When the bell rang,

Cat jumped up happily and gave me a hug before skipping off to god knows where. On the other hand, I trudged over to my vocal /song writing class. I wish I had that with Cat, she has an amazing voice. Whoa, whoa, whoa there West did you just compliment someone? God that's weird. I don't have Cat but I have Tori's annoying sister in here and she sings like a dieing cat. Did I mention she was annoying?

"Hey your Tori's friend right?" she asked pointing the file she was using on her nails at me.

"I despise your sister." I said in my usual nasty tone and walked away to another seat, not caring what she was going to say.

"Okay," my teacher Mr. Fink said "we will be starting a new project soon and I want to prepare you all for it." God I hated when he gave us stupid little projects to do, they annoy me.

"What will the project be on?" this annoying girl Mandy asked.

"Something or someone important to you. You have to write a song about it." he answered. Mandy hurried to write it down in her notebook.

"What if you could care less about everything?" I asked really just doing it as a joke to myself to mimic Mandy. But to bad Fink was a man that didn't take anyone's crap let alone mine, he believes there's good in me while my parents gave up three years ago when I tried to kill my brothers bunny. He bent down to my level to look me in the eyes while I was sitting in my chair.

"Then you better find someone or something soon, it's due in three weeks and is worth ten percent of your grade." He said in a soft, not very threatening voice. I didn't do anything at all, not even a glare was shot his way. I finally nodded and sighed. Find someone to care about in three weeks, easy. He never said they had to care back, who would?

"Jade!" I heard someone squeal behind me and the culprit soon after hugged me from behind. I knew who it was from the high-pitched, cheery noise that rattled my brain.

"Cat." I said while prying her hand off of me. "What brings you here, to my locker, squealing?"

"I wanted to know if you wanted to go get ice cream with me, and talk about our project." I hesitated to answer her so she added, "I'll buy." I looked at her hopeful face and sighed.

"Fine."

"Yay!"

~Cats POV ~

I'm not stupid. I'm not reckless. I'm not small minded. I'm not on drugs. I don't have anything wrong with me. Only one of those sentences were true, I'm definitely NOT stupid. I know what a psychiatrist is and I know why my mom, my step dad and the rest of my family want to keep seeing one, so why do they baby me, and why do I let them, because they think I'm emotionally scarred, which I am. That doesn't mean I'm incapable of dealing with my own problems. Let me tell you now, I watched my dad get murdered, but I don't let it effect me like others would. I think everyone else is still getting over it and using me as a way to.

-X-

I'm happy right now. Reason, Jade's taking me to get ice cream! But I have to pay :(. We're in her car right now, we've been driving for a while now, but I'm not quite sure why, the ice cream shop isn't too far from school. I'm confused. I started tapping my fingers on the dashboard to a rhythm that has yet to be discovered, getting louder with each tap. I continued tapping and looked out the window, searching for something familiar. I found nothing. I furrowed my eyebrows, frustrated and tapped louder. Next thing I knew Jade's hand came came down on top of mine, stopping them from tapping.

"Sorry." I said, knowing it had bothered her. She nodded. "Where are we going?" I finally asked.

"You said ice cream right?" I nodded, "Well there's only one ice cream place on this side of the continent worth spending your money, Ronnie's Ice Cream Parlor." she said simply. I smiled happily and looked down at my hands. Jade's hand was still on top of mine, even though I had moved my hands into my lap. I took a deep breath trying to steady my breathing. I've liked Jade for as long as I can remember knowing her, and her hand resting on mine was making me shiver at how gentle her touch was.

=D Thanks for reading and thanks to those who reviewed uhhh...from now on I will be posting more of this every Saturday so just thought I'd let you know. And the reasoning behind the name ypu will find out at the end but you can look it up it's a song by nevershoutnever so yeah

-Rikki