That morning, Tessa woke up with a grin. Even though her curly hair was all over her head, her gray eyes were almost unseen because of crust round her eyes, she had a smile on her face. On sunday nights, she usually used to sleep at midnight, but yesterday, Will didn't let her to. They went to Victoria, and even though almost nowhere was open, they found a late night ice cream seller and bought two ice creams. Will's ice cream fell down because he was trying to make Tessa laugh insanely, but he did, so they didn't care about the ice cream's fall. Tessa made him eat hers.
She stood up, and looked at the long mirror next to her big wardrobe. Her pijamas were red with trees on them. She had no bra on because they always were making her uncomfortable at nights.
Her room was big, and she had a bathroom right next to it. She walked to the bathroom and brushed her teeth with her blue-white teethbrush. In front of the tap, the wall was filled with a mirror, so she checked if her teeth was real white. After being sure on that, she washed her face with shining pore one minute mask to make sure her pores were to leave.
After doing all of these, she was just about to get dressed, she heard a message alerting ring coming from her phone.
She got rid of her pijamas and with only a shirt and underpants, she came quickly next to her bed to take her phone. The message was from Will.
Moning, Tess! Ugh, feeling really happy today. Who will drop you off?
After reading it, she started texting fastly.
Morning, William. I don't know, probs my mom.
A minute was gone. Two minutes. Three minutes. Tessa dropped her phone to her bed and after realizing that Will was not going to answer, she went back in front to the wardrobe. She was just about to wear her skinny jeans, her phone started ringing.
Will
She opened the phone. "What up, William?"
She could feel Will grinning. Just for caution if he was there or anything, she stayed away from the window. If he saw her with underpants, she knew, he would have never stopped making fun of it. "I don't think your mom will drop you off, Tess, cuz she texted me at six in the morning saying if I could drop you off to school."
Tessa laughed. "Oh yeah?"
"Oh yeah," he replied. "Now look out of the window, please."
Tessa facepalmed. "Umm- not available at the moment, William."
"Oh," he said, Tessa could hear him laughing a little. "I'm your best friend, Tess, don't be shy."
Her room's window was not just a little window, only showing your chest and head. Tessa's window was covering the whole wall. It was both long and wide. Oh, what the hell, he's Will anyways, she thought, and came closer to the window. First, she looked around, making sure nobody was around, then she looked right down, at Will. She closed the phone and opened one of the window glasses. "You don't know what patience is, do you?"
Will grinned. He looked at the girl's legs, her shirt and with an unquiet laugh, her underpants. "Actually I do. I just couldn't resist not to see that."
Tessa laughed unwillingly. She gave Will a mischievous look, then shouted. "Five minutes. Start counting!"
She closed the window glass and went to the wardrobe and wore her skinny jeans. On that, she wore a black t-shirt saying SYDNEY CARLTON LIVES with matte black writing on.
Later she made a little make-up just doing eyeliner on her eyes. Then she went down and took her forest green backbag and keys, and she got out of the house.
"How many minutes?"
Will looked at his phone. "Almost seven."
"Ugh," Tessa moaned with disappointment. "One day, I'll be down in five."
Will grinned. He opened the door for the girl. "Thank you, gentleman."
Will's grin widened. "No problem, lady."
In the car, they kept talking about how yesterday was. Will kept denying the fact that he dropped his ice cream on the ground. "I was trying to make you laugh! That means it's your fault."
"But you dropped it anyways. I didn't tell you to do that, William."
"I don't care, it's cheating. Anyways, I ate yours."
Tessa laughed. "Oh yeah."
Alicante High School was a successfull school filled with clever, but also social students. In Literature and Mathematics, Tessa was the best in her year, and Will was the best in his year. Even though Tessa was asked to take one year olders' lessons because she was so good in her year, she didn't accept it, because she wanted to stay in school, not to leave. So, Will was a year older than her, but that didn't matter, they were always seeing each other.
It was 8:15 in the morning. The lesson was going to begin at 8:45, so they still had a lot of time.
School's garden was really big as if it was a park. People were seperated into groups and whilst Tessa and Will were walking to reach to their "gang", everyone was staring at the two. "I can't believe I have to stay here for two more years," Will whispered to Tessa whilst walking. Tessa shook her head. "Don't say that, I love it in here."
Will waved a hand to joggers, the people who happened to be Will's team mates. Tessa always used to think how Will was managing to keep his classes in the highest level, and still do sports, but now she wasn't wondering anymore. She did become used to it.
Jem, Sophie, Gideon, Cecily and Gabriel were sitting on grass, and when Tessa and Will saw them, they started walking faster.
Tessa hugged Sophie and Cecily, then greeted the boys, too. Will did the same thing. Unwillingly, Tessa's eyes catched Gideon's whilst he was just about to look at Sophie. When the boy saw Tessa seeing that, he blushed. Tessa shook her head with a smile on her face. "No worries, I know everything."
Gideon relieved. His blushing was no more. "Oh, okay then."
Nobody except for Will understood them, but they didn't care anyways. Tessa looked at their gang with a smile on her face. Cecily and Gabriel were having a chat, and Cecily was being stuffed-shirty in a cute way. Sophie was sitting silently, talking to nobody. Gideon was watching her of course, probably he was thinking of ways to get to her. Will and Jem, as real boy best friends, were chatting, too. And Tessa, was sitting on the grass alone just like Sophie.
When she was just about to go sit next to Sophie, she felt a hand on her shoulder. "Morning!"
It was Thomas, whom happened to be Tessa's flirt, and Will's close friend, his team mate.
Will looked at the hand on Tessa's shoulder, then looked up at Thomas. "Morning, mate. What's up?"
Thomas grinned and looked at Tessa. "I was actually going ask your permission to take Tessa."
Tessa looked surprised, but smiled. Will raised one of his eyebrows. "What are you going to do with Tessa?"
Tessa shook her head and stood up. "I'm a grown-up, Thomas, you don't need to ask to him to hang out with me."
Will got angry. His eyes got even more blue. He wasn't like this usually, but Thomas? Who the hell was he to take Tessa away from him? His best friend? "You're my priority today. And I don't remember saying yes. What will you do with Tessa? You don't even know her."
Thomas grinned. "You say so, bro," he said, looking at Tessa as if their flirtation was a big secret sin. "We had been friends with Tess since the beginning of summer."
Oh, Tessa thought. Oh, no. You did not just say Tess, Thomas.
Tessa saw the fire in Will's eyes, so she sat back down. She knew he never saw Tessa more than a friend, but in situations like this, he was getting really jealous. He wasn't a protective brother to Cecily, and actually, he was like a girl and he was usually making fun of these stuff, but when it came to Tessa, he was becoming this person. "Tommy, you can leave," he said. He was talking to Thomas, but his eyes were on Tessa's. "We have to study Biology with Tessa."
Thomas understood, and after giving Tessa a kiss on the cheek, he left. Everyone in the gang were watching the two as if they were watching a movie.
Will stood up, and looked at the grass blankly. He was trying not to make eye contact with the girl. "Let's go."
Tessa was now remembering, he had to study Biology with Will. The only class Tessa was hating on was Biology, but Will was in love with it, so he promised her to study with her on Monday. Today was Monday. "I'm sorry," she said silently, she knew Will was a little angry. "I forgot about our studying."
Will stopped. They were inside the school, right next to the library door. "Look, Tess, I'm sorry," he said. Probably he didn't hear what Tessa said seconds ago. "I'm not your dad or anything. I just- Am I not your best friend?"
Tessa took a deep breath. "You are of course. Why?"
"Then why didn't you tell me you were flirting with Thomas?"
Tessa opened her mouth. "I wasn't- I was just-"
Will shook his head. "Don't do that again. Just... Properly, please?"
Tessa took a deep breath again. "Remember that last basketball match you had in June?"
"Yes?"
Girl's voice was shaking a little. "I came to your match that day to support you. You were all focused on Tatiana and you didn't see me, so Thomas saw me and said you guys were dating. I didn't even know, I promise, if I did, I wouldn't even had come. He had a chat with me, he wrote my number, then left."
Will closed his eyes. That day of match- Damn it! He thought. Tatiana Lightwood, he dated her because she was Gideon's sister and was also in love with Will. He thought Tessa wasn't coming that day. Fuck it, he thought.
"Tess, I am so sorry for leaving you alone."
Tessa shook her head. She tried to act as if she wasn't caring even a little. "No, William, don't be. I was just- a week later, when you broke up, I even learned that from Thomas."
Will nodded. He looked at Tessa, tried to see a movement of disappointment, but there wasn't. She was probably thinking that this was Will, like always. A douchebag like always.
All in a sudden, he held her hands. He couldn't resist it. He edited her curls, then looked at her in the eyes. "I promise I will tell you my everything from now on," he said. "I give you an oath. I will tell you everything, okay? No secrets. I trust you."
Tessa smiled. She felt weird, a little weird, but this was the thing happening like always. Will was her best friend. Nothing more.
"I trust you, too."
She had to date with Thomas to forget the boy and this all.
