I stumbled into the apartment, knocking over a few things from a shelf. I winced at the loud sound, and tried to tiptoe my way through the dark apartment. I staggered to the kitchen, rinsing my mouth out in the faucet. Sighing loudly, I grabbed a bottle of water out of the fridge. I trudged to the cabinet and picked up the aspirin. The light flicked on and I jumped, I turned to see my girlfriend standing there in her underwear with her arms crossed over her chest and a peeved look on her face.
"Jesus, Tori! You scared the shit out of me. What the hell are you doing lurking around in the dark?!" I hissed, glaring at her. Her eyebrows rose a little, like she couldn't believe I just said that to her.
"It's three o'clock in the morning, Jade." She said, my name leaving her lips icily. My brow furrowed and I looked at the time to confirm this new knowledge. I turned back to her with an amused smile.
"So it is. Thanks for the newsflash, babe." I said then leaned over to kiss her cheek. She turned her face away from me, but I ignored it and simply pushed passed her.
"You stink like weed and whiskey." She hissed, following close behind me. I rolled my eyes as I entered our bedroom.
"Wonder whose party was it this time. Robbie's, Sonya's...Beck's?" She accused, malice dripping from every word. My head snapped in her direction at the mention of his name, a snarl set firmly on my face.
"Is perfect little Vega worried? Hmm? Worried we fucked?" I demanded getting in her face, she didn't back down. She never backed down.
"For all I know you have." She snapped, shoving me away from her.
"Maybe we did, maybe I was just tired of the same damn thing all the time. You get pretty boring after awhile, Vega. Maybe I needed some new scenery." I returned. Harsh, I know. But this was her fault, if she would've just left it alone and let me kiss her none of this would've been happening. She scoffed but didn't look at me, she didn't have to. I know my words got to her, I saw it in the way she flinched. I sighed and went to her, wrapping my arms around her middle. I pressed a soft kiss on the back of her neck.
"Are we finished? Can we go to bed now-"
"Don't touch me!" She hissed, wrenching out of my grasp. She stormed over to her side of the dresser and quickly grabbed some of her clothes out of it. She threw them on so fast I could barely register what was happening. After she was fully dressed she left the bedroom in a hurry, plucking up her car keys as she went.
"Those are my car keys..." I mumbled dumbly. I ducked quickly as the keys were hurdled in my direction.
"I'll be back for the rest of my clothes tomorrow." She interrupted, her voice vacant of emotion. Panic seized me, my heart was beating rapidly in my chest. I chased after her as she started going around the house.
"Tori, wait! I'm sorry, baby, you know I didn't mean it right?" I asked desperately.
"Then why did you say it?" She demanded, ducking out of my reach and snatching her jacket up off the couch.
"Because I..." I trailed off because she disappeared, literally. One minute she was there the next she wasn't. I stared blankly at the empty living room.
"I'm tired of hearing your excuses, Jade. Congratulations, now you can fuck whoever you want." Her voice sounded from the front door. I jumped and looked in that general direction to see the door slamming shut.
"Tori!" I screeched, running after her. As I entered the hallway, I noticed that it was extremely dark and Tori was nowhere to be found.
"Tori?" I called out, my pulse rising with my panic. My eyes searched the hallway, desperately looking for a way out. I took the stairs two at a time as I jogged down them, when I burst out of the doors to the building the air didn't hit me like I thought it would. Tori was already power walking down the side walk.
"Tori!" I yelled at her, she ignored me and kept walking down the street. A few mumbled curses shot of my mouth as I hopped in my car. The tires squealed as I sped after her. I pulled up along side of her, slowing down to match her pace.
"Vega, get your ass in this car right now." I growled at her.
"Fuck off, faggot." She replied. I rolled my eyes at her childish behavior.
"Faggot, really? Nice, real mature. Seriously, Tori, it's almost four where are you going to go?" I asked.
"No, Jade! You're not going to try to manipulate me into staying with you, I'm sick of it. I'm sick of you, you did this to us." She hissed, her voice ragged and sharp, cutting like a blade. I slammed on the brakes, staring at her back in shock. My heart felt like it was just torn in two. I jumped out of the car but she seemed to be disappearing in the darkness.
"I'm erasing you, and I'm happy about it! You did it to me first!" I called out to her in a last ditch effort to try to make her come back. I tried to run after her but she was already gone...
I should've fought harder for her.
"Got it!" André yelled out victoriously, he rubbed his cramping wrist and shot Ryder a smirk. The other man gave him a forced awkward smile, and got up to walk around the woman's apartment. He stuffed his hands in his pockets as he looked at the very disheveled place.
"It's kind of a dump in here, smells like one too." Ryder said to André, the dark skinned man glanced at him.
"It's an apartment, dude, what do you expect? Anyway, Sherry's coming over tonight." André said, a smug grin on his face. Ryder returned it.
"Really? That's cool. I like Sherry, I get the vibe that she doesn't really like me though." Ryder said meekly, looking down at his twiddling thumbs. He went back over to take his seat next to André. André shrugged turning his attention back to the computer monitor.
"I think she likes you just fine." He added his input. Ryder chuckled a little.
"Maybe I should invite my girlfriend, I have a girlfriend now. Did I tell you-"
"Do whatever you want, man. Hey, hand me a beer would you?" André interrupted, tapping on the keyboard again. Ryder nodded incessantly, his hands flying toward the cooler. He got two slim green bottles out and handed one to his partner.
"Did I tell you I have a new girlfriend-"
"Ryder, man, I'm trying to focus here..." André interrupted yet again, a tight frown tugging at his lips as he lifted the beer bottle to them.
"Yeah, yeah, sorry..." Ryder trailed off, his knee bouncing anxiously up and down.
"It's just, our situation is a little weird. My girlfriend situation." Ryder continued. André snorted and put his beer down, dragging his attention away from the monitor to look at his partner.
"I'm sure it is." He said dismissively, hoping that would be the end of it. Ryder frowned deeply, clearly offended.
"What? A girl can't be attracted to me, is that it?" He demanded. André inwardly groaned, he hated being set up with Ryder mostly because the other man talked too damn much.
"It's not that, I'm sure girls have no problem being attracted to you. It's just...you're really fucking awkward, man." The darker man said with a frustrated sigh. Ryder chuckled a little.
"So who do you think is better looking me or this chick?" He asked with a smirk, nodding his head at a sleeping Jade. André looked at him with disbelief.
"This chick is insanely hot, dude, obviously her." André answered. Ryder scoffed at him but his smirk remained.
"You, uh, remember that girl we did awhile ago?" Ryder asked, André huffed in exasperation.
"We do how many people a day? I'm not going to remember all of them." He explained logically.
"The Latina with the skulls and scissors, dude." Ryder elaborated. André's eyebrows rose.
"Yeah, uh, Tori...Tori Vega, right? That's, uh, that's her girl, isn't it?"
"-Tori...Tori Vega, right? That's, uh, that's her girl, isn't it?"
My eyes widened, I looked over at Tori. We were sitting at our dining table, eating leftovers. She raised her eyebrows at me.
"What?" She questioned.
"You didn't hear that?" I asked. She rolled her eyes at me.
"Stop trying to change the subject, Jade. We need to do something for our anniversary this year. Did you want to go up to Montauk? We could visit our coffee shop." She suggested a ghost of a smile gracing her lips. I frowned.
"Why do we have to do anything? It's not that big of a deal." I stated shoveling more of the spaghetti into my mouth. She looked at me in disbelief.
"Are you serious? It is a big deal, Jade!-"
"Not to me!" I hissed, in my defense she started yelling first. She had been getting on my nerves lately with all of this. She gasped and leaned back in her chair. I rolled my eyes at her, god she was so over dramatic.
"Wow nice, Jade, really nice." She whispered bringing her knees up to her chest and circling her arms around them. I mentally cursed as I got up out of my seat, she was crying already. I knelt down in front of her and kissed her elbows.
"I'm sorry, Vega, it's just-"
"Yeah, well, her ex anyway...I kinda...I kinda fell in love with her that night."
I paused looking around the dining room. Who the hell was that? I stood up and walked to the room's entrance looking around the corner. Nothing.
"What the fuck..." I said aloud, looking back into the dining room. Tori was gone, our plates were gone, her chair was gone.
"What?! She was unconscious, dude!"
I started running frantically through my apartment, searching high and low for these voices but I couldn't find them. Who were they? Where were they? Why was one of them talking about being in love with my Vega?
Suddenly I wasn't running through my apartment anymore, I was sitting on my couch with Tori cuddled into my side. She was shoving handfuls of popcorn in her mouth as some black and white horror movie played on the t.v. I sneered at her because she was chewing so loudly. Ugh, I hated it when she did that.
"God, do you mind?" I hissed at her. She jumped and looked up at me with this wounded puppy expression.
"I'm not doing it on purpose, Jade. It's just how I chew..." She explained, raising an eyebrow at me. I rolled my eyes at her before turning back to the T.V.
"Then stop eating it." I commanded, pulling her deeper into my side. She scoffed loudly and shrugged arm off of her before getting up and sitting on the other side of the couch. The loss of warmth made me frown and I didn't care much for her attitude either. She started eating the popcorn again and chewing loudly on purpose. I turned to glare at her but she was gone...
"She looked so peaceful, she was beautiful...I kinda stole a pair of her panties too..." Ryder trailed off, a hint of a smile on his face. He got up to walk around again turning his back to his partner. André whirled around in the rolling chair to shoot an incredulous look at his partner.
"Jesus!" André breathed out, staring at Ryder like he was insane. The other man looked a bit confused at his friend's reaction.
"What? I mean it's not like...they were clean at least!" Ryder hurriedly defended himself.
"What the fuck, man! Don't tell this stuff, dude, I don't want to hear that shit!" André hissed, dumbfounded and somewhat creeped out.
"They were clean!" Ryder tried once again to defend himself.
"Stop it, just cut it out alright?!"
I blinked, then looked around at my surroundings. I was in our apartment again, sitting on the edge of our bed.
"What?" I mumbled aloud staring at Tori in confusion as she stood in front of me glaring.
"I said stop it, this whole jealousy thing is getting old. You could've seriously hurt that boy, Jade." She scolded, strutting away from me and into the bathroom. I shook my head as I got up to follow her into the bathroom. She was doing her hair, getting ready to go to work at the record store.
"He was asking for it, looking at you like he wanted to undress you." I snapped at her, defending myself.
"He's a guy, Jade, that's what they do." She retorted whilst blow drying her hair. I unplugged it so that she could hear me when I yelled at her.
"Hey-"
"Nobody gets to look at you like that, okay? You're mine." I said, my glare softening slightly. She started smiling and then leaned in to kiss me, automatically I kissed back.
"You're sweet even when you are being mean." She mumbled after pulling away.
"There's, uhm, there's more...the morning after we finished the erasing I kind of...I kind of went to where she worked and asked her out."
I poked my head out of the bathroom and looked out toward the bedroom. Those goddamned dudes were back. I glanced back at Tori but she didn't seem to have heard anything. She had turned back to the mirror to finish blow drying her hair.
"You what?! Jesus, Ryder, do you have any idea how unethical...?"
"Could you go get my shirt? It's in the drawer." She said, pecking me on the lips quickly.
"What? I don't see what the big deal is."
"You've probably upset the balance of freaking nature or something!"
I started walking through the apartment again, searching for these people. I went in and out of the kitchen, the dining room, the bedroom, it sounded like they were in the living room. But when I checked, no one was there.
"Seriously, Jade? You couldn't have done this one thing for me? I do stuff for you all the time! 'Go get this for me, Tori.' Okay, Jade! 'Go get threat for me, Tori.' Yes, Jade! 'Make me coffee, Tori.' Right away, Jade! I'm starting to feel less like your girlfriend and more like your servant-"
"Shut up, Vega!" I hissed at her, interrupting her mid-rant as she rustled through the dresser.
"There's someone here, he stole your underwear." I explained to her as she shot me a look of incredulous. She rolled her eyes.
"Whatever, Jade, I'm going to be late for work. Besides, I don't see anyone." She said dryly, pulling her shirt over her head. Normally I would have stopped to ogle her in her bra but right now I was freaking out. When she said that she sounded like a cd when it skipped. My heart started pounding in my chest because she disappeared right in front of my eyes.
"I mean it's not that bad-"
"Ryder, you stole a girl's panties!" André interrupted, looking at his friend with wide eyes. Ryder snorted.
"Its not that bad...why're you looking at me like that? Get that look off your face." Ryder said. There was a moment of silence before both men started laughing.
I inwardly groaned as Tori went on and on lecturing me about my so called "drinking problem". We were sitting on the couch, not really doing anything but just talking.
"If you want us to work, Jade, you're gonna have to fix it." She huffed, and nudged my shoulder.
"Are you even listening to me?!" She cried, frustration evident in her voice.
"I'm trying really hard not to." I stated honestly. She scoffed and turned away from me.
"I honestly can't believe you sometimes...I'm starting to wish I hadn't gone into that coffee shop that day, that I wouldn't have met you and then fallen in love with you!" She said, sticking her tongue out at me. I know she was just messing around but that comment hurt. I let out a quiet chuckle.
"Me too. Beck didn't nag me as much as you do." I mumbled. There was always an unspoken rule in mine and Tori's relationship and it was to never mention Beck. But anytime we had a huge argument or pushed each other over the edge too far, his name always found a way into our conversation. The silence stretched on for long than I anticipated. I was starting to get a little worried, she just sitting there eyes glued to the floor. Finally she let out a hum of acknowledgement.
"I think I'm going to go stay at Cat's tonight then." She muttered. She got up slowly, and then made her way to the bedroom. Fuck.
"Tori." I started, getting up to follow her like always in our arguments.
"Nope, no. I'd hate to stay here and nag you any longer." She stiffly.
"Jesus fucking- It was an accident, okay? Why the hell do you take everything so goddamn seriously all the time?" I spat at her. She slammed the bathroom door shut and then opened it again seconds later. She brushed right on by me, purposely knocking into my shoulder as she went. I caught her wrist before she could go any further.
"Vega-"
"Let go, Jade. We don't have a whole lot of time left." She said cryptically, tearing her wrist out of my grasp. My eyebrows shut up in confusion.
"Huh?" I said dumbly. She raised her eyebrows at me as she started packing up random things in an overnight bag.
"You're erasing me from your memory, remember?" She reminded me.
"I...but..."
"I don't think I've ever seen Jade West speechless before." She said with a hint of amusement. I noticed that random things were starting to disappear from the apartment right into thin air. It seemed like I was on autopilot as I walked over to kiss her. When did she get to the door.
"Nope, I'm too much of a nag, remember?" She said putting her finger up to my lips and ducking away from me. She shot me an amused smile as she opened the door.
"Bye, Jade." She said, before closing the door behind her. What the fuck was going on?
I'm actually really surprised that this got any kind of attention XD I thought you guys forgot about me. But nah, this is gonna be a multi-chap. It's not gonna be exactly like the movie,but you'll see simularities :3