Lockdown

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Chapter 4 (An Abusive Rage)

Jade walked into the auditorium where she saw David studying the rope and harness on Tiffany's body. She looked back over her shoulder, anticipating whether Beck was behind her or not. Seeing the all clear, she made her way carefully up the stage. "Mr. Vega?" The man was in deep contemplation, knelt and with his forefingers tracing his frown lines.

"Yes Jade?" His eyebrow tucked upwards and he slowly looked her way. She was terrified of what she wanted to tell him, but mostly on the part of fear over what Beck would do to her. It would be good for David to know on the chance that he could detain Beck if he were the one responsible for what happened here.

She took a deep breath and held it for the moment as she looked towards the bodies on the stage. "Have you found anything worth noting yet?"

"No clues as to who could have done it."

"I might know a suspect…" David put his hand to his knee and slowly pushed himself up. His eyes met hers and his forehead creased over . "I think it's worth noting that the set up for what happened here is the same as what happened with Trina. Almost entirely. Even Tori was standing near the same spot as Shirley." David looked down to the bodies. His features tightened as his hands closed up.

"So you're definitely assuming the person that did this is the person that killed my daughter?"

"I don't have the proof yet, but it's a possibility." There was opportunity, but she didn't know motive. Unlike with Trina, Beck was being chewed out for trying to flirt around with Tori and some other girls. Tori told Trina, and Trina went to complain to him. Jade heard the woman herself say to him that she would be talking to Jade about it. It was pretty soon after that she was killed. "Trina's death wasn't an accident, Mr. Vega. Someone killed her because she was going to do something-the same person forced me to keep quiet." David walked over to her and crossed his arms.

"If you know who killed my daughter, tell me." Just then the doors to the auditorium flew open. Jade heard Beck's voice and she began to tense.

"There you are Jade! I've been looking for you." Jade turned to face the man walking down the lane between all the chairs. Her heart sank as her body started to heat. "We're all hanging out in the cafeteria. You should join us."

"Mr. Vega and I were just discussing what happened here."

David waved his hand and turned to the bodies, kneeling down beside them. "It's fine Jade, I need to do this investigation on my own." She held back a slight whimper. David lifted up the cut portion of the rope and looked backstage. "I'll need to see the props backstage. Jade, don't hesitate to let me know whatever you find."

"But-" She met Beck's gaze once more and questioned her next move. There was a sudden feeling of fear sweeping over her in the thought that she may be next on the list if Beck was indeed responsible for the deaths of these two girls. "Stay calm Jade, don't freak. Don't show your fear." She cleared her doubts away and made her way off the stage. "So Beck…everyone's in the cafeteria? The security system didn't lock it down?"

"Right. Though you should see the outside patio, you can't get out there but you can see through the windows that it has bars like a jail cell framing everything." She hoped that the principal would reconsider his security program. A school shouldn't be locked up like a maximum security prison every night! "Come on, let's check it out."

He grabbed her by the wrist and tugged her forward, pulling her out of the auditorium. Her eyes darted over to David as her heart began to race. She attempted to pull her arm away, but his grip was too tight, bruising her wrist.

Once outside, he yanked her around and slammed her back up against the wall. She yelped as her back throbbed with a violent sensation. "What were you talking to him about!" Beck leaned close and her eyes shot wide open, meeting his fiery glare. "You were about to tell him about me weren't you?"

"Stop it!" His right hand locked her wrists in place over one another while his left forearm was pinning her throat against the wall. His nostrils flared out as his hair, damp with sweat, swung loosely before his deadly eyes. "I had nothing to do with what happened to Tiffany and Shirley, Jade. Don't you start filling that cop's head with lies."

"Y-You'll have to prove you had nothing to do with it." She tried to push him away, but he soon pinned her body with his, trapping her further. "Let me go, Beck!"

"You're going to keep your mouth shut. How many times have I told you to keep that mouth shut? All you're good for is verbally attacking people or talking out of turn, so act like a good woman and quit letting the wrong shit come out." She clenched her teeth as he leaned in closer, his hot breath beat down on her cheeks, poisoning her.

Behind them they were being watched, Tori was standing behind a stone pillar and trembling with fear. Jade could barely make out her figure. The girl stepped into view, her eyes remained glued to Beck's. Jade wanted to call out, tell Tori to run, but she could barely breathe much less get a word out any longer.

"Let her go, Beck." Beck tensed and looked over his left shoulder, freezing his eyes on Tori's slow approach. "She's your girlfriend, you shouldn't abuse her."

"This doesn't involve you, Tori. It's not your argument, you're always trying to involve yourself in our disputes. Learn to stay out of it! I swear to god sometimes you're as annoying as your sister was." Tori's lips fell and her face grew blank for a moment. Jade's heart froze and Beck hesitated, as though reconsidering his words.

"I said get off her!" Tori ran for Beck and he held firm, narrowing his eyes. To Jade's shock, Tori put her hands to Beck's shoulders and tore him away from the wall and onto the ground. He flipped onto his back as Tori leapt onto him, straddling his waist with her legs as she began punching his chest. Tears shot down her cheeks as she continued to scream, losing all control.

Jade flung her palms to the wall and started to pant as she watched her friend attacking her boyfriend. Thinking fast she ran over and tried to pull Tori off. "Tori, relax, it's okay!" She didn't want Tori to piss Beck off and eventually get hurt herself. This man was violent and dangerous, and Tori wasn't as strong as he was.

With that, both girls were thrown off, Tori struck the nearby wall hard and Beck began to rise from the ground like a demon. His chest was heaving, his eyes were wild and filled with anger, and sweat drenched his body. Tori looked up at him and gasped as his nostrils flared out and his muscles flexed. Jade moved her arm out, blocking him. "Don't do it, Beck. Don't you dare."

"Back off." He put his hand to her chest and pushed her away, causing her to stumble backwards and fall toward the ground. Tori pulled herself up and began to whimper as Beck's lip curled into a slight smirk. "I told you to stay out of our fights."

"What's gotten into you?" Tori asked. "Why have you changed?"

"Changed? I've always been like this." It was true, he had a dangerous habit of being controlling. Hence why he was always so demanding and able to get her to shut up if she was acting out of turn, but he hadn't been violent until shortly before Trina's death.

"You're scaring me…"

"You should be scared. You're nothing to me." Tori looked to be shrinking beneath his shadow. Jade needed to get him away from this area, and fast. He wouldn't listen to them, so maybe he'd listen to someone else. She ran around the corner to where the cafeteria was and called for help.

Billy was the only one she could see closest to the kitchen, so he was the one to come running back with her. "What are you doing?" Billy put his hand to Beck's shoulder and the man turned an angry glare onto him. Tori's eyes widened as she plastered herself against the wall. "Why are you attacking them?"

Beck swept his arm up, throwing Billy's arm away from his. He grabbed Bill's shirt collar and pointed at the man's face. "You stay out of this shit." Jade saw Cat hurry around the corner, stopping only when she saw Beck's angry form. Cat moved her hands over her mouth and threw a concerned look to Jade. Seeing her, Beck scoffed and released Bill. He took a few steps backwards and turned away to point at Tori. "You stay out of it too, unless you're in a hurry to see your sister again." Tori moved her hand to her chest, gasping softly as the man walked away.

Jade ran up to Tori, checking her for any physical signs of trauma, "Don't let him get to you, Tori. He's just being an asshole."

"It's fine…I'm fine…" Tori took a deep breath and let out a whimpering exhale. She looked over to Billy and gave him a friendly nod. "Thank you." He smiled back. "Dad's in the auditorium, right?"

"Yes."

"I think I'm going to go talk to him…Mom's helping Mr. Sikowitz and Sinjin try to figure a way to reach anyone outside the school." Tori moved to the auditorium doors and Cat walked over, looking over Jade.

"Are you okay? Beck looked really scary." Cat tucked her hair behind her ear and closed her eyes. "I've never seen him that angry before!"

"There's a lot of things going on." Jade began walking down the hall and Cat followed after her. Her body's light trembling was beginning to subside, but a bright purple bruise had begun to form on her wrist. Cat reached over, touching the tender spot with a gentle touch.

"I'm sorry he hurt you."

"It's okay." She moved her arm down and breathed in slowly. Aside from Tori, Cat was her best friend. She'd known the girl before the rest in the group, including Beck himself, which was why she so often hung out. It was Cat that introduced Beck and Jade, since he was in one of her classes. "Cat. Between me and you, unless there really is someone else in this school…I think Beck might have killed Tiffany and Shirley." Cat's eyes widened and Jade quickly shrugged. "I don't have proof of it, but there's a good chance…You know he's the one that killed Trina, right? Cut her cord, probably didn't mean to kill her but that's what happened…He told me to keep quiet about it."

"You should tell Mr. Vega!"

"I tried to, but Beck must have known what I was up to because he followed me into the auditorium. That's what he was getting violent over out here." The girls stopped walking and Cat instantly threw her arms around her neck.

"I'm glad you're okay!" Jade chuckled as Cat took a step back and looked off to the locked doors. "If you want, when we get out of here tomorrow, I can ask Sam to help you get away from him. My older brother, you know is in the military-he's pretty good at scaring people like Beck-and Sam's really good at it too!" Jade smiled at her friend's innocence. It was a tempting thought, but she really didn't see any way that they could just 'scare' Beck away from her.

"We'll see. How are those two, by the way? Last I heard, Sam had a crush on the guy."

"Oh yeah." Cat pulled at her hair and gave out an airy laugh. "The reason Sam wasn't here tonight for my audition was because she's on a date with my brother. Thank god my little brother's not here though, he always wanted to tag along on Travis's dates."

The younger brother was the weird one that was currently living out of state with Cat's parents. Travis was back in town for a little bit before he'd have to go back overseas.

"Jade, I'm worried about Tori." Cat's statement was blunt as it was shocking, but she understood the concern. The psychological impact that Tori was undergoing had to be devastating. "I never really thought about how close to her sister she was, and now she's just constantly depressed."

"Tori's afraid of water, will not go into the deep end of a pool, and for good reason. When she was young, she nearly drowned in one, and Trina was the one that dove in and pulled her out. Ever since then, she clung to her-now that her sister's gone, I think that in itself is just as traumatizing as if it had been her. Which-you know she almost died too that night…"

"Yeah. I mean, I'm glad she's okay though." Cat peered off towards the gymnasium. The school's indoor pool cut right through the gym, and it was approximately fifteen feet deep at its deepest end. Throughout life, Cat was like Trina in the sense that she was the most athletically gifted of the group. It wasn't so much in movement though as it was in swimming. "Hey Jade? You think maybe it wouldn't hurt to go for a swim?"

"Probably not best without a swimsuit."

"I guess not." The girl knew every crevice of that pool and had been down to the deepest point and back. She prided herself for being able to hold her breath underwater for about eight minutes. "I haven't really been working on my swimming lately, I kind of want to."

Jade rolled her eyes and smiled at Cat. The girl was gazing longingly at the gym. "Well go ahead, are there any uniforms in there at all?"

"Usually coach wants us to bring our own bathing suits, but they do have some that are kept in the laundry room with the towels…" Cat looked over with a wide grin and arched brows. "Want to come with? It will really help you take the edge off, I think. You should relax." Jade chuckled softly and shrugged her shoulders.

"Well you're not going off by yourself, that's for sure."

"Yes!"

So yes Cat and Jade are extremely good friends in this as well as being friends with Tori. There are some other things that haven't been mentioned yet and will (You'll appreciate them). Beck's not such a good guy in this but we'll see what's going on. Let me know your thoughts on this, and don't forget to check out my profile and vote on the poll