I stared stupidly at the parking lot.

The empty parking lot.

The parking lot where my sister Trina was supposed to be waiting for me to drive me home. I yanked out my pear phone and speed dialed Trina's number.

Trina answered almost immediately, which was a first for her.

"Can't talk right now Tori, have an extremely hot date right now bye!"

And with that she hung up. I stared at my phone like an idiot for second. Then I stopped; of course Trina would do something like. It's Trina for crying out loud. I really should have seen this coming. I stood there fuming, trying to figure out what to do. The sky was becoming darker every second with grey clouds, and unless I hurried, I would most likely get caught in a storm. Better start walking then.

I had just picked up my foot when a voice said right into my ear "Need a lift Vega?"

I couldn't help it. I jumped and tried to spin around to see who was behind me. Instead of simply just spinning around, my foot that was in the air somehow got tangled up with my foot that was still on the ground. I tripped and fell into the chest of the person behind me.

Boobs. I fell into a pair of soft boobs. Red faced with embarrassment, I looked up at the person, who turned out to be a Jade fighting laughter.

"Geez Vega, I asked if you wanted a ride, not if you wanted to feel me up"

"I don't want to feel you up!" I responded shrilly.

"Then why is your face still near my tits and your hands on my waist?"

Oh god.

Were my hands really on her waist?

Yes. Yes they were. And of course my face was still at her chest.

If I could just die now, that would be great.

"So do you want a ride home or are you just going to keep on holding on to me? Not that I'm complaining Vega." Jade asked with a mischievous tone.

"uh..a uh ride would be great Jade." I muttered, letting go of her. Wait what? Why wouldn't she complain about me holding her? Jade hates it when anyone but Beck and Cat touch her. In fact, the moment I grabbed onto her, she should have reacted violently. Not joked. Before I could ask her about it, she was already half way across the parking lot. Quickly jogging, I caught up to her just as she was opening her car door.

Just in time, because it started to rain. Hard. Jade started up the car and asked, "Why don't you have a ride Vega?" It always annoyed me that she would call me by my last name instead of my first. To me it meant that we weren't really friends.

"Trina was supposed to take me home, but she left to go on some date, my dad's a cop so he doesn't have time to pick me up and my mom doesn't have a car."

"Next time plan better Vega."

"How was I supposed to know Trina was going to just leave me there like that?"

"How was I supposed to know? Come on Vega, it's your sister."

"I don't sound like that! How many times do I have to tell you?!" Jade just smirked at me.

Frustratingly though, she did have a point. Trina thought of herself first, last and always. I really should have seen something like this coming. Then a thought occurred to me.

"Jade, were you worried about me?"

"No!" Jade barked a little to quickly.

I laughed, "me thinks-

"Me thinks you're about to walk home" Jade growled at me. I shut up. The rain was coming down harder then ever and I wouldn't put it past Jade to throw me out of the car and leave me there. But even then I couldn't wipe the smile off of my face. Jade just harrumphed and drove on.

We pulled up to my house and I needled at her till she agreed to come inside. Sprinting inside we didn't get completely soaked through. Jade didn't look pleased about that when I pointed that out.

"Tori is that you?" My mom called from the kitchen.

"Yea it's me mami"

My mother came hurtling out of the kitchen and embraced me in a huge hug "oh thank god I was so worried about you!" The hug went on for a few seconds before Jade cleared her throat. "Mrs. Vega, I'm Tori's friend, I brought her home"

Wait..back up. Did she just call me her friend? Mami looked at her in surprise, and then she launched herself and enveloped her in a hug. I stifled a laugh at the look on Jade's face. Jade looked incredibly uncomfortable, as she stood there stiff as a board. After a few seconds she was trying to worm her way out of my mothers hold.

Mami let go of Jade and then said "storms getting pretty bad, you'll be staying for dinner"

"Oh no I'll be fine" Jade said with out hesitation. As if punctuating her sentence, lightening cracked and a few seconds after that, thunder boomed. Mami sniffed. "You'll be fine. Right. Ms. Jade you'll be staying for dinner, and that's that. Now you two go up to Tori's room and go change. Dinner will be ready in a about 10 minutes."

Jade stared after her, completely flabbergasted. (Don't look at me like that, it's a word!) Jade shook her head and looked out the window, as if debating if she could make a run for it. Her hand twitched towards the door; and before I could even think about what I was doing, I grabbed her hand and yanked her away from the door and up to my room.

I personally enjoy walking through storms. Is it just me that likes that?

Well anyways, read and review if you please! Tell me what you liked, what you didn't like!

-C.H.