"So Tori how did your audition go?" Eugene Sikowitz asked his daughter as the family sat down for dinner. Well it wasn't a full family as usual Jade was still upstairs in her and Cat's bedroom despite the fact that she'd been called for dinner three times.
"You should know Dad. I audition for you." Tori said twirling her noodles up her fork. "There is always too much soy sauce on these." Tori commented.
"And you did splendid." Eugene told her as he stabbed a chicken ball with one chopstick. He could never get the hang of the chopsticks. "And don't ask for take-out if you're going to moan about it."
"How come Tori got to go to Nana'a today but I didn't?" Cat asked as she ate a prawn.
"Because Tori doesn't value her education." Sikowitz replied. Tori let out a gasp, she looked thoroughly offended. Sikowitz smirked and looked at her through the corner of his eye. Tori glared at him and continued to eat her noodles.
"Well neither do I! I'm a reckless teenager!" Cat announced standing up straight.
"Speaking of reckless teenagers will someone go get Jade." Sikowitz asked.
"I will." Trina said, she was feeling a little guilty for leaving her all defenseless at school today. She was sure she was alright, she just needed to check was all.
Trina stood up from the table and walked up the stairs to Cat and Jade's room. Trina always felt uncomfortable being in their bedroom. It was like care bears meet American horror story. It didn't look like that though from the outside though. It was just a plain white door with a picture of their obscure family of five on it.
They all looked so happy in the photo but that could be less than true. Her father had this thing about photos and he loved for them to be perfect and they always were. But before the photos rarely were. They were in Greece four years ago for a get away holiday and Cat cried about the heat, despite L.A. being much more humid. Jade was being grouchy all day for no apparent reason. Tori was feeling super awkward having just started her first period and Trina was being a diva over everything. And Sikowitz-well he had to manage them all.
Trina stopped looking at the photo and knocked n the bedroom door.
"What!" Jade snapped from the inside.
"Dad called you for dinner ten minutes ago." Trina said softly.
"I know, I have ears too." She said sarcastically.
"Well its getting cold." Trina said unsurely. It was a shock to her that this girl was the same girl getting knocked down by the head cheerleader earlier that day. Trina heard something fall followed by Jade cussing.
She slowly opened the door and peeked her head through. Jade had a bottle of black hair dye leaking all over the floor and all over her hands.
"Who said you could come in!" Jade barked.
"I heard you cuss and thought you might've been hurt." Trina replied as she picked up the bottle of hair dye before it could stain the blood red carpet any further.
"Well I'm not!" Jade said as she held her hands away from her clothes.
"Why would you want to dye your hair black?" Trina asked.
"Why do you care your not my mom?" Jade snapped.
"Just because I'm not your mom doesn't mean I can't care. That statement doesn't even go a long way in this house." Trina commented.
"I have a mom, I'm not like you Tori or Cat." Jade mumbled.
"C'mon, lets go downstairs and have dinner. Then we'll try clean that carpet before Cat see's it and has a conniption."
"Fine." Jade said as though it were a real struggle. She walked into the en suite bathroom connected to bedroom and washed her hands until the black dye was just a light grey stain that wouldn't come off.
"Trina, why are people only ever nice to me when no one else is around?"
Tori walked upstairs into her bedroom. She was tired, it was her day for chores and for a relatively average family they made a more than average mess. She put on her cozy pajama's and grabbed her pear book. She was given a load of homework, luckily it wasn't all due for tomorrow.
"Tori!" She heard Trina cry next door. Tori sighed and walked over to Trina's room. The door was already open showing off Trina's perfectly clean and organized room.
"What's wrong, Trina?" Tori said exasperatedly. Trina would always call her over to her room for the smallest of things. Like last week it was because her new shampoo smelt really really good. And another time it was because she stubbed her toe and wanted someone to bent to over it. She never expected what was just to unfold.
She looked up at sister who had tears streaming down her cheeks out of her brown eyes. "Omigod Trina what happened?" Tori cried and gripped onto her sisters arm. As she grabbed it she noticed a small white stick grabbed tightly in her hand. Tori gasped and met her sisters eyes.
"Please don't tell anyone Tori, especially not dad or Cat." Trina plead. "I'm really scared and I don't know what to do." A small whimper escaped her lips. Trina grabbed her sister into a tight hug and let her cry on her shoulder, tears stinging her cozy PJ's.
Tori wanted to tell her sister it would be okay, that it would all get better. Tori wished she could tell her something that would make her feel better, she just couldn't tell her sister a lie. Tori brought her hand up and began to rub her sisters hair and soothe her without saying any words.
Once Trina calmed down slightly Tori sat her down on the bed and got her some tissues from the box on the bedside table. Trina blew her nose and wiped her eyes.
"Whose is it?" Tori asked quietly as she rubbed her sisters arm lightly in a form of attempted support.
"His name is Conner Red. He goes to Elmwood. I've been hooking up with him a while, until I found out he hand a girlfriend."
"Oh Trina." Tori said and hugged her from the side as Trina cried some more.
"I don't know what I'm gonna do Tori, this isn't what I want. I don't want my kid to end up like us."
"What do you mean like us? Our lives our fine without a mom."
"Tori I don't know what I'm doing and I can't do this alone."
"You won't be, I'll be here, even if Dad or Connor or everyone else leaves you. You'll always have me, no matter what."
"I just don't know what to do."
Tori would never tell her sister a lie.
"But you'll figure it out."
On purpose.
So sorry I haven't updated in nearly a year, haha. There is no real excuse hear and I'm sure I've lost a lot of readers for it but I'd appreciate if you would leave a review and if you haven't follow and favourite this story.
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