Disclaimer: I don't own Victorious. Dan Schneider does.

Author's Note: I want to make it very clear: I'm not abandoning Affliction. I just need a break from it. It's very draining.

So I've come up with another way to…entertain you.

I don't typically base fanfictions on movies but I started to play with some dialogue and this movie popped back into my head. Also, Affliction may have something to do with this. You'll see how in a future chapter.

Enjoy.

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Prologue

"I grieve for the moments we have had together and I long for the moments we will never have."

-Kristin Maddock

Jade scrolled through her phone, desperately hoping to hear something from her best friend. She had been like this all day. She and Cat were supposed to meet early that morning to finish out a project and Cat hated missing school. So when she didn't show up this morning, Jade knew something was wrong.

She immediately called Cat's parents, who were too incoherent at the time to give Jade any real answers. It wasn't until Jade started to search through the local news networks on her PearPhone did she get an answer.

Cat Valentine was missing.

No.

The news had to be lying.

Cat couldn't possibly be missing.

No.

Cat was probably just visiting a cupcake factory or something like that.

But when the headlines of BREAKING NEWS scrolled across the top of her PearPhone, Jade knew something was wrong.

"So when you crack open the coconut-" Sikowitz continued to explain.

"Sikowitz, turn the news on," Jade ordered.

"Jade, I'm in the middle of-"

"Turn it on!" she screamed.

"Jade," Beck said.

But Jade was too focused on her PearPhone. It couldn't have been true.

It couldn't be true.

The news people must have had it wrong.

They had to have it wrong.

They were wrong.

Sikowitz turned on the television and switched over to the news channel. Beck had his arms wrapped tightly around Jade. He wasn't sure what had her all wound up.

But in reality, no one really knew what was going on. Not even Jade.

"The body of Caterina Valentine was found this morning at…"

Jade didn't hear anything else. Beck Oliver couldn't believe what he just heard.

Their best friend was dead.

Cat Valentine was murdered.