Been a little busy, but I finally found time to watch the episode, so I got the chapter done!
Cat woke up around three a.m. with a stinging pain in her side, "ow!" She hissed as she shot up in the bed. She pressed her hands against her right side and swallowed hard.
Pressing her hands to the spot didn't help much, the shooting pain only seemed to get worse.
"Mom." She mumbled a moment before laying back down, hands still pressed against her side, "mom!" She screamed.
Mrs. Valentine rushed into the room, "Cat, honey are you all right?" She asked.
Cat shook her head, "m-my side hurts." She told her quietly.
Her mother walked over and kneeled next to her, "left or right?"
"Right." Cat sighed as she felt a bit of sweat bead on her forehead, "it really hurts." She mumbled.
"What kind of hurt is it, honey?" Mrs. Valentine asked.
Cat looked around saying, "the painful kind."
Her mom stood up as she nodded, "come on, we'll get you to the hospital."
"Hospital?" Cat shook her head, "no I don-"
"Can you walk?"
Cat objected as she lie still on her bed, "I'm feeling much better I-"
"Cat." Her mother scolded helping her out of the bed, "come on, this may be serious."
As she was being led out of her room Cat was sure to grab her cellphone before she put on her jacket and slipped on her slippers. Then she continued with her mom out of the house.
It took them ten minutes to get to the hospital, Cat had been in too much pain to get on her cellphone and do anything, but as she sat in the waiting room as her mom turned in the papers she set the phone on the chair beside her.
"Why's your phone there?" Her mother asked as she picked it up and took her seat.
"Caterina Valentine." A nurse called from beside the door.
Cat, stood up and began to walk that way, "call Jade?" She asked her mom before she followed the nurse behind the swinging door.
"I understand you're having side pains?" The nurse asked as she led Cat to a room.
Once inside Cat immediately sat down, "yeah, it hurts so much."
"Well, what I've read on your forms, you're most likely experiencing appendicitis." She began to examine Cat.
"Did you call Jade?" Cat asked her mother as the woman came inside with the doctor who had checked her.
"Caterina, it's three thirty in the morning." Her mother replied.
Cat sighed, "mom, she won't care." She looked at her hands before mumbling, "I'm gonna have surgery and I need her here."
Something flashed in her mother's eyes, and Cat was certain it was realization. Maybe her mother had realized how important Jade was to her. Maybe she had realized that Cat was in love with the other girl. But something had dawned on her mother, it had shown in her eyes.
She just wasn't sure what it was.
"I'll call her." Her mother whispered as Cat's doctor began to go through the procedure of taking her to surgery.
"Your mother scared me." Jade whispered as Cat's eyes blinked open.
The redhead tried to swallow as she felt her throat was dry, "I-"
"No, don't talk." Jade shook her head, "just relax." She reached up and brushed the hair from Cat's face, "just rest."
"Stay?" Cat whispered.
Jade nodded, "I've been here the whole time."
Cat smiled as she closed her eyes again, preparing for more sleep. Jade was here, she had come for her. She as here for Cat.
She does love me, Cat thought, even if she doesn't know it yet.
The next time she opened her eyes, she was holding Jade's hand, the girl must have slipped her own hand between Cat's and the bed before laying her head against the bed and falling asleep herself.
Cat smiled, it was perfect, everything she had hoped for.
"Cat?" Her mother asked as she stirred from another chair within the room.
"Mom?" Cat asked looking toward the woman, she tried to swallow again.
"Here, sweetie." Her mom grabbed the water from the side table and gave Cat a sip of it.
"Thanks." Cat whispered, her eyes drifted on to Jade who was still sound alseep on her bedside.
"She didn't leave at all." Mrs. Valentine said, "but I do have to wake her up soon so she can get to school."
Cat smiled, looking to her mom, "thanks for calling her mom."
The older woman nodded, unsure whether she should approach the subject with Jade currently in the room or not.
She chose not to.
Cat was back home in a few hours, resting in her bed flipping through the channels on the TV hoping something would pop up and keep her interest.
Nothing happened.
Around 10:30 she got a text from Robbie.
Jade told us all what happened to you, hope you're all right. I wanted to tell you that I ordered an Astro Craft from the robot store (online) it's so awesome. It flies and everything.
-Robbie
That's so awesome!
-Cat
Yeah, but Tori knocked it onto the floor when I tried to scare her and Trina with it.
-Robbie
Aw, sad face!
-Cat
Oh, my God! It's The Wood!
-Tori
The what?
-Cat
Her boredem was starting to fade as her friends continued to text her.
You picked a bad day to miss out, we've got a Hollywood TV crew here!
-Trina
Oh, my God!
-Cat
The Wood. It's a reality TV show. I'm audtioning for it...all of us are!
-Tori
Wish you were here.
-Tori
Me too.
-Cat
As she recieved no more texts she set her phone on her bedside table and continued to watch the television again.
She fell asleep.
Did you auditon for the wood?
-Cat
It was 2:30 when she woke up, she knew Jade wasn't busy at this time, it was one of the girls' easier classes so it made it safer to text during that time.
Yeah, it was fun, I'll have to tell you about it later though. We're testing.
-Jade
Cat frowned.
Normally it was safe to text the girl during that class, of course the one time she can't is when she was sick and absolutely bored.
"Cat." Her mother said as she knocked on the door and opened it without permission.
"What's up mom?" Cat asked setting her phone down.
Mrs. Valentine pushed her way inside and picked up the TV remote before sitting on the bed and clicking the device off, "w-what exactly is your relationship with Jade?" She asked hesitantly. Almost as if she wasn't sure she wanted to get into the discussion.
Cat swallowed hard, suddenly she was very nervous, and she kind of wished she was sleeping once more, "I-uh-I, what do you mean?"
The look her mother gave her told her she knew exactly what she had meant.
Cat nodded, "well, um...s-she's my best friend."
"And?"
"And, uh-I-Well-I..." She shook her head, "mom?"
"Cat, I only want the truth." She said, "are you and Jadelyn together?"
"No." Cat answered honestly.
"And, is that how you want it?"
"No."
"A-are you, uh, in love with her?"
"Yes."
Her mother nodded, saying no more, she stood up and nodded oddly as she backed out of the room.
"Well, I'm pretty sure that's not a good sign." Cat whispered as she laid down once more.
This time she didn't sleep.
Jade came over after school, Cat's mother had left so the gothic-like girl had let herself in before she walked up to Cat's room.
"I brought you some soup," she said holding up the soup, "I don't know if it will help or whatever. but here it is." She set it on the table beside Cat's bed but she shrugged, "I also picked up some green tea for you, but I kind of drank it."
Cat smiled as Jade sat down on the side of her bed, "you're adorable." Cat told her.
Jade gave her a light smile, it may have been a little awkward, but Cat paid no mind to that. "Tell me about the auditions!" She gasped.
Jade nodded, "okay."
Tori stepped up to the chair and hopped on, "hey, Tori Vega." She smiled before pointing to herself, "girl."
"We can tell." Mick told her.
"Mick and Kyle are the producers of the show." Jade said interrupted her own story.
Cat smiled, "I could've figured."
Tori only shrugged.
"Okay Tori," Kyle said, "this is a very informal audition."
"We're just trying to get the feel for your personality." Mick finished.
"Got it." Tori smiled, "feel away."
"What's the worst thing you've ever done?" Kyle asked.
Jade smiled.
"Oh," Tori said, "oh, wow, um-oh! I know, um I squirted hot cheese all over my friend and her current boyfriend who was my ex-boyfriend. And then I kissed him right in front of her, which I felt really bad about. But then it was okay cause she punched me right in the face!"
Cat smiled interrupting the memory once more, "yay! She talked about me!"
"Yeah," Jade nodded, "anyway, after that they asked her a few of the things she liked a lot, she mentioned acting and singing, kind of dancing along with dogs and such. Then what was most important to her and she said family." Jade rolled her eyes, "and then it was Andre. He walked up and introduced himself and Mick asked if he was truly happy with how everything was going. He said he was."
"Tell us something you love." Kyle told Andre.
"Easy, music." The boy replied.
"And something you hate." Mick added.
"Brussel sprouts." Andre answered immediately.
"Okay." Kyle said, "what if there was a really great song about...Brussel sprouts?" He and Mick shared a look.
Andre nodded, "well, you know, I'd probably...um, I'd probably feel like." He swallowed nervously, "cause when-it usually depends on..." He began to look sickly uncomfortable, "um, may I go to the bathroom?"
"After he got up it was Trina." Jade said, "she hopped up there excitedly and began to talk on and on. She didn't even wait to be addressed. Obviously, she was desperate."
Cat nodded.
"Okay," she smiled, "picture me sitting on a pony wearing a bright purple hat...I-I-I was wearing the purple hat, not, not the pony."
Kyle nodded, clearly uninterested.
"Do they even make pony hats?" Trina wondered looking at the camera, "anyway, I was looking fabu!" She laughed.
"Beck's audtion was next, he walked up there and the girl-I think she may have been a co-producer-she was staring at him the whole time." Jade rolled her eyes, "it was kind of sickening."
Cat shrugged, "what'd they ask Beck?"
"They asked him to describe the reason he decided to audtion for Hollywood Arts."
"So then I realized acting is really about not acting. It's about letting the emotions inside of you come out and represent moments-" Beck explained.
"Are you dating anyone!" Katie screamed from behind the laptop.
"Katie?" Kyle said.
Jade glared at her confused.
"I just think we should know if he has a girlfriend." She smiled before looking toward Beck, "do you?"
Beck looked at Jade before looking back toward Katie, "y-yeah, I do." He said staring at her oddly.
"Dang it!" Katie hollered throwing her fists into her lap.
Jade continued to stare.
"I swear I was getting ready to cut her." Jade growled.
"You have your scissors?" Cat wondered.
Jade shook her head, "I didn't at the moment."
"Then what would you have used?"
"I would have found something."
"Okay, I'm Robbie." He smiled sitting down. "I'm Rex." The puppet added.
"No!" Kyle inputted.
"Thank you for your time." Robbie frowned sliding out of the chair.
"Jerks." Rex growled.
"Then it was me." Jade said.
Cat smiled, "yay, you!"
"Yeah, they asked practically all of the same questions, "they asked my name, what I liked a little of background and why I joined Hollywood Arts." She smiled, "then it got interesting."
"Okay, Jade," Mick said, "what do you hate?"
Jade rocked in her chair a moment, "uh, tuna fish, flowers, uh giggling, the word panties, cilantro, rainbows, ducks-man I hate ducks..." she paused a moment her mind flashing on a duck, "cramps, string cheese, clocks, wet doorknobs, bra's that hook in the front, the color yellow, carpeting..."
"They ended up cutting me off before I could get the rest of my list out." Jade frowned.
"Yeah, because that would've been a long list." Cat said, "seeing as it already was." She smiled a moment before saying, "did you get the results?"
Jade shook her head, "won't know until tomorrow."
Cat frowned, "I wish I could be on it." She muttered.
Jade smiled, "it's okay, no big deal."
Cat sighed, "soup?"
Jade furrowed her eyebrows questioningly before she grabbed the soup on the table and handed it to Cat, "here." She said.
"Thanks." The girl said, "what kind is it."
"Vegetable." Jade said, "cause I know you like to spell things out with the letters."
Cat smiled, Jade knew her so well.
"Yeah, you know I like shirts with green stripes." Andre said.
Tori smiled at him picking up her fork, preparing to eat her lunch.
"Hey, Beck," Trina smiled, "smell my arm."
Beck backed away a little as she pushed her arm infront of his face, however her still sniffed before looking at the girl, "no perfume." Trina smiled, "that's my natural scent."
Beck gave Tori an odd look and she simply said, "I have to live with her."
"Hey you guys." Lane greeted walking up to the table with Kyle.
"Hey." Some greeted.
"Kyle has some cool news for you!" Lane smiled.
Kyle looked at his phone and smiled, "Tori Vega, Beck Oliver, Jade West and Andre Harris, congratulations, you're gonna be featured on The Wood."
"Haha!" Lane cheered.
"Really," Tori smiled looking at Andre who smiled, "that's nice."
"Wow," Jade said picking at her salad as Beck's reply was, "interesting."
"And what about me?" Trina asked.
"No." Kyle said.
"Why not?" The older Vega sister wondered.
"Cause you reek of desperation." Kyle admitted.
Beck smiled, "that's her natural scent." Jade grinned.
"Yay, you got in!" Cat gasped the next day as Jade sat next to her once more, they had been watching The Powerpuff Girls (only because Cat really wanted too) but it ended up being just background noise as the two of them talked about the show.
Cat was excited because Jade was gonna be featured on television, it was a start on her career. Cat had to adimit that she was very, very proud.
"Yeah, we all got in really." Jade shrugged it off as if it was nothing, "but let's not make a big deal out of it." She told her, "no celebrating."
"But-"
"No," Jade said, "you're still sore from the surgery, we don't need you ripping your stitches or whatever."
Cat smiled, "kay, so when do you start filming?"
"The cameras went home with Tori today, tomorrow it's Andre and then Beck. I'm last."
"Aw." Cat frowned
"Don't be sad." Jade smiled, "maybe by then you'll be at my house hanging out and you'll have to be featured on it." She waggled her eyebrows, "genius or what?"
"I'll give you that." Cat said, "you are a genius."
Jade's smile never left her face as she turned back toward the TV and they resumed watching their show.
Hey, Cat, check out the e-mail I sent you. Andre gave me a copy of the advanced copy of The Wood, and I figured maybe you'd want to see it. So I downloaded it to my computer and sent it to you.
-Robbie
Cat read the message before putting her phone down and grabbing her laptop from her desk. She then proceeded to check her e-mail and clicked on the video attachment.
'Welcome to The Wood, Hollywood. At this performing Arts high school, you can find drama on stage, but the best drama happens offstage. Beck and Jade have been dating for two years, but is Beck getting tired of the same old thing?"
Cat gasped as she watched the screen intently.
"Hey, it's Beck." She watched him talk on his phone, sitting on a table outside the school.
"Hi, Baby!" Tori replied.
Cat gasped again, "not Tori!"
"S'up?" Beck asked.
"My parents aren't home."
"Ooh, that sounds pretty good."
"I know, I feel like I haven't seen you forever."
"So, guess what I want?" Beck asked.
"Aw," Tori smiled, "you want me to tickle your tummy."
"Yeah, sure." Beck answered.
"You should come over." Tori suggested.
"Yeah." Beck looked around a bit, "my girlfriend's not gonna like that."
"I won't tell her."
"Oh, my God!" Cat growled. She actually felt like hitting them.
"Okay, I'll be there soon."
"All right, love you, miss you."
"You make me happy." Beck smiled.
Tori made a kissing sound into reciever.
"Bye," Beck smiled again.
"Later."
Cat shut the laptop, not even caring if there was more to the episode. She couldn't believe Beck would do that thing to Jade.
She never in a million years thought Beck was that kind of guy.
Are you okay?
-Cat
She stared at her phone, not even noticing it took ten minutes for her to get her reply.
I'm fine. Why?
-Jade
Cat's eyes widened, oh God, does she not know?
Robbie e-mailed The Wood to me.
-Cat
Oh, well I found out today that it was all fake.
-Jade
What do you mean?
-Cat
Tori was talking to a dog along with her aunt and Beck was ordering the pizza we had for lunch that day. The producers of the show, Mick and Kyle had took clips from each conversation and meshed them together.
-Jade
Cat relaxed a little as she read the words, she no longer felt like murdering Beck or Tori.
Good, I'm glad it was fake.
-Cat
Me too.
-Jade
"So, I heard The Wood ended." Cat said a day later as she sat in her wheelchair at Jade's locker.
The girl closed the scissored thing and smiled at her friend, "look who's all better."
Cat nodded, "yeah, still got a few stiches and such, can't walk too much yet, but I'll be completely better soon."
Jade nodded, "good for you." She walked behind the wheelchair and began to wheel the redhead forward, "so?"
Cat smiled, "tell me the rest about the show."
As Jade pushed her forward she shrugged, "there's nothing much really, once we found out about the whole conversation being fake Tori and I fought for the cameras and from then on Beck and Andre teamed up trying to impress the cameras and Tori and I became a team-yes I know it's surprising-we were trying to do better than Andre and Beck."
"You said I could use your beach house!" Beck hollered.
"I didn't say people could puke on my carpet and make soup in my toilet!" Andre replied.
"It was a beach house party! What'd you think was gonna happen?"
"Who put my dog in a wedding dress!" Andre called.
"It was hilarious." Beck replied.
"You know what? This friendship is over." Andre clarified.
"Eat a rag!"
"You eat two rags!"
"Then came Tori and my turn, it was a good plan too, we were getting a junker car from some guy and we were gonna destroy it, pretending that it was the janitor's car and we were seeking revenge."
"Ooh, scandal." Cat gasped. Jade stopped pushing her as they reached the lunch table. She then sat across from Cat who rolled close to the table.
"It was Festus' car." Jade grumbled.
"No!"
"Yeah."
"What are you doing to my car!" Festus hollered as he ran over to the girls.
"Your car?" Tori asked.
"What is going on here?" Lane called as he ran over to them, students following closely behind.
"Um," Tori said, "we were wreaking this junker car for the show."
"The Wood." Jade added innocently.
"Keep going!" Kyle urged.
"No!" Lane hollered at him.
"Shut up! Buddy!" Festus yelled pointing at the camera as he jumped forward. Lane had to hold him back.
"Okay," Lane pushed him back. "e-easy. This is Festus' car!" He told everyone.
Tori gapsed, "you said some guy dropped off this junker car for us to wreck." She looked at Jade.
"Yeah...he must have meant that one." Jade replied pointing across the lot to a broken vehicle.
"Aw, we abused the wrong car!" Tori complained.
"That ended the show." Jade said, "when Kyle and Mick tried to continue the show Lane kicked them out. They went to find another school. Tori and I ended up having to take Festus home in a wheelbarrow and sing Forever Baby in Spanish. I messed up a little because I don't know Spanish that well, but whatever."
Cat grinned as she shook her head, "I can't believe you joined forces with Tori."
Jade rolled her eyes, "It'll never happen again." She shrugged, "it was her fault we got the wrong car. When I told her someone dropped it off, she pointed to the wrong one."
There we go, so I don't really know why Cat was missing from the episode, so I obviously just made up a reason...
...thanks for reading, please review, I'd appreciate it...
...thanks again...