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A/N: Thank you so much for all the nice reviews. I'm glad that so many people are liking my story. I would like to apologize for the long wait. I had planned to finish this chapter on Friday. But I just kept adding stuff. Hopefully the chapter will make up for the long wait. Once again thank you for following, reviewing, and favoriting this story. I hope you guys enjoy it.
Chapter 3: Friends?
"Victoria, are you listening?" I look up to see Alyssa's gorgeous eyes looking back at me.
"I'm sorry what?" She shakes her head and grabs me by my shirt. She gives me a passionate kiss, and pushes me away. It still surprises me how random she is.
"Now can you stop thinking about coffee girl for a couple of minutes?" I blush as I look at anything else but her face.
"I wasn't thinking about her." It's not a complete lie, well it might be. I just can't wait to see what her reaction will be when I arrive at school today.
"Love, I know you. You've got this glint on your eye. We're in my house, you spent the night here. You're borrowing my clothes, and I'm taking you to school. Everyone will think that I had my sweet way with you, and well this will not help." She stands up and abruptly pushes me to the wall.
I don't have time to think of anything else as I feel her lips in my neck. She's sucking on my pulse point. I try to push her away but she grabs both of my arms and puts then in top of my head.
I always forget how strong she is. My struggles are forgotten when she bites on my neck, and I bite my bottom lip as I try so hard not to moan. Yes, it turns me on when someone bites me specially if it's a girl. I find it more sexy.
The first time that I realize this was when I was a little too drunk with some of my friends, a girl approached me, she pushed me to a wall and sucked my neck. It felt so much better than with all the other guys. And Aly is so good at this.
"Alyssa. What are you doing?" I ask with a breathless voice.
She bites hard before she starts sucking again. "What does it look like I'm doing." She answers with a husky voice. My body unintentionally shivers and I know what she's doing.
She wants to leave a kiss mark on my neck so everyone will think that she did have her way with me.
"Aly, don't bite too hard." She gives my neck a light kiss before biting me gently. She continues sucking my neck and I close my eyes.
This will not be a fun day of school. Everyone will look at me, and well everyone will see this kiss mark because I'm sure that it's going to be big. I hope Jade doesn't see this.
It's true that this will get a reaction out of her but I don't know if it will be a positive or a negative one.
"There all done." Alyssa let's go of my hands. She gives me a light peck on the lips before giving me one of her beautiful smiles.
"Now everyone will think that you are mine, Victoria." She takes a seat on her bed, and looks me up and down.
"Do you have your glasses?" And she changes the subject so fast. Not that I had any comment on what she had just said.
"Yes why?" She smirks a little and I know she's planning something.
"I want you to wear them to school today." I look at her with a dumbstruck face. Why do I need to wear them?
"You look hot on them, love. And it completes your outfit." She tells me as she stands up and takes her keys.
I look down at myself before I follow her. I do look good today. I usually don't go for ripped skinny jeans, and a low-cut v-neck tunic but these are the clothes that Alyssa picked for me.
She said that " Your coffee girl has to be blind if she doesn't look at you at least once today." I immediately agreed.
Why would I question it? I wouldn't mind if Jade couldn't keep her eyes away from me.
Alyssa opens the passenger side and I take my seat. She goes to the driver's side and gets in.
She can be so gentle when she wants. That's how she scores so many dates with girls.
"So ready for our plan to begin?" I nod my head. Alyssa wants me to act like Jade is nothing special to me. She says that Jade will try harder to get my attention.
I do not know if it will work but she seems adamant that it will.
"It will work, Victoria. Trust me you look smoking hot, specially with those glasses." I laugh, I swear if I didn't know better I would probably think that Alyssa has a fetish with glasses.
"I do." She answers me and I don't say anything as I keep looking at her. I know I didn't say that out loud.
She laughs gently as she stops at a red sign. "I do have a glasses fetish." I blush as I turn and look at the window.
"That's what you were thinking right?" I don't say anything as I continue to look at the window.
She gently grabs my hand. " You're so easy to read, Victoria. I really do love teasing you." Yeah, of course she does. Wait tease me?
"So you don't have a fetish?" I ask as I grab my glasses with one hand, silently indicating that I will take them off.
She smirks. "I like this feisty Victoria better. But you should save those comments for Jade." I nod my head. It takes me a few seconds before I realized that she changed the subject.
"You do, don't you?" I answer and she laughs as she nods her head.
"Yes, but it's our dirty secret okay." I blush and she laughs louder. Leave it to her to make a normal conversation into a dirty one.
"We're here." I didn't realize we were already parked in front of Hollywood Arts.
"Okay, thank you for everything Aly." She shakes her head as she tells me to wait.
She gets out of her car and opens the passenger door for me.
I give her a light peck on the cheek as I get out.
It takes me two seconds to spot Jade in front of her car. She has a weird expression and I can see her eyes dig deep into my own.
I feel a hand on my cheek and I turned around.
"Let's give her a show, my love." Before I could say anything else, she crashes her lips with mine. I know I'm suppose to act like we're a couple so I gently put my hands around her neck.
She moans in appreciation and I feel my head flush a deep red. She's enjoying this too much. Alyssa never moans.
She slowly let's go of my lips and I can see the glint on her eye. Yeah, she is enjoying this way too much.
"Have a nice day, love." I nod and she smirks.
I hesitantly make my way to the entrance, and I open the door. I feel her gaze still locked on my body.
I turned around and she waves before she gets on her car. I shake my head and then the next thing I know I feel a hard pain on my shoulder.
I see Jade walking by, like she just didn't hit me on purpose. I wonder if this is a good sign?
I make my way to my locker before a teacher stops me. " Miss. Victoria, did you choose your instrument." What instrument? Nobody told me anything about an instrument.
"Everyone in Hollywood Arts has to play at least one instrument. Here I will give you one to help you." He gives me a French horn and leaves.
Where in the world am I suppose to put this? I stop in front of my locker. I smile as I see the big words "Make it Shine". I decided to put the name of the song that I sung in the show case. It wasn't because it was the song that got me in, but because it was the song that got me to see Jade. If I had not sang it I would have never seen her.
I opened the locker and I tried to put the French horn inside, and just my luck it doesn't fit.
I struggle for a couple of minutes before I give up.
"Tori!" I turned around to see André and Cat.
"What's up?" Cat asks me.
"I'm having a horrid problem. Why do I have to play an instrument anyway?" I answer as I look back at my French horn. Of all the instruments why do I have to play this one? I don't even know how to hold it.
"Everyone in Hollywood Arts has to play an instrument, Tori." Cat answers like it's the most logical thing in the world.
I know I'm making a big deal out of this but I sing that has to count as instrument right?
"Okay, well I sing. My throat is my instrument, I'm a throat player." That didn't sound as good as it did in my head. Actually it sounds extremely weird.
"Doesn't count." André answers. And I know I'm acting childish when I think that it should.
"It sounds kind of gross." Cat looks at me with a weird expression. It does doesn't it? I have this weird image on my head and I immediately shake my head.
"Why did you pick the French horn?" André asks.
I answer with a shrug. "I don't know a teacher gave it to me."
"And you just took it?" André asks. I nod.
"Yes, I figured that I like French Fries, and French toast. So why not play a French horn?" I answered.
"One time when I was eating French toast at a restaurant. I started laughing and then I started choking so the woman who ran the restaurant made me leave." I didn't know how to respond to that. I, Kitty Cat is truly special.
Cat looks at me with a sad face before she smiles. "So let's hear your horn!" She exclaims and André nods his head.
"Just play the funky music white girl." I nod my head.
I don't even know the first thing of how this thing works. I just have to blow it, right? That sounded bad.
"You know I'm half latina right?" I ask André. They don't have to know that I'm just buying time.
"Then hit it muchacha!" I shake my head. I have really unique friends.
I blow on it and let's just say that it sounded horrible. It sounded like a painful scream that even scared me.
I smile as I look at them. "I think that it's broken." I tell them. And if it's not then I really suck at this.
André takes it away from me as he tells me that he will fix it.
He starts playing and the music doesn't even compare to what I was trying to do. André sure is talented. I really suck at playing instruments. The only one I know how to play is the piano. But nobody knows that, it's my secret, and I don't want anyone to know.
It's one of my favorite hobbies.
I just realize that they haven't said anything about Alyssa, or that I have a big love bite on my neck. Well they probably haven't seen it yet, I did cover it with my hair.
Cat looks at me with a smile on her face. "It's not broken." She then goes to André and starts dancing by his side.
Their great friends, maybe they don't mind that I swing both ways.
I close my locker and head to class.
I open the door to see Beck fighting some guy. Beck falls to the floor. He tries to stand up and I'm trying to stop the fight.
I jump in top of the guy who was hitting Beck. I try hitting him only to be pulled away by André.
"What are you doing?" I hear the teacher ask.
"That guy was beating up Beck." I answer with a worried expression.
I hear Jade laugh, and she shakes her head. "Oh you poor thing." I didn't like the way she say that. It sounded like she was talking to a little kid.
"We were practicing." Beck says ignoring Jade's comment. But why would someone practice a fight?
"This is Ross." The teacher answers calmly.
"I'm Ross!" The guy answers with an exaggerated tone.
"His a professional stuntman. I invited him to teach the class about stage fighting." He answers calming down the guy, I mean Ross.
I feel really bad now. But it doesn't take long for everything to become worse.
"And now Tori says "What's stage fighting!?"" Jade says with an annoying imitation of my voice.
I look at her. " I wasn't going to say that." I totally was going to say that. What in the world is stage fighting?
I turned around and grab André by the arm. "What is it?" I ask him in a whispered voice.
"Fake fighting it looks real like for a play or a movie." Now I feel stupid.
"Oh." That's all I say what was I suppose to say to that?
"I took a class with him last summer." Beck says pointing at the teacher.
"Well it look like it was hurting you." I mean I really thought he was in trouble. I was just trying to help.
"Why do you care? Is your little girlfriend not good enough for you?" Jade asks, and I know that she still thinks that I want Beck. How can she get so jealous after all they believe that I am dating Alyssa. So why in the world would I want Beck?
I ignore her second question as I answer her. "Because I figure that he already suffers enough pain dating you." and just like I thought she gets upset.
"You want to see pain!?" Jade exclaims her face getting so close to mine. And I found myself thinking that I wouldn't mind seeing pain, specially if it comes from her.
Wait that doesn't sound good, I wouldn't mind seeing pain if it was the good kind of pain. I found myself blushing.
Before she could start a fight with me Beck grabs her and tries to calm her down.
"Why don't we go sit over there?" He tells Jade as he pushes her to the back seats.
I pull André to the other side of the room. "Why does she hate me?" I ask.
"Maybe she heard you play the French horn." Ha ha very funny, it didn't sound that bad did it? It probably did.
After everyone arrives class starts.
Ross calls Cat and he's trying to show us an example of how to make a hit more believable.
He swings and his fist doesn't connect to Cat. She closes her eyes and then smiles.
"It's easy to see that my fist didn't connect with her face." Before he could finish Cat interrupted him.
"Thank you." She tells him with a grateful smile.
He shakes his head. "But if we stage it from another angle. Then!" He turns around and asks if the sound effect is ready.
He swings and Cat screams it looks like she actually got hit. I almost ran for her side if it's not for the fact that Cat smiles and answers.
"I'm okay everyone!" I find myself smiling at her. She's so cute and adorable. I'm happy that she's my friend. I smile as Cat takes a seat by my side. She and Alyssa would make a great couple. I shake my head, I don't even know if Cat likes girls. And I know I couldn't set Alyssa with Cat. After all they believe that Alyssa is dating me.
"All right I'm going to pair you guys up. Each team will work with Ross this week to prepare a fight scene." Oh this sounds exciting. I hope I'm not pair up with Jade. As much as I like her I know she would probably end up hitting me.
"I thought his name was Steve." I turned to look at André. He called him Ross when Beck and him were fighting right? But he does have one of those faces.
"He does look like a Steve." I answered with a nod. Soon enough everyone was talking about how he should be a Steve and not a Ross.
It was actually kind of funny when Steve, I mean, Ross tried explained that his name is actually in fact Ross. But even the teacher agreed with us because he didn't let him finish. Poor Steve, he needs to change his name. He probably had lived with the wrong name all his life.
"Okay. On Friday you will all perform your fights scenes here in front of the class." Oh so we only have a couple of days to practice? This sucks. I look at Jade and I noticed something. She's wearing a really low shirt. It's not like I'm trying to look or anything, but is she a D cup? Oh god, what am I thinking. Concentrate Tori, just turn around. I mean wow, I think she is.
I immediately turned around as he starts to tell us the names of the pairs. "The pairs will be Beck and Cat. " Oh so no couple action? I'm kind of glad for that.
"André and Guenn." Who's that? I really need to pay more attention.
"Daren and Jess." Oh Daren is he that guy that I have in my last period? I turn to look at him. Yup, he is. Jess, Jess doesn't ring a bell.
"Tori and Jade." That sounds nice. Tori and Jade, I like it. Our names go great together. Wait what!?
"Tori and who!?" I exclaim as I turn to see Jade with a small smirk, she looks me up and down, and she raises her eyebrows. She gives me the most innocent smile that I have seen on her face. Oh this cannot be good.
The bell rings and everyone stands up, I'm still glued to my seat. She will kill me, she will seriously kill me, or she will hurt me really bad.
I have to get out of this situation. "Wait I'm not comfortable with my partner." Partner, I like that. Jade should totally be my partner. In anything beside a stage fight.
"Just a sec." Before the teacher could listen to me. I feel someone behind me. Oh please don't let it be Jade.
"Hey partner." Oh god, that does sound good. Specially if it's coming out of her lips.
"I can't wait for our fight." She gives me a look that sends shivers down my spine.
"Scene." That doesn't sound good. I have to get this out of this situation. I want to live at least until I can confess my feelings. I'm not asking much right?
Jade leaves. The teacher tells me that we cannot change partners. I grab my phone and I update my status.
Yeah, I want everyone to know that my life is in danger.
I make my way to lunch all of my friends are already on their seats.
I smile as I take a seat by André. Jade looks at me and for a second I could have sworn that she was checking me out. But she couldn't be could she?
"So how's your day been, muchacha?" André asks me. It was good until I learned that soon Jade will beat me up.
"It's been great. How about yours?" I answer as I pull my hair back.
He doesn't answer as he looks at me with wide eyes. What did I said? I look around to see that even Jade looks a bit shocked.
"Oh I'm sure it can't compare to the night you had, babe." I look to see Robbie covering Rex's mouth.
Why would I have a better night? Cat giggles as she points at my neck. Realization hits me like a ton of bricks and I blush a deep red.
"Wow, someone likes it rough." I was about to scream at Rex but before I could Jade grabs him and throws him across several lunch tables.
"No! Rex!" Robbie stands up and runs to find Rex. I'm kind of happy that Jade did that, he deserved it.
"So is it the white girl from yesterday?" André asks and I blush even more if that's possible.
"Oh, so it was. How was it?" I what? I expect this from Rex but from André. I shake my head, boys, and puppets.
"Shut up André no one cares who Vega fucks." It actually hurt when she said that. I wished she cared.
"Hey, I was only joking." André answers and I hope that he was only joking.
"So is she good?" Beck asks me, and Jade hits him in the shoulder.
"Beck." She growls as she calls his name. Beck immediately raises his hands in surrender.
"I was kidding Babe." Jade looks at me for a moment and then what she says next surprises me.
"So, is she the reason you're wearing those clothes and the glasses?" I smile. So she has looked at me. I want to tell her that she's the reason but I know that I can't.
"Maybe, or maybe I just wanted to look good today." I tell her and she raises her eyebrow at me. We keep looking at each other before she finally gives me a really sexy look. And I bite my lip.
She smirks as she tells me. " Too bad it didn't work out." She stands up and leaves, Beck silently following her.
But I know that it did. I know for a fact that she has looked at me. Maybe this was a great idea.
To my utter disappointment the rest of my day goes by fast. Jade and I did rehearse but we barely talked. I wish I could have at least a decent conversation with her. But no, as soon as we ended up rehearsing she left. She didn't even say goodbye.
I left with Trina since Alyssa would be with her family for most of the day. It was her uncle's birthday and she had promised to be there.
It was eight at night before Alyssa called me.
"So how was your day, Vic." I smiled, it could have been better.
"It was alright. I have to do a stage fight scene with Jade though."
"It doesn't sound so bad, it's just acting." I know but wait, am I the only one who didn't know what a stage fight was?
"You didn't know what it was did you." She laughs, and I try to pretend that I did.
"Of course I did."
"Sure, Victoria and I'm straight." Hey that's mean.
"Okay, I didn't." I really can't win against her.
"So did she check you out?" I smile at her question. Aly always likes to get straight to the point.
"I don't know. Kind of?"
"Is that a statement or a question?" Alyssa asks me.
"Both? She kind of did. I mean she asked me if you were the reason I was wearing these clothes."I tell her as I lay down on my bed.
"Okay. So what did you tell her?"
"That maybe or maybe I just wanted to look good." I tell her.
"Good, you should always leave her wandering about our relationship."
"Do you really think it will work." I ask her with a tired voice, I know it's still early but I barely slept yesterday. I was too worried about what would happen today.
"It will love. You just have to trust me. Even if it doesn't seem like much she has talked to you more this day than most of the past week right?"
"Yes, she has. I noticed that she kept glancing at me a couple of times." I'm actually happy about this.
"See I told you. Now go to sleep. Don't worry about Jade I'm sure she won't hit you." She hangs up before I can complain.
I wake up to the sound of my alarm. I get dress and head to school with Alyssa. Just like the day before she kisses me before she leaves.
My first class was boring but I guess it could have been worse. We were learning about different accents and I don't even know why.
I leave class only to hear my sister scream.
"Oh no! The puppet guy!?" Hey, that's my name for him!
"Excuse me!" Robbie exclaims. His clearly offended that Trina practically called Rex a puppet. To him Rex is not a puppet. See I listen to him. His a nice guy a little weird but nice.
"Can I please audition with someone else." Oh an audition. They should totally audition together it would be the greatest play ever.
"You know, you can whisper that." If Alyssa says that I don't have a backbone, because I always tend to avoid fights. Does this mean that Robbie doesn't have bones?
"It's just an audition." The guy in charge of calling their names tells Trina.
This is funny, for a moment I forget that I will have to make a fight scene with Jade.
"Leave the puppet." Trina looks between Rex and him. I had to chuckle at Rex's answer.
"It's cool just leave me beside the hot blond." Okay that sounds kind of creepy.
Robbie leaves him and the blond girl looks back at Rex. Is he seriously grabbing her thigh?
I turn around and I pretend that I didn't see anything.
I make my way to my next class. I seriously can't stop thinking about Jade, and how she's going to beat me up into a bloody mess. It doesn't take long for the bell to ring and I make my way to lunch.
I seat with André and Cat. I'm kind of thankful that Beck and Jade are sitting in another table. But why do they have to look so good together?
"Look at her." I answer as I stab my poor salad for the hundredth time.
"Who?" André asks me. Jade of course, who else would I be looking at.
"She's probably telling Beck. How she's going to punch me when we do our scene." I really hope that they're not talking about that.
"Forget about it, how about you tell me more about Alyssa?" I look to see André with a knowing smirk.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you that she was just a friend right?" He laughs and I blush.
"Well girl, do all half latinas do that? If so how come you haven't kiss me yet." I can see that his joking but I blush even deeper if that's possible.
"Of course not. She's my girlfriend." I answer with a whispered voice.
"Am I not your girl friend Tori?" Kitty cat looks at me with a sad face.
"Of course you are you're my friend that happens to be a girl. She's a girl that happens to be my girlfriend. " I think I just confused her even more. Hopefully she will understand.
"What does that mean?" Cat says as she looks at me, clearly confused.
"What Tori is trying to say is that Alyssa is a girl that she dates. You're a girl that she hangs out with." André answers.
"Oh she's your girlfriend!" I nod my head.
"Oh my gosh you like girls!" I burst out laughing.
"Yes, I also like guys." She nods her head.
"One time my brother tried to kiss this guy but his girlfriend." and André cuts her off. I'm kind of glad that he did. It was a strange conversation.
"Jade isn't going to beat you Tori." Of course she is! Why doesn't anyone see that?
"What if she hits me? What do I do then?" I ask André and he shrugs.
"Bleed, burst into tears." He answers like it's the most common thing in the world.
"I'm serious." I tell him.
"It's stage fighting. No one really hits anybody." I know that his trying to reassure me but it could happen.
"Yeah, but accidents happen and what if she makes an accident happen on purpose?" Knowing her she probably will. I have to skip that class.
"You know the word mirror has six letters and half of them are r's?" Kitty Cat says and I smile a little. She's trying to cheer me up. Or at least I think she is.
"Haven't you and Jade being rehearsing?" André asks me. Yes, we have but she's probably waiting till our big day.
"Yeah yesterday after school and this morning during study hall."
André smiles. "Did she hit you for real?" No she didn't but like I said before that's not the point.
"No she didn't, she's probably waiting to do it in front of the class to humiliate me." I mean it's Jade she's like the bad ass girl of this school. She has to be planning something like that.
André tries one more time to reassure me "If she does she loses a letter grade."
Yeah that sounds so much better. " Oh so she gets an A minus and I get a broken eye and a black nose." Wait what?
"I think you meant." I didn't let André finish I know what I meant, and he knows it. So we should just move along with it.
"I know what I meant."
"My dog has a black nose! It's so cute." Kitty Cat says with a big smile on her face. I smile too. I wish everyone was as adorable as cat.
"Like a baby meat ball." Wait a baby meat ball? I look at André and he shakes his head.
"Meat balls are brown." He shouldn't have said that. Cat is going to take it the wrong way.
"You're so mean to me!" She stands up and leaves, yeah just like I thought.
"Do you want to divide her sandwich?" I ask André and he nods his head.
"Hey baby sister!" Trina exclaims and I turn around to look at her.
"Andy!" She has a really bad memory with names. She probably forgets mine that's why she calls me baby sister.
"It's André." He says but Trina doesn't even acknowledges him.
She sits with a bunch of seniors and soon enough Robbie sits next to her.
I wonder why he didn't seat with us? I keep glancing at them. It seems like my sister is upset and did Robbie just, he didn't did he?
Oh my god! He did. Robbie just kissed Trina!?
"Did you see that." I ask André he nods his head.
"Uh Yeah" What in the world? So is that why Trina treats him so bad?
Just when I thought that she throws up on him. So does that mean that she doesn't like him? Or is it like a Trina thing?
I shake my head and I try to ignore my sister's obvious discomfort.
The bell rings and I'm already afraid of what will happen next.
I made my way to class, afraid of what would possibly happen to me.
Class starts with André and Guenn's stage fight. Let me tell you that girl can act really good. I swear I could actually picture her beating up someone.
It looks so painful even if it's fake. I'm glad our scene isn't anything like that. Everyone claps and I'm still looking between Guenn and André. That was great.
"Next up Tori and Jade." Yay, it's our turn. I hesitantly stand up and Jade looks over at me and smirks. Yeah, I'm so dead.
Let's just get this over with. "Um for our scene I'm going to be playing an old woman who's walking home from a bingo game." Yeah I'm an old woman who's about to have a black eye.
"And I'm a brutal mugger." That sounds bad. Couldn't she be a regular mugger?
"Yes a brutal mugger, who muggs me. Without actually hurting me." I look at her pleadingly but she just raises and eyebrow.
Steve alias Ross get's between us as he tells us to be careful.
"Okay guys ready?" No, I'm not ready. How can I be ready?
"And A." I immediately scream the safe word.
"Butternut." I scream and Jade looks at me with a scowl on her face.
"What!" She screams as she looks at me.
"Tori what's the problem?" The teacher asks me. The problem? The problem is that Jade is about to beat me up. And I so don't want her to beat me up.
"I was testing the safe word it works!" I exclaimed weakly. Jade looks at me like she's about to kill me.
Let's get this over with. "Okay I'm ready."
"And Action." I have to do this. Breath Tori. I can do this, I just have to think of something nice and positive. Jade has really pretty eyes. She has a sexy voice. She has a beautiful smile. She hates my guts. She's going to break my nose.
This is actually not helping.
"Oh I certainly did enjoy the bingo." I know what's going to happen next but still it scares me.
Jade or the "brutal mugger" grabs me. "Give me your money." Okay so far so good.
"What!?" I exclaim. I'm getting into character.
"I ain't playing. Give me your money and your watch." Jade tells me as she pulls me close to her. If it wasn't for the fact that I'm a little scared right now. I would so totally be enjoying this moment.
"Wouldn't you rather have this." This is the part where I swing with my cane at Jade.
Jade screams and I turn around. Oh god! Did I hit her with the cane!? But that's impossible I didn't feel anything.
"Butternut." She screams and everyone gets close to her.
"She's bleeding!" Cat exclaims. I can't move, I'm still in shock. Did I hit her? But I should have felt something right?
"Are you okay!?" Beck and Steve ask her.
"No! Tori hit me in the face for real." I didn't hit her. I swear that I didn't.
"No. I didn't" I exclaim. I would never hurt her. I could never hurt her.
"Tell that to my bloody eye!" Jade yells at me. I feel something in me break.
"Someone grab a chair." The teacher tells us. I immediately run and grab one.
I put it behind her and she sits down. Only for the chair to break on her. I didn't do that on purpose.
"That was a break away chair!" Ross or Steve or whoever he is yells at me.
Jade turns to look at me and I swear she wants to kill me.
"Oh Butternut." I scream. Beck helps Jade up and he takes her to a "real chair" but not before giving me a disapproving look.
They give her ice for the eye. I want to see if she's alright. But they won't let me near her. I know I didn't hit her. I know I missed.
"Why did you hit Jade in the face with a cane." Even Cat blames me. She's looking at me the same way Beck did.
"I didn't." Why does it look like I'm the bad guy.
"Okay! I believe you don't hit me." Cat tells me as she puts her hands in front of her face.
I look at André with hope in my eyes. "Would you back me up here?"
"Okay. I'm sure Tori didn't mean to whack Jade in the face with the cane." Yes, I didn't what!?
"Why does everyone think that I hit her?"
"Well we were watching you guys do a scene. We saw you hit her across the face with your cane. She fell down and now her eye is all bloody." I, that does sound bad.
"That doesn't mean I hit her." It actually sounds like I did.
"It kind of does." André tells me and I look sadly at her. I didn't do it. I could never hurt her.
I walk up to her. "Jade you know I didn't hit you. I swung but I missed." I tell her.
She gives me the saddest look that I have ever seen. She makes me feel so bad. "Look Tori." She tells me and she almost collapses.
If it's not for the fact that Beck grabbed her she would have fallen. Wait Tori? She never calls me Tori.
The teacher takes her to the nurse. But as she leaves she tells Beck to call her mom.
"She doesn't need her mom. Don't call her mom." I tell Beck.
"I got to call her mom." Beck tells me as he takes out his phone.
Jade stops at the door and looks at me with tears on her eyes. "And I thought we were starting to be friends."
That broke my heart. Why would she do this? Of all the people why me?
I grab my stuff and leave the classroom. A teacher stops me and tells me that I have to go to the guidance counselor.
I open the door and take a seat without looking at the counselor. I shouldn't be here.
"You look a little worried." Of course I am. I have never in my life done anything to get me to visit a counselor. Don't tell me that they think I'm violent now?
"Yeah, well it's not fun getting called into the guidance counselor's office." I wish Alyssa was here she would know what to do.
"You're not in trouble. I'm here to help you." Sure he is. That's what they all say. Wait that sounded like I do need to see one.
"With your violence issues." My what? I never even killed a mosquito before. I haven't hurt a fly? How in the world do I have violence issues?
"I'm not violent!" I yell at him. That sounded like I do though.
"I believe you." Sure he does and the police officer is by his side just for the hell of it.
"Then why is he here?" I ask the guidance counselor.
"Explain that." I tell him. But just like I thought he changes the subject.
"Tori I know Jade is probably not your favorite person." She kind of is. I do have the biggest crush for her. But nobody would believe that. I know that she's lying but I don't know how to explain that I didn't hit her.
"So." I answer. It's not like I can tell him that between the two of us the one that would hit someone would be her.
"So in life just because we don't like someone, it doesn't mean it's okay to beat them with a cane." Here we go again with the freaking cane.
"I didn't!" I yell and the police officer immediately goes to grab his gun. Do I really look violent?
"Oh Relax Dereck!" Yeah I know his name. See if I was violent I wouldn't know his name. Or would I? He looks at the counselor and the counselor nods his head. He let's go of his gun.
"I did not hit Jade with the cane" The counselor immediately asks me to explain the black eye. Like I know how she did that.
"I don't know." I stopped paying attention to him. When he told me that I hit her because I was afraid. Yeah, sure most people tend to run when their afraid.
He kept talking and I started to feel bad. Did I actually hit her?
"I guess it's possible." I answer with a sad voice.
"Ah ha!" Dereck screams like he had resolved a crime scene or something. Yeah that makes me feel better.
"Don't you feel better admitting that you hit Jade?" I don't because I don't believe that I did it.
"If I say yes could I please leave?" The counselor nods his head.
"Okay fine then yes." I grab my stuff this is nice I didn't get in trouble.
"Aren't you going to punish her!?" Dereck exclaims.
"Dereck!" I yell his name. Why did he have to open his mouth?
"Fine. Could you just tell me my punishment." I'm really tired of defending myself.
"Two weeks of detention and today the middle schoolers are doing a play here on the Blackbox theater. It ends with a food fight scene. You have to clean the theater after the show." What?
"I would have said three weeks of detention." Dereck, should really stay quite. I swear he wants me to be violent.
I leave without saying anything else. This day sucked.
"Hey! Tori wait up!" I turn to see André running to my side.
"What?" I really don't want to talk right now.
"You didn't hit Jade. It was all fake, the blood, the eye, everything." Wait what?
"What?"
"It was make up and fake blood." I knew it! See I'm not violent.
"So what are you going to do?" I just shake my head.
I wait for the play to end before I grab my stuff and head to the Blackbox theater.
I didn't tell anyone as much as I dislike her for lying. I don't want her to get in trouble.
I open the door and I'm so shocked to see so many food stuck on the walls. How did it get stuck like that?
"Is that mac and cheese?" I hear Dereck ask behind me.
"I don't know." I answer with an angry scowl. He shakes his head and takes a seat in one of the clean chairs.
I start cleaning one of the walls. This is so gross. I don't want to be here. I feel someone behind me and I turn around to see Jade. What is she doing here?
" I don't get it." She doesn't get what. How all the food got stuck on the walls I don't either. I shake my head she's probably not asking about that.
"What?" I ask her.
"I know André told you that I faked everything. The blood, the black eye. What is that mac and cheese?" I look at the wall. It does look like it but who knows.
I stand up. Right now I don't want to fight with her. "Why are you here?" I ask her. If she came to humiliate me she does that often enough.
She surprises me with her question. "Why are you here?" Why didn't you tell on me?" Because as bad as I hate this, as bad as I hate all the trouble you caused me. I don't want you to get in trouble. Because I'm glad that you were just faking. I'm happy that your okay, but more than anything I think I'm stupidly in love with you.
I can't say that now can I?
So I make some lame excuse about friendship. "Because both of us go to this school and it wouldn't be so much fun if we're fighting all the time." It's kind of true. I don't want to fight her.
I don't wait for her answer as I make my way to the other side of the wall.
"So you're just letting me get away with this?" Why can't she just let it go. Of course I will let her get away with this. I lost the moment my eyes first landed on hers.
"You took detention and a lower grade. You're also scraping crusty pudding of the wall on a friday night. Just so I won't get in trouble." That's exactly what I'm doing. I want to at least be friends. I want her to be jealous when she sees me with Alyssa. I want her to feel something for me, something besides hate. But we know that will never happen.
"Pretty much." I answer, I believe this is for the best, I truly do. Maybe after this we can at least be friends.
"Well you can't be nice to me when I'm being mean to you. That's not how it works." But it's how it has been since the first day of class.
"Well try being nice to me sometimes. Maybe that will work. Now go play. I got to scrape this onion thingy of the wall." I motion with my hand as I turn around and continue where I left off.
To my utter surprise she starts helping me. I give her a questioning look and she gives me a small smile.
"This might be more fun with some tunes." She says as she goes to the corner of the wall and presses a button.
Music starts playing and she starts dancing. She looks so beautiful like this, I bite my lip as she winks at me.
And just like that I forgive her for everything that she has done to me.
I find myself dancing to the song.
"Hey Dereck come dance with us." I tell him. The police officer stands up and dances with us.
While his distracted Jade grabs my wrist. "Let's go." She grabs both our bags as she runs with her hand still holding my wrist.
I have the biggest smile on my face. I hear her beautiful laugh and I feel my heart beating so much faster than before.
She doesn't let me go until we're standing outside the school. I wish this moment would never end. But it does. She gives me back my bag.
"Later Vega." She goes to her car and I take my phone out. I tried calling Trina but she wouldn't pick up. I was going to call Alyssa but Jade stops in front of me. She pulls down her window.
"Do you have a ride?" I shake my head.
"Where's your dumb sister?" She asks me. I really don't know.
"She's probably stalking someone." I answer with a small smile. Knowing her she probably is.
"What about your little girlfriend?" I don't know where she is.
"I don't know." I answer truthfully.
She nods her head. "Get in." Did she just say?
"What?" I ask.
"I'm not saying it again Vega." She starts driving off and I yell at her telling her to stop.
"Wait!" It surprises me when she does.
I get in and she starts to drive. Does she even know where I live? Before I could ask her if she knows she starts talking.
"Do you like coffee Vega?" I, what?
"I do. When it's not in my hair." She gives me a small smirk as she nods her head. And just like that she takes my breath away.
"Good, we're stopping at my favorite coffee shop." Oh god, I'm going to hang out with Jade! I smile. She stops at a red light and she turns to look at me.
"You're paying by the way." She tells me as the light turns green. I don't mind. I'm going to hang out with her. I would pay anything for that.
This is the best day ever.