Twist of Fate

Chapter 12 - First Steps

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Twist of Fate

Chapter 12 – First Steps

No one's pov

Jade stood there for a moment thinking about the fact that she had just agreed to become friends with Tori. It most certainly was a hard thing to do, but deep down it felt right. Though she had opened the door, it was only a short distance. If Vega wanted the door opened any further, Tori would have to earn it.

"I haven't had any friends for a while. I don't suppose they changed the rules. Like we have to dress alike or something stupid like that." Jade said acidly.

"No, we just have to wear matching friendship bracelets. I made yours already, its pink." Tori said with a chuckle as she threw Jade's jest back at her.

"I DON'T DO PINK! And I don't do friendship bracelets either." Jade screeched, before she realized that Tori was shitting her. Embarrassed, Jade slapped herself on the forehead. "Well, I walked right into that one didn't I. I'm rusty at this friend and not being hostile to people stuff. I suppose you're going to have me join the others at the kiddie table, tomorrow at lunch."

"No, I don't think your quite ready to play with others quite yet. I think I'll keep you to myself for a little while." Jade could hear Tori say in a sing-song voice. In fact, for a microsecond Jade thought Tori meant something else entirely. But for some reason the melodic tone of voice the Latina used, put Jade at rest and wasn't bothered by any other implications.

"What now?" Jade asked.

"I have wheelchair basketball practice tonight. Why don't you come over tomorrow for dinner? My dad will want to meet you. He wants to meet all of my friends. I can't go out with anyone, until he meets them first."

"What happens if he doesn't like them."

Unseen to Jade, Tori shrugged. "He hasn't rejected anyone. I've been a bit choosy as to who I bring home to meet him however. He's very protective of me." Jade could hear Tori's voice sadden. "I can't blame him. I'm all he has left.

Jade didn't know how to respond to that. A half a dozen sarcastic remarks came to mind, but Jade just pushed them out of her mind. It wasn't easy, but she managed it. The snappy, rude or callous reply was always the first to come into Jade's mind. Like a distorted, evil Jack in the box, a rude of off-color reply would just pop up out of nowhere.

In this case, Jade did the right thing by giving a careful response. "That's Fine. If those are the rules, then so be it. Tomorrow night it is."

"Good, come over tomorrow. If you need to, I can have my father pick you up."

Jade could tell by the sound of her voice, that Tori was quite pleased by the acceptance of her invitation.

Jade shook her head. "No need. I'll have my father's driver drop me off and pick me up.

"Driver?"

Jade was actually rather embarrassed to admit it, but did anyway. "My family has money. More than we really know what to do with. My grandfather who had done very well with stocks already, was a major and early investor in a now giant computer company. He's extremely rich. He thought computers were the wave of the future and he was very right. My dad, is an investment banker. My mom is in real estate. She doesn't need to work, but she likes dealing with people. She said she could work or drink heavily and slowly shop her way into feeble minded insanity, like most of her friends are doing. Don't worry, that last bit doesn't make any sense to me either."