Double Trouble (Jori) X 2

Chapter 31 - Alice doesn't live here anymore

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Double Trouble

Chapter 31 – Alice doesn't live here anymore

We're leaving Jade and Tori aside for the moment to catch up on Jadelyn and Victoria.

Victoria's POV

The walk where she first held my hand was wonderful, I finally felt that Jadelyn was beginning to open up. Granted it was just holding hands but after weeks and weeks of seemingly nothing, it felt great. A week later she slept over and yet another step was made.

We continued our walks, but on another day, we went to the Movies. Absolutely nothing happened, other than the holding of hands, but I began to sense Jadelyn really liked being with me. Also, Jadelyn had slowly begun to talk in the time we spent together. She only spoke occasionally and only about general things and mentioned nothing that was going on in her mind. Mostly it was acid comments about the latest crop of talentless pop stars and how Renee Zellweger was a total asshat for fucking up her beautiful face.

"She'll probably wind up as one of those aging starlets, whose face is locked in a state of permanent surprise." Jadelyn muttered at one point.

We didn't kiss or do anything else physical, I sensed somehow that Jadelyn still wasn't quite ready for that.

About 3 weeks after that day when we first held hand, she showed up one boring Saturday afternoon, when I answered the door she said. "Let's go somewhere."

"Where?"

"Robbie has that invention. Let's see someplace else, yet a different universe. I texted him. He's working today. I made some sandwiches; we could have a lunch there."

I was a bit dubious about seeing another world, but Jadelyn was just now opening up and actually made sandwiches for me, so I nodded. There was a time, I'd fully expect those sandwiches to be poisoned. The suspicious Victoria that lurks in the back of my mind tells me that this is all an elaborate ruse to get me to eat the poisoned sandwiches.

I'll ignore the paranoid me and just go with the sandwiches.

We headed over to the school and came to the basement where Robbie was working. Rex was present, but sitting quietly in a chair in the corner, which was just fine with me.

Jadelyn looked over a monitor displaying figures of some kind. "Robbie, did you find me someplace strange or unusual."

Robbie looked to me somewhat uneasily, then from a stack of folders pulled out one marked, World 60. "I found one that you may love, but I'm not sure if Victoria is going be to crazy about it."

"What's so different about it I asked, why wouldn't I like it?" I inquired.

Robbie handed the folder to Jadelyn. "Well, I'm pretty sure it's dead."

"Dead?" Replied Jadelyn with a sudden sparkle in her eye.

"Yes, I opened the door and stepped through. The same room was here, but half filled with ancient and rotting furniture and school stuff. Not only that half the wall's collapsed, exposing the open air and other half of the room filled with rubble."

Jadelyn shrugged, now looking unimpressed. "So, it's just an empty building. There are buildings like that all over LA."

"It's more than that. Empty buildings in LA always have homeless, criminals or even urban explorers in them. This room appears to have been untouched for years. In addition, I picked up no radio, TV or WI-fi signal of any kind. Most telling is that I stood the room and listened." He then paused as a somber look came to his face. "In LA, there's always life, something going on. I listened for over a minute and heard nothing, absolutely nothing. Other than the wind."