My first attempt at Victorious fan fiction, so please go easy on me. I'd also love it if you reviewed, let me know what you think and if I got everyone in character or not.

This fic will be kind of like an episode of the real show, or I'll at least attempt to make it like one. I'm no Hollywood writer, but I try my hardest. Please let me know what you think so I can improve where needed!

It was lunch time at Hollywood Arts, and Tori and André had just purchased lunch and sat down at their regular table at the Asphalt Café.

"Sikowitz hit a new low today, don't you think?" Tori asked André as she took a French fry and dipped it in ketchup.

André shrugged. "It's not like he was any weirder than usual. He was pretty normal, considering it's… Him."

Tori shot him a look. "Forgetting to wear a shirt is not normal on any level of Sikowitz craziness." She ate her fry, then looked around the parking lot. "Where is everybody? We can usually at least see them milling around by now."

"I think Robbie's spending lunch working with Sinjin on some project for visual arts," André explained. "Jade and Beck will probably be out in a second… And Cat? Who knows what she's doing right now." She looked behind André, thinking that one of her other friends (or Jade) would come by any second.

"Hi, hi!" a cheery voice that could only be Cat's chirped, catching Tori by surprise since she had come from the opposite direction that she was looking toward. "Something's been bothering me all day. How do you think platypuses were invented?" Cat randomly asked Tori and André as she sat down with them.

"Um… Invented?" Tori asked, confused. "Cat, I-I don't think you can invent an animal, per se-"

"Do you think a scientist put a duck and a beaver in a dam all by themselves… And maybe played some romantic music?"

"Cat…" Tori looked amazed by her odd brand of innocence. "Th-That's not scientifically possible. Beavers and ducks can't-"

André held a hand up to her and shook his head as he started eating his pizza. "Just let Little Red dream, Tori…"

Jade approached the table, sitting down with her caesar salad. "Hi, Jade," Tori greeted.

"Vega," Jade muttered, stabbing her salad with a fork.

Tori's eyebrows furrowed. "I have a first name, you know."

"Wow. Congratulations. Would you like a party for such an amazing accomplishment?"

"Jade, I can see you're being as chipper as ever," Beck jokingly said as he took the seat next to her.

"You're lucky you're so sexy," Jade muttered, barely audible.

"Aww, what's wrong?" Cat asked, suddenly looking concerned. "You're even grumpier than usual."

Beck was getting ready to open his mouth, but Jade stopped him. "Tell them and I'll stab you with this fork."

"Oddly enough, I'm not threatened by your plastic silverware." Beck chuckled. "Come on, it's a funny story."

"Yeah, it's funny if you're five years old or an idiot..." She looked around at the people sitting at the table and shook her head. "Actually, these guys would probably find it hilarious..."

"Okay, so Jade and I had just stepped outside-"

"Whoa, that wasn't me giving you permission to tell the story!"

Beck ignored her. "And as soon as we're out the door, a puppy runs up to us."

"Aww, puppy!" Cat cooed, even though she had never seen the puppy and it could have been ugly for all she knew.

"What's a puppy doing at Hollywood Arts?" André asked.

"Maybe it's a stray," Tori suggested. "There are a lot in this area..."

"Yeah, and so it did cute puppy things at us, like bark at us and run around our feet-"

"Dude, if you value your life, you will not finish this story."

Beck ignored his girlfriend once more. "Jade didn't find it as amusing as I did, so she called the puppy a scuz-cake and threw her coffee cup at it."

"JADE!" Cat screamed, her brown eyes filling with tears. "That's horrible!"

"What?" Jade snapped, mouth full of salad. "It was empty."

"Mister Puppy didn't like having empty beverage containers thrown at him," Beck continued, a smirk sneaking its way onto his lips.

"I'm warning you-"

"So he decided to pee all over Jade's boot."

Laughter erupted from everybody at the table, except Jade, of course. "I knew there was a reason that I'm a dog person," Tori choked out between giggles.

"Why do I hang out with you people?" Jade muttered to herself, closing her eyes and rubbing her temples.

"Because nobody else wants to?" Tori suggested.

Jade glared at her, then grabbed her empty salad container and stood up. "I'm going to find some freshmen and throw sharp objects at them."

As she began to storm off, Beck called out, "Not too sharp!"

"Not making any promises," she called back over her shoulder.

Beck sighed, then turned back to Tori, Cat and André. "I should go after her. Being a freshman is bad enough without Jade pelting them with thumb tacks… You don't have to act the same to her as she does to you, you know, Tori."

Tori looked at him incredulously. "She's always mean to me! I act nice, she's mean, I act mean, she's still mean! I brought her a homemade muffin once and she smashed it against Rex's head!"

"Was it lemon poppy seed?" Beck asked.

"…Yeah?"

He shook his head. "No wonder. Jade hates poppy seeds."

"Jade hates everything!" Tori cried. "I wish she'd just forgive me for whatever I did that was so wrong!"

"Yeah, good luck with that," Beck said as he slung his backpack over his shoulder, even though he knew his girlfriend would never would forgive Tori. He looked towards the direction Jade had walked towards and his eyes widened. "Jade, drop the scissors! And get away from that ninth grader! He's in a wheelchair, for crying out loud!" He turned back to the group and, panicking, said, "I've got to go," and ran off.

The three sat in awkward silence for a moment, until Cat grabbed the cell phone that had been sitting in front of Beck and cried out, "Beck, you forgot your phone!"

"I don't think he can hear you," André said, watching the spectacle that was going on in the middle of the parking lot. "He's too busy trying to pry those scissors away from Jade."

"She's such a nutblock," Tori mumbled, shaking her head and eating another one of her French fries.

Cat grabbed Beck's cell phone and was about to go deliver it herself when it let out a beep. "Ooooh, Beck has a text!"

As she started to open it, Tori told her, "Cat, don't read that. It's an invasion of privacy," and started drinking her cherry Blitz.

Cat didn't listen. Instead she read aloud, "Thanks, Beck, you're the best. ILY."

As soon as she heard those three little letters, Tori spat her red drink all over André's pizza and cried out, "WHAT? ILY? What do you mean ILY? Who Ls Beck?"

André didn't answer, since he was too busy cringing at what was supposed to be his lunch. "You Blitz'd my pizza!"

"I don't recognize the number," Cat said, reading the message again. "Maybe it's Jade?"

"Yes, Cat, Jade is texting Beck while she's over there wrestling with him for a pair of scissors," Tori sarcastically said, taking the cell phone away from Cat.

"Well, she could be!" Cat whined, pouting.

Tori started scrolling through the text history, her eyes widening after reading each text. "Oh, my God… Guys…" She looked up at her friends with wide brown eyes. "I think Beck is cheating on Jade."

The other two mulled on this for a moment, looking both shocked and confused. It was silent between the three friends for a moment, until André broke the silence by awkwardly saying, "Well… Now my Blitz'd pizza doesn't seem so bad…"

Cut to the theme song and we're good to go!

Tori was sitting on the steps in the main hallway of Hollywood Arts, scrolling through Beck's message history for what felt like the billionth time. "Can we go to the Groovy Smoothie after you pick me up from school?" As Tori quietly read the message out loud, she made her voice sound annoying and high-pitched, as if that was how she imagined the mystery texter talked. She switched to her generic boy voice as she read Beck's reply, "Anything for you, bleh bleh bleeeeeh."

"Is that really what the text says?" A voice she recognized as André's asked from behind her

As he sat down next to her, she muttered, "Well, I may have added the last part…"

André shook his head. "I don't know, Tori… I just don't think Beck would cheat on Jade."

"It all adds up, though!" Tori showed him Beck's phone. "Look at these texts! They're totally flirty!"

"They could be innocent," André said, reading the texts nonchalantly. "He could be going with a really close friend or-"

"BECK!" Tori exclaimed, snatching the phone away from André and jumping up as soon as she saw him approach the two. "Um, I mean… Heeeey…" Tori wasn't the best at acting cool when she knew something was up.

"Heeeeey," Beck mimicking, looking confused by Tori's sudden twitchiness. "Uh, have you guys seen my PearPhone? I think I left it-"

"I have it right here!" Tori practically screamed, throwing the phone in Beck's hands.

"Oh, uh… Okay. Thanks… I guess."

André joined the two and whispered, "Remind me never to take any advanced improv acting classes with you," quietly enough so only Tori could hear. That comment earned him an elbow to the ribcage.

"Soooo… Doing anything after school?" Tori asked. "André and I were going to stop by Skybucks."

"We were?" Tori elbowed André in the ribcage again, making him double over in pain and wheeze, "Yeah, totally, I love me some coffee!"

Beck raised an eyebrow. "Uh, thanks, but I kind of already made plans."

"Oh, really?" Tori crossed her arms and tried her best not to look suspicious, but failed miserably. "Who with?"

Beck tucked his hands into his pocket, raising his eyebrow at Tori's suspicious behavior yet again. "If you must know, I'll be with-"

The rhythmic warning bell ran out, signaling that there were five minutes left until class started. "Man, I gotta go," Beck said as he started to walk away. "Sikowitz wants me to be to his class early so I can help him feed his pet dinosaur."

André and Tori exchanged confused glances and André said, "Uh, dinosaurs are kind of… extinct."

"I know, man," Beck said, shaking his head as he walked away. "I know."

Once he was out of earshot, Tori whispered, "We have to follow him to the Groovy Smoothie and find out who this skunkbag is!"

"My ribcage has taken enough blows for one day," André mumbled, rubbing the spots that Tori elbowed. "Why do you care so much anyway? You can't stand Jade, so why do you care if there's a possibility that Beck's cheating on her?"

"Because, I know deep down, no matter how vicious she is, Jade loves Beck and Beck loves her back and I want them both to be happy…" Tori looked down and quickly added, "And maybe if I help keep Beck with Jade, she'll actually like me..."

André slung his backpack over his shoulder and shook his head. "You can do whatever you want, but count me out. I don't want to get in the middle of this chizz."

"Stop saying chizz!" Tori cried, but it was useless, because André was too far away to hear her. She huffed, but merely walked over to her locker. She grabbed the script she wrote for her drama class and was about to head to class, but Robbie ran up to her in a panic.

"Tori!" Robbie screamed, stopping by her locker. "Jade smashed another muffin on Rex's face!"

"The poppy seeds are gettin' in my eyes!" Rex screamed.

Tori rolled her eyes, then ripped the yellow mess off the puppet's face and chucked it in the trash. "Robbie, I have bigger things to worry about."

"Did your rash come back?" Robbie asked, wiping poppy seeds off of Rex's face.

"No, I-" Tori paused, looking at Robbie, absolutely horrified. "How'd you know about my rash?"

"… Continue with your story," Robbie muttered, desperately wanting to change the subject.

Tori looked at him suspiciously, but shook her head and continued, "Look, I think Beck might be cheating on Jade. I looked through his phone and he had all kinds of texts from some girl I don't know."

"So, you were looking through his phone?" Robbie asked. "Isn't that kind of an invasion of privacy?"

"Well… Yes, but Cat's the one who invaded it first! It was only after she read the text from that skunkbag that said that she loved Beck that I looked at it."

"Did you ask Beck about it?"

"No, I don't want him to think I'm nosy!" Tori exclaimed. It was only after she said it that she realized the true irony of that statement. "He's picking the skunk bag up after school and taking her to the Groovy Smoothie. I'm going to do a little investigating…"

"Can I come?" Robbie asked.

"Um, sure, I guess." Tori shrugged. "Why?"

Robbie shrugged too. "I like Strawberry Splats."

"Count me in," Rex smoothly said. "I wanna see this hottie myself… She must be a babe if Beck would choose her over Jade."

"Oh, I have one condition," Tori added, glaring at Rex. "Rex can't come."

"Why not?" Rex demanded.

"You'll blow our cover." Tori crossed her arms and continued, "A boy carrying around a puppet isn't exactly subtle…"

"Fine," Rex groaned, head bobbing around slightly. "Yo, Rob, drop me off at Amazing Glaze, then."

Robbie looked down at the puppet, perplexed. "Why would you want to go to a religious bakery?"

"You don't know what I believe!"

Tori stared at Rex for several seconds, then shook her head and walked away from the glasses-wearing teen and his dummy.

Robbie started to lecture Rex for scaring off Tori, but was suddenly distracted when Cat walked by with a large lump under her shirt. "Hi, Cat," he said, looking at her stomach instead of her face.

"Oh, hey, Robbie!" Cat chirped, happy as usual. She held her lumpy new tummy and acted as if it was perfectly normal.

"Um, what's under your shirt?" Robbie asked, pointing to her stomach with his free hand.

"Whoa, you've let yourself go, girl!" Rex exclaimed.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Cat screamed at the two in her usual Cat-like fashion.

Robbie flinched at the sudden outburst. "I just meant it looks like you've stuffed something under your shirt!"

"Well, I didn't!" The redhead patted her belly. "I just had a big lunch, is all!" The lump squirmed around under her shirt and let out a muffled "Woof woof!" Robbie and Cat stared at each other for a moment before Cat nervously said, "I guess I'm still hungry!"

"That didn't sound like-"

"Gotta get to class, bye!" Cat blurted out, shuffling away from the nerd and towards her music class.

Robbie and Rex stood in silence for a moment, until Rex finally said, "Something ain't right with that girl."

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