A/N: Okay, so I couldn't just leave it where I did in chapter 7, so here is chapter 8. I wanted to get chapter 7 up months ago for my 9th month of sobrity, and here I am almost 11 months sober, just a few more days. Right now, it's one day at a time, I'm starting to struggle with it because I'm under so much stress with work and my family expecting to much out of me. Anyways, I listened to A LOT of Missy Higgins while writing this. And just like chapter 7, this is heavy and has to do with rape, so if this is a trigger for you, please don't read it.

(ScottyBgood, I am planning on ending this with a happy ending.)

Jade's P.O.V.

I knocked on the door and waited for Tori to tell me to come in. It felt like I stood there forever, When I didn't hear anything, I slowly opened the door, not wanting to invade too much on the other girl. "Tori?" I said softly as I walked in.

She was sitting on the bed, her back toward me, no shirt on, she was so beautiful and I don't know why she doesn't see it. "Tori?" I said again. This time she stood and turned to face me. To say I was horrified at what I saw would be the biggest understatement of my life. She was bruised and cut, all over, words were carved into her skin, she only had panties on.

"You wanted to know where I cut." She looked at the floor. There were very few places on her body that weren't cut or scared from being cut.

"Why, Tori?" I tried to look her in the eye, but she wasn't having any of it. "I just want to understand this on some level, please tell me whats going on. Maybe I can help in some way." I walked over to her, wrapping her in my arms. Seeing her like this was killing me inside, I was trying so hard to stay strong for her, but I was starting to break, I could feel it.

"I can't tell you, Jade." She pulled away from me. "You could get hurt if I tell you, I can't let you get hurt." The tears where starting to flow from her eyes, hell, I was even crying. "I can't risk you, I would never risk you. I love you, Jade. I just needed you, I couldn't stay there any longer. Just please let me stay." I could hear the desperation in her voice.

"You can stay here as long as you need, get dressed, I'll be right back, okay, then we can get some sleep." She nodded.

I slowly backed away from her, heading out the door. I walked down the hall to my dad's office, he wasn't always here, but, he did always seem to be home when he was needed the most, like tonight. "Dad?" I opened the door, peaking in.

"Jade, what can I do for you?" He looked up from his paper work, he is a lawyer, a damn good on at that.

"I just wanted you to know that my friend Tori Vega will be staying with us for a while, I don't know what's going on with her, but it's something bad, I've never seen her like this, dad. It's scaring me." He got up and hugged me, he hasn't done that in a long time.

"She can stay as long as needed, Jadey-bear."

I said my thanks and walked back to my door, this time walking in without knocking.

(Tori's P.O.V.)

I sat on Jade's bed debating with myself, I don't know if I should tell her what's going on, I love her and I don't want her to worry, but I also don't want to risk her life. My dad's a cop, he could kill her and get away with it, easily.

Fuck it, she needs to know, I owed that, right. I'm just going to have to protect her from him.

I turned when I heard the door open. "Sit down." I said, I still wouldn't look her in the eyes, I was ashamed. I mean, how could I not be ashamed, my dad hated me enough to be doing this for years. Jade sat down next to me. "Did you know that my mom is dead?" I looked to her, for the first time looking her in the eyes.

"Oh, God! When, I just saw her the other day!" She started to freak out.

"That's my step mom, she's a nice lady, doesn't have a clue about what is going on, neither does Trina. My mom died when I was ten, we were driving down the highway, I was crying because my mom didn't buy me the toy I wanted. Well, I was a detraction, she turned around to tell me to stop crying "Before I make you give all your toys away.", she turned back to face the road and slammed into the back of a pick-up truck that had some two-by-fours hanging out the bed, my mom got impaled." While telling this story to Jade, I started to stare at the floor, it was my fault, my father was right, if it wasn't for me my mom would still be alive. "Well, after that, my dad started drinking. At first it was just beatings, but as I got older, it got worse..." I got up and looked out the window.

"Tori, how did it get worse." Jade got up and walked over, I tensed when she put her hand on my shoulder.

"He started..." I started to cry again. I know I messed up, but I was just a kid. "He started to...to...t-touch me." I turned and hugged the other girl, holding her tight, I felt safe in her arms. "At first that was all, just touching me." I tried to breathe, but it wasn't working that well. "He would always tell me that it was my fault that he had to do it, but, when I was fifteen, almost sixteen, he..." I sighed, I had never said it out loud, I was scared that Jade would hate me after this, she would see how much of a slut I was, my dad, my dad had made me sleep with him, how could she ever love me.

"Tori," Jade pulled away from me, trying to look into my eyes. "Did he...did he rape you?"

"Yes." I whispered, looked away from the other girl. "More than once."

"I'm going to kill him."