Chapter twenty-five.
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"It's probably just Trina," André reasoned.
Tori whispered. "Trina's asleep."
"Oh."
"Exactly," She replied quietly down the phone raising her free arm up in exclamation.
Something smashed downstairs.
"Tori?" André was panicking slightly now.
"Hold on, I'm just going to see what that was…"
She set the phone down on the bed regardless of André's shouts for her to wait for him to get there.
…
Cat hugged Jade, rocking her gently as she tried to tell them what was wrong. She hated seeing Jade so destroyed. This would usually be her crying over the stupidest of things to either Jade or Beck.
They'd tried to make some sense out of her but all they kept getting was 'he's back'.
"He's back, he's paid someone else. He really will never stop even with a bullet through his heart," Jade finally spoke with no emotion.
"But who would do that for money?" Cat frowned.
Beck squeezed Jade's hand as he replied to Cat. "You'd be amazed, Kitten."
"I want this to end. I want to go back to school with you both better and carry on with my play."
Cat looked at Jade. "I wanted to surprise you."
"What with?"
"I learnt every single one of my lines and I asked Sinjin to make all of the props for you."
Jade pushed her eyebrows together. "But where did you get the funds from?"
"I used my money, I didn't mug any of the teachers," Cat giggled imagining herself as a criminal in a cat burglar outfit. She decided she'd make herself one when she got out of hospital with the new sewing machine her parents were getting her for being so brave.
"Cat…" Jade began to object.
"No, I wanted to do something nice for you that would matter. He hasn't charged me much, I promised I'd find him a girl to go on a date with."
"Who the hell would go out with that creep?" Jade said as she playing with Beck's fingers.
Cat look suspiciously happy about whoever she'd set up Sinjin with.
"Cat."
She looked at Beck and shrugged innocently. "What?"
"Who have you set him up with?"
"Some girl…" She replied vaguely.
"Caterina Valentine!" Beck called.
"One," Jade began to count.
"Don't count!" Cat begged.
"Two…"
Cat shook her head with a mischievous smile.
"Three…"
"You know what happens if Jade makes it to five," Beck reminded her.
"You only have one arm, I'm barely out numbered."
"Four…"
Cat laughed with a glint in her eye. "You can't even tickle me anyway; I have two bandages protecting me as well as Mr Purple!"
"Caterina," Jade said sternly.
"You really want to know, Jaderina?"
Beck laughed at Cat's attempt to mock Jade. She retaliated and hit him lightly in the shoulder. Beck caught her hand again, kissed it then resumed holding it.
"Cat, come on. What girl is crazy enough to go out on a date with Sir Stalk-a-lot himself?" Jade asked again with her sarcastic tone.
"Well…"
Robbie ran towards them, panting heavily.
"André…Tori…gone."
"What?" Beck leant forward towards Robbie. "Calm down and try again."
Robbie held up his index finger to signal one minute as he put the other hand on his chest trying to slow his breathing then attempted to tell them again.
"André called to ask if we'd seen Tori because she went to check out a sound downstairs and never went back. He's gone over to the house and no one is answering the door."
Cat stared at him. "Oh my giraffe, poor Tori, she must have gone to get some more tuna for her silly tuna rolls."
"I don't think she's gone for tuna, Cat…" Jade remarked with a sigh. "I told you bad things were going to keep happening."
"What should we do?" Beck opened up the conversation to the group.
"You two are going to keep each other company, we'll go help André look around the house for her," Jade slipped off of the bed.
"But…" Cat wanted to go with them.
"No, Kitten, they're right. We can't go with them. We had our adventure on Saturday."
She furrowed her brow at Beck. "Fine."
"We'll be back soon, I promise, she's probably stuck in the bathroom again," Robbie kissed her cheek.
"Where's my Bibble?"
Robbie took a packet from his pocket and handed it to her.
Jade bent down to kiss Beck goodbye.
"Be careful, babe."
"Whenever am I not?" She smiled innocently at him.
…
André paced the front porch. Something had to be wrong. The phone was still running but no sounds were coming over the speaker. He needed to get in, perhaps if he broke a window?
"André, we're here," Jade shouted across the lawn. "Has Tori decided to answer the door yet? It's cold out here."
She wrapped Beck's top around her tighter. Robbie followed shortly behind.
"Have either of you guys got a key?" André was quick to get down to business.
They looked at each other and shook their heads.
"Chill out, she'll be hiding under her bed with that doll," Jade tried to sound reassuring. She wasn't sure how this comforting thing worked.
"Just with all the weird stuff happening recently, the really weird bad stuff," André shook his head to try and get rid of the thought of Tori being hurt.
He paced the porch again, up, down, up, down.
"André you're making me feel sea sick," Jade clenched her fists. Deep down in the pit of her stomach she knew something was wrong. She bent down and stared at the lock trying to work out if there was any way of breaking in to it.
Of course not, a police officer would have the security at his own house sorted.
"The lock is hopeless, you need a key. I can't even pop that lock," She sighed.
They looked around for an open window, when there wasn't any, Jade decided to smash the closest window so she could climb in. She hoisted the rock in her hand and pulled it back to throw.
"Woah, woah, woah!" A voice cried from a distance.
The sound of heels came closer.
Trina.
"What the heck do you think you're doing?"
"Tori's in trouble," André answered faster than lightning.
"Right, okay so you want to smash my window because of that?" She spoke down to them as usual.
"Just open the damn door, Trina!" Jade shouted.
Trina automatically fumbled around for her keys.
"If any of you see Cat before I do, tell her she's in big trouble."
"Why?" Robbie frowned.
Trina turned the key in the lock. "I forgot you were her play date."
They followed her inside.
"Trina, you don't seem to be taking this seriously, Tori could be hurt," André asserted.
Trina gave a shrill giggle. "She'll be in her room doing some silly assignment."
She flicked the switch for the light to come on.
What a sight met their eyes.