Jade didn't care about Tori seeing her chest anymore. After all, they were just breasts. Tori had them too. And she had seen them already anyway, so it didn't matter so much anymore. She still felt self-conscious about the scars she had, but she knew that her new friend wouldn't judge. She accepted Jade for who she really was. Meaning she accepted her problems too.
"Am I allowed to touch you?" Tori asked out of sheer curiosity.
"Hm?" Jade asked, not quite hearing the question properly.
"Are you okay with me touching you?" Tori asked again.
"Only if you're saying you're going to help me face my fears," Jade stated.
As Jade entered her room, she stopped at her drawers to get some clothes. She put on her bra right away though, to avoid the awkwardness they were currently feeling. She pulled on an off-white singlet that was a little too big for her, and looked through her drawers for the short shorts she loved so much. They were the only other pants she would wear other than her jeans, which were now unfortunately covered in blood from her injury.
She pulled out a black pair and slipped them over her legs. Once she'd done up the zipper and the buttons, she turned around to face Tori.
"I'm still embarrassed. And from now until the day I die, I probably always will be," Jade sighed, placing her hands on her hips, "So let's pretend this never happened."
"You left your Pop Tarts on the bench, you know," Tori stated.
"I know but… she can get more it doesn't matter. I'm not really hungry anyway. Well. Yeah," Jade said, running her hands through her messy black hair that seemed to have come out of the braid in her sleep. But in all seriousness, she asked a question, "What do friends do, anyway?"
"Well we could listen to some music. We could discover new bands and fan-girl over the band members. They're just things I do when I'm alone. What do you usually do?" Tori asked.
"I don't know. I usually… just sit here," she said bluntly.
Both of them thought hard for a long moment. Neither girls had had friends in a long time. They didn't know much about each other at all, and that made the situation doubly bad. Jade thought of all the things she used to do with Blake, which stung a little. But she didn't think that anything they did would be of any interest to Tori. As for Tori, she thought of things she used to do with her cousins. Though she hadn't seen her cousins in years, so all she could remember was pretending to be a three toed sloth whilst her cousins were monkeys and lions.
"I would offer to take you somewhere like ice-skating or something, but I don't have enough money for that sort of thing," Tori said, slightly disappointed in herself.
"Don't feel bad, I can't afford that kinda stuff either. I don't get paid. It's hard for me to find a job around here. I just give off the bad girl vibe I guess. But once we get to know each other more, we'll understand each other more. We'll know what to do. We just need to give it time."
"Do you like to write songs?" Tori asked.
"Yeah. I mean, I've never thought much of what I've written. But I do like to write. What about you?" Jade asked in return.
"Yeah, I like to write lyrics. I can't write tunes or melodies but I can write lyrics," Tori smiled, "I knew you liked music, so I brought my notebook in case you wanted to take a look."
Tori held a book out to Jade that had the words "lyrics" scrawled messily on the cover.
"Well I guess we've found what we're gonna do today," Jade smirked.
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