A/N: Not affiliated with my fic of the same title. In which Tori gets the 'I just graduated high school and went to my first party' experience and Jade helps her through it. Slight warning for a character getting sick scene but it's not too intense/descriptive.
Tori woke up with a pounding in her head the likes of which she'd never felt before. She winced, bringing a hand up to her head to both rub the pounding spot and to try to block the sun from getting in her eyes.
And then she realized, the light through the blinds never woke her up in the morning.
Closing one eye and lifting her head slightly, she quickly realized she wasn't in her room. A long second more and she realized this wasn't even her house. Even one more and she realized she also usually didn't wake up next to her friend slash enemy next to her either.
"Jade?" Tori asked, wincing at the way her voice sounded, and the dryness in her mouth.
"Finally," Jade said, turning to look at Tori, blearily looking back up at her. "I thought you'd never wake up."
"What..." Tori had so many questions, all of them begging to be asked first. She finally landed on, "What happened?"
"You're getting the real 'I just graduated high school and went to my first party' experience," Jade said, a small smirk appearing on her face. "You had too much to drink, shared your innermost thoughts with me, and whoever else would listen, and now you're waking up in bed next to your frenemy."
It took Tori a moment to process what Jade had told her, and a slight look of fear crossed her face. "Did we..."
"No, you crashed before anything like that happened," Jade said. "But now I know how you feel about me, it doesn't sound like you'd mind anything like that." She intentionally paused to let Tori take that in.
"How much did I say?" Tori asked, afraid of the answer. "What did I say? Oh God, Jade, I'm sorry—"
"Shut up, I haven't even told you yet," Jade said. "It wasn't anything that bad, don't worry. Just some little speech about how you don't understand how I can be so mean to you when you love me so much."
"That's not that bad?" Tori asked, a little too loudly for her own ears, wincing at herself. "That's basically confessing my feelings for you."
"Oh, don't worry, you did that too," Jade said. "At least twice to me. And for some reason you thought you should tell all our friends too. You even argued with Robbie's stupid puppet that you loved me more than he did. That was weird."
Tori nodded, the part about everything else going over her pounding head. "I...confessed my feelings for you?"
"You did."
There was a pause, as the girls each took the words in. Tori opened her mouth to speak, but Jade beat her to it. "It's fine because I like you too, though."
Tori's mouth closed on its own. She opened it again a moment later, though.
"You do?"
Jade met Tori's bleary eyes and nodded. "Yeah. But don't go telling everyone that, too."
Something was happening between them, something neither could explain. All it took was the quick look from each other's eyes to the other's lips, before they were pressed against each other in a quick, shy kiss.
Tori broke it, swallowing and clearing her dry throat. "Excuse me."
She got up from the bed and quickly walked across the mysterious bedroom to the attached bathroom, shutting the door behind her. Jade sat in her spot, wondering what had just happened, before her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of retching coming from behind the closed door. She automatically counted down in her head, her countdown being the precise amount of time between Tori's first retch and bout of being sick from last night.
She waited until the first silence before getting up and crossing the room, knocking once to alert her before just entering the bathroom. Tori weakly protested from her spot on the floor hugging the toilet, but Jade just stepped over her and sat on the edge of the tub, gathering Tori's messy hair and holding it off of her neck.
"Don't worry, I'm gonna help you through this," she said. Tori was suspicious.
"Why are you being so nice?" she asked weakly.
"Don't worry about it. Just let this happen."
Tori nodded as she swallowed, her stomach churning slightly again. "I do want to say this is because of the alcohol, though, not the kiss."
Jade laughed quietly. "I know, Vega. Don't worry."
"And about the kiss..."
"We'll talk later," Jade said simply. "When you're not puking your guts out."
Tori accepted that, and accepted her fate of more rounds of throwing up.
Once the majority of Tori's sickness had passed and Jade had helped her clean up, Jade offered to drive her home.
"And then would you...maybe, stay with me?" Tori asked quickly. "I mean, if you're not doing anything today. It's okay if you have other plans."
Jade shrugged. "I have nothing else going on, if you want me to hang out." She'd secretly kind of been thinking about maybe hanging out with Tori today. "Just to make sure you're okay from last night and all that."
"Thanks."
"One high school party and you come home looking sicker than a dog," Trina said, the moment Tori and Jade stepped through the door.
"Trina, don't, I'm too tired," Tori said, as she and Jade walked over to the couch. Trina opened her mouth to say more, but Jade saw and held her hand up.
"She had a rough night and doesn't want to hear it," she said. Trina actually backed off, glaring slightly at Jade.
"Fine, whatever." She left up the stairs without another word, as the girls settled on the couch.
"Thanks," Tori said weakly, leaning her head back against the couch. She was exhausted, after the night and what she'd gone through with being sick this morning. But as she drifted off next to Jade, she also felt safe and thankful to the person she'd apparently spilled her feelings about. And she hadn't freaked out; maybe there was some sort of relationship for them in the future.
For now, she just wanted to sleep.
A/N: I don't condone underage drinking or anything, but I wanted to write a fic with that cliche so here it is! Honestly I don't remember when I started this ficlet chapter either but it's done now, so yay. Thanks for reading! c: