Jade POV at school the next day.
CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP! I know if Maria could hear my thoughts right now she'd be yelling at me for swearing, but she can't hear me and she's not here. I shouldn't have hidden those messages from Cat. I thought it would stop her stress, but all it's done is make Veronica even madder because she thinks Cat ignored her, and it just made Cat confused.
Basically, as soon as we walked into the main hallway, we were approached by Veronica and her gang of dollar-store barbie dolls. What I mean by that is they all have that stupid 'perfect' smile figure, matching pink sparkly outfits and the fakest smiles known to man. But behind their caked-on makeup their's defiantly something off with them. "You!" Veronica stepped forward and prodded her finger into Cat's arm, flicking her bleach-blonde hair behind her with her spare hand.
"Don't you dare touch her." I cut in between then.
"I can do what I want." Veronica spat, stepping forward and making Cat and I step back.
"W...what did I do?" Cat squeaked from behind me.
"You know what you did you Cow." Veronica snarled, her green eyes staring straight past me and directly down to Cat.
"I really don't." Cat replied sheepishly. At first I wondered why she was acting so meager, until I saw her wrap her arms protectively around her baby bump, she knew that any form of fight wouldn't end well for her so she had to step down.
"You were making a move on my man!" Veronica yelled. "I saw what you did, the video was on the website and then sent to me like 100 times, I saw the looks you gave him while you were singing. And that stupid song you-"
"Good story, but in what chapter do you shut the fuck up?" I cut in again, standing further between the two.
"Move!" Veronica yelled in my face. "This isn't about you."
"I don't want a fight or anything, I really wasn't trying to-" Cat stumbled out.
"Too late bitch." Veronica said to Cat, aggressively pushing me out of the way. I tried to stand back between them again but the rest of Veronica's gang grabbed onto me and held me back. "By the end of the day, you'll regret ever crossing me." She placed a hands on Cat's shoulders and shoved her backwards into a locker behind her before quickly walking away, her gang letting go of me and walking away behind her.
"You okay Cat?" I asked, rushing towards her.
"Mhm." She replied, giving me a shaky nod before running away from me by pushing her way down the hallway.
That's a bad start to the day isn't it? But that's only the beginning, it's now lunchtime and it's gotten 100 times worse since school began. I swear to God, I've never wanted to physically hurt someone more than I do right now. That bitch has been spreading rumours all day about Cat. These rumours are past horrible, and to the point where they make me feel sick just thinking about them. I can't even repeat it, but somehow everyone in the school seems to believe them...
"Faker!" A random girl yelled as Cat and I walked past her on the way to the cafeteria. I felt my fists clench but I kept walking forward for Cat's sake.
"What kind of sick person would pretend to be raped?" Another commented to her friends as they walked past, pretending to whisper but intentionally saying it loud enough for Cat to hear.
"Ignore them Cat." I said though clenched teeth. "We know the truth, they know nothing."
"I... I..." Cat stammered out in front of me, her voice unable to leave her throat to finish the sentence.
"I swear I'll knock that bitch out if you want." I said, turning Cat around to face me.
"No." Cat shook her head. "You'll get suspended... and I need someone here with me... please." Her voice broke as she talked. "With Tori, Andre and Beck always away and Robbie being ill today, I can't have you leave me to."
"I know, I'm here still and I'll stay here."
"FAKER!" A random person yelled from behind us, I saw Cat's eyes fill with tears.
"Can we n... not go to the lunch hall?" She asked.
"You need to eat Cat." I said, trying to keep calm.
"I'd rather not." She said, pushing straight past me and walking away.
I felt my heart drop in my chest as people kept harassing her as she walked down the hallway, so I tried to stay close behind, but due to us walking against the flow of people we were quite easily separated. On top of the relentless teasing of random people calling her a faker, many profanities were shot her way, from 'slut', 'hoe', and 'skank' to things even worse. The groups of boys approaching her, thinking she was 'easy' also suddenly increased. I hated it for her... people were truly heartless.
Cat POV
I want to go home. I want to go home. I want to go home. I keep repeating in my mind, tears freely falling down my face as I pushed my way down the hallway, trying desperately to reach the girl's toilets. Jade's behind me I think, but knowing my luck today she's been cut off by the crowd of people around us.
I hate Veronica... I HATE HER! And Owen too, he should have told me that she'd react like that, I HATE HIM! I saw the girl's bathroom door and pushed it open, quickly checking that no one else was inside. Every word that had been said to me was only fueling the fire that burned inside of me. Every violated phrase was like gasoline to it, my fists began to clench and my jaw rooted. When the final mento had been added to the coke inside of me I exploded with anger, slamming my hand into one of the cubicle doors as the primeval instinct took over.
Out of all the stupid ideas I've had in my life, this certainly was amongst the worst. I looked up at the fist-sized hole in the door, and then back down to my sudden swollen hand, pain pulsing though it. Slowly, I uncleaned my fist, each movement painful. "Shit." I muttered to myself, really unsure of what the hell I was meant to do.
"Cat?" I heard Jade call as she opened the door. "Good, there you-" She saw me caressing my hand beside a gaping hole. "What did you do?"
"What does it look like I did?" I replied bluntly, wincing at each movement my hand made.
"Decided to break your hand apparently." She raced forward and looked at the redness of my swollen knuckles.
"It was either that door or her face." I replied coldly. "And the door can't punch me back, so I chose it."
"Poor door." Jade replied, trying to ease the tension. "Come on, we're going home."
"But it's only lunch." I whispered.
"I don't care."
No POV
The girls took the next day off of school, pretending that they'd caught Robbie's illness, and luckily for them it was Friday meaning they had the following two days off of school for the weekend. On Saturday night, everyone was sat around the dinner table, tucking into one of Maria's home cooked meals. Dinner's were the teen's favourite time of the day, especially when they were all home. There would be no phones, no television and a whole lot of talking, everyone would talk about the ups and downs of their weeks and the other's would listen. It sounds boring but the downtime was very relaxing, even if it went on for hours after everyone had finished eating, as Cat's parents would say: "A tavola non si invecchia" (At the table, you don't get old) so they'd all talk until it was practically time for bed.
"So how has school been this week?" Leo asked, taking another bite of food.
Jade and Cat exchanged a quick look before Robbie replied. "Good, sucks that I had to miss the last two days though." He said sourly, unaware of everything that had happened the day before.
"You just had to get us ill." Jade fake coughed, pretending to get over the quick cold.
"Yours passed in hours, I've still got it!" Robbie replied, as if on cue, a real sneeze came out.
"Bless you." The table chorused.
"Are we not going to tell anyone about it?" Jade whisper-spoke to Cat.
"Not until they find out at school." Cat replied coldly. Since school, her demeanour had rapidly dropped, everyone else just put it down to her 'cold' but Jade knew better.
"How about you, Andre and Tori? How're your albums going?" Leo asked.
"It's great." Andre started. "They've agreed to use some of my old songs so it's already half done, I just need to write and chose a few more and sort out the final details."
"Sounds great Lad." Leo replied. "You have to play some of them to me once you get the time."
"Will do." Andre replied.
"Tori?" Maria asked.
"I've got a few songs and I working on one they've sent me right now, I've just got to write the second verse." Tori replied tiredly.
"You need more sleep. Why aren't you sleeping?" Maria asked, her tone stern but concerned.
"I am sleeping." Tori reasurred.
"Is she?" Maria asked Cat.
"I dunno, she's always back after I'm already in bed." Cat shrugged, twirling some pasta around her fork, wincing as she moved her sore hand.
"Not always." Tori replied, slightly harsher then she meant.
"Whatever." Cat rolled her eyes, taking a bite of her rolled up pasta.
"Well then." Raffael cut in, changing the subject to ease the tension. "An epic car came into the garage today..."
As Raffa rambled on about his day, it was hard to miss the slight glares exchanged between Cat and Tori. Tori's busy scheduled had brought the girls to an all time low point, as Tori was constantly away and even when she was home she was spending all her time catching up on missed school work. Cat had been spending a lot of her time using the piano in their room to write her own songs, which would rile Tori up while she was studying, so the half-Latina would sometimes walk to the local library to get some peace and quite. All in all, the two girls barely had any time together anymore and it was really effecting them.