Okay, so I am loving the reviews! You guys are seriously the best! I mean 627 views, can I just say Woo-Hoo! Now, onto chapter 5!
No matter how much I ask, Dan will not give me the rights to the show, so once again no.
When I left Tori's house I felt like I wanted to cry and scream at the same time. I couldn't believe what Tori had said as I left. I just didn't understand why she hated me so much. Okay, maybe I could because I'm me. But still, I had thought that after the incident before the Platinum Music Awards she wasn't interested in Beck. This just didn't make any sense. What was even weirder was the fact that Andre was acting so mean, like my level mean.
I aimlessly walked through the streets of downtown West Hollywood, just thinking. My thoughts were interrupted when I heard a car pull up behind me. My body went rigid and Tori's words came back to me, "Watch your back Jade." I probably should've known better than to be walking alone in Hollywood at eleven at night. But, I had just wanted to think things over, to make sure that I had somewhat figured out what had happened that night and what I was going to do about it. I turned around, ready to defend myself against the possible attacker. I was surprised to find that the car wasn't a car at all, but an all too familiar rusty red truck. It was Beck's truck. I stopped on the sidewalk, feeling defeated. I knew that Beck knew that I had gone to Tori's. He was upset, I could tell from his grim expression. Beck got out of his car and began to walk towards me.
"What are you doing?" Beck asked. He pulled me close, kissing my forehead, then led me back to his truck. I shrugged my shoulders, not really wanting to talk about the conversation that occurred at Tori's. I got into the passenger side of Beck's truck and waited for him to start the car, but we just sat there in silence before he said, "So, I was checking my page on TheSlap and guess what I saw?" He didn't wait for my response, "Tori posted something along the lines of: Gonna' get ya' Jade West," he read from his PearPhone. I nodded, not surprised that Tori had posted that. She was kind of obsessed with posting every single thing that she thought on TheSlap. Beck continued, "I got worried and here I am driving to Tori's house to make sure that you're not there and if you are that you're okay. You'll never believe what I saw, but I saw this gorgeous girl walking and she looked pretty lonely, so I thought to myself, I only know one girl that looks like that." Beck smiled at me, and lifted my chin up with his finger so that I could meet his eyes.
"I'm sorry. You can probably guess what they said, except I found out that Tori has a huge crush on you!" I said angrily. Then as I thought it over, I decided that Tori probably told Beck that. She probably gave a little speech about how much better off he would be with her and without me. I was right.
"Yeah, she told me that too. That was about the point when Andre said the same and I punched him."
"Oh yeah, how's your injuries?" I asked, examining his shoulder. It looked about the same as when I had left him.
"I feel fine, but a little sore," he admitted. I hugged him gently.
"Beck, can you take me home?" I was so tired that I was sure that I would probably fall asleep on the way.
"Sure, babe."
After Beck dropped me off I said a quick hello to my parents who were watching TV in the den. Then, I went up to my bedroom. Who knew that being insulted repeatedly would be so tiresome? I turned on the shower, making sure to make the water extra hot. I stepped in and immediately felt my muscles relax as the soothing water flowed over my tired body. I washed my hair and then stepped out of the shower. I put on a pair of black silky pajamas and then sunk down onto my bed, not even bothering to at least towel dry my hair. As I was about to fall asleep my laptop pinged, indicating that I had a new message on TheSlap. I figured it was probably the one that Beck had been talking about, the one Tori had posted that basically summed up our entire conversation at her house. I reached over and grabbed my black PearBook from my nightstand. I opened it up and sure enough there were several new messages and they kept coming. My laptop was pinging every few seconds. I turned down the volume so that my parents wouldn't wonder what was going on. All of these messages were from Hollywood Arts students, but they weren't my friends or anything, just random kids that I had probably passed in the hallways once or twice. I opened the first message. Of course, it was the post from Tori. And, all of the following messages were in response to Tori's. I opened the first one and a gut wrenching feeling overtook my entire body. Each message said something awful about me, how I was a gank, how I didn't deserve Beck, how I was untalented and didn't deserve to go to Hollywood Arts. In that moment, I had never hated Tori Vega more. How could I not, she had ruined my life.
My phone rang just as another flood of messages came pouring into my inbox. I checked the caller ID, scared that it would be someone trying to prank call me and tell me how worthless I was. But to my relief, it was only Beck.
"Hey," I said, but he cut me off.
"Whatever you do, don't look at your Slap page, okay?"
"Too late, it seems that thanks to Vega I'm pretty popular."
"I don't know what her deal is, but tomorrow we are going to talk to her and Andre and get this whole thing straightened out. It's gone too far, and I'm so sorry that you have to see that stuff, babe. Just don't look at it cause' you know it's not true. I love you so much, go to bed okay?"
I felt slightly better, but not much. "Okay, I love you too. You should go to bed too, pick me up in the morning?"
"Of course, see you then." I hung up and closed my laptop, not wanting to look at the hateful posts that were now littering my Slap page. I took Beck's advice and tried to go to sleep but I couldn't. All I could think about was how much I hated Tori. This meant war.
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