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You might find the ending a little corny but I personally liked it. :) What I'm not sure about (concerning how much I like it) is a scene within this chapter that's the only one in this fic out of someone else's pov than Tori. I put a # in to show where that scene starts and ends, so you can skip it if you find the change in pov weird. But I kinda wanted to show that scene and didn't know how else to show it.
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After school, Beck invites Tori to drive home with him and Jade, which Jade doesn't even protest.

Tori and Trina have often hung out with their friends after school, so neither had to go home right away every day. Instead, afterwards, each their friends brought them home or their father came to pick them up when they finally wanted to get home as he was already done with work then. The few times where they wanted to head home right away and none of their friends headed into the direction of their house anyway for one reason or another, they took the bus which was fine as well.

Beck and Jade go up Jade's room while Tori goes into her own to do her homework. She doesn't get far. The other two have turned on music in Jade's room – quite loud.

Tori gets unnerved by it and can't concentrate on her homework at all. All her teachers started tough right away and she even got assigned a project she hoped to already get done today, just to stay ahead.

She has to tell them to turn the music down. This doesn't work at all.

She gets up and to her old room. The door isn't even closed now though neither of their parents are home and they have to know Tori wouldn't rat them out. But Jade does keep her word. (She probably promised she would leave the door open, every time she was inside her bedroom with Beck – she won't have promised to also leave the bathroom door open or alike, as also nobody will have thought about something alike happening.)

"Can you turn the volume down?" she asks, walking inside to find both of them sitting on Jade's bed, in the corner of it, Jade leaning against the headboard, Back against the other wall, the bed is standing at. Their legs lie over each other, both have laptops in their laps (Beck brought his and kept it in the car during school). They sit close enough that with every slight movement their laptops might touch too.

"No," Jade says without even looking up.

"I'm trying to do homework," Tori says. Jade has to see sense over this, right?

Now, Jade looks up darkly. "And we're succeeding like this. Go do them somewhere else."

For a second, Tori wants to say that this is her home and she has every right to do her homework here. But she can bite it back and is glad that she does. After all this is Jade's home now too and Tori saying it like that makes it sound as if it isn't. As if Tori would always have more rights in this house than Jade because she lived here first. That would be unfair.

Beck's the one to speak next. He has followed the conversation silently before, now he puts his hand on Jade's leg, leaning towards her. "We can also drive back to the RV."

They share a look and Jade puts her hand on top of Beck's hand on her leg as she answers, in an unsatisfied tone herself: "You know my mom wants me to be here as much as possible to start 'feeling home here'. Ugh."

Beck leans even closer, kisses her jawline, before he says: "But we wouldn't get interrupted or watched as much there."

Okay, this isn't just about homework, right? Tori promptly remembers what she heard in the bathroom the day before. Gosh. And she honestly thought she already forgot all about it.

She closes her eyes for a moment, before she thinks that... well, no, maybe this is just about homework after all. Maybe, Beck would prefer to listen to music this loud, doing homework while being close to Jade, without anyone, even Tori, walking inside, seeing them like this. Though this isn't anything too private. Still.

"I know," Jade says, moves her hand to his cheek, kissing him, rubbing her thumb over his cheekbone. And looking at him after the kiss, she decides: "I'll tell her I'll spend the next weekend."

That makes Beck smile. "Yes."

Jade kisses him again, before she turns back to Tori, looking annoyed once more: "We can turn the music down but don't expect us to make it so quiet that you won't hear it at all in your room, especially with that stupid door open."

Is Jade actually compromising now? Tori'll take it.

"Okay, thanks," she says leaves the room while Jade turns the music down.

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Tori's mind gets back to what she almost said in that room. How she almost said that this is her home.

Well, somewhere that is still how she feels. Just like Jade probably isn't feeling home here yet. And why should she, despite being here around the clock, when Tori still doesn't think of her at home here? And with Tori's father being difficult about Beck. And... with this house being this house.

Only now, Tori realizes that this is the house in which Beck and Jade had their big break-up.

Jade must hate it here, right?

Tori suddenly feels bad for her. She hasn't often felt like that for Jade. She does now and even wants to talk to Jade about it, to tell her that she understands how she must feel. To let her know that Tori's there for her if Jade needs her in any way. Not that she thinks Jade'll ever really take her up on that, but Tori still hopes she'll appreciate the sentiment.

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Before Tori gets around to talk to Jade, unbeknownst to her, her father gets his turn.

Beck's gone today, before David gets home and the family eats dinner together. He's alone in the living room with Caitlyn afterwards, his beautiful girlfriend.

They talk about work and about what else happened during the day, before turning on the TV. That's also the moment, Jade comes downstairs.

She looks bored as she comes to a halt next to the couch, the couple is sitting on. "Hey. Just wanted to tell you that I'm gonna stay with Beck for the weekend."

It's Monday, so still some time until the weekend, but they must've decided on that today and Jade directly informs them. Or rather her mother.

Yes, it's just an information. While David expects his daughters to ask him (no matter if he always allows it), Caitlyn always seems to be fine with Jade only informing. They parent their children so differently – well, their children and they are different. They have already talked about it some before moving in together, but their first two weeks of living together have still proven themselves tough every now and then, especially at little moments like this. But David slowly learns to keep his mouth shut about how Caitlyn raises Jade, as Caitlyn also barely says a thing about how David raises his daughters.

Caitlyn now answers her daughter: "I thought we talked about this."

"We did," Jade says, pointedly. "And I've been here almost around the clock for two weeks and also will be for the rest of this week when I'm not in school."

So, she deserves some time outside the house.

David has learned from Caitlyn that Jade hasn't been home often, when they still lived alone. It was fine for Caitlyn because she always knew where her daughter was and she came home regularly and always when her mother wanted her to. But Caitlyn told Jade to be home more now, so she'll ever feel like home here. David can also imagine that Jade must feel home at Beck's, if she's spending so much time there. And it could easily happen that Jade only sees that as home anymore after the move. Caitlyn doesn't want that. Even if Jade moves out for college, she wants her to come and visit and feel home with her mother.

Now Caitlyn tilts her head, looking at Jade, and finally says: "Okay. But why don't we all do something together on Friday then? The whole family?"

David likes that idea. They should spend some time other than the meals. Caitlyn also checks with a look in his direction and he smiles at her.

Jade watches them and then shrugs. "If we have to."

And with that, she pulls out her phone and seems in the process of turning and leaving them again. David's sure she'll text Beck to let him know that she'll be with him for the weekend.

And well, with Trina and Tori not around, maybe this is the moment to talk to her. David isn't sure if Beck shouldn't also hear this but... he has the feeling that Jade hates his behaviour much more than Beck himself does and gets offended by it more. Also, she will let Beck know what it's about.

So, he raises his voice: "Jade. I also wanted to talk to you."

She stops again, looking up from her phone.

"About Beck," he makes clear.

Her face hardens but she doesn't say anything, just raises her eyebrows at him, almost couldly, and he notices how Caitlyn also turns to look at him in surprise. He knows she'll intervene if he would say anything negative at all.

Quickly, he gets to the point: "I talked to Tori this morning and realized that I give off the impression that I don't like him. I want you to know that that's not true. I'm genuinely happy to see you in such a good relationship. It's just hard for me to see someone in Trina's and Tori's age with a boyfriend in that way. They're my little girls and your relationship shows me how grown up they are."

Jade's face has softened a little again. Her look is neutral, as she questions, still with that rough sort of voices she always uses: "What's wrong with them growing up?"

"I don't want to loose them," he honestly responds.

"Why would you?" she asks. "They'll always be your daughters."

She glances to her own mother and David can't help but smile. That's the moment. When she glances to her mother, he realizes that Jade's still so close to her mother, in their own way, despite Jade being in that serious relationship with Beck. Despite Jade being as independent as she is. They're close enough that despite the person Jade is, she still listens to her mother about when to be home. She wants her mother to be happy – and her mother wants her to be happy.

David wants that with his daughters. He has it with his daughters. And Jade lets him know that's all he needs.

"Thank you," he earnestly says which makes Jade pull her eyebrows together. As if she doesn't understand the thanks, as if she's weirded out by him thanking her.

She does understand that he ends their talk with that, takes up her phone again, to finally text Beck, while she turns around and leaves without another word.

Her mother looks after her for a moment before she turns to David with a smile. He sees how happy she is that David talked to Jade about this, that he told her about his feelings. She leans forward and pulls him into a passionate kiss.

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Tori and Trina have talked in their room, until Tori needed to go to the bathroom. She's on her way back to her room, when she hears someone coming up the stairs. She stops and sees it's Jade, her phone in her hand.

Beck has left before dinner already. Tori wonders if Jade has actually sat with their parents just now. It's not like she has gotten herself a drink or anything.

Anyway... Tori and she shortly nod at each other in greeting and Jade's close to the door of her room, when Tori remembers: "Oh, can we talk?"

Jade doesn't say a word. She glances at Tori, then walks into her room. But she leaves her door open, which Tori understands as a yes to her question. After all, Jade's very much allowed to close her door when Beck isn't over and she always does.

That's why Tori walks inside after Jade and closes the door behind them. Okay, but she doesn't know how to start this conversation.

Jade calls her out on it. "What?" she asks aggressively when Tori doesn't say anything.

She lets herself fall down on her bed, narrowing her eyes at Tori.

Tori slowly starts to speak: "I realized it's kinda unfair that you had to move while we didn't." Her, Trina and their father. They don't have to get used to another home. They only have to get used to two people living here.

Jade raises one eyebrows and shrugs: "Well, life isn't fair."

So, she has of course noticed herself that this is kind of unfair and that she drew the shortest straw in this deal.

"I'm sorry," Tori honestly says because she is. "I didn't think about it before, but you must have bad memories connected to this house." On top of everything else.

Jade looks at her for a moment, as if she needs that to get what Tori's talking about it. She doesn't need another hint by Tori though. Instead, she suddenly asks amused: "Because Beck and I broke up here?"

Tori nods gently and Jade easily says: "We had a lot of break-ups. Granted: Not one was for that many weeks before, but anyway... We also fight a lot. I don't connect that to places. Otherwise, we could never go anywhere twice. Also, he made sure when we moved my stuff in that I also have good memories in this house."

Tori opens the mouth though she has nothing to say to that. Did Jade really say that? Did she mean what Tori thinks she meant? As if what Tori overheard in the bathroom wasn't enough... That was two weeks after Jade moving in... If he made sure she has good memories in this house when they moved her stuff in...

The way Jade smirks at Tori's dumbfounded face, she did mean it the way Tori takes it.

Tori quickly regains her composure and says, as if Jade didn't add that last part: "I'm glad to hear that. Do you think you'll ever feel home here?"

"What do you care?" Jade harshly asks.

Well... Obviously, Tori cares. She doesn't want Jade to be miserable. They're friends. And might be family some day.

But before she can put that into words, Jade already rolls her eyes. She knows that Tori cares. And maybe it soothes her that Tori truly does, at least she finally says: "It's only been two weeks, you know. But my mom lives here. And Beck's here all the time. I'll feel home soon enough."

She means it. Tori can't help herself, with a big smile: "And we'll be sisters soon enough."

"You suck, Vega," Jade says, but definitely amused, and suddenly she takes one of her pillows and throws it in Tori's direction.

Tori can just keep it from hitting her chest and it falls to the floor. Tori's picking it up, thinking about throwing it back at Jade, when Jade has already stood up, another one of her pillows in her hands, having left her phone on the bed, and she's hitting Tori with that pillow.

They start a major pillow fight that actually reminds Tori very much of a sisterly fight. Trina even comes into the room because of all the commotion and promptly gets involved as well as Jade throws the pillow against her head, not angry that Trina came into her room, but playful.

They have a big fight and only stop when one of them accidently hits one of Jade's butterfly collections that somehow stays whole but falls to the ground, which makes all of them quickly check if it's not destroyed.

"We'll never do that in my room again," Jade says after that and Tori promptly suggests: "Let's do it in ours the next time."

She checks with a look to Trina and Trina nods. She's also always up for some good fighting. Even with Jade, though those two never got along too great.

Jade smirks again. "I'll bring the pillows."

Tori smiles. Yeah, Jade'll feel home here quick enough. And they'll feel like family of sorts. Her mother makes sure of that by having her spend so much time at the house. And Beck makes sure of that by being here with her.

Tori only now realizes that Beck's able to do that. That him being around made Jade get used to the house quicker, that she got comfortable so easily here because of him.

Tori hasn't known before it would be like this. With Jade herself but also with Beck around so much. But she has to say... She rather likes it.