Hopefully going to make up for my recent 'disappearance' in the next few chapters.

Tori's POV

Jade didn't show up for the other half of the day.

Was she taking the breakup hard?

I wasn't sure at all, but I wanted to find out. The only people I could think that would know were Beck and Cat, but neither of them would talk to me about it. I even offered Cat a pet rock, and she still said no, then Beck told me to quit flirting with his girlfriend! God, I'm so frustrated right now! Jade's in the middle of this tangled web that keeps blowing its bits and pieces everywhere and I can't catch them. I failed my damn quiz in my last block because I couldn't think straight (no jokes!).

I was moaning and groaning in the hallway when an unfortunately recognizable voice spoke into my ear.

"Are you looking for Jade?"

"Sinjin!"

"I can tell you where she went."

"You know?" I said excitedly. Sinjin nodded his mop of hair.

"Well?" I demanded. "Tell me!"

"Under one condition." Oh God...

"What?"

"Since I know Jade isn't ready to date me yet, can you get her to take a picture with me?" I wanted to tell Sinjin that Jade would never be ready to date him because she never would. If Jade was going to rebound after the breakup I was going to do everything in my power to make sure it was me.

"Fine. Now where did she go?"

Sinjin beckoned me with a hand, looking around with his eyes, like what he was telling me was something that everyone else wanted to know..

I leaned in closer.

He beckoned again.

I rolled my eyes, and leaned in again.

"She went to her car." he whispered like four year kid telling a secret.

"Really? Is that all you got?"

"Everything."'

This is ridiculous; Sinjin -

"If it helps, she was staring at you."

"Wait -" But the blond mop head was already gone. Jade was looking at me? Ha! I knew those jeans fit perfectly!

I threw my backpack on the orange couch with a sigh. I looked everywhere I could think of that Jade being at after school.

No luck.

Hell, I even checked that old abandoned auditorium. Still no Jade.

I groaned like an old lady with a bad back and trudged up the stairs to my room.

And saw something that absolutely horrified me.

My journal was lying wide open on my bed.

I ran over, thinking to just slam it shut and find a new hiding place. But something caught my frantic eye that made me freeze and read the page.

There was an extra line written there, where I would write my entry for today before going to bed.

You can tell me anything, Vega.

Jade.

Jade had been at my house, and she had written in my secret journal.

And oddly, I was okay with that.

This chapter isn't as long as I wanted it, but oh well. Review!