"Why are we here?" Tori asked again.
"We don't know, no one has come while we are awake" Robbie informed.
"But this reminds me of the test, we are in an apartment but it's locked, we can't get out" Andre said.
"This doesn't make any sense" Tori commented.
"No, but you have to see this, it was on the news this morning" Andre said and they walked towards the living room; he turned the TV on and played a recording of the morning news.
"It's the 15th? I remember being awake on the 10th…" Tori said confused. "I've been sleeping all this time?"
"Yes, but watch this" Robbie said and turned up the volume.
"Yesterday prestigious lawyer, and soon to be judge, John West's daughter, Jade West, was called to the police station as the primary suspect for the disappearance and presumed murder of her four classmates: Tori Vega, Cat Valentine, Robbie Shapiro and Andre Harris" The newscaster said as a video of Jade in the police station played on the screen. "The denounce was brought to the authorities by Beck Oliver, who affirms Jade West threatened her classmates to kill them; he is convinced she's guilty and the parents of the missed teenagers agree with him"
"Oh my god" Tori said as she watched the report and saw how Andre's father was hurting Jade so he shook his head. Jade seemed so scared, confused and sad as everything happened that they felt guilty for it.
"However, John West was able to free his daughter and affirms there's not enough evidence to blame her for the murder; he is confident he'll win the case" The newscaster finished and then they moved on to other news so they turned the TV off.
"This is so wrong, Jade can't go to jail…we are alive" Tori exclaimed.
"I don't understand what the point of this is" Andre added.
"Neither do I, it's sick…I just hope her father is right, and that they don't lock her up" She responded. "Now I feel so bad, I also thought she was behind it"
"It was the obvious choice and it definitely has to do with her, just not directly" Robbie said.
"I want to get out" Cat said. "I wanna see my mom"
"I hope this ends soon, it's a nightmare" Tori said upset and sighed; now they had to wait…
As John West had predicted, the police department wasn't able to put up charges against Jade because of a lack of evidence and she felt relieved, but at the same time she felt miserable because now Beck really hated her, he wanted her dead and she didn't even know what she wanted at that point.
Several days went by and Beck didn't know what to do; he felt so angry and impotent thinking about the fact Jade had murdered his friends and she was still free that he only wanted to kill her himself but at the same time he was having an inner battle because he loved her, and he wasn't capable of ending her life. Beck fighting inside because the situation involved his love for the murderer of his friends and his sense of justice; his friends were gone without having done anything to deserve it and that killed him, he couldn't stand the thought of forgiving Jade for that, he hated her or at least part of him did. Beck had no proofs but everything pointed at her and he had made himself to the idea she was behind it so it was hard to imagine her being innocent, he wouldn't be able to believe her unless he saw his friends alive.
One day the gang was in the living room just talking when all the sudden the door of the apartment finally opened so they all turned to it and saw Marilyn walking towards them. "It was you! Why are you doing this?" Tori immediately questioned.
"Let us go" Andre demanded.
"I can't, not yet" She responded.
"What are you trying to do? Jade won't go to jail if that's what you wanted" Robbie informed.
"Oh kids, you still don't get it…this is final phase" Marilyn said and they looked at each other confused. "This test was meant to prove love is never above rationality, and that it can turn into hatred if put under the right circumstances; it had many stages, the first was to make Jade believe she was alone and that her boyfriend had betrayed her, then she was the victim and you all felt bad for her but things changed when you were liberated, right?" She asked. "Everything went exactly as we were hoping it would, she didn't believe your story, assumed a very negative attitude and she became the enemy…You all thought she was behind the disappearances, and your function was to convince Beck of that, you did"
"What?" Tori asked completely disconcerted.
"Yes, darling, he had to believe it and now, she might not hate him anymore but he hates her and he wants her dead, that's the truth…more than we expected to be honesti" She informed and their eyes wide opened. "We have someone follow him everywhere and they even installed some cameras and microphones in his RV, he loves her but his rationality and revenge desire tell him to end her life because she ended yours, that's how badly he took it"
"She didn't kill us" Cat exclaimed
"He doesn't know that, now he hates her…where did all his love go?" Marilyn asked and they looked at each other worriedly. "I brought you the monitor so you can see it yourselves, we'll see what he does…that will define the results of our test"
"You can't let him kill her, he'll go to jail and she will die for nothing" Tori said.
"It's for science" Marilyn responded.
"Please don't do this, please" Tori insisted.
"Enjoy" She simply said and left the apartment so they looked at each other mortified.
"We need to do something" Tori exclaimed.
"What can we do?" We can't contact anyone" Andre said.
"Beck wouldn't kill her, right?" Cat asked.
"I hope not…"
They turned the monitor on and saw two squares, one of them was black and the other showed the RV. Beck was there crying and holding his head so they sighed sadly. "Why, Jade, why?" He asked as he stared at a picture and then he broke it into pieces. "You are a god damn psycho, that's what you are, Tori was right…they were all right, why didn't I listen? Why didn't I let you die? They would still be here if you weren't..." she said full of rage and sadness.
"No, she is not" Tori said and shook her head. "Beck, come on…this is not you"
"You have to pay for it, you can't just walk away…it's not fair" He said full of rage and took a breath. "I have to do this, they deserve justice…"
"What's he gonna do?" Robbie asked and they continued watching. Beck picked up the phone and stared at it for a few seconds but ultimately decided to call someone.
"Hello?" Jade said, he had put the phone on speaker.
"Hey…" Beck said.
"What do you want?" She questioned coldly.
"We need to talk, I miss you and I've been thinking about everything…I think I overreacted, I believe you" Beck said and she remained quiet for a few seconds.
"You're lying, what do you want?" Jade asked again.
"No, Jade, I'm not…I'm being honest, please, let's meet" He insisted and the gang shook their heads.
"Oh no, no…say no, Jade" Andre said anxiously.
"Ummm…I don't know" Jade said sincerely.
"Please Jade, I need to see you, we need to discuss…just don't tell your father, he probably won't let you see me" Beck said and they could see his mortified face but he took a breath. "Come on, I just want to talk, and maybe we could fix things, I still love you…and I swear, what I said was true, in the test we lied to protect you, I've always loved you"
"Really?" Jade asked and the gang closed their eyes because they knew she would say yes.
"Yes, please let's meet…I'll pick you up" Beck said and after a few seconds Jade finally gave in so Beck nodded and they hung up.
"We need to get out of here, we have to stop him!" Tori exclaimed worriedly.
"But what do we do?" Cat asked and Tori thought about it.
"What about an emergency?" Andre asked.
"Yes, one of us will fake an asthma attack or something…and when they open the door, we hit them and run" Tori suggested.
"Do you think that will work?" Robbie asked.
"I don't know but we have to try, Beck is going to pick Jade up soon and if we don't hurry up, she'll be dead before midnight, I'd never seen him like this…he's determined" Tori responded and they nodded. Cat got on the floor and started shaking while pretending she couldn't breathe so Tori and Andre started screaming.
"PLEASE HELP, HELP…CAT IS DYING, HELP!" Tori screamed to the door. "Please, please!"
"Cat, resist!" Robbie exclaimed as he pretended to be aiding Cat. A few seconds later the door opened and Alex ran towards Cat, he got on her knees next to her and Robbie used that chance to break a lamp on his head so he fell unconscious.
"Come on!" Tori exclaimed, they all grabbed something to hit the guards, took the monitor and left the apartment. They only saw two guards and were able to knock them out on their way to entrance. They saw more people but they hid and when there was nobody around, they all escaped.
"We did it!" Andre exclaimed happily once they were a few blocks away and they smiled satisfied while catching their breath.
"Beck must be on his way to get Jade, we have to stop him before it's too late…"
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