Just a Stage Kiss (EXTENDED)

Chapter 20

POV: Jade 

Saturday flew by too fast for my liking. We found the little coffee shop and ended up hanging out there for a good hour, talking, laughing, and drinking their cheap coffee which was surprisingly good. I marked it down as a place I'd have to visit again, with and without Tori by my side, but mostly the former.

Sunday, so far, sucked. My stepmom's parents decided to come for a visit from Wisconsin, as they do every year or something, and for some unknown reason they wanted me around while they were there. Like my step mother, I never got on well with them, all they cared about was money and reputation, getting a good job and being snobs, basically. I had to play nice in front of them whenever they visited, which usually went down well, me being an actress and all, so I usually just pretended it was an assignment for class just so I could make it through the long, boring hours.

This Sunday, however, I was really in no mood for them. As pathetic as this sounds, I just wanted to go see Tori. I think it's the new relationship thing, where you want to spend all your time with each other, so not being able to see her and having to spend time with people I hate put me in a foul mood.

So, I decided to mess with them. I put on a very over the top nice act, reminiscent of the sweet farm girl character I was forced to play during the sleepover at Sikowitz's house. This utterly bewildered everyone in the room, especially when I offered to make them all drinks and came back without poison in their cups. But, soon enough, my father got fed up of this act and pulled me to one side telling me to 'stop being so childish' and I 'better drop it or else'. I smiled and said "Sure!" before spending the rest of the time as a dramatised version of how everyone saw me: loud, rude, angry, mean, I even ended up dumping lemonade on my step-mom at one point. 'Accidentally', of course, but hilarious.

Dad pretty much threw me out after that. He stuffed a few bills in my hand and told me to go enjoy the day somewhere else instead of humiliating him in front of the in-laws, who, may I add, aren't that much older than him anyway. I despised that.

However, my plan to get away had worked, and I made it to the Vega house just a few minutes later, feeling pretty proud of myself. As per usual, their door wasn't locked, so I walked right on in to find Tori and Trina stood in the kitchen, apparently in the middle of an argument. Tori had her back to me and Trina wasn't paying any attention, so I sat soundlessly down on the couch in front of the tv to watch them.

"If you knew that it was my cupcake, Trina, then why did you eat it?" Tori yelled in her sisters' face. Really? That's what they were arguing about?

"I was hungry!" Trina whined in return. Well, no duh.

"But why eat my cupcake? There's plenty of other food in the house!"

"Because it looked so yummy! And I've already eaten mine so..." Trina trailed off when she finally noticed me sat on their couch, feet up on the table and a smirk on my face. Her mouth hung open a little in surprise, so I gave her a little wave of greeting to hopefully stop her staring.

"What?" Tori asked her confused by her sisters' sudden lack of talking, which is very rare when it came to Trina.

"Your girlfriend, who clearly never learned how to knock, is here" Trina replied motioning towards me with her head.

Tori whirled around on the spot to see me and now looked equally as shocked to find me in their house.

"Hey you" she smiled at me.

"Can I get a cupcake?" I asked in my southern accent, complete with batting my eyelids and pouting.

"I don't talk like that!" Tori huffed, her automatic response to anything I said with that accent, and broke out of her trance to stomp her foot on the ground. She's too easy to wind up. "Beside, you couldn't have a cupcake if you really wanted one, seeing as Trina ate the last one!"