I AM SO SO SORRY. I love you all so much for your reviews and your support. I can't believe that this story has almost 20 favorites and alerts, and 38 reviews! Thank you all so much. I've had a lot going on, and I'm so sorry this is 2 weeks late. On the bright side, I got half of the parent's reasons written!
This is dedicated to you guys, the reviewers, because without your support, I would've taken a lot longer to write any part of this story.
This chapter is a little different, but I like it. Tell me if you do too!
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'Oww,' Tori thought as her shoulder slammed into the steering wheel.
Did this really have to happen to her? Tori wondered, right before she blacked out.
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"Tori?" Cat called, looking around the parking lot as if expecting her to pop out at any moment. "Where are you?" Munching on some bibble, Cat set out on a search for her dear friend who had lost her sister. Her brother was waiting for her, and would soon become impatient and throw a fit, but she didn't care right now. What was important was finding Tori.
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André listened intently as he called Tori, trying to get a response. It was his seventh time calling her, and soon, it would be his seventh time leaving a voicemail. He knew something was wrong, after all, she had taken off with his car, but where was she?
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Robbie asked frantically around the school, wandering the halls."Hey, have you seen Tori today?" He asked a girl he knew was friends with her, and when she looked embarrassed, after all, she was talking to him, and shook her head no, he moved on. Someone had to have seen her, right?
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Jade took off in her black convertible, going towards the Vega house first. That was the most likely place, right? On her way there she passed by a car in a ditch that looked suspiciously like Andre's, but ignored it. She didn't have time for that.
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In the end, it was Beck that found her. Normally calm, cool, collected Beck spotted the car crash and went to investigate, recognizing the license plate. And it was the ambulance that he had frantically called who found him, hunched over the figure of Tori Vega's unconscious body.
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"Do you think she wants to hear a story?" Cat piped up as they watched Tori in her hospital bed.
"I don't think she'd want one even if she was awake." Jade said bluntly, patting Cat's head.
"I have something even more interesting." Robbie said, going to Tori's bedside. Her phone lay there, a crack running down the side. But more importantly, there was an audio message from Trina, labeled "Reason 5". The only thing between them and it was Tori's password.
"One second, I got this." Jade said as she swiftly typed in Tori's password.
The rest of the gang stared at her in disbelief.
"How did you know Tori's password? She doesn't trust any of us with it." Beck asked warily and Jade sat primly next to him, phone in hand.
"I have my ways." She smirked deviously. "Do you want to hear it or not?"
And 5 pairs of ears listened hopelessly as the message began to play.
"Daniel. You were the first boy I dated and trusted after Beck, and you were the first one that cheated on me. I don't know why I did, though, because, just like Lindsay, I was your little secret. Someone you wouldn't dare talk to in public, let alone kiss them. Someone you wouldn't invite to your lunch table, rather than me sitting alone or pestering a few 'friends' that were nice enough to not talk about me to my face while you sat with your friends and flirted with a pretty older brunette who didn't seem to have any clothes that actually covered her body.
Remember me, Trina Vega? I hope you didn't forget, because now, you never will.
I bet Tori didn't know that you came to HollyWood Arts before 'Sherwood', or should I say, The Shirley's House for Troubled Teens. Yes, for all of you who didn't know, Daniel and Tori went to a disability school, for teenagers with non-severe psychological problems. Torus had anger issues, and still has a short temper, and Daniel has mild split personality disorder. I wish I had known that before….But I was there for you when you got shipped off to that horrible place, and I was the one who introduced you to stunning, sparkling, Tori. What a fool I was, to think that you wouldn't cheat on me when I wasn't there, watching your every move. Instead, I hounded you with phone calls and texts and visited you whenever I could, ignoring Tori. I chose you instead of Tori, and you chose Tori instead of me. Don't think I don't remember how you always defended her when I complained about how she was taking all of my parents attention, and when I saw you making out with Tori when I came to give you a surprise visit one day. I guess I just have a habit of choosing unfaithful guys to date.
But I made the mistake of not confronting you, and instead acted as I had before, trying desperately to win you back, to do something to make you choose me over Tori. But I was just making you pull farther away, and I knew it.
Jealousy is an evil, bitter thing, though, and it creeps into you until it's all you see. I was obsessed with you, spending hours looking up ways to woo you and stalking your Facebook. I sent you expensive gadgets, little knickknacks, and evidence of my love for you. I bared my soul to you when I visited, telling you my hopes and dreams, my selfish wishes for Tori to be gone, for me to be popular, for Jade to just die somewhere. I told you about my fears, about how terrified I was of being fat, how I starved myself. But you did almost nothing to comfort me, patting my shoulder every once in a while and kissing me greedily when I paused. I'm pretty sure that's the only reason that you were still dating me, actually. Innocent little Tori, still a freshman, probably didn't let you go much farther than a peck on the lips.
After almost failing numerous tests and quizzes, I finally came to my senses and snapped the hell out of it. I didn't visit you that day. Or the next week. I still thought of you, a lot, but I was getting over you. Kind of.
For once, you called me. To break up. I guess you got bored of me, and when Tori came home to visit during Thanksgiving, I wasn't all that surprised to hear all about her new boyfriend Danny. Who she'd been dating for a month.
I cried that night, for a while, looking at the few pictures of us and tearing them up. But, then I got angry. Full of rage and the hurt of betrayal, I did the one thing I could do to possibly hurt you. I told Tori right before she went back. And those anger issues? They hadn't gone away yet. So I don't know for sure, but, according to the principal there, your face got pretty clawed up. Tori never said anything about it though, and she didn't talk to me until Christmas.
So thank you Daniel, for teaching me a very valuable lesson that has proved nothing but true for me. Boys are not to be trusted, and especially not to fall in love with. Too bad I made an exception for one musically talented boy. But that comes later. Cat Valentine, I hope you've prepared your pretty little self, because you're next."
Cat's mouth made an O and she collapsed into the chair, Jade and André holding her on either side.
"It's not over yet, guys. Not even close."
And with that, the message was over.
What did you think? I know it's not all that long, only 1.3k words, but I'm pretty happy with it! Although I think part of the reason was a little weird, I don't know how it feels to be cheated on, and wasn't quite sure how to write that part.
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