Jaded Ways
Chapter 6
A/N: Before I get to the story I want to thank three people in particular who review almost every chapter: ohsnapitztiaxo, sarzfaction, & Rainea91. Thank you, all three of you for always leaving such nice reviews. I really appreciate it. Okay, so I'm gonna do a cover of freak the freak out and later their trip to Yerba. The timeline may not be correct, so deal with it.
After spending several hours of just sitting and starring at the moon and stars, Cat eventually fell asleep and is now sleeping quietly and peacefully on Jades lap. Cat is lying on the ground, with her head resting in Jades lap as Jade lies beneath her on the grassy hill side playing with Cats lushes red hair between her fingertips as she lies back, an arm laying underneath her head as she stares at the sky, lost in though.
Jade glances down at Cats sleeping form and smiles to herself. As the gentle night air rushes across them, Jade Can't help but get a whiff of Cat's smell. Cat has the most intoxicating, sweet smell, which would make any vampire's mouth water at just the slightest whiff. Jade can't help but frown, as Cat's smell, while simply divine, can make Jade lose control at times. 'How is it that I've managed to survive around her this long?' Jade thinks to herself. 'The blood tablets only help dull the cravings for blood and I've known Cat for nearly ten years now, five of which I didn't have the blood tablets to help. If it weren't for my strong will, and love for this girl, I would have drunk her dry long ago.' Jade is disgusted at the thought of ever lying a fang on Cat.
Jade loves Cat's smell, but hates when she smells Cat's blood. The reason Jade fears being with Cat is due to her fear of losing control in the presence of her intoxicating blood. The only time Jade has ever really had trouble being around Cat, is when she hasn't fed in days and is craving blood. Luckily Jade doesn't allow herself to go more than a day without at least one glass of blood tablet water anymore. It's not that Jade is afraid to be around Cat normally. She can handle that. It's the thought of them ever getting romantic that frightens Jade. If her and Cat ever did get physical, Jades hormones and desire might take control and cause her to do something she would regret. Just being around Cat changes Jade. Who knows what would happen if they were to ever do anything more-than-friend-related?
'No. I won't let that get in my way. I love Cat more than anything or anyone. I'm not going to let this get in the way.' Jade confidently thinks to herself. 'Still, I can't allow us to ever be more than we are now. I can't risk Cat's safety.' Jade decides to herself.
Everyone went their separate ways not long after Jade left. Seeing Cat begin to shiver, Jade gently picks her up and quickly carries her to her home. Deciding she doesn't really want to go home, Jade changes Cat and puts her in her bed before changing herself and lying next to her. It's not like they have to worry about either of their families bothering them and Seymour can take care of himself, so why should Jade bother going home, right?
It isn't long before the sun rises and the two are forced to wake up and prepare for another boring day of school. Deciding to forget about recent events for a short time and wanting to live her life, Jade decides to take her and Cat to a new karaoke/restaurant joint, called Karaoke Dokie. Jade knows that soon she will have to create her army of still bloods to prepare for the war to come, but for now, she's going to let everyone enjoy what time of peace they still have.
Jade doesn't sleep for long. She wakes up early and sees the sun is already rising. She lets Cat sleep as she contacts the others and tells them not to worry and to leave everything to her, Theo, and Garth. She doesn't see a point in having them worry over something they can do nothing about. The only reason she told them was so they would be ready when the time came. She knows they will all secretly worry about it on their own, but she wants them to enjoy themselves while they still can.
Jade returns to Cat's home after talking to the others and gently wakes Cat up. "Jade? Where are we?" Cat says groggily. "Your house. I brought you here last night after you fell asleep. Now get up and get ready. We have to go to school." Jade says gently to the sleepy Cat. "I don't wanna go to school." Cat whines as Jade tries to get her to get up. Cat rolls over, her back to Jade. "Well you're going. I'm not gonna let you stay here all day. Besides I have a surprise for you." Jade says, causing Cats ears to perk up like that of a real cat. "Really? What is it?" Cat sits up, excited. "We're going to that Karaoke place you told me about tonight." Jade said sweetly, smiling down at her. "Besides you have to do a scene with Andre today in Sikowitz's class. So you can't miss it." Jade explained. "Yay! I love Karaoke!" Cat said cheerfully. "Good. Now get up." Jade said, while opening Cats bathroom door for Cat to take a shower.
Jade already showered before waking Cat, so she decided to go downstairs and make Cat a nice breakfast before they had to go to school. When Cat came down, ready for school, she sat down at the prepared table and saw Jade made her eggs, bacon, and sausage strips. On the side was a fruit salad. Cat happily ate her food, as they sat in silence for a while.
Jade regretfully broke this silence knowing something had to be said. "Cat." After saying this Cat looked up to see a serious Jade. "Yeah?" Cat said worriedly as she payed complete attention to Jade. "About last night…" Jade trailed off for a second before continuing. "You have nothing to worry about. I already talked to the guys and explained that I would take care of everything and told them I want them to just go on about their daily lives. I want you to do the same, Cat." Jade says seriously. Cat looks at Jade surprised. "When did you talk to the guys?" Cat asked confused by Jades statement. "This morning while you were asleep. I woke up early and decided to talk to them." Jade explains. "Oh…" Cat says, a sad look on her face. "How can I not worry, Jade?" Cat says to Jade with a sad look in her eyes and a large frown on her face. Jade sighs. "Cat, it's not that big a deal, alright? We're all going to be fine. So there's nothing to worry about." Jade tries reassuring her. "Not that big a deal? Nothing to worry about? Jade are you listening to yourself? Last night you basically said all hope was lost and now you're saying it's no big deal?" Cat was shouting hysterically. Jade looked at Cat with wide eyes and a bit of hurt on her face. Jade knew this was serious. She just doesn't want anyone else to worry about it. After all, it's her problem. She is the one that holds the last hope for the pureblood vampire race.
"Cat I didn't even want to tell any of you! This isn't your problem! Any of yours! They're not after any of you! They only want me!" Jade shouted at Cat with clear sadness in her voice and on her face. This shuts Cat up immediately. Jade always does this. She tries to shoulder the problems of the entire pureblood race on her own. She never really wanted any of her friends to get involved in the first place.
The truth is, Jade is the only important one. If the blood seekers kill Jade and eliminate the pureblood order, the purebloods don't stand a chance. Jade knows this. She knows that if she dies, then her whole race is doomed. That's a lot of pressure to put on one young teenage girl. Even Jade West, the total badass Vampire.
"Jade…" Cat says quietly. "Cat. I don't want any of you to worry. Like I said, I AM Going to deal with this. One way or another. That's a promise. And you know I never break a promise. So don't worry about it. Any of it. I'm going to be okay, Cat. I promise." Jade says in a stern and confident, yet reassuring way. "I believe you Jade." Cat says, as she truly does believe in Jade.
"Good. Now finish your breakfast. We have to leave for school soon." Jade says to Cat. "KK!" Cat says, back to her cheery self. If Jade makes a promise, she won't break it. So Cat has nothing to worry about. The two finish their breakfast and Jade drives them to school. Jade carried Cat home last night. Her car at school, the last place she had it. So after talking to the guys Jade had gotten it and driven it to Cat's house.
The two arrive at school on time and start their day. Everyone is back to normal. They are all together for Sikowitz's class, currently in the black box theatre. Cat and Andre are doing their scene for the class.
Cat is sitting against some rocks, with plants behind them, holding her right eye open with her right hand as Andre is kneeling over her opening a box beside him. "Ow. Oww. OW!" cat whines. "I'm so scared!" Cat says. "Try to relax. Everything's going to be alright." Andre says in a Jamaican accent as he grabs something from his medical kit. "You have to get me to a doctor." Cat urges. "Shh! If that spider bites your eyeball you could die in minutes!" Andre says to her in his accent. "Oh man. Please get it off my eye." Cat says urgently. "I'm going to try." Andre reassures. "Now shh. Don't move. And don't make a sound." Andre slowly says to her as he slowly moves his tool near Cat's eye. Everyone is at the edge of their seats paying very close attention. When suddenly a loud cell phone rings throughout the room completely disrupting the scene and startling everyone. Cat screams and pushes Andre away before they and the rest of the class turn to see where the noise is coming from.
"Ohh! And the ringing is back!" Sikowitz freaks out. Everyone tries to calm him down and Robbie says it was a phone. "Whoooeeesssssssa?" Sikowitz says rolling his s's and sounding aggravated. "Minneesssssa." Tori responds. "Tori!" Sikowitz says annoyed. "I swear I thought I had it on vibrate." Tori says. "Class is no place for swearing or vibrating." Sikowitz declares loudly. "Maybe we should start the scene over." Andre says in his accent. "Can we?" Cat says sweetly, and a bit sadly while sitting up.
"No Cat it's too late. By now that spider would have bitten your characters eyeball and you'd be dying a spastic painful death." Sikowitz explains. "Aww. Thanks a lot Tori." Cat says sadly while looking at Tori, who rose an eyebrow and opened her mouth widely. 'Great. Fucking Vega ruined Cat's scene. I should ruin her face!' Jade angrily thinks to herself.
"Well. We have about four minutes left. Why don't we talk about our weekend plans." Sikowitz says. Sikowitz makes fun of Robbie by calling out his lack of a social life which Jade finds funny. He then asks Rex what his plans are and of course Rex is going to be spending time with his slutty, stupid north ridge girls. 'I can't believe a member of my pack is going to be spending time with those scum'. Jade thought to herself.
Cat happily tells everyone about their plans to go to Karaoke Dokie tonight, and no one really seems to care. Jade says "I'm picking the song." Which Cat happily responds with "Jade's picking the song." While happily swinging her arms around. Robbie asks if he can come and Rex mentions his NR girls and the two argue for a minute about not wanting to spend money on them and Tori regretfully says "I wish I could go to Karaoke Dokie." And Beck asks her why she can't, making Jade mad. "Who cares why she can't." Jade says angrily. Beck says "I was just wandering why she couldn't." defensively. And Jade responds with "What? do you need Tori around to have a good time? Is that your point?" Jade says angrily. "Dude." Beck says. "What?" Jade yells. Sikowitz interrupts with "Jade I know you and Beck used to date but don't be such a gank. He can spend time with whoever he wants." Jade shuts up. She's not angry about Beck wanting to spend time with a girl. It's who he wants to spend it with. Miss tainted blood.
Yes, Jade and Beck did date for a while. But it's not because Jade was in love with him, or even really into him. She only did it to get her mind off of Cat. There was a time when Jade was getting more and more attached to Cat and didn't know how to handle it. She found herself wanting Cat more and more with each passing day. She found it hard to resist her and decided to date Beck, in order to help get her mind off of it. This was two years ago, not long after they met. Jade ended up turning him and having him join her pack, which was the same time she met Andre, Robbie, and Rex, and because they were all friends and she didn't hate them she changed them to. Of course over time she began to actually like them and are now friends. But at the time it was just a matter of distracting herself. Jade eventually told Beck, who was mad for a bit, but understood and forgave her after a while. Now the two are really close friends.
"So why can't you come?" Cat said to Tori. Tori explained how Trina was having her wisdom teeth removed and how she had to care for her the entire weekend cause her parents were going on vacation to get out of taking care of Trina, which made Jade happy. Tori called Jade a gank, making Jade want to smash her skull in. Sikowitz freaked out when the bell rang, signaling school was over and thought it was another cell phone. He must have had a coconut earlier or something.
After school, Jade dropped Cat off at her house and left her car there before running home to get ready for the night. She quickly got ready and ran back to Cats house in less than ten minutes. Just in time to walk in on a changing Cat, causing Cat to shriek and blush tremendously embarrassed as she tried to cover herself. Jade just chuckled and smirked at the embarrassed Cat before her, who wasn't doing a very good job of covering herself. "Jade! I hate it when you do that! I didn't even hear you come in." Cat said as she tried to walk to the bathroom while attempting and failing to cover herself. "Yeah I know. I was hoping I'd catch you while you were in the middle of changing." Jade chuckled and smirked suggestively as she teased Cat.
"Jade! You are such a perv!" Cat teased as she entered the bathroom and closed the door to change. "Really? And who's the one who got a nosebleed at watching someone shower?" Jade teased. Cat froze at this and Jade could hear her heart beat suddenly go into overdrive as Cat got really nervous. "Wh-What are you talking about?" She stuttered in a shaky voice. "Oh come on Cat. I can tell you're nervous. And I know you were checking me out." Jade says while smirking widely. "I…I was not!" Cat tries to defend. Jade chuckles at this. "Oh please. You were totally checking me out, Cat." Jade says triumphantly. "Don't worry. I'm not mad or anything. Actually if anything I'm flattered." Jade said cockily and honored. "So. Did you like what you saw?" Jade asks, causing Cat to cough and practically spazz out. Jade just continued to smirk. After calming down considerably Cat quietly muttered "Maybe." Innocently as her cheeks literally matched her hair at this point. This made Jade's eyes widen and caused her to blush. She didn't expect Cat to respond.
Jade stood there frozen for a moment taken aback before the door opened. Jade quickly regained her composure before Cat could see her. Cat came out looking flat out gorgeous. Jade couldn't help but check her out, which Cat could obviously tell, as she spun around making a show out of it. This made Jade smile like an idiot. Cat giggled as she looked upon Jades blushing idiotic smiling face. "Alright. Let's go!" Cat said cheerfully. The two left for Karaoke Dokie.
At Karaoke Dokie. Robbie and Rex were singing together and when they were done they gave a shout out to Rex's NR girls. When the DJ said that was by far the best ventriloquist act he'd ever seen, Robbie and Rex looked at each other hurt saying "Didn't he see us singing up there?" They went to the table with the NR girls and Jade, Cat, Andre, and Beck were all together at a different table finding it funny. "Man that's funny." Andre said. "Yeah. If only they knew the truth." Beck agreed. Everyone else nodded and agreed.
Jade stood up saying "I'm gonna go get a soda." Before walking off. Andre said "Get me one?" And Jade coldly said "No." and left. Andre then says "She can be a gank." And Beck says "You have no idea," before drinking his drink.
Two girls walk over to their table and sit down. One, a brunette sits down where Jade was sitting and flirts with Beck. Cat sensing the tension tries to break it by saying "I get nervous when my brother eats things that aren't food." Hoping to get them to leave. Then says "Seriously, I think he ate my charm bracelet." But the two girls just ignore her. The other girl, a blonde flirts with Andre. The brunette says to beck "You have insane hair." Which Beck responds with "Yeah. My hair was normal, then one day just went insane." Then he says. "It's a sad story." The brunette says "I like your story." Flirtasously, while grabbing his hands. Beck pushes them away, rejecting her, but she doesn't give up.
"Umm. Hi. Miss. He has a girlfriend." Cat says to the brunette, hoping to get them to leave knowing Beck doesn't want anything to do with this girl. "I don't see her." The brunette says. As she says this Jade appears and says "Turn around." Playing along. "Now you see her." Jade says while sipping her drink. "I don't see much." The brunette stupidly says before standing up. Jade is getting angry at this point and is about to smash this girls skull in. I know what you're probably thinking. If Beck and Jade aren't dating then what's the big deal? Well the big deal is once again who it is. This girl happens to be a vampire. Something the whole group caught onto immediately. But not just any Vampire. The brunette is the 'princess' of a small, weak pureblood coven who are envious of the West coven, and want nothing more than to see them fall. Jade can tell this the moment she senses her, and already hates her guts. She would rip this little bitches head off right now if she didn't already have enough to deal with. She doesn't need to have two covens going to war when the order is falling and the blood seekers are trying to kill all purebloods.
The rest of the group tries to ease the tension by talking about how Karaoke comes from Japan and saying how they love Japan. The blonde sees Andres HA jacket and the two start bagging on HA saying it's a place for 'wanna bees'. Which makes Jade angry. She threatens her to shut up. Andre mentions buffalo nuggets on the menu and says how that's great "Well except for the buffalo's." he says. The brunette asks if they're going to sing tonight and Jade says "Well, we didn't come for the buffalo nuggets." And Beck asks "But we are going to get some right?" and Jade says "I don't care." In an annoyed tone, before turning back to the brunette and saying "And yeah. We're singing tonight." The blonde says "Awesome." And the brunette says "So are we." Cat chimes in with another odd story saying "I like Japan. Except my brother got stabbed there. He's better now. Are buffalo nuggets spicy?" She says all this as if completely oblivious to what's going on.
As Cat and Jade are sitting at their table waiting to sing cat says "I like your purse." Jade simply says "Thanks." Not really interested in talking right now. "What is this?" Cat says in her usual oblivious way. "Monkey fur." Jade says, causing Cat to drop it on the table saying "oh." She then drops her eyes, putting her face in her hands. The DJ announces Hailey and Tara as they walk onto the stage about to sing. Hailey is the brunette and Tara is the blonde from earlier. Hailey says to Jade "Enjoy us." And Jade responds with "Enjoy my monkey fur." While rising her purse at her. At this point Cat is all smiley again. She looks at Jade and smiles. The two sing awfully making Jade happy.
After they're done singing Jade claps shouting "Yeah we're clapping cause it's over!" Cat giggles and playfully pushes Jades leg. Jade smiles back at her. The DJ announces Jade and Cat and the two go up to the stage. Jade being in no mood for the DJ's stupidity snaps at him telling him to just play it when he starts acting like an idiot. The two sing "Give it up" together dancing closely together. It's a beautiful performance, of which words could not describe.
The two hug and walk triumphantly off of the stage. The DJ introduces the owner to announce the winners. To everyone's surprise, the owner announces that Hailey and Tara won. And Hailey says "Thank you dad." And when everyone boo's they say "We won because we rock." Cat says to them "Yeah. Don't believe everything your daddy tells you." And Jade says "Like when he says you're pretty." At this Hailey says that they're both banished from ever singing here again. They were about to leave when the food comes out, and they angrily sit back down and eat their food. Jade contemplates killing them after all, but decides against it when she thinks of the repercussions. It would be more trouble than it'd be worth. But it sure would make her happy.
The next morning. Andre, Beck, and Robbie go over to Tori's house. Tori is in no mood to deal with them right now so she doesn't act like her usual happy sunshiny self. The boys acknowledge this and Robbie even says she looks horrible. Tori says "why are you guys even here?" Beck says "we know you were watching Trina and wanted to check in on you." Andre holds up a bag and says "We even brought you guys frozen yogurt." Tori apologizes to them for being rude and explains how Trina put her through hell all night. When they ask where Trina is, she points to the kitchen table and says "There." Trina is lying on the kitchen table bound and gagged. She explains why she did that to her. Tori asks what happened with Robbie, Rex, and the NR girls and Robbie explains how they jacked his wallet and left after he paid the check and went into the bathroom. Tori laughs and says "Classic NR girls." Rex wasn't exactly happy about this so he took matters into his own hands that night.
Jade and Cat arrive at Tori's and ring the doorbell and Tori opens it while the guys try to untie Trina, without any Vampire powers or cutting utensils. Jade and Cat greet Tori as she opens the door and Cat holds up a bag and says "We got you frozen yogurt." All cheerfully. Tori flips out on them and Jade says "I told you to bring her donuts." Looking at Cat. Before looking back to Tori. Cat asks Tori "Why aren't you being nice?" and Jade adds "And why do you look so disgusting?" Tori says "Tina." As she points at her. They both simultaneously say "OHH." Before Jade says "Listen. We need to talk to you." And Cat says "It's really important." Tori looks back at the guys trying to untie Trina and says "Alright. Let's go outside. I don't want to be inside when they get the tape off of her mouth." Tori walks outside and closes the door. The guys try and untie Trina complaining about how Tori managed to tie this.
Outside with Jade, Cat, and Tori. "So what's up?" Tori asks as she begins to eat some of the frozen yogurt. Jade and Cat explain how the two girls were really mean to them and Tori asks "How mean? Like Jade level mean?" and Cat says "No not that mean, but pretty mean." They then proceed to explain what happened and tell Tori they have a plan to get back at them but they need Tori's help. Tori's reluctant at first but then thinking of having to deal with Trina more, she decides to help them. Jade takes Becks car keys and the Three leave, leaving the three guys to care for Trina. They then text them saying they need them to stay until midnight, and when the guys object, Jade texts Beck saying they can't leave cause she took his car keys.
Jade and Cat take Tori to Cat's house and make her look hideous for their plan to get back at the two girls. When they walk into the Karaoke Dokie later they see the two doing another horrible performance. When the two walk off the stage they walk over to Jade and Cat. Hailey says "Oh look whose back. I thought I smelled failure." Cat replies in her normal cheerful tone "Then you must be sniffing yourself." And then proceeded to look back at Jade and ask if it was good. And Jade says "For you." Giving her a nod of her head. She then glares at the two girls. "You know you can't sing here." Hailey says. Cat says "Why would we want to?" and Jade says "So your daddy can let you win again?" Tara says "He picked us because we sang the best." Truly believing her words. Jade says "Oh. My god." At this. Cat says "That is so tight." In her adorable oblivious way. "Tight means good." Jade corrects her. "That is so not tight." Cat says, trying to correct herself.
Jade says "And guess what? If the audience picked the winner, anyone in this whole place would beat you morons." And Cat chimes in with "Anyone." Agreeing with Jade. Jade then says "But you would be too scared to do that, right?" and Tara says "We're not too scared to let the audience pick the best singer." Jade then demands "Then do it." In her dark ordering tone. Hailey asks Jade "And if we win?" Before Jade can think to respond Cat says "You can make out with Beck." And Jade says "What? Why?" pretending to be more upset than she really is. Don't get her wrong. She hates the thought of these disgusting creatures so much as touching a member of her pack, but it could be worse. Cat then says "She likes his hair." And Jade responds with "So do I!" annoyed at the thought of them touching Beck.
Cat decided that if Hailey and Tara lose then they will have to babysit a girl they know. The four agree and Hailey and Tara pick an ugly girl in the back. Jade says "Her?" sounding shocked and Cat says "At least pick someone who stands a chance!" Hailey says "You said anyone in the place, and she's in the place." As they call her over to sing, Jade and Cat are standing behind the two smiling at them.
The ugly Tori goes up to the stage and announces the song she wants to sing and the DJ is reluctant to let her sing "Freak The Freak Out" because of her appearance. After demanding to sing it he gives in. When the song starts, Tori starts singing and begins to take off her disguise, revealing a pretty hot outfit. Hailey and Tara are shocked to find out Tori is actually beautiful. As she sings she calls Jade and Cat to the stage and the two get on the stage dancing with her as she sings. The whole audience, save for the two cheaters are ecstatic over her performance cheering and dancing. When she finishes the song everyone cheers and claps really loudly. When the owner wants the audience to clap to see who wins only Hailey and Tara clap for themselves, but when Tori is judged everyone claps loudly cheering. The three proceed to dance on the stage triumphantly. If Jade can't beat them senseless and kill them at least she can embarrass them and make them take care of Trina. Tori brings the two losers to her home and explains how they have to take care of a nasty Trina, before taking the guys to Karaoke Dokie to see a 'special friend' perform a song.
This 'special friend' is none other than Sikowitz who does his own version of "My World". When he's done, he sits on a chair on the stage spreading out his legs and pulls a rope dangling over him and a large amount of water drops down on him.
After all the craziness is over, Jade takes Cat home. The two are in Jades car laughing and talking about these past two nights. "Oh my god! Sikowitz was so amazing!" Cat excitedly yelled. "Yeah. He was actually pretty good." Jade says. Which for Jade is a big compliment. "And Tori! She was so great!" Cat says even happier. "She wasn't that bad, I suppose." Jade begrudgingly says. "Just admit she was good Jade." Cat urges giving Jade the puppy dog look. "All right! She was good. Ok?" Jade says, giving in to Cat and grunting as Cat smiles and laughs at her. "Now, was that so hard?" Cat asks Jade. "Yes. I think I just died inside." Jade says grumpily.
The two arrive at Cat's house. They sit in the car in utter silence for a few moments before Cat says something. "Thank you for singing with me. It made me really happy." Cat says to Jade with a sincere smile and blushes in embarrassment. "It was no big deal." Jade says and Cat's face falls. Jade seeing this continues. "Besides, you were really great Cat. I really enjoyed performing with you. In fact I'd really like to do it again one day." At this Cat's face lights up and she has the biggest smile on her face. "Thanks Jade!" She says full of happy excitement. "You're welcome Cat." Jade says with complete sincerity in her voice as she smiles fondly at Cat.
"So. Do you want to spend the night again?" Cat asks, her voice full of hope. Jade regretfully sighs. "I'm sorry, but I can't. I have something I have to do tonight." Jade says regretfully. Cat is sad to hear this as she says "Oh." Jade continues to say "But, I'm going to be free all day tomorrow, and I was wandering if you wanted to go to the mall with me." Jade says hoping to cheer Cat up. Which it does. Immediately Cat's mood changes and she's happy once again. "Okay! It's a date!" Cat happily says before hugging a frozen Jade and exiting the car. Cat waves goodbye at Jade as she opens her door and goes into her house.
Jade sits there frozen. "Yeah. A date." She says quietly. "Wait, What?" She practically screams. She drove home in a daze, lost in thought. "A date?" Jade keeps questioning herself. She is now in her bedroom, sitting on her bed squeezing a red velvet suit cased pillow trying to decipher Cat's meaning. 'Calm down, West. Cat's said that plenty of times before. There's no reason to freak out.' She keeps telling herself. But it's not completely based on what Cat said, but how she said it. The way Cat said it made it seem like she really meant a date date. Jade could tell when Cat was kidding and when she wasn't and Cat definitely wasn't joking. Cat actually wanted to go on a real date with Jade tomorrow.
Jade gets up from her bed and begins pacing back and forth in her room. She is now freaking out. The thought of going on a date with Cat both makes her happy and scares her. Both, for many different reasons. Jade doesn't know what she is going to do. She doesn't want to let Cat down, or disappoint her in any way, but she also doesn't want to go against what she decided before, which was that she wasn't going to allow herself to be anything more with Cat than she already was. Jade continues pacing back and forth for several minutes. "Ugh! Why is this so hard for me?" Jade yells in frustration.
Jade isn't the only one worrying this night however. Cat's room. "I can't believe I said that!" Cat yells at herself. Cat is sitting on her bed squeezing a stuffed toy Jade had given her. It was a green tiger. The same shade of green that Jade's eyes are. Cat loves this tiger, because Jade had won it for her at a carnival they had gone too many years ago. Jade was ten and Cat was nine at the time. Cat really wanted to go to the carnival with Jade but Jade didn't want to go cause she thought carnivals were stupid. Somehow Cat got Jade to agree into going with her, and to Jades surprise, she wound up having a pretty great time. Of course that's only cause it was with Cat. If anyone else had tried to force her into going she would have ripped off their arm and beat them with it.
Cat was remembering that time and smiling to herself when she finally came back to reality. "I hope Jade didn't get the wrong idea! She seemed kind of bothered by my statement." Cat solemnly says to herself. "I mean, yeah I did mean an actual date, but I didn't want to freak her out or anything!" Cat exclaims out loud. "I just want a date with Jade so bad!" Cat yells as she squeezes her tiger even tighter. "Why won't Jade just kiss me?" Cat says sadly to herself. "Only once. Even if it were only once, that'd be okay. I'd cherish that memory for the rest of my life." Cat tells herself. "I wander if Jade even likes me? Maybe there's something wrong with me?" Cat says as she begins to quietly cry. Cat keeps convincing herself that something's wrong with her and that there'd be no way Jade could ever like her. She keeps bagging on herself and ends up going into full on sobbing as she clutches the tiger tightly. Cat convinces herself that Jade must not like her and that something is wrong with her and that she's a fool for ever thinking Jade could like her back, crying herself to sleep, never letting the green tiger go.
Jade on the other hand is angry at her mixed feelings and decides to take her anger out on her reinforced steel punching cylinder in the corner of her room. Yes that's right, a reinforced steel cylinder, completely covered in dents. Jade had it specially made to be able to handle even some of her stronger punches for when she gets really upset and needs to hit something. Though she prefers blood, and the feeling of someones skull cracking, or being completely crushed beneath her. So yeah. Jade has a lot of problems. However her anger issues aren't nearly as bad as they use to be before Cat. She used to brutally murder anyone who so much as looked at her wrong. She's made a lot of progress since then. All thanks to Cat.
Cat. It always comes back to her. Jade can't stop thinking of Cat. The way she looks. The way she acts. The way she talks. The way she smells. The way she tastes-wai-what? Was Jade just thinking of "TASTING" Cat? And not the blood sucking Vampire way! No! The tongue over body way! Jade began vigorously shaking her head pacing even more and more. "How will I ever manage to go on an actual date with Cat?" She yells to herself. "I can't even keep my thoughts straight!" Jade groans angrily at all of this. "Who knows what I might do to Cat on our date?" Jade was beginning to lose it. She has no clue what to do about any of this, and it's killing her. Eating away at her from the inside out.
She begins pounding her steel punch cylinder angrily, non-stop. She punches at Vampire speed, which is really fucking fast. She keeps this up for around twenty minutes. "Cat…" Jade quietly says to herself as she allows herself to drop to the floor, her back against the wall. "How is it you do this to me? You always do this to me…" Jade says as a tear escapes her eye. Her knees are against her chest, her head resting in between them. "If only I could kiss her…" Jade says sadly. "What I'd give just to kiss her." Jade stairs at the floor beneath her. "One time. One kiss. That's all I'd need. If I could just kiss her one time, then I'd cherish that memory forever." Jade solemnly says as more tears begin to drop. Jade goes to her bed and pulls out a pink kitty cat stuffed toy Cat had gotten her. She usually hides it from embarrassment, but on special occasions she brings it out. It smells like Cat and everything about it, screams Cat. Jade loves this stuffed toy more than any other object in the world. She presses it to her chest and squeezes it gently at first, as she quietly cries.
After a while she begins going into full on sobbing as she thinks of how Cat makes her feel, tightly squeezing the pink cat. Cat makes Jade feel so much and at one time. She doesn't understand how Cat makes her feel so much. Things she would have and never should have felt. It's killing Jade. Jade ends up crying herself to sleep at the thought of how Cat makes her feel, never letting the pink cat go.
A/N: Yes Jade has feelings. Other than Rage. Unbelievable, right? I know it's uncharacteristic for Jade to cry this much, but I really want to show just how much Cat affects her. I really wanted to have Jade kill Hailey and Tara, because that's just how annoying they are, but then there'd be no point to the whole Cat and Jade and later Tori singing thing. Which is a huge step considering how much Jade hates Tori. The fact that she'd go to her for help. I know I haven't really gotten much into the other characters powers much, but I promise as the story progresses, you'll discover what each character can do. To answer Kit-the-Kitty's questions, keep reading and you'll eventually find out what she is, but it may be a while to get to that. And I came up with that song when I was writing one of the previous chapters.