Chapter 10 House of the Rising Sun
Tori sat on the bed, still giggling, as Jade stalked over to her side. She had the look of a tigress, hunger and lust warring in her dark eyes. Tori's smile melted into a matching look of want and desire. She moved up to rest her back against the headboard and watched as the beautiful pale goddess made her way to the bed. Jade reached the bedside, leaning in on one knee and hand flat on the down comforter as she started to crawl to the woman that she loved; she knew this would be mind-blowing, she knew that taking Tori fully in sexual bliss would be epic in its own right. Jade slid up and straddled Tori's waist. She reached up and ran her thumb over Tori's full lips. Tori's pearly teeth nipped at the sensitive pad of skin, dimpling the flesh. Jade purred before she leaned down to take said lips into a kiss, a very long overdue kiss. Both girls shuddered with repressed passion when their lips finally met in a soft and slow kiss. Then Tori's tongue ran across Jade's bottom lip, asking, no, begging to deepen the kiss more. Jade opened her mouth and let Tori's tongue in. As their tongues began twisting together, both girls let a deep moan out.
"Hey Tori, Jade! Hey, Cat and Andre are here, come on down," Tori's mom called through the door.
"Okay, we'll be right down," Tori called back. She held Jade as she shook with frustration. Her long fingers twisted into the comforter, and Tori could hear threads popping under the assault from Jade's hands.
Jade dropped her head down onto Tori shoulder and fought back tears of anger. "I'm going to kill the next person to interrupt us," she said into Tori's shoulder, her warm breath against her sensitive skin making Tori feel more turned on.
"No you won't…let's just go play nice and then get rid of them and get back up here," she said, pushing lightly on Jade's shoulders. Jade locked eyes with Tori, and sighed. She jumped when Tori tweaked her nipples through her shirt. "Now, come on, beautiful."
The two girls made their way downstairs, Tori with her kind and happy smile, Jade with her dark and pissed off frown.
"Hey girls, about time you come down, what took you so long?" David asked with a cheerful smile as he walked out of the bathroom. In a glance, Jade sees that David is oblivious to what she and his daughter were doing. Trying to do, she corrected herself. Not succeeding, but…
"Oh, nothing. Just trying to relax after the near death car wreck you tried to get us into today," Tori snapped, her frustration bubbling out as irritation.
"It wasn't a near death wreck," David protested, looking hurt. He turned to look at Andre and Cat. He opened his mouth to try to explain when Tori jumped in again, making his jaw snap closed and his eyes flick back to his little girl.
"It was for Jade," Tori said. Jade felt a fleeting sensation of embarrassment at being called out on her anxiety attack, then, unfortunately, thinking about it brought it back and she shivered, stressed out again.
"Yeah, if Jade doesn't make it as an actress, she could get a job as a human vibrator," Trina popped in from the couch. She was totally absorbed in her PearPad, not really interested or listening, but always happy to make her dad uncomfortable.
"You were almost killed today?" Andre asked. Concern was etched across his dark face. He looked at Cat. She was pale, though nowhere near as pale as Jade. She looked exhausted, too. He had picked her up from physical therapy today, just like every other day since she had been released. Cat had begged him to come visit Jade and Tori, also just like every other day, and today Andre had agreed. Seeing Tori working herself into a rage, and Jade quiet and meek and shivering, he wondered if he had made the right call.
"Not even close," David protested again, his confusion beginning to give way to a righteous anger. He had not been in the wrong, after all. Then Trina decided to open her mouth and instead of sticking her foot in it, she opened a Foot Locker franchise.
"Yes, dad went into the other lane and almost killed us all," Trina stood up, waving her hand in her father's general direction. She still wasn't really paying attention to the room, trying to watch the latest TMZ Ke$ha news. Her favorite singer had apparently done something the TMZ crew couldn't get enough of.
"What?" David croaked. Andre wheeled Cat's wheelchair close to the couch and helped her stand and slump ungracefully on to the furniture. Andre pushed the now vacant chair away and quick stepped between David Vega and Trina. He wasn't sure if he'd be able to stop David if he blew up at Trina, but he hoped he'd be able to do something before this good cop went bad.
"Yep, he just about flattened all of us in one wrong turn. He was heading right for the other car and then it would have been POW if he didn't turn in time," Trina went on without looking around the room. "You know, head on collisions are really bad and not everyone walks away from them. Most of the time it's due to someone not watching where they're going, there is always someone at fault for the wreck and it's always the person that went into the other lane, or passed without looking, or even swerved to miss something." Trina's TMZ segment ended and she finally looked up from her PearPad. Andre was grateful to see the horror of what she had just said cross her face as she took in the sight of Tori, Jade, and Cat all teary eyed and Jade looking as if she could die.
David gently but firmly placed a hand on Andre's shoulder, moving him out of the way. He took one long step to Trina's side. His hands blurred as he snatched away the PearPad, and flung it away. The snapping sound of its screen against the brick wall was drowned out by his furious shout of "GET TO YOUR ROOM, YOU MISERABLE GANK! NOW!"
Trina sprinted for the stairs, leaping up them three at a time. She turned back at the landing, and she locked eyes with her sister. She mouthed "I'm so sorry," before she ran down the hall, where the last thing the group downstairs heard was a choked sob just before the door slammed.
David stalked to the garage door and ripped it open, scaring Holly, who had just arrived home and had her hands full of groceries. He pushed past her, and the roar of his motorcycle blasted back into the house as he tried to escape his pain.
"My brother broke his PearPad, too," said Cat in the silent living room. Everyone turned to look at her. "Nothing quite as dramatic as that, mind you. He just sat on it." She looked around at her friends for a moment. "What? That's all I got. Is it time for one of my pain pills again, Andre?"
Andre shook his head, looking at his watch. "Another two hours, Little Red. I guess things aren't good in Chez Vega these days?" he asked gently, looking at Tori. Jade's color had come back from drained corpse to deathly pale, and Tori slowly untangled herself from Jade's arms. She walked over to Andre and threw her arms around him in a hug.
"Actually, things have been pretty good," she said, ignoring the mild snort Jade made at that. "That's the first really ganky thing Trina has said in about a month, so life has been pleasant. We had a close call today, nothing major, but it got Jade upset. So I'm upset." Her gaze dropped to Cat.
Cat was still pale, and sweat was beaded on her forehead. It looked like she hadn't slept in a few days, with dark rings around her eyes and her usually vibrant hair was hanging in sweaty clumps. She shifted uncomfortably, her hip obviously aching.
"How are you, Cat? And what's with the wheelchair? I thought you left on crutches?" Tori asked. She sat carefully next to her most free spirited friend and took her hand in hers. She would have taken both, but the cast was still on her left hand and Tori wasn't sure how sensitive it still was.
"I really only use the wheelchair after PT," Cat said. "I'm using crutches as much as I can, but it's tough. I can only walk 15 steps without them. It's a personal goal at therapy, to get to 25 by next Friday."
"Well, you can do it. I know you can," Tori told her lively friend warmly. For just a second, Cat's sunny smile chased away the pain and exhaustion, leaving her looking like her old self again.
"Tori…um…I'm not feeling too hot, so I'm going to go lay down," Jade told them. She patted Andre on his arm as she slid past him. He placed his hand on her shoulder, and she gave him a mild smile before heading for the stairs.
"Um…okay…but do you want me to come up with you?" Tori asked.
Jade saw no desire or lust, just a deep concern for her well-being. It warmed her heart, and she shook her head with a smirk. "No, you stay with Cat and Andre. I'm good."
Jade made her way up the stairs without another word. As she walked to her and Tori's room she stopped at Trina's door and raised her hand, knocking softly. "Come in," Trina called between sobs. Jade turned the knob and walked into the older Vega sister's room, doing a quick look around to see how the self-proclaimed diva's room would look. Jade was shocked to see the long bookshelf on the back wall next to a queen size bed filled with books of Math, Science, and History. She then looked to the other wall, next to the walk-in closet, to find a movie/cd rack with many of the same bands and movies that Jade herself enjoyed. A quick look to the wall between the bathroom and where Trina sat in an overstuffed chair, Jade found posters of the plays that Tori was a part of or had played in. Jade was shocked to say the least. Here is the girl with the least talent at Hollywood Arts and she has fooled everyone into believing that she was a brainless, heartless, self-centered gank but it turns out that she is nothing close to it.
"So, pretty tough down there, huh?" Jade said quietly as she walked over to the large 'L' shaped desk that sat next to the chair that Trina sat in. She leaned against the desk, waiting for Trina. She didn't wait long as Trina pulled herself together and lifted her eyes to Jade's.
"Yeah, pretty tough…look, Jade, I'm sorry…I didn't mean to come across as if I didn't care or if I thought you were at fault for the accident." Trina stood up and pulled out the desk chair and offered it to Jade. Jade shook her head with a wry smile.
"Yes, you did. You didn't want anyone know that Trina Vega is actually a smart, warm, selfless person, so you put on an act. Damn, Trina, I thought I was a good actress but you take the cake, there is not one person at that school that knows…well, you," Jade said as she waved her hand at the stuff in Trina's room.
"Actually, no, I really didn't. I just thought Dad and Tori was there. I enjoy pissing him off. I didn't hear you come down too, and I didn't notice Cat. It was an accident, and I'm sorry. But you're wrong, there is one person at Hollywood Arts who knows the real me, but he would never tell anyone that this Trina exists."
"Yeah and who's that?" Jade asked, her curiosity piqued. She took a quick look at the computer screen and saw an amusing steampunk picture of a wooden and brass Imperial Walker from Empire Strikes Back set as the desktop background. She looked back to a Trina who seemed to be debating whether or not to tell her. Momentarily, though, she decided with a small nod of her head.
"Beck," Trina said. Jade could have been knocked over with a feather. She had not realized that Beck had any secrets from her after all this time. She stammered a few times before her voice caught up with her whirling mind.
"Beck? How does he know?" She was surprised to discover that she was annoyed with herself. She had moved on from him and was now with Tori but still she wanted to dominate Beck. I'll have to work that out sometime, she thought.
"I needed help on a project and asked him to help me. He came over and that's when he met the real me…but even he doesn't know that I, Trina Vega, love to be that joke. Sure, it seems like I act stupid but unlike Cat, I have to put effort into being hair-brained. However, like Cat, I am smart and very talented. She can turn the childish off when she needs to and I can turn the true talent on when I need to, as well."
"Okay, Trina, make you a deal. You go out for the next two parts that shows your true talent: one serious role and one comedy. And I will take all of this to the grave." Jade was hoping Trina would agree. The story of Sikowitz's coconut milk hallucination audition was making its rounds in the halls of the school again, and Jade wanted to crush that once and for all.
"Well, I'll think about it," Trina said. She and Jade walked to the door, and Jade walked into the hall. Trina closed the door, and Jade walked to Tori's door. She slipped inside, and laid down on the bed. Her eyes felt like bricks were on her lids, and she closed them.
A short time later, Tori came in. Andre and Cat had not wanted to stay too long, partly because Cat was so exhausted, and partly to not be there when David got back from blowing off his steam. Tori promised that she and Jade would come visit in the next couple of days, kissed Cat on the cheek, hugged Andre again, and walked them out to Andre's car.
Tori climbed into bed next to Jade. She wrapped her arms around Jade, kissed her neck, and whispered into her ear, "I'm yours if you wake up now." Jade didn't move. Tori sighed and crawled out of bed, snapped the light off, and got back into bed. Her own eyes were inching closed when Jade flipped over, took her into her arms, and, nose to nose, kissed her with a fiery passion that set Tori's body aflame.
"Ok. I'm awake. So you're mine now, Vega." Jade wasted no time, she flipped Tori onto her back, drawing along with her to bring their lips together in a heated kiss. She rubbed her thigh into Tori's center. Tori let out a low moan that only drove Jade to want more. Tori bucked her hips up into Jade's thigh and let out yet another moan, this time deeper and just a little louder. Jade sat back on her ankles and pulled Tori's pants and underwear off. She stood up, shimmying her hips as she removed her own.
Lying back down between Tori's legs she looked deep into her eyes. "Tori, I want to be with you. I want to feel you. I want to make love to you." Tori didn't answer with words; she just sat up as far as she could, peeled off her shirt and bra then did the same to Jade. Momentarily stunned, Tori's eyes were liquid chocolate as they took in the sight of Jade's exquisite body. Jade, too was enchanted by the caramel skin that was aching for her touch. As Tori slowly laid back down, she took Jade by the shoulders and pulled her down with her.
Jade brought herself between Tori's legs so their centers were touching. Tori's hands cupped Jade's breasts, her thumbs rasping against the upright nipples. Jade undulated her hips, creating a pleasant friction between their legs. Tori gasped at the feel of Jade's wet center then Jade began to rock, gently at first, getting small gasps and little moans from Tori. She sped up the pace, spreading Tori's legs farther apart to get closer to her center. Tori's moans began to come louder as Jade's rocking became faster and the more she opened her legs the more she could feel Jade. Both girls were moaning each other's names, hands and lips exploring the delights of the others. Both girls rocked with each other, the headboard slamming into the wall. "Tori…Oh, God…Tori look at me, open your eyes!" Jade cried out, shivering.
Tori opened her eyes, looking deep into the sapphire eyes looking down at her. Her voice was breathless and throaty as she said, "Cum with me, Jade."
That was all it took for Jade to fall over the edge. "Fuck, Tori! Oh, God, yes!" she yelped, her body curling into Tori's.
Tori fell right along with her, biting on the pillow next to her as she came, "Oh Jade, fuck me." The two collapsed into a tangled mess of sweaty limbs and heaving chests. They locked eyes and smiled.
"I love you Jade." Tori said as she drifted off into a peaceful sleep.
"I love you too Tori." Jade turned and kissed Tori on the forehead then snuggled down next to her and closed her eyes to sleep.
***Please review I had some troubles with this chapter it was hard to write about two people in love when my personal love life is now over. But I do hope you enjoy and again please review let me know that I'm still loved somewhere.