Ok, so, the only good explanation I have is I had an all-day Ghost Whisperer marathon (judge me!) and a laptop. You guys tell me if you want me to continue it after you read it. The fate of this story is in your hands! (That means you should review)
Disclaimer: Every time…I don't own Victorious blah blah blah. All rights and characters to Dan blah blah blah.
Jade walked in to her bedroom to find her cousin lying on her bed throwing a ball up in the air and catching it.
"You know, Olivia, the least you could do is wait until I'm in my room to pop up uninvited." Jade said unsurprised. To anyone else, she would've looked insane because no one else could actually see Olivia. Now don't go running off like scared little puppies, let me explain.
Olivia was Jade's older cousin that died when jade was thirteen. At this point, you may be wondering how Olivia died. She died of anorexia. Olivia was just never pleased with herself. Her hair, her face, especially her weight. She just never could be skinny enough. Amazingly she never did get that skinny. She died from her heart giving out beforehand. Now I know all of you are all sad for Olivia now. Don't be. She's over it. She sticks around for her favorite baby cousin, Jade.
"Where's the fun in that? I haven't been here in weeks. I missed my baby cousin." Olivia said throwing the ball to Jade. Jade caught the ball and threw it on the chair.
"Fair enough. You've missed a bunch." Jade said sitting on the bed across from her deceased cousin.
"Oh, let me guess. You tortured that Tori chick, hung out with Cat, and had some 'fun' with your boyfriend Beck who knows nothing about me." Olivia said with a smirk. She was always trying to get Jade to tell someone about her ghostly self.
"Yes, yes, and no. I broke up with Beck." Jade said with a half frown.
` "What? How could you do that to him?" Olivia asked shooting up off the bed.
"What do you mean? He was the one being a jerk to me." Jade asked studying her cousin as her face fell from anger to shock.
"He didn't tell you?" She asked. It wasn't to Jade really, it was more to herself trying to put this puzzle together.
"Didn't tell me what? Olivia, are you stalking my ex-boyfriend?" Jade asked ready to slap her. Not that it would do much her being dead and all.
"Well, I'm dead. I don't have much more to do." Olivia defended.
"What didn't he tell me?" Jade persisted.
"If I show you, you have to promise me you won't do anything. It'll get you in big trouble in a lot of ways. Okay?" Olivia said sitting back down in front Jade.
"I don't see why-"
"Jade! Just promise me, okay?" Olivia said, her green eyes hard studying Jade's face.
Jade watched Olivia carefully seeing the pure, unadulterated fear in her eyes. "I promise." She said.
Boy she was going to regret that later. But that's for me to tell you a some other time . Now I hate mysteries myself so instead of keeping you waiting, I'm going to tell you what Olivia's big secret.
See, Beck's family is more or less, screwed up. When Beck was two his actual father left him and his mom and when I say he left them, I mean they ran away in the middle of the night after his mom received an awful beating. Now somehow this jerk, Jeffery, tracked down the Oliver family and Beck's step father – the man who got mauled by a dog, yes – and Beck was the first one he approached because he lived alone in an RV.
Now, Beck being the protective boy he is, refused to let Jeffrey anywhere near his mother and said he would take whatever he had and convinced his father to leave his mother alone. And his father did hold true to this. Almost every night he showed up to Beck's RV drunk as a sailor and would throw a few punches and leave.
One fateful day Jeffrey came pounding at the door as drunk as usual. But this time, he had been – rumor has it – on a date with a girl so many years younger. She had dumped him and left him standing drunk and alone in the parking lot. Let me just tell you, he wasn't happy about it. So the drunken mess he was, he went over to Beck's and just hit him. Fist after fist, kick after kick until Beck was on the floor with bruises layering his stomach.
Now for a fun fact. The day he broke up with Jade was within three days of this beating.
But back to the story at hand.
Olivia stuck out her hand to Jade who simply gave her an odd look. "I'm not getting any deader. Just grab my hand."
Jade did as she was told and in one high speed, dizzying flash they were on Beck's bed rather than her's.
"Where did you learn to do that?" Jade asked trying to let herself process that she was, in fact, alive and not dreaming.
"Like I said, I'm dead, I have nothing better to do." Olivia shrugged and leaned back on the bed.
The door to the RV swung open and Beck stomped running a tired hand through his hair. He had bags under his eyes and his eyes themselves looked tired and pained.
Jade shot up from her spot on the bed. "Beck! I know this is weird, but I-" He walked right past her.
"He can't see or hear you. You're like me." Olivia explained to her baffled cousin.
"So you basically just pulled a 'Ghost of Christmas present' on me?" Jade asked.
"Yeah, I'd say that about sums it up."
There was another bang as the door to the RV swung open again. A man with Beck's hazel eyes came hobbling into the RV.
"Get over here." The man slurred, drunk as anyone could possibly get on a Thursday night.
"Do we have to do this tonight?" Beck asked. It was a moan or anything, just a simple question.
"We have a deal. Get over here, right now. Or I may go pay someone's mommy a little visit." Beck's eyes turned to fire as he stood up and walked over to the man. He didn't fight back or cuss him out. He just stood there like the punching bag he was.
The first punch was thrown right in Beck's gut causing him to double over in pain and back up a few steps. Jade sprung up and stood between the two of them and she could smell the alcohol on the man's breath. He threw another punch but instead of hitting Jade, it went through her hitting Beck in the chest. Olivia pulled her back to the bed even with Jade's protest.
"You can't do anything. He can't see you or hear you." Olivia said holding her down as the man threw another punch in Beck's direction.
"Take me home." Jade demanded in a soft voice. The truth is she wanted to cry. All she wanted to do is cry for being so stubborn and mean while he was going through this. Mostly, she wanted to cry for him and all the pain he had to suffer from that awful excuse for a human being. But of course, she's Jade West, she doesn't cry.
As soon as they were back in Jade's room she got up off the bed and went straight for her car keys.
"Jade, where are you going?" Olivia called following her.
"Where do you think? To Beck's." Jade replied coolly.
"Jade, we had a deal." Olivia said, closing the bedroom door. "I show you Beck, and you don't tell. What would you do anyway?"
Jade glared at her cousin for a moment but her glare turned into a frown as she realized she had no idea.
"I wish I knew." Was all she could get out.
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