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Unfairly Judged

Chapter 3 – How far….

No One's POV

On a cloudy Thursday morning, Tori arrived at Hollywood Arts, not in her own car, but Trina's. Just the fact that she had to once again beg her sister for a ride, was bad enough. But until her car was fully cleaned, which wouldn't be till Monday, she had no other choice.

All the way there she had been nervous about what Jade would do next. Of course, Trina was too busy talking about an upcoming audition and how'd she was sure she'd get the part and be a big star to really notice.

Once out of the car, she gave a weak smile to Trina and then headed across the parking lot.

"Hey sis. Watch yourself." Called out Trina unexpectedly as she walked off.

Three days had past and each day, Jade had done something to her. First ruined her locker, second ruined her car and third stole her clothes and today she could only wonder what was next. Of course while she dreaded, what would happen, she tried to accept and deal with it as there was little if anything she could do about it. She had made an enemy of Jade and that was that. The best she could hope for is that the Goth would tire of making her life miserable and move on. There was also her own nature of not wanting to hurt people, but all the abuse was taking its toll on her. In the last few days, she'd become increasingly moody and withdrawn.

As she reached the door, she saw Beck walk up and smile. "Hey how are you doing?"

"I'm fine." Tori said with a shrug.

"Look Tori, I'm sorry about what you've been going through, I could talk…."

"No." Answered Tori quickly with a look of worry. "Please, stay out of it. "

For a moment, Beck stood and clenched his jaw, before relenting. "Fine, but answer me one question."

"What?"

"Do you like Jade?"

Tori lowered her head. "I did, but I messed up and I can't see it really mattering anymore."

Beck, despite his own history with Jade, wanted to help, but Tori seemed adamant. "Just hold on and if you need someone to talk to. Just give me a shout. I'll see you later."

Tori watched Beck walk off and entered the school where her ruined locker awaited her. As she opened it, she could see Jade, standing by her locker, glaring at her out of the corner of her eye.

All Tori could do was sigh, grab her books and walk off.

Tori expected Jade to do something and Jade did. Tori had been sitting in sikowitz's class on the far end from where Jade. Each day she came into the class, sat down and put her bag next to her chair on the right.

Today was no different; she arrived in class to find Jade already there and sat down. Only today when the class ended she went to pick up her bag and it would not move.

"What's wrong Tori." Said Cat who noticed her bag would not lift off the floor.

"I don't know."

She knew that Jade couldn't have touched the bag as she had been on the other side of the room the entire time. Quickly she knelt down and looked closer. It was then she discovered something very sticky on the floor right were her bag was. In fact there was a circle of it, on the floor right were she normally put her bag.

Tori pulled her bag and it simply would not budge. A moment later, Tori realized it was superglue. Jade had poured a small film of it on the floor, right in the spot she place her bag. Not realizing it was there, Tori put her bag in the glue and after sitting there for 50 minutes during class, it was firmly attached to the floor.

Hoping it could come loose, Tori then pulled on it as hard as she could, only to be greeted by a tearing sound as the bag ripped in half. Half stuck to the floor, half in her hand and the contents spilled all over the floor. The bag itself, was large and blue and one of Tori's favorites.

"Problem with your bag Tori?" Quipped Jade as she paused in the doorway on her way out. Like before, she hoped to get some reaction.

Instead, closed her eyes for a moment, shook her head and slowly began quietly picking things up off the floor.

"I'll help you Tori." Said Robbie, who had been sitting nearby. "If you like, I have an old backpack in my locker. I keep meaning to take it home, but you're perfectly willing to use it."

"Thank you Robbie. I'd like that." Said the Latina, appreciate of the fact that at least her friends were there for her.

"I'll go get it and be back in a minute."

Robbie then scooped up Rex and as they headed out the door, Rex turned to a rather disappointed looking Jade and said.

"If that's what's it like being on your bad side, I can only imagine how horrible it is to be on your good side."

Jade started to growl Robbie quickly fled.

Angered by the fact that again Tori had simply taken it, Jade stomped her foot and stormed off.

After returning with the backpack, Tori said thanks, placed her things in it and headed towards the next class.

The rest of the day Tori quietly and sadly lamented her stupid decision to simply assume Jade was playing a prank.

The next day was Friday and Tori was even more quiet, moody and apprehensive. The morning itself, past without incident, other than a number of cold stares from Jade. Tori did her best to ignore them.

Finally lunch arrived and Tori went to her locker, pulled out her laptop and lunch, then headed to the steps at the back of the school. Eating lunch alone did have some perks as it allowed her to work on some of the songs she was writing in peace. Today she was going to work on the lyrics for a song, she had been working on.

After eating part of her lunch, Tori pulled out her laptop and turned it on. However almost immediately after it got to the main window's screen, something odd happened.

A large cartoon scissors appeared and started to cut across the screen. Like lightening the scissors raced across the screen cutting the windows backdrop and her icons into pieces, which fell to the bottom of the screen and vanished.

"No….No….No….." Tori cried, as once the scissors was done, she was left with nothing other than a blank screen.

Hoping it was nothing more than some animation; Tori shut down her computer and restarted.

This time she got the following message.

Operating system not found.

Desperate for some other result, Tori restarted again only to get the same result. Tori, realized that Jade must have gotten into her locker and planted a virus on her laptop while she was in class earlier and now her computer was totally wiped.

Tori had taken a lot and did her best to shrug it off. After all she blamed herself but this time, Jade had wiped her computer with a number of new songs which she hadn't had the chance to back up yet. Jade had interfered in the one thing that Tori loved most, her music and that made the Latina's blood come to a quick boil.

With an angry scream, Tori shoved her laptop in her bag, abandoned her lunch and marched in the direction of the Asphalt Café.

Over the past few days, word of Jade's war of terror on Tori had gotten around the school. As the visibly angry Latina stormed across the busy Asphalt Café, she was quickly noticed. Soon many pairs of eyes were on her as she made a beeline for Jade.

"About friggen time." Muttered Jade.

A moment later she came up to the table where Cat, Andre, Beck, Robbie and Jade were sitting. While the others seeing Tori angry, quickly became concerned.

Jade who finally felt some measure of success seeing Tori, visibly angry, got up, crossed her arms and smirked.

"Nice of you to join us. Is something the matter? Is the poor Tori all upset that her laptops melted down?"

On her way there, Tori had come up with this whole speech about respecting others and how some things were simply too cruel. But seeing the smirking and evil face of Jade Tori forgot her speech and did something else.

Unable to control her anger, she punched Jade in the jaw.

Not expecting the kind, perky Latina to actually resort to violence, Jade was understandably caught completely off guard; so off guard that the blow, sent her flying backwards across the table which her friends sat and onto the ground.

For a moment, the dazed Jade lay on the ground amidst a moment of shocked silence.

Tori looked at her fist, realizing with horror what she had just done.

Beck and the others, looked down at Jade, covered in food, in a state of shock.

A split second later, the silence was broken by the sound of loud cheering and laughing, coming from nearly everyone else in the asphalt café.

Still dazed, Jade picked herself up off the ground, her jaw feeling like Tori' hit it with a sledgehammer. The fact that she was covered in food, at first didn't catch her attention. What did was that fact that everyone was cheering Tori and laughing at her. It didn't take long for all of what just happened to sink in.

Tori watched helplessly as Jade stood there paralyzed, looking devastated.

However before anything else could happen, Lane who was nearby and saw what happened and looked none too pleased, quickly put his hand on Tori's shoulder. "MY OFFICE, NOW!"

As he led Tori away, Lane then turned to the one other teacher, nearby, Mr. Burke the English teacher. "Mr. Burke, take Jade to the nurse."

As Mr. Burke walked up to Jade, he said. "Jade, are you ok?"

But the Goth stood here, neither saying nor doing anything.

It was only when Mr. Burke touched Jade on the arm, did she react.

"Don't touch me!" She screeched and then fled the asphalt café back into the school, students still celebrating her humiliation. Mr. Burk, hurried after Jade leaving Beck and the others who were still had their Jaw's hanging open.

Nobody said a word.

Nobody but Rex, who quipped, "I think we're going to need a new Jade!"

So Jade, pushed just a bit too hard and Tori in a moment of anger, punched Jade in the face. It seems the gulf between them is larger than before. Can either one of them bridge it?