Christmas came and went and the new year brought a new lease of life to the grieving teenagers. It was a new year, meaning a new them.

"How was your Christmas and New Years?" Sikowitz stood at the front of the class, his foot resting on an empty seat in front of him.

The class shrugged and groaned various answers at the teacher in front of them.

"Oh come on. Christmas is a fun time." He scratched his head, sipping from his coconut.

"Not for everyone." Robbie had spent the majority of the winter vacation alone. He'd distanced himself from everyone, including his family. Everyone had noticed the dramatic change in him, everyone but himself.

Beck tried to smile at his friend. "It was just a rough time for every thing I think. It was out first Christmas and New Years without, Cat."

The friends nodded. "Cat loved Christmas." Jade held onto the necklace around her neck as she did every time she or someone else mentioned Cat's name. "She still believed in Santa." Jade chuckled to herself. "I know I'm mean, but even I didn't have the heart to tell her that he wasn't real. She said this year he was going to get her a puppy." Jade took a deep breath. "I saw Melinda and Mike walking a puppy last week. I guess she got her present after all."

"I'm sure Cat wouldn't want any of us to be sad. If I know anything about my students, I know that Cat was a wonderful and kind person and that she wouldn't want any of you being miserable over her favorite holiday." Sikowitz turned serious for a brief moment.

No one else spoke until the end of the lesson. It was becoming the norm for the friends to sit in silence. It was a weird kind of atmosphere, but it was all they could seem to handle. They all felt guilty whenever the laughed or smiled. They wanted to be happy, more than anything, but they felt they couldn't.

"Hey Robbie, do you wanna come round to mine now? Everyone's coming back to watch a movie." Tori caught up with her quiet friend. She had always felt kind of awkward around Robbie, but it had become more apparent recently.

Robbie made eye contact with Tori. "Yeah sure." It was the first time in weeks that he would have spent time with his friends and he was already regretting saying yes.

Tori smiled, wanting to lean in and hug him but she kept her distance. Her eyes scanned his body up and down; his clothes were creased and worn out, like he'd made no effort today. Her look stopped on his wrists, thin and shallow marks displayed up Robbie's left arm. They covered so much of his arm it made it look red with anger. Tori's eyes showed her emotion at an all new level. She couldn't believe Robbie would be so stupid. Mixed emotions rushed over her as she continued staring.

Robbie caught on to her eye line, pushing his shirt sleeves down over his arms. "We going now?" He tried diverting the conversation.

"Robbie." Tori started. "You don't have to do that."

"You have no idea what I'm living with." Robbie pushed past Tori and headed to the car park where his friends were, totally ignoring Tori's distant calls behind him.

...

The months rolled by and not a single thing changed. Spring and Summer passed like nothing had happened. No news, nothing new or special happened to anyone. They just had to move on, they had to live everyday like any other. Their lives got slightly easier as everyday passed. The media frenzy died down and their lives were slowly becoming private again. They'd even begun to rebuild their broken friendship; every Friday after school they would meet up at Tori's house for a movie. Sometimes they'd spend hours talking and acting like old times and other days they would sit in silence just watching the moving screen.

"Turn that shit over." Jade sat beside Tori on the sofa as she flicked through the TV. "If I hear one more theory on how Cat was killed, I'm going to kill myself."

"Don't ever say that again!" Tori snapped her focus onto Jade, a sudden panic in her voice.

Jade immediately felt bad about what she'd said. "I'm sorry. I'm just sick of people putting ideas into our heads. We know what happened that night and we know that none of us had anything to do with it. Not even Robbie."

Robbie didn't even flinch at the sound of his name being spoken. He sat with his eyes glued to the TV screen.

"I heard they have another suspect in custody." Trina paraded down the open staircase, blowing gently on her red nails.

"What a shocker. I wonder what his alibi will be?" Jade rolled her eyes.

"I think it had to be someone Cat knew." Trina opened the fridge, not really paying attention to the group of teenagers sat in her living room.

"Why?" Beck turned, leaning on the top of the sofa to face Trina.

"Because strangers don't just kill for no reason. It had to be someone she knew. Cat wasn't the type of person to just wander off into the night either." Trina placed herself next to Beck.

"No one else was out there but us." Andre pitched in.

"I know that dingbat. But I just don't believe it was a total stranger." Trina swatted Andre on the head. "It wasn't like Cat to have enemies though."

"Wait! Turn back to that channel!" Robbie clambered to his feet, snatching the remote from Tori. "Look!" He pointed to the TV screen.

"In recent news, never before seen footage of murdered Hollywood teenager, Cat Valentine has been sent anonymously to the police department today. We are airing it first here in an attempt to gain any new information on the case."

The video began playing. The camera followed through an old house, swapping and changing through the modern yet old fashioned rooms decorated in Halloween decorations until it landed on a giggling red head.

"Cat, why are you up here all by yourself? The parties downstairs!"

"Get the camera out of my face!" Cat giggled, pushing her hand in front of the camera.

"So who have you come as then?" The camera scanned up and down the petite girl.

"I'm Minnie Mouse!" Cat pointed to the dress and ears on her head. "Duh!"

"No need to be so rude, mouse. Look, I'm on filming duties for tonight so I'm under strict instruction to record all the scary shit that goes down tonight." The voice behind the camera laughed slightly.

"I'm sorry. I'm just waiting for someone." The red head bat her eye lashes at the camera.

"Who might that be?"

"None of your business." Cat winked at the camera.

"Oh come on, you can tell me!"

"Nope. It's a secret." Cat pushed her finger to her lip, making a shh noise to the camera.

"I can keep a secret."

"Only two can keep a secret if one of them is dead." Cat laughed. "Ok, I stole that from Pretty Little Liars, but shh!"

The video stopped bluntly, as if it wasn't supposed to stop there at all. Like there was more to it.

"Who was that with Cat?" Beck questioned, looking at his friends.

"I don't know. It sounded like a guy though and he sounded cute." Trina gushed at the TV.

"That was my Halloween party last year." Jade sat in shock. Her eye's hadn't left the screen even though the clip had stopped playing.

"So who did you get to film the party all night?" Tori's brows crossed at Jade.

"My brother." She stated. "Why did they show that? How is that even important?"

"Listen and you might find out!" Robbie turned the volume up.

"We have reason the believe, Cat Valentine was raped the night that video was taken. Halloween of last year, an exact year before her murder. We feel both her rape and murder have connections and we strongly recommend anyone with any information of that night to come forward and speak to the police. As many of you know, it will soon be one year since the murder of Cat Valentine and her family and friends are begging for closure. So please, if you know anything do contact your local police."

"I told you so." Trina stood up, glancing a smug look over to her friends. "I told you it was someone she knew."

"But why does that clip have any significance to her murder? You were with Cat all night weren't you?" Robbie's glaring eyes moved onto Jade. "Right?"

"Yeah, unless they think someone at your party did that to her?" Andre joined Robbie in looking at Jade.

"I have no fucking idea, ok? That party was almost two years ago now. I hadn't even thought of it until now." Jade panicked, going into anger mode. "Fuck this." She cussed, stomping up the staircase and into Tori's bedroom.

"What the hell was that?" Tori burst into her bedroom seconds after Jade. "Is there something I'm missing here?"

"It's none of your god damn business, Vega. Just leave me alone." Jade paced around the room, her hands running through her long hair.

"No. I want to know what the hell you know about that night. I saw the way you watched that clip, you were scared. What the hell were you so scared of?"

"You really wanna know what happened that night?"

Tori nodded, a hint of fear in her eyes as she sat down. "Talk."

"Meet me upstairs in ten. I'll make sure everyone down here is distracted and then I'm all yours." Jade wrapped her arms around her best friends neck. "And remember, no one is to find out about this. It's our secret. Got it?"

"Kay kay." Cat took a long sip of her drink. "Are you sure?"

"Of course I'm sure." Jade paused. "Aren't you?"

"I'm a little scared." Cat admitted.

Jade laughed. "Don't be so stupid. It's just going to be a kiss. Girls kiss all the time."

"But I've never kissed anyone before, not even a girl."

"I know. That's why I'm going to kiss you first, to get all the awkwardness away and to make sure you're doing it right. Then you can kiss Robbie all you want and be good at it." Jade rolled her eyes at her naive friend. "I'm such a good friend to you sometimes. You totally owe me for this baby girl."

"I know you are the most amazing friend ever. That's why you're my best friend." Cat hugged Jade again, kissing her cheek.

"Whatever, don't make a big deal out of it. Go wait in my room. I'll make sure Tori or whoever doesn't follow me up."

"Ok." Cat wandered off into the darkness of the party. Jade watched with drunken eyes as she watched her young friend head up the staircase.

"Jade, let's dance!" Tori found Jade in the hallway, dragging her body close to hers.

"You stink of vodka." Jade could feel Tori's warm hands around her eyed up her costume as the girl hugged her, she was dressed as Ariel, complete with a red wig on that almost matched Cat's hair exactly.

"You smell so good." Tori nuzzled her face into Jade's neck.

"Not now, Vega." Jade pushed the drunken girl off her, almost knocking her over totally. "Shit." She mumbled as she held onto Tori to stop her from falling over.

"Why don't you like me? You like Cat." Tori's bottom lip quivered as she regained her footing.

Jade let out a frustrated sigh. "Because you're annoying."

"I just want to be your friend, Jade. Why won't you let me in?"

"You're such a loser. Keep on dreaming." Jade pushed past Tori, a feeling of guilt hitting her stomach as she turned to face Tori again before rushing upstairs. She didn't dislike Tori as such, she just knew how to push all of her buttons and although Tori had tried several times before to get close to Jade, it just wasn't going to happen. No matter what she did.

Jade tiptoed down the hallway, her heels clicking against the wooden floor beneath her. Muffled noises sounded from the bedroom next to her's. She placed her head against the old door, pushing her ear into the hard object trying to make out the noise that was coming from in there. Giving up on that, she placed her hand on the gold door knob, turning it slowly making sure she didn't make a sound. The door opened with a slight click. The room was in total darkness as Jade peeked her head around it, trying to make her eyes fall into focus. On the bed was two dark figures, one male and one female.

"Stop, please." The female cried.

Jade froze in shock. Terror and panic flooded her body and hit her like a wave. As her eyes finally came into focus the girl on the bed looked up at the door in complete desperation.

"Stop, you're hurting me. Please stop." She cried out again. "Help me, please." She made complete eye contact with Jade, her deep brown eyes crying out for help even more than her words. She tried to push the boy off her, failing as she collapsed underneath him. "Stop." She tried one last time."

"Shut the fuck up or it'll hurt more." The boy said, placing his hand across the crying girls mouth.

Jade panicked, taking one last sympathetic look at the girl on the bed before closing the door slowly behind her. "Fuck." She cursed. The girl was Cat and the boy raping her, was her brother.

Jade collapsed into Tori as she finished her story. "It's all my fault." She sobbed.

A/N - OK SO THE NEXT CHAPTER IS THE END AND I REVEAL ALL AND IDK ABOUT YOU BUT I'M NOT READY FOR THIS. HOW LAME AM I?

I feel weird about this chapter, honestly, its just a filler for the reveal really. Except for the flashbacks, they are imortant to the story.

Bring on tomorrow, bitches. Happy Halloween eve ;)