Disclaimer: I do not own Victorious or any of its characters :(
Jade West watched as the droplets of rain ran down the window, following their decent with her finger, desperately wanting to be anywhere else.
"JADE! It's your turn!"
"Not playing." The young brunette replied, not looking away from the window, more intent on the rain outside then the girls inside.
"PLEASE!"
"Leave her alone, it's obvious she's too scared to play with us."
"Yeah leave the little baby alone."
The bored look on her face turned into a scowl as Jade grit her teeth, trying to keep her anger in check as she promised her friend Cat at the beginning of the party.
"I'm not scared you morons. I just think it's a stupid game."
"If you're not scared then prove it by playing with us." One of the other girls challenged.
Jade turned to glare at the blonde, desperately willing herself not to lunge over and smack that smug look off her face. Opening her mouth armed with a snarky retort, Jade was cut off by a small voice coming from her left.
"Please Jade, you promised you'd play with me."
Jade turned her head and was met with the chocolate brown eyes that belonged to her best friend Cat Valentine.
This was all her fault! Stupid Cat just had to have this stupid slumber party and invite every stupid girl in their grade 5 class. And Jade was more stupidthan all of them for letting herself be manipulated into coming. Yes innocent little Cat Valentine manipulated her, Jade West into coming to this stupid sleepover.
Cat wasn't as dumb as everyone thought; in fact she was smarter than most people Jade knew. She knew how to get to people, how to get inside their heads and their hearts and break them down until all that's left is a big pile of mush, ready for her to mould and shape any way she wanted. How did she do this you ask? She played innocent.
She pretended like she was oblivious to all the horrible things in the world, like her world was all sunshine and rainbows. With every smile at something cute, every seemingly 'naïve' comment, every giggle and every god damn time she looked at you with those eyes; she wormed her way into your heart until you felt the need to protect her, to keep that glimmer of 'innocence' alive in her eyes.
How did Jade know this? Because it had happened to her.
It was no secret that Jade West was not one to let someone in. Her parents divorce had damaged their daughter's ability to trust drastically and as a result, Jade refused to openly consider anyone as a friend. Yet Cat Valentine made herself the exception. Before the typically moody girl even knew what happened, she began to care for the petite girl with the dimpled smile and puppy dog eyes.
Looking back on their past interactions, the 11 year-old had concluded that the other girl had somehow forced her into being her friend without Jade even suspecting a thing. Jade admired that. That someone her age had the ability to warp people's opinions and manipulate their emotions enough that even 'the freaky one' Jade West had no chance.
Yes Cat Valentine was smarter than many people gave her credit for and out of admiration for her skill, Jade allowed her to continue to be her friend. This however had unfortunately had landed her in her current predicament.
"You know I think 'truth or dare' is a dumb game. They probably won't even play it right!" The young girl grumbled, internally smirking at the insulted looks on the others girls' faces.
"It will be ten minutes of everyone acting shy and choosing truth, whereby they're 'forced' to admit who they supposedly 'love', meaning that the guy they pick is the one that annoys them the least; until someone grows enough balls to choose dare where they'll sook when they're made to do something stupid like running around the house with their 'bra' over their shirt. NO THANK YOU."
"But you promised…" Cat argued, her eyes growing bigger and her lower lip quivering.
"No Cat." Jade glared back, she was not going to lose to her again.
"Please…" Cat begged, her bottom lip now into a full blown pout. Jade continued to glare back, but she could feel her resolve weakening by the second…
"FINE!"
"YAY!" Cat cheered running over to hug her moody friend and pull her over to where her other guests were sitting in a circle on the floor, ready for the game to start.
"Katie, you go first!" Cat giggled as she and Jade sat down next to the other girls.
"Okay I choose… truth!"
"What a surprise." Jade sighed, rolling her eyes.
"Fine, how about you go then!" Katie sneered. "Who do you like?"
"I didn't even choose truth! And plus I don't like anyone."
"You have to like someone!" Katie fired back, the other girls nodding in agreement.
"Well I don't."
"You can't not like anyone!"
"Yes I can! Sorry I'm not some dumb bimbo like the rest of you who thinks I need a boyfriend to be normal, but I'm perfectly happy not liking anyone!"
Katie looked at the other girls and they all decided that this was going nowhere.
"Fine, Cat who do you like?"
"Isn't this game supposed to be 'truth or dare'? What happened to 'dare'?"
"Shut up loser. You didn't want to play!"
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?" Jade screamed, ready to lunge at the other girl. How dare she!
"I don't want to say…"
Jade halted in her actions and sat back down. Cat had her head down but even through her bushy brown hair, you could see the slight blush on her cheeks.
"What?" Jade asked quietly, her friend's cheeks reddened slightly when she realised they heard her.
"I said I don't want to say who I like." Cat repeated, nervously playing with the bottom of her shirt.
"But you have to!" Katie argued; this girl was really getting on Jade's nerves.
"I don't want to."
"You have to!"
"I don't want to play this game anymore…" Cat stated, looking up. Now that they were visible, you could see her eyes were watery as tears threatened to fall.
She really doesn't want to tell who she likes, why is this such a big deal? Jade wondered. She also wondered why she suddenly had butterflies in her stomach at the thought of her best friend liking someone.
"YOU HAVE TO SAY CAT!" Katie yelled.
"I don't want to play anymore!" Cat yelled back, her voice breaking slightly at the end as the tears finally fell.
"Fine! You're such a baby Cat!"
"No I'm not!"
"Yes you are!"
"I don't want to play anymore…" Cat cried as she got up and ran out of the room, tears streaming down her face.
Jade had never been so angry at anyone before, not even her father when he left. This was the power Cat had over her, and frankly it scared her. Instead of beating the living shit out of Katie like she wanted to, Jade found herself more concerned with making sure her best friend was ok. Getting up, Jade took a deep breath trying to quell her anger as she passed the smirking blonde and went to go search for Cat.
First Jade checked Cat's bedroom, trying not to puke at the bright pink walls, but headed further down the hall when she saw she wasn't in there. Jade's next idea was to check Cat's brother's room, although she seriously doubted the young girl had gone that way; not even Cat was dumb enough to go in there.
As she was walking down the hall, she heard quiet sniffling coming from the bathroom. As she got closer she heard a gasp and someone rummaging in the cupboards.
"Cat..?" Jade asked, shocked at how gentle her tone sounded, considering she was ready to rip another girl's hair out a few moments ago.
When she opened the door she saw the cupboard door under the sink close quickly and knew instantly where her friend was hiding.
"Cat, get out from there."
"Cat's not in here." Came a muffled voice.
"Then who's the person under the sink I'm talking to now?" Jade smirked.
"…I'm not coming out!"
"Oh yes you are!" Jade argued, ripping the cupboard door open to be met with the defiant face of her best friend.
"Get out of there now Cat!" Jade ordered pointing to the ground behind her where she expected the girl to move to.
"NO!" Cat shouted, grabbing onto the water pipe beside her.
"YES!" Jade shouted back, grabbing the other girl's arm and pulling as hard as she could.
"NO! I. DON'T. WANT. TO!" Cat screamed as she tried to hold onto the pipe, unfortunately for her Jade was a lot stronger and succeeded in pulling her out; causing the smaller girl to land on top of the other.
Jade lost her breath at having the other girl on top of her, being this close to those eyes made butterflies erupt in her stomach a feeling Jade didn't understand at all. Cat quickly got up off the other girl and backed up against the wall, her face tinged pink. Jade sat up and looked at her best friend, she looked petrified.
"Cat?"
"Leave me alone!" the small girl sobbed, pulling her knees up to her chest.
"Why are you making this such a big deal? So you have a crush on some dork at school, so what!"
"It's not a crush."
"Oh right you 'love' them huh…sorry!" Jade replied sarcastically, she was starting to get fed up with this, and for some reason she still had a burning desire to know who Cat liked, that coupled with the butterflies exploding in her stomach from having Cat on top of her was making her irritable. She didn't know what was going on with her and she didn't like it.
"Tell me who you like."
"NO!"
"WHY NOT!"
"Because you'll hate me!" Cat cried, sobs wracking her small frame. Jade sighed.
"No I won't…"
"Yes you will..."
"NO I WON'T!" Jade argued, becoming more irate with the girl in front of her by the second. Why won't she just tell her who she liked? She was starting to get angry with herself as well, she never cared this much about other people, how could she let this girl have so much power over her?
"Tell me who you like." Jade growled, pulling Cat's arms away from her body and getting in her face, desperately trying to regain some control.
"No." Cat whimpered.
"Tell me!"
"No."
"TELL ME!"
"FINE!" Cat yelled, breaking out of Jade's grasp and crashing her lips to hers in a messy kiss.
"You happy?" Cat yelled as she pulled back, only then realising what she had just done…
A/N: I was going to continue this but I might not... I kind of like the idea of leaving it like this and letting people firgure out how Jade will react themselves. Have fun... ;)
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