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Chapter 3: First Day Part 2

Mercedes

After her call with Kelly, Mercedes ran off to find her class. At least finding the buildings and room numbers were simple, she thought. Once she found the class she took a deep breath and knocked on the door. A petite brunette opened the door with a gasp and the teacher who at first had no intention of stopping to address the late student took a double take at the door. Mercedes rolled her eyes when she saw the teacher Mr. something or other making the same tennis match motion that Mrs. Hernandez was making this morning.

"Not that this moment could have been any more awkward." she muttered to herself. She stood there for a minute trying to convince herself to go into the dumb classroom, when the teacher stopped and turned to face the class.

"Tessa, is there something you need to tell me?" Mercedes recognized the name as the one Mrs. Hernandez kept calling her and the annoyance began to creep back in. The need to see the resemblance and to understand what all the fuss was about outweighed the awkwardness of the situation. The brunette at the door still hadn't let her in and the teacher looked to shell shocked to give the order. So Mercedes took matters into her own hands, she had to nip whatever this was in the bud before it got to out of hand. She realized right in that moment, that these students weren't friendly, they just thought they knew her, they thought she was this Tessa and that was just not going to cut it. This ended now.

"Tessa, it is definitely about time that me and you meet. You've kinda been the cause of a lot of my frustration today." Mercedes heard the audible gasp and then the fervent whispers the second she walked into the classroom. She decided to ignore them, this was not ok! She had come to the school with the expectation of making a few acquaintances that she could link herself to. She had learned from experience the harder you tried to disappear in a high school the more people paid attention to you, so she was done with the loner bit. She just always tried her best to be as close to normal as she could possibly get when she was in public, but the whole school gawking at her because she resembled another girl, was not on her list of things to do.

"What the-"

Oh my gosh"

Mercedes stopped when she saw all the awestruck eyes on her. As she looked around the room, trying to figure what was going on, she stopped. As soon as Mercedes saw the girl sitting in the second row dead smack in the middle of the room she knew exactly what the big deal was.

"Tessa, that girl stole your face." It took a second for Mercedes to take the whole scene in. The girl sitting in the seat, Tessa, stood up with bright brown eyes that mirrored Mercedes and just stared. Mercedes couldn't really blame her, and she mentally apologized to Mrs. Hernandez, because all she could do was stare.

"How do you know?" Tessa startled and if possible her eyes got even bigger at Mercedes question.

"How do I know what?" Tessa asked in a whisper.

"How do you know I stole your face? What if you stole my face?"

"That's actually a legit question, I mean how do we know you didn't steal her face." A voice came from somewhere in the back of the room.

"I mean, I guess I could have…"

"Ok, hold on just a minute, just hold on." The teacher, Mercedes still couldn't remember the poor man's name, here she was derailing his class and she couldn't even remember his name. "Everyone just have a seat, young lady what is your name?"

"Mercedes Till." she turned and gave him an 'i'm sorry look', "I'm starting today, my step-father registered me last week. I'm sorry, I can't remember your name."

"That's ok, just everyone have a seat. Have a seat." As all the students made their way to their seats. Mercedes stood awkwardly at the front of the classroom, noticing with a bad taste in her mouth, that the only seat available was next to her doppelganger.

"Theressa is our resident one woman welcoming committee, so whenever a new student comes to the class they automatically get linked to her." The brunette who answered the door stated. Mercedes was tempted to walk out of the class, go back home and try to convince Roger and her mom that it was time for them to move again. She was sure she could come up with a logical reason. Alien attack, the sky was falling, some girl stole her face.

"Ms. Jones, please have a seat." The teacher requested warily, knowing that even if he tried to teach, after this anything he said would go in one ear and out the other.

"Till, my last name is till." Mercedes replied absentmindedly, as she walked to the empty seat. "Your name is Theressa Jones, Jones, where do I recognize that last name from?"

"My dad owns a dentist practice, it's called Jones Dentistry, 'where at least with your teeth, you can keep up with the Joneses!', I know completely corny, but he loves it." Theressa said holding her hands up in a surrender stance. Theressa smirked and Mercedes did a slight smile.

"I haven't seen much of the town yet, so that's not it, but I will be sure to make it one of my stops. I heard it somewhere else. I, wait, the green eyed magician." Mercedes felt her body tense just thinking about the boy from the hallway.

"The green eyed magician?" Confusion showed through with an expression that Mercedes knew all too well, she'd seen it on her own face over the years. Every time they had to up and move for no apparent reason too Mercedes, for the way her father just disappeared one day, trying to understand how her mother could have ever even entertained the idea of marrying Roger. Her life was a wreck, one that she needed to keep under wraps, which she couldn't do if the school was talking about how she and the girl across from her were starring in the remake of Face Off.

"This guy I met in the hall. He called me by your name. Your last name. I think he may be mad at you actually. Look, we need to talk." Theressa looked at Mercedes expectantly and Mercedes took an uncomfortable glance around the room. "In private"

"Oh, right totally." she nodded enthusiastically with a smile on her face now. Mercedes was trying not to freak out right now, but the girl staring back at her, this girl, Mercedes could have sworn that she was actually enjoying this. Enjoying it!

"Yeah, you two can have that talk later. When you are not in the middle of my AP class. We've got stuff to learn. Habits to break, like your love affair with commas, yeah, yeah you know who I'm talking too." The teacher said making eye contact with a few of the students. Mercedes slapped her knee then.

"Mr. Hamilton, that's your name right?" Mercedes said with a proud smile.

"That's right, I'm Mr. Hamilton and this is my AP English class, so let's focus on that with the time that we have left, all fifteen minutes of it." Mr. Hamilton said dejected, "Oh, just forget it, Mercedes why don't you introduce yourself to the class, I mean past the fact of you and Tessa." Once again Mercedes was the center of attention, this was beginning to be a bad habit, one that would continue throughout the entire school day. Apparently Tessa knew everyone and everyone knew Tessa. Every class she went in began and ended the same way, all eyes on her, all conversation about her and directed toward her, and of course frustrated teachers who weren't able to get their classes back on focus. Mercedes wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow she had a brand new schedule, she was officially a teacher's worst nightmare. She had somehow avoided Tessa the entire day, the girl was like Kelly in a thrift store, somehow she always found what she was looking for, no matter where it was hiding. By the time she got home she was so tired and just oh so grateful that Roger was nowhere in sight. Most likely he was out somewhere getting drunk and would come in as the devil he was, but she was grateful for this peace, she took it while she could and drifted off to sleep.

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