For the first time since almost three months the sound of the doorbell buzzing in her apartment made a grin appear on Tori's face. She made an attempt to jump up from the sofa but was stopped by a harsh glare from her sister, who put the fashion magazine she was reading down to answer the door. Twisting her body so that her arm rested on the back of the sofa and she could have a perfect view of the door, Tori bit her lip in an attempt to muffle her growing grin when the person who caused it in the first place stepped into her sight. After Jade returned Trina's glare, her eyes moved to lock with Tori's and the soft smile Tori loved to see danced around Jade's lips.

"Hey you! You're late."

Jade smirked and walked towards Tori without taking her eyes off of her, ignoring Trina's grumbling as she retreated to Tori's bedroom. "How do you figure I'm late? I just said that I'd be coming over sometime after work."

"No, you said you'd come by as soon as you finished and straight to me."

Tori's eyes fell on a square box in Jade's hands with 'Mary's bakery' printed on it in light pink letters as the dark-haired woman sat down next to her with a sigh. "And here I thought you couldn't remember anything anymore. You were out like a light after you took those painkillers." Jade used one hand to lift Tori's legs from their stretched out place, slid under them so that she could be closer to the brunette and placed the white box on Tori's lap. "I have a reason to be late though." Jade flicked her eyes to the box and raised her eyebrows, silently telling Tori to open it. Smiling confusedly, Tori lifted the lid of the box, eyes immediately lighting up when they fell on a delicious-looking piece of cheese cake. "Ooooh, that's so great! I love cheesecake."

Jade grinned and reached into her bag to pull out a plastic fork wrapped in a napkin, holding it out to the brunette, who eagerly snatched it out of Jade's hand and dug into the cake. "I'm glad. When I was younger and I was sick, Aiden used to buy me a slice of cheesecake from the same bakery."

Tori let out a hum of satisfaction and mumbled around a mouth full of cheesecake, "Really? Why's that?"

Jade shrugged. "I don't know. It was just something he always did. So I thought why not do the same for you?"

The muffled sound of Trina singing along to her iPod in Tori's bedroom suddenly reached both women's ears and caused Tori to laugh and shake her head. The brunette took another bite and swallowed this time before she began to talk. "I've never met such adorable siblings like you and Aiden, seriously."

Jade's face screwed up. "Yeah. Great, thanks."

Tori laughed. "I'm serious. It's so remarkable how amazing you two get along with each other. I guess the fact that you and he only really had each other to rely on has a lot to do with that, but… still."

"Yeah. I wouldn't know what to do without him. I think I would have come out a lot worse as a person if it wasn't for him." Jade chuckled but Tori frowned and shook her head.

"You're a good person, Jade."

Jade looked up from her lap, eyes locking on Tori's, but mouth staying firmly shut. At last, she simply nodded. "Yeah. Well, you have Aiden and Amelia to thank for that."

Tori smiled at the way Amelia's name rolled so easily off of Jade's tongue when talking to her, remembering a time, where she refused to talk about her at all. Look how far we've come, Tori mused to herself and lowered her head to hide her growing smile. Jade didn't seem to notice as her hand gave her thigh a squeeze. "But hey, you're one to talk. I mean, Trina fights like a lioness for you."

"Yeah. But she should really tone it down a little," she said with a sigh before taking another bite of the cake.

"She'll come around eventually."

Tori nodded and took a deep breath before putting on a smile again. She scooped up a piece of the cake and held the fork out to Jade, who leaned forward and gladly accepted Tori's offering. Trina will come around, Tori thought absentmindedly, smiling when Jade's fore- and middle fingers started to draw slow circles on her leg.

She just has to.

…

Saturday,

May 17th, 2014

"Okay. I think I've got everything."

With her hands on her hips, Trina took a good look around and then turned to her sister standing in front of her when her eyes didn't catch anything that she might have forgotten to pack into her suitcase. She observed the younger woman's face for a moment before letting out a quiet sigh. "Are you sure you don't need me to stay? Who's going to take care of you now?"

Tori narrowed her eyes and smiled amusedly. "Jade is. You know that."

"Yeah, I know that. Doesn't mean that I like it though."

Tori's smile dropped. She had really tried to ignore Trina's verbal jabs at Jade. She had tried to keep her mouth shut. After all, if Trina saw how happy Jade made her, maybe that would change her mind and ease her prejudices. She bit her tongue every time Trina shot a glare in Jade's direction the past week, in turn loving Jade even more as she stayed quiet and simply ignored her sister's behavior. But it was impossible for Tori to ignore it now, now that Trina was on her way home again and she would probably tell their parents God knows what. "I'm really fed up with you, you know." Trina's face showed a splurge of surprise at Tori's tone which only angered the younger brunette even more. "I love Jade, okay? But of course I also love you and I can't say how much it hurts me that you don't accept our relationship."

"Whoa. I accept your relationship," Trina argued, "If you love her and she makes you happy, then… I guess I'm fine with it. I'll support you hundred percent."

Tori raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms. "Really? I didn't see that much of your support the last couple of days."

"Well… yeah, because… she's not exactly trustworthy, Tori. Just be careful. I don't trust her."

"But you can trust her."

"But I don't. And you shouldn't either, not so blindly."

"And you should have a little trust in me. I know what I'm doing."

"Do you really?" Trina narrowed her eyes at her sister. Neither one of them wanted to say goodbye to each other like that. But could Tori really accept Trina's horrible attitude toward Jade without even trying to turn it around? She didn't think so. "I mean, she's still so hung up on her fiancée. She still loves her, she even told me so. Helloooo, Earth to Tori! Don't you see the problem here?"

"For a fact, I don't. I don't have a problem with it. Jade will always love Lia. She can't just… cut her out of her heart."

"She's dead."

Tori's eyebrows creased, her body tensing. "So? You really don't have any right to judge if you don't know how it feels like to lose the love of your life, Trina. She went through hell these last couple of years. But now, she's… she's happy. Because of me. Do you know how good that makes me feel? Do you know how good she makes me feel?"

"No, I don't because all I've seen so far was that you felt absolutely horrible because of her."

"Then you should have opened your eyes the last few days. But you couldn't look past your stupid prejudices! You could have tried for me, Trina."

"I don't like her!"

"Well, she doesn't like you very much either but I don't see her giving you any attitude."

Trina's eyes closed as her hand lifted to rub her forehead and a sigh escaped her mouth. Looking back at Tori, she tilted her head to the side with pleading eyes. "Can we drop it? I get it. You love her, you don't like how I acted toward her, you trust her, blah blah blah. Can I just have a nice little moment with my baby sister before I fly back to L.A. and won't see her for months? Is that too much to ask?"

It was Tori's turn to release a sigh. "No. Of course not." Not resisting in the slightest, Tori let Trina hug her, her own arms tightly wrapping around her sister. A sudden sadness enclosed around her heart when she realized how true Trina's words rung. They wouldn't see each other, probably not until Christmas, and it really wasn't acceptable for them to part ways fighting. "Thanks for looking out for me," Tori mumbled into her sister's shoulder, feeling Trina's arms give her a light squeeze in return.

"Anytime, little sis." They pulled away, smiling and the fact that they were arguing merely a minute ago almost completely forgotten. Trina let out a sigh, smiled, and grabbed the handle of her suitcase. "I guess I should get going then. Robbie is probably getting impatient."

"Yeah." They walked to the open door in silence, once more pausing there to hug one last time. "Have a safe flight, Treen."

"Thanks. And let Jade take good care of you. Or I swear to God-"

"I get it," Tori interrupted before any threats could leave her sister's mouth. "Just um, one last thing… don't tell mom and dad anything yet. I mean, I-"

"No, no, don't worry. It's not my place to tell." The older Vega smiled, lifted her hand in a wave and then made her way downstairs and only when Tori heard the doors of Robbie's car slam shut and the engine roared to life, did she walk back inside, silently wondering where Jade was right in now.

…

Her sister completely hates me."

Aiden let five small, red pillows tumble into the shopping cart and shook his head. "Oh, come on. Don't be so dramatic."

"I'm not." She hesitated and pushed the cart in front of her before asking the next question. "Aiden… You don't think that… Amelia would mind it when Tori and I-"

"No, of course not." Her brother took a hold of her arm to stop her and turned her to face him. "No, she wouldn't. Why? Do you think that?"

"No… Not at all actually but… I just wanted to hear someone else say it, I guess." It really was the truth, which actually even surprised Jade herself. Amelia wasn't really a restraint between the two of them, even though Jade almost expected it. Never would she have thought that being with Tori would be so… easy. Easy. That's what it was. There weren't any doubts, there wasn't any hesitation from either of them because everything seemed to come so naturally with them. It was easy, simple as that. Jade stopped in front of a shelf full of blankets, all in different colors and protected by plastic wrappers. The ones in red caught her eye, her hand instantly reaching out to grab two of the packages.

"Red seems to be the theme," Aiden commented as he let his eyes wander over Jade's selection of pillows, blankets and candles in the shopping cart.

"Well, yeah. Red is the color of love and… it's supposed to be romantic so I thought since romance usually equals red…"

"So Tori's a romantic, huh?"

Jade sighed, letting her eyes travel over the store while she pushed the cart in front of her in case she'd see something she still needed. "I hope so. But considering her taste in movies I'd say yes." Pausing to look down at the contents in the shopping cart, Jade frowned. "Do you think she'll like it? Cat said it's a good idea when I told her what I want to do but do you think it's too kitschy? Or, I mean… ugh, I just don't know!"

"I'm sure she's going to love it, Jade," Aiden soothed and quickly added, "And I don't think it's kitschy. Romantic, but not kitschy."

Jade groaned. "But wait, isn't that one and the same?"

"No."

"I hate this whole romance shebang." They kept walking, nothing else catching Jade's eye, and when arriving at the cash register, both siblings started to put every item onto the conveyor belt. "Why do you even buy all this stuff?" Aiden asked as he put three big pillows onto the belt. "Couldn't you just have taken a couple of pillows and blankets from home?"

"I don't have that many pillows and blankets."

"You didn't have to buy so many then."

Jade glared at her older brother. "I want to keep her warm and comfortable. I had to buy so many."

Aiden smirked. "Considering you claim to hate romance so much, you sure do know how to pull it off."

"Just shut up."

…

A little while after Trina had left, Tori got up from watching reruns of 'Friends' when her doorbell sounded and wasn't all that surprised when her visitor turned out to be Jade. "You again," Tori said in a playfully bored tone and let out a long sigh.

"Oh, you're annoyed by me already?"

"Well, I can't say I was surprised that you came up the stairs," Tori teased with a smirk and crossed her arms, shifting her weight to the right side and leaning against the doorframe. Jade rolled her eyes but smiled nonetheless as she came to a stop in front of the brunette. "I'm so sorry that I'm so boring. How can I make it up to you?"

Instead of answering, a grin stretched across Tori's face. The familiar and gentle strokes of a thousand butterfly wings beat against the walls of her stomach when Jade started to lean in, the loud rumble of fireworks replacing the little animals as their lips brushed against each other's and Jade's hand stroked her hip before slowly moving to her back. "I have a surprise for you," she quietly mumbled after she placed a gentle nip on Tori's bottom lip.

"And what's that?"

"I thought since Trina left and we can do whatever we want now without her having anything to say about it, we should have our first date."

An embarrassing and probably insanely idiotic and lovesick smile formed on Tori's face but her accelerating heartbeat and the returning butterflies made it impossible for the brunette to care. "Our first date?"

"Of course. If we're going to do it, then we're going to do it right." She pulled away and raised questioning eyebrows. "So? Am I allowed to kidnap you?"

There really was only one answer. "You certainly are."

A/N: I apologize, I'm so horrible at writing fluffy and happy things. That's probably why I almost always kill someone in stuff I write.