"But when I pulled the carnation out of my back pocket, that was super smooth, right?" André asked, still reveling in his Carnation Day moment with Tori.

"The smoothest," Tori laughed.

"Hey, you were smooth too, girl. I think my heart might have gotten off beat during that little speech of yours. And André never gets off beat," André joked.

"That's me! Smooth as a smoothie!" Tori proclaimed.

Jade grumbled, "I'd like to put the two of you in a blender."

It was near the end of lunch period, but Cat still hadn't shown up. Robbie hadn't eaten anything, opting instead to break the hard shell of his taco up into pieces that he was shaping into a mosaic of sorts.

"Rob, I don't think that's how you're supposed to eat that," André commented.

"I'm making art," Robbie said. "Lane told me that art is therapeutic."

"I don't know if I would exactly call that art," Beck tried to say nicely, wondering if he should buy Robbie another taco, a soft one this time.

"I wouldn't," Jade said definitively, becoming increasingly annoyed with Robbie's pathetic state.

"I think Robbie's art is nice!" Tori said, trying to be positive. "It, um, speaks to me."

Beck teased, "And what is Robbie's taco saying to you?"

Tori rolled her eyes, and then her phone went off. She snatched it off the table, but when she saw who the message was from, she groaned in disappointment.

"Ugh, it's just Trina. I've been texting Cat for like twenty minutes, and she won't text me back."

"She didn't answer my texts all weekend," Robbie reported miserably.

"She didn't answer because she threw her phone in a fountain on Friday night," Jade stated.

Robbie looked up at her with raised eyebrows, but then he shook his head and returned to his taco.

"Cat threw her phone in a fountain?" André asked.

"Yeah. The three of us were at the plaza, and she wanted to make a wish at the fountain…"

"She had a coin in one hand and her phone in the other," Beck said.

"She closed her eyes to make a wish, and then she accidentally tossed the phone instead of the coin," Jade said, shaking her head.

"But then she just shrugged it off and said if her wish came true, it was worth it. Must have been an important wish."

"I guess we'll never know," Jade said, pursing her lips. "Anyways, she should be getting a replacement phone in the mail today."

"That's our Little Red," André said, not too surprised by Cat's antics.

"Hey, wait a second," Tori said, turning to Jade angrily. "So you just let me sit here texting Cat this whole time even though you knew she didn't have a phone?"

"Yep," Jade replied. She would have let Vega keep going too if Robbie hadn't seemed so upset about not hearing from Cat over the weekend.

Beck was the first to notice Cat walking up behind Robbie, but just as he was about to say something, she quickly put an index finger over her lips to shush him. Beck grinned covertly as Cat took animatedly large steps toward the table in an effort to not be heard.

"Surprise!" Cat shouted, throwing her arms around Robbie's neck and making him jump.

"I'm gonna have a heart attack," Robbie wheezed, his eyes wide and unblinking.

"No you're not, silly. Ooh, is that a taco mosaic? I love food art!" Cat said from beside his ear.

"It's nothing," Robbie said quickly, pushing the taco to the side.

"Oh, okay," Cat said, noticing that Robbie sounded a little down. "Guess what? I'm about to make you happy!"

"You always make me happy," Robbie let slip. He couldn't help himself.

Cat smiled, letting go of Robbie and smoothing down the back of his hair down where she had ruffled it. Then she took off her backpack and situated herself in the empty spot next to him.

She was sitting too close to Robbie for comfort, with her arm pressed against his, which was swiftly ruining Robbie's plans to not pay too much attention to her. He looked away from her, but then he caught Jade giving him a heated glare that made him want to duck behind Cat like a human shield.

"Robbie! Robbie? Robbie, pay attention!" Cat said, poking him in the side where she knew it tickled.

"Stop it!" Robbie giggled reluctantly.

When he finally looked at her, she was absolutely radiant with happiness, and he was pretty sure his resolve was about to melt into a pitiful little puddle.

"Did you know that some scholars think the word 'carnation' comes from the word 'coronation,' because the Greeks would use carnations in their ceremonial crowns?" Cat asked, batting her eyes at Robbie expectantly.

"No, I didn't," Robbie replied, confused as to why Cat was telling him that. "How did you know that?"

"I found the 'Random Article' button on Wikipedia," Cat said, smiling. "I love that button!"

Robbie looked away, trying to not to blurt out anything about what he loved.

Cat started poking him again though, and when he looked at her, she had pulled something out of her backpack that looked like a small wreath.

"I got out of lab late," Cat explained, "and then I found Sinjin and Burf handing out flowers in the hallway. They let me have a bunch because they accidentally ordered too many. Look, it's just like a Greek coronation crown! I weaved it in the girls' restroom. It was very therapeutic."

Robbie couldn't help but smile, admiring Cat's handiwork and adoring her simple joy.

"I made it for you," she said, pushing it into Robbie's hands.

"For me?" he asked, hesitating to take it. "Why?"

Cat faltered, caught off guard by his question. "Well, because it's Carnation Day, and, well, you know…"

Robbie shook his head and said quietly, "I really don't know. Anything."

Seeing Robbie's sadness, Cat wondered briefly if this was what heartbreak felt like. It hurt to think that she had made him unhappy or confused; she should have clarified how she felt about him a long time ago.

Forgetting what she had initially planned on saying, Cat took a deep breath and then took Robbie's hands in hers to steady herself. "Robbie, I want to walk with you at graduation…" Staring at their hands, she added shyly, "…and everywhere else."

Feeling Cat's rapid pulse beating in her fingers and at the same time feeling like his own heart was going to stop, Robbie asked faintly, "What's that supposed to mean?"

Cat was usually the one asking that question, but now she realized that it could be a not-so-easy question to answer. "It… it means I want to walk beside you wherever you go. I want to be wherever you are."

Severely needing a reality check, Robbie suddenly turned to the others and asked, "Is this happening?"

"Yes, it is," Beck said pointedly. "You heard her."

Jade clarified, "She wants to walk with you at graduation."

"And everywhere else," André reminded.

"Everywhere," Tori emphasized. "All of the places."

"Everywhere?" Robbie asked around the lump in his throat.

"Everywhere," Cat confirmed, bringing his attention back to her. Before she could get too choked up, she said, "Robbie, I like to think of you as mine. I want you to think of me as yours too. So will you walk with me?"

He could barely breathe, but he somehow managed to ask, "That's really what you want?"

Laughing halfheartedly through her nerves, Cat nodded. At first, Robbie didn't respond, looking like he was thinking really hard about something. Cat didn't know how to interpret that, but the longer he didn't speak, the more she had a sinking feeling that it was a bad thing.

"Well, this is making me really nervous, so if you could please say something before I throw up," she requested innocently, "that would be nice."

"Yes," Robbie answered immediately. "I'll walk with you at graduation."

"Yay!" Cat exclaimed breathily. In her excitement, she tucked her hand under Robbie's jaw line and pressed her lips against the heat of his cheek.

"And everywhere else," he promised.

Cat pulled back abruptly to look into his eyes, only to find that he was being completely serious.

"Robbie," she said, lost for any other words and not sure why she wanted to cry so badly. Trying to get ahold of herself, she tried to blink away the tears that were clouding her vision and then picked up her flowery coronation crown. With shaking hands, she placed it on top of Robbie's head, centering it perfectly atop his curls.

"You look amazing," she said with a trembling voice, marveling at him.

"You're amazing," he responded, tentatively pulling her closer to him, part of him still afraid that she would push him away.

His fear subsided when she threw her arms around his middle and buried her face in his shoulder, giggling and crying at the same time. He squeezed her tightly, whispering in her ear that it was okay. They laughed together when she started to hiccup, the light spasms traveling through both of them.

The other four at the table had been watching with bated breath. Tori and André gave Beck a desperate glance, to which Beck replied, "Go ahead. Let it out."

"Aw!" Tori practically squealed, having held it in for so long. "Carnation Day is the best!"

"I am… very emotional right now," André said, shaking his head and fanning himself.

On either side on him, Tori and Jade reached out to comfort him as he covered his face with his hand.

"You can cry if you need to," Tori told him sympathetically.

"But don't, though," Jade discouraged.

"They love each other!" André wailed, unable to contain himself. "It's so beautiful!"

"It's alright, André. Tori's got you," Tori consoled, wrapping an arm around his.

"And that is how you dramatize a lighthearted Hollywood Arts tradition," Beck said, looking at Cat and Robbie and nodding in approval. "Sikowitz would be proud."

"Cat?" Jade said suddenly.

Cat tilted her head on Robbie's shoulder to look at Jade. "Yeah?"

"What did you wish for at the fountain on Friday?"

Cat looked at Jade blankly. "I can't tell you; it's a secret."

"You're allowed to tell if your wish already came true," Jade insisted.

"Oh, well then I wished that Robbie would love me back."

"Gah, y'all are killin' me!" André said tearfully.

"Cat… you didn't have to wish for that."

Cat tilted her head back toward Robbie. "Why not?"

"I already loved you."

The bell rang, signaling the end of lunch period.

Ignoring it, Cat hastily pulled Robbie toward her and kissed him.

Jade's hand shot out to grasp Beck's arm.

Beck smirked as Robbie kissed Cat back and Jade's grip started to cut off his circulation. "That's gonna bruise, you know."

"It'll heal," Jade said tightly, only squeezing him harder as Cat and Robbie broke apart and smiled at each other like everything was right in the world.

"Okay, everyone," Beck said in the paternal voice he sometimes had to use with his friends. "Gather your belongings and your feelings. It's time to go to class."

"Walk with me to class?" Cat asked Robbie as they both stood up.

"I said everywhere, didn't I?" he asked, taking her hand.

"Yay," she said contently, admiring how the afternoon sunlight illuminated Robbie's flower crown as they walked.

"Come on, big guy, let's go," Tori said, pulling a sniffling André up out of his seat.

When Tori didn't let go of his arm as they followed after Cat and Robbie, André smiled brightly at his beautiful best friend, laughing as he wiped away the last of his tears.

"I hate Carnation Day," Jade said to Beck, trying to recover from her accidental display of emotion.

"No, you don't," Beck replied, bumping into her playfully.

"Don't test me, Oliver," she warned.

"All of this is what you wanted to happen. You love Carnation Day, you love your friends, and you love me," he said confidently before kissing her forehead.

"Fine," she acquiesced as they caught up to the others, "but don't tell anyone."

"You know I won't," Beck said, loving being Jade's number one secret-keeper and loving the way it felt to have her at his side.

And with a happiness that could not be shaken, the three pairs filed into the building one behind the other, just as they would on the day they celebrated their graduation from Hollywood Arts.

A/N: Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed this snapshot of a lovely little Victorious world where everyone loves each other and ships Cabbie. Lol. Look out for more Victorious fics from me in the future! ;)