"Cat… You're dad called me yesterday…"

HE CALLED HER! I didn't know what to do, how to respond to that.

"Cat? Are you ok? I didn't know it was him. I didn't even know that he knew what my number was. But it was him. I've never even met him! And… Oh Cat, I'm so sorry!"

"What did you tell him?" I said in the most dead serious tone.

I wasn't mad at Tori, it's not her fault. But that could quickly change.

"I… I told him that," she hesitated "I told him…"

"What, Tori! What did you tell him?"

I grabbed her by each shoulder, forcing her to turn towards me. She tried to avoid meeting my eyes.

"I told him that you were staying here." She said as quickly as possible.

I shot of the couch, letting go of her shoulders.

"Why? Why would you tell him that? What could've possibly possessed you to tell him that I was staying here?"

I rushed over to the door and locked it with trembling hands. He was coming. I could feel it. What would I do if he showed up? I'm too little to be able to fight him back; he would pound me to a little pulp. And that would hurt. Like, hurt more than I already do, and that's a lot.

"Cat… I'm sorry!"

"Why, Tori? Why?"

I was in a pile on the floor. Literally, a pile. I was too scared to get up and was almost certain things weren't going to end well. At all. Not one bit. I was definitely in the middle of a mental breakdown right now.

"I'm sorry!"

I started pacing around the living room. What was I supposed to do? I could runaway again, but what would that do exactly. He would most likely just find me again and drag me home. Why Tori tell him where I was. She probably didn't mean to do it. It probably just slipped out over the phone. Tori had somewhat of a big mouth when she was talking.

There was a banging at the door maybe half an hour later. I was almost positive that it was my dad, but I could never be sure. Even if it was, there was no way in the world he could bang his way through the metal door like he did with the wood one. I got up out of my little pile and walked over to the door. The peep hole was a few inches over my head so I had to get on my tippy toes.

Black… that was the first thing I saw. Black hair. Then black clothes. It was Jade. It had to be. No one else in LA wore that much black when it was almost summer. That crazy girl. I unlocked the door and let the black wonder inside her apartment.

"Hey, are you ok?"

How could she already know? I looked over towards Tori, she seemed a little bit diffident and somewhat timid. She must've talked to her about it.

"Tori told me what she did." Jade told me.

Tori's head shot up and she glared at Jade. it was true though, she did do something really bad, even if she didn't mean to do it, she did it. It was over with; surely my dad has intentions of killing me. I think. I could be acting a little bit dramatic. I really don't know anymore. At this point, anything could possibly happen. Even the most outrageous things could happen. Maybe, a pony would come and save me. But that was highly unlikely. How would a pony know where I was if I didn't tell it? Oh well…

"So are you skipping too?" I asked Jade.

She nodded at me.

"Yeah, you're more important than school right now."

Well, don't I feel special. Jade is such a good friend to me. She always has been. Don't get me wrong, Tori is too but… I don't know, sometimes there's just this thing about her that I'm not a big fan of.

About 15 minutes of explaining from Tori later, there was a loud banging on the door. As soon as I heard it, I ran away into my room. I knew it had to be my dad this time. Who else could it possibly be? No one! That's who. I scurried into the room and jump underneath the bed.

There was more pounding on the door. Jade walked into the room I was hiding in. she had a little teeny tiny smile on her face. It was the kind that she had when she thinks that she has some sort of brilliant idea hatched.

"I have a plan."