No one's POV

Jade and Tori manage to get to school just before Sikowitz's class started, and good thing too. He would have failed them if they didn't turn up to perform their short play.

Jade and Tori sit themselves down in the middle of the classroom and wait for Sikowitz and the rest of the class to arrive. Tori take out my phone and scroll through the updates on the slap, while Jade takes out a flower from her bag and starts cutting it up with her scissors.

Andre comes in a little later, dragging a seat next to Tori for himself. "Hey chica, didn't see you first and second period," he comments as he settles down.

"Nah I slept over at Jade's last night, we woke up late but here we are," Tori answers, turning her attention from her phone to him.

"Yo and you made it through all in one piece? No cuts or bruises?" he asks jokingly, making a show of checking her arms and legs for signs of foul play. Tori's about to throw him a sarcastic answer but answer but a threatening snip from Jade's scissors made him shrink back, raising his hands in surrender.

Soon enough, Sikowitz climbs through the window, landing not so gracefully on the stage floor. The number of times he's hit his head while climbing through the window, it's no wonder why he's as bat shit crazy as he is.

"Good morning young performers," he greets as he takes out a coconut from his pants. "Today is an exciting day, do you know what it's time for?" He pauses to take a long sip from his coconut, eyeing us expectantly. He swallows and let's out a long "ahhhhh", but doesn't continue speaking. We all sit in an awkward silence for a moment, before Jade pipes up.

"What is it time for?" she asks in an exasperated but uninterested tone, pulling out yet another flower from her bag to destroy. God, does she have a flower shop hidden in there or something?

"Glad you asked Jade. Today, you will be presenting the short play you've written in pairs over the weekend. I hope you're ready because I expect all of you to kill it on stage," he announces, meandering around chairs to sit at an empty chair at the back of the class.

"One time, someone told my brother to kill it on stage and h-"

"JADE! Tori! Why don't you two go first?" Sikowitz calls, cutting Cat off before she can get into another story about her crazy brother. Jade and Tori get up on stage, and wait for Sikowitz to give us our queue to start.

"Don't tell us what emotions you've chosen. Let us guess after you finish your performance, then we can see how successful you were at portraying the emotions. Aaaaaand, ACTION!"

"Why are you still with him Kade? He treats you horribly!" Tori asks as she wraps her arms around Jade from behind.

Jade shrugs out of Tori's grasp and takes a step back, putting some distance between themselves. "No Lori, not right now. Jeremey loves me. He says he does, so he must."

"How can you believe what he says when he does nothing but hurt you, day in and day out?!" Lori questions, trying to control the frustration in her voice.

"I hurt him even more by cheating on him with you!" Kade yells back, breaking into tears.

Lori cautiously approaches Kade again, slowly wrapping her in a hug. This time, Kade doesn't push her away, instead finds comfort in the crook of her neck, still sobbing.

"I want you Kade. I treat you better than him. Why don't you just break up with him?" Lori asks softly.

Kade pulls back from the hug but still remains in Lori's arms. "Jeremey loves me. You just want sex with me. You don't love me, you lust me," she responds, wiping away her tears.

"I want you Kade! I treat you right! Why can't you just leave it at that?"

"You don't love me."

"I want you."

"But you don't love me."

A beat of intense silence passes. The hands on Kade's shoulders suddenly move to grab her face and pull her in for a rough, passionate kiss. Kade tries to push Lori away but Lori's strong grip on her face keeps her there. Eventually, Kade gives up resisting and melts into the kiss, wrapping her arms around Lori's waist.

"Aaaaand scene! Well done girls! That was definitely a lot better than I expected from you two," Sikowitz praises, and Tori and Jade break apart. "Now, who wants to guess the emotions they picked?"

The entire class was silent, too shocked to even comprehend Sikowitz speaking. They were all still trying to digest the fact that Jade West had willingly written a play in which she kisses Tori Vega, the girl whom she hates. Well, all except Cat, that is. Realizing that no one was going to speak up any time soon, she rolls her eyes and pipes up in her cheery voice, "love and comfort!" That seemed to snap the rest of the class out of their stupor and they start murmuring and nodding in agreement, looking to Tori and Jade for the verdict.

"Umm actually, we chose to do lust and anger," Tori corrects, "Lori lusting after Kade and being angry that Jeremey treats Kade badly and that Kade doesn't want to let her have her."

"But Kade and Lori are obviously in love, and just doesn't want to admit it," Robbie argues.

"Yeah and Lori wants to make Kade hers and comfort her but she's too scared to admit she loves her so she just sleeps with her," comments Andre, backing him up.

"Tori and Jade kissed," Beck mutters, obviously still not able to wrap his head around the what just happened.

The rest of the class nods in agreement, continuing to murmur and discuss their opinions on Kade and Lori's relationship.

"Uhhh not exactly, Lori does like Kade but she doesn't love her," Tori tries to explain, getting slightly flustered. "She just lusts after her and -"

"HEY," Jade's sharp voice cuts through, getting everyone to shut up immediately. "You know what? Yeah Tori and I kissed for a skit. Big deal. We chose the emotions lust and anger. If you don't believe it then not my problem," she yells, grabbing her bag and storming out of class, leaving a still slightly stunned and confused class, and Tori standing awkwardly on stage by herself.

Tori's POV

"Jade! Jade! Hey wait up! Jade!" I call after Jade while running down the empty hallway, trying to catch up with her.

Jade may be a fast runner, but I'm faster. I manage to catch up with her before she manages to get too far, grabbing her wrist and pulling her into the janitor's closet.

"Goddamnit Vega, let go of me! I've had enough of you for today," Jade yells, trying to shake my grip off her. Her top rises up a little in the process and I spot the black plastic handles of her scissors peeking out from above the waistband of her skirt, that same pair of scissors that I found on her when she came to my house on Christmas. I reach out and yank it out of her skirt before she can use them as a weapon against me.

"GIVE ME BACK MY SCISSORS NOW, VEGA! BEFORE I KILL YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS," Jade warns, starting to scratch and grab at me, completely neglecting the fact I'm the one the scissors in hand. I must admit though, even without her scissors, she comes off just at threatening and dangerous as before. I've seen Jade angry but I've never seen her this enraged before. I consider the option of running for my life, but I quickly dismiss it, deciding that we have to talk about this.

In one quick movement, I push her against a shelf in the corner and grab her wrists, preventing her from escaping or hurting me. She struggled for a while before calming down, but her eyes stared straight into mine, telling me that there would be hell to pay once I released her. It was terrifying, standing up to Jade like this, but I refused to back down.

"Why did you get so worked up over their comments? You've gotten much worse before, and you usually just brush them off like they're nothing, so what's so different this time?" I asked, staring her straight in the eye. A look of sadness flashed across Jade's eyes, and she quickly adverted her eyes in attempt to hide it. There was a lot more to this than just a slew of comments, but I decided not to push it. You can never get anywhere by pushing Jade.

I take her hands in mine and interlace our fingers. She didn't pull back of flinch, and just enjoyed the simple feeling of our conjoined hands. I don't know why I did it, it just seemed right in the moment. "Look Jade, who cares what they all think. We did it for a skit, and it was a great skit, as Sikowitz said. So why don't you and I ditch this place and head to my place and chill for the rest of the day?"

So there's chapter 11! I apologize for the long wait, I've been busy with my preliminary exams. I also had to keep rewriting the chapter but this is the best I could do. Unfortunately, I can't promise you that updates will come any sooner until I end my actual O Level exams in early November, but what I can promise is that I won't give up on the story, so you can bet your ass that there will be an update in time to come.

I am also very sad at the moment because I spend the entire yesterday and a good part of today trying to find Avan in Singapore, only to find out that he only stopped over and he just flew his hot ass on to Brunei. I also somehow managed to misplace my wallet in the process :(

Also, I made a Kik so you guys are welcome to add adriannecchuck and yell at me to update over there too :)