"Cat...what is that?" Jades voice peirced through me. "Cat!" Jade yelled angerly. I grabed my red velvet hair and twirled it around my fingers. "What?" I said in a quiet voice glancing up at Jades eyes. They were filled with furry. "What is that!" Jade said with the same furry in her voice that was in her eyes. Pointing at my wrist. I looked down. "Nothing." "Cat..." Jade sounded angery but calmed down with the next sentence. I think she could tell she was intimidating me. Jade sat next to me on the steps outside her house. Jades parents had left for the week and I didn't want Jade to be lonley so I decided to stay with her, but right now, I wish I hadn't. Jade turned my arm over to see my wrist. "Cat how did this happen?" She was calm and had a concerned, understanding tone when she talked this time. "I don't know." I tried to say ditzyly and upbeat, but Jade wasn't buying it. "Cat...are you cutting yourself?" "No!" I yelled. "Cat." Jade said tilting her head slightly. I looked down at the ground,looked in Jades eyes, then looked back at the ground. "So I should take that as a yes?" "No." I looked in Jades eyes again. I looked down and said with a sigh "Yes." Jade kept looking at me while I had my head down. Jade had already seen my right wrist covered in bright red horizontal cuts. Jade gently took my left wrist and lifted my sleeve up and saw more horizontal cuts along with a couple vertical cuts. I looked at her as she was holding my wrist. "Jade..." I said with a weak voice. She cut me off. "I love you, Cat. Don't ever forgett that. Please." Jade pulled my sleeve down and stood up. "Jade wait!" I tugged down on her shirt and she came down as if I pulled her down. "Please don't tell." I said with unintentional sad puppy dog eyes. "I won't, but if you ever need someone to talk to, you can always come to me. I'm really upset you didn't think so before." Jade got back up,walked up the two other steps she had before her door. Jade was opening the door when she closed it suddenly. "Cat, how have you been hidding those cuts?" "Bracelets." "Then what's with the long sleeves? It's 80 degrees." I started twirling my hair again and looking down. Jade sat back next to me. "Cat, Cat turn around." "Why" "Please, Cat just do it." I turned around with tears in my eyes. Jade already found out a huge secret of mine. She can't find out another. Jade lifted up both my sleeves all the way revealing hundreads of bruises. Jade looked into my eyes with terror in hers. "Cat, please tell me how this hapened." Jade said choking back tears. Her voice was cracking. I got up opened the door and ran into Jades room and started crying on her bed. Jade came in seconds after I did. "Cat please tell me what's going on!" Jade was crying. "Cat!" Jades voice quivered. My sadness turned to anger. "You don't understand!" I screamed at Jade "You always complain about how your dad is horrible and how he hates you. But he doesn't do this to you does he?" I started crying again, but I still felt anger. I took my pink sweatshirt and my jeans off. You couldn't even see the color of my skin. If you didn't know any better you'd think my skin color was black and blue. "You don't understand." I said as I dropped to the floor. Jade quikely ran to me got on the floor and held me. We were both crying. I finally calmed down. Still in my bra and panties I was going to put my heavy pink sweatshirt and jeans back on. "Cat no." "What?" I was still crying. Jade sniffed because of a stuffy nose from her own crying. "Here, wear this." Jade said. It sounded like she was going to cry agin. "It's to hot for that. Please just wear it. You don't have to hide around me." Jade handed me a black tank top and black short shorts. "Sorry all I have is black." I smiled and somewhat giggled. Jade giggled too. "I love you, you're my best friend and you mean everything to me." Jade said with a smile on her face as she hugged me. "I love you too Jade." I went into the bathroom and put the cloths on. When I came out of the bathroom I climed into bed with Jade. Her back was turned and she was already asleep. As I layed in her all black room, in her all black bed, I knew what was going to happen when we went back to school next week. She was going to tell Sikowitz. I didn't think much about it, I was to exauhsted. I snuggled with the black sheets and fell asleep.