Moonlight streamed through Tori's bedroom, casting shadows everywhere. It caught on her mirror and glinted off the shiny Pearphone clad in a blue case, which sat on her nightstand. Tori laid on her bed, staring up at the ceiling. She was thinking about how her day had gone. It had been fairly normal until Mr. Gradstein's class. Jade's video had bothered her, andTori had been frazzled ever since. The reason was simple enough: Jade West was lesbian.

Tori had never expected Jade to be a homosexual. Jade had convinced her, along with everyone else, that she loved Beck. The two were close, rarely separated physically and almost never separated emotionally. They were always holding hands, or at least standing beside each other. Beck would tease Jade often, Beck was one of only a few people who could control Jade, Jade was politer to Beck than she was with anyone else, and Jade was extremely protective of Beck. On Tori's first day at Hollywood Arts, Jade dumped coffee on Tori because she was "rubbing her boyfriend." When Jade faked having a black eye, Beck became protective. Jade wanted to believe her relationship with Beck would work out. Even after Beck and Jade broke up, Beck tried to take care of Jade's feelings.

As Tori thought of Jade's past interactions with Beck, she tried to connect them to interactions she had with Jade. Tori had a small crush on Jade since the day they met. Their relationship had been full of ups and downs. It had started off coldly, with Jade hating Tori and Tori not being able to understand Jade. Tori took a punishment that Jade should have had because she didn't want to fight with Jade. When Tori and Jade pulled off producing Jade's play Well Wishers and the two hugged for the first time, Tori felt over the moon. Their fights hurt, and any time Jade was nice to her, it made Tori's day. Since Jade had played Tori's wife in a school play, Tori's feelings had grown. Now there was a definite possibility that Jade could have a crush on her.

Try as she might, Tori couldn't get this thought out of her mind. It was such a great prospect that Tori couldn't help but be enchanted by the idea of her and Jade becoming a couple. She wasn't sure if Jade liked her, but if she didn't ask, she'd never know. Tori reached for her blue Pearphone. She scrolled through her contacts until she found Jade's phone number.

Message to:

Jade West

Hey Jade.

Tori stared at the two words she had typed. Doubt and hesitance began to fill her mind. Tori deleted the message. A popup came up, stating she had a new message from The Slap. She opened The Slap to find herself on Beck's Slap page. At the top of the page a new icon had appeared underneath the number of followers he had, signaling his new relationship status. A few seconds later, a notice came up saying Beck had posted a status.

After refreshing the page, the status came up. "To all who keep asking, I was NOT told about the change in our movie. Not that those changes were a bad thing..." The mood was "Concerned." The smilie face above the mood looked back and forth, as if the little yellow circle had no idea how it ended up on a social media website designed for high school kids.

Tori scrolled down on Becks' Slap page until she found the Pix section. Many of the photos Beck was slapped in also had Jade in them. She looked through several pictures with the two together before switching to pictures Jade was slapped in. She looked at pictures of Jade in a cheese costume and threatening the camera with a giant fork, Jade in a fancy purple gown trying to catch the Flour Bomber, Jade posing with Cat on a submarine set, Jade at the Cow-Wow, and Jade preforming You Don't Know Me. The last image made Tori catch her breath. Cruel lyrics to the song played in her mind. Jade's song had warned the listeners didn't know or get her, and the listener had no idea what they were getting into. The lyrics may have been truer than first thought.

The music in Tori's head was interrupted by a creaking sound. She rolled over to see Trina bursting into her room, waving her Pearphone in the air.

Trina showed no qualms about barging into Tori's bedroom. "Knock knock, enter enter!"

"Um, come in?" Tori propped herself up on her arms.

"Did you see Beck's new Slap status?" Trina rushed over to her younger sister's bed.

Tori ducked her head. "Yea, I did."

"Weren't you doing a movie with Beck?" Trina leaned towards Tori.

"Yes..."

"So you know what the change to the movie is."

"I saw the movie and the script, so yea, I did."

Trina sat down on Tori's bed. "Did you know about this awesome change?"

"No, I didn't have a clue, and the change is really small anyway." Tori looked at her alarm clock, picked it up, and held it up to Trina's face. "Golly, would you just look at the time!" Tori spoke in her Julia Garland impression.

Trina rubbed her eyes and stared as the clock, then checked the time on her phone. "It's so late! My beauty sleep is going to be ruined!"

As Trina rushed out of Tori's bedroom, Tori put her clock back on her nightstand and smiled. Trina was so easy to get rid of. All Tori had to do was imply she wouldn't look good and she would take care of the rest.

With Trina out of the way, Tori turned her attention back to her phone. She thought about Jade some more, and blushed. Words in her mind began to form some sentences. She found Jade's number again.

Message To:

Jade West

Her fingers hovered over the letters at the bottom of the screen.

Heya, Jade. I've been thinking about our movie project. How do you think it turned out?"

Tori frowned. That sounded a little too direct for Jade. She needed to lead in to the topic.

Hi. What are you doing?

Tori mimicked Jade's voice. "Going to bed. What did you think, moron?"

She deleted the message. She slid her phone across her nightstand. Sighing, she laid down on her bed. The thought she would never know whether Jade felt the same way about her as she felt about Jade made her disappointed as she fell asleep.

I wonder what Jade is doing during this chapter...

Sorry about the upload delay. The site was fixing server problems when I was trying to upload this. Next chapter will be uploaded on Thursday due to my not being in town on the usual upload date.

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