Double Trouble (Jori) X 2

Chapter 7 - Wouldn't it be good.

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Double Trouble

Chapter 7 –Wouldn't it be good

We switch back to universe 1 where the other Jade is still trying to cope with the strange universe, she finds herself in. Warning, possible triggers ahead.

Jade screamed in frustration as she drove away into this alternate version of Los Angeles. It looked pretty much the same; with the obvious difference is no monorail system. Having grown up in LA and seeing it every day, now having it simply, missing, was a bit unnerving by itself.

But this whole experience was unnerving to Jade, not just the absent mass transit. In her universe, she knew where she fit and her function in it. Here, everything was backwards and she hated it.

She arrived home a short while later and noted the house looked pretty much exactly the same. With a strange feeling of apprehension, she parked the car, walked up to the door and went inside.

Taking several steps inside, Jade stopped and took a quiet look of her surroundings. The furniture was different. Here it was a bit more modern and trendier. Jade remembered how Caroline was fond of antiques. The second thing she noticed of course was not one picture of her hated half-sister Krista. Stepping into the living room she eyed the photos on the mantle above the fire place. One picture was of a brown-haired teenager in soccer uniform. Another was of her or at least her double. Just as she was about to look at them further, she heard a voice that send a chill up her spine.

"Jade?"

Jade had never heard that voice before, but instinctively knew who it belonged too. The voice was that of her long dead mother.

Jade turned around to see her mother Michelle West, with her curly greying brown hair standing a plain as day only a few feet away.

For a full 5 seconds, Jade stood there paralyzed, blankly starring at what was essentially a ghost. It wasn't her mother of course, but this one looked exactly the same as her pictures of her mother. Jade simply didn't know what to do or say, her mind went blank.

A moment later Michelle West frowned. "Jade West, what on earth are you on? I call your name and you just stare at me like you're stoned off your gourd."

Being chided, snapped Jade out of her stupor. "Uh....no. it's just been a long day. I'm tired." She said, half in a daze.

Michelle West nodded. "Fine. We're having Tuna fish Casserole for dinner. I know you hate it, but I'd appreciate it if you didn't make constant caustic remarks how horrible it tastes during dinner. Your father and brother like it. I've had a long day at the office and I'm not in the mood."

Jade was so overwhelmed by seeing her mother, she knew she simply could not handle a dinner with her "family".

"I think I'll skip it. I'm not feeling well." Jade then instinctively braced for the nasty comment she would normally receive from her stepmother upon saying such a thing. Jade could hear her stepmothers voice in her head. "What too good to eat my cooking. You ungrateful little wench. Then you eat nothing."

Her mother huffed, looking somewhat annoyed. "Fine, but no going out to Tori's then. If you say you don't feel well than you stay in. If you change your mind, dinner will be at 7:00."

Jade nodded, barely able to work her overtaxed mind. In the interaction she found herself studying the way her mom stood, her facial expressions and the way she spoke. Jade realized that her mom tilted her head when she was annoyed the exact same way she did.