Sloth13 & yaycamileteyay: I'm happy that you two like the story and I love your wonderful enthusiasm :)

Fcwolfg: Glad you're interested/confused enough to ask for a deeper explanation, lol

As always, love to the rest of y'all too (what, I'm from Kentucky). I swear school has been trying to kill me lately; my schedule is super busy, it's sucking away my lightingness!

Tori's POV

"Cat, none of this makes any sense. Why would your brother think things like that?" Actually, it all does kind of make sense in a twisted way. I'm now fully aware that my best friend's brother (stop laughing; this is no time for a pun) is a complete psycho, beat his little sister, almost raped my girlfriend that stupid motherfu - breathe, Tori, breathe. Jade's sleeping in the bedroom and I'm sitting in the kitchen. The only way she managed to go to sleep was with sleeping pills that she had apparently packed with her. I'd protested numerous times, but I finally caved and let her take the pills. I took care to put the least amount of sleeping pills in her hand as possible. I'm not worried about Jade trying to...you know, but anyone at any given moment in time is perfectly capable of hurting themselves or trying worse.

"I've always told you why." She sounds frustrated, fingers pressing hard into her temples. "To hell with this, Tori, we need to figure out the next part of the story."

Ah, the psychotic story that gave birth to all this.

Apparently Cat's brother thinks that everyone is a part of his messed up, completely retarded dream world except for Cat and sometimes his parents. But Cat's not a part of it because of something to do with her listening to his stories before he started the crazy one. So far Cat and I have gotten this down to the point where we realize that Cat's brother thinks that he and Jade are like main characters. I don't know what he thinks of his parents; they're just...there. So this psycho man - Cat's brother - thinks my girlfriend is trying to kill him and other people even though she's tried to avoid him pretty much since the day that they met. Cat told me that when a new person or 'character' interacted with one of the main ones then he'd go and hide somewhere until he figured out who that person was or come up with a part for them so he could revise his story (he decided that Sikowitz was a monkey turned into a man).

I've suggested calling the police, but what would they say to a teenager telling them that a man in a pink tuxedo is trying to kill her girlfriend? Nothing good, I can tell you that. They'd probably put me in the mental ward. And it's not like we can get anywhere near him. Cat told me that she didn't want him to figure out my actual personality, who I really was. He'd figure things out easier that way. So I'm trying to make this easier and think of this as some sort of sick improv scene. If I see Cat's brother that's my cue, I have to be another person. Maybe not totally different, but not Tori Vega.

"He saw you kiss her on the forehead, right? And hold her hand?"

"Yeah."

"Okay," Cat's practically clawing her skin and I have to snap my fingers in front of the screen to make her stop. "If you see him...just act like her nanny or something, ok?" Her nan - if this wasn't a serious situation then I probably would laugh.

"Cat, Jade's nearly eighteen. Eighteen year olds don't have nannies. It doesn't make any sense."

"Neither does Stew, but -"

"Wait, did you just say Stew?"

"...Yeah."

"That's your brother's name? Is short for something?"

"Tori focus! And no it's not short for anything."

"Okay, okay." I lean away from the screen for a few seconds to check if the bedroom is still closed. Still is. "Should I just be that one person every time he manages to find us?"

"No; you have to switch characters."

"Switch charac - why exactly?" Is being two people not enough?

"Look, I've been thinking about this Tori. If my brother -"

"Stew."

She rolls her eyes. "Ok, Stew sees you as a different person every time he does somehow manage to find you then it will be like you have multiple personalities. You'll be more dangerous to him that way because he won't know what's coming next."

"O...k."

"So you probably need to think of a list of different people you can be, kk?"

"Alright."

"It's getting late, Tori. You should go be with Jade."

"I will. Thanks Cat."

"Least I could do." The video chat screen blinks off.

Okay, Stew Valentine, here I come.

Trust me; this is a fun Jori video to watch: "Jade and Tori I Wanna See Your Peacock"