Cheating. Bo Dennis had got her here through cheating.
Last Tuesday night, exhausted and a little pissed off for more than one reason, Tamsin just wanted to sleep the night away. Well, after drowning her blood in scotch that she had stolen from Trick's private stash but that was nobody's business but her own. In fact, she had been in bed when Bo called her, inviting her to join the brunette and her overly whipped boyfriend to some over twenty one club that was opening in the next town. She'd wanted to say no, she almost did too. But then she remembered that Bo is sickeningly entitled and tends to take things to heart more than she should, she would have taken Tamsin's refusal personally and probably tried to get her back somehow. And she had way too many somehows for Tamsin to risk it. So she had taken her drunk self out of bed, washed her face and headed off to Bo's, drunk off her ass and exhausted as shit. It's honestly a miracle she hadn't gotten into an accident on the way.
The club as it turned out, wasn't all that bad. Bo's cousin, Vex, co owned it so they had no problem getting in or getting drinks. They'd been given relatively cool seats and it might or might not have happened, but Tamsin even recalls some hot chick giving her a lap dance. All in all, it had been a good night, well, what she recalls of it. After her second or sixth drink, Tamsin couldn't recall, they'd apparently played a drinking game which Tamsin had apparently lost to Bo and as the loser, she had to do whatever Bo wanted and Bo, it turns out, wanted Tamsin to take math lessons from the town nerd.
Hence the reason why Tamsin was standing in front of a white door staring at it with fury that could melt ice and cursing Bo Dennis and her cheating ways. Honestly, sometimes her life sucked.
...
She knocked once, then again after a few seconds, then went to knock a third time but stopped, she figured it might annoy the person inside.
''Who is it?'' A voice called from inside.
''Uh..Tamsin, Tamsin Sarksten, we talked on the phone.''
''Just a minute.''
There was silence for a few seconds then she heard the door being unbolted then...well, damn, Bo mentioned a whole lot of things about the nerd, but not once did she tell Tamsin that the girl was like, ridiculously hot.
She was wearing what, assuming television hadn't been lying to Tamsin since forever, was a lab coat over a white sundress, her hair in the messiest pony tail Tamsin had ever seen and sanitary gloves in on her hands, one of which she was busy removing.
''Hi, please, come in.'' She moved aside to let Tamsin into what might just have been the cleanest house she had ever been in, in her entire life.
''I'm sorry for the mess,'' the girl moved to pick books from a table, ''I wasn't expecting you till five.''
Tamsin wanted to ask what mess but the girl looked uncomfortable enough as it was so she just shrugged and removed her bag from her back, ''I managed to get off work early.''
This in itself was nothing short of a miracle. She had honestly expected Nadia to say no when she asked her if she wanted to switch shifts since the brunette had told her more than once that she's never going to work day shifts due to the shitty tips. So you can imagine her surprise when Nadia had jumped at the opportunity. Turns out her relationship is on the rocks so she needs to dedicate some time to it and since her partner is only at home during the night, day shifts was the way to go.
''Right,'' the blond girl nervously looked around the room, ''please have a seat.'' She motioned to the small dining table and Tamsin had to suppress a smile, this girl was too cute.
''So um... did you bring some material you'd like to go over or..?''
''No actually,'' Tamsin removed her book and calculator and frowned into her bag when she couldn't find her pen, she was sure she had put it in there, ''I'm gonna go with whatever you say.''
Damn it where is that pen, she thought only to be pulled from her thoughts and her bag by a chuckle. ''What?''
''Did you lose something?'' The girl asked, a smile playing on her lips and Tamsin just found that she couldn't be annoyed at her, ''yeah,'' she looked in her bag again, ''my pen, I'm sure I put it in here, but now I can't find it.''
''Here,'' she looked up to find a hand extending a white pen to her, ''you can use mine.''
''Oh, I, are you sure?'' The pen looked expensive.
''Yes I'm sure,'' there was that smile again. Tamsin placed her bag on the floor and took the pen, ''thanks.''
''You're welcome. Shall we begin?''
''Sure.''
...
''No, no no no. Please no,'' she mumbled into her pillow the next morning as the knocking on her door persisted.
She had only been sleeping for two hours after being on her feet the whole night and she desperately needed sleep if she was to go to anywhere near school.
The knocking stopped for a second and she almost believed the person on the other side of the door had taken a hint but then it started again with renewed strength and she sighed, she was going to kill that bitch one day.
Seriously.
''Stop knocking already bitch, I 'm coming. God!''
''Took you long enough.'' Was what Bo said when she opened the door.
''It's six in the fucking morning.'' She banged the door closed and winced when she felt something break. Mrs Perkins was definitely going to make her pay for whatever it is.
''Six thirty actually,'' the brunette said sitting daintily on Tamsin's only couch, ''and your place stinks.''
''Fuck you. The fuck do you even want?'' She asked as she headed for the fridge. Since clearly she wasn't going to get any more sleep, might as well get breakfast done with.
''I'm,'' the brunette frowned, ''what are you doing?''
''What are you, blind? Clearly, I'm drinking.''
''Beer.''
''Yeah.''
''At six in the morning?''
''Six thirty actually,'' Tamsin took a swig, ''I would offer you one but this is my last one and since your ass came here uninvited I'm not required to be hospitable.'' She took another swig. ''Anyway why are you here?''
Bo sighed and shook her head, she had known Tamsin for almost two months now, she knew when to not pursue a line of conversation.
''I want to know how it went.''
''Be more vague why don't you.''
Bo rolled her eyes, ''the tutoring session.''
''Seriously? You came knocking on my door at ridiculous o'clock in the morning, woke me up from sleep that I desperately need, insulted the state of my house, just so you could ask me how a tutoring session went?''
''Well,'' the brown eyed girl shrugged, ''yeah.''
''I could kill the fuck out of you right now, do you know that?'' Tamsin asked seriously.
''It was part of the deal Tamsin. ''
''Do I look like I give a shit?'' She threw her empty can in the overflowing garbage bin, she needed to get around to dumping that before it starts stinking up the whole place.
''No, you look like you need a shower and food. Go take the former then you and I will go grab the latter.''
She almost insulted her, she had like a thousand and then some insults just begging to be spat but she thought about it and decided not to. She did need some food in her, she hadn't eaten since breakfast the previous day and her ulcers will soon start developing ulcers. Plus it wasn't like she was adverse to talking about her tutoring session, it had gone rather well.
''Give me a minute, and don't mess with my stuff while I'm gone.''
Bo scrunched her nose in obvious disgust, ''not even if you paid me to.''