Over the next few days, Freddie has been hanging out with Cat and, occasionally, her friends. He formed a somewhat close friendship with Robbie, another tech kid. He became a member of the gang shortly after meeting everyone, and was invited to the weekly card games at Tori's house.

"Hey, Freddie. Come in." Cat says, opening the door to the Vega house for him.

"Hey Cat." He says, stepping in as she steps to the side to give him room to enter. "What kind of card games do you usually play?" He asks, taking his jacket off and setting it on the coat rack by the door.

"A variety. Sometimes poker, but never what I want to play." She says with a child-like pout.

"What game is that?" He asks, following her into the living room and kitchen, where Tori, Jade, and André are sitting. There's a new girl as well, slightly older than Tori by the looks of it.

"Who's the dude?" The other girl says from beside Tori.

"This is Freddie." Cat says, bouncing lightly on the spot.

"We met him at the party at Keenan Thompsons's house party a while ago?" Tori says to her. "Anyway, this is my sister Trina."

"Hey Trina." Freddie says with a wave to Trina, who ignores him and grabs the deck of cards to shuffle them. "So, where's everyone else?"

"On the way." André says, taking a handful of trail mix from a bowl in the middle of the table. "Beck texted me earlier. He had to pick up Robbie and grab some soda."

"Cool. What game are we playing?" Freddie asks, taking a seat beside Cat, who sat on Jade's other side.

"I want to play 'Go Fish'." Cat says, pouting again.

"No, Cat. No 'Go Fish'." Jade says, speaking for the first time so far. "We're playing 31."

"Phooey." Cat says, earing a comforting pat on the back from Freddie.

Knock, knock, knock

"Door's open!" Trina yells, causing everyone to hold their hands over their ears from the loud screech.

"Hey guys." Beck says, opening the door, a bag of soda in his left hand, while Robbie comes in behind him with a bag with chips and M&M's in it.

"What's up man?" André says, giving him a high five when Beck gets into the kitchen, setting the chips down on the counter, taking out a party size bag of M&M's on the table by the bowl of trail mix.

"Not much." Beck says as Robbie sets the soda on the counter by the chips.

"Hey Rob." André says as Robbie sits between Freddie and Trina, André beside her. "How you been?"

"Good. You?" Robbie answers.

"Good." André says as Tori stands up.

"I'm getting a drink. Anyone want anything?" She asks as she steps to the counter and opening the bottle of Coke that Beck brought. Cat and André get up to help her when everyone says yes and tells her what they want. She grabs a few more cups and pours half of them with Coke, and the others with Sprite, the other soda Beck brought. Cat takes her Sprite and Freddie's COke over as André grabs his Coke and Sprites for Robbie and Trina. Tori grabs he Coke as well as a Coke for Jade. Beck gets up and grabs some Coke for himself before grabbing the chips and a bowl from the cupboard and filling it with the Doritos' Robbie brought in.

"Who has first deal?" Beck asks, setting the Doritos' by the trail mix as he sits down.

"I do." Jade says, grabbing the deck out of Trina's hands with a fake smile on her face when Trina glares at her.

"No fighting, you two." Tori says to both Jade and Trina. "So, Freddie." She says, hoping her girlfriend and sister don't cause a scene. "How are you liking LA so far?"

"It's good." He says with a smile as Jade finishes shuffling and starts passing out the cards. "Cat's been showing me around town, showing me the places that she and you guys visit."

"How did Carly and Sam take the news of you leaving?" André asks, not knowing what happened before Freddie came to LA.

"They didn't like it." He says, looking down slightly. "They're mad I didn't fight with my mom to stay in Seattle." He says, finally looking up, revealing his eyes show a hint of pain. "Anyway, I'm trying to talk to them, but they haven't answered my calls or texts."

"That's not nice of them." Cat says, pouting again.

"It's okay, Cat. They have a point though. I didn't do anything against my mom, but I didn't know what to say." Freddie says, waving off the concerns of the others. "So, we ready to play?"

"Let's play." André says as everyone else nods in agreement.

"So, who know how to play 31?" Jade asks, setting the deck down, placing the top card face up beside the deck. No one complains, so Jade has Tori start. Tori grabs a card from the top of the deck, setting down a three of clubs from her hand.

The game continues for close to an hour. Robbie was the first out, followed by Trina. During the next hour, André and Beck lose, leaving Freddie, Cat, Tori, and Jade. Over the next half hour, Freddie goes out, followed a few minutes later by Tori. The game continues for a while longer, Cat's competitive nature coming out, losing by a few points to Jade, who smirks in victory.

"Well, congrats on lasting this long Cat." Jade says as she collects her winnings.

"Can we play 'Go Fish' now?" Cat asks in a whine, pouting to Tori, knowing she's the one most likely to crack between her and Jade.

"Don't fall for it Tor." André says from the side.

"Vega." Jade says with a growl, noticing Tori about to crack.

"It's impossible to say no to Cat." Tori says, finally cracking.

Everyone minus Cat groan as Tori grabs the cards and starts to shuffle the cards, ignoring the looks everyone gives her.

"You're lucky you're cute." Jade says as Tori passes out the cards.

"Hey Freddie." Cat says as she collects her cards. "Where's your mom?"

"At the hospital." He says. "She still has some last minute stuff to do."

"Got any 2's?" She asks him.

"Yeah, here." He says handing her his cards.

"Yay!" She says, clapping her hands. The rest of the game goes on, Jade dropping out quickly and dragging Tori with her, an apologetic look on Tori's face as she does. The others decide to share Tori and Jade's cards, which helped Cat and André, but not so much the others. The game continues for about a half hour, Cat finally winning with a loud cheer.

"What time is it?" Freddie asks as he puts his cup in the sink and rinses it out.

"Almost 9. Why?" André says, grabbing his and Beck's to rinse them out as well.

"I got to head home." Freddie says, waving to the others. "I'll see you guys later."

"Bye Freddie!" Cat says, giving him a tight hug as André, Beck, Robbie, and Tori say bye, Jade waving bye simply, focused on the movie she put on when she and Tori left the game.

"Talk to you guys later." Freddie says, putting his jacket on and opening the door.

"Ooh, wait. Freddie." Cat says, rushing towards him. "Can you give me a ride home?"

"Sure. But how'd you get here?" Freddie asks, holding the door open for her.

"André gave me a lift." She says, putting her jacket on. "Bye everyone!" She yells over her shoulder, closing the door behind her and Freddie as the others wave goodbye to them.

"I wonder when those two are going to get together?" Jade says as the door closes.

"Thanks for the ride." Cat says as she climbs in the passenger seat of Freddie's mother's car.

"No problem." Freddie says, stepping into the driver's side.

The ride to the Valentine residence is filled with small talk, Freddie telling Cat about his day and Cat telling him a story about her brother.

When the arrive at Cat's house, they're laughing from a joke Freddie told, and as the laughter dies down, Freddie turns to Cat.

"Thanks for inviting me to the card game tonight. It was a lot of fun."

"No problem." Cat says with a bright smile. "We have them every Saturday night almost. You should come to them."

"I will." He says, stepping out of the car and walking Cat to the door. "See you later Cat." He says as she hugs him.

"See you Freddie. Bye." She says, still smiling, as she opens the door and closes it behind her.

'Maybe LA won't be as bad as I thought.' Freddie thinks to himself as he pulls out of the Valentine driveway a moment later.