On Tessa's summer holiday between her second to last and her last year of school she didn't have much to do. In the last few months her mum had been exhausting herself with work to the point that last week she passed out. Her mum was in the hospital still; the doctors told Tessa that her mum might have hit her head when she passed out. She could be out for a while longer. So Tessa decided to get a part time job to support herself, it was good preparation for later in life. Her mum's salary paid the electrical and water bills but the rest was on you, so needless to say Tessa didn't go on shopping sprees.

It was 11am on a Saturday morning; about three weeks into Tessa's summer 2 month summer holiday. Tessa had arrived at the local café for her shift that started in about five minutes. She couldn't pronounce the name of the café let alone remember how to spell it, it was French and she was terrible at French. She were practicing the names of both of these when the bell chimed, telling she that someone had just entered the café. She heard their footsteps approach the register where she was standing.

"Welcome, what can I get you?" she started by saying, still looking down at the register.

"Hello there, I'll just have a coffee, black please. And what about you Jem?" a voice said, she heard an English accent in it. This made she look up, you're not really sure why but you're glad that she did, the face that was in front of she was beautiful to say the least. "I told you I'm not thirsty Will" the one that she assumed was named Jem said. Even though the other boy was speaking, her eyes didn't move from the blue eyes of the boy named Will.

"I guess it will just be the black coffee then, thanks." said the raven haired boy.

"Alright, that'll be three dollars fifty." Tessa replied.

"Alright here you go" he replied after reaching into his pocket, probably getting out the money it looked like it might be the exact change.

"Thank you, if you just wait a moment your coffee will be ready" she told him, she was right it was the exact change, how thoughtful of him. He simply nodded and walked over to the other side of the counter to wait his friend, Jem, followed him. They stood there whispering to each other as she watched them and started making the coffee. She started the same way that she always did, made the hot water once that was done she added the coffee grounds and stirred it a few times. Next she put on the lid and brought it over the other side of the counter, handing it to the raven haired boy. "Thank you very much" he exclaimed. Never before had she seen someone so excited to see coffee, well simply because I was just coffee. She didn't say any of this out loud she just simply said;

"You're welcome" he smiled and turned to leave his friend, Jem, did too. But before they had left the raven haired boy turned around and told her "The name's Will by the way."

"I'm Tessa, pleasure to meet you" she told him in reply.

"Oh no, the pleasure is definitely all mine" he told while smiling one of the most gorgeous smiles she'd ever seen. Then he turned and walked out the door. This was the last she'd see of him she thought; at least she got to meet him and look into those beautiful raven eyes.


It was now half past one in the afternoon on the same Sunday; her shift had finished about half an hour ago and she didn't really have a time she had to be home. She had decided to go watch a movie, the theatre was just across the street and the movies weren't very expensive plus she thought that she deserved a little treat. Sadly, all of the movies either sucked or were only showing in a few hours, this plan failed about as fast as she had come up with it. She is now just walking aimlessly down the street hoping she'll find something to do. As she walk past the book store she decide to go inside, it couldn't hurt to have a look, she thought as she walked through the doors.

Alright, so after walking around the store for a bit she admitted it she weren't really sure why she was in the bookstore, but she didn't really mind. She loved books and being in here was much more fun than being outside and walking down the street, especially in this Californian summer heat. Even though she didn't have the money to buy any of the books in here she decided to stay, looking was just as much fun. After looking at some of the shelves she decided to go hunt down some books that she would actually recognize.

That's when she saw a glint of blue flash across her vision; it had to be the light reflecting off something, right? She decided to forget about it, it wasn't anything to worry about.

After about half an hour of looking through the shelves she got bored, she decided to leave she were sure there was something to do when she got home anyway. Just as she opened the door to leave she heard,

"Tessa!" she turned around to see the silver haired boy that she remembered as Jem waving frantically at you. She raised her hand to return the wave; he turned and shouted something else that she was pretty sure wasn't English to a person she couldn't see.

Then suddenly the raven haired boy appeared, so she were right he was in the store, he waved at her too. As they came closer she told them,

"I've got to go now, but it was nice seeing you again though." she couldn't help but notice that the raven haired boys face saddened a little. But he removed that sadness from his expression just as quickly, maybe Tessa was just seeing things.

Jem was grinning when he told her "Well we'll just have to see you later then."

"Yeah, bye now" was her only response, she turned around, left the store and went home.


It was now Sunday morning; Tessa left her house and headed to work, again, along the streets that weren't busy surprisingly. She walked into the café opened the blinds and went into the storage closet to put her apron on and get ready to work. She heard the front door bell chime, signalling that someone had entered the café. She sighed and went out, wondering who would be here so close to opening time. She then saw the raven hair; he was leaning against the counter, the picture of ease. But while he was at ease she were quite the opposite, seeing him set her nerves on fire and made her heart pound, she didn't like it. "Tessa! Good morning!" he said about as cheerfully as anyone could be in the morning. She muttered a reply, not sure if he heard she or not, she followed this reply by asking him, for the second time in two days, what his order was. Not to her surprise he ordered the same thing again, a black coffee, she prepared it in silence. "Are you going to make this a regular thing?" she asked as she handed him his freshly brewed coffee.

"Why is my order not exciting enough for you?" he replied, the sarcasm was almost visibly tripping from the statement. "Well, no not really-" she started to say but she was cut off by him saying,

"Next time I'll order something different I promise." he said with a wink and turned around and walked out of the café. She was sad to see him leave without saying goodbye. She couldn't help but wonder what all this meant.