I can't believe we're already in the second half of the fic with this chapter. Only four left after this.
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The restaurant is fine. The food isn't all that amazing but the service personal is awesome and nice. Although there is of course a young woman who has to flirt with Beck a bit which makes Jade angry which makes the next few minutes of the conversation slightly uncomfortable.
Otherwise, lunch is great. They even are allowed to stay put for a while after they finished eating , before they notice they can long go.
Tori is sure to have heard rain outside but it seems like only a few drops have come down and most of the clouds are already drawing away again.
"Maybe, we do have luck with the weather after all," Robbie says but Tori warns as Andre has done so often before and which makes him smile now: "Don't jinx it."
They sit down on the logs for a while after being back and for a second there's silence, before Andre looks at all of them: "Jam session?"
"Yes," Cat instantly screams out and Robbie claps his hands: "Let's do it."
He gets his guitar out of the car, Andre his keyboard, before Andre sits down left to Tori again, Robbie back on the log with Cat to their left. Beck and Jade share a log to Tori's right, Beck of course sitting next to Tori, not Jade. She leans already so far into Beck again however that she is nearly just as close to her than Beck is.
Making music is always fun but making music here, together, the six of them, these friends, out in nature... Tori knows that this will forever be one of her favorite memories while it's happening.
They sing all kind of songs, randomly standing up in between and dancing around, then just singing again.
Robbie and Andre are the best at these instruments, especially at improvising. Andre moreso than Robbie. But the instruments still go round. At one point Cat asks Jade to play one of her favorite tunes on the keyboard while she would sing to it, and Jade gives in.
But the best part of making music with other musicians truly is improvising around a certain melody (next to them making up random and often extremely silly songs together). Just one of them starting to sing a song they liked forever and the others soon joining in, with the instruments but mainly with their voices, singing beautiful harmonies and making the song even better.
However, you first have to think of a song at all. Soon, all the ones Tori loves most are already done. Cat starts scrolling on her phone through her music while Andre plays something on the keyboard absent-mindedly and the others just listen.
Tori wants to ask him if it's a new song he is writing this very moment, about this great experience, when Cat puts on Quimbara by Celia Cruz on her phone, excitedly saying: "I love this song. Let's sing that."
She jumps up on her feet and starts moving to the music while singing the first few words together with her phone.
Robbie laughs: "I don't know what to play for that."
"Then just dance," Cat says, pulling him up on his feet.
And Tori also barely knows the lyrics, for the chorus at best. But she also loves dancing and this is a good song, so she stands up as well and starts to move.
Andre promptly puts his keyboard down and also starts moving, Beck and Jade of course join in.
Jade and Andre do know a few words, just like Cat who sings the whole way through.
The song is only about one minute in and Tori is only looking over to Jade because she does do a perfect harmony to Cat's and Celia Cruz' "Ee Mama"'s.
That's the exact moment, Beck suddenly grabs Jade and pulls her close to him.
For a moment, Tori forgets to move herself as she watches them actually doing a salsa right there, together.
It's seductive and both have only eyes for each other. Also, not one of them misses a step at any point, are completely on the music and seem to understand perfectly what the other one is doing or wants to do with their next step while they spin each other around, push each other away and pull back together.
Cat's voice is full of happy giggling as she keeps on singing and all the other's join into the "Quimbara"s while they do dance themselves but also watch Beck and Jade.
When the song is finished and Beck and Jade stop in a perfect and very close position, they all clap.
Jade and Back seem a little out of breath, but both smile in a way Tori rarely sees and share a kiss before they finally look at the others.
"That was beautiful," Cat says as she makes sure, the next song won't start, and all of them sit down again.
"I never knew you could dance that well," Tori admits although she realizes it's stupid. She has known that they took a salsa class in school. Of course they would know how to dance it. And they are both musicians, know how to keep in time.
She also does know that they can both generally dance. They've done musicals together after all. But she has never seen them do any kind of couple dancing other than that typical teenager stuff at school events – at best. Sometimes, they don't dance there together at all.
Which is weird if they can do this. Tori has to ask: "Why don't you ever dance like that at school events?"
Beck's answer is quite simple and in Tori's opinion just as beautiful: "Because it belongs to us."
Tori almost makes a noise in awe which would annoy Jade but at that moment she already says: "Also, our school has better dancers than us. It's not like we could impress anyone with it." Which wouldn't be the reason for her to do it anyway, Tori knows. But it probably feels to her like singing as if she is on stage while being in the audience.
"Well... Except you," Jade adds, looking at Tori with raised eyebrows as if to judge her for thinking she and Beck could dance really well.
If there is one person to not be able to take a compliment...
"Maybe your footwork isn't as good as that from others," Cat chips in, still looking all happy. "But passion is more important and you have lots of that for each other."
That does earn her an honest smile from Jade while Beck puts an arm around her, smiling as well.
"What else do you dance?" Tori asks meanwhile, truly interested.
She doesn't remember any other dance classes they took but there have to have been more. Maybe they do know other dances as well?
"All kind of styles, like waltz, swing, tango..." Beck answers with a shrug.
Jade nods. "Salsa is the most fun though. That was a good class."
She turns to Beck with a smile and he smiles right back, whispering "Yes, it was" before they share a sweet kiss.
"We should have taken that instead of the ballet class," Robbie tells Andre who nods: "Yeah. Weren't there crazy many girls in that class?"
"I wonder why," Jade says dryly.
Tori knows what Jade assumes and has to guess she's right. They probably saw that Beck signed up and signed up for it just because of him. But as everyone survived, Tori assumes, they were allowed to choose their own partner, and the teacher didn't just make pairs or changed it up every now and then. Tori is sure Jade would have killed them otherwise.
Andre looks at her sheepishly and Beck gives her a short kiss on the temple before he asks: "So, what else do we want to sing?"