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Snippets of Jori
Chapter 1
Author's note: Alot of times I get ideas for what could best be considered story fragments. Just separate ideas or parts of stories that I've never written. However, I have nowhere to really put them. So I've started to put them in a series called "Snippets of Jori" Little short stories of various incidents in Jori life. This chapter has two short Jori stories and I hope you enjoy it.
Someone's been sleeping in my bed.
It was early on a Friday night and Jade, Beck, Robbie, Cat and Andre walked onto Jade's back Patio. They had assembled at Jade's house to work on a one act play they were supposed to write.
"OK," Announced Jade. "We're here, we're going to work hard, we're going to finish tonight, No slacking and if any one of you cause me to get less than a A grade. You're going to suffer. If you're nice, and behave, we can order pizza."
"Bossy!" Muttered Cat under her breath.
"What was that!"
"Black olives! I want black olives on my pizza." Replied Cat, rather nervously.
Jade huffed briefly and pointed to a large table and chairs sitting to one side of the patio. "Come on, let's sit. I hope all of you have some good ideas."
Andre held up a notebook. "Got some great ones, right here."
"Where's yours?" Asked Beck.
"Oh chiz, I left it upstairs in my bedroom."
"Ohhh, I'll get it" Squealed Cat as she raised her hand.
The Goth narrowed her eyes for a moment, "Fine, It's the green notebook on my desk. Don't touch ANYTHING!"
With a "Kay Kay" Cat then skipped off.
About a minute later Jade looked up to her window. Though the curtains were drawn, she could see a sliver of light, meaning Cat had turned on the light in her room. "She'd Better not touch anything!"
The group had just sat down an began to discuss their ideas, when a rather puzzled looking Cat, came back out on to the patio.
"What's wrong Cat?" said Beck.
Jade, who could care less about Cat's expression, barked. "Where's my notebook."
"I forgot to grab it." Cat then paused. "Jade you still hate Tori, right?"
"That's a stupid question, Of course I hate her."
"Jade, then why is Tori asleep in your bed? And why is she naked?"
For instant, Jade's eyes opened wide. "HOW DID YOU KNOW SHE WAS NAKED? DID YOU PEEK?"
"Uh….Uh…" Stammered Cat "Because her clothes were on the floor."
Before any one in the stunned group could react, Jade jumped out of the chair and angrily walked towards the doorway. As she was about to enter the house, Jade stopped and turned around.
"I'm going to have a talk with Vega! How dare she sleep in my bed! TALK ABOUT INVASION OF PRIVACY. I'll be right back! NOBODY LEAVE AND I MEAN IT!"
Jade then stormed in the house.
A few moments later, the group looked up two Jade's window, where they could see a faint stream of light from a minute gap between the curtains.
For a moment, they could faint voices coming from Jade's room. A second later, the light went out.
"Oh, their coming down. It will be fun to have Tori Join us." Said Robbie.
Suddenly, Andre strained his ears. "Hey, if they're coming down, how come I hear soft romantic music coming from Jade's room."
"They're not coming down." Lamented Beck, his face a mixture of surprise and sadness.
After an uncomfortable moment of silence, Robbie began to get up. "Come on let's go to Nozu" He looked to the others, who didn't move. "Hey what gives?"
Andre looked to the now darkened bedroom then back to Robbie, with an uncomfortable and nervous expression. "She told us not to leave."
Robbie sat down and joined the others in the uncomfortable silence.
"What do we do now?" Asked Cat.
"Not leave!" Replied Beck, looking even more uncomfortable.
Tori and the wicked old crone.
It was the start of summer between their Junior and Senior years in college and Tori and Jade had been looking forward a week-long vacation in Mexico. Between studying for finals, working and auditions the couple had worked extremely hard in the last few weeks. In the last week, Tori had been working doubly hard. As soon as she finished her last exam, she got a small part in a tv detective show. The part was that of a young business type that witnessed a murder. The scenes were all night scenes and filming would only take a few days, so Tori kept working her day job then went to film her scenes at night.
One of the reasons she pushed herself so hard right before their vacation was to have some extra money for their vacation.
It was Friday night at 8:00 pm and the girls had just arrived at the airport. Tori had worked the previous night until 3 am then worked from 8 am to 5 and was dead on her feet. They girls had checked in headed to the terminal. Their flight was a 2 and half hour flight to Albuquerque where they'd change planes and fly to Cancun. After that, they'd spend a week in an all-inclusive resort.
As they reached the plane, Jade smiled and looked to a very sleep deprived and quite exhausted, Tori. "We're almost there, baby. You can sleep on the plane."
"I hope so." Murmured Tori, as she shuffled down the ramp.
Within minutes they were seated on the plane and taking off. As soon as they were in the air, Jade put on her headphones, kissed Tori on the cheek and laid back and closed her eyes. Tori wanting to drown out some of the noise on the plane searched her carryon for her headphones but couldn't find them.
"Damn" Cursed Tori. "Must have left them at home or in my luggage.
She laid back closed her eyes, but quickly became aware of a well-dressed woman in her 70's, with white hair tied neatly in bun, sitting across the aisle from her. She was sitting with a man about the same age. Tori quickly deduced that she was one of those people, who for some odd reason, never figured out that you're supposed to lower your voice indoors.
"I can't believe Dr. Wells." The woman snapped. "He refused to run that blood test I read about. I know I have anemia. But he says I'm just fine. I've done my own research and I should know what diseases I have. What do those doctors know anyway."
And so, it went on, for more than an hour and a half, Tori tried to sleep only to listen to this woman endlessly talk to her male companion about her various aches, pains and aliments. All of which seemed to be severe and debilitating. It became quite clear she was a full-blown hypochondriac, who would constantly change doctors because they wouldn't diagnose her with whatever disease she claimed she had.
"I told Dr. Shuman that I had Acoustic Neuroma. I have my dizzy spells and that's a symptom. That's extremely serious, I read all about that disease. He had the nerve to say I there was nothing on the Cat scan and I had a mild case of Vertigo."
At one point she was tempted to wake Jade and see if she had some headphones, but could get herself to do it. She just tried to sleep and failed miserably, all because this woman was pissed off the doctors wouldn't say she was sick.
Making it even worse, she then went on about a previous doctor, a Doctor Sanchez whom she quickly described as one of "those people"
"I don't know what kind of hut he got his medicine degree in, but he hardly knew what he was doing. He probably just stole his degree like all the rest of them." The woman ranted at one point.
Immediately after that, she quickly departed from the subject of health care to auto repair. "You know I have to find a new garage for my Mercedes? I came out of the beauty salon the other day and some shopping cart from the supermarket nearby had rolled and hit my car. Made a very large dent. I'm going to sue them. But first I took my car to my normal garage and asked them to take care of it right way. You know they told me I had to wait as there were other cars ahead of mine. I've been taking mine there for more than 30 years and you'd expect some loyalty from a long-time customer. You bet, I walked right out of there. They're never getting my business again."
Already worn out and in a bad mood, Tori found that every single word this woman spoke only irritated her more and more. She was a hypochondriac racist, with a giant sense of entitlement, who could neither shut up or quiet down and having to listen to her was torture. Returning to the subject of her health care, she talked about all the special clinic's she visited and how incompetent they were.
"With all the tests and devices, I have they can't diagnose one illness. They all said I was fine!"
When the flight had about 20 minutes left, Jade woke up and smiled. "Power nap, feel great. How was yours Vega?"
"It wasn't" Retorted Tori, as she stared straight ahead, with bloodshot eyes.
"Why couldn't you sleep? I figured you'd nod right off"
Tori quickly growled and gritted her teeth. "I forgot my headphones. And I had to listen to HER!"
Jade looked around. "Her?"
"Listen!"
For a moment Jade listened and like Tori earlier, became aware of the woman, who was currently on the subject of how badly her feet constantly hurt.
"Jade, I've been listening to her for over two hours." Tori then tensed up and gritted her teeth. "Talking about her feet, her anemia, her migraines, her allergies and every other thing that's wrong with her. Oh and she's a racist, who will only have white people clean her house because and I quote, they steal. And here's the kicker, her name is KAREN!"
Seeing her girlfriend about to burst at the seams, Jade quickly pulled Tori in close. "It's Ok Baby."
"She won't shut up Jade. She just won't shut up! I hate her and if you had your scissors on you, I'd shove them right in her eye." Hissed Tori. "Poke both of her fucking eyes out!"
As amusing as that sounded, Jade stifled her laugh and kissed Tori. "It's almost done baby."
Jade for the final minutes of the flight, listened to this woman and like Tori, quickly came to hate her. Thankfully the plane landed and Jade hoped that this woman was going somewhere else. As they got up to leave the plane, she shoved herself and her companion right in front of Tori, bumping her.
Slowly they made their way out of the plane and as soon as they exited the plane itself, the woman turned to her companion and barked. "Harold, get one of those wheelchairs the airport has, my feet are acting up."
Tori, who's patience had been already pushed to the edge promptly snapped. Right Infront of Jade's eyes, Tori's face seemed to distort and turn red. An instant later Tori got in the woman's face and screeched.
"LADY! I've been listening to you for over 2 Hours go on and on about all your sickness, pain and your fucking feet. You don't need a wheelchair, YOU NEED A HEARSE, BECAUSE YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY DYING!"
The woman's face turned ghostly white, as she suddenly started gasping for breath and staggered back. In fact, Jade had never seen anyone look more devastated in their entire life. It was the most beautiful prefect thing Jade had ever seen. A work of absolutely perfect verbal pugilism. The woman seemed to stagger back and Jade even noticed her left arm began to shake slightly.
As much as she wanted to watch Tori's handiwork, some instinct deep inside of Jade, caused her to instantly grab Tori's arm and yank her up the ramp. "Come on BABY, we only have 15 minutes to make our plane."
As they reached the top of the ramp and were about to enter the terminal itself, Jade noticed that no one was behind them, as if the people who were behind her, getting off the plane, had stopped for some reason. But her mind was firmly on getting Tori away from there and didn't look back.
Jade rushed Tori across the terminal and all the way, Tori didn't say a word. In fact, she had a rather strange blank look on her face. Minutes later, they were on board their connecting flight and waiting to take off.
As soon as they were in their seats, having a moment to think, Jade turned to Tori. "OH MY GOD! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! You put that mean old bat down. That was savage. NO that was more than savage, that was absolutely primordial. That was the atom bomb of verbal take downs."
Beaming with pride, Jade gave Tori a huge kiss. "You are so getting extra cuddles, tonight!"
Jade was not only full of pride, she realized that she loved Tori more than ever. Quickly she reached in her pocket and for a moment felt the box that contained the engagement ring she was going to give Tori and smiled.
Looking over, Tori started to cry. "I didn't mean to yell at her, I just snapped. OH my god, I'm so embarrassed."
"No. NO. NO. That was Beautiful! I loved it. OH my god did I ever love it. I love you so much. I am going to cuddle the absolute fuck out of you tonight! Please don't cry. You're over tired and that wicked old crone, deserved it." Jade then briefly teared up herself. "I have never more than now, been prouder to be your girl! You have made me so happy!"
Tori wiped a tear and seemed to calm down. "Thank you. I love you too!" Tori then started to look a bit worried. "I hope she's ok. I didn't mean to ruin her trip."
At that very moment, Jade happened to look out the planes window. Her attention, was quickly directed across the tarmac, to the ambulance that had just pulled up next to the plane they had just gotten off. A second later she saw two paramedics, get out and run at full speed up a stairway to the ramp.
With a smirk, Jade quickly pulled down the shade and turned to Tori. "I'm sure she's just fine. Here, have my head phones. Just close your eyes and lay up against me. This is going to be the best trip ever."
Tori took the headphones, put them on and cuddled up against Jade, falling asleep almost instantly.
Jade smiled and kissed Tori on the head and whispered. "My beautiful, savage and soon to be my fiancé Tori. I'm the luckiest girl in the world!"
As a grim smile formed on her face, Jade mused, "Well, she wanted to be sick, now's she sick!"
There will be more installments as I come up with some ideas. But this is just a series of short stories. Please review.
Thanks to Invader Johnny
Useless tidbit: Acoustic Neuroma is a real disease. It is caused by a benign growth on a cranial nerve and can cause hearing loss and dizziness amongst other things.