Hey! I got this up in a week, which I think is good, considering I have another Victorious story in progress as well. I've decided to reply to reviews with PM's so I don't take up too much unneeded space starting with the reviews for this chapter. But I'll still reply to anonymous reviews. Here are my review replies, though. Thanks for the 4 reviews :D and the 5 favorites and 2 alerts! You guys are amazing!
Invader Johnny: Yeah, right? Your review actually inspired me to write a little part of Trina's message in this chapter. You'll see :)
bubblegumbossyhead: Aww, thanks! I'm flattered! :)
blue wigged thespian: There have been a lot of Trina fics cropping up. I've wanted to try my hand at one for a while, so I finally did! And yes, as I said in the first chapter, this was inspired by Thirteen Reasons Why. Thanks for reviewing!
Romanticly tragic perfection: Thanks! I hope you like this chapter!
I had a delayed opening today so it helped me finish up this chap. Hope you guys enjoy it!
Also, much thanks to Just a certain Readhead for telling me I accidentaly uploaded chapter 2 again!
This is all from Jade's POV.
"Tori Vega is not available. Please leave a message after the beep. Beep!" The phone told Jade, who was very annoyed. Calling her again, she impatiently tapped her foot, before groaning and throwing her phone at the wall after hearing the dial tone yet another time. Tori had texted her and presumably the rest of the gang, saying that there was an urgent problem and to come to her house right away.
Examining the broken remains of the phone, Jade sighed. Her dad was going to give her that look again, the one where he was obviously disappointed but wasn't going to say anything, and then he would sigh too loudly and Jade would feel like a nuisance to her family yet again as she asked for a new one. Today was definitely not her day. Groaning (she seemed to do that a lot), she stomped to the other side of the house to wake up her little brother.
"I'm going out!" She called, leaving abruptly. He would just ask too many questions about where she'd be if she didn't go immediately. After their mother left them, he had abandonment issues. Jade got that, but she just couldn't deal with it right now. After revving up her car, she noticed that some idiot had TP'd the trees in front of her house. Of course, since her dad wasn't home, her stepmom would blame her, telling her to be more responsible. Jade silently cursed whatever deity that was out there for her horrendous day before rushing back into the house to grab a ladder and removing the toilet paper herself. Finally, after 15 minutes, 5 bruises and 2 slips, she was leaving yet again. By the time she got to theā¦bar?.. the rest of the gang was waiting impatiently for her.
"I called you 5 times, Jade!" Cat exclaimed, bouncing on the balls of her feet.
"My phone broke." Jade said tersely. Looking around, her eyes found Beck's, and she hid herself under the cover of his arm. Right across from her was Tori, who looked like a mess, with her hair sticking up everywhere and her mascara running. "What did you want to tell us, Vega?"
"Well, now that you're finally here, I can explain. So Trina left me this really creepy voicemail about how she was dead and that she committed suicide. She was trying to invite us to a One Direction concert but we ignored her, so she got overdramatic, stole mine and Andre's phone, and killed herself. She apparently didn't get to finish her last message, so she left a note or something on Andre's phone. At first I didn't believe it, but we saw some blood on the train tracks outside and I don't know anymore. I'm just counting on the message on Andre's phone to help explain things." Jade was shocked. Would the tough Trina Vega really just go and kill herself? Thankfully, she was distracted by Tori talking, again. Did the girl ever shut up? It was giving her a migraine. Turning to Andre, Tori had accusingly added, "Which you still haven't told me the password to! Why was it so easy for her to guess?!"
Rubbing the back of his neck, Andre frowned down at her. Jade noticed a little blush in his dark cheeks and smirked. Whatever the password was, it must be embarrassing. "Shouldn't we check the note now anyway?" Andre changed the subject, fishing out his phone from his pocket. Turning away from a curious brunette, he typed in his password before looking through his phone. "I don't see it..."
After a few agonizing minutes, he finally found it. "Okay, I'll read it out loud, guys." He said to nobody in particular. But by then, no one was listening except for Tori. Cat was texting, Robbie was talking to Beck about some nerdy class they both took, and Jade was almost asleep. Beck elbowed her as Andre shouted out his findings once more, and she jerked awake, curls in disarray. Andre stared at her a moment before continuing, speaking in a higher tone of voice. "Hey guys. If I'm right, all 6 of you are reading this. Tori probably freaked out and asked you guys to meet with her to read this, and you did, no questions asked. Okay, maybe a few. So, I did it. I killed myself. I'm gone for good, and nothing can ever bring me back. Some of you are probably kind of happy right now, relieved that I'm gone in a sick kind of way. I've never been anybody important to any of you anyway. What you don't know is that I'm not fully gone. While I'm still all over those train tracks, I have another secret to share. Each one of you is a reason I'm dead. You might not think you had anything to do with it, or me, but you did. All of you have impacted my life negatively in some way, and guess what? I want revenge. You made me feel like I was worthless, so I'm going to make you feel so disgusted with yourself that you can barely look at yourself in the mirror without shuddering. There are 17 people out there who I owe my death to, one for each year of my life. I'll be sending each of you voicemails, texts, packages, emails, reminding you of what you did to me and which reason you were. You can try to ignore me, but you won't be able to, because there's a catch. If you don't read my message, everybody will know what you did to me. Don't ask me how, I have my ways. One last question, Tori. Did you even bother to check the date today?" After the message finished, Andre cleared his throat and coughed. They were all looking awkwardly at each other, and most everyone was staring at Tori.
"What is the date today?" Cat asked, voicing the question in everyone's minds. Tori quickly looked at her phone, the blood draining out of her cheeks. Jade felt a little bad for her. First your sister commits suicide and then you find out you're one of the reasons why? Looking up, Jade noticed Tori staring at her. Or rather, her eyeballs were faced towards her, but Tori wasn't really looking at her. She was lost in her own world, one Jade was sure didn't contain fluffy bunnies or sunshine.
"Today was her birthday." Tori whispered, turning her head to look at everyone. "Today was her 18th birthday, and I didn't even get her a present."
I hope I didn't go too into Jade's kinda suckish family life, I just wanted to add in a little bit about her and it turned into a kinda long one. And she seems like she'd exaggerate things in her mind a little, you know?
And I don't really know how to write Robbie in this situation, so he's kind of silent in this.. sorry if you like him! There will be a chapter dedicated to him and his reason why!
Please review, and thanks for reading!
