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I'm going away for a few days on a mini vacation so I don't know how soon I will have the next chapter up. There will be Jori in this story it is starting off a little slow I am sorry if it is boring so far, I have a plan though. As always R&R! Thanks!

Jade glares at me across the yard I feel frozen in place. I want to move but I can't. I barely realize that Scotty walks up behind her. I can hear him just enough to tell her how I'm their new neighbor. He is completely oblivious to our stare down. He looks over at me smiles and waves. Nicki waves back to him.

"Hey Tori this is.." He stops as Jade stomps as back up her deck and into her house saying loud enough so that I can here that this is bullshit. Scotty looks over and smiles awkwardly, probably embarrassed at his sister. I wave him over.

"Uh sorry about that, my sister is seems to be in a shitty mood today, I think something happened with her boyfriend." Scotty says when he gets over to me making a confused face scratching the back of his neck. He looks over and introduces himself to Nicki.

"Your sister is Jade West." I say stunned. Ignoring his exchange with Nicki. I already realized it but just the confirmation is mind-boggling. He is such a nice kid already and she is just such a gank. He looks at me even more confused.

"Wait, you know my sister?"

"Yes unfortunately I do, she had made my life a living hell at Hollywood Arts."

"Oh my god, your Vega? Holy shit! I feel like I just met a celebrity." He says smiling bigger. So Jade obviously must talk about me. I made a small smile thinking that Jade talked about me to her brother. " Man Jade told me all about you, how you were rubbing her boyfriend, how you kissed him next day, ruined her play and well a lot of other shit. This is golden. I like you already. My sister is such a gank everyone is always so afraid of her, except you. She says how you continually try to be her friend. Between you and I, I think she likes that you try so hard, no one else really tries to be her friend they are always so scared. " Scotty says excitement written all over his face. I don't know what it is about him but I feel like him and I could be great friends. I smile at him.

"This is seriously like a movie, you just moved into the house next to the girl that claims to hate you." Nicki says busting out laughing. I laugh along with her because seriously, this could be a movie.

"So would you girls like to come over and join me for a swim?" Scotty says with a smile. I know it will make Jade flip if I go swim in her pool, at her house, with her brother, I have to do it. Maybe this is a way I can find out if I would ever have a chance.

"Yeah let me go grab us some towels." I say standing up.

"Well we have a extras in our little outdoor bar you are more than welcome to use."

"Yeah sure, thanks." I follow Scotty into the yard with a big smile on my face. Nicki just shakes her head at me smiling too.

"Would either of you like a drink? We have all sorts of alcohol and sodas and juice to mix with or drink plain."

"Yeah I'll have a beer if you have one, Tori?" Nicki says.

"Um surprise me." I say to him.

Scotty brought me back a drink and we sat around drinking then grabbed some floats and relaxed in the pool making light conversation.

"I didn't even know Jade had a brother." I say after we finished laughing at one of Scotty's stupid jokes.

"Yeah I don't think anyone really does. Maybe her boyfriend Bick or whatever his name is, but no one else. I was away at boarding school the past 2 years. I got in trouble at my old school and my dad decided I was going to go to boarding school to hopefully be away from my trouble making friends. Plus lets face it I don't think Jade really has many friends, like I said everyone is too afraid of her." He smiles at me taking a swig of his second beer.

"So are you going back to boarding school this year?" Nicki asks him

"Nope, I'm going to a local college so I am just commuting. I wanted to save some money. You know Tori I really don't understand why Jade hates you, you don't seem evil or conniving."

"Hah, thanks I don't know why she hates me either. I don't know what I did." I take a sip of my drink to hide my sad expression. I wish Jade would be my friend, I mean I have a crush on her and would love if she would date me but I am not stupid and know that wouldn't even happen.

"What is she doing over here Scotty?" Oh man the beautiful evil that makes my life a living hell walks down the deck, looking angrier than I have seen her.

"Oh I'm sorry Jade I was under the impression this was mom's house not yours. With that being said if it is mom's house I can have my friends over. Plus Jade I seriously don't understand your problem with Tori." Scotty says starting out with a smirk that is almost exactly like Jade's but gets serious at the end. I haven't really seen him wear a serious expression today.

"We can just go." I say feeling awkward now that Jade came back out. I see her death glare me.

"You don't have to Tori." Scotty says not looking at me continuing staring at Jade.

"Yes she does." Jade barks out. I feel like this is going to turn into a blow up.

"Scotty it's fine I should really get back to my house, Nicki has to get home soon." I say giving him a weak smile. Nicki follows me back to my house, I can hear him says something to Jade in a yell whisper. Then I feel hands touch my shoulder and I turn around.

"I am sorry about her Tori. I don't know why she is such a bitch, I mean you are a pretty cool chick." He says smiling.

"You are more then welcome to come hang out over here. I am going to make some chicken tenders and tator tots for dinner." I say

"Yeah let me go change out of my bathing suit and I will be right over.

Nicki and Scotty stay over late; when my mom came home Scotty was polite and introduced himself not long after my mom came home Nicki and Scotty both headed home. It still boggles my mind that Scotty and Jade are related. She is such a gank and he is so nice. I wish I liked him instead of her but the only thing I feel for him is attraction.

"Well he is a nice boy." My mom says coming to sit down on the sofa with me.

"Yeah he is I'm glad I have a new friend that lives so close." I say lying on the couch watching some movie with my mom.

I wake up the next morning asleep on the couch. My mom's car is in the driveway but she doesn't seem to be home at all. I check my phone, it's almost 10:30 I laugh to myself thinking how I didn't get woken up by Scotty's lawn mower today. My phone goes off a minute later. It's a number I don't recognize.

"Hello?" I say into the speaker.

"Hey Tori, it's Scotty. Your mom gave me your cell number and told me to call you and I quote ' wake your ass up, you've slept long enough.'" He says laughing. "I'm seriously just quoting her it was not my idea."

"Well if you had called my phone a few minutes earlier you would have woken me up two days in a row." I couldn't help but laugh.

"Dang it! I guess I will have to try harder next time. Anyways get dressed and come over, don't worry Jade isn't here this morning, our mom's are having breakfast and would like you to join."

"Okay I'll change real quick and be right over."

10 minutes later I am knocking on Scotty's front door. He opens it and lets me into the house.

"This is my humble abode. " There house from walking was similar to mine just bigger, the living room is on the right and the dining room connected. The Kitchen straight ahead. Scotty shows me the house briefly before we go join breakfast. Their downstairs is exactly the same as ours; the basement is furnished though and is half the size of ours. The other half was made into a room, Scotty's room and a connecting bathroom. He said he would show me it later because we needed to go join breakfast.

Scotty and Jade's mom is really nice, this makes me really question why Jade is such a gank. Lori, their mom, made eggs, French toast, bacon and sausage, she also cut up fruit for a bowl. I don't remember the last time I had French toast. Lori is also a lawyer like my mom but works for a different firm they are both the same type of lawyer but I stop paying attention to my mom and her talking and start talking to Scotty.

"So any big plans today?" He asks taking a sip of his orange juice.

"Maybe coming over to swim and getting death glared by Jade again." I say joking with him.

"Ugh I'm still sorry about her. I just don't get her anymore. I'm really hoping she will come around."

"I have been hoping for that since the day I met her at Hollywood arts."

We chat some more and then Scotty decides to show me his room, not in a dirty way just because it's his hang out and he thinks it's really cool he has a room in the basement, typical boy. He had a huge room and his own fully equipped bathroom. His walls are a darkish blue and the trim and doors are darker blue. He has black string lights around the perimeter of the room and a strobe like that hangs on the wall. His bed is in the back corner; across from it is a TV stand with a 40-inch flat screen. He has a bookshelf half full of books half full of movies. There are a few different game systems sitting on an additional TV stand next to the one with the TV. The bottom shelves of both stands have a bunch of movies. On the left side of the room there is a dark wood desk with a lamp and there is a lamp on his table next to his bed. Next to the desk is a small couch, the TV easily swivels so it can face the bed or the couch.

"This is a really cool room, it makes mine look lame." I say to him.

"Nah yours is cool although you really need a game system in there. How do you live without an Xbox?"

"I really just don't know how I made it this far without it." I laugh and he turns on some game and hands m a controller. He briefly tells me all the controls and the point of the game. We are getting attacked by zombies and have to fight them off. I suck at this game but Scotty seems to be good enough that it doesn't matter too much how terrible I play.

"I'm sorry I really suck at this game." I say as my guy gets killed and results in Scotty's player getting killed as well.

"Well I didn't expect you to be a pro at it, unless you are trying to hustle me?" He looks at me with a questioning look before laughing. We play another round of the game making light chitchat. I hear a car pull in and a few seconds later someone opens the front door.

"Well I just want to warn you Jade just got back. Don't worry though because this is my space and she can't do anything about you being in here." Scotty says going back to his game. We decided to play a game of pool on the table he has out in the basement. As we are getting into the game Jade walks down into the basement. She immediately gives me a death glare.

"Why is she here again Scott?" Jade says with venom.

"Because Jade, she is my friend, now this is my space so don't pull that shit you did yesterday." Scotty says coming to my defense. I feel confident suddenly and stand my ground this time. Jade just stares angrily at me. God she looks hot when she is mad.

"Why do I have to suffer because she doesn't have her own friends so she has to hang out with my brother?" Wow she really is just a bitch.

""I have other friends Jade!" I say defending myself. She scoffs and just glares at me. Then she has a brief expression I can't read pass her face before she just put on a bored expression and turns and walks back upstairs.

"I'm sorry, I'm going to talk to her, maybe I can convince her to at least not be a gank while you are over hanging out with me, she has no right." I turn to him as he shoots the ball he is aiming for into the corner pocket. Two siblings, two polar opposites, but my mind goes back to when he said he didn't know what changed with her, so she wasn't always this ganky. Maybe there is hope.