Thanks for the follows, faves, and reviews. This chapter takes place around the same time as the last ended, with Trina coming home and finding Jade.
Random question to get out before I start the chapter. Can anyone figure out what the beginning of the chapter names mean? In particular, the numbered parts, not the part after that since that's just the name of the chapter itself. I ask because I have a reason, and I'm curious who figures it out or has an idea of what it means.
Disclaimer: I don't own 'VicTORious' or any characters or locations.
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The day started like any other day for Trina Vega, especially when her sister stayed the night in the spare bedroom until her roommate moved in. Around lunch time, the sisters left for lunch with their parents before returning to Trina's apartment before Tori heads home to start packing her own stuff to move later in the week.
"Oh, great." Trina comments, her voice displeased, as she opens the door and the faintly heard music gets louder. "She listens to loud rock music." She tells her sister, dropping her purse on the couch and heading for the kitchen.
"Have you met her yet?" Her sister asks, pulling a bottle of water out of the bag she's carrying with her and opening it, taking a drink.
"No. And I'm hoping I never really have to." Trina comments, taking the bottle of water from Tori's hand and taking a drink herself.
"Oh, sure. Take my drink. Want my wallet too?" Tori asks sarcastically, grabbing the bottle back and capping it.
"No. It's ugly and you don't have any money in it." Trina answers with a scoff.
"It was a joke, anyway." Tori counters, rolling her eyes. "I'm heading out to meet up with Andre. See you later." She says, giving a one-armed hug to the slightly taller woman in front of her.
"Later." Trina says, waving her off after the hug. "Might as well face the music. Literally." She adds after locking the door and walking down the short hallway.
"TURN YOUR STUPID MUSIC DOWN!" Trina yells, walking into the room where the music is coming from, past her new roommate, and pausing the music.
"Never touch my music or enter my room without permission again." Jade says, turning to glare at her new 'roommate'.
"Oh, come on." "For fuck's sake." Trina and Jade say respectively, glaring at each other. "You? You're my roommate? Why?" Trina asks with a whine, staring at the paler woman.
"Clearly I'm your roommate. It's not like I broke in and moved my shit in." Jade says, glaring at Trina. "Now get the fuck out so I can finish unpacking my stuff." She tells her, turning her back to Trina and moving back to her boxes.
"Only if you promise to keep the volume down." Trina says, not moving from where she's standing in Jade's room.
"Oh, I can promise the volume won't be the same as when you got here." Jade says with her infamous smirk. "It'll be louder now that I know I'm living with you." She adds, resuming her music and turning it up as loud as she can get it.
"TURN YOUR MUSIC DOWN BEFORE WE GET EVICTED!" Trina yells before stopping the music again. "Did you read the fucking tenant rules before you moved in?" She asks, sighing. "Clearly not, because then you would've known that any music or noise that gets too loud, at any time of day, could get any and all tenants connected to the noise could get evicted. And I have no intention of getting evicted because of you." She says, ignoring the growl from Jade as she takes Jade's Pear Pod off the dock and tosses it onto Jade's bed. "You have headphones. Use them next time." She says, leaving Jade's room. "Loca idiota." She mumbles, heading for her room.
Over the next few days, Trina and Jade try to 'coexist' with one another, finding the best way to not rip each other's throat out is to ignore each other, acting as if they simply pass each other on the street as complete strangers. In that time, Trina and Jade pass each other in the morning and late afternoons, both of them leaving for work at separate times and returning within forty minutes of one another, both rarely in the apartment at the same time except for at night, early mornings, and late afternoons to early evenings.
"So, when are you moving in?" Jade asks, speaking into the headset she started using while driving.
"When's who moving in?" Trina asks, glaring at Jade from the kitchen as she eats a late dinner before bed.
"None of your business, and relax. No one's moving in with us." Jade says, flicking Trina off on her way to her room. "Unfortunately." She adds under her breath, much to the amusement of the person she's talking to.
"I wish I could live alone." Trina whispers to herself as she finishes her dinner and puts her dishes in the sink to wash them in the morning after letting them soak.
The next week passes the same as the previous, with the exception of Trina and Jade getting new neighbors across the hall, both aware of at least one neighbor across the hall. After coming home early almost two weeks after first moving in, Jade sees the door to her new neighbor's apartment opening, revealing a familiar face. "Who's you're roommate?" She asks, making the dark skinned musician jump and turn towards the surprising voice.
"I hate when you do that ninja crap." Andre says, closing the door and looking at Jade. "And why? Is Trina really that bad?" He asks, making sure the door is locked.
"She's Trina Vega. Of course she's that bad." Jade says, taking her key out of her bag. "So, who's yours?" She asks, moving to unlock her apartment door as she continues the conversation.
"Trust me when I say, you won't like her any more than Trina." Andre says, shaking his head. "I got to get to work, I'm running late." He says, giving Jade a quick wave bye as he jogs for the steps, figuring it's quicker than the elevator with how much of a hurry he's in.
"I can't like anyone less than Trina." Jade calls after him, doubting anyone could be worse than Trina. Even 'him'. At least with 'him', she can torture him until he moves out of the U.S. for good.
"You're early." Trina comments, keeping an eye on Jade, regretting that she wasn't able to enjoy her day off as long as she'd like.
"You're annoying." Jade says, walking past her. "Don't bother me." She says simply, walking to her room.
"No problem." Trina says, standing up and heading for the door. Walking across the hall, she knocks on her new neighbor's door, pounding until it opens. "Convince Andre to switch roommates. If I continue living with Jade, I'll suffocate her in her sleep." She tells her, walking into the apartment and sitting on the couch.
"You survived almost two weeks. Relax." Tori says, laughing at her sister's reaction. "It's not like you actually hang out or anything, so what's the problem?" She asks, sitting beside her sister after closing and locking the door.
"Everything is the problem." Trina says, staring at her sister. "She's Jade West." She adds as if that explains it.
"Okay, on average, how much time do you two actually interact with each other?" Tori asks, shifting to face her sister better.
"I don't know. Two, three minutes a week, I guess." Trina says, shrugging her shoulders.
"So, after spending less than ten minutes together, since she moved in, you already know what kind of a 'problem' she is?" Tori asks, raising an eyebrow.
"Well, I have known her for a few years, you know?" Trina says, staring at her sister with a dumbfounded look. "That's enough time to get to know the illegitimate daughter of Lucifer." She says, sighing.
"Okay, you're not wrong, but you're not right." Tori says, standing up. "You're right because you have had plenty of time to get to know her, but you're wrong because you've never spent a lot of time with her in that time frame." She says as she heads for the door. "Head home, and chill out. Don't think of her as the Jade you know in high school. Think of her as her new roommate, nothing more." She says, ushering her sister out.
"When dad comes over with his new partner, just know you were warned about what I'd do to Jade." Trina says, leaving her sister's apartment.
For the rest of the day, Trina and Jade sit in their rooms, watching whatever movies or shows they felt like, or playing a game as Jade started to do shortly after coming home, only leaving for the bathroom or kitchen. Around dinner time, Jade and Tori leave their rooms and head for the door, glaring at each other.
"Where are you going?" Jade asks as she pushes Trina out of the way and heads for the door.
"Out to dinner with Tori and a friend. What about you?" Trina asks, pushing Jade out of the way and opening the door, a proud smirk on her face at Jade's growl.
"Same, but with Andre and a friend of hers." Jade says, walking out of their apartment and locking the closed door behind her, both heading for the apartment across the hall. "Why are you following me?" She asks, preventing Trina from knocking on the door.
"I'm not." Trina says, figuring out why they're both at the same door. "Damn." She says, knowing who's about to open the door before either of them knock.
"Hey guys." Tori says, opening the door after seeing them from the peephole, Andre behind her. "Ready to go?" She asks, hesitant from the tension she feels from Trina and Jade.
"Trade roommates." Both Trina and Jade tell Andre and Tori, neither looking away from each other.
"Huh. That went better than expected." Andre says, chuckling at the situation before being on the receiving end of twin glares from the roommates across the hall.
And that's the end of this chapter. Next chapter (I hope) will be longer and have one of the two or three key moments of before they major moment happens. I have two planned, and there might be a third, before the major moment that sets up the friendship/relationship pairing(s) of this fic.
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Blessed Be.