HL: WOOT! THE NINTH CHAPTER!
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Tori walked out to her car as she got into the driver's seat, Marco got into the passenger's seat, Tori put the key in the ignition, turned it, and then pulled out of her parking space as her tires screeched against the cement she turned out of the theater. The two teens were quiet as Tori turned the radio on she concentrated on the road while Marco looked out the window, but looked at the glove compartment, as Tori stopped at the gas station, she got out of the car. Marco waited until she couldn't see him, opened the glove compartment, and saw a small compact knife resting there, he reached in, grabbed it putting it in his pocket, and then closed the compartment as Tori got back in. The two sat in silence still as Tori dropped Marco off back at his house, he went to lean over to kiss her cheek, but she turned her head away from him. Marco sighed, got out, then went back in the house as Tori pulled out of his driveway, he put his hand in his pocket, pulled out the small knife, went into the house, and went over to his phone dialing Tori's house, expecting Jocelyn to be home. As the phone rang, he sat down in a chair, and then an answer finally came, "Hello?" "Hey, Joce? It's Marco" "Yeah, hey Marco," "listen, I just pulled Tori's small compact knife from her glove compartment, I'm guessing you didn't know she still cuts?" "No, she told me she stopped, but okay, what do you want me to do?" Jocelyn asked, a bit of a worry in her voice, "Keep her away from anything sharp, I have a feeling she's going to go on a rampage when she gets home, because she can't find her knife." "Okay, she just walked through the door, I'll talk to you later." Jocelyn said hanging up quickly as Marco hung his phone up.
Tori went into the house looking at her sister as she hung up the phone, "Who was that?" Tori asked as Jocelyn shrugged, "Just Brian, I was just talking to him." She said as Tori raised an eyebrow at her sister as she walked upstairs into her room. Tori shut her door, looked around, then started throwing her pillow off her bed, lifting her sheets, lifting her mattress, and threw things out of her draws and closet to look for a spare knife to cut herself with. Tori looked started digging through everything on her until she found a sock with a small bottle in it, she picked it up, reached into the sock, looked at the bottle, opened the top, and then tipped her head back taking it down in one sip. Tori went into her closet then found a box filled with small pills and one rolled up joint which Cass had snuck out of Paige's pocket one day and snuck it to Tori before they had college interviews. As Tori went to go light it, Jocelyn walked into her room, and she quickly put it back in the box, and kicked it back into the closet. Jocelyn looked around the room, everything was sprawled out on the floor, she looked at her sister, looked at the empty of bottle, then looked back at Tori, and then made her way towards her through the mess, "Nice room." Jocelyn said stopping in front of her sister crossing her arms, "What?" Tori asked as she looked at her sister, "I was told you still cut?" "What? I don't cut. Who ever told you that is a liar." "Whoever told me that, must tell the truth, because they found a knife in your glove compartment!" Jocelyn said as Tori shrunk under her sister's glare, "Wrists, now!" Tori held out her wrists as Jocelyn grabbed them, she pulled up the cuffs to see scars there.
Tori looked away from her sister as Jocelyn looked at her, then shoved her down, "Why did you lie to me?" Jocelyn asked as Tori looked at her, "Because, I didn't want you to know I started again!" "Tori! Your going to kill yourself one of these days! Your not going to Chapman! Your staying here in Toronto!" Jocelyn said as Tori glared at her, "YOU CAN'T MAKE ME! I'M GOING TO CALIFORNIA AND IM NOT STAYING HERE IN TORONOTO!" Tori yelled storming downstairs as Jocelyn followed her down the stairs, Tori walked into the kitchen, grabbed the sharpest knife she could find, and waited for her sister. Jocelyn went into the kitchen to see Tori with the knife held in her hand, she walked foreword as Tori touched the knife to her skin, Jocelyn went to dive for it, but Tori sliced her wrist open. Jocelyn stopped looking at her sister as the blood dripped from her wrist onto the floor forming a pool of blood at her feet, Jocelyn looked up at her, "Tori, why?" she asked as Tori's eyes watered, "Why? I'll tell you why. Being raped by Spinner, a drunken night, a prostitute, that's all you need to know for now!" Tori said falling to her knees. Jocelyn rushed over to her side and put her arm around Tori's shoulders as she sobbed, Jocelyn rested her head on Tori's and kissed her head as Tori gripped her sister's shirt.
Months passed and it was finally time for the Seniors of Degrassi High School to say good-bye to each other. Jocelyn had been excepted into Harvard, Tori was excepted into Chapman in California, Cass and Marissa were going to acting school in New York, and the rest were staying in Canada, as far as everyone knew. After the graduation was over Cass ran, as best as she could in a short dress and heels, over to Tori, jumped up onto her back, and then yelled, "WE DID IT! FIVE YEARS AT DEGRASSI AND WE DID IT!" "OW! CASS THAT'S MY EAR!" Tori yelled back as Brian, Jocelyn, and Marissa laughed at the two girls. Cass jumped off of Tori's back, looped her arm with Brian's arm, then they both started skipping around in a circle, switched their arms, skipped, switch, skip, switch, skip, "Cass, what the fuck are you on!" Jocelyn asked as Cass grinned, "Nothing! I'm just high!" Marissa and Tori put their hands on their hips and raised their eyebrows at her, "ON LIFE!" The two girls laughed as the other Seniors walked out, Cass had switched Brian for Tori, both looking like morons, of course, skipping in high heels, and going around in circles while switching their arms once in awhile. Marissa was holding her stomach from laughing so hard, Brian had tears running down his face, Jocelyn was on the ground holding her stomach as Paige and Marco walked over to them, Cass and Tori had stopped, the other three still laughing hysterically.
Cass laughed, panting, and held her stomach as she wiped a tear from her eye, "Hey! You know what this calls for?" She asked as Marco raised an eyebrow, "A chill pill?" "NO!" She said going over to her car, then blaring as loud as she could, 'Goodies' by Ciara making Paige laugh, "Oh god, not this Cass!" "I BET YOU WANT THE GOODIES! BET YOU THOUGHT ABOUT IT! GOT YOU ALL HOT AND BOTHERED! MAYBE CUZ I TALK ABOUT IT IF YOUR LOOKING FOR THE GOODIES KEEP ON LOOKING CUZ THEY STAY IN THE JAR!" Cass belted out making Tori laugh even harder at her, even if Cass wasn't high, she was defiantly hyper, which was unusual for her unless she was on something. After Cass's craziness died down, they all went back to Paige's house, to sit, talk, cry, and say their good-byes for a final time. They sat in a circle, Paige next to Brian, Brian next to Jocelyn, Tori next to Jocelyn, Marissa next to Tori, Cass next to Marissa, and Marco next to Cass and to Paige's right, "Remember that time Tori and Cass got bagged for throwing the freshmen into the trash bin?" Paige asked as the others broke into laughter, "Hey! You were right there too Michalchuk!" Cass said as she rested her head on her shoulder, "I remember that one time I caught you and Marco making out in the Janitors closet." All eyes turned to Marco as he blushed, slightly, "Oooooooo Marco's a bad, bad, bad, boy," Marissa said as Cass laughed, "He was re-bounding off of Manny, who made him all HOT and bothered, eh?" "I thought I told you NOT to bring that up!" Marco hissed as Cass put an innocent look on her face, "Now, Marco, you've known me for five years, you should know that I can't keep a secret, hun." "Yeah, no kidding." Tori said as Cass raised an eyebrow at her, "Hey, if you think it was me that told your sister you still cut, which I didn't know until now, it wasn't me, it was him." Cass said pointing a finger at Marco.
Tori looked at Marco, who looked at his feet, then shot a glare at Cass, who, once again, put an innocent look on her face. Tori clenched her fists, gritted her teeth, and glared at Marco, "You told her? Why?" "I'm not the only one who's worried about you Tori! All of us are!" "YOU SHOULD OF STAYED OUT OF IT!" "I'm your BOYFRIEND! How can you tell me to stay out of it!" "YOUR NOT AS OF NOW!" Tori yelled, grabbed her car keys, stormed to the front door, "Tori! Wait!" Paige said as Tori slammed the door shut, they all looked at Marco again.
Your subtleties
They strangle me
I can't explain myself at all.
Tori slammed her car door shut, tried to put her keys in the ignition, but couldn't so she ended up letting out a frustrated cry, threw them to the ground, kicked her dashboard, hit the steering wheel, ripped her scrunchie out of her hair, threw her purse at the window, and screamed as tears fell down her cheeks.
And all the wants
And all the needs
And I don't want to need at all.
She sobbed, crying out in pain she had held in for so long, grabbed her purse, and began searching for her anxiety pills, when she grabbed the bottle, she took one, then a second, then a third, and then a fourth.
The walls start breathing
My minds unweaving
Maybe it's best you leave me alone.
A weight is lifted
On this evening
I give the final blow.
Tori turned the light on so she could see, reached under seat, pulled out a bottle of Vodka, then opened it, taking a swig, tears still falling from her eyes, her cheeks now had lines of black from her mascara, she took another swig, went to take another, but stopped, opened her car door, leant over the side, and threw up.
When darkness turns to light,
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.
Tori got out of her car, swayed, saw dots dancing in front of her eyes, and then passed out on the pavement.
A falling star
Least I fall alone.
I can't explain what you can't explain.
You're finding things that you didn't know
I look at you with such distain
Jocelyn went to check on Tori, only to see her passed out on the pavement, and her vomit on the ground, "TORI!" she yelled running to her sister's side.
The walls start breathing
My minds unweaving
Maybe it's best you leave me alone.
A weight is lifted
On this evening
I give the final blow.
When darkness turns to light
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.
Just a little insight won't make this right
It's too late to fight
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.
Now I'm on my own side
It's better than being on your side
It's my fault when you're blind
It's better that I see it through your eyes
All these thoughts locked inside
Now you're the first to know
The others ran out to see what was going on with Tori. Marco went wide-eyed and ran to her side flipping her over, and tried to shake her awake, "Tori! Tori! Come on Tori! Open your eyes! Tori!" he said as Cass went into the car, she found the pills, the vodka, and pulled them out. Jocelyn grabbed them seeing that Tori had majorly OD'ed on the pills and half of the vodka bottle was gone, "Get an ambulance! NOW!" Jocelyn said as Paige dialed 9-1-1, Jocelyn held her sister's head up off of the pavement, "Tori, come on, you can't be dead, please, you just can't be…" Jocelyn whispered as tears fell onto Tori's head. Marco took Tori's hand, she still had a pulse, but it was slow, and he didn't know how long she was going to last, he squeezed her hand as he kissed her forehead, he moved a piece of hair out of her face, and tears forced their way into his eyes.
When darkness turns to light
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.
Just a little insight won't make this right
It's too late to fight
It ends tonight,
It ends when darkness turns to light
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.
Just a little insight won't make this right
It's too late to fight
It ends tonight,
It ends tonight.
When darkness turns to light,
It ends tonight.
HL: YES! 9TH CHAPTER! That had to be the most depressing chapter I've ever written in my life oO. The next chapter maybe the last to end this story, but don't worry, I'm going to make a sequel! I like the way this is going, I actually really do, and I finally got an All-American Rejects song in there! YAY! Haha! What's going to happen to Tori? Will she be okay? Well, you'll have to wait, and see. I was actually listening to the song as I was writing this I was like, hey, this inspired me, so I want to see how it turns out. It turned out to be really, really, really depressing. OO
TBC….