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Setting, some collage office during Jade's time at Hollywood Arts.

"So then what happened?" Kaysee asked. The woman, older, with a trusting face and okay body, had become Jade's confident of late. Jade had found her to be less judgmental, and thus easier to talk to, than her parents. So as long as her mothers insurance covered, because dad's job was garbage, Jade would have this woman at the university willing to listen to her.

"I don't know." Jade sighed. "We were talking, and it's Vega, so you know there would be drama." A look of guilt slipped across her face. "I admit, I'm often the one starting it, but she so wants Beck… Or so I thought. Honestly, kinda confused right now. But the Drama…" Seconds passed as Jade tried to decide if she was ready to go down that rabbit hole. "Why am I always so into the drama?"

"We'll assume it's not because your an actress, and look at it sideways, okay?" Kaysee suggested. "Lets start with, is there really that much drama? I understand, in high school, the drama can be enticing. So many kids start and end relationships just to ramp up the drama…"

"Beck loves it." Jade said, not sure where she was heading. "Sometimes, I think he starts chiz just for the drama. He seems to like pulling my chain, making me feel like maybe our relationship is teetering, and I'm like… I don't know. I just, I'd love to feel secure, like I don't have to constantly fight for my man, you know?"

"I know that, as I said, some people love the drama." Kaysee sighed. "So your over it?"

"You'd think." Jade shot back, energy high for that one statement. Only, as fast as the emotions welled up, they retreated, leaving the pale girl more exhausted then open. "I get enough of it at home."

"So we're at home now?" The question felt odd, except Jade had learned, her therapist wasn't always crazy about her issues jumping around so much. The woman wanted to focus on one thing, help resolve it, before moving to the next. Of course, so many things could be intertwined the woman often had to sometimes just go with the flow, but Jade also was learning, avoidance was a common enough defense.

"Mom and dad, they're divorced, but live in the same fucking home. They got a good deal on this duplex, think it was once a single home, but someone made it into two, and they got it at auction, cause it's ugly. Only fucking family in history to buy property together as part of a divorce…" She smiled. "Okay, after, and it was originally just a lease, but then Dad, or rather his boss, the man got a lead on a property, and when things shook out, mom and dad got the house. Mom, with her good job and great insurance, she owns the bigger unit, while dad and his current whore, I think she's still in school, collage, cause dad doesn't like prison, but they have the smaller. Positive, I can just walk around the house if I wanna go stay with my dad. Negative, the man dislikes me. He even called the police on me once, just because I was a touch upset during Thanksgiving dinner. I swear, his then girls parents were baiting me, calling me dads mistress. That was their kids job…" Jade was visibly upset, shaking with a barely contained rage just under her skin. "Okay, maybe I took it out on the wrong person, but Grandma could have tried to defend me. Instead, she goes and tells me that I was a monster, cause of how I dress and, well, okay, how I act sometimes. But she set me off, and I didn't throw or hurt anything, so why did he call the police on me. And all that was before, BEFORE, they called the police on me…." Jade was calming down now, and her therapist was glancing at the two way mirror behind her, hoping her advisor was there. Jade had shown how destructive she could be, even if it was just in the police report she let her therapist, an older woman but still a graduate student, read.

"Okay, so…" Kaysee checked her notes. "So, um… not sure if we should stay here, or if the anger is just safe? Is it? Safe? Are you just letting your rage out cause it feels safe right now? Or do you blame the drama of your family for the drama you had with your friend…"

"She's not my friend!" Jade snapped, only to almost immediately calm down a bit. "Vega, Tori, she's not my friend. Only, she so wants to be. I know, we could be friends. Only, and I hate to admit it, but I don't want her as a friend, at least not yet. Not until we resolve the whole issue around me and Beck and her."

"You said, a while ago, that she rejected his advances, once, because of you." The therapist said, sounding like she was being fed the information. "Wait, how did you know that?"

"Cat left her video chat on, and so did Tori, and I saw the whole thing." Jade admitted. "And because they didn't know I might be looking on, the whole thing couldn't have been staged. It made me think that Tori, she could be trusted. I trusted her, and then, things got, er, complicated."

"She still wants Beck?"

"They had a crap date, claimed it wad an opposite date, and yes, I went crazy around that." Jade filled in. "Only to realize, I shouldn't let my jealousy get in the way of his happiness. I… I thought I was okay with it, then we, Beck and me, we got back together, I ramped up the crazy, cause he brings that part out of me."

"The drama."

"Only, the more we're together, the more I see that we're not end game." Jade filled in, the slightest taste of sadness now edging into her voice. "Which is why I wen to Vega's house, cause I know, Beck's been feeling it too. That, plus he loves his drama. So I went, expecting to find Beck playing up the drama by helping her, while avoiding spending time with me, but I guessed wrong, and he wasn't there…"

"So what happened?"

"I tried to do what he'd do, and help out." Jade said, her voice now more focused, less emotional. "Vega had just dumped another user, and she was feeling low, and I so wanted to tell her that I'd warned her, but apparently that's bad, so I tried to comfort her…"

"And what went wrong?" Kaysee asked. She knew they were getting there, or Jade wouldn't have invested so much energy in taking the long rout.

"Things got weird, and I left." Jade pushed. "I left, and I left it unresolved, cause I was a coward, and didn't want to hurt Beck, so I left, right after the kiss…"

"She kissed you?" The therapist asked, now shocked. It wasn't the last thing she'd expected, but hardly the first. However, she was already was plotting her next question.

"She kissed me, I kissed her, something like that." Jade waved it off. "And while Tori was processing, I just left. I felt like I'd just added to the drama, and as I said, I don't want that."

"What do you want?"

"Guessing I want Tori." Jade said. "How messed up is that?"

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Just wrote this a few days ago, and then I let it age before judging it. I like it, short as it is. So, thoughts?