Time really did fly while she was working. And right now, she wished it would slow down for a damn minute. It was the tenth week of shooting. They have done a lot of work. She managed to keep the schedule. But right now, she wanted to stab the whole project with a pair of scissors.

Jade watched as the special effects crew tried to fix as much as possible. They were shooting the scene that would be the finale, the only scene where special effects and heavy prosthetics were necessary. Andrew was wearing a cask which was to slowly melt down of him while he chased the heroine, showing the slow decay of the monster. But it simply wouldn't work. Either it didn't melt at all. Or it melted to fast. At one point it even caught on fire. She was sitting in her chair, biting her fingernails. The prosthetics needed weeks to be done. If they had to start making it from the scratch again, it would put them way behind the schedule. She glanced over at Jacob, who lit a cigar and talked to someone on the phone. He was nervous himself. After two hours of wasted attempts and shots, Jeff came over to them.

"I'm sorry guys, but we need to make it from the scratch." Jeff sighed. "It simply doesn't want to work."

Jade sighed while she wanted to scream. Everything went perfectly until now. Half of the movie was already shot. They would shoot the other scenes. That wasn't the problem. The problem was that the last ten minutes of the movie are extremely complicated and would take a week to shoot. And now they had to wait maybe a month so that they could try it again.

"Well, shit." Andrew said as he walked over and ripped the prosthetic piece of his chest and the mask of his face.

"Something had to happen. It always does." Jacob said as he ended the phone conversation he had.

"I'm sorry. I overdid it with the final scene." Jade said, her face buried in her hands. "I can rewrite it if necessary."

"If you do that we can throw the movie in the trash." Jacob told her in a calm voice. He felt sorry for her. Her first project was in danger. And it wasn't her fault. Things like that happen, but there was no use telling her. "The whole movie is a giant buildup to the last ten minutes which are the payoff. Without the payoff, the whole thing makes no sense." Jacob explained.

"Yeah, there is nothing worse than a bad finish. No matter where. If you don't tie up the loose ends, you give the audience the feeling that you wasted their time." Andrew said.

"Exactly. So we are simply going to shoot the other scenes, wait for the special effects to be done and work overtime for a few days. We'll make it." Jacob said looking at Jade. She leaned back in her chair and let out a heavy sigh again.

"I'm sorry guys. I'm just… I need some sleep. I'll see you tomorrow." She said as she got up and left.

"The worst thing is, she has done a great job since day one and still something had to happen." Jacob told the taller man as they watched her leave.

"But this isn't her fault."

"I know. Nobody is saying that."

"Well, somebody should tell her that." Andrew said as he walked to the dressing room to change. Jacob sighed and went outside to his car.

Jade opened the door of her apartment and slammed it shut as she entered. It was her time of the month and now this. The whole project is in jeopardy because she had to overdo the ending. She was overstressed.

"Something had to fucking happen, didn't it." She shouted, simply needing to let it out. She plumbed down into the couch and closed her eyes. Why did this need to happen?

Her thoughts were interrupted by her phone ringing. She groaned as she reached for it and answered.

"What?" she yelled, not caring how loud she was.

"Hey. It's me. You didn't call for two weeks and I wanted to hear how you are." Jade calmed down a bit when she recognized the voice of her best friend.

"Uh. Hi Cat. Now is not really the best time to talk. I'm under a lot of stress now."

"Huh? Did something happen?"

"No. I'm just mad because I feel like being it!" Jade said sarcastically.

"Why are you mad?" Cat asked, concern filling her usually happy voice.

"I'm mad because today something was wrong with the special effects and the movie is going to fall behind schedule."

"Oh. I'm sorry. What happened?"

"What happened is that I had to overdo it with the fucking ending and because of that, the effects failed and we have to wait for weeks until they make new ones. And since I only have two more weeks of shooting left, I could have been done if I had simply kept it simple. But no! I had to make it something else. I had to make it special. And now, when this fails, everyone is going to blame me. And I can kiss my dream of being a successful director goodbye! " She grunted, her anger boiling up again as she explained the situation.

"Jadey, there is nothing you can do. It's not your fault. If anyone, the special effects crew didn't do it right. I mean…"

"No. It's not that easy Cat! This is my project. My responsibility! This isn't some theatre or school project that everyone is going to forget in days. No, this is a full fledged Hollywood production which is now in jeopardy because of me!" she said louder than she was aware.

"Look, calm down. There is no use to…"

"Calm down? Calm down?" Jade cut her off, the anger overtaking her. "Do you know how much this means to me? Do you know how much work I put into this the past three and a half months? Do you realize that it all might have been for nothing? So don't tell me to calm down, when you have no idea what is happening here. I don't have the time or the nerves for any of your stupid advices!" Jade yelled. Realization hit her when she heard her best friend sob on the other line.

"I… I'm sorry. I won't bo… bother you anymore." Cat said trough her sobs as she hung up. Jade watched her phone in horror.

"No. No, no, no, no, no, no. NO!" she said as she hurried to call her back. No response. Cat turned her phone off. What had she done? She felt hot tears form themselves. Jade tried to call again. And again. And again. But the result was the same. She brought a hand trough her hair as she tried to call again, her vision blurry from the tears.

"Cat, answer me, please!" she yelled into the empty line, hoping that somehow Cat would hear her. She let her phone fall to the ground as she dropped her head and let her tears fall down. She completely forgot about the movie. About the schedule. About everything. The only thing on her mind right now is how she yelled at the most important person in her life for absolutely no reason. Cat only wanted to calm her down. Cat only wanted to talk to her best friend as she always loved to do. Images of Cat crying in her room went trough Jade's mind quicker than anyone could imagine. As intelligent as Cat was, she was still a very sensitive, emotional person. She knew that Cat would take even the slightest insult from anyone and think keep thinking about it. She knew that she might have hurt her best friend right now worse than anyone ever did.

She searched for her phone, finally grabbing it after a few moments. She tried to call again. No. No use. There was no voicemail she could talk in. There was no use sending messages. She needed to do something. She scrolled trough her contacts, finally stopping on a name. She called that number. After a few rings, she heard them pick up.

"Hello?"

"Tori, it's me." Jade said trough her sobs.

"Jade? Are you crying? What happened?" Tori asked, concerned.

"I… I had an awful day. The movie is going to be behind schedule so I came home completely frustrated and angry. Cat called me and I told her about it. She tried to calm me down, but I let my frustrations out on her and now I can't reach her to apologize because she turned her phone off and I'm crying and I don't know what to do!" she cried out, loosing it in the end. She was openly sobbing now.

"Jade, please calm down. You were frustrated. You didn't do it on purpose."

"But I did it! I yelled at her! She only wanted to help me and I was so mean to her. What does it matter if it was on purpose or not? You know how sensitive she is. I heard her how she began to cry. I know she is crying now. I just hurt my best friend for no reason! She is now upset because she only wanted to talk to me. I hadn't even called her in the past two weeks at all. I know how she is. She only wanted to talk to me. She only wanted to hear my voice." Jade said, crying herself.

"Jade, get a grip for a moment and listen to me!" Tori told her in a serious voice. She understood Jade's fear right now. Cat always took things personally, but her close friends were another dimension for her. Tori remembered when she kissed Cat's boyfriend and Cat caught them. Cat told her later how she was crying the whole time not because of Danny, but because Tori did it to her. Cat cared about all her friends. Cat would open up to all her friends. And when one of them hurts her, especially Jade, she looses herself. "I'm going to Cat's place now and calm her down. I'll tell her what you told me. I'll tell her that you are sorry. I won't leave her alone, don't worry. You calm down and focus on your work. I'll call you tomorrow."

"O..okay. Thank you Tori."

"No problem. Everything is going to be okay. Keep it together and call me if you need to talk. Promise me that."

"I… I promise. Please, tell Cat I'm sorry."

"I will. It's going to be okay. You know that she loves you more than anything. It's not the end of your friendship, Jade. You know that."

"I really hope you are right. This is what she told me that day: on the party. She was afraid she would loose me as a friend. She must think that just happened." Jade said as she began to sob again.

"And I'm going to convince her that she is wrong. Jade, trust me, I'll make sure she is okay. You know you can rely on me." Tori said trying to calm her down. It worked.

"Thank you. You really are an angel." Jade said and sighed. "I miss you."

"Just don't loose it there, and do your work. I miss you too. We all do. You go and finish this movie, and then come back to us. I've got to go now. I'll call you tomorrow. Bye."

"Bye." Jade said as she heard Tori hang up. Again, Tori was the one who would right one of Jade's wrongs. Who would make sure Jade didn't screw it up completely. She loved her for that. Jade hoped that Tori would be successful as always in that task, especially this time. She went to bed after taking a shower, crying herself to sleep out of guilt.