"Hey, look!" Cat said excitedly, pointing to the brunette sisters walking through the door of Hollywood Arts High School two days later. "Tori's back!"
While Cat watched, Trina said something to her little sister and once Tori nodded repeatedly, the elder Vega walked away.
"Cat, maybe you should wait to go talk to Tori," suggested the boy to whom Cat had spoken – Robbie – but by the time that the five words had left his mouth, the redhead was already across the hall, throwing herself into the arms of the friend that they hadn't seen since that night they had went to Maestro's.
"I'm so glad you're back!" Cat squealed, wrapping Tori in a vicious bear hug.
"Hi, Cat," Tori said wearily, lightly snaking an arm around her tiny friend's shoulders without even squeezing in a return hug.
"Are you okay?" Cat asked with a frown, taking a step back. "You haven't been answering anybody's calls; we've all been worried about you." She pouted.
"I'm sorry if I worried you; I just haven't felt like talking."
"Oh," Cat said softly, still feeling worried for her friend.
She really looked kind of horrible, and Cat didn't know how to help since no one would tell her what had happened to Tori in the alley, although she knew that everyone else knew. Not even Robbie would talk to her about it though, no matter how much she tried to wear him down on the subject.
"Yeah," Tori answered, but then she seemed to force herself to perk up, saying, "But, hey, listen, I'm fine now; so you don't have to worry okay?"
Cat huffed to herself – she wished that people would quit telling her that she didn't have to worry all the time – but she didn't even have time to answer before Beck came up behind her.
Sorry about the shortness of the chapter - the next couple are going to be that way too, I'm afraid. I'm going to try and get one part of the story each from everybody's POV - Beck's next. Reviews make my day full of sunshine and spur me on in my writing! Thanks!:)