Hey guys,
so first things first. I am incredibly sorry for letting you wait for so long. But I finally managed to sort my life out including my old storys at home, so therefore I'll be able to start updating this fic again. While reading through it earlier I realized I really missed this and especially Jori. I'll try my best to keep updating frequently. Also while reading the earlier chapters for the first time in freakin ages I noticed some major spelling and grammar mistakes which I'd like to apologize for. But I decided to leave the earlier chapters as they are for now since it would take me like a thousand years to rewrite everything the way I'd want it to be nowadays.
Thanks for you patience!
Hope you guys still enjoy it eventhough my writing style might have changed a tiny bit over the last few months.
Also I wrote the next two chapters like a year ago already so it won't take me very long to update since all I got to do is to change the parts that I don't like about them.
and now... enjoy the little appetizer I prepared.
CHAPTER 8
The next day at school everything almost felt like it was back to normal again. Cat was her usual bipolar self and Andre and Beck behaved like nothing had happened. Obviously Robbie was anxious for all the dirty details from the 'big' party and we freely filled him in on most of it, but when at lunch break he asked me personally I left out the part of Jade saving me from Rider in the kitchen and me passing out on the bathroom floor, somehow feeling like this was something neither me nor Jade wanted to be 'made public'.
From the corner of my eye I could see Jade, who had disinterestedly been picking at the food on her plate with a fork for the past few minutes, stop in her movements as I started telling Robbie about the end of my little night out.
"When Andre and Beck were gone I wasn't feeling too well so Jade drove me home..."
I ended my story unsure of what to say next. I was almost certain that Jade had been listening closely and therefore cautiously looked at her to see how she'd react to my slightly changed story. But after a few seconds of staring at her salad she started picking it with her fork again as if nothing had happened.
If I had been naive enough to believe that the night of the party had changed anything about Jades attitude towards me I most certainly had been dead wrong; she was mean and cold as usual, shooting some death glares every now and then. It saddened me more than it probably should have, considering the fact that the two of us never had been getting along in the first place, but I just blamed it on the fact that of her not being just a normal friend but my soon-to-be stepsister and against all odds tried to act twice as nice towards her.
Today I had had my first songwriting class with Andre, Robbie and Jade and was very pleasantly surprised to find out that both, Andre and Jade were fabulous singers. When the two of them had performed a song written by Andre at the end of the lesson, I'd been pretty impressed by how their voices harmonized together perfectly, producing the most beautiful melodies, although I really wanted to hear the both of them sing individually.
And when the teacher gave us our assignment for the week, writing our own song about something that was deeply affecting us at the moment, I immediately regretted taking the class in the first place. I had absolutely no idea how to write a song, even though I already had an idea of what I could write about. I knew I'd probably have to ask Andre for some help since Jade had made it unmistakably clear the other day that she'd rather "slam her own tongue in a car door" than help me when asked to help me with my acting class homework.
It would be an understatement to say I was surprised when I saw Jade's car still standing in the parking lot after the end of our last class, cause ever since the first day of school she had either had more or less classes than me and even if we had had the same schedule she would nevertheless leave without waiting for me, so she wouldn't have to give me a lift home.
But today she was sitting in her car outside of school, waiting for something. Or someone.
When I finally found the courage to walk up to the car to open the door, she astonishingly did NOT lock it before I was able to open it and drive away as I might have expected. No, she remained still and silent in her car seat, staring through the front window in her characteristically 'jadeish' manner, completely ignoring the fact I'd just gotten into her car. When I was belted she started the car and moved from the parking lot without showing any signs of recognition towards my presence.
The whole ride we remained silent to a point that kind of made me want to jump out halfway home due to a really uncomfortable awkwardness radiating from the quiet and when the West Mansion finally came into view the girl next to me all of a sudden opened her mouth.
"Sooo… Cat just asked me if we wanted to go to the cinema tonight. And with WE I figured she meant me and her and…well, YOU." On the last word she rolled her eyes like it was the dumbest thing anyone had ever suggested.
The car was now parked right in front of the house but Jade didn't look like she was about to get out of the car anytime soon. I really didn't know what to say to her, if she didn't want me to come, why had she even bothered asking or rather telling me about it. I hated the feeling of being unwelcomed/uninvited and me forcing myself in between her and her best friend most likely wouldn't help mine and Jades friendship at all.
On the other hand after all it had been her decision to tell me about the whole thing. So maybe there was a tiny chance that she wanted me to come. Before being able to process the absurdity of my own pathetic thoughts that for some reason always seem to center on the dark haired driver, the notion was interrupted by a very harsh Jade.
"Oh, COMMON VEGA! I know your brain is very small and therefore you are a very slow thinking creature but it's not like I asked you for the meaning of your life. Will you join us or won't you?"
so she DID want me to join them.
"Of course I will!" a huge grin was forming on my face now.
"Cat's picking us up at 8. AND WIPE THAT STUPID GRIN OF YOUR FACE!" with that she left the car banging the door behind her.
I was still grinning contentedly.
