A/N: I decided to continue this story.

"Look at that," said Jade, holding her arm up so her friends could see. Beck, Andre, and Tori sat around their lunch table, looking at the arm. They nodded as Jade told her story. "Robbie's puppet did that to me."

"I can't believe Robbie would do that," said Beck, inspecting his girlfriend's arm.

"Robbie didn't do it," said Jade. "His puppet did it."

"Right," said Beck, still looking at the scratches on Jade's arm. "Robbie did this using Rex."

"No, no, no," said Jade. "He was asleep when Rex did this."

"What?" said Andre, raising an eyebrow. "So is Rex like alive?"

"Yes," said Jade. Andre broke out laughing. Jade glared at him. "Stop laughing! It's true, I swear to you."

Andre continued to laugh. Jade turned to Tori, who nervously tried to avoid eye contact with Jade. "I don't know Jade, are you sure you aren't just imagining things?"

Jade pointed to her arm. "Am I imagining this?"

"No, no," said Tori, holding up her hands. "But maybe you're confused about how you got hurt. Do you think that could've happened?"

"I'm not confused," said Jade. "I know what I saw."

"I'm sure you do," said Beck, getting up from his seat. "Maybe you just need a rest. Here, I'll take you to the nurse."

Beck put his arm around Jade and escorted her away from the lunch table. Jade turned to him. "Look, I'm not lying and I'm not imagining. I know what I saw. I know what I saw!"

"You sure did," said Beck. "I'll talk to Robbie after I drop you off at the nurse."

Once the two were out of sight, Andre turned to Tori. "So, what do you think?"

"About what?" said Tori.

"About Jade's story," said Andre. "Seems pretty crazy."

"Yeah," said Tori. "I can't believe Robbie would do something like that."

"According to Jade, he didn't do it. It was Rex." Andre almost fell out of his seat because he was laughing too hard. He looked back at Tori. "Don't you think it's funny?"

"Yeah, yeah," said Tori. "It's just, Jade really seemed to think it was real."

"Maybe she does," said Andre.

"What do you mean?" said Tori.

"I mean that Jade might really think Rex attacked her," said Andre. "You did say you think she was imagining things. She probably just scraped her arm somewhere and blamed it on Robbie."

"That's probably what happened," said Tori. "Still, I didn't expect something like this to happen to Jade. Cat maybe, but not Jade. That's not really her."

Andre shrugged. "Are you sure? She's always been kind of intense."

"I guess," said Tori, who continued to eat her lunch. Still, she thought about the incident. The whole ordeal was weird. Jade probably did just imagine Rex attacking her. It just didn't make sense to Tori that Jade would hallucinate something like that. For all her faults, Jade at least seemed to have her head on the ground. Maybe she was telling the truth. Maybe Robbie had pulled some kind of prank on her and that's why she thought Rex had attacked. The thing was, it didn't seem like something Robbie would do. The more Tori thought about it, the more questions it raised. Eventually she turned back to Andre. "Where's Robbie?"

"I don't know," said Andre.

"It's weird," said Tori. "He usually eats lunch with us."

"Maybe he had other plans today," said Andre.

When school ended, Tori had to go over to Sikowtiz's class to talk to him. He wanted to speak to her about her role in the play and give her some pointers. The meeting took longer than Tori had expected. He was rambling more than usual. "So, the thing to remember is that this scene is the key to the play. If you don't nail it, the audience isn't going to be emotional invested."

"Yes," said Tori. "You already told me this."

"I did," said Sikowitz.

"Uh-huh," said Tori.

"I see," said Sikowitz. "Well I wanted to make sure you got the point."

"Right," said Tori.

"Well see you around." As Tori left his classroom, she pulled out her phone to check her messages. Trina, who was supposed to drive her home, was not happy that she had to wait for her sister. She'd texted Tori, threatening to leave if Tori didn't show up at the car soon. Tori knew Trina wouldn't do that, but she didn't want to test her sister. As Tori headed to her locker, she noticed that the hallway was mostly empty. There were only a few kids there and most of them were leaving. It made sense, as school had been over for a while now. Tori reached her locker and opened it. She took out some books she needed and put them in her bag. As she did this, she felt something tapping on her foot. Tori closed her locker and looked down to see Rex standing by her foot.

"Robbie, Robbie." Tori looked around the hallway, trying to see if Robbie was hiding somewhere. By now, Tori was the only one standing in the hallway, everybody else having left. Tori couldn't see Robbie anywhere. She thought about Jade's story, wondering if Robbie was playing some kind of prank on her. She looked back down at Rex. He was still standing where he had been before. Tori noticed that now Rex had an eyepatch over his right eye. Tori smiled and picked him up. "Are you a pirate now Rex? You look so cute with your little eyepatch on. Where's Robbie? Did he leave you here?"

"Yes," said Rex.

Tori screamed, dropping Rex to the ground. Rex managed to land on his feet. Tori's eyes darted across the hallway. "Robbie! How are you doing this?"

"I told you," said Rex. "Robbie isn't here. He left me alone."

Tori's eyes widened as she looked at Rex. "Are you using a remote control or something? Is that how you're doing this? Is that what you did with Jade?"

"Man, Jade brought it on herself," said Rex. "She was the one who came in and started messing with me."

Tori screamed again and turned around, running down the hallway. She burst out of the school and headed towards the parking lot. She got weird looks from other students, but she kept running. She didn't stop running until she reached the parking lot, where Trina was impatiently waiting for her in the car. When she saw her sister, she rolled her eyes. "There you are Tori, what took you so long? I didn't think Sikowitz's meeting would be that long."

Tori jumped in the car. "We've got to go."

"Yeah," said Trina. "I've been waiting for you for like forever."

"Well drive," said Tori.

"Okay," said Trina, reaching into her purse for her keys. "What's got you all worked up?"

"Rex," said Tori.

"What did Robbie do?" said Trina, taking her keys out of her purse and putting them in the ignition.

"Not Robbie," said Tori. "Rex."