Title: Confined Spaces

Summary: When Tori and Jade get trapped in the janitors closet after school they learn a little bit about each other. Can they become friends, or even something more?

Pairing: Jade West/Tori Vega

Request by anon: Write about Jade and Tori trapped in a small space together. Like an elevator or something.

Rated: T

Disclaimer: I don't own Victorious.

"This sucks." Jade grumbles.

Anger swelled inside of me, for the past two hours I'd been cleaning up the asphalt café after school after Jade started a food fight with Trina but I got framed, again. "Jade just shut up and help me." I yelled, glaring at the back of Jade's head. The girl had been complaining for hours about us having to clean up but had yet to lift a finger. I threw the rag in my hand at the back of her head, "this is your fault! You started the food fight!"

She scoffed, "Your stupid sister is the one who spilled coffee on me." Jade shrugged, grabbing the rag and tossing it aside, "so this is her fault, and you're her sister so it's yours too."

"The hell it is West! Get off your lazy ass and come help me right now!" I screamed, already annoyed at Trina for getting me into this mess, Jade sighed and swung her legs off of the table she was sitting at. She picked up a mop and started cleaning up the floor, which was almost done but that wasn't the point.

"Your so grouchy sometimes, Vega." Jade remarked under her breath, like I wouldn't hear her. I really wanted to smash the mop in my hands over her head or at least into some part of her body really hard. She gave mopping a half assed try and pretty much just shoved the gunk around until I shoved her out of the way with my hip.

"Rude much?" she grunted.

"Shut up and just sit there uselessly like before." I hissed, she put her hands up in the air in surrender and sat down on the table pulling out her phone and typing away while I finished mopping up the floor, "since you've been useless up to this point, can you at least help me put this shit away?"

"Yeah fine." Jade put her phone in her bag and hooked it over her shoulder, grabbing the mop handle and shoving one of the buckets forward. I grabbed the other one and hooked my bag over my shoulder. The janitors closet was over crowded with boxes of goodness only knows what, so we dumped our bags on the ground and then pushed the two buckets into the room and Jade promptly knocked over six boxes.

"Good going dipshit!" I really wanted to smack her now, I pushed her out of the way and picked up the boxes as quickly as I could and Jade knocked a few more over, "you little-." The janitor's closet door shut and locked.

"What the hell." Jade pushed me into a few boxes and ran for the door shaking it violently to try to get it open, "this is all your fault! You stupid idiot!" Jade screamed, shoving my shoulder so I tumbled farther into the boxes.

"Don't be such a bitch!" I stood up and shoved her shoulder so she stumbled back into the door, "this might not have happened if you hadn't made me clean the whole asphalt café alone!" I screamed.

"Stop over reacting I can just call someone and get us out…but my phones in the hallway." Jade sighed and dropped her hands to her side before quickly crossing them over her chest and pacing in the small area in front of the door.

I glared at her as I straightened up and pushed some of the boxes into new stacks so I had a space cleared and sat down to watch her pace, I frowned while thinking about how I had literally just had my phone in my pocket but I had to put it back in my bag when water got splashed on my jeans.

"So it's Friday now, we're going to be stuck here until Monday." I commented, "Unless Beck bothers to look for his ex-girlfriend."

"Low blow, Vega." She snarled, leaning against the door and sliding down until she was sitting across from me. She stared at a box beside my head, it soon sharpened into a glare and she turned it on me, "your parents wont bother coming to look for you, either, will they?" her mouth curled into a creepy smile.

I really wanted to scream at her, but I bit my tongue and plastered a fake smile on my face, "they're in Santa Monica." I lied, pulling my legs up and crossing them Indian style. I started picking at my fingernails, "wont yours?" I knew for a fact my parents didn't care where I was, ever. And I knew hers hardly remembered they had a daughter.

"Dads on a business trip and mom is busy with her clients huge party." Jade replied, here it begins, "wont your buddy Andre come looking for you? Oh no wait you chased away his girlfriend being a nut job." She throws at me.

"Wont Cat come looking for you? Oh no wait, you were perfectly horrible to her and called her crazy and made her come to my house crying at three am yesterday." I yelled back, crossing my arms over my chest.

"Oh just shut up Vega." Jade deflated and I did a little victory cheer in my mind because I won.

"You shut up." Jade lashed out and slammed her boot into my knee cap, "ow!" I landed a swift kick into the side of her knee with my boot and glared at her, "quit being such a bitch, we're going to be stuck in here we might as well be nice."

"God you're so annoying." Jade snapped. I frowned at her and leaned my head back against the wall and closed my eyes, praying Jade wouldn't decide to kick me in the legs again, or worse my head.

"I'm so bored." I complained.

"Shut up, Vega."

"I have an audition tomorrow." I stated.

"You suck, you wouldn't get it anyways." Jade returned casually.

My eyes slowly opened and I tipped my head down to look at her with what I hope was an angry stare, "Do you always have to be so mean? What the hell did I ever do to you, anyways?"

"You kissed my boyfriend."

"You dumped iced coffee on my head." I retorted.

"You were rubbing all over my boyfriend." She rebutted.

"You faked a black eye to make me get in trouble and made me feel horrible and besides that, I didn't kiss your boyfriend when it mattered so let's just drop it!" I huffed, crossing my arms over my chest and staring at the floor beside my feet.

"What do you mean?" she asked in an accusing tone.

"I know you know about Beck trying to kiss me. I found the laptop open from when Cat video messaged me. 'I can't do that to a friend'." I mocked her; she lashed out with her boot again. I jerked my knee out of the way only for her to hit my hip which caused a sharp pain down my whole leg, "look you were nice to me at the PMA's can't you be nice now? Nobody can frickin see you."

"You can."

"And who would believe me? Look we're going to be trapped here for awhile, please be nice backstage Jade for a few hours." She glanced over at me and sighed, crossing her arms and frowning, "thank you, Jade."

"Whatever. I'm bored." She grumbled back, stretching out across the small space, her boots beside my hip. She started tapping her feet against my hip and just stared at me, "I'm bored Vega, entertain me."

"With what? We're in a closet." I snapped.

"Sing, it's about the only thing your good at." She grumbled.

"What happened to 'nice'?" I asked.

"I said you were good at something." She reasoned, shrugging.

"What do you want me to sing?" I caved in.

"Make It In America." Jade replied, almost too quickly.

I sighed, "Got a one way ticket down a 2 way street, got the wind in my hair and there's dust on my feet, I'm just trying to make it in America. Only thing to my name is an old t-shirt, faded 1985 form a Stones' convert and I'm dying to make it in America.."

I paused for a second, enjoying the fact that I could make Jade smile with something other than my pain, "And I'm singing the words to my favorite song, with the rag top down and my glasses on and I'm driving straight through America. I wanna taste the sun, cause baby I'm born to run, I got a feeling that I'm not the only one."

I sang through the rest of the song and sat up, "your turn, sing me something."

"What the hell do you want me to sing? And not something stupid."

"First song that pops into your head." I told her.

She went silent and thought about it for a minute before starting to sing, "Let's go to the beach, each. Let's go get away. They say, what they gonna say? Have a drink, clink, found the Bud Light. Bad bitches like me is hard to come by. The Patrón, own, let's go get it on. The zone, own, yes I'm in the zone, is it two three leave a good tip, ima blow all my money and don't give two shits."

"Of all the 'un-stupid' songs in the world, you pick that?" I teased, grinning at her as she glowered, "I'm on the floor, floor, I love to dance, so give me more, more, 'til I can't stand. Get on the floor, floor, like it's your last chance. If you want more, more, then here I am."

And together we both belted out, "starships were meant to fly hands up, and touch the sky! Can't stop 'cause we're so high, let's do this one more time! Starships were meant to fly hands up and touch the sky. Let's do this one more time, can't stop…" and then we were both laughing,

Jade went silent first, glaring at me like I'd done something wrong; I glared back at her until she stopped. "Okay now I'm bored again." She deadpanned, "so what the hell are we going to do now?"

"I don't know Jade; I'm not your entertainment committee." Jade glared at me and sat forward, pulled off her jacket, balled it up and adjusted some boxes to lie down on the jacket. I pulled my feet back so she could have more room and I dragged my jacket off and balled it up between my head and the wall.

When I couldn't fall asleep I pulled the jacket out from behind my head, pushed aside the two stacks of boxes beside me leaned against one to get more comfortable and started singing the first song that popped into my head, "I miss the sound of your voice, and I miss the rush of your skin, and I miss the still of silence, as you breathe out and I breathe in.

If I could walk on water if I could tell you what next, make you believe, make you forget. So come on get higher and loosen my lips faith and desire in the swing of your hips, just to pull me down hard and drown me in love." Jade seemed to be asleep now, her breathing was even and she was hardly moving. She looked so peaceful laying there, her face lost all of its normal anger and tension.

Her mouth lacked that angry tension that it always held. Her hair wasn't curled as tightly as normal; it kind of just fell around her face in soft waves, a chunk falling across her face. What the hell was I doing, checking Jade out? If she knew she'd kill me. "I miss the sound of your voice, the loudest thing in my head. And I ache to remember all the violent sweet perfect words that you said." But her eye lashes brushed her cheeks in a pretty way. The dark black lashes contrasted lovely against her porcelain skin. Thank goodness she was asleep.

Tori, stop checking her out. She might strangle you if she even thinks that's what you're doing! Or worse figure out you're into girls, god that would go over well. I shook my head to clear my thoughts, new song, new song, new song. The next song that popped into my head wasn't much better.

"I know you suffered, but I don't want you to hide. Such a stupid song." I muttered, new song, "are you listening, hear me talk hear me sing, open up the door is it less is it more. I'm so bored."

An hour later I was slamming the side of my head against the wall until there was a dull pulsating ache blooming through my skull, "Vega, if you keep doing that you're going to bleed."

"Like you care." I snapped, I hadn't meant for it to happen it just was a defense when talking to Jade.

"Dead bodies tend to smell after three days." She mumbled. I turned to look at her. She was still lying where she had been earlier. Eyes still closed hair still over her face, "there has to be something we can do in here." She muttered.

"Like what? Spend a few hours with each other and then see who can murder the other faster?" she opened her eyes slowly and smirked, "what?" I asked, self consciously swiping my face.

"I'd totally kill you first or at least drive you nuts." She told me, sitting up, "we have to find something to do, what the hell is in all of these boxes?" she nudged one with her boot.

"I don't have a clue." I answered dragging a rather heavy box down off of the stack, it fell too fast and slammed into the top of my thigh hard enough to bring to tears to my eyes and a throbbing pain in my leg. Ignoring it so Jade wouldn't mock me I opened the box and pulled out a can of soda.

"Give me one!" she demanded. I tossed it to her and grabbed another one for myself before shoving the box away from me and shaking a few other boxes to see how heavy they were. They were all the same weight. Jade opens her soda and takes a sip before shaking a few of the stacks by her, she tugged a box down and dug through it before tossing a bag of chips at me and taking one for herself then she shoved the box away

"At least we won't get dehydrated or starve." I observed opening the bag. Jade nodded and popped a chip into her mouth, "so what were you actually going to do tonight?"

"Nothing, I was supposed to go home and crush children's dreams." She replied sarcastically, I glared at her and sipped my soda silently, "I was actually supposed to take my little brother to see some dumb movie."

"Sorry you're stuck here. Next time try not to start a food fight." I told her, meaning it as a joke.

"Yeah, next time I'll just punch Trina in the face." Jade snapped.

"Oh really hilarious Jade. Do you always have to use sarcasm? Can't you just give me a straight answer?" I snapped, she rolled her eyes at me and slumped against the door, nibbling on a chip.

"Maybe I really do want to punch her in the face." Jade mused, "And I'm not always so sarcastic. Look this isn't where either of us wants to be so I don't see why I have to be nice to each other."

"Maybe because we're almost friends?" I throw out, sitting up a little straighter, "I mean we are, aren't we?" inside butterflies take off in my stomach at the thought of her finally agreeing, of finally wearing Jade down.

"I don't know, I mean we always hang out, I don't hate you so I guess we could be friends." Jade answered slowly as if tasting the words to see if they're right, "so as nice and touchy feely as this is, we have to find something to do." She said quickly.

"We could…talk?" I offered up, twisting my hands together nervously. Jade shrugged and I took that as her agreeing, "so what movie were you two going to go see?" I asked, unable to think of a better question.

"Ice Age, I think that's what he wanted to see anyways. My mom wanted him out of the house. Oh well, not my problem. Well except that she'll probably assume I'm out partying and getting high and more horrible stuff like that." she rolled her eyes like it's the most annoying thing ever.

"Why would she think that?" I asked.

"Because she thinks I'm that bad of a child? I go to parties, but usually not alone. Usually only with Beck before we broke up. Now if I'm not home it's because I'm here playing piano in the music room." She didn't look at me when she said it, like it was some huge secret she never wanted to tell anyone, ever.

"Late at night?" I questioned, shocked that Jade would be spending extra time at school.

"Yeah, Sikowitz lets me in; he's usually here pretty late." Jade shrugged, "his damn room needs to be closer. If it was we might've had a chance of getting out of here."

"Yeah it would have been nice." I agreed quietly, "So why do you come here to play piano when you have one at your house?" I recalled seeing it when Cat dragged me there one day to go to the movies with Jade.

"My moms at my house, my dads at my other house, and only Sikowitz is ever here." She shrugged again, something she had a bad habit of doing, and then sat forward a little bit swiping quickly at her eyes, I pretended I didn't notice and popped a chip into my mouth.

The next hour I learned about Jade's love for piano as well as why she really loved script writing because she used to tell stories with her uncle who pretty much raised her and about how horrible her mother is. And I told her about why I didn't want to come to Hollywood Arts because my parents both don't care about Trina and me, and this was just another thing for them to despise me for. She told me about her brother and random things about her childhood and it's nice to just sit here and talk with Jade.

"So I never asked, what would you be doing if I hadn't gotten you stuck here?" Jade inquired. We're both sitting against the back wall in a fort of boxes we'd built when we both got tired of sitting around.

"Probably sitting at home in my room hiding from my parents." I shrugged, trying not to think about Jade's action rubbing off on me, "maybe talking to Cat or Andre."

"Why not Beck? And why hiding from your parents?" she sat forward like she actually cared.

"Beck and I haven't really talked much since him trying to kiss me and me saying no." I picked at my finger nails, peeling cracked blue paint off of them without really looking over at Jade, "and my parents well there's something's I don't really want to talk about."

"Okay, so why'd you say no? I mean I know the whole friend thing, but I'd been a gank, I mean I took your spot on the PMA's. Did you even think about kissing him for a second?" Jade turned so she was facing me, so I automatically turned to face her too.

"I didn't even consider kissing Beck. It just wouldn't be right, I mean I know I kissed him once to get back at you, but –as far as I knew then- you had no clue I was going to kiss him. So it wouldn't make sense for me to kiss him for that. And I don't like Beck like that, or any guys, really." My heart jumped into my throat when I said it, it had slipped out without me meaning to.

My plan was to not tell Jade that. I looked up at her and she was looking at me slightly amused with a small smile on her face, "thanks for telling me, Vega." She said, "Anyone else know?"

"No, nobody but my family and please don't ever tell anyone-ever." I tried to give her an intimidating look but it didn't work out so I just gave up and sagged against the wall trying to not look completely pathetic.

"I would never out someone on purpose. I'd hate for that to happen to me." I watched her throat bob as she swallowed nervously. I raised an eyebrow at her questioningly and she nodded once.

"I would've never guessed that in a million years." I told her, she gave me a half smile and shifted against the wall, "okay so now we know each others secrets, now you have to stay my friend, only friends share secrets." I nudged her knee with mine grinning. She nudges mine back playfully, a matching grin stretching across her face.

"Why do you care so much about us being friends?" she asked me, "I'm a huge bitch I don't know why anyone wants me as a friend."

"Because you just act like a bitch. I know you're not really a bitch."

She smiled at me and rollsed her shoulders until her back popped, "so onto lighter less secret subjects, favorite color? Mine's red."

"Mines purple, favorite pet? Mine's hamster."

"Snake. Favorite TV show? Mine's probably the First 48 or Friends." Jade chewed on her lip and then nodded, as if solidifying her answer.

"Mine's Friends or The Vampire Diaries. Favorite book? Mine is probably Harry Potter."

"Mine is definitely Harry Potter but the Hunger Games comes in close second, What movie? The Scissoring." Jade grinned, probably thinking about the scissors she has at home from the movie.

"Mine would have to be The Proposal, I don't know why I juts love it. Favorite candy? Mine's sour patch kids." I rubbed my stomach because I really want some real food right now. We'd been cleaning up since 3 and we got locked in here at 5 and we've been in here for hours.

"Mine are Skittles. I can't think of anything else, I have to pee so bad." She complained, "I cant believe we got locked in here."

"Yeah, I had to pee pretty bad when I got stuck in here for detention. It was lucky I fou-." I stopped talking and stood up, shoving some boxes out of my way to find that stupid ladder, "the stupid secret exit, I'm so dumb! And I'm so sorry!"

Jade snorted but didn't yell at me as I crawled quickly up the ladder and over into the library, Jade followed behind me and eventually we made it into the library and both ran for the bathroom inside. When I stepped out of the stall Jade was leaning against the sink with her arms crossed over her chest.

"I'm really sorry I forgot about the passage." I whispered, washing my hands and snatching a paper towel to my hands, "so let's get out of here. Can you give me a ride home? It's later then I planned and I don't want to walk."

"Yeah sure thing. Come on." We both walked out of the bathroom and headed out to the library. I shoved the door into the main part of the school and it doesn't budge. I pushed harder and it still didn't move. Jade kicked the door hard, but it only groaned.

"We could at least go back into the janitor's closet to get more drinks and something to eat." Jade reasoned, "unless there's another way out of here…" she looked at the window on the door and down at her shoes.

"You're not breaking the glass, Jade." I looked at the door and shake it trying to find the stupid lock, and then I noticed that there is a lock into the ceiling; I can't reach it, "pick me up."

"Excuse you?" she asked, giving me a confused stare.

"The lock, I can't reach it, so pick me up so I can reach it." Jade rolled her eyes but wrapped her arms around my waist and picked me up; I grabbed the lock and yanked it down before she dropped me down to the ground so hard I almost fell over. I caught myself on the door and it swung open and I tumbled out of the room, once again heading to my ass.

Thankfully Jade grabbed my wrist and saved me from hitting the floor. She jerked me back quickly and we caught ourselves on the door frame, "okay, bad idea times a million." I hold my head and wait for the world to stop spinning.

When the world was stationary I stepped away from her and we walked down the hall back to the janitor's closet, our bags are thankfully still sitting on the ground, I grabbed mine and she grabbed hers and we walked toward the front doors.

Jade dragged her feet as she walked, I can't say I wasn't doing the same, "It's only 10 o'clock. I don't really want to go home…do you want to go do something?" I ventured, "They're having an all night run down at the mini golf course and the movie theater."

"Sounds fun." Jade replied eagerly, "I'll pay for the mini golf if you pay for the movie."

"Alright." We headed out to her car and she drove us over to the mini golf course where we played a round of glow in the dark mini golf. Around hole 9 we discovered that neither of us were any good but we kept playing and then went over to the movie theater.

"So am I paying for snacks too?" I asked, holding the door to the theater open for her.

"No, don't worry about that." she walked by me and passed her ticket to the ticket guy, he ripped it and handed it back to her and then took mine and did the same. We walked up to the snack counter together, Jade go a soda, some popcorn and skittles. I got sour patch kids, an Icee and some nachos, "you wanna share popcorn and nachos?" she asked.

"Yep." We wandered into the theater to watch the Hunger Games, the third time for me and the fourth time for her, "where should we sit?" we scanned the seats and almost at the same time we spotted Beck his girlfriend off to the left.

"To the right it is." Jade declared and scanned the seats on the far right, when we found two seats empty we slid into them all the way to the right by the wall. I set my candy in my lap and started eating my nachos. Jade casually reached over and grabbed a few, "I'm so happy they're playing this again."

"Me too, this movie is amazing." I agreed reaching over and stealing some popcorn from her bag and dipping it in some cheese while the credits started to roll, the lights dimmed and relief seemed to wash over Jade, she stopped looking over at where Beck was sitting almost immediately. I guessed even if she was a lesbian, though I never asked, it would still suck to see your boyfriend of three years out on a date with someone else.

Throughout the movie Jade and I shared food and whispered little things about the movie back and fourth since there wasn't really anybody around us and throughout the movie we were both leaning forward during certain parts, holding our breath during others, and complaining about things they'd left out that they should have added or tweaked certain parts of.

After the movie Jade and I watched Beck leave and then we walked out, dumping our trash as we passed the bins, "this was fun, Vega." Jade admitted, shoving the door open and holding it open for me, "we should do it again sometimes."

"Well I'm free almost every Friday of my life." I joked as we strolled down toward her car.

"Well maybe we should make this a Friday night thing; we go hang out after school on Friday's. I wouldn't mind." Jade offered as we make it up to her car; she unlocked it and we slid in and headed toward my house.

Well I really liked the prompt but I couldn't just have them locked in the closet forever thanks to the lovely Breakfast Bunch thing, I hope this is okay, anon. And I might continue this because I really like the idea.