Tory's POV:

Flashback: 

2 weeks ago:

We were on a date at the cinema, Jade was holding my hand, and she was giving me full-hearted looks, like if there was nothing else in the world, but me.

"Tor" she started, "I told you how beautiful you look every day of your life?" she gave me another of her smiles.

"Thanks, Jade," I say, disinterested.

The time passed, and the movie was over, I told Jade that I was going to the restroom, she told me that we will meet by the food court, she gave me a peck, and she left.

I sighed, and I head to the bathroom, the tournament will be in 2 months and like 2 weeks, Jade has been training us very hard, now we are yellow belts, and she was proud of the advances. Of course Sensei Silver was too, he was right about Jade coaching us, and Sensei Kreese was more than happy, he believes we will win. 

But there was something bugging me, and it was Sam LaRusso's words. She told me that like a week ago, and I have been thinking about it, and it's true. "Come on, Tory" I remembered her words, "we all know that you are using Jade, you want fame and see your name in the great billboard" her voice repeated in my head, "dating Jade it's a good way to do it, after all, she already has a name" the memory continue playing, "you are a lucky girl, Nichols. Don't screw it."

And I'm doing it, I'm having fucking second thoughts, I used to think that I was in love with her, I could see a brighter future, a future for us. But that spark in my heart disappeared, it's like it was instantly removed when Sam told me that. 

I pulled out my phone, and I called someone I will never expect, he answered after three rings.

"Yeah?" his voice sounded through my phone.

"Can we talk?" I told him.

"Sure, when?" he asked me.

"Now, meet me at the old spot," I answered.

"Sure, see you there," he hung up.

I sighed and started calling Jade, she answered immediately.

"Hey, Jade," I said with a boring tone.

"Are you lost? I'm in the table, you want me to go and search you?" she spoke very fast.

"No, I called you because I'm going home, I'm not feeling well" I lied to her.

"You want me to drive you home? Wait for me in the..." she asked politely, but out of nowhere she started to annoy me.

"No" I answered cutting her off, "I'm ordering an Uber"

"Oh" she stopped, "I did something bad?" she was sad, here she goes, again with her fucking trust issues.

"Jade, stop that," I answered rude to her.

"Tor, tell me what's going on" she had a pleaded voice.

"Nothing, literally nothing it's going on" I thought out loud, thinking about my feelings.

"We can talk if you want, you know I'm always open to hear you out," she told me.

"No, now stop bothering me, they are gonna mug me" I lied, like if I was in the street. 

"Take care, Tor, I lo..." I hung up, I can't deal with her now, I have a lot in my mind.

I ordered the Uber and went out of the mall.

End of the flashback.

I'm in the lobby of the hotel, I'm holding back my tears, even if I wasn't feeling the same as in the start, it hurts, Jade broke up with me yesterday, she dumped me, she found out the truth.

I knew it was coming, but not that fast, I came here, I treated her like shit yesterday. I was mad and aroused, so it wasn't a good combination, she didn't deserve it, I came to apologize, about everything, and maybe we can fix this.

The lady in there already knows me, so she smiles at me and tells me to pass.

I smile back and walk to Jade's room, my heart is beating like crazy, maybe she is still mad? What if she opens and instead of talking, she starts beating me up? All the possibilities cross my head, I knock on the door, I hear some footsteps, she is walking here.

The door is open, the sadness disappears, and it's replaced with rage.

"Umm, hi" he tells me.

"What the hell are you doing in here?" I don't care about saying hi.

"I could ask the same thing to you" he sounds tired, why the fuck is he tired?

"Where is she?" I ask, trying to pass to the bedroom, he blocks the entrance, "let me in" I command.

"No, she is sleeping" he answers, "she is tired" tired? Were they having sex?

"You two were screwing each other?" I ask, screaming at him.

"What? Of course not" he answers, "yeah, Jade is hot, but I don't think of having sex with her 24/7"

"Oh, quit the act, I know that you aren't the gentleman that you show" I accuse him, "you come here, with your stupid British accent, your perfect life, and you want Jade back, huh?"

"Excuse me?" he asks offended, "look, Tory, I'm not acting nor being the prince in the white horse" he scoffs, "Jade isn't an object! You can't 'have her back,' she is a fantastic girl, you should know, you used to be by her side, and you lied, you promised her a fake love"

"It's not like you were the boyfriend of the year!" I shout.

"You don't know half of that story" he stays calm, "you can't judge a book by its cover"

"And I don't care" I answer, glaring at him, "you broke her heart"

"You are barking up the wrong tree," he replied.

"You just called me a bitch?" I angrily shout at him.

"No, I'm saying that you are accusing the wrong person" he crossed his arms in his chest.

"Let me see her!" I try to apply force, but he is strong.

"What don't you understand that she is sleep?" he covers more the door, "when she wakes up, I'll tell her, to call you..." he was interrupted by my fist colliding hard with his face.

He fell down, and cuss under his breath.

"Jade!" I entered the room, walking to her bedroom, effectively she was lying in her bed, waking up.

"Derek? Where are you?" she said, sleepy.

"Hey, Jade" I spoke, she slowly focused her vision, getting up, but still sitting.

"Why are you here? And where's Derek?" she told me, a little mad.

"I owe you an apology," I sighed, sitting in the other side of the bed.

"Yeah, now you owe me one too," the douchebag spoke, touching his bloody lip, "it's okay if she stays?" he asked.

"Of course it's okay, idiot," I answered bluntly.

"I wasn't talking to you" he had a menacing look, Jade sighed and nodded, "tell me when you want to kick her out or kill her" he gave me a fake smile, and went out to the bedroom, I heard that he turned on the TV, some pre-recorded laughs sounded.

"If you came here to justify your bullshit, you can go" Jade spoke, after some uncomfortable silence, where the only thing that sounded was the TV show.

"Look, Jade, you'll not understand how hard it is for the less wealthy people to gain money" I spoke, she scoffed.

"Yeah, I'll not know because I'm a spoiled rich girl, I heard that yesterday" she rolled her eyes.

"Whatever, I'm sorry" I said, maybe I should've put more effort into that.

"Yeah! You were on a freaking break, but you don't have to go with the girl of the photocopies two seconds later," I heard the British idiot, complaining under his breath.

"Shut the fuck up!" I yelled at him, he was speaking too loud for my ears.

"I'm complaining with the TV show character, not with you!" he yelled back.

"That's all? That's your best fucking effort?" she asks, yeah, what else should I tell her?

"I wasn't feeling the same way towards you a long time ago," I tell her.

"And couldn't have you told me?" she gives me a scowl, "I would have understood, damn, you could have told me about the deal also" she gives me a sad smile, "I could have helped you out" she stares at the floor, "but you decided to lie, even when I told you that I hated the secrets" a tear runs through her cheek, "even when I trust you, with all my heart" I see how her eyes are a mixture between gold and brown, giving me the signal that she is gonna turn into the psycho-machine, so I slowly walk away.

There is a coffee smell inundating the space, I see how Jade visibly relaxes, she inhales and exhales slowly.

"Sorry, Jade" I speak, and I swear that in the TV program they are laughing about me.

"Sorry, Jade" she repeats, "you should win a fucking award for that apology" she stands up, and puts on her combat boots, I didn't notice she was wearing all black, as the Prince Harry outside.

"What else do you want me to say?" I ask, turning impatient, and holding her wrist.

"Maybe a real apology!" she yells at me, "Something like, 'Jade, I'm sorry for lying to you, you are a great girl and I treated you like shit!' Or the total opposite" she aggressively takes her hand away, and points at me, "Maybe something like, 'Jade, I'm sick of you and your love, go and rot in hell' I don't know!" she walks out of the bedroom, "And we could have sorted things out! Maybe in the best way!" she screams from outside, and I leave the bedroom, "I'm sick of this, Tory" she massages her temples, "I'm physically sick, I haven't been sleeping well, and when I'm finally getting some peace, you come again" she sighs loudly, "you came and punched my friend, and he was trying to do the best for me! But of course you wouldn't know that, because you only think about yourself!" she shouts and walks to the kitchen, where Derek was drinking some coffee, he quickly gives his cup to Jade, who thanked him, and drank it.

"I'm sorry for being the worst girlfriend ever, Jade!" I shout back, Derek slowly tries to walk away, but Jade holds his wrist, looking at him with pleading eyes, he nods and returns to her, Jade links her arm with his, I feel like a fucking third-wheel, "I'm not the best, but I tried"

"Stop victimizing yourself," she mumbles.

"I'm not victimizing myself," I answer.

"Yes, you are!" she shouts, and I see how her eyes change again it's color, "Why you came here anyway?" Derek pours more coffee in the mug, she drinks it.

"I came to apologize," I say, confident of myself.

"Turned out perfect" Derek mumbles, taking the cup from Jade and drinking from it.

"I'm not talking to you, asshole!" I shout at him.

"Stop treating him like that! He is right!" Jade shouts at me, "Derek isn't a liar, not like some other people!"

"He cheated on you!" I point at him.

"He didn't have a choice! My dad threatened him! Not hire him!"

"He didn't hire me! I was really falling for you at the start!"

"Yeah? And what happened later?" she asks, "You stopped feeling that way when you saw I wasn't the perfect model or actress!"

"No! I tried to fix you, but you were so fucking insecure that you annoyed me!" I see how a tear runs through her cheek.

"Hey! Stop that!" he finally says, "you two need to calm down, or you are going to make a storm in a glass of water!" he wipes off the tear from Jade's cheek, and hands her the cup with coffee.

"Nobody is talking to you, dipshit!" I throw him another punch, but he ducks it.

"Calm down, I'm not fighting you," he says, with the calmest voice ever.

"So now the charming prince knows martial arts?" I scoff, "no, wait, he knows how to kill, as his father"

He froze for a millisecond, I did my research of Jade's ex-lovers.

"And what are you gonna do, huh? Kidnap me and torture me? As your daddy used to do?" he has an angry gaze, his eyes now were darker.

"Shut up, Tory," Jade says, pushing me.

"You wanted the true, I'm telling the truth" I point again at him, he was looking at the floor, with his eyes closed, "his dad was a fucking mafia leader, what does it turn him into?"

"So, I'm a hustler, a liar, a girl with no principles and ethic, because that's how my dad is!"

"Yeah, well you sure have no ethic when you turn into a psycho-machine!" Oh my god, what I just said? I didn't think it in a good way.

She tries to tackle me, but Derek stops her.

"Go" he says, with an angry voice, "now, I'm asking in the nicest way I can" he looks at me, and he is quite intimidating, he had his jaw tighten, and his green eyes penetrated my soul.

"Get the hell out of my house" Jade mumbles, closing hardly her eyes, I nod and walk out of the room, passing through the lobby, I don't care of saying bye to the receptionist.

If I had a minimum expectation of being friends again it's absolutely gone, I screwed it up, very bad, it didn't go how I planned it to, I suddenly start to remember the time I talked with Miguel after I left Jade in the mall.

Flashback:

I arrived at the park, I don't know. Is this right? I need to talk with someone, but I trust no one, except him, and even he betrayed me. I don't understand myself, he cheats on me and I trust him, but Jade gives me nothing but reasons to trust her, and I don't do it.

"Hey, Tory" his voice lets me out of my trance.

"Thanks for coming," I told him.

"What you wanna talk?" the Latino asked.

"I heard that you and Sam broke up" I sat in the ground.

"Yeah, well, she was more interested in other people than in me" he gave me a sad smile, "how are you doing with Jade?"

I sighed, "we have been better"

"What do you mean?" he asked me.

"I don't know, everything was okay, but today I couldn't stand her" I admitted, "I think I stopped having feelings for her, or maybe I never have them" I talked with all the truth.

"Well, I don't know Jade, but I would prefer if you tell me this if we were dating, and you stopped, you know, loving me" he told me.

"Yeah, maybe you are right. We can take a break, or we can gain more confidence, and I know how," I said, thinking about sleeping with her.

"Anytime you need me, I'm there" he told me smiling.

"Thanks, Miguel" I hugged him, and he hugged me back.

End of the flashback

I'm walking home, I'm thinking about Jade, I'm thinking about what she is doing, if she is okay.

I arrived and I see Miguel in there.

"Hey, I didn't see you at the roller rink last Friday," he told me.

"Yeah, well, I'm focusing on the tournament," I answered him.

"Oh, cool" he scratched the back of his neck, that reminded me of Jade, she did that when she was nervous.

"Why are you here?" I asked him, I wasn't on my best mood, but I tried to sound polite.

"I wanted to ask you if you would like to go and hang out with me," he told me.

"I don't know, it's weird hanging out with your ex"

"It isn't a date!" he told me, "It's that we want us to be friends again, we need one of those sometimes"

"Sure, it's not a date, where you wanna go?"

"I don't know, you pick," it's this karma? I said the same thing to Jade, and I was beaten up that day, but I had a loving girlfriend the next day.

"You pick, I can't think of any place" I answered.

"What about the roller rink? We went there once," He asked.

"Sure thing, Sunday, then?" I asked.

"Yes, see you there," he told me, and he left.

I sighed, and I opened the door, Tyler was in there.

"Did you broke up with Jade?" he asked me.

"I guess, kiddo," I answered.

"What did you do, Tory?" he was confused, I knew he liked Jade a lot.

"I screwed it up, badly," I sigh.

"But you can fix it! And Jade and you will be together again!" he said happy.

"Not everything in life has a solution, Tyler," I tell him and head to my room, slamming the door.

Postscript:

Songs: Take Me Away by Christina Vidal and Fake Love by BTS.