VICTORIOUS: THE OTHER SIDE OF ME

CHAPTER 1

Chapter one of my first Victorious story, Jade's got a terrible secret, it's up to Beck to try and figure it out and help her, hope you guys enjoy it.

Disclaimer: Victorious belongs to Dan Schnieder.

Tori walked into Hollywood Arts, fully expecting a 'normal day' at school. When she arrived at her locker however she saw Cat approaching her, she looked frantic

"Tori, Tori, have you seen Jade?"

Tori was surprised at this.

"Uh...no, why?"

"Well, I saw her about ten minutes ago, she has this, huge black eye and she's not saying anything about it. Three people have already asked her about it and, well the first two she ignored and the last one she told to...The second word was off, let's leave it at that".

It was at the moment Andre and Robbie arrived with Rex. Andre greeted the girls.

"Hey, what's up...Okay seriously what's up?"

He just saw their expressions and Cat quickly turned to them and told them about Jade's black eye, they were shocked.

"Hold on, she's not saying anything about it, but why?"

"I don't know, that's what scares me, I mean, I know Jade doesn't go looking for fights but if she does end up hurt like that she usually likes to talk about".

They were all at a loss, just then Tori spotted Jade approaching, sure enough there was deep bruising around her right eye which looked almost swollen shut, yet she gave no indication she was in pain, in fact she actually looked pissed off.

Jade walked over to the group and, before Tori could even open her mouth to speak Jade cut across her.

"I don't wanna talk about it Vega, so save your breath".

Tori however wasn't deterred.

"Jade, what happened, seriously".

"I-don't-wanna-talk-about-it-understand".

Everybody was still suspicious but realized there was nothing they could do. At that moment Beck arrived, the others felt relieved, surely if Beck asked then Jade would tell him what happened. Beck smiled and wrapped his arms around Jade from behind and kissed her neck, he then saw her black eye.

"Jade, what happened".

"Sorry...I don't wanna talk about it".

Now the others were worried, Jade wasn't even telling Beck, that was unusual. Before any of them could say anything else the bell went and they had to head off to class. On the way they tried to convince Jade to tell them how she got that black eye, however this simply led to Jade losing her temper. Before long Jade's anger boiled over and, without caring that everybody in the class, including Sikowitz was watching, she began yelling at them.

"Look I already told you guys I don't wanna talk about it!"

Cat tried to say something but before she could finish Jade cut across her.

"Jade, I know something's happened, why don't you just...?"

"Shut up!"

Jade was standing up now, Cat was close to tears as she spoke.

"Jade, I..."

"Just stop worrying about me, there's nothing to worry about!"

Tori and Andre both tried to point out that Jade was hiding something but Jade shook her head.

"Just drop it!"

Beck wasn't saying anything, he knew that when Jade was like this, it was better not to argue with her. Cat tried to speak again.

"C'mon Jade, how long have we know each other, I've never seen you like this".

"Cat, just leave it okay, there's nothing wrong".

Then Rex spoke up.

"C'mon, looks like someone roughed you up good".

Jade glared at the puppet briefly before storming out of the class, shocking everyone. Shortly after she left Beck got up and followed her, Sikowitz tried to continue the class as normal but nobody was really paying attention.

Jade, having stormed out of the class, was now marching through the corridors towards her locker, unfortunately she had picked up an unwanted annoyance, her freaky stalker Sinjin.

"Leave me alone freak show!"

Sinjin however didn't take the hint.

"Jade, I know someone did that to you, who hurt you, let me take care of them".

"Just shut up and get lost".

Sinjin didn't listen and instead tried to grab Jade's arm.

"Jade please..."

"You've got five seconds to get away from me freak!"

He still didn't listen, then, to Jade's annoyance he ended up saying the worst possible thing.

"C'mon Jade, just admit it, Beck did that to you, didn't he?"

"Shut up, Beck isn't hurting me you fucking liar!"

Jade was enraged now but Sinjin still didn't take the hint, they had arrived at Jade's locker now. Sinjin glared and spoke.

"Jade, admit it already..."

Jade then slammed her fist into her locker in a fit of rage, leaving a sizable dent. Finally taking the hint Sinjin ran off. Finally alone Jade sighed and shook her head, she opened her locker and reached into the back, pulling out a pair of scissors. She then rolled up her sleeves, revealing several old and more recent scars, she fingered the bandage on her left forearm, her most recent cut. Taking a moment to concentrate she grabbed the scissors and cut into her right forearm, she let it bleed for a minute, bleeding her pain out too. Suddenly she began to feel light-headed and realized that she'd actually made the cut too deep.

"...Shit".

She tried to grab her injury and apply pressure but everything began to spin and she passed out, falling to the ground.

Beck meanwhile was also walking down the corridors, he knew Jade would be heading for her locker so he decided to catch up with her. He was hurrying through one corridor, the next turn would bring him to Jade's locker, just then however he ran into Sinjin who glared at him.

"Where are you going?"

Beck stared at him, incredulous.

"Where do you think I'm going, I'm looking for Jade?"

Sinjin's next comment however surprised him.

"Oh sure, gonna go hit her again".

"What?"

Sinjin continued to glare.

"I saw her black eye, I know you did it, I know that's why she was running away, if you think I'm gonna let you go after her and hurt her again then..."

Beck glared at the boy.

"Are you outta your fucking mind, I would never hurt Jade, I don't even know how she got her black eye so..."

"There, you see, denial and I'll..."

Sinjin never finished his statement because Beck had enough of listening to his nonsense and slugged him in the jaw. Sinjin fell to the ground and quickly struggled to his feet.

"There see, that's your only way isn't it, violence!"

"Fuck you".

Beck then pushed past Sinjin and hurried to the end of the corridor and headed for Jade's locker. He turned the corner and froze, he saw Jade lying on the ground, unconscious.

"Jade!"

He rushed over to her and then saw the bleeding wound on her arm and the bloody scissors lying on the ground. He also saw the numerous other cuts on her arms, he immediately applied pressure to the wound and with his other hand he pulled out his phone and called 911. After some time the paramedics arrived and soon Jade was being transported to hospital, Beck rode to the hospital with her.

'Please, don't let it be too late'.

Silently praying that he had managed to get to her in time Beck could only hope he would find out the truth.

End of chapter, next up the others will hear about the incident involving Jade and will head to the hospital. I am aware that there are numerous Jade self harming fics and that in the show she shows her arms and there's no scars but this is just a story so don't bother pointing it out to me okay. Anyway, hope you enjoyed this chapter, read and review please.