Thanks for the follows, faves, and reviews. This chapter has the first time skip (warning, there will be a few throughout, at least) and the first of at least three moments that change how Trina and Jade see each other. The other two will impact them a bit more than this, but this one is enough to create some respect between the two.
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No POV
After the dinner, or most hour of her life depending on who you ask, things have gotten to be more tense between Trina and Jade. Instead of them getting along better, as Tori had hoped, the night ended with yells from the apartment across from the best friends', with a loud crash being the last sound heard in time with slamming doors, the silence sounding worse to Tori and Andre for the rest of the night.
Over the next few weeks, though the yelling has stopped, the tension between the two women is easy to feel anytime anyone is close by, particularly anytime Tori was visiting her sister.
"Should I be worried with how quiet it is here now?" Tori asks her sister after Tori comes home from a half-day shift at her job in the mall's food court, the sisters making themselves comfortable on the couch.
"Relax. No one's dead, and if anyone finds her body, I had nothing to do with it." Trina says, laughing lightly. "Speaking of roommates, you and Andre finally together?" She asks, shifting position and focus onto her sister.
"For the last time, we're nothing more than friends and roommates." Tori says with a frustrated sigh. "Why do you keep thinking we're a couple?" She asks, sending a small glare at her sister.
"Uh, how can I not? You two spent every day together since you joined Hollywood Arts two years ago, you're roommates now, he's a guy who's clearly straight, and you're girl who might like guys." Trina lists simply, shrugging her shoulders at the end.
"What do you mean I 'might' like guys? Why wouldn't I?" Tori asks, not liking the implication.
"Oh, come on, sis. You've been single since Ryder, Moose doesn't count since he was just a competition for you, Jade, and Cat, and I saw you looking at that busty woman who lives next door to you. You can't keep your eyes off her. Both her body and her chest." Trina scoffs, looking at her sister. "And don't lie. I saw both you and Andre watching her boobs jiggle as she jogged to her apartment after that big rainstorm last week." She adds before Tori can say anything.
"I was not looking at her boobs." Tori denies, whispering the last word after hearing Jade's door open. "And I wasn't staring at her or anything. I looked to the side because I heard her footsteps. Simply curiosity." She shrugs as she stands up.
"You going home already? You just got here." Trina says, watching Tori stretch. "If this is about me saying you're bi, I'm sorry. I'm not trying to be offensive or anything." She asks, standing up herself.
"Relax, I'm not leaving." Tori says, shaking her head. "And I'm not bi. I don't like women that way." Tori says, laughing lightly. "I'm just grabbing a bottle of water from your fridge, and I was stretching because my back hurts from work." She says, heading into the small kitchen and grabbing to bottles of water from the fridge, handing one to her sister.
"For what it's worth, I wouldn't care if you were bi or lesbian, you know." Trina says, opening the bottle. "But you can't deny that you watched her for longer than curiosity's sake allows." She comments before taking a sip.
"I didn't recognize her at first, okay? That's it. It took me a while to recognize her as a neighbor." Tori says, sitting back down. "So, back to you and Jade."
"What about me?" Jade asks, scaring the Vega sisters. "It's not polite to talk about people, Vega." She says as she walks by, heading out for a later shift for work.
"I hate that ninja crap she does." Tori says, slowing down her breathing.
"You get used to it, sad to say." Trina says, her breathing going back to normal quickly.
An hour later, Tori heads to her apartment, bidding her sister bye, to shower and change to relax for the rest of the day with her roommate. After Tori leaves, Trina heads to her bathroom to do the same, growling when she sees that Jade left her undergarments in the sink. "And she threatens me if I don't put my body wash back on the rack in the shower." She says, grabbing Jade's toothbrush and picking up Jade's bra by the strap, reading the label. "Really? She's a double D? How is she bigger?" She asks, seeing that Jade's bust is double the Ds of her own.
Five hours later, when Jade came home from her late shift, she doesn't bother to turn any lights on and heads straight to the bathroom to brush her teeth and change. "Trina! Why is my bra in the toilet?!" She asks, storming to the older woman's room and kicking the door open.
"Jade! What the fuck!?" Trina asks, covering her body, dropping her 'toy' onto the carpeted floor. "Knock, won't you?" She asks, making no move to hide her toy.
"Why is my bra in the toilet?" Jade asks again, ignoring her nude roommate and the phallic toy on the floor.
"Because it was in the sink." Trina says, holding her blanket close to her body. "Relax, I moved it shortly after." She says with a smirk.
"Then why was it in the toilet when I came home?" Jade asks, her right hand itching for the scissors in her boot.
"Because I wasn't going to pee on it. I'm not you." Trina says with a smirk. "Now, can you leave? I was close." She says, reaching for her toy on the floor.
"I told you to never touch my stuff." Jade warns, moving into Trina's room, ignoring the faint scent of Trina's juices in the air.
"You're the one that made a big deal about being clean and organized, yet you're the one who left your bra, and panties, in the sink." Trina counters, ignoring Jade's glare at the mention of one of Jade's least favorite words as she gets out of bed and, not caring about her nudity, advances on Jade. "What possible reason could you have to leave your bra in the sink? Huh?"
"I had a stain on it and I was washing it out." Jade says, briefly glancing down at Trina's chest. "I didn't have time to put it back in my room because it was drying when I left. Now I have to wash it again." She says, poking Trina's chest, not looking as Trina's chest jiggles lightly from the motion.
"You should've said something, not just leave it." Trina says, closing her door after Jade leaves.
"My girls are bigger and firmer!" Jade yells through the door.
"Yeah, but are they real?" Trina mumbles, grabbing the toy and moving to resume her activity.
"As real as yours." Jade says, opening Trina's door and surprising Trina. "Damn. Tighter than I expected." She comments before leaving, laughing.
Trina POV
"Dammit. I'm late." I say, quickly collecting my purse, checking it for my keys, phone, and money.
"Leave. Now." I hear from outside of my door.
"Now what?" I ask, silently opening my door and peeking out, not seeing anything but hearing Jade and an older room talking, or yelling, at each other.
"You don't even care about the company. Why not let your step sister join?" The older woman asks as I silently make my way down the hall and to where the hallway and living room/kitchen meet.
"Because Mandy is a spoiled brat. I'm not 'denouncing' the West name so you can change hers from whatever the fuck to West and get herself dad's money." Jade says, anger thick in her voice. "Now leave, you money hungry whore."
"Kick me out now, or I tell your dad." The older woman says, confident.
"Tell. Dad. What?" Jade asks with a warning tone, the tone scaring me and I don't even see her face.
"About what you and Beck did while he was on a business trip last year, for one." The woman says, her confidence still audible.
"He already knows about that. Nice try." Jade deadpans.
"I don't think he does." The woman says, scoffing.
"About us having sex and me almost getting pregnant? That time?" Jade asks, making me stop listening for a moment.
"He doesn't know about that." The woman doubts, some anger in her tone.
"Yeah, he does. He got the bill when I went to the hospital to get tested because I didn't want to risk a false yes from a home test." Jade tells her, amusement in her voice. "You said 'for one'? What else you got?"
"I know he doesn't know about Cat breaking his t.v." The woman says, over confident.
"I replaced it, he questioned me about the charge on his credit card, I told him, he didn't seem to care since I got him a bigger one with a built in DVD player. Next." Jade dismisses, laughing somewhat.
Peering over the edge of the wall, I see Jade with her back to me, a blonde with shoulder length curly hair standing across from her, the woman's face confused and angry. "Who's this chick?" I ask myself, staring at her.
"Oh, and to counter anything else you try, he knows about the party that lead to three broken windows. You got anything else for me?" Jade says, interrupting the woman.
"Does he know about Beck living there for a few months after you two first started dating?" The woman asks, making me gasp.
"How the fuck do you know about that?" Jade asks with a threatening growl.
"Did you forget about old man Walters next door? You know that man can't keep a secret." The woman says, back to confident, amusement heavy in her eyes.
"Fucking old pervert. What'd you do, flash him to get him to tell you?" Jade asks, glaring.
"No, nothing like that." The woman dismisses. "I just gave him a picture of you in a bikini." She says simply, smug.
"YOU WHAT?!" Jade yells, making me and the woman flinch. "You gave him a pic of me in a bikini? What the fuck is wrong with you?" She asks, grabbing the woman's top and tossing her down.
"Relax, will you? It was from that pool party Cat dragged you to just before graduation. I got it off her Slap page." The woman says, standing up and straightening out your clothes. "I'm not giving the pedo anything from before that." She says, fixing her hair. "Now, are we in agreement? You drop the name West, give up your inheritance, and your father never knows your fifteen year old boyfriend lived with you while your dad was in New York for work." She says, holding her hand out for a handshake, acting as if her stepdaughter tossing her to the ground is nothing out of the ordinary, which is possible with Jade.
"No, we aren't in agreement. Get the fuck out of my apartment before dad finds your corpse in Vegas." Jade threatens, grabbing her stepmother's arm and dragging her to the door.
"I'll give you a week. If you don't drop the West name by then, the security footage of Beck sleeping in the guest room goes to your father." The woman says, leaving.
"Anything you want to say, Vega?" Jade asks after slamming the door and locking it.
"Your stepmom's a bitch." I say, staring at the back of Jade's head.
Technically, this is part one of where things first change between Trina and Jade. Part two will have the rest of the conversation.
Though I kept it vague, any ideas on who Jade's stepmom is, or who her stepsister Mandy are based off of? I'll give a bit more info/detail next chapter.
Who expected Jade to catch Trina masturbating, and to react nonchalantly to it and commenting on the differences in their bust sizes and about Trina's 'tightness'? No real reason to add it other than for entertainment purposes, I'll admit.
Thank you for reading. Hope you liked it and review.
Blessed Be.