Cat Valentine flicked her finger across the screen of her PearPhone and saw that it was now 11:23, Jade was 8 minutes late... Cat had to admit, she didn't really expect Jade to be early or anything but it sure would be nice if once in a while she turned up at her house on time.
The front door of Cat's cosy bungalow that she shared with her brother, mom and dad was knocked upon, shortly followed by the ringing of their doorbell which chimed an echoing tune through the house.
She jumped up and hopped over to it in her fluffy, red, cat slippers and opened up the door. "Yey!" She cried happily at the sight of her best friend.
"Don't do that." Jade retaliated and sat down on the couch, she pulled out her black PearPhone which had a case on, decorated with scissors, and without looking from the screen, spoke to Cat who was nervously standing on the spot with her fingers tangled in her hair. "Um... Jade... Did you-"
"Did you finish packing up your things?" The goth replied, Cat jumped over and onto the couch, not having answered Jade's question. "Did you bring your suitcase? Its just my brother said that he'd be here to pick us up at 11:30... its 11:25..." Jade's eyes diverted from the screen to the perky red-head's nervous face.
"My bags are all in my car, ill get them when your brother comes." Jade sighed at Cat, "Cat, where are your bags?"
Cat gasped and ran upstairs, she clearly had not packed up herself. A key turned in the front door and in came Frankie, along with a gust of wind and several leaves. "Hi Jade, lucky we'll be in Hawaii while Hollywood have this awful weather!" He laughed, Jade didn't. "Your sister hasn't packed yet so she's upstairs, ill go sit in the car." She took Frankie's keys from his hand and pressed the button; the car unlocked and she lifted out the bags from her already unlocked car and transferred them into the larger one, decorated with different trinkets from all the holidays Frankie Valentine had been on.
On the way, several songs played on the radio that the girls and Cat's brother knew, so they sang along. What seemed like millions of years later, they arrived at the hotel, Cat skipped out of the car and lugged her pink spotty suitcase out from the trunk, as did Jade but with a bigger, black one. Cat's brother followed them inside and checked in at the main desk.
"Cat, where are the others?" Jade asked, she was trying to restrain her frustration. Cat smiled and laughed at herself before she'd even spoke, "Well Andre missed his flight so he'll be here tomorrow instead, oh, Robbie's travelling with him too," Jade sighed and put her hands to her face, Cat perked up as her text message was received, "But Jade! Tori and Beck texted me a few minutes ago, they're on the beach! They even saw dolphins!" She squealed and joined her brother at the desk, she took a lollipop from the stand meant for children and sucked on it while Jade approached and spoke to her.
"Tori and Beck are at the beach? Together?!" She exploded, seeing as Tori wasn't liked by the goth and Beck was her boyfriend, not even that but she knew every one preferred 'Bori' to 'Bade'.
Jade grabbed her purse from the sofa in the corner and pulled Cat by the hand out of the glass, automatic, main doors. They were going to the beach, in hope of seeing Tori and Beck kissing and holding hands so that Jade could drown Tori in the salty sea with a reasonable excuse.
Once they got to the beach, much to Jade's disappointment, she saw Tori was there, but not smooching Beck. They were actually... laughing, and that to Jade is 1000x worse. It showed they were enjoying their time despite being away from Jade, maybe she was just paranoid... or not.
Cat skipped over to the pair and hugged them enthusiastically, "Hi you guys!" Beck laughed and pulled out a fuzzy green giraffe from his backpack, he handed it to Cat and she gasped. "Oh my! I love her so much! Thank you Beck!" She squeezed him for a second time just as Jade appeared in view, walking towards them down the sandy hill. Beck opened his arms, releasing Cat and looked up to his girlfriend with a sparkle in his eye, she was in a low cut, flowery black dress with beautiful sandals that matched.
Tori went off closer to the sea with Cat while Jade and Beck talked by themselves on two deck chairs.
"Um Cat, maybe you should put your bikini on first before you go in the sea?" Tori asked her bubbly friend as she began to run into the sea fully clothed, she stopped and laughed to herself then took her bag from Tori's outstretched hands and went to the small changing booths behind the deck chairs.
The brunette rested her head back and felt the heat from the sun tanning her already tanned face, she got her sunglasses from the sand beneath her and still with her eyes closed put them on, instantly her face felt a tiny bit cooler. She lay there for about 5 minutes, until she was shook violently by someone, she fluttered open her eyes and saw a woman who was crying and carrying a one year old over her shoulder, standing above her. Tori sat up and turned to the woman, lowering her sunglasses as she began to speak. "Are you ok?"
"No, p...please, I need your help! You're Victoria Vega aren't you?"
Tori nodded, slightly confused as only her family and very, very close friends knew her real name was Victoria. Not even Andre or Cat knew she didn't think. Who was this lady?
The woman pulled off her own sunglasses and sighed deeply, "These men are chasing me, they're after my money and the only person stopping me from running is my daughter!" The woman was now speaking in between sobs, all Tori could do was sit and listen as this woman poured her heart out with a sleeping child over her shoulder.
"Please..." The woman lifted the baby from her shoulder, kissed her forehead and handed her to Tori, she then wrapped a beaded bracelet around her wrist and sighed, she said no more, just ran. Tori looked at the sleeping child, how did this woman know her?!