Cat was dead. Her best friend, her sister practically. Dead. Jade didn't want to believe it. She was in the waiting room of the hospital, and she was just told Caterina Valentine was dead. Jade thought that she was ok. She thought Cat was just going home to cry, and she would need her and Beck there. When they went into Cats house and ran up into her room, Beck was the first one in there.
He saw the notes, and realized what was happening. He broke down the door and saw her leaning against the wall with her wrists slit, the razor blade lying on the floor next to her. Jade immediately had called an ambulance when they drove over, thinking maybe they could give Cat something so she could deal with her grief. They arrived just as Cat went into unconsciousness.
Jade had truly thought they could save her. She truly thought her best friend Cat would survive. Turns out she was wrong. Cat was pronounced dead about 10 minutes after they arrived at the hospital. Jade had dropped to the floor, not wanting to believe it. But when she heard Becks anguished cry, she knew Cat was gone. She started to hear a high pitched wailing, and it hurt her ears. She finally realized that the noise was coming from her. She ran to the nurse with the sympathetic look on her face and started to shake her, slap her, screaming that Cat wasn't dead.
She was given a shot in her arm to knock her out. She had woken up lying in a hospital room, and she was finally signed out of her room when her father came to get her. She was taken home, and she still would've been there if it hadn't been for the fact that Beck had handed out Cats notes, and Jade had to do the one last thing her best friend had asked of her. She went to Cats house, and just walked through the door. Cats 'father' was in custody, so no one was there. She luckily had remembered the key Cat left under the mat for when she forgot hers, which happened a lot. Jade unlocked the door and walked up to Cats room. She saw all of Cats pictures on top of her desk. Some were in frames, some were in the 4 photo albums Cat had. She grabbed them and stuffed them in her bag without looking at them. She didn't want to start crying.
She found Mr. Longneck lying on top of Cats bed, just like he was waiting for Cat. But Cat was never coming back.
Cat would never again skip into this pink room full of stuffed animals, she would no longer brush her red velvet cupcake dyed hair in front of her large vanity mirror, she wouldn't carefully apply her makeup at the vanity in the morning, never sleep in her overly pink room, slip into her pink silk pajamas that were crumpled on the floor. She wouldn't hug Mr. Longneck when she was scared; she wouldn't giggle and try to make Jade nicer. She couldn't do anything anymore. She was dead.
Jade was suddenly just hit with that overwhelming fact, and couldn't take it. She grabbed Mr. Longneck, much in the same fashion Cat would have, and leaned up against the wall as she slid down onto the floor, and sobbed.
Jadelyn West never sobbed.
Then again, Jadelyn West had never before experienced the death of a best friend, especially one as seemingly innocent as Caterina Valentine.