A/N: Hello my beautiful people. First, I want to say sorry, I have not updated sooner. My life is chaos. Second, If you are reading my other story 'New Blood' I hope to have a new chapter out soon. And last but least, Third, things 'bout to get real in this chapter. I might mess with your feels, so you've been warned. Happy Reading.
Ch.10
"Jade, we have to find her. What if she hurts herself?" Tori says from the passenger seat in Jade's car.
"Tori calm down. We'll find her." Jade says looking over at the half Latina. "And beside she couldn't have gotten very far."
"I know. It's just we don't even know which way she went." Tori says panic in her voice.
"Tori please calm down." Jade says pulling the car over and putting it in park.
"Why you stop?" Tori asks looking at Jade. "Do you see Caleigh?" Tori asks looking around wildly.
"No." Jade says looking at Tori.
"Then, why did you stop?" Tori asks looking back at Jade.
Jade leans forward and stares into Tori's eyes before grabbing the back of her head and pulling her into a kiss. Tori's eyes go wide in shock, before she closes her eyes and start kissing Jade back. Jade smirk into the kiss as she feels Tori kiss her back.
"What was that for?" Tori asks as they break apart from the kiss.
"To calm you down." Jade smirks.
"But I thought you liked Caleigh?" Tori asks the goth sitting beside her. Jade lets out a hearty laugh.
"I do." Jade says laughing.
"But, you just kissed me." Tori says blushing. Jade smirks and starts driving again.
"That is correct." Jade says.
"But, why?" Tori asks.
"Cause you needed to calm down and it was either slap you or kiss you. And as much fun as it would be to slap you. I knew if I did I wouldn't hear the end of it. Which would be worse for me. So, I kissed you. You're welcome." Jade explains.
"Oh...but that still doesn't explain why you kissed me." Tori smirks looking over at the goth.
"Jesus Vega. Just drop it. It was a one time thing, that will NEVER happen again." Jade exclaims looking at Tori sceptically. "Now look for Caleigh." Jade demands.
"Bossy!" Tori whispers, as she looks out the window.
"WHAT did you just say!" Jade yells whipping her head to look at Tori.
"Nothing." Tori says quickly. "Maybe we should check the park that's in the opposite direction."
"Might as well." Jade says, turning the car around and heading towards the park.
As Jade and Tori got to the park, Jade slowed the car down so they could look better. They started circling the park, stopping when they would see someone, hoping it would be Caleigh. After ten minutes of this the girls were getting frustrated.
"Maybe we should get out and look for her. She could be in the middle of the park." Tori says looking over at Jade.
"Yeah, I think you're right." Jade says pulling the car into an empty parking spot and turning the engine off.
The two girls get out of the car and make their way into the nice sized park. For almost an hour the girls looked for Caleigh, but to no avail. The girls were becoming extremely worried. It had been almost two hours since Caleigh had run out of the Vega's house.
"Where the chizz could she be?" Jade asked. She was slowly losing her patients. She kept thinking over and over in her head 'Is she okay? Has she been hurt? Has some creepo taken her? Has she hurt herself?'
"I don't know. But there is still one place we haven't looked." Tori says tears streaming down her face. Where as Jade handled her emotions with anger and violence, Tori became sad and would cry.
"Well. Where?" Jade snaps at the half-Latina.
"The big Willow Tree." Tori says wiping the tears off her face. She's known Jade long enough to know she didn't mean to snap at her.
The two girls make their way to the large tree, Tori leading and Jade following. As they get closer to the tree, they see under it the outline of the bench with a person sitting at it. They were to far away to tell if it was Caleigh or even if it was a girl. They soon were right behind the person, but something was off. The person, a girl, was sitting on the bench at an odd angle and there was something dripping off the bench onto the ground. The girls eyes go wide when they realize what it is. It was blood and a lot of it. Jade runs around the bench to see who the nameless person is, a knot in her throat.
"CALEIGH! Please God no. CALEIGH!" Jade screams as she rounds the corner of the bench. She rushes to her and shakes her hoping let she is just sleeping, that it's someone elses blood.
"Vega, call an ambulance." Jade commands, not seeing that Tori was already on the phone.
Jade strokes her hand over Caleigh's face, tears falling down her face. Caleigh's skin was cold and clammy. Her lips were a dark blue and she looked like a ghost, in Jade's opinion, because she was so pale.
"VEGA." Jade snaps. "Did you hear me?"
"Jade they are on their way." Tori says calmly with her phone pressed to her ear.
"Well make them come faster." Jade sobs out, she was slowly losing control.
Jade takes off the black vest she was wearing and presses it to Caleigh's bloody wrist. She had to stop the bleeding. If she stopped the bleeding she thought every thing would be okay. Soon the paramedics arrive and usher Jade out-of-the-way. They quickly put Caleigh on a stretch and give her oxygen. They then load her into the ambulance, Jade on their heels. They try to prevent her from entering the ambulance, but Jade tells them she's Caleigh's sister and needed to go with them. As the paramedics are shutting the door Jade remembers Tori.
"Tori. Take my car and meet us at the hospital." Jade yells out as the doors shut. She hears a muffled okay and the ambulance takes off.
The world is pacing by Jade so fast, she doesn't realize they are at the hospital until the doors open and there are orderly on the other side. They help Jade out and then attend to Caleigh. Once inside doctors and nurses run to Caleigh in a hurry. The doctors start screaming orders and the nurses run around wildly. They roll Caleigh off through some double doors, Jade trying to follow until a nurse stops her and informs her that she would have to wait here. Jade try's to argue telling the nurse that she has to be with her friend, but the nurse says that this is what is best for Caleigh at this moment. The nurse takes Jade back to a small waiting area and begins asking Jade some questions.
"Okay, what is your friend's name?" the nurse asks Jade, a clipboard and pen in her hands.
"Caleigh Connors."
"Alright. And her age?" the nurse asks scribbling down the answer on her clipboard.
"Sixteen." Jade answer monotone.
The nurse then asked the name of Caleigh's parents and a phone number they could be reached at. Jade couldn't answer, she didn't know. Caleigh never would never talk about her parents and when the group would bring it up, she would change the subject. The nurse asked a few more questions, then left. Leaving Jade alone with her thoughts. As Jade thought more about it she didn't know much about Caleigh outside of school. She knows she moved here from Miami, her dad was a big shot lawyer, and she didn't think Caleigh's mom was in the picture, but she didn't know if she was dead or had just abandoned her family. But Jade did know what Caleigh was like at school. She was quiet, and kind, she had a good sense of humor and when she played, it was the most beautifully sad sound one could hear. It was of all of her emotions that she had ever experienced came out when she was playing. Now Jade or Tori or the rest of the gang might never hear her play again, or hear her laugh, or her soft sweet voice. Jade broke down crying at that. She finally realized she didn't just like Caleigh, she was in love with her, and now she might never be able to tell her.
A/N: And cliff-hanger. Please review, you don't know how much they help me write. Thank you and rock on.