The Worst Birthday
 Hey I am sorry I haven't posted anything in a while, my comp has been messed up and I lost the disk SORRY!!! But you'll like this chapter… maybe…

It was Tessa's birthday and two days after Halloween. Tessa woke up that morning to someone shaking her.

"Tess, Tessa girl wake up." Cameron was shaking her a little, "Did you forget that it was your birthday?"

"No Cameron, I know that it is my birthday, I also know its to early for me." She sat up. "Lemme get dressed and you go downstairs, I'll be down in a minute."

"Alright." Cameron walked out. Tessa go up and got dressed. She then walked down to see her dad, Cameron, Teddy, Chris, Sophie, Tobii, Gordie and Vern all in her living room to walk her to school

On the way to school Teddy stopped her and gave her a box. She opened it and there was a wooden ring, perfectly fitted and it said on it, "Tessa and Teddy" around the side of it.

"Teddy, how did you fit it so good? It's beautiful." She wrapped her arms around his neck and she kissed him. They walked to the school and they talked about those flying cows again. Then they went into homeroom. Tessa found a seat next to Sophie.

"Hey Happy birthday!"

"Thanks Sophie."

They were talking about how they loved birthdays because of the presents and how they didnt want to eat flying cows. Then one of the attendance moniters rushed in and said, "Tessa Walker is needed in the office immediatly."

"What did you do this time?"

"I dunno maybe I killed someone in my sleep" Tessa said jokingly. Tessa walked down the hallway. Nothing happened, she didnt do anything. Tessa was worried now. "Nothing happened. I am not in trouble, nothing happened,. Nothing happened. nothing happened." Tessa was saing out loud.

Nothing was wrong. Something was wrong, little did she know that this thing that was wrong would change her for the rest of her life.

She walked into the office. "Are you Tessa Walker?" The lady behind the desk asked.

"Yes I am., w-what happened?"

"Well I dont know how to say this, but you father and brother were in a terrible car accident, the car that hit them drove away, your father is in really bad shape, your brother, Cameron, is going to be fine, with a couple of bruses on his arm. Cameron was calling for you, he wouldnt let anyone see him until he talked to you."

Tessa didnt know what to say. For the first time in her life she was completely speechless. She was clueless. She had nothing to do but cry, she thats what she did, Sophie was walking past for first period and she Tessa crying. Sophie ran in.

"Tess, what happened?"

"My dad... Cameron... car accident... Dad critical... Camerons fine... Tell only Teddy and Tobii and Gordie and Chris. Thats all. The lady is going to bring me over to the hospital in a minute." That was all she could get out she was crying so much.

"I will tell them, Tessa, it will be alright, don't worry." They both knew in their heart that it wasn't alright.

The lady from before walked over and told her that they were going to leave in a minute. They left for the hospital in a matter of minutes, the reason that they left so early was that Cameron wouldnt let the doctors see him until he saw Tessa.
"Cameron." Tessa said as softly as she could inching towards him, "Cameron, what happened."
"Tessa, we got into a hit and run. Dad is in the hospital room next door. Hes not looking to good. They told me that if he does, umm, well, that I would be able to take care of you as soon as I turned 19."
"But Cameron, your not turning 19 in another 4 months. And dad is going to be alright."
There was a knock on the door and the nurse walked in.
"Tessa, you have to stay in the waiting room until further notice, we have to look at Cameron now."
Tessa waited in the waiting room until 7 and then the doctor came out. "Tessa, Cameron will have to stay here overnight neybe even tomorrow night. You should go home and we will call you when we know about your dad."
"Thank you." Tessa started walking home. She decided to walk passed Teddys house to see if he was home. He wasn't.She walked home, tears streaming down her face. All Tessa wanted to do was go to sleep and wake up with everything back to the way it was. She wanted everything to be better.

She got to her house and took her blankets and pillows down to the couch and fell asleep on the couch. At around 11, the phone rang.

"Hello?" Tessa answered the phone sleepily.

"Hey Tessa, are you all right, who are you home with? What happened?" The person on the other line urged.

"Oh Teddy, I am home by myself, I haven't heard from the doctor yet. I need you here." Tessa said broken up by tears.

"I'll be right there." Teddy hung up. Tessa went back to her spot on the couch. In a matter of minutes, Teddy and Chris ran through the door completely out of breath. They went over to Tessa who was laying on the couch, her brown hair spread out all over. She was awake.

"Hey Teddy," She smiled, "Hey Chris. Did you guys run here?"

"Got here as fast as we could." Chris said softly

"Do you guys want something to drink?" Tessa asked getting up. She went into the kitchen and walked back in with two glasses of water in her hand. The phone rang again. Tessa ran to answer it.

"Hello?" Teddy and Chris waited in silence and knew something was wrong when they watched Tessa loose all color in her face. Teddy went over to her. Tessa's knuckles were white and then it came. The bad news they all knew that they were going to get.

"NOOOOO… YOUR WRONG. HE IS FINE I KNOW HE IS." Tessa collapsed into Teddy. Chris took her and put her back on the couch. Teddy took the phone away from her.

"Hello?"

"Hello who is this?"

"This is Teddy, Tessa's boyfriend, what happened?"

"We tried all we could, but we couldn't save her father."

"How is Cameron taking it?"

"Well I haven't told him yet. I figured I would tell Tessa because then she could find a place to stay for a while, until we can find somewhere for her."

"Go, right now and tell Cameron."

"I will." The doctor hung up.

Teddy looked helplessly over at Tessa who was having the worst crying fit he had ever seen anyone have.

"Tessa, you can stay at my house if you want to tonight. Or we can call Sophie." Chris was saying trying as hard as he could to calm her down.

"I don't want to be here, I don't want to stay anywhere." Tessa wanted out.

She ran out of the house. She ran as fast as she could. She sharply turned three corners so even if Teddy and Chris were following her, they wouldn't know where to find her. Now she was lost, and didn't have anywhere to stay. In the distance she heard someone say, "Chris, you go down this street and I will go down this one." So they were looking for her, that gave her less of a chance to know where she was going. She noticed a familiar house. She knew that block! That was the block to go to the tree house.

She got to the tree house and couldn't keep her eyes open even if she tried to stay awake. In the middle of the night, something stirred her awake. She opened her eyes, barely able to see.

"Who is it?"

"It's Teddy. Tessa, are you there?"

"Yea, what time is it?"

"3:30. Chris and me have been looking for you since about midnight. You were here the whole time?"

"Yea, I am sorry Teddy, I didn't mean to leave."

"It's not your fault." Teddy reached to her and gave her a hug.

"Teddy, where am I going to stay?"

"Well I think you have to find some place to stay until Cameron is out of the hospital and then well he can live by himself, but your not allowed to stay with him until he turns 19. But we don't have to worry about that now."

"Where am I going to stay tonight?" Tessa asked worried.
"Well. I don't know, where do you want to stay?"

"Its 3:30, I don't want to wake anyone up, so I'll go back to my house."

"I'll walk you home." Teddy didn't want her to run away again.

Teddy and Tessa left the tree house and went to Tessa's house. When they got there, Teddy gave her a kiss.

"I don't know what I would do with myself if I didn't have you Teddy. I love you."

"I'll see you in the morning."

Dear Diary,
I am sorry that I haven't written in a while. Today, well yesterday, my dad died. I seriously don't know what to do with myself. This is so strange. I will never ever see him again. Its not fair. Its my birthday too. Cameron can take care of mee when he turns 19. But that is in 5 months and I just don't know what is going to happen to mee. I think that I may be put in a foster home for the next 5 months. I am hoping that it is in this town because if it isn't, I am not going to stay there, I will live with Sophie or something.
Oh I want to tell you about the Halloween party while I still have time to write, it was really funny, but I had to kiss Chris. I was going out with Teddy(I still am) And Sophie is going out with Chris and they were all jealous after. It was pretty funny. Ver was the darer and he is an ass goblin. It was a lotta fun. Teddy had to streak up and down his block. Maybe that was a good thing that some fun things happened before well the accident. Right now I am going to go to sleep because I am so damn tired.
                                                                                                            ~Tessa333