Tori lay still in the double bed, her body was tense all over; her fists clenched, her eyes glued on the ceiling above her. The room was in total darkness, the moonlight was trying to creep through the old, holey curtains. Her eyes had adjusted to the dark as she now looked around the small room. It was the same room she'd been in the night before, nothing had changed. Clothes still lay on the floor, make up still coated the sides, but Cat's bed was now empty. No one had dared touch the bed that Cat had slept in the night before. The covers were still messed up across the mattress, the pillows still dented from where Cat had been lying on them. Tori turned onto her side, her eyes falling onto her and Cat's unmade bed.

"Oh god." She took a deep breath. She tried to think of anything other than Cat, but it was no use. Her mind was flooded with a million thoughts about the dead girl.

"Are you asleep?" Trina lay on the floor, her eyes wide open and staring at the wooden ceiling counting the cracks and dents that made up the room.

"No." Tori whispered.

"I can't sleep." Trina mumbled, her voice cracking. "Everytime I try to sleep I think of her. It makes me feel sick." She moved her focus onto Cat's bed, her heart pounding hard as it sunk in on how empty it really was.

Tori gulped hard. "Me too." She agreed.

"Do you think Jade's ok?" Trina sat up slightly, resting on her elbows to face her sister.

"What do you mean?"

"She just seems too normal. I mean she hasn't even cried yet. Cat was one of her best friends and she hasn't even shed a tear for her. Don't you find that odd?" Trina wiped her eyes, splashing tears onto her pillow. "Cat and I were never that close but even I can't stop crying for her. If my best friend was killed I'd be a mess, and she's just so calm."

"Jade just doesn't show emotion like us." Tori defended Jade.

"So? She can still cry. Cat's dead, Tori. She's not only just dead, she was murdered. She should cry over something like that!" Trina felt herself getting angry.

"You think she did it, don't you?" Tori sat up, her head leaning against the metal headboard behind her.

Trina nodded in the dark. She'd thought it the moment she saw Jade react. She'd kept it bottled up until she had her sister alone. "Something just isn't right about it all. She didn't cry, she wouldn't let anyone touch her and she wanted to sleep downstairs by her body."

"Jade's just different to us." Tori tried to justify what Jade was doing, although she saw exactly what Trina saw.

"She's weird. I bet that's why she didn't want us to call the cops. Her DNA is all over Cat now and who knows, it could have been on her before we even found her."

"I don't think she'd do that, Trin."

"Whatever. I just don't feel safe being alone around her." Trina lay back down, curling into a ball as she pulled the covers up to her head. "Just watch your back."

"I'm going to get a drink." Tori edged her way out of the big bed. She gasped as her feet made contact with the cold floorboards.

"Don't wake her up." Trina instructed. "Seriously, be careful."

Tori lent down to her sister and hugged her briefly. "I'll be fine. It's just Jade down there."

"And Cat.." Trina mumbled hoping Tori wouldn't hear her.

Tori sighed. The door creaked as she opened it slightly. The hallway was slightly lighter than the bedroom, the large window at the end of the corridor was filled with the full moon. The brunette could just about make out where she was going as her eyes began to adjust.

Taking slow steps, she crept down the staircase. The floorboards groaned under her weight as she finally got to the bottom step. The downstairs was quiet, except from heavy breathing coming from the sofa where Jade was sleeping. She could feel her heart begin to speed up as she walked towards the kitchen. She held her breath as she passed the sofa, her eyes avoiding where Cat was laying.

"Who's there?" Jade snapped. She sat up from the sofa so fast she made even herself jump as long with Tori.

"Oh my god!" Tori screamed, covering her mouth with her hands to stop her scream. "You scared the hell out of me. I'm just getting a drink."

"Vega?" Jade's eyes squinted at the figure in the kitchen.

"Yeah, it's me. It's Tori." Tori took a few steps closer to the brown sofa. She stood a few feet away, playing with the bottom of her bed t-shirt. "Are you ok?"

Jade laughed. "Fucking brilliant." She scoffed sarcastically.

She stood silent. "I know." She was speechless, she had no idea what to say or do.

"Really? You know do you?" Jade mocked. "Do you know how long I've known Cat?" Jade moved her legs off the sofa and onto the floor, dragging the blanket around her body.

Tori shook her head. "No."

"I've known her since fucking kindergarten. I've known her longer than anyone else besides my family."

"I'm really sorry." Tori kept her eyes on Jade, not knowing what to do really. She'd never witnessed Jade so angry before. She moved a few steps closer, sitting carefully beside Jade.

"You have no idea." Jade punched the arm of the sofa beside her. "Look at her! Fucking look at her!"

Tori's eyes watered as she watched Jade slowly break down.

"She's fucking dead. She's gone, Tori. Someone killed her." Finally Jade let her guard down. "She's my best friend." Her eyes grew misty. "She was my best friend." She hugged her knees tighter into her body. She tried not to, but one perfectly round drop edged down her numb cheek. It fell onto her cold knees and dripped down her legs. Burying her head in her hands out of shame and sorrow, more salty droplets streamed from her eyes. She looked weak, the one thing she did not want to look. But worst of all, she felt weak, she felt powerless and all she wanted to do was cry.

Tori was in shock at Jade's breakdown. She looked so vulnerable and broken and there was nothing Tori could do to help her. She pulled at Jade's shoulders, pulling her into a soft embrace.

"I keep thinking she'll sit up, with that stupid fucking giggle of hers and she'll tell me she was just kidding. She'll brush the dirt off herself and laugh at how she'd scared me. I keep wishing and praying she'll sit up and smile at me. I'd do anything to see her cheesy smile with her one dimple again." Jade didn't bother trying to stop the tears that were falling from her icy eyes.

Tori rubbed Jade's arm with her warm hand. She felt herself shake in fear as Jade cried harder into Tori's body.

"I'm trying to make it stop. All these thoughts in my head are driving me insane. I can't keep thinking about her, but I can't stop. Everytime I close my eyes I see her. I see her lying there by that lake, her body so cold and lifeless. And everytime I roll over I see her in front of me, covered in my jacket. She just looks like she's asleep. Doesn't she?"

Tori nodded. "She looks peaceful." Tears rolled down her cheeks as her eyes focused on the body on the floor.

"When we were kids we'd joke about growing old together and racing eachother in our wheelchairs at our home when we turned eighty." Jade tried to laugh as she remembered. "But we can't do that now. She won't get to do anything she wanted to do when she grew up. Did you know she wanted to work in Sea World with the dolphins? It used to drive me nuts but she loved those sea animals more than anything. She was always telling me lame facts about dolphins and whales. I always told her it was a dumb ambition and she should stick to singing. She'd of made a great dolphin trainer. She was just so sweet and loving."

Tori sniffed hard, holding onto Jade tighter. "I'm sure she knew you were only joking."

"I don't think she did." Jade's voice went pitchy, her body jolting as her breathing sped up. "I never told her what she meant to me. I was just so horrible to her."

"I think she knew you guys were best friends, Jade."

"No, I don't think she did." Jade pushed her fingers through her hair. "And now she'll never know. I'm never going to get the chance to tell her what she meant to me. I'm never going to be able to tell her anything ever again."

"When my Grandma died I used to talk to her and I still do sometimes." Tori admitted.

"She's gone, Tori. She's not breathing, she's not there. Her body is, but she's somewhere else."

"Do you believe in heaven and hell?"

Jade nodded. "I never used to. But the moment I found her I knew there had to be a heaven. Cat was the sweetest person ever and she didn't deserve to die this way, so she has to be safe in heaven."

"I think so too."

"Don't you wonder what she would have been like? In five years? Ten years? You know, who she would have married? What her kids would be like?" Jade wiped her red eyes. "She wanted two girls and a boy." She laughed with tears still rolling down her cheeks. "She always said she was going to name her first daughter after me. And I used to tease her about it, telling her she was stupid, but really I'd never felt so special and happy. But she's never going to get to do any of that. She's never gonna be a wife, or a Mom. She shouldn't have died, Tori."

Tori sighed deeply. "She'd of been the same, crazy Cat throughout her whole life."

"The world lost someone good today, Tor. It should have been me that died. I'm the sinner, not her."

Tori's brows crossed. "Don't ever say that, Jade. You're not a sinner."

"She was a rare saint in this world full of sinners. We need more people like her and we've lost her."

Tori was lost for words. Nothing she said would be right, or comforting. "I'm gonna go back to bed, do you want to come?" Tori finally said after a long silence.

"No, I want to stay with her."

Tori stood up slowly, watching her feet as they hit the carpeted floor. "Ok."

"Tori, wait." Jade grabbed at Tori's arm. "Will you stay with me? I don't want to be alone."

Tori turned around, lying down next to Jade on the small sofa. Her eyes adjusted onto Cat's lifeless body. "I won't ever leave you." She whispered, the last of her tears falling onto the sofa.

Jade wrapped her arms around Tori's small waist. "Thank you, for everything."

Tori's mind replayed everything Jade had said earlier. She had no idea the two girls had been so close. It made her heart ache as she realised just how distraught Jade was and how much everyone was going to miss Cat. She finally took her eyes off the cold girl on the floor, kissing Jade's hand gently as she felt her drift off. "I'm so sorry." She whispered.

A/N - I'm actually in shock that I have updated every day for five days now. I'm so proud of myself!

Let me know what you guys think of Jade's breakdown? Did it seem legit?

Also, who's watching the PLL Halloween episode tonight? Oh my, I am far too excited about it! :D