AN: thanks for all the people sticking around to actually read this. Hope you're enjoying it.

Mentions of Pot.

The girls go out for the night only to rush back for Riley.

~•~Jori~•~

"You ready?" Jade asked, grabbing her small clutch purse as I turned to look at her.

"Yeah, do you have everything you need?" I asked her, looking at my phone as it buzzed.

7:00pm: Hey, glad to hear you're coming to the party. Can you pick up some ice on the way xo

"All good?" Jade questioned, moving closer to me.

"Yeah, just MJ asking if I could get some ice on the way."

"Rule of thumb to never go to a party without ice."

"Alright, lets go," I said, kissing her cheek before we left her room and bid a goodnight to her mother.

"When will you two be home?" Alice asked.

"Eleven maybe twelve. We'll be quiet," Jade said.

"Have fun."

~•~Jori~•~

Carrying three bags of ice each, Jade and I walked into MJ's home and I was immediately greeted by Sully running towards me, dragging a frayed and broken rope.

"Sully, stop," I said, making him skid to a stop in front of me. "Good boy."

Sully yapped happily and softly for such a big dog before he followed me and Jade through to the kitchen.

I dropped one bag onto the bench near the kitchen sink and continued through to the back yard.

"That dog is your shadow," Jade said, making me glance back and smile softly.

"I trained him, he listens to me more than he does MJ."

"Talking about me, Tor?"

"Not directly," I said, tossing the bags I was carrying into MJ's arms.

"Boo, whore," she said, making me laugh and grab the bags Jade was carrying.

"This is Jade, my girlfriend. Jade, MJ."

"Hi, Tori's said so little but so much at the same time."

Jade quirked an eyebrow as I shook my head, smiling softly.

"I've barely said anything, don't lie."

"She's said you're a good person," Jade said, and I looked at her shocked. She's never said anything nice about anyone other than her family.

She wasn't exactly complimenting MJ directly, but it was something.

"Party!" Someone called out, coming through the house like a bull out of a cage.

"Hey Alex," I said, hugging the newcomer.

"Vega, nice of you to finally come to a party," Alex said, smirking as he patted my shoulder.

"Alex, Jade. Jade, Alex," I said, gesturing between them both.

"Donkey!" MJ loudly said sounding like Eddie Murphy in Shrek.

Sully barked loudly and ran over to me, growling.

"Cops," I said, and MJ quickly poured the ice on top of the beers before loading the top of the tub with soda's.

"Joking," I said, laughing softly.

"Not cool, Tori."

"Yeah, Vega," Jade said, looking visibly shaken.

"Relax, Jade. Hand over the weed so that you don't get caught with it."

Jade undid her clutch and handed me my tin that I kept my joints in, I kissed her cheek and moved to take a seat on the bench by the unlit fire pit.

"You roll enough for a month?" MJ asked, sitting on one side of me as I handed her the mango one I rolled up earlier before we left Jade's place.

"Enough for tonight," I said, leaning against Jade as she sat beside me. I lit up one of the joints and inhaled deeply, sighing happily as I did.

"How's the bump going?" MJ asked softly.

I handed the joint to Jade and reached forward, grabbing a can of wahoo punch from the ice bucket.

"I have an ultrasound in two weeks, but fine as far as I know," I said, cracking the can open and taking a sip.

~•~Jori~•~

The party was quieter than MJ's usual ones, the music pumped heavily over the Bluetooth speaker.

The fire crackled as Alex threw another log onto it, I watched the embers rise up and disappear and smiled as I felt Jade's arm wrap around my waist.

"You warm enough?" Jade murmured into my ear.

I nodded, turning to look at her, leaning back slightly with how close we were before seeking her lips in a light kiss.

"You two are so cute," MJ said, making me smile against Jade's lips.

"We are," I said once I pulled away.

"What pizza does everyone want to eat?" Alex asked, looking at his phone.

"Deluxe, please," I said, leaning into Jade's arms as she wrapped them around my waist once more.

I felt her move an arm from around me and I whined lightly, making her laugh.

"Hold on, phones buzzing," she said, and I looked at her as she dug through her clutch she had on her lap.

"It's my mum," Jade said before answering the call and moving away from the music to hear better.

"All okay?" I asked Jade when she came back over to me a few minutes later.

"Riley's having issues breathing, she's gonna take him to the emergency room," Jade said, sounding worried.

"Let's go then," I said, standing up quickly and grabbing her clutch from the seat. "I'll call a taxi. I don't want you driving after smoking."

~•~Jori~•~

When we got to the hospital, Jade went up to the main desk, the woman behind it was rude, mean, and arrogant, making me growl and step up to butt in, but as soon as jade said she was looking for her brother, we were directed down a long hall.

"There," I said, pointing to a bed on the far side of the emergency room.

"Ri," Jade said, running to her brothers bedside. "What's going on, buddy?"

Riley signed, making my heart drop at him being in pain and looking so small on the bed, surrounded by cables and machines.

"Chest pains, breathing is short, dizziness," Alice said, making me look over at Jade and Riley's mother.

"I thought he just couldn't breathe properly?"

"Yeah, So did I. But when we got here, he started to get chest pains."

Riley," I moved to grasp his hand gently as I spoke. "have you been near anything you're allergic to that you forgot about?"

He shook his head.

"He was running around and got very short of breath way too quickly."

I stroked his hair from his forehead and smiled at him. "The doctors will make everything okay, Riley."

"I'm Nanita, the on duty nurse, let's see what his signs say, shall we?" The nurse asked, coming around the bed.

"I need to hook these sticky pads up to his chest and arms, is that okay?" The nurse asked.

We all nodded, and Jade moved to help Riley take his shirt off.

~•~Jori~•~

We were at the hospital for two hours with the nurses monitoring Riley non-stop. They kept him on a heart rate monitor and the beeping was getting to him, I could tell. Every beep a machine made, caused him to flinch and wince.

I pulled my headphones from my bag and plugged them into my phone, handing them to him.

"Here, watch something to help drown out the other sounds."

He nodded and happily put the soft buds into his ears.

I loaded up YouTube and let him have the phone. He found some paw patrol videos to watch, so I sat back and leaned against Jade.

There were only two chairs, so I was sitting on Jade's lap while Alice occupied the second chair on the other side of Riley, keeping an eye on her son.

Jade yawned, making me turn a little to face her. "Why don't you rest with Riley? I'm sure the nurses won't care that you're sleeping beside your brother."

Jade shook her head, so I stood, gesturing her to stand also. When she did, I sat on the chair and pulled her into my lap.

I wasn't as strong as her, but I didn't mind her weight on me. It was calming. She wasn't even heavy.

Wrapping my arms around Jade, she shifted a little and swung her legs over the arm of the chair before resting her head on my shoulder.

"I love you," I whispered, kissing her head.

"Love you too," she murmured through a yawn.

I rubbed her back, enough for her to shut her eyes and her breathing to even as she started to fall asleep.

~•~Jori~•~

It was midnight by the time Riley was released, his pains stopped, breathing back to normal and dizziness gone.

I woke Jade, and we all got into Alice's car after jade told her that she had a few beers at the party and we got a taxi to the hospital.

Alice didn't seem upset, or disappointed. She just nodded and drove us to their house.

"Thank you for being truthful," Alice said. "I'm just glad you chose not to drink then drive anywhere."

"I wouldn't do it, I'm not dumb," Jade said.

"I know," Alice said, parking the car by the front of the house.

"I'll take Riley in," I said, noticing he'd faked asleep.

"You don't have to, I can…"

"He's light as a feather, it'll be right."

I slid out of the car as Jade grabbed her clutch and my bag.

Making my way to the passenger front door as Alice went up and opened the house, I carefully grabbed Riley and carried him straight inside, up the stairs and to his bedroom.

~•~Jori~•~

Jade and I were laying on the couch in the family room with the tv playing Criminal Minds quietly.

A lazy Sunday is just what we needed. It was nearing lunchtime when my phone started to ring, causing Jade to groan and move from laying on top of me as I reached onto the coffee table and grabbed the vibrating device.

"It's your sister," Jade said when she saw the screen.

Huffing, I silenced the phone and set it back down, wrapping my arms around Jade's waist before pulling her back in close.

"You're not going to answer? It could be important."

"Trina thinks losing an eyelash is important. If my family needs me my parents can call me."

Jade squirmed on me a little before reaching into her back pocket and pulling out her phone that was buzzing.

"Trina."

Growling, I took her phone and answered the call.

"Just cause I don't answer your call doesn't mean you should call my girlfriend, Trina."

"Oh, stop. Have you seen my-"

"I swear to god, Trina. If you call me for anything other than an emergency, I'll slap you into next week," Jade said, pressing the end call button.

I smiled up at her, kissing her gently as I put her phone beside mine.

"I love you," I said dreamily.

"Love you too, Vega."

I felt a shiver run down my spine as I smiled wider and rubbed my nose against Jade's.

"Your friends are nice," Jade murmured, laying her head back on my chest.

"They're all high, they have no beef with anyone."

"Beef… now I'm hungry."

"Tacos?" I asked, my own stomach making a noise to agree with my question.

"Sounds good, order in or make our own?"

"Do you have the stuff here?"

"Let's go look." She made a move to get up but I pulled her back against me.

"No, too lazy to move," I whined.

"Jeez, Vega. Let me grab my laptop and we can order in," she said, chuckling as she kissed my nose.

"Laptop, as in down in the room?"

"Yeah, Vega. My laptop in my room."

I whined again, pouting, causing Jade to laugh and poke my pouted lip.

"I'll be right back," she said softly, kissing me gently.

~•~Jori~•~

Eating my third burrito, I kept my eyes on the screen as the show progressed.

"The holidays are next week, are you still going to enter that contest?" Jade asked.

I looked over at her swallowing my mouthful as I nodded.

"Yeah, I wanna kick that kids ass. He's undefeated in this one. I want to see the light in his eyes die as I get up on stage."

"Dark, I love it," Jade said, smiling as she rubbed her hand across my thigh.

"Do you know how much I love you" I asked her, resting my hand on top of hers.

"No, Vega. I don't. How much do you love me?" She asked, lightly teasing tone to her voice before she chuckled as I only shook my head and rolled my eyes at her.

"A lot…. I love you a lot. I don't even know how or why you put up with me."

"I can't wait to see you enter the contest, kick ass, and make me more proud than you already do, Tori."

"That's a really sweet thing to say, Jade," I said, smiling softly before kissing her gently.