Jade started going to therapy and her parents did too, they wanted to know how to help her better, they truly loved her and wanted the best for her, so they put even more effort into making her life as stable as possible. However, it wasn't working yet, she felt better when she talked about things in her sessions, but then she came back home and she felt the overwhelming pressure of being normal again, so it was a slow process.
"Hey babe" Beck said and gave Jade a peck to greet her before class, she was standing by her locker just arranging things in it.
"Hey" Jade said.
"Brought you coffee" He said and handed her a cup.
"Thanks, I need it" She said sincerely and took a sip.
"What are you doing?" He asked curiously.
"Just…rearranging my locker, my therapist said I should rearrange everything in my life that makes me feel it's not mine, he said it will help me to take charge again and do things the way I want them now, not the way I did before" Jade explained and he nodded.
"That sounds like good advice, are you changing your room too?" Beck asked and she nodded.
"Yes, Diana helped me yesterday…I moved things around, you'll see" She said with a little smile and took a breath as she stared at everything, trying to decide if she liked it.
"What are you thinking?" Beck asked gently.
"What if it doesn't work?" Jade asked back.
"Jade, it's a process…You'll get there" He affirmed and held her hand "I love you" He randomly said as he looked into her eyes and she gave him a little smile, but she felt weird.
"Do you? Really?" She asked and he sighed.
"Doubts again, uh?" He said and smiled "It's okay, I can say it again…and again and again until you believe me" He added and she chuckled "You think I can't do it? I love you, I love you, I love you, I l-" He repeated but she cut him off.
"Stop it" Jade said and rolled her eyes "Point made"
"It's going to be okay" He affirmed and gave her a sweet kiss "Now let's go to class, we're late"
That day after school Jade and her friends went to the West residence to hang out, but when they walked inside, they saw Mr. West yelling on the phone, while Evelyn typed on the computer angrily.
"No, you listen, you had no right to publish that and you'll hear from me very soon, see you in court" Mr. West said and hung up.
"What's happening?" Jade asked confused and her parents looked at her.
"It's not important, Jade, you guys up for pizza?" Diana asked casually and Jade realized she was hiding something behind her back, so she looked at her suspiciously.
"Show me" She demanded and Diana looked at her parents.
"Honey, it's not important" Evelyn said but Jade didn't care, she grabbed the newspaper from Diana's hand only to see her face on the front page with the headline "The sex slave scam" so her mouth dropped and she felt she'd just been kicked in the tummy, she felt out of air, that was humiliating.
"What the hell is this?" Beck asked angrily as he took the paper from Jade and she looked down mortified.
"Someone leaked the story to the press" Mr. West said.
"Don't worry, honey, this won't stay like this" Evelyn added.
"What do you mean don't worry? We can't erase it, now everyone knows about me" Jade said upset as she pointed at her picture on the front page, it'd been taken while she stepped into court in her prison suit, it wasn't very clear but her face was distinguishable.
"I'm suing the hell out of this newspaper; I promise they'll pay for it" Her father affirmed and she shook her head.
"It doesn't matter, my life is over" Jade said angrily.
"No, it's not, people don't even read newspapers nowadays" Diana said to make her feel better "These are for old people" she added awkwardly, but she knew she was just making things worse "Listen, it's gonna be okay" Diana said nicely and tried to touch Jade's shoulder, but she pushed her hand away.
"Stop saying that, everyone says that all the time" Jade commented upset "It's not gonna be okay, stop pretending this is just going to go away, IT WON'T!" She exclaimed angrily and they stared at her not knowing what to say.
"Jade…" Evelyn said trying to calm her down, but she shook her head.
"What? It's gonna be okay?" Jade asked sarcastically "My whole life is a cruel joke and if I know one thing, it's that it's NOT going to be okay, so stop saying that, it makes me sick!" she said furiously and they looked at each other.
"You're right, this situation is horrible and we can't take it back, but we can make damn sure those bastards regret it" Mr. West said and she sighed, she did want them to pay but that didn't make her feel better.
"I…I need to be alone" Jade simply said and went upstairs to her room, so her friends looked at each other sadly.
"Should I go with her?" Diana asked.
"I think she needs time, honey" Evelyn responded and Jade's friends continued reading the paper.
"Oh my god, the things they wrote…why can't they leave her alone?" Tori said upset and put the newspaper on the table.
"This is outrageous" Andre added and Mr. West exhaled angrily.
"I'll make them pay"
Some days passed and the day of the play finally came, Jade wasn't in the mood to participate but she had to and her family showed up to support her. However, she just wanted to be in her room and hide from the outside world. She felt everyone looked at her weirdly ever since the newspaper article.
"You look lovely, darling" Mr. West said to Jade once she was in full costume.
"And you'll do great" Evelyn added and she sighed.
"Break a leg" Diana said and Jade tried to smile, but she wasn't feeling her best, so she kept looking around at all the people in the audience.
"They are not looking at you because of that" Evelyn said because she knew what Jade was thinking.
"How could you know?" Jade asked, but before her mother could respond, Tori's head popped out from behind the curtain.
"Jade, come on…we need to get our mics on" Tori said.
"Give me a sec, I need to go get something from my locker" Jade said and Tori nodded, her family sat down in the audience and she left the theatre to go to the main hall.
Jade was standing by her locker looking for a bracelet she needed for the play, when all the sudden she heard a voice that made her blood go cold.
"Hey girl, it's been a long time" Her biological father said and she froze, she had never expected to see him again "I've missed you" He added and she slowly looked to the side to see him standing there with a smile on his face.
"H…h…how…." Jade mumbled, she couldn't even form a whole sentence.
"How did I find you?" He asked back and she stared at him scared "I was walking on the street last week and I saw this newspaper, I thought it looked familiar, but it couldn't be my little girl, could it?" He commented cynically as he showed her the newspaper "Turns out, it could, it was you, I was a little disappointed to read you found yourself a new daddy, but I forgive you, I'm just happy to see you're okay and now that I found you, we can be together again"
Jade was just standing there staring at him completely terrified, she didn't know what to do, she couldn't even scream and he knew it, he was smiling cynically like nothing had happened "Are you ready to come home? Like I said, I've missed you" He commented.
"I…" Jade said, but she couldn't find the strength to speak up.
"You missed me too, I know" He said and smiled "Don't worry, we're going to be together now"
"I'm not going back to that room" Jade finally said.
"You belong with your real dad, that's me" He responded "Come on, let's go home" He said as he tried to hold her hand, but she stepped back.
"Stay away from me" Jade demanded and he sighed calmly, but the next thing she felt was his hand around her neck as he smashed her against the lockers.
"Do not make me mad, girl" He said on her face as he choked her "You've been away from your daddy for three long years, you betrayed me and I am very forgiving, but I won't allow this kind of behavior again" He threatened and she couldn't breathe, so she kept hitting his arms, but he let her struggle for a few more seconds.
"I'm glad we are on the same page" He said as he released her neck and held her head instead to make her look at him "You look so beautiful, even more than I remembered" He added and she stared at him terrified, he smiled and kissed her forehead, while she trembled absolutely terrified, she couldn't even move.
"Dad…" Jade whispered, but he still had his lips on her forehead and then he started smelling the top of her head as he stroked her hair, so she closed her eyes disgusted.
"You're still my little girl, aren't you?" He asked as he looked into her eyes and several tears started streaming down her cheeks "Aren't you?" He asked again as he held her head tighter and she nodded.
"Are you still my little girl?" He asked coldly and put his forehead against hers, while he kept holding her head tightly, he was hurting her at that point.
"Yes" She said fearfully and he smiled, he kissed her cheek right next to her lips and let go of her head.
"Good, let's go home" He ordered.
"Dad, please…" Jade said and stepped back, she looked up at the security camera behind him and he smiled.
"The angle hasn't caught my face, darling, don't worry" He said referring to the camera "No one will ever break us apart again, you're going home and I promise I will make sure you never get lost again"
"I don't wanna go back, please" She replied as she kept stepping back.
"What do you mean you don't wanna come back? You know I love you very much, girl, the house is not the same without you, it's been incredibly lonely for years" He commented and smiled "We are soulmates, remember? We belong to each other" He said and she stared at him angrily.
"You lied, you lied all those years" Jade said upset.
"No, I didn't, you are mine and you know it…we have a special bond, unbreakable, the world just doesn't understand it" He affirmed as he walked closer to her to keep her at arms' length and she stared at him scared. "You're letting all these people confuse you, but deep inside, you know you love me too and you wanted it, all of it" He affirmed.
"No, I didn't" Jade said and shook her head "You abused me"
"Abuse? That's just a word people use to describe what they can't understand, like our love, it's special" He commented "I'm your daddy and you're my little girl, no one could ever love you like I do, you belong with me"
"No…" Jade said as she shook her head and he took a breath angrily, so she got even more nervous.
"Good girls don't say no to their daddies, we've talked about this" Her father said coldly "Are you not a good girl now?" He asked.
"Stay away from me" Jade demanded terrified as she trembled, but she was trying to be strong.
"Oh girl, I'm so disappointed in you" He said as he reached into his coat slowly "But don't worry, we can fix you" He affirmed and before she could even react, he grabbed the back of her head, pulled her in and injected a needle into her neck, Jade immediately realized it was game over, he'd won and the last thing she saw was his smile before everything turned black.
The man simply held her in his arms and walked towards the parking lot making sure to avoid the cameras, he'd spent that week studying his plan and he knew how to leave undetected.
Inside the theatre everyone was getting ready to present the play, the audience was full and all the actors were there, except Jade. "Where is she?" Sikowitz asked upset.
"She said she needed something from her locker like twenty minutes ago" Tori said.
"We are about to start, find her!" He ordered and the gang sneaked out of the theatre to go look for her. They went to her locker first and saw she wasn't there, but her locker was open and some of her things were on the floor, they'd fallen off during her struggle with her father.
"Jade!" Beck shouted loudly.
"She is not in the bathroom" Tori informed as she and Cat joined them in the main hall.
"This doesn't make any sense" Andre said.
They kept looking for her, but she was nowhere to be found, so the play got cancelled and Jade's family and friends met with the security guards to find an explanation.
"Do you guys think she left?" Tori asked.
"Why would she do that? No, something must have happened" Evelyn commented worriedly.
"Just find the god damn tape, her locker was open, so she must've been there" Mr. West said and the security guard kept scrolling through the tapes to find the right time.
"There!" Cat exclaimed and they saw Jade reaching into her locker, but then they saw a man whose face wasn't on camera approaching, they could see Jade had frozen for a moment and then turned to him slowly.
"Who is that?" Diana asked and her parents looked at each other, they had a good guess and it made their hearts stop.
"Wait, is he…" Tori said asked worriedly and then they saw the man strangling Jade, so their eyes wide opened.
"What the hell?" Robbie asked disconcertedly, as they saw her struggling to breathe until he let go of her neck.
"Oh my god" Andre added and they saw him smelling her hair creepily, so they looked at each other disgusted.
"It's her father, it's that bastard" Beck affirmed angrily as they saw the horrible scene, Jade looked absolutely frightened.
"What a fucking creep" Diana said upset.
"You are mine and you know it…we have a special bond, unbreakable, the world just doesn't understand it, I'm your daddy and you're my little girl" The man said and they could see Jade trying to get away from him completely terrified.
"She looks so scared" Cat said sadly as Jade shook her head in the video.
"Good girls don't say no to their daddies, we've talked about this" The man said and they all felt their blood boiling, they knew that's how he'd manipulated her all her life.
"No, no, no…this can't be happening" Evelyn said scared and then they saw the man drugging Jade, which just confirmed what they already knew. He had her again and they didn't even have a good shot of his face. The nightmare wasn't over, it was just starting again.
"We have to find her and we have to do it now"
Detectives Anna and Alex met everyone in the West residence to discuss the case, but they didn't have many leads, Jade's father had been careful and they didn't know where he'd taken her.
"That bastard is gonna lock her up again and this time he won't let her out, you need to find her" Beck said upset.
"Beck, we are trying but we don't know who he is and he hid from all the security cameras, he knew what he was doing" Anna explained.
"You are the police, you must be better than the criminals" Evelyn said. "That son of a bitch has my daughter and we can't let him abuse her again"
"We'll do everything we can, I promise" Alex responded "It might take some time, but we'll find her and we'll bring her back"
Jade opened her eyes only to find herself in her old room, nothing had changed, it was still gray, cold and empty. She sat up slowly as she looked around trying to understand what was happening, she felt she was dreaming, she'd had nightmares of that place countless times before, but before she could even fully process it, the door opened and her father walked in with a smile on his face, the same smile she'd loved and feared all her life.
"Hi girl, welcome home"
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