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Chapter 6 - Descent

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Start from Scratch

Chapter 6 – Descent

No One's POV.

Jake woke the next day, feeling like hell. Her face and body still hurt from tripping on the curb the night before. But besides the physical pain; was confusion and despair, from Tori's wanting her to stay.

The Latina did gave a perfect valid reason for Jade staying; that with the cold, the shelters would be full. Jade did believe that, but at the same time she believed Tori wanted her to stay for other reasons.

Was it to help or did Tori want to keep her there so she could fuck with Jade' s head and make her miserable, as a matter of revenge? At the moment Jade couldn't help but think it was revenge. Looking at the door, Jade certainly felt trapped and the more she thought about it, the more depressed she became.

Making things even harder, was her constant urges to return to Beck. She would just want to go back, then remember the beatings. Of course, the co-dependent side of her would resurrect a happy memory to counter the bad one. It was like a war going on inside her head and Jade had to struggle to live with it, each and every day.

"How in the hell do I even function anymore." Muttered Jade, as she sat up on the couch and looked blankly out of the window.

The only response was the sound of Tori eating breakfast in the next room. That was someone she didn't even want to deal with at the moment. Tori's cold attitude, her constant sourpuss expression was slowly getting to the Goth. Once she hated Tori's annoying smile, now Jade just wanted to see it, if just for a moment.

"Just smile, for god damn once would you." Jade whispered, as went straight into the bathroom to get ready for work.

When she emerged from the bathroom the apartment was empty as Tori had gone to work, but even when she was here, the apartment was just as empty. Jade felt at times, like she was living with an ill-tempered ghost.

Nothing else to do, Jade went to work and just tried to push it out of her mind. But she only had limited success and remained slightly depressed about it all day. Coming home she decided to keep working and cleaned the kitchen as she was supposed too weekly.

She finished in an hour and still felt like keeping on going, so she pulled the vacuum out of the closet and began to clean the living room. It was mind numbing work and that was precisely what she wanted. When she finished vacuuming and then looked at Tori's unattended and dust covered keyboard.

"I can't ask her about it, but how will she react if I clean it. Will it cause her to use it again?" Jade pondered out loud.

Jade did just that, cleaning every speck of dust off the keyboard and music books on it then carefully placed them back as they were.

Now Tired, Jade ordered some Chinese food and sat down to watch TV. She still felt trapped and somewhat depressed, but there was nothing she could do about it. Tori worked her second job, so she didn't' come home until about 1 in the morning. Tori went straight to bed at that point.

It wasn't until the next day, around noon, when Jade saw Tori come out. Jade was watching the original Dawn of the dead, on TV, when the Latina walked past her wordlessly and went into the kitchen.

Jade could hear Tori rummaging around and called out. "There's some leftover orange chicken and rice in the fridge if you want it."

As Jade expected, Tori said a soft. "No thank you."