Of Scissors And Scooby Doo

Chapter 28

"That challenge is your entire fault."

"My fault?" I stopped walking and looked at her with creased eyebrows. "How is this my fault?"

Jade sighed loudly, turned around and walked back to me. "I love you and all but your acting just sucks big time."

"It does not!"

Yeah okay, maybe I wasn't the most talented actress of this school but I sure wasn't the worst. Plus, acting wasn't even the field I wanted to be in, no, singing was my forte.

"Yeah, it does," Jade deadpanned, crossing her arms. "And that's fine, I guess. As long as you don't want to pursue a serious acting career."

I should probably be offended now... weirdly enough, I'm not. Still, I said, "If I wanted to, I could definitely make it as a serious actress."

One eyebrow lifted in challenge. "You're an amateur, Tori. That's what you are."

The word that previously had been spoken by Sikowitz in an attempt to taunt us and now left Jade's mouth rang loudly in my head. Oh, she shouldn't have said that. "I am not an amateur," I almost growled and stepped closer to her until our noses were only an inch apart. "I'm just as talented as you are, amateur."

"Don't. Call me. That."

I smiled smugly when I pulled away, eyebrows raised and head tilted as I watched the playfulness on Jade's face slowly dissipate, a light scowl taking over. It probably shouldn't amuse me so much but... there was something about an angry Jade that was just... highly entertaining. And very attractive. "Amateur."

A long, loud breath made her nostrils widen, while blue eyes hotly glowered at me. "Be careful, Tori," my name left her mouth through gritted teeth, my blood pumping faster through my veins at the sound, "You're walking on thin ice right now. Very. Thin. Ice."

Hands stemmed on my hips, lips pursed and eyebrows furrowed I ignored her words and glare and instead said, "I think you should be a little nicer to your girlfriend. In fact, maybe you should be a little nicer to everyone."

Jade took a step closer. "Oh really?"

I smiled innocently. "Oh, isn't it just wonderful that I'm the one Sikowitz chose to pick your character? I already know exactly who you're going to be."

I walked past her with, admittedly, a little too smug of a smirk but man, this was just too much fun. "What? Who? Tori, wait!"

"Oh baby, don't be so impatient," I teased when Jade had caught up with me and we were walking across the parking lot, on our way to get lunch at Nozu, "You're gonna find out soon enough."

We were quiet the remaining way to her car, a sort of silence that made my smirk only widen. "If you make me act like Cat," she said while she unlocked her car for us, "You're going to be a dead girl, Vega."

I scoffed, getting into the car. "Don't worry. I have an even better idea."

-OS&SD-

"Okay uh, Tori's character will be a cop who wears way too much red lipstick and is obsessed with Raisin bran."

"Where did you come up with that?"

"Well," Andre chuckled, "See, I had this dream last night and this lady cop was all like-" He laughed and made a gesture with his hands. "-She was all like... and then I was like-" His smile suddenly dropped when he saw the looks I and everybody else were giving him. "I just thought of it."

Huh. Well, okay then. "Alright, Tori," Sikowitz called and I jumped up from my seat, "Tell us what Jade will be."

I walked up to the front, turned around with a smile and looked at Jade. "Love to." The look she sent me was priceless. "Jade will be an innocent farm girl from Alabama who's always super sweet and nice and never gets upset about anything."