So Andre may seem a little OOC (out of character) for this chapter, but he's just really upset, given the circumstances. And sorry if there are any misspellings or grammatical errors, I'm being forced to update now by my "two daughters" (lol don't ask). :P

Anyways, enjoy!

Andre's POV

I missed Tori. There was nothing else to be said about the situation; I just missed her to the core of my being. I missed her smile, her beautiful cheekbones, her chocolate brown eyes, the cute little eyebrow wave she could do, and the way she adorably giggled when something was funny. What was worse than anything was the fact that instead of missing her as my best friend (which I did), I also missed her as my girlfriend. I don't care that we only dated for not even an hour, but I still loved her. I had grown to love her and then of course, as fate would have it, she was taken away. Every moment of every day, I imagined what she could be doing. I imagined what she could be going through and the first thing that always came to my mind was that she was with some crazy pedophile and just thinking about a man hurting her like that gave me chill bumps all over my body. I just wanted her to come home safely, but the odds didn't look that great. I would have given anything, and I mean anything, just to see her one more time.

I dreamed about her almost every single night. Some dreams were good while others weren't so good.

It was in the middle of summer, so I don't know why I was walking in the hallways of school. But I didn't give it much thought as I walked through the school and outside, over to the lunch table where Beck, Robbie (and Rex), Cat, and Jade were already sitting. I noticed that they were all looking down and had sad expressions on their faces. As I got closer, I realized that Cat was crying. I hurried over there and sat down next to Beck. "Hey guys. What's going on?"

The only person that looked at me was Beck and even Beck, who doesn't get emotional about hardly anything, had tears in his eyes. "Andre…haven't you heard?"

I looked at all of my friends, but they didn't look at me. "Heard what? What are you talking about?"

Beck sighed and pulled out his PearPad. He pressed a few buttons and then handed it to me without even looking at me. I looked at him odd for a second before looking down at the screen. It appeared to be a news report. There was a lady talking into a microphone and she was saying, "And it has been confirmed that the teenage girl found dead in a ditch just five miles away from her own home, is in fact Tori Vega."

My heart ripped into a million pieces. I could feel my chest getting tighter and tighter by the second. My eyes were welling up in tears and it got so bad that I could hardly see the screen. But there was one thing I saw on the screen before dropping the PearPad and running off: "Cause of death: strangulation and repeatedly stabbed."

I rose up in bed screaming. For a second, I just sat there hyperventilating. I had dreams like that all the time and I hated them so much. They sometimes made me not wanna go to sleep. I put my hand over my racing heart and it was still broken. That dream felt one hundred percent real, so when my heart broke into a million pieces in the dream, it really felt like it did in real life. Simply put, I hated it.

I climbed out of bed and grabbed a special album I'd made from under my bed. I opened it to the first page and stopped there. Tori's face filled the page. Her beautiful, smiling face. She looked so happy. I ran my hand across the page as my eyes welled up in tears. It didn't take long until tears were rolling down my cheeks and one landed on the page.

I wiped it away and then closed the album. I loved looking at Tori's face, but it was just too painful. I put it back under my bed and leaned over my bedside. I cried and prayed for an hour straight. I had never wanted Tori with me more than I did that night.

The next day, I got together with Beck, Robbie, Cat, and Jade and we continued to search. There was a search center not too far from Tori's home and people could go and search for her if they wanted to. For at least five hours every day, my friends and I went out and we searched our butts off just because we wanted to. Every day, I would hope to find something, but we never found anything.

After we'd been searching for close to two hours, I started walking next to Beck and began to talk to him. While searching, we normally didn't talk; we just searched. We were always in our own little worlds.

"Why aren't we finding anything?" I said out loud to Beck.

He shrugged. "She must not be anywhere near here."

"Yeah, obviously not," I said a little harsher than I intended.

Beck looked at me oddly. "Andre, I'm sorry, but you didn't have to say that so rudely."

I sighed. "Yeah, I know, but in case you forgot, Beck…I lost my best friend and girlfriend. So excuse me for not being happy."

"Andre, she was one of my best friends too." said Beck as calmly as possible. "I miss her too and I hope every day that she can come home safely."

For some reason, I didn't like that he was saying this. I mean, I knew they were really good friends, but he was acting like he liked her or something. "Beck, did you like her as more than a friend?"

He gulped and glanced at me quickly. "Honestly?"

"Yes, honestly,"

"Yes," he said bluntly. "I did."

My eyes widened. I thought he was gonna say no. "Dude, what the heck? You're dating Jade! Why would you like one girl when you're dating another one?"

Beck sighed in aggravation. "It's not like that, Andre. I never cheated on Jade and never will. I love her and I'm happy with her–"

"But you just said that you liked Tori!" I reminded him.

"I realized that I liked Tori when Jade and I were broken up." he explained. "I had been spending a lot of time with her and I began to realize what an amazing girl she was."

My eyes filled with tears. "Is. She is an amazing girl." I hated talking about Tori in the past tense. I didn't wanna think about her being dead, even though it was kind of impossible since I had dreams about her being dead all the time.

Beck softly smiled. "She is an amazing girl. And…I don't know. I really got to liking her." He hesitated for a moment. "Remember when she got the opportunity to sing for the Platinum Music Awards?"

"Yeah, of course I do." I said. "Why are you bringing that up?"

"You know how she was acting like a jerk and dressing all weird?" he asked and I nodded. "Well…that was all an act."

"Yeah, I know." I said. "She told me."

"Yeah, well, she didn't have to tell me." he said. "I just knew. I knew Tori and I knew that she wouldn't act like that unless someone made her. When I mentioned this to her, we ended up having a deep conversation. I told her that she should tell that Mason Thornesmith guy that she wasn't going to play his game anymore and that she should just be herself…cause she's awesome. We exchanged a few smiles and then leaned in to kiss."

"You guys kissed?" I exclaimed. "What? Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't she tell me? What?"

"But we didn't!" he exclaimed before I could get too worked up. "I swear, we were like an inch apart, but then her mom came in and we immediately pulled apart and I was gone within like ten seconds."

My heart had picked up speed, but then it calmed down. "So you guys didn't kiss?"

"No," He sighed. "Then…a few days later…after you and Robbie left to go see Jade rehearse at the music awards, Tori and I got to talking and…it got to be a quiet moment between us and…I really liked her, so…I leaned in to kiss her. But…she wouldn't let us, because of Jade."

I looked at him weird. "Why because of Jade?"

He sighed. "She said that she didn't want to kiss her friend's ex-boyfriend. I pointed out that Jade hasn't always been a good friend to her, but she didn't care. She still saw her and Jade as being sort of friends. So…she didn't want to because of Jade."

"So…if it hadn't been for Jade…you guys would have kissed?"

He hesitated for a moment and then nodded. "Yeah. I really think we would have."

I sighed shakily. "If you really liked her…why did you still end up going back out with Jade?"

"It…it's complicated." he said. "I don't really know. But what I do know is that I'm with Jade now and I love her. I'm happy that you and Tori got together. You two are perfect for each other."

I gulped and looked off into the forest. I saw other people in orange vest far off searching as well. It was so unreal at how many people had searched for her. Some of the big time celebrities even donated their time to help search for her. Of course, we were in LA where they lived, so it wasn't that unlikely. "Thanks." I shook my head. "I loved her so much for so long and…the day we decide to get together…she goes missing. Why did it have to happen?"

I asked that question to my friends all the time and they never had a good answer, because well…there wasn't really an answer. It just happened. It's just like everything else in this world; life isn't fair.

Beck and I stopped talking a few minutes later and we got into our own little worlds and just continued to search. I would occasionally call out Tori's name like everyone else, but it was pointless since everyone else was as well. If she was anywhere near us and heard us calling her name, she would respond. At least…I hoped she would.

At one point, Jade and I started walking next to each other. "So…I heard you and Beck's conversation." she said out of nowhere.

I looked at her quickly. "Are you serious?" She nodded. "And you're not mad at Beck?"

She shook her head. "Why should I be? We were broken up at the time." She sighed heavily. "Besides…that second time they almost kissed when Tori turned him down…I saw that."

My eyes widened. "You saw that? How?"

"Someone left their video chat on and I saw the whole conversation while I was backstage getting ready for my performance the next night." she explained. "Seeing that and…seeing how sweet Tori was about the whole situation; not wanting to kiss her friend's ex-boyfriend, because she said herself that she couldn't do that to me…I don't know, it just got me thinking and I realized that I couldn't take her spot in the Platinum Music Awards. So…I let her have the spot back and she was very grateful."

I smiled at her. "That was really nice of you, Jade. Did you ever tell Tori that you saw that?"

She shook her head. "No. It was just kind of forgotten."

I nodded and remained silent. I thought of all the things that I should have said and done while with Tori. Every day, I thought of something I wish she had known and I hate myself for not telling her sooner. Her being gone made me realize that I had been taking for granted everything in my life. Well, it came back and bit me in the butt. If Tori somehow miraculously was safely found, I would spend as much time with her as possible.

Since Tori and I were sorta still together, I didn't go out with other girls, but believe me, girls asked me out and flirted with me, but I turned them down. There was no way in heck that I was going to date some other girl when I'd already committed myself to the girl of my dreams. I know it seems selfish, but sometimes I wanted her to be found alive just so I could make sure she didn't forget about me. Her possibly forgetting about me was my worst fear.

So I wrote this after I watched TGP and that resulted in all the conversations between Andre & Beck and Andre & Jade!