my seat. I was 10 minutes late but luckily the teacher wasn't mad because of my golden…ness. I had worked on my song all Saturday and finished the last little bit off Sunday morning, squeezing in about 5 hours with Gibby, Sam, Freddie, Carly and her brother Spencer before they left to go back to Florida. I hadn't spoken to Robbie at all since our fight and I ignored Jade's messages, asking me what happened.
"We're going to be presenting your assignments today" the teacher said. "Cat, why doesn't your group go first?" she said, smiling at me. Although she hadn't directly said it, I knew it was because I was late. I deserved it though and I'd worked really hard on my song, so I stood up and walked to the front of the class.
"I'm on my own" I said to the teacher, noticing her confused face as to where my group was. She frowned at me but didn't question it. "Hi everybody" I said, turning to the class. I heard lots of 'hi's back and I smiled. I saw André and Tori's scowling faces and my smile dropped. I cleared my throat and looked down at my shoes, preparing to sing. I opened my mouth and sung my song alone, without any instruments.
"ooh, so crazy you get my heart jumpin,
When you put your lips on mine,
And honey it ain't a question, q-question,
Boy I know just what you like,
So if you need it, I got it, I got it everyday,
Lover, your friend, you'll find it all in me,
Stay by your side, I'll never leave ya,
And I ain't goin nowhere, cuz you're a keeper,
So don't you worry, baby you got me,
I got a bad boy, I must admit it,
You got my heart don't know how you did it, no,
And I don't care who sees it babe,
I don't wanna hide the way I feel when you're next to me,
I love the way, I love the way,
Baby I love the way, ooh I love the way,
I love the way you make me feel,
I love it, I love it,
I love the way you make me feel,
I love it, the way you love you-oooohhhh…"
I smiled as I finished my song and everyone clapped.
"That was a very good song, Cat" the teacher said.
"Thanks" I said, a smile cutting my face in half.
"However…" she said, and my smile dropped. "The assignment clearly said that you had to create a tune with an instrument and then add lyrics."
"B-but my voice is an instrument, I was playing my voice!" I cried, trying to salvage the situation.
"Sorry Cat, but it doesn't meet the requirements so I have to fail you" she said, regret on her face.
"OK" I squeaked, shuffling back to my seat as I tried to hold back my tears. It was the first proper song I'd ever written and I worked really hard on it. All for nothing. I swallowed back a sob and wiped a tear from my face. People in the class performed and got good grades and I clapped for them even though I felt like flipping the desk and going home. Then finally;
"Tori and André, would you like to come up and perform?" the teacher said. My head shot up at the sound of their names and the evil inside me wanted them to fail, but then the kindness inside me started frowning at her and she shrunk back. Tori was singing and André was on keyboard as well as singing, and they had an upbeat tune that everyone was dancing along to in their seats.
"I don't have the time to be waiting around,
For someone with a fake ID,
Seriously, you need to get out of town,
This picture's just a little creepy,
I love hall and oats,
You like cartoon shows,
Something tells me we don't fit,
Here's a tip for free, since you don't know me,
I think you're gonna catch on quiiiiiiiiick,
Hey,
Cuz I'm moving faster, faster, faster, faster than boys,
A recipe for disaster-saster,
The sound of your voice,
Your voice,
It makes me go,
No, no, no, no-oooh woah oh,
Yeah, you, you've got to go,
Faster, faster, faster, faster than boys,
Faster than boys"
They got a huge round of applause from everyone, including me. I couldn't not clap, their song was amazing. Probably would have been crap if I had helped. I looked down and starting picking at the chipped pink varnish on my nails.
"Well done Tori and André. You two did really good and therefore-" the teacher began.
"Three" André interrupted her.
"Excuse me?" she asked.
"There were three in our group" he said, ignoring the confused looks from the teacher and Tori. "Cat helped us" he said. My head shot up and I looked at him, gob smacked. "Her song was just really good and we wanted to give her a chance to showcase it. We didn't realise she wouldn't pass" he said, shrugging. Tori stared at him and he smacked her arm lightly, as if keeping her quiet.
Guilt flooded my body. They were lying for me and letting me take credit for their work. I felt everyone's eyes on me and looked up to see the teacher was calling my name.
"Can you come up front please?" the teacher said.
I got up slowly and shuffled to the front and avoided everyone's eyes.
"Well in that case, Cat I'm changing your mark to a pass. And I'd get that song of yours developed. It's got potential" she said, smiling at me. I smiled nervously and breathed a sigh of relief, rushing back to my seat and packing my bag. I walked out the classroom and rushed up to Tori and André who were walking a bit in front of me.
"Guys!" I yelled, rushing up to them. "Thanks for that. I'm so sorry I've been such a bitch recently, it just felt really nice to fit in."
"It's okay Cat" André said, smiling.
"Why would you let me take credit though?" I asked.
"Because your song was amazing. It didn't deserve a fail. And you're really nice, underneath it all" he said calmly.
I beamed at them both and they opened their arms to hug me. We hugged and bobbed around, laughing.
"I'm not doing anything tonight" I said. "Do you want to grab some sushi or something?"
"Yeah sure" André said.
"Okay, we can go to mine after school and then go on to sushi yeah?" I said smiling.
"I don't know. I think you might be a bit tied up" Tori said, looking over my shoulder. I turned around to see Robbie leaned against the lockers, looking at me with his hands in his pockets. I opened my mouth to talk to Tori and André but they cut me off.
"It's cool" Tori said. "We'll meet you at Nozu at 7. If you can't make it then just give us a buzz. We won't mind" she said, smiling.
"We have to get to class" André said, giving Tori a knowing smile. She smirked back then wiggled her eyebrows at me. I knew they had study hall because I did as well. I stuck my tongue out at them and they rushed off, giggling. I turned around and walked towards Robbie slowly, dread filling my stomach.
"Hey" I said quietly when I reached him.
"Let's go somewhere more private" he said, walking away. I followed him and tried to calm myself down, dreading the worst. We stepped into a disabled bathroom and he locked the door behind us. We both stood there in silence, he was being stubborn and I was just too scared to say anything.
"I'm sorry" he said, quietly and I looked up to him in shock. "What? I'm not completely heartless" he said.
"I know you're not" I said gently.
"I freaked out Cat. You mean so much to me. I'm scared I'm going to lose you" he murmured. "I heard your song"
"What?" I gasped.
"I was stood at the back of the class. It was really good. Is that really how you feel?"
I nodded shyly and he brushed a piece of hair off my face. Then he pushed me up against the wall and kissed me. I kissed back for a bit but then remembered what had happened in class today and pulled back, frowning.
"What's up?" he murmured, burying his face in my neck.
"People only like me because I'm a golden" I said. "I thought they liked me and looked up to me, but they're just scared of me. Well, scared of you and Jade."
"No" he said, pulling back and looking in my eyes. "They like you because you're kind, sweet and friendly. That's why I love you" he said, reaching down to kiss my neck. I froze. What?
"You love me" I mumbled.
"What?" he sighed, pulling back.
"You love me" I whispered, tears forming in my eyes. He rolled his eyes and kissed me again, hard. But it was different than all the others. There was something else in there. And I kissed back just as hard.
"I love you too" I said between kisses. "So much."
AN: Tada! She did fight with Tori and André! But it's okay, because they're friends again (: And some special guests in there (; Ariana and Jennette are coming to the UK for the Sam and Cat premiere but I don't have enough money to go see them and I'm all sad D';
Disclaimer: I don't own victorious. I also don't own The Way or Faster than Boys which are both amazing songs! It was the acoustic version of the way that I based this on, and the episode version of Faster than Boys from 'The bad roommate'…that I also don't own ):
Reviews:
Ariana4Ever - Thank you! I love Cade (: Yeah, but he does use words occasionally :L
Jmags-WriterofAwesomeness - more sexy Robbie and more protective Robbie and more kissing (; and some fluff :3
CabbieLoverSAC22 - He might have a dark past… (; They fell out ): But lovely André made friends with her again (:
CaburpleGiraffe - love that song! Don't know why he bothers to lie when Jade is his cousin :L
Sofia13 - Robbie is just…OOF (; Cat is just cute all the time ^^ Thank you, I'm trying to update because I have ideas for later on in this story and I want to get to them (: I'm loving 'that's why I'm victorious' by the way! Everyone go check that out!
CabbieisLife - Thank you so much, it means a lot! Hot Robbie should be a thing…c'mon Dan! In Cat's dream or something (; Not sure whether Tandré will happen or whether they'll just be all little moments and things (:
TANDRÉ! What would everyone want? Dating or just close friends with little moments full of fluff?
superstar1030 - Thank you!
mewgirl 12 - I think it'd be really interesting to see Rex as a real person on the show (: and I love Tori and Jade's playdate! There's such cute cabbie as well! AMAZING song!
THANK YOU TO ALL MY LOVELY FOLLOWERS AND FAVOURITES! I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH!
I'm super excited for the Sam and Cat episode, 'Twinception'! Jennette said Melanie's coming back and I'm super excited! Been waiting so long for this!
Until next time babys,
chuckyshmucky -xo