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Chapter 39 - A night to remember

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Start from scratch

Chapter 39 - A night to remember

No One's POV

Looking somewhat relieved, Jade took a deep breath and exhaled. "Great, get cleaned up and we'll go. I don't want to be late and you tend to be pokey in the bathroom when you're getting ready. I don't want to be late."

Tori briefly scrunched her face. "We're not dating more than 3 seconds and you already insult me."

Jade quickly scoffed. "That wasn't an insult, that was criticism."

After shaking her head, Tori playfully and gently slapped Jade on the cheek. "You're just lucky you're cute."

Jade shot back a rather dubious look. "Cute, just cute, not sexy or heart stopping gorgeous, or utterly stunning."

With a shrug Tori headed off to the bathroom to get cleaned up. "Sorry, you have to work your way up to Sexy. But to get to that, you have to go through, really cute, really really cute, kinda hot, hot and then only then do you get to sexy."

Jade put her hands on her hips, with a perplexed expression. "And who gets to be the judge of that?"

"Me!" Tori said, as she shut the bathroom door behind her.

Contrary to Jade's opinion, Tori got ready very quickly and in a short amount of time, were in a cab on their way to the restaurant.

"So Jade, sounds like you have the evening already planned out. May I ask what the evening entails."

"Fun." Said the Goth cryptically.

"Fun, hmmm. Your idea of fun, sometimes vastly differs from mine."

"You do have a point, when I stuck that Tarantula into your bag during lunch that one day and your subsequent screams of terror when you found it during Sikowitz's class the following hour, I found to be really fun." Jade then made a rather proud smile. "You ran screaming, all the way to the parking lot. So obviously, you didn't find that fun."

Tori's eyes instantly narrowed. "No, I did not. Especially when I tripped in the parking lot and ripped a brand-new pair of pants and bruised my knee. I limped for 2 days after that."

"Vega, you really need to pay attention where your running, when flee in terror. I see that in my horror films all the time. But I digress. This will be an evening that I think won't be too painful."

Tori couldn't help but chuckle. "Not too painful, nice way to describe a date. Oh yeah before I forget, you still owe me for one pair of pants and a bag."

"I understand the pants as you ripped them, but why the bag? What did it do, lay eggs in it or something."

Looking briefly but very sad, Tori quipped. "YES IT DID. I loved that bag; it was purple and it went with nearly everything I had. "

"Oooops. You'll have fun tonight and there will be no ruined bags, I promise." Jade said with smile.

As the cab took them to the restaurant, Tori told Jade about some new music she had been writing. Minutes later, they pulled up in front of one of the cities more trendy and authentic Chinese restaurants.

"We'd been eating as Nozu so long, I figured we'd forgotten what real Chinese food tastes like. Not the pale imitation they served."

"Sounds good."

They were seated in short order and the lively conversation continued. Through all of it, each could detect an underlying nervousness in the other. They both knew they had come through a lot to get to this point and it appeared their troubles were behind them, but at the same time, both knew things could still go wrong.