Jennifer Glance

Chapter One

Tori looked around the empty room nervously, flinching when her best friend, Ruby, touched her shoulder lightly as she stepped into the room.

Why do I let her drag me into these things?

Tori thought to herself with a frustrated, yet silent growl.
Sensing the tight tention in the room, Ruby smiled, trying to look convincing as she reassured Tori this would be the last time.

"You said that last time..... and also the time before that." Tori replied in a whisper. Ruby was about to object when a loud creak from the other side of the small pawn shop made both of the girls heads snap to the side.

~Flash Back~
"Hey! Come back here! Get your butts back here before I call the cops, you thief's!"

Screamed the owner of Pete's Pawn, his face beet red and obviously angry. Ruby and Tori were able to out run the fat, bald man, oblivious to the fact they had stole more than just a few drugs.

"I mean, it would've been easier to just pay for it!"

Tori mouthed off breathlessly as her and Ruby stopped at an alley.
Ruby rolled her eyes.
Tori rolled hers back.

"I ain't ever doing this again!"

"This will be the last time."

"You said that last time!"

"Well this time I mean it."

Tori was confused as to how Ruby could keep her cool and not yell back, even when some things seemed to go terribly wrong. She just sighed and shook her head. There never was a last time, but something told her, one day, Ruby would break through her bad habit. Become that happy, bright girl she was when Tori first met her.
As the girls began walking, Tori smirked.

"This better be the last time!" She joked.

"It will be."

~ flashback over ~
And yet here they were now. Looking like two deer caught in headlights.

"Run, Tori."

Whispers Ruby, who takes off before Tori could respond. Tori runs, too. Right out the door. Outside, the girls pant. Hopefully no one saw them. As they walk back towards Rudolph Glance High, Ruby mutters something under her breath.

"What?"

Tori asks confused. Ruby shakes her head. Over the last year, even with her addiction, Tori stuck right to Ruby. No exception. They were friends with flaws. If Ruby were Tori, she would've been long gone.