Ch. 10

I hope that u like this chapter… it gets a little weird by the end but I no you will like it.

The Carver's helped Tessa take her stuff into Paige's room. The room was full of dark blue and yellow. There was a dresser and a messy desk in one corner. Against the far wall was a really big closet. There were two beds in the room. One was on one side of the room and the other bed was on the other side. On the wall right behind Paige's bed was full of pictures of Ace, Olivia, Eyeball, and her and there were some people in the pictures that Tessa didn't know. Tessa sat on her bed looking around. The gate outside slammed shut.

"MOM! WHAT IS THAT DIRT TEDDY DOING COMING FROM THIS HOUSE??" Tessa heard from downstairs. She went over, closer to the door to hear what was going on.

"Oh Paige, dear, I have a surprise for you."

Tessa sighed. Wonderful, I am a surprise. Won't Paige be thrilled.

"Who has surprises anymore. I don't like surprises. And you still haven't answered my question, why was Teddy here?"

"I am telling you know that if you are planning to go out, call your friends and tell them that you can't go today." Ms. Carver said calmly. How does she live with Paige, it must be like a nightmare that you cant wake up from.

"I don't know who you think that your kidding, Ace is coming out of jail tonight I told him that I would be there."

"Well… Tessa can you come down here for a minute." Tessa slowly walked down the stairs.

"What the hell is she doing here?!? You know what I don't even want to know. I will be back later, Ace is expecting me. Paige walked out and as the door was being slammed Jen Carver yelled, "You know I don't like that your boyfriend is in jail Paige, why don't you find someone worth your time?"

Tessa smiled weakly and went back upstairs. How did I know that was coming? Ms. Carver really shouldn't have made me a surprise.

Tessa sat on her bed, thinking, about life, death and flying cows.

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Tessa woke up, stretched, and looked around. She looked across the room. Paige was collapsed onto her bed. Tessa guessed that she had come in at around four or five, by the way that she was lying. Tessa turned onto her side where her book was. She started reading, It was only nine so she fell asleep again.

About three hours later Tessa was awaken by a really loud crash. She shot up like a bullet out of a gun and looked for where the sound had come from. Paige had gotten up and walked into the night table.

"What are you looking at?"

"You woke me up, what am I supposed to look at, the night table, It didn't fall by itself you know."

"Why the hell are you here anyway?"

"My dad died and Cameron isn't old enough to take care of me alone. So your parents adopted me for the next five months."

"Great, I am stuck with you for the next five months."

"Why do you have to be such a bitch, I didn't do anything to you. Teddy chose me over you, it's not like I stole him from you."

"I don't LIKE Teddy, I have Ace and he does more for me than Teddy ever could."

"Like what, get you drugs. He is a cocaine pusher right."

"I don't do drugs."

"I am sure."

"I resent that."

"I don't care."

Tessa took her cloths for the day and went into the bathroom to change. He came out with her usual, baggy shirt and baggy pants. She walked out of the house with out saying a word and went to see Cameron.

"Hey Tessa girl." Cameron smiled at the sight of his sister.

"Hey are you better?"

"Yea I am fine, I want to get out of this rat trap but the doctors say that I cant for another three days. Did you hear from dad yet? How is he doing."

Tessa gulped, "I'll be right back, ok. Don't go anywhere." Tessa said choking back her tears. She ran right to the reception desk.
"I need to speak to the doctor in charge of Cameron Walker right now."

"Is everything alright?"

"Yes, yes everything fine now get me the goddamn doctor."

The nurse went into the back room and her and the doctor came out.

"Hello Tessa."

"HOW CAN YOU NOT HAVE TOLD HIM?????"

"What?"

"CAMERON JUST ASKED HOW MY FATHER WAS. I SPECIFICALLY REMMEBER TEDDY TELLING YOU TO TELL HIM!!!!"

"Well I didn't think that he was well enough."

"I DON'T CARE! WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW IF YOUR FATHER DIED?"

"Yes but-"

"YES BUT NOTHING I AM GOING IN THE ROOM AND GOING TO TELL HIM WHETHER YOU SAY YES OR NOT!!!!"

Tessa turned around and ran into someone. She tried to get passed him but couldn't. He was holding her back. She looked up to see who it was and it was Cameron, he heard her screaming and came out to see what had happened. He had one small tear running down his face.

"Shhhh Tess, it's ok. I'll get a job, I'll work to support us, It will be ok."

"That's just it Cameron, you cant, you have to be 19. so they found me a foster home and you know who these people put me with? DO YOU KNOW?"

"Who?"

"Paige… You know your friend, Ace's girlfriend."

"Are you serious?"

"Yes and she isn't nice, she has snubbed me off since I got here."

"I'll see if I can change where you are, but I think that may mean you will have to go out of Castle Rock."

"But I don't want to do that."

"I know Tess, I know."

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Tessa walked out of the hospital after the doctor told Cameron that he was not supposed to be up and walking yet. The nurse told Tessa to go home. I don't think they like her there anymore. Tessa didn't care though, she didn't like them.

She went for a walk, she wasn't sure where she was going but she needed to get away from everywhere. She walked into the open field that was by the train tracks that Teddy, Chris, Gordie and Vern took to find the dead body of a kid named Ray Brower. She laid down in the long stalks of grass and fell asleep. She had a dream…


"Hey Tessa." A lady at a white doorway said.
"Hello Miss."
"I am your mother Tessa, don't you remember me?"
"Yes I do remember you. I remember your hair, your long hair that I used to play with when I was little."
"And do you remember your dad, Tessa?"
"Yes I remember my dad, I saw him just three days ago."
"But do you remember him like he was yesterday?"
"I didn't see him yesterday."
"Did you see him like this?" A shadow walked into the dream… His eyes were red and his face was bloody. He had his chest ripped open and there was bloody footprints from where he was doming from.
"That's not what he looked like, I don't believe you."
"It was him Tessa, it was him."
"Who dad? Who did this to you?"
"Ask Cameron, he saw, he knows Tessa, he knows."

Tessa woke up, startled and confused. She didn't know what to do. It was a dream and now that she thinks about it, she never saw her dad after the accident, she never saw what he looked like, but he told her to ask Cameron. She couldn't go back to the hospital though, not today at least.


Dear Diary,
I had a really messed up dream. I was laying in the grass field by the tracks and I fell asleep. My mom and my dad were in my dream. Dad was all messed up and mom was as beautiful as I remember her. She had long brown hair that was down to her lower back. I remember playing with her hair. Cameron didn't know about dad dying when I went to see him today. I completely blew up at the doctor for not telling him. I want to talk to Teddy, I need some support from him, maybe he knows about dreams. I am living with Paige, I don't know how I am gonna survive.
~Tessa333