A/N: Okie dokie artichokie! The second chapter is officially UP! I must once again say thank you to my beautiful and wonderful and incredibly sexy other half ChaseLehrman. :D. So amazing. So, here you go and I hope you enjoy. Btw….this is my Christmas gift to all of you. You're welcome. :D
Jade's POV:
I'm sitting in the black box, everything is dark like someone is about to perform. I can feel Beck sitting next to me. Suddenly the lights go up and there is someone up on the stage, looks like she's being forced on stage. I laugh to myself shaking my head at the stupid amateur.
Then her voice hits my ears and my head immediately snaps back. I stare through all the darkness and the stage lights to see her. The shape of her face, the way I can see her eyes perfectly from where I am, the way her body moves as she dances, her voice in general. She's gorgeous.
Suddenly everything gets really bright and I'm standing in the hallway at school. I'm leaning against Beck as the doors fly open and in walks that annoying bitch Trina and the girl from the stage. I leaned closer to Beck.
"Who is she?" I asked him softly
."Ummm… I don't know." He answers following my gaze. Yet again my eyes are following her body precisely. Every move she made my eyes marked and followed. I hardly noticed Beck kiss my cheek and say he's leaving, my attention to consumed with the mystery girl.
Then everything gets really bright again, I'm squinting against the intensity of the light. Now I'm in Sikowit's class and there she is, Tori Vega, kissing my boyfriend. The strange thing is I'm mad at Beck for kissing her. Like he should know better than touching her like that. They part and I growl slightly at how happy Tori looks.
Then everything is dark. I look around but can't see anything, until my eye catches something moving above me. I look up and see her falling. Just falling. Not screaming or flailing.
Just falling.
I try to move but my body is frozen. She hits the ground with a deafening sound. I run over to her, now that I can move. I kneel by her side looking over her in slight fear.
"Tori! Tori are you ok?" I say frantically looking at her. Blood is dripping out of the corner of her mouth, her eyes looking tired like her body just wants to give up.
"Why didn't you catch me Jade?" Her words dug into me.
"Why did I have to get hurt like this? Why weren't you there?" She kept asking the question over and over, each one making a little cut on my heart.
"I-I-I….." Was all I could manage to get out before she started sinking into the floor. She smiled at me softly.
"You tried right? Or were standing there watching as I fell? Did you even move when you saw me?" The whole time she's speaking she's slowly sinking into the floor. I try to grab her hand but she moves it out of my reach until she is gone. I slam my fist against the floor repeatedly.
"Tori! Tori! No Tori come back!" I scream trying to get her back.
I jump awake, a layer of cold sweat covering my skin. I sit up trying to recapture my breath. That dream was just so… vivid. I can't stop hearing the sound of Tori hitting the ground. I shake my head slowly, breathing softly. I raise my head, glaring at the wall.
"Sinjin is a dead man." I whisper to myself as I jump up to start getting ready for school not caring what time it is, determined to find Sinjin and exact my revenge.
Tori's POV:
I slammed my fist on my bed and rolled over to check the time for the ninth time since I tried to go to sleep. My alarm read 5:30am and I groaned.
I woke up every half hour last night, Jade invading my thoughts since I got home yesterday. My mind kept replaying everything in slow motion. When I leaned over the railing to fix the light, feeling my foot slip, calling out for Sinjin as I begin to slip, not even really realizing I'm falling just that the floor is getting closer, a quick flash of black, landing safely in Jade's arms, staring up into her green eyes staring back at me with what I can only describe as concern, Jade panicking and running out, seeing her in the hallway run away one last time.
"Jade…" I whispered softly to myself. The memory won't leave me alone, it's slowly driving me insane. I pulled myself out of bed and sighed as my feet hit the floor. Then as if on cue the door flies open and Trina pokes her head in.
"Oh good, your up. Hurry up and get ready, we have to go to school early." She rushed back out before I could say anything, not that I really have the energy to argue with Trina about why we are going to school this early.
I climbed out of bed and made my way over to the closet, grabbing clothes and pulling them on. I am really too tired to do or care about anything. Damn it Jade. Why? Why me? I pulled on a pair of jeans and a simple red shirt before heading to the bathroom. I brushed my teeth and hair and put on a light amount of make-up, just enough so I don't seem like a zombie. Trina walked up to the door holding my back pack in one hand and her purse in the other, her back pack already resting on her shoulder.
"Come on, let's go." I rolled my eyes and grabbed my bag, following Trina to the car. We will be at school about an hour early but I guess I can organize my locker or something. I looked over at my brand new cherry red civic with Jade's name scratched in the hood. I sighed staring at the goth's name, my car will get fixed but getting her off my mind isn't proving to be as easy.
We drove to school in relative silence, Trina sometimes telling me to stop sighing or talking to her reflection about how "amazing" she looks. She basically ran into school upon arrival and I idly walked to my locker.
As I got to my locker I heard a loud crash and a familiar angry voice.
"Damn it Sinjin!" Jade? What is Jade doing here? I slipped over to the corner and carefully peeked around to see the goth with the odd boy pinned against the wall.
"Tori could have gotten hurt."
Jade's POV:
"Tori could have gotten hurt." I seethed at the boy stuck between me and the wall. I'm sure if he could he'd choose to melt into the wall right now instead of having to face me. Though with the intensity I'm glaring at him the dry straw he calls hair might ignite at any moment.
"I-I-I'm sorry." He stammered out. I pressed him harder against the wall, my forearm sliding under his chin to press against his throat.
"You're lucky I was there!" I glared harder at him. I took in a deep breath and stared at him less angrily, not by much though.
"What the hell were you doing that you couldn't just make sure she didn't fall?" I asked in a calm-ish voice, as calm as I can muster right now. I'm pretty proud of myself; I mean he's still alive right?
"I-I-I- well I-" I grew angry at each beginning of a sentence and slammed him against the wall again.
"Speak!" I commanded on impact, my forearm momentarily pressing harder against his throat.
"I was watching you." He finally spits out. My anger peaks again and I pull my hand back, my fist connecting with the left side of his face hard. He hit the ground and looked back up at me holding the spot I had just hit.
"If you ever let that happen again, and Tori gets hurt, I will personally make the rest of your already miserable existence worse." I glared at him for half a minute more before storming away deciding there's nothing left to do but go sit in class.
Maybe I'll get some scissors and cut something up…
Tori's POV:
Poor Sinjin.
Why is Jade so mad anyway? She doesn't care about me. She hates me, right?
I lean against the wall staring at the ground contemplating this. Jade can't care about me, she destroys me each and every day. But then why did she save me yesterday?
She could have just stood there and watch me hit the ground like everyone else. No one else reacted like she did, but why did she?
Her of all people. This wouldn't be as confusing if it was anyone else but it had to be Jade fucking West.
"Why?" I whisper as my mind starts replaying it again.
Part of me wanted to go to class and sit and think, but then I remembered Jade is in my class and probably sitting in there waiting.
I sighed walking down the hall pausing in front of the janitor's closet. The same janitor's closet Jade pulls me into all the time when she needs to talk. The same janitor's closet Jade pulls me into all the time when she needs to talk. The same janitor's closet we always find her in when she's thinking.
I grab the handle deciding it's the perfect place to think about what she did and why she did it. So after checking for the creepy janitor I slid down one of the walls sighing softly, resting my head against my arms pulling my knees closer to me.
"Jade…" I whisper again, almost as if just to taste the word on my tongue again
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