Although Jade loves Beck she thinks she has a small crush on André.
André is in love with Tori he just hasn't realized it yet.
Tori is in love with André, period point blank.
Beck thinks he's falling out of love with Jade and in love with Tori.
Cat is trying to make Robbie jealous by flirting with Beck.
Robbie is oblivious because he's trying to avoid Trina.
Trina wants Robbie or Sinjin, mostly to make her look better by comparison.
Sinjin is...well Sinjin.
Lane's wife is about to have a baby.
Sikowitz sees all of this and can't help but think…
WTF IS GOING ON?
Jade's Plan?
"Now raise your hand if you've ever been in a relationship with someone and have found yourself liking someone else." They were in Sikowitz's class with their eyes closed and some hands raised. Jade decided to briefly open her eyes to look around and noticed that most of her 'friends' had their hands raised, including her own boyfriend. She wanted to get mad but she couldn't because, as she closed her eyes, she raised her hand too.
Over the past few months Jade found that she has been flirtatiously attracted to one André Harris. She doesn't really know where it came from, but she does know it won't go away. It's not that she wants to break up with Beck. She just would like to be around André long enough to figure out what's so special about him.
"Ok, you can open your eyes and put down your hands now; in whatever order you choose..." Their barefoot teacher continues. With that the students tried to open their eyes quick and put their hands down fast; to see who had their hands up but make sure no one saw theirs. "This brings me to my point…" The wacky teacher stops but doesn't finish his sentence.
"What is your point?" André asks confused.
"Oh, right I was speaking…" He clasps his hands together and continues, "Social norms!" He exclaims.
"What is a social norm?" Rex, Robbie's rude puppet, asks.
"Well small person, a social norm is something that you do that is automatically considered normal by society. Something you automatically feel comfortable with because it's normal." He answers.
"Like how I'm comfortable hating Vega?" Jade asks smugly. Tori just turns around and glares at Jade then goes back to looking at the teacher.
"Or…wearing clothes, walking forward down the hallway, only liking your boyfriend or girlfriend, eating cereal with lemonade…" He pauses and notices the students looking around curiously. "…Not in the cereal!", He explains, "Not always…anyway, when acting and portraying a personality different from your own you will have to go against the social norms you hold dear and make it look like you're comfortable with it." He finishes. "So your assignment is to pick a social norm and go against it. Walk backwards everywhere, sit on the floor instead of a chair, wear your hair in a bun! I don't know just do it and be prepared to present to the class what you did, why you did it and how you and others around you were affected by it."
With that the bell rings its funky tune and everyone leaves class except Jade, Beck, Robbie, Cat, Tori and André.
"So social norms…" Tori starts. "What are you guys thinking about doing?" She finishes while picking up her bag.
"Bathroom…" Cat says suddenly.
"What do you…?" Tori begins but is quickly cut off with Cat yelling: "Gotta pee, gotta pee…", and running out of the room leaving her book bag on the floor. Everyone (except Jade) tried to call out to her, but she was already gone.
Everyone looked at each other and Robbie sighed and said, "I'll take it to her", with that he picked up her bag and threw his over his shoulder and walked out lazily.
"Well now that that's over…" Beck starts, "What do you guys think you're going to do?"
"I was thinking I might…" André starts but is rudely cut off when Jade says,
"I have an idea…"
"Ok I wasn't talking!" André says offended.
"Yeah, yeah do you want to hear my idea or not?" Jade retorts. Everybody nods and listens intently.
"Well how about we switch places?" she continues.
"What do you mean like lives?" Tori asks.
"Now, like roles."
"What roles?" Beck asks.
"Look I'm always with Beck and Vega, you're always with André, so for the next two weeks let's switch: me and André and Vega and Beck hang out." Jade finishes with a look of excitement, well excited enough for Jade. Everyone just looked at her with their mouths wide open. André breaks the silence with, "WHAT?"\
~MEANWHILE~
In the hallway Robbie is waiting for Cat outside the bathroom.
"Just drop the bag and let's go." Rex says getting impatient with waiting.
"No, I'm going to wait for her it's the nice thing to do. " Robbie responds getting annoyed with Rex's attitude.
"Why, I need to go home and call my Northridge…" Rex starts right before Robbie stuffs him in his bag.
"Now you're in time out…deal with it." Robbie says trying to sound confident but his voice still shakes. Just then Cat comes out looking down at her phone. She doesn't notice Robbie's standing there until she bumps into him. She is about to say sorry before she looks up and realizes it's him, holding up her book bag.
Upon seeing him her eyes brighten and she squeals, "You got my bag, thank you so much Robbie. I was just about to text Tori to ask her to bring it to but, you brought it. Thank you, thank you so much!" She hugs him tight and holds on for a little longer that normal.
When they finally pull away, Robbie is smiles wide and shifts his glasses awkwardly. "So what do you want to do?" Robbie asks not realizing the weirdness of the question.
"What do you mean?" Cat asked silently hoping that he was asking her out.
"Oh…I meant for the project…Sikowitz class?" Robbie says unsure. That was the perfect chance to ask her out but he didn't even notice.
"Oh, right…" Cat starts as her smile fades, "I don't know, what about you?"
"I Don't know, maybe I won't bring Rex to school for a week," he says with a laugh as they turn to go to the parking lot.
"Hey I heard that!" Rex screams form the bag. Robbie and Cat just laugh and keep walking.
~BACK IN THE CLASSROOM~
"Where did that idea come from?" Tori asks.
"Yeah that is the most random…" André exclaims.
"WHAT, It could work." Jade screams.
"On what planet...?" Tori asks.
"Ok, everybody just calm down, now Jade please explain." Beck says calmly.
"I just thought it would be interesting to do..." Jade trials off.
"So wait you would be ok with hanging out with me for two weeks?" André asks.
"…And me hanging out with Beck?" Tori asks hopefully. They probably thought she was hopeful Jade would say yes. But, that wasn't the case, she actually pointed that out in hopes Jade would realize what she was suggesting and say 'No you can't hang out with my boyfriend for two weeks'.
"Well, it's not like you guys are going to come up with anything better, so why not?" Jade responds. "Look I'm just saying it could be something interesting to do; think about it, if you want to do it then we'll switch on Monday if not then we'll figure something else out." Everyone just nods and they all go their separate ways, equally confused but intrigued at the same time.
~AT TORI'S LOCKER~
"So what do you think about Jade's project idea?" Tori asks André as she puts in her combination to her locker.
"I honestly don't know what to think, it's weird right?" He respond while leaning on the wall next to her locker.
"I know right…maybe she's up to something, I mean why would she want to hang out with you for two weeks?" She answers but when she notices the growing offended look on his face she quickly adds in, "I didn't mean it like that, just why would she willingly not hang out with Beck?"
"Yeah, that is weird, well what do you think about all of this?"
"I don't know, I mean it would be interesting, but not being able to hang out with you for two weeks would suck!"
"Yeah definitely but maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing." Once André says that Tori looks hurt and thinks: 'He doesn't like hanging out with me?' He notices the look and quickly interjects, "it's not like I don't love hanging out with you, it's just…" He trails off.
"It's just what André?" She asks trying to look mad in order to cover her hurt.
"Look I didn't mean it like that, just that we do hang out a lot and this could be like a break. Then, if we do this, after the two week is up we can go back to how things were before with…stories from our time apart." He says attempting to justify his statement.
"Stories…really?" She asks with a chuckle.
"I don't know, I had to think on my feet…"
"Oh I see."
"…And it's not like we're not going to hang out just not, just the two of us."
"I guess…do you really think we should do this?"
"What do we have to lose?"
"My life if I get too close to Beck!"
"Yeah there's that…" André says jokingly, which makes Tori punch him in the arm then smile. "You'll be fine I promise…after all I'm the one who has to be with Jade for two weeks." They both laugh at that then turn to walk out of the school to hang out at Tori's house.