Hello again

I know such a quick update would probably surprise you haha

But no I have these first few chapters already written down and saved from my previous attempt

I'll obviously go over them and make some changes here and there if I feel they're necessary

Thank you to those who reviewed letting me know this was in fact remembered, and a few new readers too :)

Also I've started an entirely new story called "Desertion" if anyone wouldn't mind giving it a read and letting me know what you think

But anyway, lets get on with chapter 2

Opposites

…Jade?

I have to work….. with Jade?

Of all the people in my class? Why her? Why Jade? Why the girl who makes my life miserable?

Nevertheless, before I could react, my teacher was already assigning other students their partners, so I had no choice, I was gonna have to bite the bullet, and work with her.

A few minutes later the bell went, lunch time, always my favourite time of day, because I mean, no class right? Exactly, I let all the other kids, including Jade leave first because I'm the polite girl and stuff.
On my way out I was stopped by Jade leaning on the wall parallel to the door, looking at me, she raised an eyebrow and smirked a little, evidently proud of how nervous she always made me, "Vega" "Jade?" "I'll be at yours by six" and then she walked away, not even giving me the chance to say anything, I just had to accept it.

On my way down to the cafeteria I figured I'd enjoy my last few hours alive before Jade arrived at my house and ultimately ended up murdering me, okay maybe that's a bit dramatic but she scares me okay.
Just before I could walk into the cafeteria my phone went, and since I had about 4 contacts on my phone, Andre, Cat and my parents I figured it would be one of Andre or Cat and wouldn't you know it I was right, Cat texted me telling me to meet them on the grass as she had brought lunch from home and wanted to share it with me, result I guess haha, but I still went in anyway to get myself a bottle of juice before heading off to find my friends.

"Tori! Hi!" Cat squealed in excitement as I walked over to the pair sat on the grass munching their lunch, Cat was eating a sandwich of sorts, she always tried something different, literally, if you could put it on bread, Cat will try it, and I can already see she had gotten me the same thing, I only hoped it was something good, meanwhile Andre was busy shovelling rice into his mouth, he didn't even stop to say hello, he just waved at me, "Hi guys" I sat down next to them, and Cat instantly took a sandwich from her bag and shoved it into my face, mere inches from my nose, I could immediately smell the scent of mayonnaise, which was a good start I suppose, I took it from Cat and took a bite, it was just some lightly salted chicken cuts and mayonnaise, the lazy kind of sandwich people make with leftover chicken dinner, but it was still pretty good.

About ten minutes later we had all finished eating and were talking about various things, Cat was scrolling through twitter, reading random tweets aloud, showing us pictures and stuff, "Tori! Jade tweeted about you!" my heart stopped for a second, why? What did she say? "wh…..why?" I stuttered out, "she said she has to work with you on some sort of project at your house?" Cat asked cocking her head to the side, "Yeah" I nodded, "so she's gonna be in your house? In your room?" yeah…. And that's when it hit me; she'll be in my room? My room? My most sacred place in my entire world, she could come up with so many new ways to embarrass me just by seeing my room, oh god, now I was worried.

"I guess she will be" I noticed Cat was sitting patiently waiting on my reply so I figured I'd give her one, still lost deep in my thoughts, what was I supposed to do? I didn't really know, should I prepare food? Drinks? Oh god, maybe she drinks alcohol? What if she wants to drink alcohol? What will I do? I've never touched the stuff.

Lunch went by rather slowly, probably because I was too busy thinking about the endless scenarios of what might happen tonight with Jade, but eventually, we were back in school for our next class, even then I just sat there and stared at the paper in front of me, I was supposed to be writing but it was like I couldn't make words come out, my mind was just locked in place, reminding me over and over again that the girl who was made my life such a misery, will be in my room less than five hours from now.

The final bell went, oh no, it's getting closer, I left the class, walked down the hall, out the school, down the street, through the park, and before I knew it I was at my front door, usually I'd wait for Cat and/or Andre but I felt so much pressure to make tonight perfect that I couldn't wait around, as soon as the door shut behind me I went straight upstairs, the house was empty at this point, neither my parents nor my sister Trina were home yet, I opened the door and looked into my room, my room was never like most teenage girls, with the posters of boys they found attractive and stuff like that, it was just a pretty normal room, the four poster bed, along with pink sheets and pink curtains, but I do have spares in different colour if I ever feel like changing it, the white carpet going all the way across the floor, my large chestnut wardrobe in the corner, with my matching desk next to it along with a huge mirror, mostly for makeup and other girl things, my other desk was right next to the door, this one had my laptop and various notepads and other school essentials on, a white leather couch was opposite the bed, and…. That was pretty much it, boring right? I didn't really know what to do, so I figured I'd just tidy up and make everything look neat, so I got straight to work, tidying my desks, organizing my wardrobe, straightening my sheets, or maybe I should change those? Oh I've got it, I'll make the curtains and the sheets white so they match the rest of the room, ugh, why is this so hard?.

After an hour of making sure everything was done, along with making my bed sheets, and the curtains white, to match everything else, I was done, my room still looked boring, only now it was clean and boring, I know I'm a boring person, and you wonder why I'm not popular?

I looked at the clock, it was five, she would be here soon, I went downstairs and saw my mum in the kitchen, I suppose I better tell her I have, a, hmmm, I don't know, should I say friend? Or what? I better think quickly because my legs are moving, and now she's looking at me.

"Hey Tori, how was school?" she smiles widely asking me, I simply nod my head and reply, "same old same old you know" she nods in agreement, "mum, I have a friend coming over tonight" she turns to look at me from preparing something on the counter, "that's fine sweetie, is it Cat?" "no" "Andre?" "no" "who is it then?" I told you I wasn't popular, even my parents can name every single friend I have, which isn't hard considering its only two.

"Jade"

My mum stops entirely now, uh oh, she turns to face me, eyebrows knit together in confusion, "Jade?" she asks me, I nod my head slowly, unsure of what to say, "when were you two friends?" she questions further.

"We're not; it's for a school project"

"Did she ask to be your partner? Is she just using you to get a good grade?"

"No, the teacher paired us, it was random"

"Just be careful Tori"

"I doubt she's going to hurt me in my own home"

"Just remember all the times you've sat up there crying your eyes out because of her"

It's true, there have been times when it happened, she'd say stuff to me, and leave me crying on my way home from school, she'd always play pranks on me, and I'd always do the same thing, go home, go to my room, and cry, what else could I do? I could never stand up to her, one time I tried and she punched me in the face, I cried about that too, so every time, I would just cry, and get over it, and go back to school the next day and try and act like I didn't care, but inside, I do, the scar on my left wrist was a permanent reminder, that one was the worst, it was like a year ago, Jade was so mean to me, literally every day I cried, I was scared to go to school, it was hard, my grades were starting to drop, I was at a real low point, then one night, Trina threw a party at our house when our parents were out, I went downstairs to try and mingle, and ended up with Jade throwing a drink in my face and telling me "ugly people aren't allowed" and things like that, so basically I was kicked out of a party at my own house, I went upstairs, sat in my room, and cried, thinking about just how bad she made my life, and, I suppose it was just a spur of the moment thing, but I took a pair of scissors from my desk, sat in the bathroom on the toilet, and dragged the blade across my wrist, I sat there, staring as the blood ran down my arm, tears streaming down my face, but then the door swung open, it was my mum, she had come back and kicked everyone out.

So yeah, that was my low point, but after that I got myself on track again, there were a few therapy sessions, I still have them to this day, its what happens I suppose, but I've never done it since, only that one time.

I glanced at the clock to see what the time was.

Six.

And right on cue.

A knock at the door.

Here we go.

So that's it for this chapter :)

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