Of Scissors And Scooby Doo

Chapter 1

"Ow! Stop!"

"Make us!"

A gasp rushed out of her mouth, followed by a loud sob as tears finally rolled down her cheeks. The blonde boy flicked his fingers against her ear again, making the little girl flinch in pain, while the boy on her right side, red, curly hair on top of his head and freckles all over his face, gave a sharp tug to her long brown hair. "You're such a weenie!"

"I'm not! Just leave me alone!" The boys merely cackled and when Tori tried to jump up and run away, the blonde boy harshly pushed her and almost made her tumble backwards over the bench she had been sitting on. She whimpered, sat back down and squeezed her eyes shut. Why wasn't anyone helping her? A teacher surely must have heard her crying, right? But no one came and Tori found herself wailing like a baby, which only seemed to spur the two boys further on. But suddenly, her hair was released and a loud thud, coupled with an "Umpf!" from one of the boys reached her ears. When she cracked her eyes open – first her left, then her right – she saw a girl with long brown hair and the prettiest eyes turn toward the blonde boy, then quickly pushing him to the ground.

"Stop teasing her! She's crying!"

With trembling lips, Tori curiously looked from the redheaded boy still lying on the ground to the blonde one, who stood up and brushed down his blue pants. "Those are new! My mom is gonna be so mad at me!" Tori flinched at the glare he sent the other girl but she seemed unfazed by it.

"I don't care. Just go and leave her alone or I'm calling my daddy. He's a lawyer and can put you in jail."

The boy's eyes widened comically and even Tori couldn't stop herself from silently gasping. Her daddy could do that? The redheaded boy quickly scrambled to his feet and stumbled over to his friend, urgently beginning to tug at his arm. "Let's go. I don't wanna go to jail!" The blonde's face morphed into a deep frown but he didn't say anything else, only let his friend drag him away. They silently watched them go before the girl turned to Tori.

"Thank you," Tori hiccupped, her fingers lying in her lap tightly wounding around each other. Her little protector nodded her head in response, then crouched down to pick up Tori's lunch box, which the boys had previously thrown to the ground. "Here," she said and held the box out, "This is yours, isn't it?"

The still crying girl slowly took her lunch box out of the other girl's hand. "Yes, thank you." Her eyes fell to the image of Scooby Doo on the front of her yellow lunch box. Sniffling, Tori ran her hand over it, brushing away the almost non-existent dirt. Tori felt like she should do something, thank the girl again, but nothing came to her mind. What was she supposed to do now? She probably thought she was such a... a baby for not being able to stick up for herself. Her face went red at the thought and fresh tears threatened to well up when she felt the girl quietly sitting down next to her.

"Are you okay? Do you need an adult?"

Tori shook her head. She waited and waited, but nothing else came. The girl didn't start to tease her, she didn't laugh, she didn't... do anything. She just sat beside her, quietly, and occasionally swung her legs back and forth, back and forth. "Can your daddy really put people in jail?" Her voice was quiet and almost scared as she asked. Hesitantly, Tori looked up and saw the other girl nod. "Yes. But I don't think he can put children in jail. That was a lie."

"Oh." Tori nodded and looked back at her lunch box.

"Why were they so mean to you?"

Tori shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know. I didn't do anything."

Biting her lip, Tori looked back up and looked into light blue eyes. "I'm Tori Vega. What is your name?"

The girl hesitated a second before she finally answered. "I'm Jade."