I'm not involving romance, I promise! Just (strong) friendship. BEWARE OF: hugs, crying, screaming, sappy crap, self blame, etc.
OMG, Jade is so OOC(out of character)!
Read and review, PC52
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Cat and Jade had fallen asleep in Cat's bed. Cat was stirring in her sleep, her hands were twitching and tears were rolling down her face. The twitching was getting worse and it woke up Jade. Jade quietly and carefully slid out of bed, trying not to wake Cat up.
"It doesn't seem normal..." Jade thought, watching closely at Cat's twitching.
It started to get worse, Cat looked as if she was having a seizure.
"God, NO!" Thought Jade. "I'm not losing you, Cat!"
Jade tried to shake Cat awake, but it wouldn't work. Cat stopped twitching. She was completely still.
"Cat...?" Jade was staring to get worried.
Cat was silent. Laying still as a statue.
"Cat, NO CAT! No no no no NO NO!" Jade was bawling at this point.
She checked for a pulse. But then, just when she was about to give up, Cat started to cough. As she opened her eyes, Jade felt more relieved than ever.
"Cat! Thank god you're alright!" Jade hugged her best friend tightly. She never wanted to let go after this.
"Jade, he slit my throat..." Cat said.
"What...?," Jade asked Cat in a confused voice.
"I was in my kitchen and he cut my throat. I was choking up blood and I couldn't breathe and when I tried, more blood came out. I was so scared!" Cat was crying and hugging Jade tightly.
Jade was quick to change the subject. It scared her to hear Cat describe that.
"Cat, let's get you out of those clothes and into something clean," Jade said, reffering to the blood stains on her shirt from that morning.
"Ok, I guess," Cat agreed. "Jade, what do we do with the body?"
Jade was looking through Cat's closet and paused when Cat said this.
"Put these on," Jade handed her red headed friend a navy blue hoodie, a dark purple t-shirt, and black/blue skinny jeans.
"Why?" Cat asked innocently about the dark clothes.
"Because," Jade started in reply "We want to get rid of the body unnoticed. We need dark clothing."
"Um...ok" Cat accepted with a sigh.
"Aww, hey, what's wrong?" Jade asked, sitting next to her best friend.
"I just don't want anything to do with this! Why me? Am I just meant to be a bad person?" Cat exclaimed.
"You're not a bad person Cat! Don't even think it for a second," Jade said, putting an arm around Cat.
"I don't know..." Cat started. "What if the police find us?"
"If they do, we'll just explain what happened," Replied Jade.
"They won't beleive me," Said cat bluntly.
"Why wouldn't they?" Asked Jade.
"Because of how I am. My psychological problems. They'll think I killed Mr. Byrd on purpose cause I'm a crazy!" Cat answered.
Jade paused for a minute.
"If the police don't believe us, I'll say I did it," Jade said with a tone of hesitance.
"Y-you would do that for me?" Cat asked.
Jade thought more. She'd do anything for Cat...wouldn't she?
"I'd do anything for you," Jade answered.
Cat smiled as Jade said that.
"I'll go put this on," Cat said.
"K."
After Cat went into the other room, Jade snuck downstairs. She went into the kitchen and turned on the light. As she kneeled down to get a better look at the body, she saw a rolled up peice of paper in his pocket. As she took the paper and unrolled it, what it said made her uneasy.
This is what it said:
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Mr. David Byrd,
You were originally meant to visit the Valentine residence to obtain some money owed to us, but Mr. and Mrs. Valentine are out of state, and our "orginization" strictly stays inside California. But their daughter, Caterina, is staying there alone. We can NOT let her find out about what we do. I need you to kill her. Maybe it'll teach her parents not to pay late again. Once she's dead, meet us outside and we'll leave. We'll be waiting outside your house, across the street. Don't screw this up, or else.
Signed,
Bloodhound.
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Jade started to cry. A couple of years ago, Jade's friend's dad made a deal with a man named William Hound. He broke the deal so William killed his wife and left a note saying: I told you to pay, now you are. William later decided to call himself "Bloodhound".
Now that dirtbag was after Cat, and Jade was going to do anything to protect her. She'd even kill if she needed to. Jade was terrified that Bloodhound would find cat, completely terrified. But Jade knew what she needed to do. She had to stay with Cat. She couldn't leave tonight, or any other night until Cat's parents came back, and she never wanted to even after that.
She went over to the door and looked outside the window. It was pretty dark, but she could see a black van across the street. It wasn't normally there, so she knew it was the car that was waiting for Mr. Byrd. Just then she saw someone in the van staring at her. Oh god, he knew they were in the house. Then she heard cat upstairs.
"Jade?" she yelled.
Jade(who was still crying) ran upstairs and straight into Cat's bedroom. As soon as she saw Cat, she hugged her tightly.
"Jade?!" Cat exclaimed, surprized.
Jade cried into Cat's shoulder, muttering incoherently. Cat returned the hug and patted her back.
"I'm sorry Cat! I never want to leave you again, I should've stayed upstairs," Jade was bawling so hard the mascara she was wearing was pouring down her face like a waterfall.
"Jadey, why are you crying?!" Cat asked, worried about Jade.
Jadey. She loved that name, because Cat gave it to her. She loved Cat more than anything in the whole world. Like sisters.
"I've put us both in danger. I've put YOU in danger. I'm just so stupid, how could I do this to you!" Jade was so angry at herself.
"Do what to me?!" Cat asked in a scared tone.
Jade couldn't talk anymore, only cry. She released Cat and handed her the note. As Cat finished reading, she began to look like she was about to cry.
"Cat...if you're mad, I understand," Jade tried to keep back the tears but it was too hard.
Cat wiped the tears away and smiled gently.
"I'm not mad Jadey. But I still don't understand what you did wrong," Cat said, trying not to cry.
"Just a second," Jade tried to say without crying more.
She walked over to Cat's light switch and turned it off.
"What did you do that for?" Cat asked.
"Sit down on the bed where we're away from the window," Jade told Cat.
"Why?" Cat asked.
"Because those guys that are supposed to be waiting outside, they're out there," Jade answered.
"Ok," Cat said, sitting down.
Jade sat down with her.
"Cat, I- It's...," Jade couldn't get the words out. Jade had the worst feeling.
"It's ok Jadey, you can tell me," Cat whispered in a soft, caring tone while gently setting her hand on Jade's.
Jade smiled at cat and gave her another quick hug.
"Ok. Cat, I really screwed up. I looked out the window on the front door to see if there was anyone that shouldn't be there, and there was. And they saw me. It was the guy from the letter, Bloodhound. Now he knows we're here and... god, what have I done?!" Jade cried more. Telling Cat this felt like someone had just torn her heart straight out of her chest.
Cat tried to comfort Jade by saying thing like "It wasn't your fault" and "You didn't do anything wrong", but nothing would work. Then Cat remembered before, what Jade said before they fell asleep.
"Jade, I..." Cat was feeling tears form in her eyes.
"Yeah cat?" Jade managed to get out.
"I love you," Cat said.
"What...?" Jade was confused.
"No, not like that, like..." Cat tried to come up with the right word. "...like sisters."
"I love you too Cat," Jade said with tears in her eyes.
Jade and Cat hugged again. But it wasn't long before Jade's cell phone rang. She picked up.
"Yes?" Jade answered, trying not to sound as if she was crying.
"Jade! Where have you been!" Snapped the person on the other end. It was her dad.
"I'm with Cat," Jade answered bluntly.
"Come home immediately!" Barked her dad.
"Actually Cat's scared being home alone and doesn't want to be here without me, could I stay until her parents get here?" Jade lied, trying to be as patient with her dad as she could.
"No. Jade, you need to come back," Answered her dad.
Jade looked at Cat, who wore a sad face. Not the sad face with pupy-dog eyes and a pouty lip, but a look of pure sadness, pure guilt, and pain. Jade couldn't stand to see Cat like this, it broke her heart into a million peices and slowly ripped every piece in half. Jade made her choice.
"No," Jade answered.
"Excuse me?" Replied Mr. West.
"You heard me. No. I'm staying with Cat. She needs me," Jade finished.
"I said come home, now!" Jade's dad demanded. Jade could tell he wasn't happy about her being with Cat.
"NO! I'm so sick of this. I care about Cat, I love her. You're not pulling me away from her again," Jade protested with burning hate in her voice.
"I DON'T WANT YOU NEAR CAT! SHE'S GOT PROBLEMS, SHE COULD SNAP AT ANY TIME!" Mr. West was screaming at Jade with more hate in his voice than Jade could take.
Cat overheard this and started crying. Jade watched Cat and couldn't believe what she'd just heard.
"YOU'RE HORRIBLE! YOU'RE NOT MY DAD, MOM TOLD ME! I CAN'T BELIEVE I ACTED LIKE IT ALL THIS TIME!" Jade finally screamed back.
"FINE THEN! DON'T EVER COME BACK!" he snapped, hanging up the phone.
Jade broke down crying. Cat was still crying too. Jade sat on the bed with Cat and wrapped her arms around the small girl.
"Why does everyone hate me?" Cat sniffled.
"Cat, no one hates you," Jade cried. "They just don't understand."
"So, he's not your real dad?" Cat asked, changing the subject.
"No. My real dad left when I was a baby," Jade answered.
"Why is your stepdad mean to you?" Cat asked with confusion.
"I think it's because I act the same way with him as I do at school. But only you know the real me, the me you've been seeing this whole time. Not mean, "hates everything" Jade, but soft, sensitive...broken Jade," Jade explained.
"Then let me fix you," Cat said sweetly, putting her arms around Jade and hugging tightly.
"You're the only one that understands," Jade was gently tapping her fingers on Cats shoulder.
It wasn't long before Cat spoke.
"What now Jadey?" Cat asked, staring up into Jade's green-blue eyes innocently with her own chocolatey-brown ones.
"I-I don't know. But we'll figure something out," Jade said, wiping the remaining tears away.