Who's ready for Tori and Jade's Play Date this Saturday?
Jade's POV
When I ring the doorbell Trina answers with a look of what I can only describe as disgust on her face. I return the look with enough venom to best the white-faced Joker (one of my favorite villains by the way).
"Have you looked in a mirror lately?" I snap at her. Every time I see this screwed up bitch she has to do something to annoy me. "Where's Tori?"
"I don't know. She's in here somewhere." Trina scoffs, walking back to the couch, turning up the TV volume to an obnoxious level.
I turn and head up the stairs with a muttered 'fuck you' under my breath. I ease Tori's room door open. She's sleeping on her side, her back facing me with the covers pulled up to her shoulders. Quietly, I click the door shut behind me. I make my way over to the other side of the bed - which is varying designs of purple and white - to see her face. She looks peaceful at first, but as I touch my hand to her cheek I feel a thin film of sweat. Her brows are slightly furrowed - if I wasn't so attuned, for lack of a better word, I wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't looked for it.
Her hands suddenly flex, making something like a clawing motion; like she's trying to get some sort of traction. They're not wildly clawing motions; just minuscule movements like someone scratching an itch.
"Hey, Sunshine." I whisper, pushing her shoulder gently. Tori whimpers, hands flexing again. Feeling slightly alarmed I shake her shoulder harder. I don't know what's going on, but she won't open her eyes. I yank the covers off her body and my eyes widen. There are burn marks on her forearms, her tan skin an angry red. I curse and get onto the bed, shaking her and repeating her name in her ear.
Frustrated, I start to make my way to her bathroom to get a glass of water (not to drink obviously). One of the cabinets above the sink is open and there's something that doesn't belong there. It looks like someone was trying to hide it or they just didn't have the time to.
It's an orange prescription bottle and that's definitely not Tori's name I see on the label.
"Dammit!" I glance around the bathroom counter. The straight iron is still on. I panic.
"Tori!" I practically sprint to her beside, heart thundering painfully hard against my chest. I swear and shake her, but to no avail. The pill bottle still had plenty of pills, but for all I know she could have taken five at once or gotten a new bottle. My feeling of panic drowns everything outside even Trina and the TV downstairs. The only things existing now are Tori, myself and the thundering of my heart. I vow to myself not to leave the room until she wakes.
Tori's POV
When my eyes open slowly I notice a multitude of things: my heart is beating like a hummingbird's, I'm totally naked, my body feels like it's been cooled - not by my sweating though; more like by damp cloth, and there's another body next to mine. I inhale the smell of jasmine and there's a thick blanket of silky black within my line of sight.
"Jade?"
I hear her mumble, then I'm suddenly yanked on my side to face her, her green eyes sparking with electric fire.
"What the hell, Tori?" She demands, giving me a rough shake.
"W-what?" I stammer stupidly.
Jade shoves the orange pill bottle in my face. "This -" She gestures to my bathroom and I know exactly what she's talking about. "- and that. Are you insane?"
"I wasn't trying to kill myself." It's the truth, but I can't look her in the eye.
"Neither was I, but that doesn't make it okay, now does it?" Her emerald orbs soften when I finally pluck up the courage to meet her eyes. "Tori, I really care about you; hell I love you. You should have at least mentioned it to me."
"I - I -it's just a part of my life; I've just accepted it." It's cold, hard truth; I've been doing this for years. Being the "perfect" girl has its burdens.
"Just accepted - God dammit, Tori!" Jade's sitting up now, eyes twin hurricanes of swirling emotion. I'm half wondering if this was how I would've reacted to Jade's "issue" if I was a more confrontational person. "That's like me saying the same thing about cutting! How is burning yourself and taking pills any different?"
I can't bring myself to answer, only weakly remind her that we have school and move to get dressed. I can feel Jade watching me closely as I pull on a new pair of jeans and head to the bathroom to check my hair in the mirror, refusing to acknowledge the red on my arms. I put on a long-sleeved top and go for my keys on the nightstand next to my bed, but Jade bluntly tells me that she's going to drive me to school. I comply without any resistance and we walk past Trina on the way to the door. She's snoring on the couch in a weird position, the TV now off (probably thanks to one of my parents).
The drive to the school is tense the first half of the way, partially because the radio isn't on and right now I'm in one of those atmosphere where you just sit without knowing exactly what to do. We're almost to Hollywood Arts when Jade suddenly swings into another parking lot, my head almost bouncing off the window as the car violently swerves.
The words are out before we've even stopped. "Promise me you'll quit, Tori. I thought you were slipping away from me; it took me hours to realize that you would probably be fine. Promise me you'll never do that again." Her pale skin is taut, jaw clenched, hands clutching the steering wheel, tears squeezing from between her lashes.
"During the first hours I thought about killing myself if you didn't wake up." Her eyes open and the tears fall freely, staining black on the way down. "Promise me, Tori. If you love me promise me."
"Yes." I say almost quietly and Jade's lips are abruptly on mine, her grip on my hair and shoulder almost painful. When we both pull back, her eyes are calmer, but still wild at the same time.
"I love you so much." Jade whispers against my neck. "It scares me just how much sometimes. "I've never cared about something this much, not even going to Hollywood Arts.
Do I really mean that much? Enough to give up the place that's built us both? I say it out loud without realizing it.
"Of course you do." Jade says with all the conviction in the world. She inhales and exhales until her breathing is calm and the red around her eyes start to fade. "C'mon, we're going to be late." She starts to put the car in reverse, but I put a hand on the steering wheel.
"Let me fix your makeup." I murmur, taking a tissue from my pocket. "You can't go to school like that." I dab it on the outside of a cup in the holder that has condensation on the outside, doubt anyone will drink it. Once I've gotten rid of her black tears I take her makeup from her purse, saying quiet words to soothe her as I cup her cheek in my palm, her green eyes closed as I move the brush over her lashes. She leans into my hand and I kiss her on the lips before taking some of my own lipstick from my purse to put on her.
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