~Cat's POV~

It stung like a paper cut when Jade backed away from kissing me, I mean I'm likable, right? So why didn't she like me? Wow, now that I think of it there's a lot of reasons why she wouldn't like me. But that doesn't mean it hurts less, it actually hurts more come to think of it. Just thinking about it makes me want to huddle up and cry.

Omg look a whale statue! He's so cute!

No Cat don't lose your focus now, you know Jade hates when you do that.

I know but he looks so fluffy! Wait are whales fluffy?

Cat!

Ooh cats are fluffy. And so are dogs. And bunnies. And those cute little hamsters with the little paws

DO YOU WANT JADE TO LIKE YOU?

...yes

Then stop zoning out! Look we're already at her house.

Yay! Hehe, I love Jade's house!

*Face palm*

Okay you're probably wondering where that just came from right? Well I am too. Random arguments between me and Steve (that's what I decided to name Mr. Voice-in-my-head) happen all the time and start during weird times too. Steve started talking to me two years ago, in November. He started telling me that something bad was going to happen soon that he could feel it. I think he has magic powers or something, cause he was right, my dad was shot in an alley in New York, where we used to like not three days later. Steve doesn't always deliver bad news, lately he's been helping me try to get Jade.

I had been too caught up in my own thoughts to notice that me and Jade were already at her door, and she was facing me.

"Do you want a drink or something? Tell me now so we don't have to face the devil and her son until later." I nodded.

"Sure why not." I said in a cheery voice. She nodded, faced the door, sighed and walked in with me following shortly after her. We walked into Jade's giant house and the warm air and the smell of cinnamon hit me. Jade's house always smelt and felt like the perfect home, until her mom walked into the room. Jade never called her mom, mom. Not mother, mama, ma, nothing. She called her by her first name, Mandy. Mandy has a son, he was conceived when Mandy cheated on Jade's dad.

When I had gotten in the door Jade shut the door behind me, rather loud. Blake, Mandy's trouble-making son looked up from his laptop and fixed his eyes on us after her heard the door.

"Blake! Is that Jade?" Mandy screamed from the other room.

"Yeah," he called as he stood up from the couch he was sitting on, keeping his eyes on my. "and her schizophrenic friend!"

"She's not schizophrenic." Jade said immediately after his comment. She knows how much being called that effects me. All the doctors I've seen over the past few years have all said the same thing as him. My mother and her had been the only ones who stood up for me when that came up as a questionable reasoning for why I act the way that I act. But I'm not, as I've told you once before, crazy.

~Jade's POV~

I hated my dad for the time he had ever mentioned that to my family. He had come home one night with news that a co-worker that he happened to be very good friends with and his new family would be coming over for dinner. He had know the man since high school and was more than happy for him when he heard the news that his old friend had finally settled down. Of course he was surprised when he found out that his old buddy, who at a time had hated children had married a woman with two. He mentioned so sort of mental disorder called schizophrenia. Of course being a fourteen year old girl schizophrenia was the last thing in my vocabulary, so I looked it up. What I found had frightened me, just a bit though, if a doctor analyzed me, he'd probably say the same thing for me as her. So, as a result I defended her, always. From that first night her family came over for dinner, I knew in my heart that there was nothing wrong with this girl. I saw that she was just a regular fourteen year old through all the random comments, the slowness of her understanding, and heck even when she commented on a topic that was long down the drain.

I'm different in front of my family than I am I school, I'm weak when I'm around them, they're the lions and I'm the poor baby antelope that's gonna get slaughtered. When I'm at school, when I'm around all the people who don't get crap like I do, I feel stronger than them, knowing I could put up with this for so long and they wouldn't last a week. But I have a third side to me, the only side of me that really matters in the long run, the side of me that only comes out when I'm alone with one certain energetic, happy, NOT SCHIZOPHRENIC, little, red-haired girl. She makes me feel everything at once, shes the only one I can be myself around.

~Cat's POV~

I always get nervous when Mandy walks into the same room as me, she could take Jade away from me if I gave her reason to. Jade usually keeps both of our emotions in check but she doesn't seem to be with us right now, all shes doing is staring off in to space. All Mandy did was glare at me, which made me question why she even came into the room, did she seriously just come in here to glare at me or was she going to say something like, oh I don't know, hello maybe.

"Hi Mrs. West." I politely greeted her trying to ignore the daggers she was shooting at me.

At least we know where Jade learned to glare.

Silly Steve.

"Don't." Jade whispered tugging on my arm a little. "Just go upstairs, I'll be there in a minute." And I listened, cause it's Jade and I trust her.

After a few minutes of Jade not coming up I started to worry. I had heard arguing before but it had stopped not too long ago and now all there is, is silence. I had just about worried myself to tears when jade walked into the room shutting the door with her backside and placing the coke bottles from her hands onto her dresser. I got up quickly and hugged her. She was taken by surprise but hugged me back with all her strength, and I instantly knew Mandy hit her. I pulled out of the hug slightly, and I could tell she didn't want me to. I looked up at her face and brought one of her hands up to touch her cheek trying to comfort her. I noticed her hair was positioned oddly over her face I brushed it to the side and sighed when I saw a cut going along the top of her eyebrow. She didn't look me in the eyes but she brought me into another bone crushing hug.

After a few minutes she pulled away slightly and put both of her hands on my shoulders. She looked at my face for a moment and I felt my heart start to race as her face grew closer to mine. As she grew closer and closer I felt myself grow anxious, I don't want this to end like before. My eyes shut and my lips parted, but all hope was shattered when she shifted to the side and kissed, my cheek. Little tease.

I must have had a pretty annoyed face on when Jade pulled back because she apologized to me. I shook my head and turned my head away from her. I wouldn't say I was mad at Jade, but I wasn't too happy with her right now. I looked around the room and my eyes landed on her bed, it was the comfiest bed on the planet. Jade must have caught on what I was looking at cause she put her hand in mine and tugged on it a little. She lead me over to the bed and we took our shoes off. We laid back on the bed and she turned her head to me, so I did the same. I looked her in the eyes and leaned in a little, again. Okay this is her last chance, if she doesn't kiss me I give up. She didn't, she kissed my chin, MY FRIGGEN CHIN! I shook my head and sat up from the bed.

"What?" She asked. "Oh come on, what did I do this time, come on." I put on my best annoyed face and looked at her. "Wait you don't, want me to kiss you, do you Cat?"

And I shall leave it at that. I'm very sorry for the late update but I got my laptop taken away cause I got a 69 in math then made a sexual joke about it infront of my mom. :P So yeah I want to thank gabi and Chestariley9 for the reviews that made me smile.