When lunch rolls around, I quickly take my seat next to Tess. She almost squeals in delight, her arm immediately wrapped around mine. My eyes flicker to Dana's table to see them roll their eyes in disgust.
"Nate." Tess' voice pulls my attention from the other table. "You should come over to my house tonight."
I furrow my eyebrows. "But it's Monday. We have school tomorrow."
"You don't have to stay for long, I just want to… get closer to you, you know?" Her hand snakes its way down to my lap again.
I shift uncomfortably. I don't want a repeat of what happened in music again. Having one boner in school is enough, but two is pushing it.
"Okay…" I breathe out, looking down into her eyes. Her lips quirk up as I realize the closeness of our faces. Her eyes dart to my lips before she leans forward to close the distance. Closing my eyes for a second, I allow my lips to smoothly move with hers before I feel her lips curve up into a smirk. I pull away a bit and look up, catching Dana's eye before she swiftly looks away.
Tess quickly moves away and twirls her hair in her fingers, giggling slightly. I barely notice her since Luke had just walked up to Dana's table. He leaned over her for a few seconds and exchanged some words before he walked over my way. He stops midstride when he sees my table, the smug look on his face making me want to hit him. I scowl in response until he chuckles and keeps walking.
Tess winds her fingers through mine and rests our hands on top of the table, as if to let everyone else know that I'm hers and she's mine. It's not like we're official or anything, but I don't really care. I'm starting to see that she's not really that bad, and she likes me so much that it's bound to rub off on me sometime. Plus it doesn't hurt that she's pretty hot. You'd have to be blind not to see it. She's hot in the obvious, popular way. But hot nonetheless.
"My house, eight o'clock?" she whispers to me. I look into her crystal blue eyes before nodding and pecking her on her lips.
"Are you guys done with being all lovey dovey?" Jorge jokes from across the table. Tess finally let him sit back at the table after banishing him the first time I sat with him.
Tess just scowls at him before turning back to me. "It's going to be so much fun tonight, you won't regret… coming," she winks at me.
I gulp, my clutch on her hand tightening just a bit. "You won't regret asking me," I hoarsely say.
Satisfied with our arrangements, Tess goes back to eating her food, our hands still entwined. Is it bad that I'm curious but also insanely excited to see what happens tonight?