Alice: This is the last chapter of The Best Friend!

Emily: It's also the last day of the poll, so if Victorious wins, I'll close the poll at the end of the day and open a new one with the three options from the previous chapters.

Alice: Basically check in tomorrow to see the winner's options for the poll.

Emily: Thank you so much for all of your support and love for this story! It truly means a lot to me!

Alice: Without further ado, here's the final chapter of The Best Friend.

Epilogue

Beck, Jade, Robbie, and Cat were all sitting at the lunch table together joking around. It started out with Jade teasing Robbie about being a nerd, and Cat instantly coming to her boyfriend's defense by throwing one of her French fries at Jade, who burst out laughing. It resulted in the four of them teasing each other nonstop and laughing. It was the happiest the four of them had felt in months.

Ever since Beck and Jade got back together, their communication and relationship stability had improved drastically. With Robbie's help, Jade learned to become more open with both her boyfriend and with her best friend. She now confronted Beck and Cat about the multiple issues in her life and how they bothered her. She also learned to be more tolerating and nice towards Tori, who was ecstatic with this new development in their friendship. Likewise, Cat began helping Beck with his temper, and it resulted in far less fights between him and his girlfriend.

"Okay," Jade laughed, trying to signal that the rest of the table needed to calm down before she could speak again. "Really quick, are we all still on for sushi tomorrow?"

"I still want a burger," Robbie unhappily grumbled, sending Beck an over exaggerated look of disappointment.

Beck snorted and tried going along with the obvious sarcasm. "What can I say, Robbie?" He exclaimed overdramatically. "We've been tied down, unable to live in freedom any longer. We're trapped!"

"Wow, I love you too babe," Jade smirked at him, and he instantly smiled back. Cat merely giggled and playfully slapped Robbie on the arm. "So we are still on though?" Jade clarified.

"Yeah."

"Definitely."

"A burger does sound nice," Beck pretended to think it over, and Jade mockingly glared at him. "Okay, sushi."

Cat laughed at the two of them. "This is going to be fun!" Cat clapped her hands together. "I've never been on a double date before!"

Beck furrowed his eyebrows. "Cat, the four of us hang out together all the time!"

"But not as an official double date," she pouted at him.

Just as she said that, Andre and Tori walked outside with trays in their hands. The two of them were talking peacefully and laughing amongst themselves. To everyone around them, it looked entirely platonic, and to the two of them, it felt platonic. But the two couples on the bench saw something familiar in the way the two of them acted. "Who knows?" Jade smirked. "Maybe we'll be able to triple date after a while."

Beck nodded, a smile slowly blooming on his face. "Remember when we were like that?"

"You mean not knowing whether or not we liked each other and kind of dancing around it?" Jade tilted her head to the side. "No, not really."

"That was us less than a year ago!" Cat exclaimed to Robbie, smiling brightly at the potential couple. "We should get them to go out!"

"Not yet," Jade pointed her fork at her. "They don't know if they like each other yet or not. We got to get them to realize that first…"

"And how are we going to do that?" Robbie questioned.

"Aren't you supposed to be smart?" She teased him. "It's easy. You just—"

As the four continued talking, Tori and Andre sat down at a private table and began talking amongst themselves. They were completely unsuspecting of what their friends had in store for them, and the four friends counted on that. Soon the topic changed to the time they would meet for the double date, and the four eventually parted. Robbie and Cat began walking to class together, hand in hand and smiling happily at each other. Jade ended up leading Beck to the janitor's closet, locking the door behind them so no one would walk in.

After all the miscommunication, after all of the anger, and after all of the heartbreak, the four of them had managed to find happiness and love within in each other and even themselves.

And that was all they needed.

Alice: Sorry if the ending's a little clichéd, but I wanted to end it on a kind of happy, silly moment between the four of them.

Emily: Originally I was going to end it with Jade and Beck getting back together, but I wanted to show the development of the four of them as couples and friends.

Alice: Once again, thank you so much for all of the support you all have expressed towards this story.

Emily: It truly means a lot to me!

Alice: Thank you for reading, and I hope you all enjoyed The Best Friend.