"Jade! Jade, come back! Wait a minute!" Tori shouted. 'Ha, like I'd listen to her...'
"Just shut up, Vega!" I shouted back behind me. I noticed she hadn't stayed in her earlier position of being right outside Beck's trailer, she was running after me. Why would she take the time to run after me?
"Stop running and just TALK to me!" she yelled again, and I thought about stopping. The actual thought of 'Jade, stop and think' flashed through my mind. I quickly shook my head, and tripped over a rock that was in the way.
Landing on my face, I sat up and moved my hand over my face, checking for cuts or scrapes. Yep, there were a few scratches here and there, and one big cut underneath my left eye. 'Dammit, now she's going to catch up to me. Might as well stay put. Maybe I'll trip her or something...' I thought as she made her way over here, stopping right in front of me.
"J-Jade, here," she said, and leaned down close to me, pulling out a band-aid from her back pocket and opening it,"you've got a cut underneath your eye right there." she continued, and put the band-aid over my cut. She was too close to me, and she was what I was running away from in the first place. My feelings...for her.
"You think I don't know that, VEGA?" I snapped, and got up brushing off my legs.
"Tell me what's going on! We were supposed to hang out at Becks', and you ran-"
"Look, VEGA," I said, "no one told me you were going to be there."
"Why wouldn't you want me th-there, Jade?" Tori started, "I thought we were friends?"
"You thought wrong, Vega." I said, smirking. She was so wrong. I wanted to be so much more than just her friend. I wanted to be the one she called girlfriend. I looked over at Tori, and she sniffled.
'Why is she sniffling? Is she going to cry? No way she was-' I thought, and then what I thought was going to happen, happened.
"Wh-Wh-Why do you h-huh-hate me, J-J-Jade?" she cried, "All I whu-want is t-t-to be your fr-fri-friend."
'Shit, it's the waterworks. I can't stand tears.' I sighed. "Stop your blubbering, Tori." I said, and she looked up at me, her chocolate-brown eyes wide.
"Yuh-you just c-c-called me T-T-Tori." she whispered.
"Well yeah," I said, rolling my eyes, "now stop this stupid crying thing. Just go back to Becks' trailer and watch movies with the gang, okay? Maybe," I continued, angrily gritting my teeth at the thought, "Beck will decide to make his move on you tonight."
"Is this what this is about? Beck and I? Look Jade," Tori said, and made her way closer to me still, grabbing my wrist lightly, "I could never do that to you. I don't like Beck like that. We're just friends."
"He can be pretty persuasive." I said, thinking back to the night where he got me to get back together with him after we broke up that last time. I didn't want to because I was in love with Tori, and I knew Beck and I would just continue to fight until we finally broke it off again, for like the tenth time.
"Look, if it makes you feel any better, I don't like him, okay?" she said, and tried her best to smile at me. I frowned.
"That doesn't." I said, stating the obvious. So she liked some other guy? That's great, that still meant that I didn't have a chance with her.
"And just why not?" she asked, "Now you can have Beck to yourself."
"I don't want Beck." I said, and looked up at the sky. It was getting dark, and I remembered that the weather guy this morning said it was going to thunderstorm tonight. Another reason I didn't want to come out here to Beck's stupid trailer anyways.
"Well, if you don't want Beck, why would it matter to you anyhow?" Tori asked me.
"It just does." I said, not wanting her to push me any further. I felt a raindrop; it was going to start to rain soon. With my luck tonight, it would start pouring.
"Tell me, Jade. I'm your friend...well you're my friend, at least," she said, "I want to do all I can to help you."
"Stop doing that." I said, feeling another raindrop on my head, "Stop being so caring even though I treat you so bad."
"I can't do that." Tori said, "It's just the way I am. Maybe you should stop treating me so bad." she finished with a smile.
I frowned back at her again. "I can't."
"And just why can't you?" she asked.
"If I don't treat you like crap, I'd-" I started, and didn't finish, remembering that no one, especially Tori Vega knew about my feelings for her. The end of my sentence was simply too much information.
"You'd what?" Tori asked.
"Just drop it," I said, the rainfall now getting to a light mist.
"No, Jade, tell me." she said, her grip on my wrist back again.
"JUST DROP IT, OKAY?!" I shouted, and wrenched my arm out of her grip as a crack of thunder ripped through the air. We both winced. It started to pour.
"TELL ME, JADE!" she shouted over the rain.
"FINE!" I shouted back in defeat. It was going to get out anyways, even if I had to wreck her wedding somewhere down the road. Now I didn't have to wreck the youngest Vegas' wedding, because I screamed it over the rain. "IF I DON'T TREAT YOU LIKE CRAP, I'D LOVE YOU TOO MUCH!"
"WHAT?" she shouted over the rain.
'Just what I thought... wait, the way she said 'WHAT' wasn't scared, or angry. I think she just couldn't hear me over the rain.' I thought to myself and snickered. Then the half-Latina's hand was in my own, and she was leading me near a tree.
"VEGA," I shouted, "WHAT ARE YOU, STUPID?! YOU NEVER GO TO A TREE IN A STORM!"
"NOT THE TREE!" she shouted back, and a little past the tree we were underneath a gazebo. Not one of those flimsy ones you buy at the store, but an iron clad gazebo. We were soaking wet, but the rain couldn't get us under here, yet it was still loud. "What were you saying?" she said loudly.
"I can't not be mean to you..." I said, and looked away, out at the rain that seemed to be letting up a little, "because if I wasn't mean to you...I'd love you too much."
"L-luh-love me?" Tori asked, completely taken off guard. "J-Jade, you l-l-love me?" she asked. That sent me off the edge. I knew what she was going to say already...
' "I'm sorry Jade, but I'm not into girls. I'm not gay. I don't like you," she'd say, and I'd be reduced to tears. The love that I spent most of my time thinking about, most of my time being horrible to, to hide my feelings from her for almost two years would just turn me down. I couldn't take that rejection.' I thought, and before I knew it, I was getting wet again. I was running from her, again, only this time I was bound to get pneumonia out here in the pouring rain.
"WAIT!" Vega shouted over the rain, "JADE, WAIT!"
