Disclaimer: "All Victorious characters are property of Dan Schneider and Nickelodeon.

(!) "Little Beck is on the scent trail of Andre, despite the rain he's on the move. Meanwhile over at Andre and Jade, the two talk about their friends and what will happen when they get back."

Chapter 10: Lost and Found

Sunday

1 July 2012 1:30- Afternoon

Angeles National Forest

"You really don't like Tori? I don't get why you don't?"

"C'mon Andre, she's always little miss perfect. The one who saves the day. She got me and Beck together, she sings for the whole school. She's easy to hate, and hard to like, at least for me."

"I guess, but she doesn't do it on purpose. At least I don't think she does, whatever your opinion is of her, it won't change what I think about her. She's the closest thing I think I'll ever have to a sister from another mother."

"So…what happened last night Andre? who was the aggressor?"

"What? … what do you mean by that?"

"You know what I mean. I'm talking about action between our-"

"Jade, can we like [clearing throat] not talk about it. I think you had a point, maybe we should just forget it. I mean you love beck, he loves you. And nothing won't change."

There was an unapologetic silence that surrounded them, Jade knew he had a point. She didn't see Andre being more than a just a friend to her. And she was lying when she told him she wasn't fun, this whole trip was fun. She would have had to drag Beck to do some of the things Andre was doing or wanted to do. She wrapped her arm around his neck and gave him a noogie.

Little Beck

Letting his nose be his guide, he tried to follow the scent trail of Andre. the rain which began to lift had cleaned most of the scent from the trail he was on and left only pockets of scent marks. It was like trying to connect the dots, on one side he had Andre's scent. And on the other he had the smell of grasses and flowers, weeds especially. He stopped by a large patch of grass and ate. He continued eating until he got a whiff of Andre when the wind was blowing. He ran and ran and rolled down a hill that had thorn bushes at the bottom. He whined and made pained noises when thorns scratched at his skin and punctured it.

He jumped around and tried to run out of the Thorn bush, it was painful and unpleasant. But he did manage to get out of there, he pulled the thorns still lodged in his skin with his teeth, but the ones he could not reach he would have to bear until he reached Andre and Jade. He tried not to run so as to not aggravate the thorn on his back and backside.

Andre and Jade

An hour after it had started raining, the dark clouds began to disperse and leave. Jade was seated comfortably between Andre's legs, her back resting on his chest and her head leaning back, resting on his shoulder. Both of them had small red marks on their faces and hands. Jade had fallen asleep when after giving Andre a noogie, they played a game of thumb wrestling and tried a game that Jade came up with on the spot. Find an ant, pick it up and try to get it to bite the other person without them knowing.

Instead of finding ants, what they found were Europeans bees that stung them. They got to close to their nest and paid the price. But because of the rain, the sprint away from the nest was easy. Away from the bees, they laughed and helped pull the stingers off each other's faces, hands and neck. It was a serious situation, but somehow Jade managed to laugh about getting stung. That attitude crept into Andre and soon they were both cracking up.

The sun's rays pushing past the pockets inside the clouds, shined on Jade's face. Her head twitched as her hand came up and tried to smack away what she thought were flies around her face. She smacked herself with her hand which woke her up. She had this ecstatic expression on her face. She turned and spoke to Andre in a sweet tone.

"Wake up Gordy, the rain stopped. I said wake up, wake up or else I'm gonna punch you in the stomach."

"Leave me alone Kallah. Just five more minutes, then we can…[snores]"

Jade blinked her eyes a few times, the normalness in her facial expression had returned. She looked around and shook Andre.

"Andre … Andre … wake up. Did I just call you …Gordy?"

"That's my name Kallah, don't wear it out."

Andre opened his eyes, blinked his eyes and yawned. When he saw Jade staring at him, he smiled. "Good morning Jade, we still lost?"

"What did you just call me Andre, did you just call me … Kallah?"

"What? No … I don't know. Why?"

"I … Andre look! It's Little Beck!"

Andre jumped up from where he was sitting at and looked over to where Jade was pointing at. He wasn't so sure where or what she was pointing at. They were on flat ground that was surrounded by trees and thick bush. In front of them were low hills, in back of them were hills that went up. She was pointing somewhere uphill. She took his head and showed him where she was looking at.

"Right there, I see him. Told you he was a dog, he came looking for us."

Jade went over to Little beck and dropped on her knees with open arms, Andre followed behind saw that happy little wombat run over to her. He was surprised to him run past jade and run over to him. The wombat stood on it's hind legs and scratched at Andre's legs. When Andre picked him up, he felt the thorns lodged on his hard butt. He pulled those out gently, it pained him but it needed to be done.

"Did he seriously just go past me? Is that how a dog should treat his mother?"

"Relax Jade, I'm sure he was thinking of you too. He had these thorns on his butt by the way. Little guy must have gotten stuck in some Thorn bushes. C'mon Andy, lead us back home."

"Andy? why the hell did you change his name. it's Little Beck, and little beck came back to show us the way back home. C'mon, lead us back home, lead us back home."

"Andy, if you can lead us back to the motor home. I'll give you all the carrots and lettuce you can eat. And I'll buy grapes too."

Wombat's POV

Staring at both Jade and Andre, the wombat had nothing much going on it's mind except the images of grass, lettuce and carrots. Human words or speech sounded like an on car engine to the wombat's ears. All it wanted was to eat and have it's belly rubbed. When Andre made a gesture to eat and then petted him on his head, his mind formulate that the gesture meant a promise of food.

The wombat sniffed Andre's sweat and followed his scent back to the motor home.

"See Jade, he understood everything I said."

"Whatever Andre, c'mon Little Beck lead us to the promised land."

(!) "Continued in Chapter 11."