Tori sighs and lets her eyes lazily run over the many people around her. They're talking, laughing, eating, some are doing homework. And not one of them sees her. To them, she isn't here, she's simply not existing. It's such a weird thought for Tori and she slowly lets her eyes wander over to Jade, who's intently looking at her computer screen and her phone held up to her ear. Tori frowns slightly. She's been treating her harsher again since this morning. Tori guessed it has something to do with her mentioning her mother yesterday night. Conversation didn't really flow that easily after that little… 'incident' and ever since this morning, Jade barely talked to her.

With her phone still tightly pressed to her ear, Jade scrolls through the page she just clicked on and speaks up.

"There's an article about your accident."

Tori's eyes snap up and she quickly moves to sit next to Jade. "What does it say?" Her eyes quickly scan over the page, stopping when they come across a picture of the car wreck and a smiling picture of her and Trina. Jade is quiet for a while as she reads the article but then slowly shakes her head. "Nothing new. They write that your sister had a… guardian angel-" she stops to roll her eyes at that, "-by her side but you fell into a coma because your injuries were really serious. So, nothing new."

Tori's shoulders sag slightly as she releases a sigh. Of course there wasn't anything else. What did she expect? 'Investigations reveal that the soul of Tori Vega is out there somewhere, annoying the hell out of a mean and bitter teenage girl.' Yeah right. Tori's brown eyes flick to Jade's face and she frowns when she sees her still holding the phone to her ear. "Hey, what are you doing with your phone? If you want to call someone you should first dial their number, you know."

"Well, excuse me if I don't want people to think that I'm talking to myself," she harshly whispers, sending Tori a glare before quickly looking around the busy Asphalt Café, "At least this way they'll think that I'm talking to someone who's actually alive."

"I am alive!"

"Yeah, that's what you think," Jade scoffs, turning her attention back to the computer screen and clicking on a link to get information about comas. Tori's offended expression doesn't bother her very much as she quickly skims over the text.

"Why do you keep insisting that I'm dead?"

"Well, maybe because you are?" She turns to the brunette, her eyebrows raised. "Maybe you should just accept the fact that the light is calling for you. Go for it, follow it into heaven or hell or wherever it leads you."

"There is no stupid light, I told you! I'm not dead!"

"Whatever you say," Jade mumbles and focuses back on the computer in front of her, when suddenly a deep voice sounds in her ear.

"Why are you reading stuff about comas?"

Jade jumps, her phone falling from her hand and clattering onto the lunch table and she turns around to glare at a curious looking Andre. "God, what are you doing?!"

The dark skinned boy holds his hands up. "Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you." He swings one leg over the bench, almost sitting down on Tori's lap. Tori yelps a little and quickly moves to the opposite side of the table. "Who were you talking to?"

"I don't see how that's any of your business, Harris," Jade grumbles loudly and snatches her phone from the table to stuff it into her bag. The last thing she needs right now is any of her friends prying their noses into her life and figuring out that she can see people no one else can. That would be the road down to 'Crazyville'. But when she looks up into the slightly hurt face of Andre, Jade knows she went too far. Andre is one of the very few people she never lashes out at. He's just one of the least annoying persons Jade knows, she doesn't have a reason to be a gank to him.

"Sorry," she sighs, pushing her hair out of her face. The boy looks up at her, still slightly confused about Jade's behavior towards him. "I just… have a slight headache." Her eyes move to Tori. "A headache that just. Won't. Leave." She watches the brunette roll her eyes and mimics her, before her face relaxes and she turns to Andre.

"Oh, I get it," he smiles and starts to unwrap his lunch, "Maybe you should go to the nurse and get a pill or something." He takes a bite out of his sandwich and Jade slowly nods her head.

"Yeah… I probably should," she quietly says, trying to ignore Tori for the time being. "Where are the others?"

"Beck and Cat have some project to work on and Robbie promised Lane to help him with something, I don't know."

They sit in silence for a while until Andre finished his sandwich, brushing his hands on his jeans and leaning forward, curiously looking at Jade. "So… what were you doing? Searching for comas and chiz?"

"Oh, I… I just did some research," she nods slowly, her expression nonchalant, "I'm writing a new play."

"What's it about?"

Jade looks at him deadpanned. "A coma patient." Andre lets out a laugh and nods his head. Jade shortly flicks her eyes to Tori, who just sits there with her chin in her hand, watching the interaction between Andre and Jade with great interest. Jade looks at her weirdly before she turns back to Andre, running her tongue over her lips. "You know... when I was researching… I found something."

Andre nods slowly, his brows furrowing in curiosity. "What did ya found?"

"Jade, what are you doing?"

Jade ignores Tori's question and narrows her eyes, focusing solely on Andre. "Have you ever heard of a girl named Tori Vega?"

"Um… no. Should I?"

"I found a report about her on the internet. She's been in an accident a year ago-"

"Over a year ago," Tori interrupts her and watches as Jade grinds her teeth together in annoyance.

"Over a year ago and she's in a coma ever since." she pauses and takes in Andre's confused nod. "Before she got into this accident… she wanted to go to Hollywood Arts."

The confused expression on Andre's face doesn't fade and now Tori starts to question Jade's motives too. "I seriously don't know where you're going with this. Why are you telling him about me?"

Why am I telling him about her? It's not like Andre would have all the answers she needs. And also, it's not like she could just tell him that the girl that's laying in a coma is sitting at their table right now and Jade is the only one who's able to communicate with her. Andre may be her friend and he may accept her ganky attitude but he would never in a million years believe her. He would probably declare her insane and Jade really doesn't want to risk that. "Why are you telling me all of this, Jade?" He asks slowly, clearly not knowing where his friend is going with this.

I just… I can see-" she breaks off, pressing her lips together when she realizes what she's about to tell Andre. Tori's eyes widen too and she leans over the table, trying to catch Jade's eyes that are still fixed on Andre. "Jade, I really don't think that's a good idea."

"I can trust him," Jade mumbles to Tori, causing Andre's eyebrows to shoot up.

"You can trust who?"

She stares at him for a while longer before she finally tears her eyes away, closing them and pushing out a long breath. Congratulations Jade, now he thinks you're stupid. "I'm sorry, it's just," she pauses and rubs at her forehead, her eyes still tightly closed, "This… headache is driving me insane." Her eyes open, falling onto a concerned looking Andre. "Could you just let the teachers know that I didn't feel so well? I think I'm going home."

"Yeah, sure." He watches Jade get up from the table, and flicks his eyes over her face in worry. "Are you sure you can drive? Don't want you to get into an accident and end up like that Tori girl."

An offended gasp leaves Tori's mouth. "That's so disrespectful!"

"No, no. I'll manage, don't worry. I'll see you tomorrow." She sends him a weak smile and takes off, faintly hearing Andre's "See ya!" behind her.

Quickly getting into her car, Jade pulls the door shut, gladly welcoming the stillness. It's so quiet in here, the chattering and laughing of the students outside just a faint sound and Jade closes her eyes and rests her head against the seat. However, her moment of peace is abruptly interrupted when she feels another presence in the car, a loud sigh escaping her mouth. "Your friend is so rude," Tori sulks, Jade turning her head to look at her, "First he almost sits down on me and then that stupid comment. No wonder you are the way you are, with friends like that."

"Okay, first of all," Jade starts while fastening her seatbelt, "He didn't even know you were there. Remember? You're invisible to everyone." The brunette rolls her eyes as Jade pushes the key into the ignition and starts backing out of the parking lot. "Secondly… Andre is the sweetest guy on earth. He's nothing like me and you should be careful what you say about him." She ends her sentence with a light glare directed at Tori before she fully concentrates on the road in front of her.

"Yeah. Sorry," Tori mumbles, slumping in her seat, "Didn't want to insult your little 'boyfriend'."

Jade's eyes narrow but stay focused on the street. "I'm sorry, what?"

"Nothing."

"Andre is not my boyfriend," Jade clarifies, "Where would you get that idea?"

"It doesn't matter."

"Yes it does! Just tell me!"

"Fine," Tori say loudly and turns her body to face Jade, "Maybe I thought that because, whenever he's at your house, he's staying until midnight! That's a little bit suspicious! Sorry that I think something's going on between you two!"

"Wait, how do you…" she trails off, her eyes flicking over to Tori for a short moment. "Oh right, I forgot about your stalker tendencies. That's really not healthy, you know?"

"I am not a stalker!"

"No, you're just dead."

"I'm not- Jade, look out!"

Jade's eyes snap to the front to see a little kid running over the street. Her foot slamming on the brakes, Jade's body catapults forward, the seatbelt holding her back from flying out of the windshield. A gush of air escapes her lungs as the car finally screeches to a halt. The little boy in front of her starts crying and a woman comes rushing over to him, sending Jade an apologetic look. "Oh gosh," Jade whispers, still a little out of breath, and ignores the continuous honking from the car behind her for the moment. She blinks, still a little shocked at what just happened and throws a quick look into the rearview mirror, before slowly pushing down on the gas pedal. "That was a close call," Jade says after a while of silence and glances over to Tori. "Hey, are you okay?"

Given the fact that Tori wasn't even in danger – she's not in her body, what harm would it have done to her? – makes Jade feel slightly stupid to ask her that question, but seeing as the girl had been in a car accident and looks as pale as a ghost – Ha! – it seemed to be the right thing to ask.

After another moment of silence, with only the radio softly playing in the background, Tori finally answers. "Y-Yeah, I'm… I'm fine." She shakily inhales and nervous brown eyes move to Jade. "Are you?"

"Yeah. Thanks for the warning. If not for you, I would have probably suffered the same fate as you, huh?" Jade laughs uncomfortably but quickly registers the stupidity of her sentence. "I'm sorry, that was so uncalled for. I was… I mean, I tried to… Nevermind. Sorry."

Tori smiles, despite the slight déjà vu still playing out in her head. This was the first time since Tori met Jade that the pale girl really apologized, that she almost showed empathy. It's a nice change from the always so mean and sarcastic girl. "No problem. Just shook me up a little."

Jade nods and the rest of their ride is spend in silence until Jade parks in her driveway, but neither one of the girls make a move to get out. "So," Jade starts, pulling the key out of the ignition, "I think we should talk about what we're going to do now."

"I actually have an idea." Tori bites her lip and hesitantly turns her body towards Jade. "You still don't believe me that I'm not dead."

"It's not that I don't believe you," Jade says with a sigh, "I just like to rile you up a bit."

"Yeah. I figured," Tori nods, her mouth twitching up in a light smile, "But to really show you, to make sure you believe me… I want you to go with me to the hospital."

"I can't do that," Jade argues, her face morphing into a frown, "I don't know you. I mean… you know. I don't know you. I can't just wander into your room and… and… look at you. They'll probably think I want to kidnap you."

"We'll find a way to get you in," Tori tells her in a reassuring voice, her eyes encouraging her to say yes. Damn those eyes. "Come on, Jade. I practically saved your life."

She smiles, her eyebrows raised as she waits for Jade to comply. And with a sigh and an eye roll, she does. "You didn't save my life, you saved the boy's life. But... Fine. Not now though. And not tomorrow, I… have somewhere else I want to go with you."

But before Tori can ask where she wants to take her, Jade gets out of her car and slams the door shut.

A/N: Just a quick thing: Trina isn't attending Hollywood Arts. Just thought I'd clear that up.

This was kinda a pointless chapter, I just realized. But okay.