III. QUESTIONS
I bit down on my lower lip as I watched Jade look around my room as if she was analyzing me for some insane experiment that she was conducting on me. So when she finally sat down on my desk chair I let out a sigh of relief and sat down on my bed when I realized that she was waiting on me to say something. The thing was I didn't know what to say or where to start with all of the questions that were bouncing around in my head at the moment in time. But when I finally looked her in her blood red eyes I knew that I had to start soon or she would leave and nothing would have been accomplished.
"So I…well I…I really don't know where to start?" I admitted blushing.
"The first question usually works," Jade said with a smirk making my knees go weak.
"I figured that it's just…I don't know which question to ask," I said looking at the ground.
"Well which one to you think is the most important?"
Jade made a point there so I started to pick my mind trying to figure out what exactly I wanted to know about Jade first. The obvious stuff I didn't need to know such as gender, age, etc. but I didn't know where she was from or what her family life is like at home so I started there.
"So where are you from?" I asked tilting my head to the side.
"San Antonio," she said not batting an eye.
"Really?" I asked amazed.
"Does that surprise you?"
"You just…don't seem like you'd be from Texas," I admitted blushing.
"Your next question?" she said with a smirk.
"Um…so Cat said you two were sisters…"
"Adopted, both of us," She explained, "our…mother couldn't bear a child so our parents adopted us when we were younger."
"Oh…I, I didn't…" I stuttered embarrassed.
"Not a whole lot of people do know, so we would like it if you kept that to yourself," Jade said tapping her finger on my desk, "anything else you wanted to know?"
"Well…what's your favorite type of music?"
"Anything that deals with rock, AD/DC, Nickelback, Green Day."
"Isn't Green Day considered punk though?" I asked confused.
"Yeah…that or alternative," She replied smirking, "why don't you let me ask a question now?"
"Okay shot."
"Why did you come here from Minnesota?" she asked tilting her head to the side.
"My dad got offered a job here so that…well I'm not really suppose to tell anyone," I said making her eyes narrow, "sorry, I would tell you if I could."
Jade sat there and looked me over as if she was trying to figure out if I was lying or not before she resigned and folded her arm across her chest and smiled at me making me relax a little bit. Biting on my lower lip I began to wonder what my next question would be when she coughed and interrupted my thoughts again.
"So do you think that you're going to like Hollywood High?"
"Yeah, I mean I've only been there for two days and already I've made a few friends, Andre, Robbie, and…you and Cat are my friends right?" I asked afraid of the answer.
"I wouldn't be here if I wasn't Tori," Jade pointed out, "last night Cat made a point that even though we only met the other day she already had a feeling that we would be friends, but what about the Beck guy?"
"Beck, he's okay I guess we're friends he's only in one of my classes though," I explained as she nodded.
This went on for what felt like forever as we went back and forth with questions such as favorite food, movies, etc. when another question popped in my head that I wasn't sure that she would like. Jade said that both her and Cat were adopted when they were younger but that left me wondering what happened to her parents, but I didn't know if she had a bad relationship with her parents and I didn't want to anger her. So when I noticed her looking at me expectantly, I couldn't help but feel vulnerable as it seemed Jade was looking into her very soul and reading her every thought and emotion.
"If I ask you a question…"
"Like you haven't been already."
"If I ask you a question will you promise not to get mad?" I asked glaring at the now smirking girl in front of me.
"Sure ask away," Jade said becoming serious.
"What happened to your parents?"
It suddenly went very silent as Jade looked at me causing me to want to shrink away and vanish from her sight so that I wouldn't see the pain in her eyes. I looked at the ground and tensed up when I heard her exhale before she stood up and placed her hand on my shoulder making me flinch.
"Look at me," She whispered barely loud enough for me to hear, "Tori please look at me."
"Y-yes?" I asked finally looking up.
Jade kneeled down in front of me and took my chin in her hand making me look into her blood red eyes.
"It's not that I don't want to tell you okay, and don't think that I'm mad at you for asking me, but I don't think we've known each other long enough for me to tell you what happened to them," She explained and I swore I could see tears in her eyes.
"Okay, sorry for…"
"Don't say you're sorry, there's nothing to be sorry about," she interrupted before she stood up, "it's late so I'll see you tomorrow at school."
"Kay," was all I could manage as I watched her leave my room and then my house.
The rest of the night seemed to drag on as I laid on my bed wondering what could have happened to her parents. It felt as if she was hiding something about her past just like I was hiding something about why my father had moved here in the first place. You see my father was called in and offered a job her as a detective in order to find someone who had been committing murders her for about the past three months. The police were tracking the person down but so far all the victims, if you could call them that, were people who were wanted for other crimes or escapees from death row. They didn't like that a vigilantly was running around Hollywood making them look bad so they were trying to find the person and put him or her behind bars. That was my secret that only me, my mom, and my dad knew, not even my sister Trina knew about it because we were afraid she would open her mouth about it in the college.
But Jade's secret seemed something that felt much darker than mine and I wasn't sure if I wanted to find out about it, or if I wanted to leave it alone in the dark.
Author Note: Sorry this chapter took so long I had a hard time deciding what should go into this chapter. Anyway thanks so far for the reviews I've gotten and keep them coming.
Falling Lillies.
