'it gets better' she said
AHAHA scREECHES
okay um i'm sure Danielle will have something good happen in the next chapter(and if she doesn't i will hurt her) but for now she's leaving you with this.
have fun having your heart ripped out.

Jade was floating through darkness, so this was what death felt like. Empty, cold, hard. Was she expected to stay like this for all eternity? Was she, Jade, supposed to play along like a little rag doll? No. She wouldn't give up like this. She couldn't give up.

And just like that, Jade didn't want to die. So she was given a second chance.

Suddenly, Jade found herself in her home again, sitting beside a few familiar faces. Robbie, Andre, and many of the other kids who were killed by Beck; they all sat there, solemned faced, like their task ahead was impossible. Robbie was the first one to speak; he stood and clasped his hands together loudly and awkwardly. He cleared his throat, "So, Jade." Robbie started, "When you were about to cross over, you tried to change your mind. So it brought you here, to the in between stage. Here, you will have to explain to us why you want to go back, and you will need to confront your deepest fears so we know you are capable of going back. Because we can't send you back if you'll only just kill yourself again once things get hard. Do you understand so far?"

Jade just nodded, too dumbfounded to speak.

"Good, now, you will need to pass both of these tests with a certain amount of points out of five. You need three to go back, any less, and you join us over in the land of the dead. Understand?"

"I-I understand." Jade stammered out, her gaze flicking from side to side.

"Good, follow me." This Robbie was all business, not the awkward, fun loving boy who Jade had once hated. No. This boy was trying to save her life, and he was damned sure he would succeed.

Jade had no choice but to follow him, and turned to look at the others for help, but as if they were a robot, they shook their head in one synchronised movement. By the time she turned around to follow Robbie though, he had vanished. Then she felt a cold hand on her shoulder,

"Well, common then." He said, then took her hand and led her upstairs into her room. There, she saw it exactly how she had left it. With her mother sprawled out on the floor and a pool of crimson blood around her. Then her mother did the impossible; she started to move, and stood in front of her daughter. Jade was too surprised and scared to speak, so for two minutes, they just stood there. They probably would have just stood there forever if Robbie hadn't cleared this throat and said, "I'm sorry to ruin this moment, but we have a limited time to get things done. The longer we stand here, the more likely Jade is not going to wake up. Every ten minutes here is one minute there. It takes approximately three minutes of no air for someone to be deemed dead. So we only have thirty minutes…well…twenty-five now. Now, Jade, tell your mother why you did this to her."

"I-I can't tell her." Jade protested, "It just happened!"

"You know as well as I do that there was a reason behind you attempting to kill your mother Jade, she's in the same situation as you. If you both can pass these tests then you both can return to life. Now tell her."

Jade nodded, it wasn't just her life on the line now. It was her mother's too. So she took a deep breath, and began. "Mom…I didn't want to kill you, or hurt you. But those…drugs…were the one thing that let me escape. They took me to a place without Beck, Andre, Robbie, Trina, Tori, you, Cat and everyone else. Not that I didn't want to be near you, but you and Tori were so obsessed with my getting better, that you didn't let me have down time. I was always studying, attending therapy sessions, working on physical therapy, writing down my feelings for you to read. Did you ever think that all I needed was to have silence now and then?" Soon the words were flying out of her mouth, and she was practically yelling now, "But no, you made me wake up at 7:30 am every morning and walk around the house, then study, then therapy, then do an activity with you like baking or cleaning. Maybe you thought that if you tired me out that I couldn't do anything to hurt myself, but it made me even more determained to escape. So when you took that escape away…" Jade's voice cracked, "I was broken. And you didn't see it!" She screamed the last words at her mother, slamming her fists against the wall as she did so.

There was silence for a moment, then her mother spoke. "Jade…baby. I didn't want to see you die. I couldn't lose you; I couldn't bear the thought of you turning into a monster. I kept you busy because I was worried about you. I just wanted to keep you safe baby." And just like that, her mother was gone. Jade looked at Robbie, and he nodded.

"She passed her last test. You're not done yet. Follow me; we've got a ways to go yet."
He took her hand and led her out of the house, towards the school.

What would have been a twenty minute walk took thirty seconds. It wasn't Greenbay…it was Hollywood arts. It wasn't in ruins, but the police were stationed outside, and Robbie just walked through the crowd like he belonged there. There was a tarp laid on the ground, people had three different tags attached to them. Black for dead, Red for emergency, and Green for able to wait for attendance. Cat and Robbie laid there, Cat with a red tag, Robbie with a black one. They lay beside each other, hands just barely touching, but not quite. They never really had the chance to show how much they had really loved each other, even though it had been obvious to everyone else around them. The scene was so heart-wrenching, Jade ran to catch up to Robbie, who stood at the doors of the school. Without a word, he opened the door and walked in. Jade had no choice but to follow.

Inside, Robbie walked up the stairs, and Jade got a gross feeling in her stomach. Like he was leading her towards something she didn't want to see. Once upstairs, Robbie opened the door to a room, and Jade let out a strangled cry once she saw what was happening inside. There stood Beck, over top of Jade and Tori, grinning sadistically. He knelt down in front of Jade, smiled, and grabbed her, then started to kick her.

"Stop it! Stop it!" Jade screamed at Robbie, "Take me away from here right now dammit!" She turned to leave, but was stopped by Andre, but this one, much like Robbie, had a slight glow. This was the already dead one.

"You can't leave Jade if you want to live anymore." He whispered, eyes pained.

"Did you ever think that maybe I don't want to live anymore, Andre? Robbie? Ever think that one out?"

Robbie sighed, burying his head in his hands, "Then my work is done here. Good-bye Jade. I'll see you on the other side." And with that, Andre, Robbie, the other Jade, Beck and Tori were gone. She stood there in the room, alone.

"Wait!" She yelled, "I-I didn't mean it! Come back! Robbie! Andre! I want to live! Don't leave me here!"

And just as quickly, they were all back, Robbie looked at her seriously.

"We don't usually give second chances, use this one wisely Jade. We don't come back for you next time." He snapped, and the scene changed. They were in the house Beck had taken her to.

Jade saw herself sprawled out on that dirty old bed. She, herself, wanted to vomit right then and there. But she refrained. That didn't stop the urge to leave though. All she wanted to do was leave then, she would have given almost anything to leave. But she couldn't, Andre had a firm hold on her. So Jade just stood there, resisting the urge to slit her own throat. She saw Beck doing horrible things to her, and when he finished and left, she saw herself cry. Then she saw herself stand and attempt to hang herself. That's when the scene ended. They were in a hospital now and Jade saw Tori being dragged away from her room, and the doctors trying to resuscitate her.

"Jade, you have one minute to decide whether or not you want to return. You passed the test, but now, you choose." Robbie took a blade out from his pocket. "You can kill yourself now, and be done with life forever. Be done with pain and suffering. Or you can, not use the knife and return to the land of the living. There, you will have to return to therapy and try hard not to lose yourself again." He handed it to her, "It's your choice."
Jade turned the blade in her hands, if she killed herself, there wouldn't be pain. If she didn't, there would be. Jade knew what she was going to do. She raised the blade in the air and brought it down…

And stuck it into the table. "I choose to live." She said, looking at Robbie, who smiled so wide she thought he's tear his skin. Then he hugged her.

"Good-bye then, Jade. And do me a favor. Hug Cat extra tight the next time you see her. For me."

Then he was gone.

Jade woke with a gasp, the doctors cheered and leaped into work. They hooked her back up and asked her a series of questions. Jade answered them all without really focusing. She was so excited to be back… that she didn't notice Tori being dragged away by the police. She didn't notice her dad pulling out a knife, bringing it down on Tori's chest. She didn't notice anything until Tori let out a scream of pain, fell to the ground, and lay there, still as a rag doll.

She did notice, Tori's blood though.