Sorry for the unexpected hiatus guys. School got to be too much and then I got a summer job, but at least I'm uploading now, right? Yeah, there is no way this chapter is going to be gratifying enough to make up for a month of no uploads. Sorry. Hopefully you'll enjoy the chapter, though.

Jade and Tori drove up to the house. Jade's house was large, probably costing a fortune. It was a light cream color, with a brick foundation. It had a two-car garage attached, though no cars were in the driveway (except the car Jade had just put there).

"Is your mom home?" Tori asked, grabbing Jade's hand again as the other found a key to unlock the front door.

"Nah, she usually isn't. She comes home maybe once or twice a week, if that, and she never has any time for me anyways." Jade replied quietly.

"What about your dad? Does he live here?"

"No, he left years ago. He's got a new wife now, I guess. I hate her."

"Aw, that's too bad."

The girls made their way to a set of stairs not far from the living room, which the front door opened to. Jade's room was in the basement.

"Of course your room is in the basement. Of course it is." Tori smiled.

Jade said nothing and pushed open her door with one hand and held Tori's tanned hand with the other.

Whoa. Tori thought, looking around at Jade's room.

Jade's room was black, of course, but not as creepy as Tori had once thought. It was considerably darker than the average teenage girl's room (especially one living in Hollywood), but it was by no means a vampire's lair.

The walls were black, but the ceiling was white, which made the room at least look like a room and not a cave. In the corner of the room, there was a shelf filled with oddities that Jade had collected over the years, including a lump of fat that she had gotten when Robbie was in the hospital. She had a queen-size bed, with a black and red bedspread, taking up the center of the room. There was a large flat screen TV opposite the bed, with an attached blu-ray/DVD player.

There was a computer desk in the corner, with Jade's laptop on it, and a shelf next to it containing a plethora of movies, most of them horror.

Along the walls, there were posters. Lots of them. Of course there were to horror movie posters. Halloween, The Exorcist, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp, all sorts of horror movies. Directly above her desk was a poster of The Scissoring, the ones that appeared in theaters when it came out in 1982, but it was signed by the woman who played the killer, Tawny.

Though Tori had expected horror movie posters, what she had not expected were the posters of all sorts of rock bands from decades past. Bands such as The Beatles, The Ramones, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Guns n' Roses, and Mötley Crüe adorned the walls. But one poster stood out from all of them. The largest and most prominent poster hung above Jade's bed. It was a poster featuring Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, which Tori used context clues to determine was Jade's favorite band.

"Wow, you like a lot of bands my Uncle Brian likes." Tori observed.

"Yeah, I guess so. I dunno. It's about the only common ground I have with my dad. When I was little and he was still married to my mom, whenever I got angry he would play the Beatles to calm me down. I miss having simple things like that." Jade looked down while she said all of this, clearly remembering things that made her a little happier.

Tori was shocked that Jade was willing to open herself up like this. The Jade West she had met in 11th grade would have sooner taken a zebra dong covered in razor blades up the ass than divulge sensitive memories like this to her. Obviously, this was not the same Jade.

"That's… really sweet." Tori quietly said as she led Jade to the foot of the bed and sat down. She put her arm around Jade. Jade leaned against Tori's shoulder and rested her head in the crook of Tori's neck. The latina stroked the goth's hair slowly.

After a few minutes of this, Jade sat up and spoke.

"We should at least do something. What do you want to do?"

"What did you want to do when you invited me here?" Tori asked.

"Well, I didn't really have a plan. When I asked you out to the movies, I had planned to drop you off at your house afterwards. It was kind of a spur of the moment thing for me to take you here."

"Oh. Well, we could watch a movie or something." Tori suggested.

"We just watched a movie like, 20 minutes ago." Jade replied.

"Yeah, well, I was thinking we could, um, cuddle, and I could, um, spend the night – if that's okay?" Tori stuttered, semi embarrassed.

Jade grinned. She liked Tori's idea. "Okay."

Five minutes later, both girls were switched up into pajamas and cuddling in bed. Tori had insisted that Jade pick the movie again, probably to impress Jade with her ability to watch a horror movie, so jade settled on the first Sleepaway Camp movie.

Both girls thoroughly enjoyed snuggling up to each other. After about half an hour, Tori fell asleep. Jade took the opportunity to whisper in her ear, "Goodnight beautiful."

Tori, just barely conscious, grinned widely.

Well, there you go. I thought about making this a smut chapter, but decided a chapter with a more vulnerable Jade would fit better. Don't worry, I'll fit a smut scene into a chapter sooner or later.

I really seem to like inserting my own personality into this story, huh? Whatever the case, I decided it would fit her to like those bands, and give an opportunity to first display a Jade with her walls down. I do love those bands. I'm actually a pretty big metalhead, too, but I elected to leave those bands out of this.

Anyways, I'm probably going to be working all week, so we'll see if I upload another chapter or not.

Until next time,

/Yonz