As time went on it was getting harder to keep up with both crowds of friends. It had only been a week after her first day of school but every day after school she either had to go to the mall with Tiana, Nevra, Sasha, and Phoebe or go to the Park (a park near the school) and lighting off things with Cloe, Roxxi, Felica, and Cade. It was like she was living two totally different lives. But she liked it, she was busy and had no time to think of her problems like her parents dying or her being self conscious. But soon there was a cross road in her life were she would have to choose a life as a bad girl or a goody goody.
"Do you want to come to our sleepover party tonight?" Phoebe asked.
"I'll have to see if I'm not busy, can I get back to you on that?" Jade replied.
"Yeah, no prob." Phoebe said, in a perky tone, walking off as Cloe came up.
"What were you doing taking to her?" Thinking fast on her feet Jade said
"She asked me how to spell orange." 'Nice one.' Jade thought.
"Oh. My. God. How lame! Any way, Jade we want to fully ask you to join our group. Because you don't want to be left out of any more of our fun do you?" Cloe said a bit too happy for her personality.
"No" Jade answered not knowing what there word of 'fun' meant.
"Well, good, because we will have a ceremonial welcome tomorrow night. A.k.a. Halloween." Cloe said as she walked to her next class.
"OK." Jade was very unsure of what was going to happen but was also exited.
After school Barbie literary forced Jade to have a cell phone. Jade was unsure about this but Barbie said she gives all of her kids phones for emergencies. Jade, with yet again new sense of happiness, walked up to her room and E-mailed Phoebe telling her she'd be there, and that she got a really cool new phone. Jade started to pack for the party when she got a phone call.
"Hello" Jade answered on the home phone.
"Jade, it's Cade; you have to come down to the Park ASAP, Cloes in trouble."
"OK I'll be there in a minute." Jade said hanging up the phone.
Jade then phoned Phoebe and told her she'd be late and headed to the park.
When Jade got there, there was an ambulance and Cloe was being carried away.
"What happened?" Jade freaked out when she saw the scene; Felica was crying on a near by log they always sat on. Jade, as well, sat next to Cade on the log.
"Roxxi and Cloe got in a fight about you and things started to go wild. Roxxi punched Cloe and she went down. That's when I called 911. Roxxi was straddling Cloe's stomach, beating at her still when the cops came-finally Roxxi was pulled off of Cloe kicking and screaming. Cloe was bleeding real badly and Roxxi squirmed away from the cops when they tried to arrest her; running in the woods." Cade told her.
Jade and Cade watched as Cloe's ambulance was being rushed away; all they did was sit there. Jade felt hopeless.
"Cade why were they fighting over me?" Jade finally asked after the ambulance was out of sight.
"Cloe wants you in the group and Roxxi knew that you hang out with her sister so she didn't want you in it." Cade said, sounding disappointed in the whole situation.
"I can't believe Roxxi would get that worked up and beat Cloe like that." Jade said in disbelief.
"Yeah, I know Cloe and Roxxi have been friends since middle school." Felica added as she wiped her tears of her face.
Jade sat there for nearly 30 minutes thinking about what had happened that she forgot about Phoebe until they saw Roxxi run out of the woods. She had scratches all over her body from the woods and blood streaming down her right arm when a cop tried to shoot her but just skimmed her arm. She looked wild angry and on the verge of wanting to kill something or someone.
"Roxxi, how could you?" Cade stood up, slightly shaking.
"I don't know, I didn't mean to." Roxxi said with confusion, started to cry.
"Roxxi stop it." Cade dismissed the crying.
Roxxi stopped instantly he said that and smiled, it was really weird.
"How did you know I was faking it?" Roxxi asked Cade.
"The only time you cry is if the fire cracker misses its target. It's sad really; you have no compassion some times."
"Whatever, any way, I'm not sad that Cloe got her ass kick she (Roxxi pointed to Jade) doesn't deserve to be in the group."
"Roxxi, you're not the leader, Cloe is, so you can't make that decision and does not give you the right to beat Cloe half to death." Jade could tell Roxxi was getting angry while Felicia got the courage to say this to her, and looked right into Jade's eyes. Her glare, the best way to describe her glare, was a glare of death, menacing and having no mercy. Looking as if she wanted to kill Jade for being Cloes 'favorite'. Roxxi ran toward Jade unexpectedly. Cade grabbed Roxxi but she bit hard on him-he letting go in pain. She charged at Jade again and Jade could only ran for her life. Jade phoned 911 as she ran and the operator sent some more police. The copes came but...