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Alec is 30 years old
Magnus is 28 years old
Alec'sdaughter (Tessa) is 14 years old
"Dad, we have to go, I'm going to be late for school, agian!"
Tessa waited impatiently at the door, rocking anxiously from side to side, waiting forher father to drive her to school.
Finally Alec rushed into the hallway, grabbing the car keys and pushing open the door. He got into the car, followed by Tessa and started the engine. Just as he was pulling out of the drive, his phone started to ring. He glanced at the caller ID,
awnsering
it.
"Sorry Tess, work stuff,"
Tessa rolled her eyes as the car pulledinto the car park of her school.
She got out, waving at her dad who waved back, however still on the phone.
She stood at the curb, watching as the car drove off. She sighed, walking towards her locker, noticing her best friend leaning against it.
She ran up to her, wrapping her arms around her shoulders.
"Hey Trix, I've missed you so much,"
Beatrix pulled away, as Tessa opened her locker, shoving her bag inside.
"Yeh me to, were where you all break?"
Tessa shut her locker as she started to walk to her first class.
"My dad has been all busy with work, I don't think it's good for him though, he seems really tired. I don't even know what he does atwork,"
Beatrix followed her as they sat down at their desks.
"You know, you should proberly talk about it with him, he needs to focus on somthing else. Hey, when was the last time he was in a relationship?"
Tessa shrugged
"Dunno, proberly my mom, and they weren't even dating,"
Beatrix looked shocked
"So you're saying that you dad hasn't had sex in like 14 years!"
Tessa looked around the classroom
"I don't know, just because he hasn't been in a relationship doesn't mean he hasn't had sex,"
Beatrice cocked her head.
"Why don't you talk about it with family or something?"
Tessa started to bite the end of her pencil.
"Well, uncle Jace and auntie Clary are pretty busy with their new baby. Aunt Isabelleand uncle Simonalso just had thier second child, and they also live really far away. And lastly uncle Maxis only like 4 years older than me so I
don't
think he'll be much help, oh and also my grandparents don't talkto my dad so they won't care,"
"Yeh your right, wait, Max was four when you where born?"
Tessa nodded.
Both of the girls whipped their heads around as they heard aloud grunt coming from the front of the room.
"Excuse me class, but may we begin,"
Stood at thefront of the class, was a tall Asian man with pushed up black hair. He wore tight trousers and a sparkly purple blazerwith a black shirt. He also had the slightest bit of make up around his eyesand the tips of his hair
where sprayed
purple, matching the blazer.
The man turned to the board
"My name is Mr Bane, and I will be your English teacher for the next year, just until Mr Kevisnon recovers from his accident,"
He turned back to the class.
"So, to get toknow each other, we will go round and say our names, and somthing interesting about us ok. And please, something actuallyinteresting."
He smiled before pointing at Beatrice.
"You can go first,"
Beatrice leant back in her chair.
"Well, my name is Beatrice, and I,…lived in Japan for 5 years,"
Mr Bane nodded as I spoke
"Hi, I'm Tessa, and I live with my single parent father, who I was left with when he was 16 years old,"
Mr Bane looked slightly shocked as he moved onto the next person.
Lastly he got to himself, pointing at his chest.
"Well, as you all know, My name is Mr Bane and my fact is that before I wasa teacher, I worked as a famous gay stripper,"
Everyone gawked in silence as he smirked.
"But anyway, lets start,"
Tessa and Beatrice walked out of the classroom, both of them giggling.
"He was great!"
Tessa nodded in agreement as they stumbled to their lockers.
Beatrice clasped her books for her next lesson as she chuckled.
"Hey, I just had a great idea,"
Tessa looked at her l, shutting her locker and heading to her next classroom.
"What?"
Beatrice walked into the science lab, placing her books on the desk and sitting down.
"You should totally set up your dad and him,"
Tessa shrugged her shoulders
"Yeh, but I don't think my dad would say yes,"
"You don't have to ask him directly, just try and bring it up casually, or wait till parent teacher night, it's only in a weeks time,"
Tessa nodded as the door swung open.
Me Bane stood in the doorway.
"Well it seems I'm also covering this lesson, so hello agian,"
He smiled, pushing his hands through his hair. He then looked around, picking up a stack of paper. He tookoff a yellow post it note, handing out the sheets. Once done, he walked back to the front of the class, reading the post it.
"It says herethat you are to complete the sheet and then do question 1-9 on page 127 of your textbook.
He sat down on the office chair, resting his feet on the desk. He then grabbed a what seemed like magazine, playing it on his lap and resting his hands on the back of his head.
It was about 30 minuets into the lesson, when Beatrice put her hand up.
Mr Bane put down his magazine, nodding at Beatrice.
"Yes,"
Beatrice pushed up her glasses that she was now wearing.
"I've finished,"
She exclaimed, crossing her arms on the table.
Mr Bane walked over to her desk, picking up her work and examining it.
"Ok well um…"
He looked around his desk for somthing.
"I don't really have anything for you to do, so I guess you can just read or doodle or somthing," he smiled, before slumping back down in the chair.
Beatrice nodded her head, pulling a book out of her back and flipping it open.
Tessa walked through the door of the apartment, sliding her bag along the floor and to the door of her bedroom.
She wandered into the living room,to see her father slumped at the table, his chest slowly rising and falling.
Tessa sighed, before deciding to order pizza.
She sauntered into her room, pulling out her laptop in putting in the order. She then fell onto her bed, springing up slightly.
She was just about to grab her homework from her bag,when her dad stumbled in, his shirt scruffy and his tie hanging loosely around his neck.
"Hey Tess, sorry I fell asleep. Do you want me to make dinner or anything?"
He yawned, resting his arm on the door frame.
"No it's fine dad, I ordered pizza. I also got some for you if you want?"
Tessa shook her head as her father slowly drifted his eyes shut, before snapping them open agian.
Before he could speak, Tessa got up from her bed, grabbing hisarm and pulling himto his room. She lay himdown on his bed, pulling the duvet over him.
Alec tried to resist by sitting up,however Tessa pushed him down.
"No dad. You need to get somesleep, this isnt healthy."
Alec shook him head
"I'm fine Tessa, just caught up in work,"
He smiled at her, rubbing her cheek.
Tessa smiled back, before walking out of the room, watching as her father drifted of into a deep and well needed sleep.
Alec woke quickly, his mind going into complete panick mode. He whipped his head cursing at the time on his clock. He quickly leaped out of bed, throwing on the clothes he was wearing yesterday and rushing into the kitchen to see a completely laid out
/breakfast on the table, a post it note lay on top of the plate. He picked it up, reading it…
Dear dad
Don't worry, I called your work and you have 3 days off. I got Beatrice to give me a lift to school and I'm going to go to hers after school aswell. Also remember, it's parent teacher night tommorow.
Lots of love
-Tessa xxx
Alec smiled at the note, pulling back his chair and feasting on the meal Tessa had left him.
Alec finished his food, getting up and sliding his clothes off.
He stepped into his shower, running his hands through his hair. He shut his eyes, resting his head against the shower head, reflecting on the past couple of months.
He didn't want Tessa to worry about him, but then agian she had every reason too. He knew he had been staying up to late and working way to hard. He had noticed how he sometimes forgot to eat or shower. But he was only working to hard because he wanted
/Tessa to have a wonderful life. He wanted her to have everything she ever wanted.
Her happiness topped everything in his life.
Alec stepped out of the shower, wrapping a towel around his waist and shaking his hair like a walked over to his closet, picking out a pair of black jeans, a frayed black sweater and some old grey trainers. He stared at himself in the mirror,
sighing as he grabbed his keys and walked out of the apartment door.