Later on that night, Tori waited nervously for Andre to arrive. Her foot tapped impatiently as she sat, almost shaking, and her eyes darted to the door every five minutes. She's never felt this nervous in her life. At least, that's what she thought...

"Tori?"

Tori felt the couch weigh in on her left and turned her head a little. It was Trina who sat next to her. And, for once, she looked concerned.

"Hi, Trina..." Tori muttered.

"What's wrong?" Trina saw the script laying in Tori's lap.

"Nothing. Andre's just gonna come over so we can...rehearse." Tori's cheeks reddened on "rehearse".

Trina raised an eyebrow. "You two must be love interests or something."

Tori didn't answer.

"Oooh...!" Trina gasped. "He's coming over so you two can rehearse the kissing scene!"

Tori nodded, looking at the floor, biting her lip. "Yeah...we um...-"

The doorbell rang.

Trina smiled as she got up. "Coming, Andie!"

"Andre..." Tori muttered the same time Andre did from the outside.

Trina opened the door and let Andre in.

"Hey, Andrew." She said, ignoring the comment.

"Hey, Trina." Said Andre, looking at Tori instead.

"Hi, Andre." Tori murmured.

"Hey, Tor." He walked over and sat down next to her, his script in hand. "Ready to rehearse?"

"You bet she is..." Trina muttered as she passed them.

Andre and Tori both felt their cheeks grow hot.


"Okay..." Tori said after an hour, looking over the paragraph. "How do you want to do it...? The kiss I mean..."

"Oh. Um..." Andre looked over the paragraph too. "I guess we do what the script says. The script says we're supposed to do it passionately...you know...a little slow maybe."

"You're right." She put a hand on his shoulder, looking at her lap. "Let's just...get it over with."

"Are you sure things won't be awkward between us?"

"Well..." She blushed. "We're actors, aren't we?"

"I know." His heart felt like it was about to explode.

Tori looked at her script once more before putting it down behind her, closing her eyes. She leaned in to where their noses were touching, her hand slid back to the nape of his neck and took a deep breath, whispering her next line. "I love you."

Andre wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close, her lips an inch away from his own. "I love you too."

He then closed the space between them and pressed his lips, gently, against hers.

For once, Tori completely forgot about the script. It took all of her focus to remind herself that the kiss could only last ten seconds. It took all of her focus to remind herself to mutter "David" and not "Andre"...

Their lips parted, then joined again every second.

Andre's arms, however, slightly tightened around her on the tenth second; Tori's hands slipped down to grip the front of his jacket. They were supposed to stop.

But they didn't for another minute.

Tori paused; her lips pulling up, breaking the kiss. Andre's arms still stayed around her, and she didn't mind, but Andre looked at her curiously, feeling embarrassed.

"Um...Andre?" She croaked.

"Yeah...?" His voice almost sounded dazed.

"H-how long were we supposed to kiss?"

"Oh-uh..." He looked down. "Ten seconds."

"Ten?" Her voice dropped to a whisper. "I-I think...I think we kissed for more than ten seconds..."

"We did?" He tried to keep himself from smiling and blushing at the same time. But one, however, won over him. His cheeks went hot again.

"D-Did you forget to pull away...?"

Andre hesitated. "Um...actually...I sort of...didn't want to."

"Really?" She murmured. "Why?"

"Well...this might be hard to understand but..." He didn't look at her. "For the first ten seconds, I was kissing Lindsay. But...for the last fifty...I was kissing you."

"Me?"

Tori smiled, biting her lip as he nodded. She put her hands on either side of his face and kissed him.

Andre just stared at her for another minute.

"What was that for?" He asked, smiling a little.

"I was kissing you." She wrapped her arms around his neck again. "Not David."


TORI VEGA: Just finished the kissing scene.

MOOD: A Mystery

Tori had updated this around 9 o'clock, which was around the time Andre left because his grandmother "goes even crazier afterhours".