ENDING B

CHAPTER TWO

Jade's friends left after she kicked them out but she wasn't alone for too long because as soon as they left, Nick came in. "Hi" He said cynically as he walked towards her. "I'm glad to see you awake, I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to see those beautiful eyes again" He commented and she stared at him full of rage.

"Stay away from me" Jade demanded trying not to look scared.

"Listen, you little bitch, if you accuse me I will deny everything and there's no evidence against me so you will only get to make your mother hate you, if I were you I would think about it" Nick commented.

"You are going to jail" Jade threatened trying to seem strong but she felt so vulnerable at that moment.

"If you open your mouth everyone will know that you slept with me but nothing will happen, I won't go to jail and your mother won't believe you, in the best of cases I can say it was consensual and there are no witnesses so it'll be a -he said she said- situation and I will not get in trouble but you will" Nick continued. "Your life will become hell, I promise. If you tell anyone what happened I will make sure all the people who know you, are aware of the dirty little whore you are"

"Go" She demanded.

"Can you imagine what everyone will think if they learn what happened between us? It's almost exciting" Nick said and bit his lip, she was trying to hold the tears back but it was so hard to keep herself together while being with him. "Your mother would lose her mind and kick us both out of the house; good news is that you can stay in my apartment, if everyone knew what happened you'd have nowhere to go so..." He commented. "We could make it official, baby, you and me! I would do all those dirty things from the other night to you every day, i know you liked them" He affirmed.

"Leave me alone" Jade demanded again.

"You know what? I actually like that idea, why don't you tell everyone what we did that night? You acted like the whore you really are and then felt so guilty for sleeping with your mother's fiancée that you decided to kill yourself, good story, isn't it? It's believable" He commented as he got closer and closer to her face. "Go ahead, tell everyone what happened and let's see who wins" He dared, he was so close to her that she could feel his breath on her face and it made her want to puke.

"Leave me alone, please" Jade almost begged, she just couldn't take being with him anymore and he knew he could control her, Nick kissed her cheek gently and then smiled at her before walking out, he knew he had intimidated her enough to keep her quiet but he didn't feel completely safe because she could still talk, Jade was unpredictable.

Next day Jade was in the room simply staring at the ceiling while her friends and her mother looked at her. "Jade, you haven't said a word since we got here..." Tori commented but Jade remained quiet.

"Honey, you need to cooperate" Her mother said but Jade felt so empty, she didn't want to do anything. "The doctor said you'll be able to leave in a few days, I've already cleaned up your room and it'll be ready for you" she informed but Jade couldn't stand the idea of going back to that place.

"Where is my dad?" Jade asked coldly.

"I called him yesterday, he said he'd come today but you know him honey..." Melissa said sadly. "But you don't need him, you have me, I'm your mother and I'm always gonna be here for you" Jade had mixed feelings about her mother, she loved her but she felt so much anger towards her because she had in some way encouraged Nick to rape her by not believing her.

"Oh!" Cat said excitedly and Jade turned to her. "Jade, we forgot to tell you that our play won" she informed happily.

"Uh?" Jade asked confused. "It did?"

"Yes, it did, they showed it for eight weeks and it was a huge success" Tori responded but Jade didn't even smile.

"Good..." She simply said and continued staring at her scars so they looked at each other sadly because literally none of the things they'd tried had made her smile. A few moments later Nick walked into the room and Jade immediately got nervous, she just couldn't help it.

"Hey honey" He said to Melissa and kissed her lips before walking up to Jade. "And how's the prettiest patient in the entire hospital?" He asked sweetly and kissed her cheek so Melissa smiled, Beck and Tori looked at each other annoyed and Jade simply stared at him trying to seem normal but she was practically shaking and her friends could notice it. "I bought you these" He said and handed Jade a box of chocolates.

"I don't like chocolate" Jade said coldly.

"You'll love these chocolates, I promise" He affirmed as he opened the box and showed it to her. "Just try one"

"I don't like chocolate" Jade repeated as she looked to the other side because seeing him just made her more nervous.

"That's alright" He said nicely and put his hand on hers, Jade looked at it and closed her eyes as she took small breaths trying to control herself but the repulsion and fear she felt for him were almost impossible to hide. "Do you want something else? Maybe some coffee?" He asked as he stroked her hand and she looked at it nervously while shaking her head slowly.

"No..." Jade said almost whispering, it was so obvious how uncomfortable he made her feel that her friends were angry just seeing him.

"You sure?" He asked and started stroking her cheek with his other hand.

"She said no" Beck said coldly and Nick looked at him, he smiled at Beck and then at Jade before stepping back.

"Alright..." Later that day Beck, Tori, Andre, Cat and Robbie were having lunch at the cafeteria and talking.

"I still can't believe Jade woke up, it'd been so long" Tori commented.

"Yes but don't you guys think she's been acting weird?" Andre asked. "I mean the harassment has been going on for a pretty long time but she always looked normal, now she... I don't know, she seems distant and she gets so nervous when Nick is in the room"

"Yes, that's true" Robbie said.

"I've noticed it too, he makes her so uncomfortable... it almost seems like she's gonna cry every time he is near her" Beck commented.

"And she looks so sad all the time, she's not the same Jade I remember" Tori added sadly.

"I guess it's because she doesn't need to hide her feelings anymore, we know she tried to kill herself so pretending to be tough all the time would be stupid" Robbie responded.

"Yeah, it's probably that, it still is weird, though... I'm not used to seeing Jade like this, you know, depressed" Andre responded.

"None of us is, not even me...I thought I'd seen her on her most vulnerable state but I was clearly wrong" Beck commented.

"I'm just glad she is alive, she will get better with time... I mean, I think it's normal for her to be sad, she wanted to die and she didn't and now she has to deal with everything again" Tori commented. "You guys could see it yourselves, Nick is shameless, he is subtle when Melissa is near but he is always molesting Jade, it must be a hell to be in her place"

Melissa and Richard finally agreed that Jade should be put under psychological help in a clinic for a while and so when she was released her father picked her up at the hospital and drove her to the clinic, Jade didn't know at first so she was scared because she was gonna go back to her house but then she noticed they weren't going the right way. "Dad, my mom's house is that way" Jade said.

"We are not going to your house, Jade" He informed and she looked at him confused.

"What? Where are we going then?" Jade asked confused.

"Jade, you tried to kill yourself, you're obviously not well and you need to rest in a peaceful place" He informed and her eyes wide opened as she saw him driving into a clinic.

"No, I'm not crazy" Jade affirmed. "You're not putting me in here"

"It's not about that, you won't be here forever, Jade, just while you take therapy and recover from this experience" He said and she shook her head, he parked and they got out of the car but she wasn't willing to be put in a clinic.

"You can't make me, I'm eighteen" Jade affirmed.

"She is right, Richard, we can't make her do anything" Melissa, who was also there, said.

"Jade, this is for your own good, look at it as a break from everything, no school, no stress, no problems... you'll be fine, this is a nice place" He commented.

"I don't want be lost in medicine all day, I'm not crazy, I don't need it" Jade said.

"You won't, this is not a mental hospital, it's a place where people can rest and get therapy" Richard informed.

"She doesn't want to do it, that's enough; we said we would put her here only if she agreed" Melissa commented. "Come on, honey, let's go home"

"No, you can't take care of her and I don't want her to die for real the next time" Richard responded. "Jade, think about it, this is not a mental hospital, it's a really good clinic, I looked it up and lots of people who have problems like yours have recovered within months, you'll be out before you realize" He explained and she thought about it, she didn't want to be there but she knew that it was staying there or going back to her house with Nick so she ultimately agreed.

They signed her up and she was taken to her room, it was actually a nice place, it had lots of gardens, the rooms were nice and the people were gentle so it didn't feel so bad and Jade felt much safer than in her mother's house but she disliked having to take therapy with suicidal people because she wasn't one.

"Guys, do you know where Jade is? I've called her for days but she doesn't pick up" Beck commented. "I'm afraid... what if she did it again?"

"No, no... it's not that, I called her mom" Cat informed. "She told me that Jade is in a clinic and they took her phone away"

"A clinic? They really put her in a clinic?" Tori questioned surprised.

"Yes, she said Jade can have visitors, though" Cat informed.

"Then we have to go see her, she must be having a really bad time" Beck commented sadly. "Her parents are both awful, she is not crazy, she doesn't need to be in that place" Later that day they asked for the address of the clinic and they went to visit Jade, when they arrived the nurse told them she was in the garden and they went outside, she was sitting on a chair alone just thinking and looking at the trees.

"Hi" Tori said nicely.

"How are you?" Cat asked and Jade sighed.

"How do they treat you here?" Beck questioned concernedly.

"They don't beat me up or drug me so it's fine but everyone talks to me like I'm fucking crazy" Jade responded coldly.

"You're not crazy but you're not well, Jade, you tried to commit suicide" Andre commented and she exhaled annoyed, she was so sick of hearing that.

"What do you want?" She asked.

"We came to see you, we are your friends" Tori said nicely.

"Sure you are" Jade said with irony and they looked at each other slightly confused by the tone she'd used but it was still Jade so it wasn't so shocking. "Can you tell me what happened the day Ni...the day I did it?" she asked referring to the night of the rape. "How did I end up in the hospital?"

"Well, you didn't turn off the video chat and in the morning when we woke up you didn't react, we went to your house and you were there, on the bed...bleeding" Robbie responded.

"On the bed?" She asked, the last thing she remembered was being on the desk and they nodded. "What was I wearing?"

"Your clothes? The same clothes you wore that day" Andre responded and she nodded slowly.

"Jade, I'm sorry" Beck said and she looked at him confused. "I know you called me that night but I was basically asleep, I'm so sorry" he apologized and she looked down at the grass.

"It's alright..." Jade said trying to pretend it didn't hurt her.

"No, it's not, you called me for a reason, what was it? did you want to talk about it?" Beck asked.

"It was a mistake" Jade affirmed.

"Yes, my mistake" Beck said. "I wasn't there for you then but I am now so why don't you talk to me about it?"

"There's nothing to talk about" Jade affirmed.

"Yes, there is... Why did you do it?" He asked, Jade took a deep breath while trying not to cry and opened to her mouth to speak but she regretted, she didn't have the guts to tell them what had really happened. "It's okay, we won't judge you"

"It's not like that, it's not what you think... it really isn't" She began but it was too hard. "It's...I...I was..." they could see Jade wanted to speak but she couldn't manage and it was just making her want to cry. "I just did it" She finally said to get out of the problem.

"Jade, why didn't you tell me that he was harassing you?" Beck asked her.

"Because you didn't need to know, nobody did" Jade answered. "In fact, why did you tell them? I told you to keep your mouth shut" she said to Tori. "I should've known you weren't trust worthy" She commented and Tori looked down sadly.

"Jade, you were dying and I was sure you had done it because of him, I wanted him to go to jail but we couldn't do anything without your testimony or any proof" Tori said, that just confirmed Jade's theory that by telling the truth she would only get to deal with the shame and Nick wouldn't go to jail anyway so it wasn't worth going through that.

"Whatever..."

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