One New Message (Random Updates)

Chapter 10

Jade woke up and groaned. Her head was killing her, and her eyes itched from all the crying she did last night. Going to the bathroom, she splashed water on her face a few times to try and help her feel slightly better. She changed into some dark blue jeans and an emerald, green shirt before plopping down on her bed. Pulling her laptop onto her bed, she opened it to see if any of her teachers had posted anything on the school site for her to read. Instead, what she saw made her gasp.

There staring back at her was a picture of Corey Henshaw pounding on her dorm room door looking upset with his head on the door. Corey Henshaw was seen outside of freak Jade Ford's room last night! The next image was of her working in the restaurant and Corey typing on his phone, a zoomed in image shows him typing "You would never lose me." Following that was a picture of her wearing her black jeans with chains, her fishnet shirt and black Bite Me shirt over it with her purple hair, lip rings and blood red lipstick and a picture of Corey smiling next to it then another image of her wearing her pale blue jeans, a light grey shirt and blonde hair. How could Corey Henshaw fall for such a deceiving two-timing gold-digging wench? Save Corey and the rest of the group! Sign the petition to remove her from the university!

Jade slammed her laptop shut and rushed to the bathroom to throw up.

Meanwhile

"Corey wake the fuck up!" Gabe shouted as he hit Corey on the head with a pillow.

"What?" Corey asked startled as Raven yanked the pillow from Gabe and threw it at him.

"Look!" Gabe shouted as he turned on the light and held out the laptop, "Fucking look!"

Corey sat up and rubbed his eyes while yawning, "What is it Gabe? Another fashion thing?"

"No, not that dumb fucking shit, it involves Jade! Now wake the fuck up and look!" Gabe growled as he dropped the laptop into Corey's hands. The mention of Jade instantly woke up Corey and Raven.

"FUCK!" Corey shouted as he shoved the laptop over to Raven and quickly got out of bed while grabbing his pants. He rushed to get dressed, ignoring Raven's shouting in Russian as he grabbed his car keys.

Pulling up to the building, Corey slammed his car into park, killed the car and ran over to the door. Not wanting to wait for the elevator, he rushed up the stairs to the third floor and over to her door. "Jade!" he shouted as he knocked on the door. "Jade, please open the door!"

He waited a few seconds as he tried to control his racing heart. The rest of his family came up behind him and Raven put his hand on Corey's back for support. "Owen, Victor, and Axel said to keep them posted," Marc whispered as Corey pounded on the door this time instead of knocking.

However much to their surprise, when he pounded the door pushed open slightly. Gulping, Corey looked at Raven then gently pushed the door open even more. Corey took a cautious step inside and looked around. "Jade?"

"Her window is open," Luke said as he took in the room. "Wow."

"Fucking hell, she is amazing," Gabe gasped as he walked around the room. "Look at these fucking sketches!" he picked up a notebook that was on her desk and grinned, "she's got fucking notes for more goddamn dragons! Damn this girl is fucking something else! Oy, where the fuck is she? How can we fucking worship and spoil her if she isn't fucking here?"

Something caught Luke's eye and he forced back a grin. "Corey," Luke barely whispered as he stood next to Corey who was staring at her small twin size bed with almost falling apart, thin black throw blanket and flat pillow. Corey turned to look at Luke who cast a look at the open window then up.

"Her things are still here," Corey said after he cleared his throat and looked around. "Her clothes are still here, her books, maybe she's in class."

"Why did she leave her window open?" North growled as he looked out it. "It's not safe!"

"First you're the jacket police and now you're the window police?" Luke chuckled. "Come on, Little Brother, she's on the third floor, it's not like anyone is actually going to climb the tree to get into her room. She probably just left it open to get some fresh air."

"She better not be climbing that damn thing," North growled, "it's not safe."

"So you've already said," Luke chuckled. He crossed his arms over his chest and Gabe forced back a smirk when he saw the exact same posture on North so many times before. As opposite as they were, they were the same in many ways as well.

"What I don't get is why everyone is picking on her?" Corey sighed as he sat down on the same bed and picked up the vampire teddy bear that was by the pillow. He started playing with it absentmindedly, "So what if she dressed in all black and colors her hair? North dresses in all black and has a lip ring and Raven has tattoos and wears dark clothes and no one says anything about it, so why her?"

"Because people are fucking hypocrites and we've been taught that it's okay to have double standards if it fits the image the government is trying to make us create, that's fucking why," Gabe rolled his eyes. "It's fine for a guy to have the bad boy image but girls are supposed to be dainty little sunshines and if they aren't then people are supposed to judge and peer pressure until they give in and change themselves. It's fucking stupid and ridiculous and pointless. Jade is fucking amazing and doesn't need to change for shit!"

"I agree," Corey sighed as he got up and looked out the window. "She's perfect and I don't want her to change. So, what if she wears all black and has purple hair? That's who she is, and I love it. If she wants to wear make up like Kiss or Manson or Slipknot then so be it, I'm sure Gabe can find her lipstick that won't smear when we kiss her. I know we will gladly take her to Hot Topic or wherever she wants to shop for clothes and wherever the hell she buys all these crafting supplies. I don't want to change her, and I know none of you want too either. She is perfect the way she is, fuck whatever anyone else thinks. I just want her to know that we accept her the way she is," he blinked back tears and cleared his throat, "I want my DreamKitten back."

"We'll find her, Core," Luke said as they both looked at the tree. "Promise, we will do whatever we need to help her see that we accept and want her and everyone else can go fuck themselves."

"Sound like Gabe," Corey muttered shaking his head.

Gabe smirked and shrugged, "I'm a fucking genius."