Tori's POV

While being with Andre, I momentarily forgot about my pregnancy, but as soon as he left, I got to thinking about it again. I didn't even wanna believe that I had a baby inside of me, but it was true. When I had my first doctor's appointment two weeks later, I was confirmed to be five weeks pregnant. They tried to determine my due date by asking me when my last period was, but I honestly had no idea. My period was so irregular while I was with the guy, so I never kept up with it. So they basically estimated by adding thirty-five weeks and therefore my due date was August nineteenth.

When I got home from the doctor's appointment, the doorbell rang. I sighed and got up to answer it. Jade was at the door. "Jade?" I said.

She held up a check. "I'm not taking this." She threw it at me and ran in my house.

I looked at the check and saw that it was the money she received for finding me, all one hundred thousand dollars. I rolled my eyes and looked at Jade. "Jade, when are you gonna understand that you deserve this money?"

"I don't deserve that money!" she argued back and then crossed her arms. "It should go to someone else."

"Jade, look," I said and pointed to the name on the recipient's line. "Do you see the name right there? It says Jade West…that's you." I threw the check back at her. "They gave you this check for a reason. Would you please just take the money?"

She glared at me. "Why should I?"

"Because you deserve it, that's why." I said.

"No, I don't," she said. "I'm not taking it."

Suddenly, I thought of an idea. I smiled at her. "You sure you don't want this money?"

"Positive," she said and threw it at me.

"Okay," I said with a shrug. "Then I guess you wouldn't mind if I did this?" I held the check up and put it between my fingers. It looked like I was about to rip it.

She raised her eyebrows. "You wouldn't really rip that check, would you?"

"What does it matter to you?" I said and tightened the grip of the check in my fingers. "You don't want the money."

"Well, no, but…" She gulped. "You don't really wanna rip it…do you?"

I walked around Jade and headed in the kitchen. "You don't want it…I don't want it." Without Jade knowing, I put the check down. "I doubt anyone else would want it since they weren't the ones who called the cops." My mom's check book happened to be on the table. I ripped out a blank check while saying, "If no one wants it, I might as well just rip it up." I held up the blank check, but Jade just saw the back of it.

She giggled and shook her head. "You're not gonna rip it."

"Try me," I said slyly and ripped the check evenly in half.

"Tori, you didn't!" she yelled and ran up to me and grabbed the two halves of the check. She looked at the front side and then a confused look spread across her face. "But…you just…I thought that–"

I picked up her check from the table. "Here's the actual check."

She sighed heavily and grabbed it from me. "That was evil."

I crossed my arms. "Evil, but clever. I had to get it in your head that you do deserve that check."

She looked down at the check and remained silent for a few moments. "But…I don't want you to think that I called the police just so I could get this money. I wasn't even thinking about the money when I called them."

"I believe you." I told her. "Take that money and put it in a savings account or something. You don't have to spend it all right now. Plus that's a lot of money. It would be stupid to blow it all right now."

She nodded. "Yeah, that's true."

Jade stayed for a few more minutes, but then she left. She told me she was going to the bank to put the money in a savings account.

A few days after my doctor's appointment, the police thought they found the place where I'd been held captive, but they needed proof from me. They asked me if I could take a look at it and I agreed. When I arrived at the house, I had one look at it and I said, "That's it."

I walked around the house with a few cops, my parents, and Trina right behind me. I told them what room was which, but I left out what went on in each room. When we walked in my room, I was swarmed with memories, but they weren't the good memories. I gulped and looked around. "This was my room." I walked up to the bed and ran my hand over the cable used to hold my left ankle down. "He held me to the bed by strapping cables to my ankles and wrists." I looked down at both my wrists. "That's why I have permanent red marks around my wrists and ankles. I fought against them and they were really tight."

No one said anything for a moment. Finally my mom said, "Maybe they'll fade with time."

I sighed heavily. "I really hope so,"

Just as I dropped the cable, I heard Trina say, "Hey, what's that?"

I looked at her. "What's what?"

"That," she said, pointing under the bedside table. She walked over to it and got on her knees. She grabbed a folded up piece of notebook paper and stood up with it. She looked at me. "Do you know what this is?"

My heart was pounding extra hard. "Let me see it," She handed it to me and I unfolded it. It turned out to be two pieces of paper folded up together and I held them both out. I gasped when I realized what they were. It was the lyrics to the two songs I wrote: Superman and Skyscraper. "These are lyrics to two songs I wrote."

"You wrote songs?" asked Trina. "I thought you didn't know how to write songs."

I gulped. "I usually can't, but…these songs just came out." I folded the papers back up and stuffed them in my pockets. Then I continued with the "tour" of the house.

You wouldn't believe the amount of memories that flashed through my brain while giving the tour.

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Okay, so if this was real life, I don't know if Jade would actually get all the money or if it would be split up among all the people that helped Tori become found. I think it would be, but for the sake of this story, let's just pretend Jade would get it all. It makes it more interesting, haha :P

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