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A/N: So after trying to post this for the past, I don't know, since last night, I finally got it to upload. Thank you support team...-_- Anyway, this story is coming to a close soon. While waiting for this to let me upload, I finished the next chapter, which I might post on Sunday. And I'm working on chapter 19 too.

For those who read Distance...How was it disturbing?

Oh well, enjoy.

Chapter 17

"Why are you here?"

"I want the truth."

Andre rolls his eyes and looks away from me, and I can see every single mark on his face. Beck was right; he really did get into a fight and he's not making this easy. Part of me wants to punch him and demand that he tells me what's up now, but another part of me just wants to leave. Whatever he said to Tori has been bugging me ever since Tori started acting different. "Just leave me alone, Jade."

"I'm not leaving until you tell me what you said to Tori. Who did you get in a fight with?"

He shakes his head. "None of that is any of your damn business and I'm not telling you anything. What I said to Tori? You have no right to know. You don't belong with her, Jade. She's my best friend and you're taking her from me and you shouldn't be. You never should have even bothered with her. All you ever do is hurt people and you don't even care."

"So you told her she shouldn't be with me? You honestly think I don't already know she shouldn't be? Try again. She wouldn't be this upset over just that."

I glare at him but he just shakes his head again and looks away. He's really going to push me, isn't he? "You know something, Jade? I don't have to tell anything. I could always call for security to come and kick you out." He wouldn't. When he realizes that I'm not going anywhere, he shrugs. "Fine, you really want to know? I told her that I'm never going to talk to her again as long as she's with you. She's dead to me. It's wrong, Jade, you and her together. And no, it's not just because it's you, but because you're a girl."

"You homophobic bastard…"

He laughs. "Call me what you want. It doesn't hurt me any. You made her like this, Jade. If it wasn't for you and whatever you did to her, she would have said yes to me. But no, you took her and turned her into this…" He smirks, but he knows damn well not to use words. "It makes me sick."

I clench my fist. "She never would have said yes to you, Andre. She doesn't like you that way. And you never showed interest in her before. Did you really think that just because you, her best friend, chose to tell her you wanted to ask her out, that she would jump at the opportunity? Did you think she would leave me for you?" I shake my head. "You're fucked up if you think that. Honestly, I would be glad for her if she found someone else, if she told me that she didn't want me anymore. Would it hurt me? Yeah, it would. It would be like ripping out my heart and stepping on it. But if she had ever said yes to you…I wouldn't have forgiven her."

"You're a hypocrite. You want her, but you don't want her? What kind of logic is that?"

"I don't have to explain myself to you." I turn on my heel and leave the room, heading for the elevator. Tori didn't want to talk to me because Andre told her it was wrong to be with a girl. He's her best friend and she listens to him. And who am I to her? I was her girlfriend. But now…if she listens to him, I'm as good as dead to her.

I text Cat and let her know that I'm on my way home. There's nothing else I can do, since Tori's acting the way she is, which I now know is definitely because of what Andre said. I freeze before unlocking my car. Tori had told Beck to talk to Andre. What had Andre told him? I dial Beck's number and wait while it rings. "Hey, Jade, I'm in the middle of something…"

"When you're done, come over to Cat's. It's important." I hang up without his response and head home to the Valentine house. The first thing I notice is Trina's car parked in the driveway and my heart skips a beat. Turning off my car and heading inside after locking my doors, I find Trina in my bedroom. Why the hell Cat or her parents let her in my room is beyond me. She's examining things on my bookshelf. "Can I help you?" She turns and before I can even blink, her fist connects with my eye and I'm so caught off-guard I can't even react. "What the fuck, Trina?"

"What did you do to my sister? She cried her eyes out all afternoon yesterday and last night and she won't even come out of her room this morning. Did you hurt her? Because I swear to God…"

"You already showed me." I press around my eye and wince. Yeah, it'll probably be bruised. "Look, if you had waited to do that…you'd understand that I did nothing. It was all Andre." She raises her brow in confusion. "He told her that she was dead to him as long as she was with me. So I guess she's been staying away from me or we broke up or something. I don't know. She won't talk to me."

Trina crosses her arms and sighs. "I'm sorry for punching you in the eye then, if what you're saying is true. I don't think Andre would say that, though. That isn't like him."

I shrug. "Yeah, well, Andre hasn't exactly been the happy best friend he used to be since Tori and I started dating. I just didn't think that he would go this far to destroy both his friendship with her and her relationship with me. It doesn't make any sense." I sit on the edge of my bed and look at her. "I just came back from talking to him and Beck's coming soon. Can you try to…can you get Tori to call me or something? Try to knock some sense into her or tell her that Andre doesn't matter anymore?"

She nods slowly. "I'll see what I can do."

BREAK

"What did Andre say to you when Tori told you to go and talk to him?"

"Jade…"

"I'm serious, Beck. I already went and talked to him so I'm sure whatever he told you won't be worse than what he told me." I'm so furious right now, still at the fact that Andre said what he said and because Beck isn't telling me what he was told. "Did he give you some speech about how Tori should not be with me, mostly because I'm a girl?"

He shrugs. "Yeah, he did, but he also brought up some things about us, about you and me and what happened back when I was attacked. Jade, I think he's caught up in the gang." I stare at him. "Think about it. He got into a fight that's pretty much put him into the hospital. The way he's acting around you and especially Tori. Come on, Jade, he's never acted like that around Tori, not even this whole time you've been dating her. He's been missing a lot lately. What else could it be?"

"Why would he be involved with them?" If he is, then he told her something else no one's going to tell me. History's going to repeat itself. "Beck…what else did he say? And don't say 'nothing' because I know he did."

He sighs and scratches the back of his neck. "He told Tori…" He looks away and I know exactly what he's going to say.

And I swear to God if someone hurts her, I'll kill them.