Tessa couldn't get to sleep. Throughout the night, she thought of the blue eyed boy who was in her room. I'd better get some sleep, she thought, closing her eyes.
Will never thought there was a chance that he would be living next to a girl who had claimed his heart. Jace, his cousin had told of the love that he found, a short redhead named Clary. He soon drifted off to sleep, knowing it was the first day of his new school, Clockwork Academy.
Soon enough, his alarm went off. Will rubbed his eyes, feeling as if he had no sleep. Cecily walked in with her school uniform on. She saw Will sprawled on his bed and shook him.
"Come on, Will. It's our first day of school," Cecily said, still shaking Will. Will tried shoving her off.
"Cece, I'm up," Will said, grumpily. Cecily skipped out, leaving Will alone. He quickly changed into his uniform, not before a buzz came from his phone. He leaped to his phone, and was disappointed to see who the person was. Jace. He was wishing it was Tessa, but why would she need to text him anyway? She was only next door.
Jace: I'm coming to walk you to school, be ready in 10 minutes.
But he thought Tessa was going to walk him there, she never promised anything. He started writing back to Jace.
Will: Alright, see u soon.
He stomped downstairs, bring leaving his shirt unbuttoned. He ran through the kitchen, almost knocking someone out. A small squeak came from the girl, it wasn't Cecily. The girl was much taller than her younger sister. It was Tessa.
"Sorry," I said shortly, running towards the kitchen again. He pulled the toast out, and ate quickly. A small black haired figure came in.
"Tessa offered us to show our way around the area, and showing us the quickly route… Will, why are you in such a hurry?" Cecily demanded, with her hands on her hips. Will felt as if he was a deer caught in headlight.
"Err… Jace is going to show us the way to school. Tessa can join us if she likes," Will said. Another person appeared, the one with the grey eyes. Will looked to where she was looking, his shirt was unbuttoned. He quickly buttoned it running to get his bag. The doorbell, chimed throughout the whole house.
"I'll get it," Cecily said. I quickly walked down the stair holding my bag in my hand. Jace had come quicker than Will expected.
"Will, I did tell you I was coming here," His said. "I see you have a girl, nerdy one in fact." If looks could kill, Jace would've die with the look Tessa was giving him.
"She my neighbour," Will said in a clipped voice. "She offered to show the route to school. And she isn't my girl." He faced Tessa, her face looking grateful.
"Yeah, sure. Like I didn't see you two at that party," Jace said, chuckling. "Are we going? I told Clary we'll drop by her place. She has another large group at her place."
It was a quick walk to Clary's house, Tessa walked with Cecily yet feeling like Will was lingering around. As soon as Clary came out, she was followed by five other people. Isabelle, and her brother Alec, who was a senior. Sophie, Maia and Simon came out of the house. Sophie linked arms with Tessa.
"It seems like Tessie is making friends with her husband's little sister," Sophie whispered. Tessa looked at her, with her face flushed.
"He is not my husband. Sophie, why would you think of such thing," Tessa said, shocked. Sophie laughed.
"Geez, Tessa. I'm just joking," Sophie said, in between the laughs. In the corner of Tessa's eyes she saw the blue eyed boy talking with Jace and Alec. She saw the school ahead, with its tall towers looking like a church. The books in Tessa's bag felt heavier as she got closer. Everyone separated their own ways, with Jace leading Cecily, and Will to the main office.
Tessa had to peel her eyes off him and went towards her home class with Simon, Maia, and Sophie. Simon and Maia were quite nerdy, and were able to relate to Tessa.
"Hey Tessa," Maia said.
"Hey Maia, how was your weekend?" Tessa asked, politely.
"Mine was pretty good and what Sophie's said, you had a pretty good weekend yourself," Maia giggled. Tessa went back and glared at Sophie. Sophie smiled sweetly back at Tessa. The conversation went for a while, mostly Tessa want the bell to ring. She sat there for a while, until finally her wish was granted. She ran up and walked away from all of them. Jem, her best was wait outside their English class for Mr Starkweather to arrive.
"How are you Tessa?" His face beaming, there was slight mischief in his smile.
"Jem… Not you too," Tessa said wearily as Jem tried to hide his smile.
"I'm sorry Tess, this never happens, but I'm glad for you," Jem said, his smile melted Tessa heart. But there was sorrow in his voice.
"James, are you alright?" Tessa asked, but Jem shook the question away as Mr Starkweather approached the class. Jem and Tessa immediately took place next to each other, although there was an empty seat next to Tessa.
"G'morning class. Today we have a new student, Will Herondale." Tessa couldn't believe it, first this beauty lived near her house and now... he was in her English class. And the only empty spot, was next to her. It was going to be a long day. "And now please continue reading your copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'."
It was a little later class was let out, Tessa and Jem were eating lunch and talking about the past. The rest of the group soon joined.
"Believe it or not, but I was friends with Will Herondale once. When we were younger," Jem said to Tessa. She watched all the girl flaunt over the boy with his lunch.
"I would be traumatized if I were him," Tessa said, the overwhelming swarming of people were not her thing. And that why you never go to any party, or a thing like this wouldn't have happened, Tessa thought to herself. Jace, who was sitting next to Clary, cupped his hand over his mouth and shouted, "Will, come over here". Will, who was normally graceful, stumbled over the girls to get to our table. Tessa and a few others were trying not to laugh. Jessamine and her girl group were hard to handle.
"Welcome to Clockwork Academy," Jem said, with a hint of amusement. Will looked at him, curiously.
"Don't I know you? James?" He questioned. Tessa held her breath, this was awkward. James knowing who he was, and Will who was looking at him curiously.
"Yes, I'm surprised that you've remembered me Will. I didn't think you were a remembering type," Jem said, his voice cool. Now it was Tessa's turn to be confused.
"James, don't say anything about the past. I've done some bad things." Will's blue eyes pleaded, looking in Tessa's direction. Jem also looked at her, before nodding.
"Of course," Jem, only said. Tessa looked at the two of them.
"What's going on? Can you tell me?" Tessa asked. Both of the guys shook their heads with a 'no'. Tessa sighed and stared at her watch, the first break was almost finished. She was glad it was almost over, even though she had math next, the subject she struggled the most and from Phys Ed. Will and Jem were whispering quietly as if they were best friends. Tessa went over to her locker to get ready for her next to classes. Sadly Jem's locker was right next to hers, so he stood and followed, with Will in a tow. She brought my math books and Phys Ed books with her, she saw both them next to her.
"Can I have a look at your time table?" Will asked. Tessa shoved her timetable at him. He raised his eyebrow, but didn't say anything as he scanned his eyes on the timetable. He soon passed it back, Tessa having her hands books, grasped for it. Will seemed to see that she was struggling and put the timetable in her planner.
"Thanks," She said. "So did you find anything?"
"Yeah, I'm in your Phys Ed class, in period 4," He said. Great, now I have to make a fool of myself, Tessa thought.
"Well, see you then," She said walking to her math class. Luckily she had Clary and Maia, who was just as clueless at math as she was. Tessa knew they were watching her, Jem and Will at break. Tessa suddenly felt a bit awkward.
"Hey," Maia said. She was going to say something else but Mr Aldertree came into class, and he did not happy. By the Angel, this was going to be a long class.
Will sat next to Jem in Spanish classes. Jem, who could already speak Mandarin, Will wonder how many languages he'd leant. The only language that Will had learnt was scraps of Welsh. Mrs Rosales was muttering bits of Spanish, he was wondering if he could able learn quickly. Thankfully Mrs Rosales had knew that he was struggling and gave him an easy sheet and helped him through it.
The bell rang, thankfully, and Will was already rushing to the gym, eager to see Tessa again. He quickly got changed before walking back to the gym. There was a bunch of boys and a mixture of girls in the gym already. He saw a familiar boys and girls. Jace was there and same with Clary, and Isabella? He wasn't sure of her name, but she was very beautiful. Like the girls who would step on your heart and break it into little pieces.
"Hey, I want you to meet some people," Jace said, pointing to the guys close by the two girls. "The raven haired is Sebastian Verlac and the silver-blonde is Jonathan Morgenstern, also known as Clary's twin." Will mouth fell open. Twins? They looked as if they didn't shared the same blood at all. Will saw a familiar tall brunette weaving her way through. Her smoky grey looked as Will, as if somewhat nervous. Her eyes pointedly looked at the teacher.
"Did you all forget what this term is?" When no one answered, he increased his tone. "Well, do you?"
"It's not like we're going to remember His eyes fell on Will. "Well, hello. We've got a new student. I'm Mr Ashdown, and you are?"
"Will Herondale," said Will.
"Gah, another Herondale. I don't suppose you're related to Jace?" He asked.
"Yes… sir," Will said, he disliked this teacher even more.
"Great. This term is Volleyball, I want everyone in groups of six…"
Volleyball, was actually fun. Although that's what Will thought. Tessa looked as if she got hit by the ball. Not long after, the bell ran, leaving all the class rushing to the change rooms. As soon as Will finished, he, Jace, Jonathan and Sebastian left for break. Jace leaned towards Will.
"When are you going to asking poor Tessa out?" Jace asked. Jonathan and Sebastian left towards a table.
"It's not like that don't I like her, she probably wouldn't feel the same," Will said, his face clouded. They finally sat on the lunch table. "How does each of the six classes go for?"
"I think around 50 minutes, not really sure." Jace said.
The rest of the day, time flew past. Will had Creative Writing and Ancient History for the last two classes. Which was in the same class as Tessa. He didn't have a locker yet, so he brought his bag around. The final bell rang for the day. Will started walking out the front of the school.
"Will, wait." A girl's voice said. He brightened up, to see that it was Tessa. She had curling blonde hair. I think Jessamine was her name, Will thought.
"Hello," He replied, in the corner of his eyes he saw Tessa laughing with Jem and his little sister.
"Um… I was wondering how your first day was, and to give you this." She handed a note. Her phone number.
"Er… thanks," He replied, as she smiled and walked away. Tessa, Jem and Cecily walked over to him.
"Shall we go home?" Cecily asked, Will nodded.
Tessa walked with James, along the way, watching the sibling talk. They waved to the Herondale sibling before going into her house with Jem. Her mom, Elizabeth was in the house.
"Jem, when was the last time I saw you?" Elizabeth exclaimed.
"Two weeks ago," Jem said politely. "We're going to study if you don't mind."
"Of course, I'll bring some food along the way," Tessa mom replied.
Both Tessa and Jem went to her room, bringing all their homework sprawling around the room. She heard her mother knocking on the door.
"Tessa, there's someone else who wants to see you," Her mother said fretting, holding a plate of cookies. The familiar dark head boy, with beautiful blue-violet eyes came into my room.
"I hold there's room for three," Will said, holding his own books.
"Sure why not," Tessa said, with Jem nodding approvingly.
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