A/N: Sorry about the wait but here are two chapters, hope you enjoy
Jade was taken back. Prissy little Tori was in this dump. Wasn't she meant to be an actor or something? It'd been years and although Jade had tried to keep track of her old friends she struggled mostly because of her lack of internet access for the past few years.
Jade realized people change but she was sure something was off about Tori, maybe the fact that she was in an old beaten-up bar in New York at 3am. Tori's eyes had dark bags underneath them and her once glowing skin seemed dull, the spark in her dark eyes had died; she seems much older than…how old is she twenty? Jade notices Tori's crying, her face is blank but there are tears streaming down it.
Tori couldn't believe it. Jade West. She found her, after all that time she'd given up hope; they all had. Jade had taken off a month before graduation, the gang thought at first it was some stupid stunt but as the days turned to weeks and the weeks turned to months, they were sure it wasn't. They spent their nights searching for her, all around LA. They didn't realize how much they'd miss her but they missed her more than she could imagine. She was the glue that held them all together, she was more like the weight that kept them from drifting off into different directions. Even though they weren't that close Tori took it pretty hard, maybe it was her fault? Maybe she'd said something?
Beck took it the hardest. His girlfriend of almost four years had disappeared without a trace. At first, he seemed to never sleep; he was always looking. He spent the full summer searching. Then as they were all meant to go to college together he gave up. The only ones that ended up going to college were Andre and Robbie. Cat, Tori and Beck had too much to think about. For the first-year Tori found herself at a loss, she got a part time job in a clothing store and spent the rest of her time watching movies in her room alone.
Tori can't put into words the relief she feels when she sees that familiar face. She just drinks it in. Time had made her memory slightly foggy and Jade had changed.
"Jadey?" a girl says in a shrill voice entering the toilet, breaking both girls from their spell, "Derek wants to know what's taking you so long… Who's this?"
"No one," Jade replies shaking her head, "Come on, lets go."
And with that they leave. Tori can't help but be annoyed at herself; after all these years she can't even manage to tell her how much she missed her, how much they all need her.