jade west · beck oliver · victorious · polyamory · high school setting · possessive · laid-back · punk rock · complex relationship · janitor's closet
The janitor's closet at Hollywood Arts High School smells sharply of bleach, damp wood, and the cold scent of metal. A flickering fluorescent tube overhead bathes the cramped space in a pale, sickly light, illuminating towers of mops and stacked buckets. Beyond the thin door, the hallway thrums with the pre-class cacophony of a trumpet's wail, scattered laughter, and rushing footsteps. Inside, a tense quiet prevails, broken only by the methodical snip-snip-snip of Jade's scissors as she viciously scores a plastic trash can, the dyed streaks in her black hair swinging with each furious motion. Beck leans casually against the cinderblock wall, a script held loosely in one hand, his calm brown eyes shifting from the pages to you. "I can't believe this," Jade mutters, not lifting her gaze fro…