Chapter Four.
When Jade arrived outside the RV, she noticed how much it meant to her and just how hard it would be to walk away from everything Beck had given her to remember. She clung onto her leather jacket, hoping it would stop her from falling into the black hole that would open and engulf her as soon as she stepped foot inside the mobile home. She strolled towards the RV, looking cool and casual on the outside but broken on the inside. KNOCK! Her knuckles tapped on the bulletproof window, impatiently.
"Coming!" A girls voice rang out, she knew that voice too well. It was Tori Vega. Had she moved in with him already? Lost in a train of thought, she didn't notice the door open until she was snapped out of her trance by the sound of Tori's whining.
"Jade! Hi! How are you?" She grinned, widely. It was all an act, everyone fell for it, they did all the time, but it was obvious to her what was going on. Tori was being nice to her so Jade wouldn't mind if she married Beck and well, it was pretty cunning, she had to admit. However, it was no match for Jade West.
"Great, you?" She smiled back, politely, which was odd for her, considering polite was never in anyone's vocabulary whilst describing Jade.
"Fabulous! So what's up?"
"I need to talk to Beck." Tori's smile immediately disappeared and her head tilted forwards, her eyeshadow glistening in the moonlight.
"Please don't take him from me, Jade." Well whatever Jade was expecting it wasn't that. Was Tori really so insecure? One thing was for certain, Jade had misjudged Tori entirely.
"What? Take him from you? He loves you, more than he ever loved me." She shook her head and mouthed the words 'I wish'. That was the moment she knew that she had the upper hand, she could change this for the better, if she wanted to.
"Where's Beck?"
"In here." She motioned Jade into the RV and began to show her around but didn't get very far due to an interruption from Jade.
"I know where everything is. I lived here for four years."
"Oh, yeah, I'll go into the kitchen and you just talk to Beck about whatever. Just remember what I said. Please." Jade placed her hands on Tori's shoulders and shook her vigorously.
"Vega, I'm not going to take Beck." Tori nodded and sauntered into the kitchen.
When she walked into the living room, she saw Beck lay on the couch, THE couch. The couch where they'd had their first kiss, where they'd had movie nights, where they'd took pictures, watched TV and cuddled. It was the place Jade loved the most, besides in his arms. She waved at him, awkwardly, and whispered,
"Hey."
"Hi." She sat down next to him on the couch as far away as possible. "I'm not diseased, you know."
"I know." She spat, her words dripping with venom. Beck sighed.
"Why are you here?"
"I just wanted to say," She thought carefully about what she was going to say and or ask for. After deliberating with herself, she opened her mouth, ready to speak. "Congrats on setting the date, I wish you the best of luck and I hope I'm invited." She said, slightly malicious.
"Thank you Jade." She shrugged and walked out of the room.
"See you in school, I hope." And with that, Jade went home to scream into her pillow and throw darts at a picture of Tori's face.
Later that night, Jade received a phone call from Cat's Mother.
"Hi, Jade I've got some news, Cat has been admitted to hospital. They say she's losing her mind. Shes been feeling down lately and losing a lot of weight and well, she's got a major case of anorexia and symptoms of bipolar. You might wanna come down here. ' hospital, Ward E, room 16." Jade smashed her head into the steering wheel and sobbed. Her bestfriend was ill, very ill, and she was too selfish to notice. What had she done?