Tori's POV

"Seriously mom, don't you think you're exaggerating a bit?" her mom had grounded her for the whole weekend, and she had to apologize for what she did to Trina.

"You're lucky your dad and I decided to ground you just for the weekend, we were planning to ground you for the rest of the week." I seriously thought this was not fair, whenever her sister did something similar to her. Her parents only made Trina apologize, which she usually never did, and she could go free with no punishment at all. Since the 'incident' with Trina they had only been paying attention to her. She had lost her parents that day. She was just a 'problem' to her parents since then.

"You know what mom? You do have two daughters, but you only protect one the other one is just a 'problem' for you!" She felt anger rise on both of her cheeks.

"Victoria Vega! Don't you dare speak like that to me, I'm your mother!" She couldn't stand it anymore. She felt hot, angry tears forming in her eyes. She was not going to let her mother see her cry. With that she stormed past her mother and Trina who was triumphantly smiling in the corner of the living room.

She slammed the door behind her quickly locking it afterwards. Her mother had once hit her when she was really mad at her. If it happened once, it could happen again. She could hear her mother screaming at her from downstairs. She slowly slid against the door. When she finally reached the floor she was covered in mascara stains and tears were freely pouring down her cheek. She cried herself to sleep, but something inside her woke her up only about one hour afterwards. She couldn't make herself fall asleep after that. Standing up she made her way to her drawer. She slowly pulled it open and got out a syringe full of transparent liquid. Tori Vega had fallen into drugs she was week and had slowly, but effectively fallen for them. She felt ashamed of herself, but they were pain relieving they numbed her. Inserting the syringe in her skinny arm she slowly breathed out, this always calmed her. Storing the syringe for later disposal, since she couldn't through it away in any of the house's trashcans for her parents or Trina could find out, she lay down on her bed. She was becoming a monster, not only had she fallen for drugs, but she had also committed self-harm before.

Her thoughts were interrupted by her ringing phone. Checking her called ID she answered "Hi Andre, what's up?"

"Oh hey Tori, well I was wondering if you're still coming over to the party?" crap, I forgot Andre was throwing a party tonight.

"Ah..." I was grounded, but I guess if I go fast they won't notice." Yes, I'm on my way."

"Awesome, do you need me to send Rob over to pick you up?" I had forgotten. I still didn't have my driver's license.

"Um, yeah please tell him to wait for me at the grocery store that's two blocks away from my house."

"Toriii...are you grounded?" I couldn't hide anything from Andre; he had a seventh sense of some sort that always told him when I wanted to hide something. Luckily enough for me this seventh sense only seemed to work whenever I was grounded.

"Ah, yes" he would probably start lecturing me of how I should be responsible and to not escape from my troubles but to face them.

He started laughing..."Um let me guess, Trina?"

"Yeah, how did you know?" was he just lucky with his first guess?

"Oh Tori, ya know I have a seventh sense when it comes to you being grounded." There it was his argument of the 'seventh sense'.

"Sure, well just tell Robbie to be there by nine." That would give me an hour or so to get ready.

"Ok, I'll send Rob over, see ya later."

"Bye, see ya" with that I jumped off of bed. Grabbing a nice shirt, and skinny jeans I made my way to my bathroom.

Forty five minutes later I was ready to go. Quietly I came up to my door, it was locked. My parents had bought this special alarm thing that would lock my door at eight. It was almost nine already and I needed to get out. Lucky for me, that alarm didn't cover my window. I made sure to arrange my pillows in a human-like shape so that even if my parents came inside my room, which I doubt they would, they would think I was sleeping. Climbing out the window I made sure nobody saw me and darted off running towards the grocery store where I was supposed to meet Robbie.

Robbie was already there waiting for me when I came. "Hey Rob"

The smiling Robbie came up to me and opened the door for me "Hey Tori, what's up?"

"Oh not much, I barely managed to get out of jail back there." I huffed trying to catch my breathe.

"Wow Tori, I never knew you actually had the guts to escape."

"Yeah, well there are many sides of me you don't know." I winked at him, causing him to immediately blush.

"Um, Ah" he couldn't manage to get any words out, so he just motioned for me to enter the car. I couldn't help but smirk at this. Poor Robbie, he did his best trying to get Cat to notice him as something more than a friend. Without success, however, he only had his puppet Rex as companion.

"Hey, what's up guys?" Andre came over to greet us once he spotted us in the large crowd.

"Hey Andre" Robbie and I replied in unison.

"So, you having fun?" Andre questioned turning around to face me.

"Um...yeah" I was hesitant which Andre took notice of.

"Tori are you okay?" crap, he probably took notice of my sweaty hands, or maybe the preoccupied look on my face, or could it have possibly been my paranoid attitude.

"Ah, yeah" he probably wouldn't believe me since I was even doubting myself.

"Are you sure?"

"Um yeah, have you seen Cat around?" I hoped changing the subject would work.

"No, actually I have not seen little red around."

"Oh, that's strange." Well, apparently changing the subject did work.

"Yeah, and it's-" he was cut off by Jade showing up.

"Hey, how's-" I was cut off, guess by who.

"Shut up Vega!" the one and only...Jade West. I turned around and went over to the bar. I was not planning on staying around, a grumpier than usual, Jade.

Jade's POV

"What do you mean you haven't seen her?" Cat had never missed a party, never.

"Well, that's what I mean, I have not seen her." I knew it! She was dead and it was all my fault!

I stormed out, tears started to cloud my vision. I went non-stop until I reached a dark alley. I let myself break down there, falling on my knees I reached in my pocket for my favorite razor. I promised Cat, the only one that knew so far, that I would never do it again, but she wasn't here anymore and I could only blame that on me, I couldn't change the fact she was dead and that was what hurt the most.

Meanwhile...

Tori's POV

Whoa, pills and beer are the perfect combination to start hallucinating. This was fun! Escaping was totally worth it. Unfortunately fun can't last forever, Trina had showed up. I needed to get out of here and fast, if she saw me she would tell mom and dad, and god knows what would be of me then. Stumbling my way through the crowd I made it out the back door. I walked and walked for what felt like hours until I reached a dark alley, it was late already so I should probably head back home. Just as I was about to turn around I heard someone silently sobbing, I was not alone.

So, we still don't know for sure if Cat is dead or not. What do you think will happen next? Is Cat dead or alive? What do you think so far?