With Tired Minds, Tired Eyes, Tired Souls, We Slept

Epilogue

Two Months Later…

Robbie opened the door to Hollywood Arts High School for Cat who was moving slowly on crutches. After she made it inside, Robbie shut the door behind her and he helped her down the steps.

"thanks," Cat said to him as she smiled.

"no problem," Robbie replied.

Tori who was at her locker grabbing one of the books in it turned around to when she heard Cat's voice. Cat had not been at school for the past few months for obvious reasons, she was still recovering from getting shot in the leg. But while she was in the hospital, Tori, Beck, Jade, Trina and Robbie visited and Robbie was there most of the day. From the start of visiting hours and to the end of them, and even then he waited until one of the doctors told him he needed to leave, but even then he was back the next day as soon as he could.

As soon as Tori saw Cat she shoved her book back into her 'Make It Shine' locker and ran over to her pulling her into a hug, being careful not to hit her leg.

"Cat!" Tori said excitedly as she saw her.

Cat smiled and hugged Tori back with one arm using the other to keep a grip on one of her crutches so she didn't fall.

"hey Tori," Cat said in her usual happy voice.

Tori unhugged her and just looked at one of her closest friends.

"why didn't you say you were coming back today?" Tori asked her.

"well, I am not supposed to be back until next week, but I just want things to go back to normal," Cat told her. "plus my doctor said that I was making great progress,"

"that's great," Tori told her happily. "School hasn't been the same without you here,"

At that moment, Andre walks by with his eyes practically glued to his cell phone.

"Hey Tori, Robbie, Little Red," he said without looking up.

After he walked about a yard past them he stopped walking and turned around.

"Little Red?" he said confused as he saw Cat.

"Hey Andre," Cat said excitedly.

Andre quickly shoved his phone in his pocket and rushed over to Cat and also engulfed her in a hug.

Cat hugged him back smiling.

"Its good to see you too Andre," she laughed.

Andre unhugged her.

"I thought you weren't supposed to be back until next week," Andre said. "What happened?"

"Her doctor said she is making a great recovery," Tori told him.

"Yeah, but I will need to stay on crutches for a while, until my leg is fully healed and I can walk without being in searing pain," Cat told him still cheerful.

"How long do they think that will be?" Andre asked.

"They don't know, they said three months at least, and even then they don't know," Cat said. "But, on the bright side, they let me keep the bullet, so later in life I can brag to people saying I got shot in the leg and lived,"

Cat then laughed.

Before Tori, Robbie or Andre could reply, they heard Jade and Beck arguing about something as they walked into school.

"No, Jade, what I am saying is that I think that the situation wouldn't have gotten worse if Marcus was there to antagonize him," Beck said annoyed "and as much as I love, I know that if you were there, you would have been antagonizing to, and he was unstable, you could have gotten hurt,"

"But I still think that if I was in there with you guys, it might have ended differently," Jade replied to Beck. "It could have gotten out sooner,"

"Jade, that was two months ago, I think we should just forget it happened, that is what a lot of people have done," Beck told her.

"But I still think…" Jade started.

"Jade, Beck," Andre said loudly interrupting their argument over nothing super important.

"What?" Jade said annoyed as she turned to them.

As soon as she saw Cat smiling at her, she quickly rushed over to her and hugged her. Cat hugged her back still balancing with the one crutch.

Ever since Cat got out of surgery at the hospital and was awake and could have visitors, Jade kept apologizing for leaving her there. She told her that she felt awful but she thought she was right behind her and as soon as she noticed she was gone, she wanted to go back in but she couldn't. Jade broke down crying when she told Cat that. Cat instantly told her it wasn't her fault and every time Jade apologized, Cat kept telling her she had nothing to be sorry about. She was alive and that was all that mattered.

"Cat, what are you doing here?" Jade asked her. "I thought you still needed to be resting,"

"my doctor said I could come back to school," Cat told her. "he said I was making a great recovery, and I just don't think I could take another day at home,"

"well, its great to have you back," Beck said stepping into the conversation. "how is your leg feeling,"

"it feels ok," Cat answered him. "it hurts every now and then and I still cant put a ton of weight on it, there are still some pain pills they want me to take also,"

"well, its great that you are feeling better," Beck said.

Cat nodded and she looked down at the floor and her smile faded a little.

"is everything ok Little Red?" Andre asked her.

Cat looked up at her friends before she spoke.

"today is Sinjin's court day, the sentencing," she said. "since he plead guilty there isn't going to be a trial, just sentencing, the minimum sentence is five years, but they are possibly trying his as an adult,"

"but, a judge can see how sorry he is and how messed up he was at the time," Robbie said. "maybe he could sympathize with that,"

"I know this sounds crazy and weird, but, I think we should be there," Tori said. "I know what he did was wrong, but I still think we should go,"

"yeah," Cat agreed. "he said he didn't mean to shoot me, and he wasn't trying to be evil, he was just scared,"

Beck took a deep breath.

"you sure you guys think we should go?" Beck asked.

"yeah," Tori said. "I think it's the right thing to do,"

Andre nodded.

"she has a point," Andre said. "I think we should go too, I don't really know a direct reason, but it just seems right,"

"yeah, I think we should go too," Jade said.

Tori and Cat looked at her. they never expected her to think they should go.

"what, I am not mean all the time," Jade said.

Cat nodded and then looked to Robbie.

"Robbie, what do you think?" Andre asked.

Robbie stood there for a moment debating in his head what to do.

"yeah, he knows what he did was bad, and he is really sorry for it," Robbie said.

"and he knows that I forgive him for what he did," Cat added. "he is looking at some serious time, and it just seems like the right thing to do,"

Cat smiled again.

"it is the right thing to do,"