Mixed Up, Messed Up Triangle

Chapter 1: Discovered Love

Tessa's POV

"Tessa, you have been avoiding me all month. Can you please speak to me? Just for a minute." I glanced up only to see Will closing the doors to the library; where I had been shamelessly enjoying some quiet time with Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton in the classic, A Tale of Two Cities, before I had been so rudely interrupted.

"Yes Will", I sighed, placing the book face down next to me. Well talking to him won't kill me, at least I hope it won't, I thought as he came towards me and sat down in the armchair directly across from where I was sitting.

"Tess, I have spent weeks trying to forget about you," he said. "But the Angel Raziel knows that I cannot, nor do I want to. I need you Tessa!" Will grabbed my hand as I repressed a shiver knowing it is wrong, oh so wrong, to feel this way. I love Jem I reminded myself; I am engaged to him, soon to be his wife and I do not have any feelings for Will.

You love him, as much as you love Jem, maybe even more, said a voice in the back of my mind.

No, I don't, I can't; being with him is impossible, implausible I thought back. I had to stop him, before he said or did something that we both would regret.

"Will… "I protested standing up, but was cut off.

"Tessa, I love you," he whispered, lowering his voice as if he were afraid someone-other than me-were to hear. "I cannot breathe, cannot live, without you! And yes I know you are soon to be married to Jem, but I cannot go on living my sad and forever lonely life without know if a small fraction of your heart, loved me the same way that I love you?" He glanced up, his beautiful blue eyes staring intently into mine making me unable to look away.

I didn't know what to say. He said those three words. Those words that just a few weeks ago would have made my heart leap with joy to know he felt the same way about me as I felt about him. Now I felt that joy, but it was immediately replaced by an overwhelming feeling of sorrow, knowing that that we can never be together. My heart belongs to both Jem and Will. But I know that telling him I love him will only lead him on and I cannot leave Jem. Not after he proposed to me. No matter how strong my repressed feelings for Will get!

Yet before I could respond he pulled me down until I was sitting on his lap. He then took my face into his calloused hands and pressed his lips, ever so gently, onto mine.

Any protest I had, ceased when he kissed me. His kiss was full of passion, and although I do not want to admit it, love and I began to feel that heat. The same heat I feel whenever I kiss Will. The heat that leaves me wanting more. Without meaning to my lips began to move with his as my hands slowly made their way into his hair and took hold.

Third Person POV

Will, so shocked that she did not pull away when he kissed her, moved his hands down to her waist as she gasped. This allowed him to slip his tongue into her mouth as he pressed her up against him as he deepened the kiss.

BAM!

The door to the library suddenly slammed open and behind it was…

Jem!

Jem's POV

I can't believe Will would do this to me. My best friend, my Parabatai, kissing my Tessa. How could he do this to me? He knows I love her. I'm usually known as level headed Jem, Jem who never gets angry, Jem who is always kind. What do I get for being so nice, my fiancée in the arms of Will. Well that ends now!

"What do you think you're doing?" I said as Tessa jumped out of the traitors arms and onto her feet; straightening her now wrinkled dress.

"I… uh well… Will", she stammered.

"Actually I think I know enough!" I screamed. "To think I loved you, I can't even look at you." I walked up to her and yanked my green jade pendant off her neck. "The wedding is off!"

Her face crumpled into a look of total despair and I knew she was almost in tears. I looked away from her and stared at Will. God! I can't see her cry; that will just make me want to pull her into my arms and hold her until she stops. But I cannot and I will not! She betrayed me and I can never forgive her for that.

"Jem, no Jem. I love you!" She cried. "Please!" But I said nothing. She then turned away and ran back towards her room and I heard the door to her room slam shut.

Author's Note-

Hi! I'm FantasyIsMyLife14, just call me Angie. I would like to apologize for making Jem so mean instead of his usual calm demeanor but I made him so upset because I couldn't imagine any boy who saw his girlfriend in the arms of his best friend would just walk away calm and happy. This is the first chapter in this story and there will be more. I will try and post once a week! This is my first fan fiction so please R&R! I really hope you like it and if you don't please review anyway I always love constructive criticism.