TITLE: Slayer, 15, Charming, But Insane.
AUTHOR: Tumbling Down The Rabbit Hole
FEEDBACK: Please review
ARCHIVE/DISTRIBUTION: Just ask
SUMMARY: Being a slayer is hard enough but being the best friend of a gorgeous Wiccan, in love with a werewolf, starting to fall for your other best friend and a ghost from your past is starting to drive you nuts. Makes it a lot harder.
RATING: PG-13
DISCLAIMER: I own no one except Emery, Jordy, Ben, Cole and Ashton.
NOTE: Response to GidgetGirl's Slayer, 15, Charming, but insane Challenge at CCS.

Emery tried to sneak in quietly to her dorm room, but someone, who shall remain nameless to protect the fact that they were stupid enough to leave their ownbag in the doorway, so she tripped over it.

"What! I swear I didn't light the cat on fire!" Jordy mumbled, jerking upwards, a sleep mask covering her aqua blue eyes.

Emery tugged off her pants and pulled on a pair of much more comfortable cotton P.J bottoms. She waited until Jordan seemed a little more awake before apologizing.

"Guess what?" Jordy said, now bouncing up and down a little on the bed, her hair mussed and full of fly away's. This was the most unmade Emery ever saw her friend and even then she was still beautiful.

Crawling under the covers first, arranging her pillows and grabbing Bushy her stuffed lion (that if anyone asked, belonged to Jordy), she then turned to look at her roommate, "What?"

"Ashton totally is giving me that necklace I hinted at. I feel bad though because it's uber expensive. Is it wrong that I still love him for doing it?" Jordy said sheepishly.

Dutifully Emery nodded, before turning out the light Jordy had turned on when Emery had come stumbling in.

Jordan was so lucky. Was Em jealous? Yes. She had accepted that a long time ago, Jordy's mom was so cool. Mrs. Madison always came up to visit and took Jordy, Emery and Ben out for dinner and then something fun.

England was great, but she felt so lonely. Her mom was back in L.A and even if the Academy had been right next door, she doubted her mom would have come to visit. Her mom was too wrapped in grief. Her therapist said that she was experiencing a deep depression and wanted to keep her medicated, but that was not an option.

Amy, Jordan's mom, always invited Emery to join them for the summer but she hated to come with them. They always had to pay for things and it was awkward. She'd rather hang out with Ben, who usually stayed in the house left in his inheritance.

Ben had gotten a heck of a lot of money from his dad, the dick. Emery knew she was being harsh, but it wasn't fair that someone as great as Ben gotten screwed over in the family department.

Emery deserved it a little more. She had shown up at the worst time, just after her brother's death. She didn't look like him, but she still was a constant reminder of a lost child.

"Em?" Jordan whispered, after Emery had lay there for awhile thinking about what ever crossed her mind.

"What?"

"I think I want to break up with Ashton."

Whoa! Ashton Finn was considered a good old fashioned kind of handsome. He had light brown hair in a crew cut and his parents were head of the new restored Initiative.

He had been the center of Jordy's world for months. But Emery's best friend had a tendency to go for the popular, the rich and the famous. It irked Emery a little, but like her jealousy, she kept it in check.

Besides she shouldn't talk. Cole's dad was part of a band that was still selling a gazillion albums.

"Why?" Emery said, leaning to turn on the light, this was definitely a light's on talk, maybe even a chocolate covered cookie dough kind of talk. Jordy looked the worst she had ever seen her. In the past thirty minutes, Jordan had gone from confident to scared and weak.

The beauty paused, looking worried, "I want to date someone else."

Please don't be Cole, Emery prayed. She had enough competition without adding Jordy who got everything she wanted. It was like the 11th commandment: 'Jordy shall get what she wants.'

The ashy blond tried to remain composed, "Who?" She squeezed her lion to her chest while waiting for Jordan to spit it out.

"Ben."

"Ben? Travers? Tall, blond, stickler for rules Ben?" Her voice once again becoming frantically higher with each word. This was just too weird. She had thought that maybe Jordy liked Cole, but not Ben.

Jordy nodded, looking embarrassed even in the privacy of the dorm.

Emery had to take a minute for this to fully sink in. The three of them had been friends since they were ten. It had always been the three of them. Now Jordy wanted to become JordyBen and Emery.

Jordy wasn't good for Ben. Okay, Emery lied; Ben and Jordan would be adorable together. They were constantly being called (jokingly) the cutest couple. That was until Jordy started dating Ashton. He hated the friendship between the two of them. Jordan once told Emery that Ashton thought something was going on between them.

He was half right.

"Emmy say something." Jordy whispered. It may hurt Emery, but it was clear it was tearing up Jordan.

The shorter of the friends smiled, "I think…" the right thing was to break up with Ashton. Stop stringing him along. Pretending to love him when she was thinking about Ben. But Emery also wanted Jordy to leave Ben alone. Besides, while Jordy and Ashton were dating and invited Emery to hang out, she could usually get Cole to come, "I don't know actually, Jor."

That was a half-truth. She knew what she'd do in this case, but she wasn't sure what she'd do for Jordy.

"I need to sleep." She covered herself and rolled over to face the wall, pretending to fake a large yawn. What was wrong with her? She was always saying to Ben that he needed a girlfriend, but now that he had a chance for a great girl, she was against it.

She was an awful friend.