"Cat," Tori drawled out, "where are you?" The redheaded ninety-pound sweetheart had disappeared when the thunder boomed outside the house. She saw a blur of red rush past her and onto the couch, curling underneath a cape that she now used as a blanket.

"Cat, it's only thunder. Everything will be okay." Tori sat next to the trembling redhead, stroking her shoulder. The thunder boomed outside again, and Cat retreated to her safe haven of fleece once again. It didn't help that there was now banging at the door. Tori decided the redhead was hopeless, and went to go get a cup of tea when the banging continued, though louder. Startled, she grabbed the nearest thing, and rushed to the door, throwing it open.

"Well hello."

"Jade."

"Gonna beat me with that rolling pin, Vega?"

Tori noticed she still had her defensive stance, with a rolling pin hovering over her head. She sheepishly put her arm down, while Jade strode through the house without invitation. It was a ritual, and the brunette half-Latina stopped questioning it after a while. Jade had pulled out a movie case, and inserted a disc into the DVR.

"Don't tell me it's…"

"The Scissoring." Jade's half smile grew into a smirk at the eyeroll the younger girl had no hesitation giving her. "Have a problem with that?" She said, using the accent she initially created to mock Tori.

"I DON'T SOUND LIKE THAT."

"Well sure you don't, sugah."

Jade's smirk turned into a large grin at Tori's frustration. Tori grumbled, but planted herself besides Jade. A ball of red and fleece made their way onto Tori and Jade's lap. Jade didn't bother objectifying, and Tori was obviously fine with it. Midway through the movie, Cat fell asleep, and Tori got her into the guest room. When she came back, she noticed a disheveled Jade.

"Jade?" The obsidian-haired girl looked up startledly at Tori. She wiped away the mascara streak off her face, and tried her best to pretend to be fine.

"Oh, hey, Vega. Want to watch another movie?"

"Maybe. Hey, Jade?" She had sat down next to Jade as she always did; peering at her porcelain-skinned, scissors-obsessed friend.

"What, Vega?" Her voice had tried to regain a sense of toughness and maybe a little bit of condescension; but it was too shaky to pull off being okay.

"Are you, um, are you afraid of thunderstorms?"

Tori didn't like insinuating that Jade had a weakness; mostly because Jade usually has no weaknesses. None that she was hunky-dory showing, anyways. She knew that even though she was a weird, creepy, violence-obsessed human; she was just that- a human. And all humans had some sort of weakness. It's that Jade rarely let anyone know she had one.

As far as Hollywod Arts knew, Jade was immune to weakness. But as far as Tori knew, Jade had many of them. Jade seemingly trusted Tori. Maybe because she could always threaten Tori to keep quiet. Cat knew what it was. It was because Tori was Tori- loyal and trustworthy. Snarky sometimes, but trustworthy. Even Tori knew Jade threatening her was only a sense of regaining her tough act.

"Of course not, Vega. What do you take me for, some kind of weakling?"

Thunder dropped heavily nearby the Vega house, causing Jade to jump fearfully. The jump caused Jade to bump into Tori accidentally. She choked back a sob, and instead of moving away from Tori; she did quite the opposite. She huddled towards the taller, younger Latina in an out of character decision. Tori being Tori, she just wrapped her arms around Jade's shoulders. Tori looked around the room. Jade had been acting weird all day, so she guessed this showing a weakness was part of today's weirdness.

"So, my parents are on vacation and Trina is staying with a cousin for the week; did you want to go upstairs to my bedroom?"

"It's been two weeks since Beck and I broke up, and you're already trying to get me into your bed. Nice, Vega. You have good taste."

Jade wasn't looking at Tori. Thank god, Tori thought, because her cheeks were dark red. Tori didn't see Jade, but she didn't have to in order to know that Jade was smirking at her little jab. She just shook her head and got up, looking down into the really pretty green eyes. She held out a tanned hand, and a softer, porcelain one grabbed it. Jade got up, herself, mentally cursing herself for what she wanted to so badly do.

As far as anyone but their friend group knew; Jade hated Tori. Andre was convinced Jade was just crazy. Cat knew better, as she was there when both Jade and Tori were confused about their feelings for one another. Though, as per usual, Cat acted ditzy and clueless. Beck had some delusional idea that Jade was jealous of Tori, and that Tori had some flirty thing for Beck. Robbie was too oblivious to know what exactly it was; only that if Rex didn't shut up, they'd both end up in the dumpster again. Rex- though a figment of Robbie's demented imagination- had a perverted suspicion for Jade's so-called hatred for Tori. Lane thought Jade was just being Jade; confusing and slightly demented (understatement of the year). Sikowitz- oh, how Sikowitz caught on. Sikowitz even went out of his way to assure that fate would assign the two young ladies into multiple projects together.

He called it fate, but Cat knew what Sikowitz was doing. Everybody else thought it was just weird, dumb luck, Cat saw the crazy, coconut-influenced look in his eye. She played along, oftentimes assuring Tori and Jade were together almost all the time.

What nobody else but Jade, Sikowitz, and Cat knew; was that Jade- somewhere along the long, frenzied road of friendship- fell for Tori. She wasn't sure it was love, didn't think it was love. Not yet, anyways. Though she had that possessive feeling when it came to Tori. When some guy would go to ask the lovable Tori Vega out on a date; he would usually end up with a broken arm and a keyed car. When a guy so much as flirtatiously glanced at Vega, he would end up avoiding her for a week after Jade's little interference. Tori knew why the guys were avoiding her, just not why Jade was doing it. She only assumed it was some weird protective friend thing that very few got to see from Jade.

Jade and Tori made their way upstairs, where they kind of cuddled together in Tori's bed. Tori ended up falling asleep, and Jade murmured a soft whisper into Tori's collarbone. Tori- being a sappy, cuddly dork- intertwined their fingers when she held Jade's hand underneath the pillow. It was a subconscious thing Tori almost always did in her sleep, and she did it only with Jade. Jade fell asleep peacefully, cuddled in the warm embrace of the Latina.

Tori Vega, you have ruined me.