Hey guuuyyss! I'm back! I wanna say thank you for all your positive and negative review on this story. It really motivated me to write more often. And, apparently the original Sam is winning over the genderbent Sam. So, thanks for the vote, guys. It really helped. I was really considering to put some Puckentine in my later chapters because, you know... Puckentine is AWESOME. Aside from Jori of course. Anyway, read, review, and play nice! :D
Oh! Oh! P.s. I made Sikowitz as Jade's uncle! (Don't kill me please!)
Disclaimer : I don't own Victorious, Mitch is from iCarly, I only own Male!Jade. and the other possible future character that might appear in this fic.
Nobody's P.O.V.
"Tori, you better hurry up, or you're gonna be late for school!" Trina shouted from the living room.
"...Coming!" Tori said as she walked down the stairs. She looked very exhausted. With her messy brown hair, her same purple hoodie and black skinny jeans that she wore two days ago, she seems like she didn't even bother to look into the mirror or put some make up on to cover the black circles around her eyes. She looked broken beyond repair.
"Mom left some pancakes on the dining table."
"...'m not hungry." Tori replied weakly.
Trina stared sympatheticly at her sister, "Tori, you didn't even touch the meal I brought you last night. Or the other night. You should at least eat up. You'll need strength for school, you know."
"But I don't wanna go to school..."
She sighed, "Look, It's been three weeks since- you know..." Trina knew Tori was still sensitive about Jade's funeral, so she tried not to mention it in front of her, "And sitting in your bed all day long, while you cry your eyes out won't do you anything good but to hurt yourself more. Plus, you've been missing school so much lately. It's not good for your grades."
Tori just stood, not saying anything, but her eyes began to water. "...Just try to show up, okay? And whatever you do, don't stare at her locker for too long."
School was so much more painful that Tori had ever imagined. Everything that's in there really reminded her of Jade. She walked towards the 'Make It Shine' locker to grab her books. But, she noticed something different besides Robbie's locker. Seems like Jade's black locker with scissors glued on it had been removed by one of the school staff. "I think this should be easier..." She thought. Tori was about to head to Sikowitz' class where she bumped into Cat. "Hey... Cat." She noticed Cat's eyes was all red and puffy. She must've been crying all night long. "H-hey, Tori..." They kept staring at each other until Cat spoke up, "I-I still can't believe she's gone..." She said between her sobs. Still, Tori was too weak to speak.
Suddenly, they both heard footsteps and familiar voice coming from the opposite direction, "What the hell were you thinking!? You can't just throw away her stuff that easy!" Beck, his face was red because of anger, trailed principal Helen from behind. "Mr. Oliver, we didn't 'throw' her things away. We were going to clear out Ms. West's locker and return her belongings to her parents."
"What, so you're going to remove all her stuff in that locker just because she's dead!? You really don't have any respect on her, do you? Is that why you don't want to keep that locker the way it is!?
"As a matter of fact, Mr. Oliver, I do respect Jade as one of the best student in this school. But you do know we can't keep that locker much longer. There's an upcoming audition for new talented students here in Hollywood Arts. So we need to clear all unusable lockers including hers, of course, so we can make room for them. I'm sorry, but we really don't have a choice." And with that, principal Helen left him standing in the middle of the hallway. Tori and Cat the saw the whole scene with mouth agape.
"What're you looking at!?" With that, he stormed out of the hallway to head towards Sikowitz's class.
Sikowitz's class was just as quite. Even though there are no sitting rules in that room, still... No one dared to sit on Jade's usual chair. No one ever knows why.
"All right... Class. Today..." Sikowitz sat on the stage with a complete depression written all over his face just like that one time when he broke up with a girl named Bunny. But this time, he's even worse. Yeah, losing one of your best students was really a one thing you could hardly believe at, especially when that best student happened to be your niece. "Since I..." He paused. "Andre... Tori... Beck... Get up on the uhh... uh... Stage." Said teenagers did what their teacher told them. "Do a scene... any scene."
Beck's eyes glared darkly at Tori. Suddenly, a hand reached her cheeks at fast speed. Tori fell to the ground, her balance was off. Andre, on the other hand, restrained Beck's arms while shouted "Dude!? What's the matter with you!?"
"Let me go! That bitch deserves it!" Beck exclaimed, still strugling to let go.
Everyone was staring at them with rapt attention. But Cat only squeaked and covered her eyes.
"What do you mean!?"
"This is all her fault! If only she hung up sooner, she wouldn't have been gone by now!"
Tori stood up, tears are already streaming down her face. But not because of the pain that was burning on her right cheek. It was because of what he said. Every single letter that came out of his mouth, they could not be more true. Guilt rushed towards her entire body."..I... I need to get out of here..." Tori stormed out of the classroom. Then, Sikowitz looked up at the two teenagers on stage, "Andre, go find Tori. And Beck, detention for you after school."
Tori's P.O.V.
My heart was beating fast. I...I really need to get out of here... His voice still rang through my head.
"That bitch deserves it!"
"If only you hung up sooner, she wouldn't have be gone by now!"
I walked faster and faster as my tear couldn't stop streaming down my face. I desperately need to get out of this place... I-I just couldn't take it anymore...
I stopped at Festus' to buy a cup of coffee, then continued my way to home. I didn't bother to call Trina because I didn't want to interrupt her in school. Dad is still out of town for work, while mom is probably hanging out with her friends right now, so I didn't bother to call her either.
So when I was walking across Nozu, there was a tiny poodle ran in front of me, causing me to snap out of my thoughts as I stumbled, and spilled my coffee all over some guy's face. He screamed, "GAAAH! My face! IT BUURNNSS!"
"Oh my gosh, I'm sorry! I'm really sorry!" I muttered. Pulling a handkerchief out of my bag, I wiped his face with it. The guy exclaimed, "Sorry!? You should be! I've got hot liquid all over my-" I looked up to see him. It hit me like a ton of bricks when that pair of beautiful blue green eyes met mine. The sensation feels extremely familiar... As if I actually got the chance to see her for the second time.
"Jade, is that you...?"
It just came into my dissapointment when I realized he's only a guy. A guy who happens to look like her. But still... I'm not sure though... somehow I feel there's something more about him that just having the same bone structure as Jade... somehow...
Jade's P.O.V
"I am so sorry for what I've done earlier." We decided to stop by at Nozu for a while after Tori spilt coffee all over my hoodie. And face. She offered me lunch and paid for the cleaning bills. Eh, nice new jacket and free food. Not so bad, is it? But then again... Just looking at her again makes me want to hug her so bad... Wait, what? Me? Hugging Tori? Ahahahahahah yeah right... "I don't think I ever caught your name before." She asked. Well damn, how could I not see that question coming...?
"I'm Ja-"
You can't use that name! I was cut off by the sound of my own voice in my head. "AAAAKE!" Tori lifted an eyebrow. " uh, Jake?" "Yeah... Jake..." Think of a good last name, 'Jake'... hmm... You know you can't use your old last name... hmm... Then I remembered one of that Japanese animated series where they have a strong girl who beat a lot of naked autistic monsters that's eating a lot of humans. "Ackerman. Jake Ackerman." Gah, why the fuck not. And Tori seems to buying it anyways. Hahah stupid.
"Alright. Jake. So, are you new here?"
"Uh... yeah sure, kinda..." I answered her.
"Kinda?" She seems doubful about my answer.
"Yeah. I used to live here when I was a kid. But my parents got divorced, so my dad and I moved to New York for awhile. But my dad died not long ago. So I guess I'm living with my mom now." Thank you acting skills and a guillable Vega.
"Oh your dad passed away? ...I'm sorry..." Tori's voice began to crack as I saw tears starting to well up at the corner of her eyes. "Hey, that's okay. You don't have to cry." I said, placing my hand on her back to comfort her.
"Noo... It's not you. It's just that... A friend of mine just passed away three weeks ago, so I'm a little sensitive about hearing that kind of topic." She brushed her tears away. I know what she meant 'a friend of hers' was me. And I don't even know why, that makes me want to pull her into a tight embrace, and say, "I'm here now. Don't you worry about that anymore. Please, don't cry!" Dammit, whatever happened to the great Jade West! I'm supposed to laugh at her pain right now! And yet I didn't.
"Oh... Sorry about that..." Was all I could say. "That's okay. Wow, I can't believe I just talked about my problems with a stranger. I must've really messed up." She chuckled weakly. "I have to say, you look kinda familiar with her. Do you happen to have any relations with Jade West?" Yeah, closer than you think.
"Nope. Never heard of her." I lied. I could see her face came in with disappointment once again. Not long after chat, I heard a familiar voice coming from behind us, "Tori!" We've been approached a black skinned teenager with his trademark dread locks that I knew so well. "Hey, Andre." "There you are. I've been looking all over for you." Andre noticed my presence, "So who is this?" Tori looked up to me and said, "This is Jake Ackerman. I spilled my coffee on his jacket, long story." He pulled out his hand to greet me, which I returned casually, "Nice to meet you, Jake." Man, introducing myself to a friend I know since third grade is really weird, "Sure."
"Tori, everyone is worried about you. You shouldn't be running off like that, you know. Come on, I'll take you back to school."
Her body seemed tense after hearing the word school. "...No." Andre frowned, but his face softened for a moment, "Don't worry, he's not gonna hurt you. Now come on, you've missed second period already." He? Who hurt Vega now? Andre pulled her hand and lead her outside, which she reluctantly returned."Uh... I know it's none of my business, but, who's the 'he' you were talking about earlier?"
"It's one of our friend, Beck Oliver. I get the feeling that Tori mentioned something about Jade West?" Andre said, without letting go of her hand.
"Your friend who died recently?"
"Yeah. Beck was her boyfriend while she was alive and he's pretty shaken up about her death. The dude wasn't thinking straight so he blamed Tori for it just a while ago. So she kinda... ran away..."
Beck hurting Tori? Because of me? The last time I saw them together, they were flirting at each other just to make me jealous. "Oh..." I saw Tori turned her head to face me and smiled, "So... I'll see you around?"
"Uh... Sure, I'll see you around."
Oh I'll see you around all right.
Aaaand BOOM! End of today's chapter, thanks for reading. Don't worry, it's not over yet. If you find some kind of mistake about my chapter, please leave a comment on the review section. I'm aware that Jade seems nicer in my fic, but with a situation like this, I don't think I could make Jade her usual sarcastic mean self. And about the Ackerman thing? Yeah, I got it from watching Shingeki No Kyojin. It's the last name of a girl named Mikasa, and I can tell that she's awesome just by watching the first few episode about it. Even though I don't really watch that show because of the gory stuff they have. 'Till then, read, review, and play nice!