This is the Life
Chapter 5: Broken
"Jade!" 12-year-old Rosalinda Haven whined, "Where are we going?" Jade giggled.
"I want to show you something, Rosey!" she winked, "It's a surprise. Jay helped me." she grinned. "He's surprisingly good with decoration."
Rose raised an eyebrow at her friend.
"We're here!" Jade cheered and opened the door to a pitch black room. She flipped on the lights.
Rose gasped.
Jaden smiled to himself.
He missed his sister.
He wondered just what happened to her that fatefull night.
No one really knew.
"Jaden!" Jade pouted, "Please? I love you." she begged. "You're my favorite brother and I wouldn't ever do anything to hurt you. I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you."
Jaden smirked at his younger sister. "I love you, too. But unfortunately, I can't say I won't do anything with it."
"You're serious?" she asked, suddenly worried. "But I didn't do anything to you!"
Jaden raised an eyebrow, "Last month, Mom and Dad were gone and you invited Rose over." Jade frowned.
"Boy, can you hold a grude!" she crossed her arms, "I didn't mean it."
"Whatever." Jaden rolled his eyes and chanted something.
He meant to give her crazy hair that couldn't be fixed for a month or something like that.
Not this.
"JADEN!" Jade screamed in anger after looking down at herself.
"Hey, not my fault the spell back-fired and you turned green."
She was always loving, caring, and happy.
She was the kind of person that would never hurt anyone she loves.
She was a wild, crazy (in the good way), adventurous girl.
She didn't deserve what happened to her all those years ago.
She thought different.
"Jade," Rose frowned. "You're awesome, amazing, talented, beautiful, kind, smart, and a whole bunch of other things that would take forever to name." she hugged her crying best friend closer.
Jade sniffed, "But- but I- I- I'm not." Her cried became louder. "I deserve it."
Rose gasped. "You deserve nothing he did to you!" she consoled. "Jaden can tell you the same if you told him. You should tell him. He'll beat his ass."
Jade inwardly laughed. She knew it was true.
"You are a great person. Don't let what he said get to you." Rose told her, "You are you. And you is the best, greatest, bestest bestest person on this whole planet."
Jade smiled.
Jade knew her best friend thought just that. And that Jaden would agree.
But deep, deep down-
No matter how happy and care-free she was.
She didn't think herself great.
She was broken.
Jaden knew his sister went through some rough times. He was always there to help her through them.
Even when she wouldn't tell him just what happened, he would be there nonetheless.
Jade took note of this. And hoped that someday, Jaden would find the best girl in the world to make him happy. She was already trying to hook him up with Rose.
But just as much as she was healing;
She was breaking.
"You're a freak." Casey spat. Rose narrowed her eyes at the girl that just called her best friend a freak.
Jade, to anyone that didn't know her, was a strong girl.
Jade, to Rose and Jaden, was a sensitive girl that was slowly beginning to believe all the horrible thing people tell her.
They would always tell her different.
But they had to be nice to her, right?
Jaden was family, Rose was a friend.
They had to make her feel good about herself.
But all these other people, they out-numbered the two she held dearest.
She didn't know who to believe anymore.
Before Jade could process what was going on, Rose chanted something under her breath.
"I wish I was you." Casey suddenly blurted out.
Jade's eyes widened at the claim. Rose just smirked, knowing this would be the outcome of her little spell.
"You have people that actually love you for who you are. All I have are a bunch of fakes that follow me around for my looks and popularity." Her two right hand girls gasped.
"You really are lucky." Casey admitted. "I'd give anything to be you."
The truth spell.
As Jaden read his sister's closing of her letter, he frowned.
It said, "With all my hate, A long lost Jewel."
Jade wasn't capable of hating.
Her letters usually ended with, "With all my love, A living Jewel."
"What are you doing?!" Jade shrieked. "Jaden! Jaden, help me!" she yelled.
Problem was, Jaden was out somewhere. And Rose was at her own house.
'I know I've been bad, I know I'm not beautiful, smart, or in anyway valuable to this world, but what did I do to deserve this?' she mentally asked herself.
Her finger got closer and closer to hitting the trigger.
'I love you Jaden. I love you Rose. I love you two because you where the only ones that ever cared for me. Why aren't you here when I need you most? I'm going to die and you're probably out there, somewhere in this sick, sick world, enjoying the fresh air.'
A lone tear left her eye.
'Where I- I, the worthless, ugly, freakish girl, am about to breathe my last breath of air. What, just what exactly did I do to deserve this?'
As if hearing her thoughts, the woman in black smirked and said the last thing that Jade ever heard in the world of the living. An answer to her question:
"You were created."
What exactly happened to Jade that night, no one knew except the two present.
But Jaden and Rose would always remember it.
It was the day the two cried their hearts out.
It was the day Jade Emerald Yuki was stamped legally dead.
It was the day a new star appeared in the night sky,
It was the day her father skipped out work just to see her body for the last time.
It was the day her mother retired.
It was the day Domino City Middle School became boring, quiet, and uneventful.
Jaden missed her company.
Rose missed her smile.
Her father missed her eyes.
Her mother missed her voice.
Her teachers missed her tardiness.
The principle missed her frequent visits.
Her fellow students missed her attitude.
Everyone that ever came across Jade Emerald Yuki, missed her.
They all missed her presence in general.
Jade didn't know this.
To her, there are only two people on planet Earth that gave a damn about her.
And she loved them with all her heart.
Jaden had a sneaking suspicion, Jade didn't write that note.