Tori
You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs.
But I look around me and I see it isn't so.
Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs.
And what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know, 'cause here I go again
I love you, I love you
His parents are in total shock, and his Dad is definitely not pleased to see Grandma on the other hand is probably being the nicest she can, giving me cookies and telling me all about Beck, also, that she loves me already. It's a strange feeling being here, the house is warm, it smells like snow and it's really cozy. But there's something about it, like it makes sense for me to be here, like for once there's nothing bad about it, even his Dad doesn't make me insecure. "What a surprise!" his Mom says.
"A real good one!" Grandma argues, and I feel Beck's eyes looking down at me, bringing an involuntary smile to my face.
"We ran into each other" He says, holding my hand, making my body send shivers up and down my spine.
"huh" is the only thing his Dad says, meanwhile his Mom comes closer and places her hand on my shoulder. She seems excited to see me?
"C'mon it's almost midnight, Richard would you get the ham?" He makes his way between Beck and I and grabs his arm taking him with.
"Isn't she pretty?" Grandma twirls her fingers on my hair, and looks at his Mom "and look at those cheekbones!" I look behind at the kitchen, and she brings my attention to my nails, saying they're nice too. Now I'm sure she's just trying to distract me from Beck and his Dad. He still doesn't like me, how can someone hold a grudge for so long? He could at least try to like me.
"Where's the restroom?" I politely ask.
"First door down the hall" I nod, and look for it, locking myself inside. I need some minutes to myself.
"I just don't want this girl to mess up your life again!" what?"You were fine before and after her!"
I look up, and notice there's a vent that probably leads to the kitchen, because I can hear ever single word his father is saying. And I don't like any of it.
"I don't care about what you think of her" he argues back, and as much as I feel bad for eavesdropping I can't stop listening to this "I was fine without her, but I was amazing with her"
"I don't li..."
"...I love her Dad, how many times do I have to say it?" I sit down at the counter, trying to be as silent as I can which is easy, I can be very sneaky when I want to. "Can you please try for me?"
"Fine" and that's the end of it, the footsteps go further until they disappear, and after a minute or so I leave the bathroom. I get my Pearphone to check the time, and turn it on, why did I turn it off in the first place? I have five new messages from Johnny, I delete all of them, so glad that I'll never have to tolerate him and his friends talking about the Greek system shit. Glad that I'll never have to tolerate any of those shitty guys ever again.
"Ten minutes till Christmas!" His Mom sings, as they all gather around the fireplace, I spot Beck, and as I'm about to sit down next to him my phone rings, and just now I notice that I have over ten missed calls, that I thought were by Andre or maybe Mary Alice, but no, they're from my Mom. Why is she calling me
"Mom?"
"Tori! Thank god! You don't pick up, and we can't find you anywhere! We know how though Christmas is for you! I was worried..."
My heart sinks into my chest, and I can't believe the words she's saying "I'm sorry Mom..."
"...well you should be! Where are you?"
"I'm at Beck's grandma's house, I'm staying"
"Beck, ok... At least I know you're fine... Tori, I love you, merry Christmas"
"I...I love you too Mom"
I go back to the living room, and his father tell us all to sit down to say our prayers. I'd never thought they'd be the kind of family to do that, but like everything else here, it's nice. His grandma begins, with her hands together over the table which for me it's better than all of us holding hands "and the last thing I want to say is to thank god, for all the good he brought to our family this year, and for making his Christmas just the way it should be, even if it was three years late"
Beck holds my hand under the table, running his thumb on my palm. Three years late... At least it's better late than never. "To family" His Dad says, raising a glass to toast, before we begin to eat.
The dinner went really well, I can tell that at the begging his Dad was making a lot of effort to be nice, but I'm starting to think he doesn't hate me anymore. He even laughed at one of my jokes! His Mom and Grandma are doing the dishes on the kitchen, I wanted to help but they insisted that I didn't have to, so Beck, his Dad and I are just talking in front of the fireplace. Even with the heating all the fire it's freezing cold, Vancouver has an insane weather.
"I think we should head off" Beck says, and I look at the clock, it's almost four AM, we really should. His Dad gets up, and gives us both a hug, he actually hugged me. Is this his way of saying I'm welcome in the family? I think so. His Mom and Grandma kissed me, and couldn't stop asking us to stay for a while longer, but I think we're both really tired, and I can't wait to be alone with him again.
(x)
We get in line, people are cheering waiting for the arena to open. It's my last night in Vancouver, and Beck didn't want to let it be just another night, and by that he meant that he wanted to do something without Tyler, because no night when we're together is just another night. The gates open and we get in, we make our way through the crowd and make it really near the stage, I think I'm going to be able to see the freckles on the vocalist face when they start the concert. "You really outdid yourself this time" I tell him, as he puts his arm around my waste and pulling me closer "There's no better way to end this trip"
"The bad thing is that I probably won't come up with something this good on all the others" I move against the crowd to be in front of him.
"I'm just looking forward to the day neither one of us has to leave" He kisses me until the lights go dark. And the band comes up on the stage, and as they change their first song to the next one the both of us stop, listening to the words that we once listened to as being nothing but kids that didn't really like each other.
So and if you have a minute why don't we go
Talk about it somewhere only we know?
This could be the end of everything
So why don't we go
Somewhere only we know?
Somewhere only we know?
6 months later
It's a beautiful night
We're looking for something dumb to do
Hey baby
I think I wanna marry you
I put on lipstick and sit down in the couch next to my Dad, waiting for everyone to be ready and for the ceremony to start. "You look really pretty honey" He kisses the side of my head, and gets up to grab a drink. I look between the curtains, everyone is waiting, the pastor has a nice smile on his face, and unlike most days in Seattle, the sun is bright and there hasn't been a single drop of rain.
"Ok, I'm ready!" Trina comes out of the room in a sparkly white gown, white gloves and a huge veil with a train that must be at least three feet long. She looks just like any one would imagine her as a bride, too much and too bright.
"Trina you look...sparkly" My Dad says, and she pouts her lips pulling him in for a hug. I get up, and straighten out my dress before we get out. Fortunately, Trina wanted everyone to look at her instead of any other person, so the bridesmaid dress she picked for me is just a plain, strapless navy blue dress without a single detail on it. At first I didn't like it, but then I remembered Trina could've made me wear anything she wanted, so from all the possibilities, a washed out simple dress is not so bad after all.
"That's the nicest thing you could've said, thank you Daddy!" I tell the band to start playing, grab my bouquet and head out in front of them. I look at all the guests, and go up the altar next to my Mom...when I spot him. He's looking straight at me, and all I want to do is drop the bouquet, drop this whole party and be with him; It's been almost two months since we've seen each other in person, and the only reason I'm not freaking out that I'm leaving in just three days is that classes end next week, and that he's moving to LA next month, and... "Tori!"
I snap out of my thoughts, and Trina's waiting for me to pick up her bouquet "Oh, right...sorry" I smile awkwardly and she hands it to me, my father gives her away and the pastor starts to speak. I look at Beck and he's nodding his head with a grin on his face looking at me, and even after all this time I can feel myself blush.
Andre and Mary Alice are engaged, and he got a really big record deal in New York which ended up being perfect for us, there was no need for the awkward 'who's getting the apartment' discussion. Everything is falling right into place, slowly, but just the way they should.
The pastor talks more, Trina and Alec say their vows, they kiss and I missed all of it, because I simply can't take my eyes off him. The music starts to play again, and the newly weds walk down the aisle and make their way to the dance floor to do the big dance they've been practicing for two months. I stand in the middle of the crowd of guests and when the big dance song starts to play all of them walk out to the edge of the dance floor, leaving just one guest alone in the middle of the seats. I run towards him and throw myself into a hug, and as always, he catches me.
"I missed you so much" He says, and I kiss him with a smile on my face.
Beck
Maybe someday
You'll be somewhere
Talking to me
As if you knew me
Saying, I'll be home for next year, darling
I'll be home for next year
Everyone could tell by the amount of diamonds and pearls and basically anything that sparkles in Trina's dress, that she wanted all eyes on her today, and I think she got all of them, except for mine. It's been two months since I've Tor in person, and if Tyler's car hadn't broken down in the middle of the road we wouldn't have been late, and I'd be able to see her before the ceremony, instead of controlling every single fiber of my body to keep me from going up that altar and kissing her. "I missed you so much" She kisses me, and I sit down in the same chair I was before with her in my lap. "Sorry I was a bit late"
"It doesn't matter, you're here now" I run my fingers through her hair and kiss her for the longest we can bare, she tastes like she always does and smells the same, and I'm so thankful for that. I run my thumb on her cheek and she rests her forehead on mine "It's so good to be able to see you without a taskbar underneath your face"
"Excuse me..." A staff worker approaches us "We need to close this space to make the gifts basket stands and set up photo cabin" She gets up, but we don't let go of our hands, it feels wrong to do that. We walk away from that space as we were told, Trina and Alec are still dancing, Tyler is talking to some random girl, and I wrap my arms around her waist.
"Tell me what are our plans again?" She asks, as she leans against the wall holding on to my tie, and it's one of the sexiest things ever. I lean in kissing her cheek, and her neck until she pulls my tie even more kissing me, and I can feel the goose bumps on her skin, I love it.
I pull away reminding myself that her entire family is here. "Alright, where do I start?" She has a subtle smile on her face, but it's mostly her eyes, even thought she still has some anxiety attacks from time to time, and there are days that aren't easy for us, there's so something so different about her eyes... I guess it's hope. "you're going to go back to LA on Saturday night, we're both having our finals week" She nods her head with the same, gorgeous smile she always had "then we're going to graduate, then Andre is moving out and I'm moving in with you..." I give her a brief kiss " Tyler will too but that's another story"
"Hello future roomie and present roomie" She lets go of my tie, and Tyler approaches us with three very welcome glasses of champagne. "before we toast I wanted would like to say that if we used the money your sister's dress cost we could probably feed the whole Rwanda population"
"Feed them caviar" I say, and we toast drinking up. We chat away, I'm amazed on how well Tori and Tyler get along, they fight a lot about lots of stupid things, they're literally like brother and sister which is somewhat odd because they haven't been together that much time. But it's better that way, since we're going to live together, things are turning out so well it's almost unbelievable.
Los Angeles
You were so clever,
You kept it together today,
By the way, I'll no longer ignore you,
I wanted to show you again, I'm your friend,
Sometimes we just pretend.
And all I can say is you save me
I wake up, reaching for her but she's not beside me. Is it morning yet? I look at the clock, it's three AM, weird. I fall back on my pillow, but the walls can't help and let me hear some talking coming from the living room. "Do you want to watch something, Clueless is on channel four" Why is Tyler talking about Clueless? He hates that movie.
"No thanks, I just need to..." Tori says, but stops talking in the middle of her sentence, I get off of bed and open the door, peeking in the living room. The lights are off except for the TV, Tori has her legs up to her knees on the end of the couch and Tyler's talking to her, he's trying to calm her down. This is one of the bad nights, but I don't think I've ever seen him trying to get her out of the bad zone. "I just need to...hum..."
I go over to them, and sit down by her side. "I think we need to plan our videos for the next week" I say, and Tyler turns on one of the lights, so that's it's only light enough for us to see but not enough to make our eyes squint with the change. "Are you going to do any covers Tor?"
"People have been saying they really want you to do an acoustic version of yours and Beck's song from high school" she nods closing her eyes for a few seconds and breathing in deeply.
"That sounds good" she says, looking at Tyler then at me "We should write the script for out next comedy video too... Unless you want to sleep?"
"No, no way! I just had three cups of coffee I'm good to go" He says, quickly grabbing his notebook and putting on the table for us to write "Beck, you good?"
"Sure thing, let me just change Turtle's water" I move to the kitchen, and step on our small dog's bed accidentally waking him up. I wanted to bring Woody with me, but in reality he's my Grandma's dog, and I like to think there's someone... even if that someone's a dog, watching over her while I'm not there, because even though Woody isn't brave, at all, people don't really know that, and as far as appearances go, he can be pretty scary.
Turtle runs away from my foot, scared of being stepped on, and jumps on Tor's lap. "I still don't understand why you two decided to call the poor dog Turtle" I go back to the couch, and pet him in the head, as Tori finally opens a small smile on her face.
"It's a long story, maybe we can vlog about it someday" she says, turning to me and giving me brief kiss.
"Maybe" I say, before we go back to writing.
The End
A/N: So guys... This was it! I hope you liked this story, I definitely didn't want to end this one but I didn't think I was going to be able to go on with it much longer. This was by far the fanfic I enjoyed writing the most, I hope you enjoyed reading it too. Please review and tell me what you thought about the ending, if you were disappointed or not, and if anyone wants it I can post a playlist with all the songs I used in this Fanfic. Love all of you,
- Kiribati