While stranded at Jade's house during a bad storm the pair plays a game of truth or dare, but what happens when truth or dare goes just a little too far?

Rated: M.

I. Hate. AP. Lit. And. Composition. I should have taken just comp instead of AP Lit.

This is stressful. But anyways, I'm supposed to be working on an AP Essay for the play Fences, but I decided to do this instead.

I really need a beta. If you're interested PM me.

But this is edited to the best of my very sleepy ability. Hope you like, hope I update sooner next time. And longer.

Tori hadn't seen or heard from Jade in two weeks, not since she got better and they went to visit Lynn and the kittens and then she left. She honestly didn't care too much or really even think about it, her time was spent writing music and talking to Andre when he had time off, or Cat, and once even Robbie called her. Of course all he could talk about was puppet camp.

She had a routine down now. She'd get up, have some orange juice or water, jog for an hour, shower, eat breakfast, get some coffee and spend hours writing in different places. The park, the beach, a museum, the coffee shop, the library, a fair, anywhere that had a different feel to it, something different each day.

Today she was at the coffee shop; she'd just finished ordering her coffee and was tucking her wallet away when her phone started ringing obnoxiously loud. She hurried to answer it, pressing it to her ear with a quick hello as she shifted her bag and reached for her coffee cups, "Tori?"

"Hey Beck." She took a sip of her coffee as she made her way out the door, using her hip to open it and her foot to hold it open as she gracefully stumbled outside, not spilling her coffee, thankfully.

"How are you?" he asked trying to sound casual and failing, she set her coffee cups on the roof of her car and searched through her bag for her keys.

"I'm alright, how are you?" she grinned as she found her keys at the bottom of her bag and unlocked the car.

"I'm okay." He hesitated and Tori froze, her arm outstretched to throw her bag into the car.

"And?" she prompted, slowly tossing her bag into the passenger seat, she grabbed her coffees and set them in their own cup holders leaning in an awkward position to do so, "Beck?" she asked when she didn't get an answer.

"Cat called me today to ask if I'd talked to Jade." He replied quickly. Tori slipped into the driver's seat and pulled the door shut.

"And?" Tori questioned, not really sure what it had to do with her. She took another sip of her coffee, it burned a small part of her tongue and she winced.

"She says she hasn't heard from Jade and days and that Jade had been calling her everyday. She didn't have time to call you, so I told her I'd call and ask if you could go check on her." Beck replied.

Tori let out a long sigh, setting her coffee cup down in the holder and looking at the spare, "yeah I suppose I can. But if she kills me you and Cat better feel super guilty." She pulled her seat belt on and picked her keys up from her lap where she'd set them, "I'll text you and let you know what I find."

"Thanks, Tori." Beck sounds relieved, "I tried calling her, but she hates me so it's not like she'd really reply, anyways."

"She doesn't hate you Beck." Tori responded.

"She found someone else." Tori's heart jumped a little bit and there was a small twinge in her stomach she didn't want to linger on, "she's been sleeping with someone since before summer. I saw some hickeys on her neck."

"And that means she's been sleeping with someone?" Tori asked, trying to keep her voice level, her own hand caressing her neck. The only thing her fingers found was the chain to her necklace, but she could still feel the ghosting of Jade's lips on her neck.

"She never let me kiss her neck unless we were-."

"Okay, I'll call you and let you know what I find." Tori interrupts hastily, not wanting Beck to go on.

"Okay, thank you." He says, sounding like he wants to say more, but Tori hangs up without replying and tosses her phone on top of her bag, she puts the key into the ignition and starts to turn it, but pauses, grabs her phone again and calls Jade. The phone rings and rings and rings before it finally goes to voicemail.

With a frown she opens her messages and types a new one quickly, you have five minutes to text me back before I start driving toward your house. And then she sits and waits for ten minutes before she starts the car, backs out of her space, and heads for Jade's house.

She stares up at the large house, it looks normal. The first time Tori had seen Jade's house she'd expected something creepy and dark-like the horror movie creepy kids. But her house was a large two story white brick house with awful green shutters and a dark colored door. She had a white picket fence around the front yard and a three car garage-there was even a garden that someone tended to under the living room window.

Inside she could see the living room was dark, which she expected if Jade was home alone. She shut the car off and reached over to grab her phone. She didn't have a message from Jade, so she shoved it into her bag, grabbed her coffee, and with a sad sigh, grabbed the coffee she'd probably end up giving Jade.

She juggled the two cups of coffee while she unlatched the gate and then walked up the small rock path to the front door, knocking loudly so Jade could hear her. When Jade didn't answer, she hit the door bell.

Her phone buzzed two minutes later.

You better have a good reason. Key's above the door. I'm not getting out of bed for you. –J. Tori laughs at the message and stands on her tiptoes to get the key from on top of the door. It's covered in cobwebs and dirt; she pulls a face when some of it falls on her, and quickly jams the key into the lock, open the door and drops the key on the coffee table to wipe her hands on her jeans.

She sets the coffees on two coasters, closes and locks the door. She pulls out her phone and types a quick message to Beck and Cat that Jade's fine before tossing her phone into her bag and grabbing up the coffees again.

She remembers walking into the house a few weeks ago, scared as hell to walk into the house with Jade, her heart jumped into her throat when she heard the lock click behind her. Now she simply took a sip from her coffee and walked over to the basement door, pulled it open and traveled into the basement. "Jade?" Tori called, "can you turn on a light?"

"Why are you even here?" Jade replied, but Tori could hear rustling and then light flooded the basement. From her spot on the fourth step she could see down to Jade's bed where the girl was tangled in her sheets, face buried in her pillow, black hair spilling across the white sheets and her shoulders.

"I brought coffee." Tori doesn't bother actually answering because Jade probably wouldn't care anyways. Instead she goes down the last four steps, sets the coffee cup beside Jade's bed before sitting down in the chair beside it, pulling her legs up and crossing them, her bag falling to the ground next to her, "Cat said you stopped calling."

"Yeah? So." Jade picked her head up and looked at the coffee with a slight frown on her face, she pulled herself the rest of the way up and spun so she was sitting on her bed, grabbed the coffee and gulped greedily.

"She called Beck, Beck called me, you didn't answer, blah, blah, blah." Tori grumbled, rolling her hand through the air, "and here I am. Where have you been, anyways?"

"Working." Jade grumbled, she sipped at her coffee some more, staring at her bare feet curled up in front of her. With her free hand she rubbed her left foot, wishing the sore ache to go away.

"You got a job? Doing what?" Tori asked, pulling one leg up onto the chair and resting her arm on it.

"Pet store." She grumbled, "I smell like animal. It's really gross."

"Didn't bother showering last night?" Tori asked curiously, glad the only thing she could smell was the coffee in her hand.

"I was dealing with my mom." Jade muttered in a bitter tone, "what time is it?" she looked around the room like she expected to find the time somewhere, and then turned to Tori.

"A little after eleven." Tori said, glancing around Jade's room as well. There seemed to be no clock at all in her bedroom even if there was Tori assumed you'd never find it with how messy Jade's room was, "do you work today?"

"No. Today is my day off. I'm really only working a few days a week after this week, I had to fill in for someone else." Jade replied, "Thanks for the coffee, Vega. We're out." Jade switched feet and finished the coffee.

Tori shrugs her shoulders and drinks half of her coffee while sitting in the chair, she has no clue why she's still here, when she could have left by now and been sitting somewhere working on her music, "so why'd you get the job?"

"My mom said if I wanted a pet I had to earn it myself. Something about building character. I think she's a little too late for that." Jade muttered, rubbing the back of her head, "so what were you plans for the day before Cat made you come hunt me down?"

"Writing lyrics, working on music, running. Repeat." Tori answered picking at invisible lint on her jeans., "kinda boring, but it beats being stuck up at my aunts house all summer."

"Sounds better then working." Jade grumbled. She crawled to the end of her bed and stood up, stretching until her back popped. Tori watched as her small shirt crawled up her stomach when her arms went over her head and her eyes memorized the way the small black and white striped shorts hugged the curve of her ass, "Quit staring, that's not going to happen today."

"Not with the way you smell." Tori shot back without any hesitation, her eyes still roving over Jade's body. Jade raised her studded eyebrow in shock at the quit witty comment from Tori and headed over to her dresser, "besides, I'm not really into girls who are embarrassed to be seen with me in bed. Anyways, I don't feel like sitting around bored today, do you want to do something?"

Tori wasn't sure where the sudden longing to hangout with Jade came from, or the nagging to rip at her for kicking her out because her mother came home, but both just seemed to tumble from her mouth without hesitation.

"Let me shower and think about it. But I don't see why not, I've got nothing better to do." She dug through her drawers and pulled out random bits of clothing to wear after her shower, she gave Tori a last glance that the brunette didn't notice before she disappeared into the bathroom.

Tori sat in the chair and looked around the room, sipping gingerly from her nearly empty cup of coffee. She hears the water roar to life in the bathroom and the very muffled sound of the shower curtain behind pulled open and closed. Her eyes scanned the room for the first time.

On the wall opposite the stair case in a small window that lets very little sunlight in, Jade has a small black curtain covering it. Beneath the window was a table with a type writer beside a table with a sowing machine, each had their own small metal stool, and next to them in the corner was a step ladder. There was a nightstand next to that, a hamper sat in front of it.

Tori stood and wandered across the messy floor to confirm that the hamper was actually empty. Quickly she picked up the bits of clothing nearby and tossed them inside without really thinking about it and studied the wall shared with the staircase. There was a computer desk with a laptop, a small little TV with a VCR on its own stand hung above it and a shelf between them with lava lamps and small little knickknacks.

Turning toward the stair case she knew tucked beneath it were three shelves, tipped on their sides to store stacks of movies from Disney to the Shining and history movies about D-Day to Harry Potter. Beside that is a towel rack, which was currently empty and the door to her small bathroom. Next to the bathroom door was her dresser, a second night stand, and then her bed.

Tori finished picking up the clothing and then sat back down in the chair, turning so she could see the shelves on the wall above the book shelves. There were small figurines, skeletons of animals, butterflies, the lump she'd gotten from the doctors when Rex was 'dying', and a few more things Tori didn't want to get caught investigating.

She heard the water shut off and about ten minutes later Jade wandered into the room in a pair of jean shorts and a black tank top. She was toweling the ends of her long hair off with a purple towel; she glanced up at Tori and then looked down at her floor.

"Thanks."

"I got bored." Tori replied, dismissing the comment with a wave of her hand.

"So where are you dragging me, Vega?" Jade asked.

Tori wasn't sure what to do. She hadn't really thought that far ahead, in fact she'd still been trying to figure out why she'd said it, "I don't know, anything interesting actually going on today?" she asked.

"Not a clue." Jade replied, "We could always just drive somewhere until we find something to do. I used to do that a lot over the summers when Beck was in Canada." Jade hung the towel up on the towel rack and picked up a pick from the top of her dresser, "I always found interesting things to take pictures of or draw or nice places to just sit and listen to music."

"Sounds fun." Tori said, "Whose car, yours or mine?"

"Yours a convertible? I have one." Jade said with a shrug of one shoulder.

"Yours it is." Tori answered. She watched Jade curling her hair with her fingers absently while she put a few things into a bag. Tori picked up her cup and Jade's cup and moved toward the staircase, "I'm going to go throw these away."

"Is my mom here?"

"I don't think so." Tori answered, Jade chewed on the inside of her cheek and glanced upstairs and back at Tori, "seriously, I think I can handle her if I bump into her." Jade just sighed and turned away, so Tori made her way upstairs.

She crossed the living room, ignoring the creepy bug collection within, and pushed open the swinging kitchen door. Inside the lights were off and a faint light filtered through the window from beneath the curtain. She tossed the cups into an almost empty silver cylinder.

She was prepared to turn around and walk out when the sound of clacking heels hit the linoleum floor and she heard the swinging of the door. She spun around slowly, not quite sure what to expect. She'd never even seen a picture or thought of an image of this woman besides a woman with a sharp face and narrowed eyes.

Instead she found a woman with a round face surrounded by soft brown waves of hair and deep blue eyes. Her mouth was tight and she was eyeing Tori suspiciously, but to Tori she didn't seem like the horrible demon Beck and Jade told her about.

They were glued in a staring contest for about two minutes before Tori cleared her throat softly, "I'm Tori, one of Jade's friends. I was just throwing out a cup." She says awkwardly, hand reaching up to toy with her necklace.

"I'm Evelyn." Her voice was cool, crisp, and sharp. Her eyes narrowed as she took in the teenager before her and it took every bit of Tori's acting skills and practice under the scrutiny of people who dislike her to stand still and keep her chin up, "how did you know my daughter?"

"Through school." Tori replied, cocking her head to the side, finding it weird that she referred to Jade as 'my daughter' instead of by her name.

"Oh you're an actor."

"Actually a musician, although I do act." Tori corrected. Evelyn narrowed her eyes at Tori's harsh words and her mouth pursed like she tasted something sour, "Jade and I were about to go get some lunch, so I should get going. It was nice to meet you, Evelyn." Tori stepped around her and pushed the door open.

Jade was standing in the living room, pushing her door shut, "What took you so long?"

"Met your mom. Don't think she likes me very much." Tori responded, shrugging one shoulder and turning toward the front door, "ready to go?" Jade glanced at the kitchen door then back to Tori examining her for a few minutes before nodding and ushering her out the front door.