"Would you calm down? It's chill, everyone knows about us already."

I gulp and look around the elaborate hallway, Tor—Victoria's hand tightly and protectively around mine. It's the next day, and Victoria's wearing a tight, purple, hoodie, with black skinny jeans and the usual converse. Her hair is in a messy ponytail again.

"A—are you sure?"

Victoria stops at my locker, and does the combination for me. She opens up the door and piles book after book into my arms. When she's done, and I'm sure my arms are going to fall off, she slams the locker shut and leans against it. She grabs a few books for me and takes a step closer. She shrugs.

"We're both in all of the same classes, and completely," she adds, "well, everyone but your boyfriend, at least."

She starts walking, and I gulp, "So is everything cool?" I ask, gesturing with my hand, moving it between the two of us. Victoria barks out a laugh, and takes a left. "Are you kidding me? This whole school is filled with homophobes—but, you know." She shrugs again, fingering her long sleeves. "The only ones that are fine with it are Beck, Catarina, and Adrina… and me, of course. We all were awesome friends, but once you got popular and shit in junior high; you stopped hanging around with us." Victoria sadly smirks, "In public, anyway."

I nod, and take in a deep breath. "We'll I'm not like that. Anymore, I guess."

Tori bites her lip; "What do you mean?"

"I mean that I won't be a jerk. If you want to go out then whatever—to hell what this David guy thinks. I bet I won't even like him."

Victoria smiles and then pulls me up some stairs.

"You'll hate him. Trust me."

I snort and she pulls me into a room, right as the bell rings. Victoria sighs and plops down in a desk in the far back, and I sit next to her.

"Welcome to first period, Jade: Social Studies."

A teacher with a huge gut and sideburns walks in.

"Who do we have here?"

He's got a huge lisp and looks at me, smiling creepily. I hear Victoria's desk scratch against the floor, moving closer to mine. I smirk, and say: "Jadelyn West."

The whole class grows silent. The teacher's grin falls off of his face, students look at me in shock. Victoria breaks the tension by laughing beside me. Everyone looks relieved for a second, but then Victoria stops giggling enough to confirm to the teacher.

"Yeah, Mr. James. This is Jadelyn."

I grin as his mouth falls open.

A few seconds later he begins the class, talking about the French Revolution or something, and I see a flash of white before finding a paper airplane on my desk. I look up at Victoria, who's looking away. I shake my head and unfold the paper.

Hey. :D

I snort and quickly write a response ("Seriously? A paper airplane?") before tossing it back to Tori. I see her smile through the corner of my eye, before she tosses it back to me.

Mmhmm. So what are you doing?

Uh, not listening to the teacher? …What else?

You're a cheerleader. You're supposed to be at practice.

I gasp and look up, loudly whispering to Victoria, "I'm a what?" She shushes me, and quickly gestures to the note. I huff and write something down.

I'm a WHAT?

A cheerleader. The leader of cheers.

What the hell? I'm not even FLEXIBLE.

I hear Tori laugh slightly, but then she looks sad, and she shifts her legs.

Ha! Not flexible—good one…

What do you mean "good one"?

Uh…

Never mind. So. Practice?

It's at the football field. I'll show you after class.

/ /

"Oh my fucking god… I can't do that!"

Victoria shrugs and lights a cigarette, leaning against the side of the bleachers. My mouth is still hanging open, and I watch the cheerleaders. They do back flips and splits and twirl tightly in the air.I hear Victoria laugh beside me. I whip to her, "It's not funny!"

"Ha! Are you kidding me? This is priceless! Oh god…"

She calms down and I glare at her, but she just inhaled the cigarette and rolled her eyes.

"Doesn't work on me…"

"Ugh!"

I cross my arms over chest and groan and turn back to the cheerleaders. I watch them for a few more minutes before Victoria nudges my shoulder. I turn to her as she looks to the other side of the field, where the track team is practicing. She mutters, "Slut…" And I look towards the cheerleaders again.

A girl with bleach blonde hair and huge boobs walks over towards us, her ponytail swaying in time with her hips. She's chewing gum obnoxiously and I frown. She stops in front of us and rolls her eyes at Victoria, who scowls back. She looks at me and then smirks, her hands on her hips.

"Hey, Jadelyn."

Her voice is extremely nasally.

"I heard you went emo." She glances at Tori again, and she blows cigarette smoke in the other girl's face. The cheerleader coughs, and fans the air with her hand. She looks back at me.

"I knew she was rubbing off on you, what, are you a dyke now too?"

"You BITCH!"

Victoria lungs at her, cigarette completely forgotten, and she punches the cheerleader's jaw. She falls to the ground, but Tori doesn't stop. She kicks her stomach, and then leans down to her face.

"You're the one calling me a dyke? I hear you've been fucking the whole entire school!"

The cheerleader jumps up, and swipes at Victoria's face.

"At least I can get someone to fuck me!"

"You do realize you just called yourself a slut?"

"Idiot!"

The blonde punches Victoria in the nose, and she stumbles back, bleeding. I seethe and try to break it up.

"Hey!"

I try and pull Victoria off of the other girl, but she shoves me away and goes back to the cheerleader.

"Stay out of it, Jade!"

Which, you know, fails.

The whole track team and cheer squad is running over by now, and the coaches blow their whistles.

"HEY!"

A man with a huge, thick neck and broad shoulders steps up. He's got curly hair, and it goes out of control when he pulls the girls away from each other. The cheerleader whines.

"Coach Sikowitz!"

Oh god no.

No.

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

Sikowitz is the cheerleading coach?

He glares the blonde, who grimaces and rolls her eyes.

"Don't whine, Quinn!"

So her names Quinn?

Victoria groans, and stands beside me.

"Principal's office! NOW!"

Sikowitz's face is crazy-red, and his chest is heaving as he points to the main building. Victoria scoffs and grabs my hand, heading to the school. Quinn looks at her manicured nails and follows.

"I chipped a nail!"

Victoria squeezes my hand, and she pulls out a cigarette, lighting it with her ever-present bright blue lighter. She rolls her eyes and breaths in.

"Good for you."

/ /

"I'm suspended."

"Really? Wow, I wonder why?"

"Oh shut up, that chick gave me a black eye."

"You know, I think she was actually coming onto you."

"Really?"

"Mhm, I'd go as far and say that she was getting extremely horny."

"Oh wow, Jade. I bet you're dying with jealously."

"Completely, Tor. Completely."

Tori snorts and nudges my shoulder. We're in sitting on my bed, since Victoria had come after over after school.

"The option is still open, you know."

She leans her head closer to mine, and rests her forehead on my temple. I take in a breath.

"R—really?"

She smirks, and starts playing with my fingers. My heart beats faster, and I feel my skin grow red. I gulp.

"Mhm…" Victoria kisses my cheek, and then moves down to my jaw, and then my neck and collarbone. I close my eyes and bite my lip, and then Tori pulls away.

"You're not into this, are you?"

Her voice sounds hurt, broken, and I open my eyes regrettably. I dart my eyes down to the carpet and clear my throat.

"I—I am…"

"No." She pulls away and stands up, grabbing her book bag off of the desk. "You're not."

She walks out of the door, and I quickly follow.

"Tori, wait!"

She turns around, right next the stairs.

"It's fucking Victoria, Jade!"

My mouth hangs open, and she runs down the stairs. I hear the door open, and then slam shut. I picture falls off of the wall, and shatters beside me. I glance at it, not moving. It's a picture of two little girls, eating ice cream. They're both smiling, and they both have brown hair. One of them is pale, and the other is tan. My heart clenches when I realize it's me and Victoria. I rip off from the spot I was standing in, and lean over, brushing off the glass. I pick it up and smile sadly, seeing fireworks in the background. I skim my fingers over the picture and take in a shaky breath.

"Hi, Tori…"

/ /

A/N: Ughhh, I really hate this chapter! It's terrible and short and stupid, but I felt really bad about not updating in a long time so I am anyway!

Ugh.

Jade's terrible boyfriend will be in the next chapter, along with some Tori/Jade action. I'm still figuring out how some Bade will be in this…

/fail. D;

Anyways, review?