A/N: I'm remixing an idea I did with my other ship to do a Jori proposal (or two) at Disneyland! Since it was originally my girlfriend's idea, I'm also dedicating this one to her ❤️
In which Tori and Jade have the same idea to do the same thing at Disneyland;
Neither Tori or Jade could tell what was up with the other, but there was definitely something off. Tori was more jumpy than usual, while Jade was more quiet than usual. Trina normally didn't pay too much attention to her sister and her girlfriend's moods, but she could definitely tell something was wrong and it was bothering her; even Cat, who had come along for the Disneyland/girls trip adventure, knew something was up with her best friends.
The silence in the car was odd; Tori hadn't even tried to get control of the AUX cord to play obnoxious songs from her silly songs playlist; they just had the radio on, listening to the top hits whenever the rolling hills didn't interfere with the radio waves.
They were just passing the sign that said there was still about an hour to go before they arrived at Disneyland that Trina finally couldn't take it.
"Okay, that's it, what's wrong with you two?" Trina finally broke the silence, hitting her hand against the steering wheel, making Cat jump next to her in the front seat, and making both Jade and Tori come to attention. "It's way too quiet and there's still too long of a drive left to continue in this silence so spill it, what's wrong?"
When neither of them answered, Trina caught Tori's eyes in the rearview mirror. "Tori? Did you two break up this morning before we left or something?"
"Wh— nothing's wrong," she said quickly, looking at Jade. "I don't think we broke up?"
Jade just rolled her eyes. "We didn't, and how dare you think that."
"Then what's wrong?" Trina asked again. "You're both too quiet!"
"Did someone die?" Cat asked in a quiet voice, turning in her seat to face Jade and Tori. "Like when I thought that Mona—"
"No one died," Jade replied quickly. "Nothing's wrong. Drop it."
"I'm just saying if you two are going to be like this at Disneyland, Cat and I will leave you at the front gate and go enjoy the park ourselves," Trina said. She met both sets of eyes in the mirror again, "I mean it. Drop the weird moods before we get there or I'll do it."
"Yeah, please," Cat said, still looking between Jade and Tori from her seat. "We want this to be a good trip, okay?"
"Fine," Jade said, as Tori gave a small nod.
It wasn't that either of them were in a bad mood; they were both really excited about this trip (even Jade, who would never admit it out loud), but they both also had big plans for the trip, so their moods were due to the anxiety surrounding that.
That meant that neither of them could talk about how they felt or what they were planning to do, because then Tori wouldn't be able to stop talking about it if she started (it had been torturous to not say anything the last two weeks), and Jade was just afraid that if she opened her mouth, she would end up telling Tori early, which was something she didn't want to do yet.
They would both just have to wait for the perfect moment.
The day was fun, but it dragged on (even though they were at the Happiest Place on Earth, since Tori and Jade each had a special secret question for the other, their anxieties had them both silent until what felt like the perfect moment). This meant they were quiet even while in line for the rides. And not even buying the matching Mickey Pride ears got much of a response from either of them (despite Tori having talked about them for days prior to the trip, how excited she was and how cute they'd look), and it was finally at that point that Trina said something.
"I can't take it anymore!" she said, stopping in the middle of the plaza after they'd just walked out of the gift shop, turning to Jade and Tori once more (causing some looks from people walking by them). "If you two don't tell us what's wrong right now, I'm gonna leave! Seriously, this is so—"
"Fine!" Jade said, her frustration (and anxiety) finally hitting its peak. She turned to Tori, who looked like she felt the exact same way (frustrated that Trina was attacking them, but obviously that she had something on her mind). "Tori, I'm sorry I sound like I'm doing this because of frustration, which I kind of am because of your sister, but I need to ask you something."
"Me, too," Tori said.
"No, I need to ask you something," Jade said. "Like, first. Like, right now."
"Me, too," Tori said again, more slowly. Trina and Cat looked between the girls, wondering where this was going. Tori and Jade watched each other as they both slowly reached for their opposite pockets, their movements mirroring each other's.
"Tori, stop it," Jade said, hand frozen in her pocket.
"You stop," Tori replied, her own hand frozen in her own pocket.
A beat passed between them, each piecing together what the other was doing and trying to process it.
"On three?" Tori asked after a moment (ignoring Cat's happy little clap at the mention of the number), only focusing on Jade, how she slowly nodded at her words.
"One...two..."
"Three!" Cat finished for them (accompanied by another happy clap), and both Jade and Tori whipped their hands out of their pockets at the same time.
Everything leading up to that moment finally made sense; their body language going from tense to relaxed, eyes going from anxious to soft (and Tori's immediately filling with happy tears), and smiles returning, even Jade's, as they realized why the other had been the way she had been all day.
Two tiny boxes containing two pieces of precious jewelry, the cause of so much worry and anxiety, sitting innocently in both Jade and Tori's palms. Another long beat passed between Jade and Tori, neither of them knowing what to say to the other.
Tori finally found her voice and said, "I had a whole speech planned out, but now I don't know if I even need to ask?"
Jade just shook her head and embraced Tori, who tearfully wrapped her own arms around Jade.
"I don't know what number apology this is," Trina began, "but I swear I didn't know you were both planning to propose to each other and thought you were both just in a bad mood so I'm sorry again for forcing your dual proposals before you were both ready."
"It's number twenty five," Jade said casually, "and I don't know about Tori but I'm still not ready to forgive you yet."
"Come on Jade, she didn't know," Tori said sleepily. She was wrapped up in the blanket she'd bought later in the day, her head resting on Jade's shoulder (her rainbow ears barely balancing on her head), desperately fighting off sleep as Trina drove them home (Cat had fallen asleep almost as soon as they'd gotten on the road, snuggled up in her own Disney blanket in the front seat).
"No, this was one of the most important things I've ever done and your sister ruined it," Jade said crossly.
"I'm still invited to the wedding though, right?" Trina asked.
"Of course," Tori said.
"If you behave," Jade said. "And maybe apologize again."
"I'm—"
"Not now, I'm tired of hearing it today. I mean periodically, up until we decide the date. Maybe during your speech to us or something too, I haven't decided yet."
"Jade, come on," Tori said again with a chuckle.
"Oh, fine, but just because I'm too tired to argue," Jade said with a yawn. "Trina, I guess you can come to our wedding."
Tori laughed again, before it hit her: their wedding. She felt Jade tense up at the same time.
Just like with realizing they were proposing at the same time, they both realized they were actually going to get married in the near future together, too.
A/N: I hope to one day propose to my girlfriend at Disneyland (or somewhere equally as special), maybe at the same time she does, we'll see~ Thanks for reading! c:
Update since originally finishing writing this: Disneyland has been on my mind and in my writing lately because we decided to go when my girlfriend's here at the end of July! We'll surely post all about it on our Tumblrs, so feel free to check those out if you want to follow our trip! c: