Author's Note: I don't own Victorious! Enjoy!
Tori's POV
The party at Sinjin's started . We thought it was just going to us main kids, plus Dayzee of course. Andre, Jade, Cat, Robbie, Beck and myself. Nope. There were tons of Northridge girls looking around Sinjin's house, probably for things to steal. A few kids from school that I've seen but never took the time to talk to were there, too. There were maybe twenty-five people at Sinjin's place and it was only eight in the evening. I'm sure the number would grow as the night went on.
"Hi Tori, hey Andre, welcome back," Sinjin welcomed us. He gave Andre a handshake and a chest bump. You know, those hugs guys give? Sinjin had become a lot cooler throughout the years. But he never lost is oddness. "Can I offer you guys a drink? Beer? Lucky Charms?" And there was his oddness, as he jammed his hand into his very tight pants pocket and retrieved a few pieces of cereal.
"Nah man, I'll take a beer…and…?" Andre started and looked to me. I nodded. "Two beers, no Charms," he smiled and patted Sinjin on the head, before he ran off to fetch our beverages.
"You sure I look okay? If I would've known there would've been this many people, I probably would've dressed up just a bit more," I said, looking over my plain outfit.
"Well, from listening to you talk to yourself earlier as you were trying on clothes, seems like you were trying to impress me. And well? I'm definitely impressed. You look good," Andre smiled, before putting his arm around me to bring me in to kiss my forehead. Sinjin returned with two cold PBRs.
"One for the man, one for the madam," he said handing us our drinks. "It's so good to see you guys together," he said, then directed his attention to Dayzee who was checking out his CD collection across the room. "Think you can talk to your friend over there for me?" Sinjin directed to Andre. He shook his head.
"Sorry man, she plays for the other team. Ya know, Cat and Jade's team?" Andre told him and a look of disappointment came over Sinjin before he lit up once again.
"Well, she hasn't seen my collection of 80s records. Nobody can resist Rick Astley," he said, before trying to moonwalk backwards and ended up falling over the back of the couch. He shot up, "Nobody saw that, and if you did, forget it!"
"So I have a surprise for you, Tori. It's not another microphone, but it's pretty awesome," Andre told me taking my hand in his. "Don't get too drunk tonight because we're-"
"How come nobody told me the man of the hour was here?!" Beck blurted out and ran over to us. He gave him a hug, a real one, not a dude hug.
"Well you were buried in Northridge girls, I didn't want to disturb you, or catch anything," Andre chuckled, and reached up to mess up Beck's hair a bit. He looked to me.
"Hey Tori, long time no see," he smiled and when Andre looked away, he winked at me. I only half smiled at him. It looked like he had been snorting lines already. The party wasn't even bumping yet, but I guess that was no excuse for Beck not to "bump."
"Hey Beck, I know right? Nothing like a shindig to bring us all together. Speaking of all, where's Robbie? Or Cat and Jade?" I asked. I just wanted to get away – I felt completely awkward.
"Eh, Robbie's in the bathroom on the phone. And you wouldn't believe that he left Rex behind! As for Cat and Jade, they're probably off licking each other," he shrugged.
"I'll go get them, we need the whole group to welcome Andre back after all," I said, standing on my tip-toes to kiss Andre on the cheek before leaving the two of them alone. I really hoped Beck didn't have anything planned. I hope that he wouldn't tell Andre all the shit we were doing while he was in New York. I would just die. I walked through the house until I found the only occupied bathroom and heard Robbie's voice. "Robbie?" I tapped on the door. He didn't answer. I took it upon myself to turn the doorknob anyway and peek in on him. He was sitting on the side of the tub.
"Yeah I know. Tomorrow morning I'm leaving to come see you for a week, though. Tonight's special, Andre's in town. One night won't make a difference, cuddle muffin. Okay? Alright, I will. No, I never drink and drive. Okay. Good luck tonight, by the way. I have to go now. I bleep you, too," Robbie said to some mystery person before he made a kissy noise into the phone. He stood up and I backed away from the door and acted like I was looking at Sinjin's family pictures in the hall. "Hey Tori!" Robbie exclaimed when he came out of the bathroom. He put his phone in his pocket and gave me a hug.
"Hey! Andre's here. We're ready to get this party started, but we can't without you," I said. "Seen Cat and Jade?"
"Yeah, they're not here though. They left to get more drinks because neither of them likes beer and that's all that's here," he answered.
"How the hell are they going to do that? They're only eighteen," I asked, furrowing my brow.
"Pfft. Jade has her ways," he smiled and put his arm around me. "I've missed you, you know. We haven't really hung out this whole summer." He said and we walked back into the party. He was being nicer than normal.
"I know, I've been busy...uh, brushing up on some stuff for the new job in San Fran," I answered as quick as I could.
"Oh yeah, you're moving in with Trina," he said, taking his arm off of me when we reached the kitchen. He reached in the fridge and popped open a beer and drank some.
"Yeah, I am. How'd you know?" I asked. I really didn't remember telling him, let alone having time to see him to tell him.
"Ah, you know," he shrugged, drank some beer and swirled his hand around in the air. "Words travel…and speaking of traveling, where's Andre?" he quickly asked.
"I'm right here. What's up Robbie?!" Andre said, leaping towards him for a hug. "Man, you look different! Look at Robbie, Tori. Isn't he handsome now?" he said, gently hitting him in the chest. I just smiled and nodded.
"All I did was lose the glasses, and maybe went through my final phase of puberty," he chuckled and Andre laughed. "Missed you dude," he said holding out his fist. Andre bumped it and their hands "exploded" in a rain of finger-fireworks.
"Shit, you're fist bumping too? Wow, I didn't think I was gone that long," Andre smiled before he was tackled from behind by a flash of red hair.
"Ah! Andre!" Cat squeaked before wrapping around him in a tight hug. She had his arms pinned, so he couldn't hug her back. She finally let go.
"Hey Little Red," he smiled and pinched her cheek a bit. She beamed with happiness and twirled around in her pretty pink and floral dress.
"Don't do that, Andre. She likes getting her cheeks pinched. And slapped. And spanked," Jade spoke up, with a sly grin on her face.
"Eep! Jade! Shhhhh!" Cat said, her face turning a bit red.
"Hey Jade, c'mere and give me some love," Andre said and put his arm out to hug her. She nuzzled into his chest a bit before backing off.
"Okay, enough with this mushy shit. We're here to celebrate your homecoming. So let's party!" Jade said and we all followed suit and broke out of the kitchen in an uproar of "WHOO!"
And party we did. Sinjin's party was a blast. Near the end of it, a smaller group of us played at least three rounds of Circle of Death, Twister and Truth or Dare. I picked dare every time in fear of Beck asking "truth" questions about the activities we had done weeks and even days before tonight's party. But because I picked dare all my turns, I was now stripped down to my bra and underwear, had to lick honey out of Cat's belly button, had to do a certain urban legend in the mirror, and made out with Dayzee – who might I add, was an excellent kisser. Now the party was breaking up little by little and I was ready to leave to receive my surprise from Andre.
"You sure you're gonna be alright with her?" Andre asked Dayzee after stating that she decided to go home with a girl from Northridge.
"Pssh, please. I'm straight outta Brooklyn. These bitches don't scare me, but they do make me wet!" Dayzee laughed loudly. It was obvious that she was way beyond drunk.
"Alright now, too much info. I'll call you in the morning, alright?" Andre said, hugging her goodbye as the girl who was taking Dayzee home tugged on her arm. "Take care of her, mmkay? She's kinda famous so she has to make it back to New York in once piece," Andre nodded towards the girl.
"Oh, I'm going to take good care of her," the girl smiled and winked. Andre just rolled his eyes at her.
"Take good care of Tori! Wink wink!" Dayzee shouted as she got into the passenger seat. I raised my eyebrow as Andre looked at me before widening his eyes.
"Drunk people, man," he simply said and kissed me. "You ready to go?" he asked me. I nodded.
"Alrighty, everyone! Thank you so much. I'm in town for this week so we all gotta hang before I go!" Andre smiled and waved to everyone as we walked towards his car.
"Had fun tonight?" I asked Andre as he opened the door for me. I got in and waited for him to get in.
"Oh yeah. But me and you? Our night's not over," he said, starting up his car. He had a big smile on his face as we pulled out of Sinjin's driveway.
"Good," I smiled and sat back in my seat and looked out the window.
I never wanted this night to end.
