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"JADE! Hey!" Cat yells, running up behind me.
"Hey Cat." I say indifferently.
"Lets walk to class together!" She says. She grabs my hand and yanks me away from my locker that I haven't closed yet. I roll my eyes and succumb to my fate. We walk into class to see Tori defending Beck from someone who is trying to beat him up.
"Oh you poor thing." I say, walking up to Beck, and giving Tori a mean look.
Beck explains that they were just stage fighting. Ha-ha.
"And now Tori says," I use the dumbest voice I can, "What's stage fighting?"
Tori gets mad and then asks Andre. What a dumbass. I hold onto Beck's arm tight. Tori says something about Beck being in pain by dating me.
"You want to see pain?" I say madly. She's so damn annoying! Beck pulls me away and sits me down.
"Now." Says our teacher, "I need a volunteer."
"Me!" Shouts Cat, cutely. She steps up.
"Now Rus will show you guys stage fighting." Says our teacher.
Oh no. This is just perfect. Why would Cat volunteer? She's going to be so scared of him, regardless if it's real or not. If she started crying because of that ball swinging toward her, what's it going to be like having a man swing a fist at her?
"Oh god…" I say to myself. I can't bear to see her cry more.
He throws the first fake punch at her. She gasps and I can see her whole body tighten. But then, she releases and smiles. She looks grateful. She thanks Rus, and people start to laugh, but they don't realize that it's actually serious. This could traumatize her more! Her throws the second punch at her, from a different angle, and with a sound effect, and it looks real. I try to look as chill as possible, but I'm really scared for her. Why do I feel so strongly? I know it's not real, but still. It makes me mad to watch. I roll my eyes to look mean because I think my face is getting too concerned. He calls out the pairs for the stage fight scenes we have to make. Beck gets Cat. Good, I can talk to him and explain how he needs to be careful. I, on the other hand, get Tori. Of course. Dammit.
I walk up to her to intimidate her.
"Hey partner! I can wait for our fight… scene." I say smirking. I start to walk away.
"Jade." Beck says. "You're not going to hurt her, right?"
Cat joins in. "Please don't, Jade! I really like Tori! She's nice. Don't hurt her."
"I'm not going to, assholes. It's stupid of you guys to think I would." I tell them. That makes me so damn mad! I'm not that mean of a person! Well….
I can't believe Cat would think I would ever do something like that. I don't want her to like Tori… I'm her best friend. Only me! I have to turn my friends against her…
We rehearse after school.
"This is going to be awesome." I say in a mean voice, trying to scare her.
"Jade… why do you hate me?"
I just laugh.
I sit next to Beck at lunch, only because Tori is sitting by Cat, and I don't want to sit by that bitch. Plus I got to talk to him about Cat.
"Beck, do me a favor, okay?" I tell him.
"Anything, baby!"
"Don't go to hard on Cat during your stage fight, okay? Could you let her do the beating? She gets scared."
"Yeah but it's not real, babe."
"It still scares her… " I start. Cat sits down next to us.
"Andre was being mean." She pouts. Beck and I laugh. I rub her arm.
"What an asshole." I say, not being serious. She thinks I am, and I don't bother telling her I was kidding.
After school Beck comes over. We go to my bedroom and make out. I wrap my arms around his neck and attack his lips. He moans and firmly grabs my hips.
He whispers in my ear. "Babe… lets go all the way tonight."
I guess I have to. I don't want to make him think I don't like him. I chuckle seductively and her pulls off my shirt. We keep kissing. I wish he were Cat… that would be so perfect… wait, what am I thinking? Cat is straight… so am I. I'm straight. I'm straight. I'm straight. Maybe if I keep telling myself that, I'll believe it.
The door bursts open to my room. It's my father, and he's drunk.
"You slut!" He screams, with a half empty beer in his hand.
"You have to go!" I tell Beck.
"I love you!" He says, and kisses me. He then jumps out of the window he uses to sneak into the house at night. He seems so genuine.
"I'm sorry, dad…" I start. He slowly walks up to me. I start to inch backwards. He grabs my arm and punches me in the stomach. I cry out in pain. He laughs and then stumbles out of my room. I start sobbing to myself, holding my stomach. My phone vibrates. It's Cat calling.
"Hey Jade." She says, her voice sounds sullen.
"Hey Cat." I say, holding back tears. She tells me she's scared for her stage fight. I take a big drink of water and calm myself down. I need to stay strong for her. She needs someone strong. I stay up with her on the phone all night.
"Promise me you won't hurt Tori, okay? She's scared." Cat tells me.
That bitch is gossiping about me? Wow, not cool. I know what I have to do.
Cat and Beck's stage fight goes very well. It consists of Cat pretending to kick Beck's ass. He's such a good boyfriend. Everyone laughs at it, including me.
Now it's Tori and I's turn. I give her a mischievous smirk.
Tori introduces the scene. Tori screams the safe word because she's scared. What an idiot.
I pretend to try to rob her. She turns around and smacks me in the face with her cane. I pretend that it actually hits me and fall to the ground. I scream the safe word, pretending to be in pain. Everyone runs up to us.
"She's bleeding!" Cat says, noticing the ketchup I put on my face. Beck protectively comes up to me trying to comfort me.
"Tori hit me in the face, for real!" I yell. She denies it. Tori pulls a chair out for me and I sit, but it breaks. It's a damn break away chair. This actually really hurts my stomach and ass. Everyone's crowding around as they put ice on my eye. I pretend to be in a lot of pain.
Cat walks up to Tori, confronting her. Good! Cat's mad! This is going very well. I pretend to faint a little. I tell Beck to call my mom, even though we both know she won't answer. I guilt Tori, telling her I thought we were just becoming friends. She looks really guilty. I see Cat shake her head.
At home I put on make up to make it look like I have a black eye. I sit alone waiting for Beck. I tell him my eye hurts. I order him to get me coffee. He obeys.
I watch as Cat talks to Robbie, I can't hear what they are saying, but then randomly, Cat kisses him! What the Hell? I'm going to KILL him! I shouldn't feel jealous but I really do!
I turn around to watch this little fight going on between these two people when this BITCH splashes me with water! Shit! My makeup's going to rub off! She apologizes frantically and I run towards the bathroom. Before I get there Andre stops me. I hold my eye, covering the makeup.
"I've never seen a black eye drip before…" He says. "That's makeup! Tori never hit you… did she? Fake black eye, fake blood."
I tell him not to tell Tori, but he yells her name. I chase him around, trying to get him to stop. But he gets away.
I walk around school the next day, scared. Scared I'm going to get in trouble because I lied. But nothing happens… Damn… Tori did something nice…
I walk up to her as she cleans a room.
"I don't get it. I know Andre told you. Why are you here? Why didn't you tell on me?"
"We both go to school here and it's not going to be fun if we're fighting all the time." She says. She passes by me.
"So you're going to let get away with it?"
She explains that I should try being nice to her sometime. I feel guilty… but I still don't like her. Damn, I got to help her. I grab a scrapping thing and start to help her. After a second, I get bored.
"This might be more fun with some tunes." I say, turning on some music. Tori smiles. I start dancing around. The security guy comes and dances with us, scraping. We dance for a while… slowly starting to leave the room. He's too distracted to see us dancing out of the room. Maybe she's not that bad after all.
