Chapter 9:

The Twins House

Tess spent the next two weeks having lots of fun with her new friends, she had no idea how much fun it was to hang out with them. Her mind had been so clouded with hating them that she never realized how much fun it could be.

She hung out with them around school every day. In music class she sat next to Yasmin and they talked so much. She'd learned a lot about her and came to find out that Yasmin was such a sweet girl and despite the two of them seeming like polar opposites on the outside, they actually had a lot in common.

Jade showed her her sketchbook of clothes designs and showed her how she made them. Tess was thoroughly impressed by it. And she found that Jade wasn't a total viscous bimbo like she had always thought. Jade was really smart and she helped Tess with her calculus homework which she was really struggling in.

She and Dana talked a lot and Tess felt closer to her than any of them. They both knew what it was like to be new in the group and they talked about that, people,being jealous of them, and everything else there was to talk about.

She loved talking to Cloe because she was artistic and very funny. Cloe was always cracking jokes and doing funny things whether she meant to or not. The two of them even played soccer together on some evenings. Tess had only been a serious player in elementary school so Cloe was much better but she was patient with her and taught her a lot.

She'd even gotten on very good terms with Sasha. She had always thought of Sasha as the worst person in the world but that was far from true. They talked a lot and Tess found her to be a cool person.

She was happy that she'd made such good friends and regretted hating them for so long. Yet she had no idea of their true intentions. They were mentally taking note of everything she told them about herself and Nona and gossiping about it when Tess wasn't around. But as far as Tess knew, everything was going well.

Nona sat in her room on a Friday evening doing homework on her laptop. It was so messed up when she opened it after the party and she took it back to Liam to fix it. Only to find her desktop picture was a picture of the Bratz giving her the finger.

Since Tess had started hanging out with them her life seemed to just be getting miserable. As finite wasn't bad after the party, but after the confrontation in the cafeteria everywhere she went she was stared at and known as the girl that's the Bratz rejected. This week it hadn't been as bad but she could tell people were still talking about her.

She heard Tess in her room across the hall on the phone with the Bratz.

"We're going to have another legendary sleepover tonight," Tess said.

"Losers wish they could come," Cloe said over the phone.

"Like Nona," Jade said.

The rest of the girls laughed.

None broke her pencil in half out of frustration. She got off her bed and three open Tess's door. "Do you mind? I'm trying to do homework," she said through her teeth.

"Get out of my room," Tess said narrowing her eyes at her.

"Then stop being so fucking loud!" Nona slammed the door and went back to her room only to hear the Bratz laughing again.

An hour later they were sitting at their dining room table having dinner with their parents. Tess and Nona kept giving each other the evil eye. There had been extreme tension behind them lately and their parents just didn't understand.

"So how was your day?" Their father asked them.

"Great," Tess said.

"Terrible," Nona said at the same time.

Their parents gave each other concerned looks.

"Nona, are you going to the sleepover with Tess tonight?" Their mother asked.

Nona forcefully stabbed her fork into her fish. "I wasn't invited."

"Tess, why don't you bring Nona along?"

"It's not my choice," Tess said.

"I don't want to go anyway."

Their father sighed. "Girls this has to stop. You've never fought like this before."

"How about you tell Tess to stop being fake?" Nona said with a glare that could have cut Tess in half.

"Tell Nona to stop being an obsessed psycho," Tess said.

"They don't even like you!" Nona exclaimed.

"You don't know them! How about you give them a chance?!"

"You're out of your mind!"

Tess stood up. "Shut up!"

"You shut up!" Nona said standing up as well.

"I don't need this. I'm going to the sleepover," Tess said leaving the room.

"Good, we don't want you here anyway!"