Jori: The One That Got Away

Two Years Later

Two Years after the incident

'It was just past midnight and the power for our apartment had been cut off for an hour or so now. Tori sat alone by the small, portable keyboard piano she had gotten from her parents when she turned 18 and I sat on a light brown stool, drinking an entire bottle of cheap wine I got from the gas station.

I didn't care how awful it tasted or how the bitterness of the beverage caused my face to distort in displeasure. I didn't care about any of that. I just needed an escape from my reality. I needed a way to forget just for a night.

Tori loudly played the tune to some song she was writing and I continued to drink my problems away and the more I drank the more I became irritated by the sounds she made.

" God fucking damn it, Tori! Don't you understand this is not the fucking time for that?"

I stood up with the bottle in hand and began to walk to the room she played her music in. I held on to the walls in attempt not to fall on my face. I forcefully opened the door to the room

" Shut that damn noise up! It's giving me a headache."

I angrily scowl at her before bringing my face closer to her's. With our faces mere centimeters away she could probably smell the alcohol that my breath most likely reeked of.

" Don't you understand, Tori."

I said to her in a steady voice, laced with anger, which I hadn't used towards since high school.

"I just need you to be quiet and let me be."

" Well shit Jade, I'm sorry!"

She spat the words at my face with an equal amount of venom in her voice.

" Haven't you ever thought that I was going through the same things you are? Have you? Huh? I guess not, because you're incapable of thinking about anyone else but you!"

Her eyebrows scrunched up in anger and her chest bobbed up and down at a rapid pace. Seething with rage she began to yell at me.

" Have you ever even thought of me hurting too, Jade?" She points at her chest.

" It hurts for me too! It hurts soo much to watch you- to watch you turn.. turn into this!"

She uses her tan hands to motion towards me and the bottle in my hand.

My jaw clenches and my nostrils begin to flare. Although I didn't know why, I stood still and rigid, struggling with anger.

I didn't know what I was doing and it all happened so fast.

All I know was I was so angry then I heard a loud smacking noise.

Tori stood still with her hand over her face.

She opened her mouth but the only sounds that came out of her mouth were loud beeping sounds from an alarm clock.'

BEEP BEEP BEEP

My eyes snap open and I let out a sigh of relief. It was just a dream. Just like all the other ones that I've been having for the past two years. The same exact moment being replayed in my mind. Also it was the last time I saw the Latina in person. I didn't dare call, or send her anything. Besides she's Tori Vega, The World Wide super mega pop star and I'm just me. The same struggling actress. What would she want to do with me? I barely have enough with the money I make at the small diner I now work in and look at her. She could have anyone she wanted.