Sorry for the late update! Honestly, while I love my ideas for this story, it's a pain to write, and I've been overwhelmed with drama. Thank you so much to the kind reviewers!
I know this isn't very long, but I honestly couldn't think of how to extend it after I added in the last part.
I've also started a new line break system, as the shift+enter one wasn't working for me. It's x. Hope you don't get confused!
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"Hey, mom, do you want to go to the graveyard with me, Cat and Brittany tomorrow? Sikowitz has this new play about someone growing up in a graveyard, and since I want to audition for the lead role, apparently I need to get a feel for the scenery." Tori begged her mom, fluttering her eyelashes at her. She had memorized a little speech she wrote herself so she wouldn't get nervous. Okay, Andre and Robbie might've helped her a little bit.
She shuddered. She also remembered how possessive and slightly uncharacteristically cranky and concerned Jade was. She was even sweating, which was a feat in itself! For some reason, Jade had been a torpedo of emotion ever since she'd sent that text, and she'd been hanging all over Beck.
"I know….. But still. Do you really think…" Jade had been whispering to Beck all afternoon, and Tori had only caught bits and pieces of a worried conversation. Was Jade okay?
Clearing her head, she heard her mom begin to speak. "Honey, you know I'd love to help you, but with my hectic schedule…. I don't think I can. And what are you doing with you eye? Do you have that tic again?"
"Mom! I don't have that tic anymore! But…but… please come? For your daughter? I feel like I never spend time with you anymore." Tori pleaded, even going so far as to fall onto her knees. "I'll love you forever."
"Like you wouldn't if I didn't." Her mom smiled as she patted Tori's head that reminded her strongly of how Jade had right before she'd spilled her coffee all over her. "But okay. I'll do it for my favorite daughter."
Tori smiled, before going upstairs hurriedly. Safe in her room, she pumped her fist into the air triumphantly before sharing the news with her friends. It was only after that she felt badly about setting her mother up…
Cat had taken care of asking Brittany, and, surprisingly, it went smoothly. Cat used the same excuse, but played up the scary factor instead of loneliness, looking defenseless and adorably scared, according to Robbie.
Tori had no idea how Cat hadn't noticed Robbie's obvious crush on her. It was even more obvious than the fact that Cat didn't like him back. Which was sad, but true. Sighing, Tori snuck out of her room to meet with the gang and report on her progress.
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It was 7:56 and 28 seconds, yes, Tori was counting, and Cat still hadn't come to pick her and her mom up! Holly Vega was getting impatient, having pushed back her flight to Maui.
"Honey, if they don't come soon-" Her mom was cut off by a loud squeal.
"Hi hi!" Cat said, wearing a pajelehoochoo. She launched herself at Holly, hugging her with amazing strength. "I haven't seen you in forever, !" She squealed, sneakily clipping the GPS chip onto her hood. "Let's go Tori!"
Cat pulled both of the Vegas along until they got to a very beat up exterminator's truck.
"Is that safe?" Tori asked, looking inside suspiciously. "It smells like something burned in here."
"Don't be such a downer, Tor! Of course it's safe! My brother bought it from a nice old man." Cat giggled, only letting her smile slip when Holly had her back turned. "Is everything in place?" She whispered.
Tori only nodded, exploring the rather large truck. "What's this?" She held up some sort of slimy thing by its end.
"That's a rat." Cat said quietly.
"Eek!" Tori flung the rat across the truck and into a certain someone's face.
"Hello, Tori." said Brittany with a look of disgust. "Nice of you to join us."
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Meanwhile, André was already at the graveyard.
"Are they going to follow the deal?" A shadowed man asked, covered in black from head to toe.
"Yes, sir. I helped plan it and, everything will go exactly the way you wanted it to, sir." André looked hesitant. "One more thing though... Make sure to take off their jackets. Tori insisted on putting a tracker on them."
"Good of you to tell me, not like I already don't know. I'm watching you, all of you, remember that." André took the threat for what it was and began to leave, but pausing.
"Do you have my money?" He asked. "My grandma finished her prescription bottle, and I don't have the money to get her more right now..."
The shadowed man glared at him, before relenting. "Here's $100. Don't expect any more, though, until Annemarie is in my hands."
"Of course, kind sir." André said thankfully, snatching the money as if he was afraid the man would take it away.
"Now go. And remember, don't even think about telling any of you little friends about this."
"Don't worry. I won't." André said, before disappearing into the night.
So, what did you think? I added a sliver of Bade and some foreshadowing!
And, by the way, AnneMarie is the main actress in the Scissoring, and left the dolls the recipe for escape. She's also Brittany's sister.
Please please please review? And what would you guys think of me starting a Victorious romance fic? It'd be a multi-chap, but I don't know how to write good Bade, so it'd have to be another couple. But, since this is kind of a dying fandom, I don't know if anyone is going to read it.
Thank you for reading!