Later that day, Tori was still trying to digest the fact that Jade had a little sister. At first, she thought that Jade was playing some big prank on her. But Jade wouldn't be caught dead in the close Jessie was wearing, the highlights and black dye in Jade's hair were totally absent in the so-called Jessie's hair, and this girl was slightly shorter and didn't have Jade's . . . assets. Plus "Jessie" didn't have any facial piercings.
Tori couldn't wait to get to Sikowitz's class (the first class she had with Jade) to ask her about it. When she walked into the room, she saw Beck talking to Jade, who was her normal self, black clothes and all.
She approached them, and when Jade saw her the first thing she said was "Oh joy. Tori's here." Beck rolled his eyes but didn't reproach her.
"What's going on?" Tori half-yelled.
"I don't know, why don't you tell us." said Jade.
"Why were you walking around school this morning acting like you had a little sister?" Tori said.
Jade opened her mouth to answer, but the next words didn't come from her.
"She wasn't pretending." said a voice from behind her. Tori whipped around. There was Jessie, with a half-amused, half-annoyed expression on her face. Tori's head went from Jade to Jessie, Jade to Jessie. Over and over again. She had no idea what was going on.
"Why didn't you ever tell me you had a sister?" said Tori.
"Because that's something you tell a friend, and last time I checked we weren't friends." said Jade, glaring at Tori.
"Aren't you ever nice to people?" Jessie said angrily.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" Jade said, in just as angry as a tone.
"Yeah, that's sort of why I asked." Jessie said.
"Oh great." said Beck, as the girls bickering turned into a full-blown argument.
"Oh great, what?" asked Tori.
"It's starting." said Beck, shaking his head and sitting down in defeat.
"What is?" Tori asked, totally confused now.
"The arguing." he said, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"Does it happen often?" Tori asked him.
"Every time they're together." he said, shaking his head and grabbing his phone out of his pocket. She saw him to start to update his status on The Slap.
"Isn't there a way to stop it?" she asked. She didn't really want to see Jade rip Jessie's head off.
"Not unless you're a hypnotist." he said. "Once they start going at it, there's no way to stop it until they want to stop. They'll just keep arguing until somebody wins."
"How long does it last?" asked Tori, sitting down next to Beck.
"Depends on the day, they're mood, the subject of the argument."
"Oh." said Tori, shaking her head. It figured that Jade's little sister would be an arguer as well. She hoped to God that Jessie was stronger than she looked, or had a pistol within reach because otherwise Jade was going to rip her apart.
Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, Sikowitz entered the classroom. Of course, the girls didn't stop fighting. They were now both yelling at the same time at the top of their lungs. Sikowitz stared at them oddly. He glanced at Beck, raised his eyebrows. Beck just gave him a look like, "I know what you mean."
Sikowitz just stared at the two girls as they continued fighting. Surprisingly, their fight hadn't turned physical yet.
Eventually, Jessie just yelled at Jade "OH PUT A DUCK IN IT!" and Jade gasped in alarm, seeming insulted. Tori didn't have any idea how that was even the remotest bit insulting, but Jade seemed to understand. She turned away from her sister, and turned to see Beck and Tori. Immediately, Tori felt scared. She was suddenly hyper-aware that Beck was sitting at the end of the row, with Tori next to him. There were no other seats next to him.
Jade seemed to realize this too, and her already angry face turned furious. She grabbed Tori by the nose and threw her to the ground. Then she smiled at sat down in her vacated seat.
Jessie leaned down to help Tori up. Tori clutched her nose, which had only been in so much pain when Cat hit her in the face for kissing Daniel.
"You just grabbed my nose!" she yelled at Jade, in a nasally way because she was still holding her nose.
"Deal with it." she said, then looking down at the floor, with a tiny smile on her face.
"If you three are done." said Sikowitz from the front of the class. Jessie sat with Tori in seats as far away from Beck and Jade as possible. Jessie looked sheepish; Tori knew that this was not the first impression Jessie wanted to make.
Sikowitz started right into his lecture, which Tori could not listen to because her nose was in so much pain. She had started considering it being broken, when something scared her.
"Good Gandhi!" yelled Sikowitz suddenly. Tori jumped (as did everybody else in the class) and stared at him in shock. He was whipping his head back and forth between Jade, who was polishing a pair of scissors, and Jessie, who had the strangest shy and scared look on her face.
"There are two of them?" he said. Jade looked up then. "Yeah, so what?" Jessie shot Jade an irritated glance.
"I apologize for my sister's . . . well I apologize for my sister." she told Sikowitz. "I'm Jessie, Jade's younger and better sister."
"Right." Jade snorted from the back of the class. Jessie glared at her with an extremely Jade-like look on her face, that made Tori want to hide underneath a rock.
"Why would your mother want two?" Sikowitz said. "I thought one gank was bad enough." Both West sisters said "Hey!" at the same time, sounding so similar it was almost impossible to tell the difference. Beck, meanwhile, was trying to stifle his laugh.
"That's what I said." said Tori, her hand still on her nose.
"What's wrong with your nose?" Sikowitz asked. "Other then what was wrong with it before." Jade laughed, and so did Jessie, but when Jessie saw Tori's expression she stopped laughing straight away.
"She fell." said Jade, smiling at Tori. Tori glared at her.
"I didn't fall! Jade grabbed my nose and threw me to the ground." Tori said.
"Well, do you need to go to the nurse?" Sikowitz asked.
"I think so." said Tori, nodding.
"Well then get out of here." he said. Tori grabbed her bag and got up, leaving out the back door of the classroom.