Ch13

Teddy shot Chris the dirtiest look. He really didn't want to go off on the ultimate revenge when Tessa was willing to kill people. He wanted the guy jailed, not killed.

"C'mon Tess, I'll walk you home." She looked up at her boyfriend. She stared at him. Who was he? Why did he like her? Those were the questions that were going through Tessa's mind. She wasn't ready to go home just yet, but didn't have enough energy to argue. They got to Paige's house. Tessa kissed Teddy and then went in.

"Mrs. Carver?"

"Yes, dear, I am in the living room."

"I am home."

"Alright."

Tessa walked up to her and Paige's room. Paige was sitting on her bed. Tessa walked passed her and took her school book and went into her corner.

"Hi." Paige said, looking up form the magazine she was reading.

"Tessa looked up to see if anyone had come through the door. No one had. Was she really talking to Tessa?

"Yea, I was saying hi to you."

"Oh, um hey."

"I don't bite, you can talk to me."

"Are you sure about that?"

"Positive."

"Only fools are positive."

"Are you sure?"

"Positive." Tessa silently laughed. Sophie taught her that. "Why are you even talking to me, what do you want?"

"I just want to say that I am sorry for being a bitch for the past few days, lets start over."

"Ummm… ok… hello, I am Tessa Walker, my dad just died and I am staying with you until my big bro Cameron comes out of the hospital."

"Oh! I know Cameron, he is one of the Cobras."

"That's him."

"Oh I have something of yours." Paige went into her back pack and took out Tessa's diary and handed it back to her.

"Did… did you figure it out?"

"No, me and Olivia spent all damn day trying to figure it out, we just couldn't do it, I gotta hand it to you, it is a very secure book you have there, must be some really personal shit."

"Yea, I guess it is pretty personal, no one can figure it out."

Paige smiled Tessa knew that was the only time that she had ever seen Paige smile before.

"Why did you and Teddy break up?"

Paige stopped smiling. "Well, it was more of a mutual agreement, not he broke up with me or I broke up with him, see, Tessa, its different with you, you guys really love each other, with me and him, well we were like the same sides of a magnate, I guess, and I wasn't all that great a girlfriend because I would never hang out with him, I was always with Ace."

"From the outside, what do you think of Teddy and me."

"Well, I only know it from a enemy's point of view, but truthfully, I think that you would look cuter with Vince."

Tessa was completely speechless, Sophie and Tobii and Gordie and Chris were always telling her that the two of them looked so cute together, they would be together forever. She could never in a million years picture herself with Vince, well of course she couldn't, she didn't know what he looks like, but he is a Cobra. Tessa's thoughts were spinning rapidly through her head.

"I am not saying completely ditch Teddy, I am just saying, why don't you come sneak out with me tonight."

"Do you sneak out every night?

"Just about." Tessa wasn't sure if she wanted to go, but figured that it was only this once, she would probably only tell Sophie about it and besides, she wanted to find out who killed her father. She also wanted to see what Cameron does at night.

"Alright, I will go. But, what do I wear?"

Paige stood up from her bed, she went over to her closet. For about five minutes was rummaging through all her cloths. "I got it! You can wear this." It was black tight tank top and a long black skirt with the word 'blood sucker' in red letters on the bottom. Tessa smiled and almost laughed at the sight of that skirt. It was so, tight.

"Do you like it?"

"Yea. I really like it." Tessa lied; she knew that it would be pussy to say that it was too tight. Paige handed it to Tessa.

"Now what you do, Tessa, is pretend to be asleep and when my mother turns off that light," Paige pointed to the hallway light, "You wait 5 minutes and follow me."

"That is easy enough, I am in."

"Good."

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Paige's mom turned off the hallway light. Five long minutes later, Paige whispered, "C'mon, follow me." Tessa got up, her and Paige went over to the windowsill. Since they were on the bottom floor, getting out was no problem. Ace was parked about half a block down. Paige slipped into the front seat and gave Ace a long kiss… it was as if they hadn't seen each other in about 50 years.

"Ace you know Tessa, she is going to come hang out with us tonight."

"mMmMm" Ace grunted. Paige got out of the car and opened the back car door. Two guys and a girl were sitting there. One was Eyeball and she supposed the other one was Olivia, considering she was on top of him. One guy she didn't know.

"Tessa, this is Olivia, Eyeball and Vince." So this is the infamous Vince, Tessa thought. He is kind of cute… What am I thinking? I have the hottest guy in the world, Fuzzy isn't cute, not even a little compared to Teddy.

Vince had brown hair and deep brown eyes. He was a little tall and reminded her of Eyeball. He was holding a cigarette and a beer bottle. How attractive. Tessa was hesitant, but got into the car.

It was like a ride in an amusement park. All of a sudden they were doing 50 miles an hour and just as suddenly as it had started, came to a complete stop in front of a lot. All of the people in the car got out. There were already about 7 other people already there.

"Tessa, come here." Paige pulled her over to the rest of the Cobras. "This is Fuzzy, Candy, Billy, Charlie, Winnie, Capone and Missy." Paige said pointing to the people she was talking about. "Yo, Vince, come over here."

"What?" Vince walked over. "Oh, hey Tessa, Cobras."

"Vince, show Tessa around."

"Sure, c'mon Tessa." Tessa glanced a look at Paige, she was smiling. Tessa walked over with him to where Ace and Eyeball were. He went into the car and brought out two beers. He handed one to Tessa. She took it, but didn't drink it.

"So Tessa, visit Cameron today?" Vince asked.

"No, I got kicked out last time."

"Nice."

"I know. I got kicked out because he wouldn't tell me who killed our father, you wouldn't know by any chance, would you."

"Shit yea, everyone knows. Well all of us know. We are going to knock up the guy who did it too."

"Well, who was it?" Tessa suddenly was actually interested in what he had to say.

"Jason Dormain. He is Python, Cameron pulled a knife on him so hitting your brother and your father was just a way to get him back."

"What do you plan to do?"

"Well we could beat him and take him to the cops and he could be in jail for the rest of his life, or we could just kill him."

"Kill him." Tessa had that scary distant look on. Vince looked at her.

"So, you are going out with Teddy Duchamp right?"

"What? Oh, yea I am."

"Do you love him?"  Vince said teasingly

"I don't know maybe."

"Well you either love him or you don't."

"Why, do you love anyone?"

"No." He looked hurt. Hurt with sadness and memory. Tessa was immediately sorry she asked. "I did love her though."

"Well what happened?" Once again, Tessa regretted saying anything.

"Her name was Ashlynn. She was really great. She hated her name; it was too prissy for her. Ash was my girl and I loved her, so much. No one in the Cobra's understood; I mean you wouldn't be able to. Cobras and love go together like oil and water. One morning she snuck out of my room, so she could get home before her mom woke up. That afternoon I got a call from her mom asking if I knew where she was. She hadn't come home. I went to find her. I was willing to do anything to find her, and I did. I found her dead, with a note attached to her shirt, over a bullet hole. It said, Love Jason Dormain of the Pythons. That was the day I vowed to kill him if I ever got a chance to. You and one other person are the only people I told about the note. The other person was your brother. That was why he pulled the knife on Jason and that is why Jason killed your dad."

"I am so sorry, I know! I will help you plan revenge. For Ashlynn and for my dad."

"You know, you aren't as bas as I thought you would be."

"What do you mean?"

"Well I thought that if you hung out with Vern, Chris, Gordie and Teddy then you had to be a pussy like them, but your not."

"That is my boyfriend you are talking about, but thanks." Tessa still wasn't sure whether to take it as a compliment or not, she decided to, Vince was really nice and she felt bad for him. She felt bad for both her and him.

Dear Diary,

            Why I will never know, but I snuck out with Paige. I met this guy named Vince and it so happens that his old girlfriend was shot by the same guy that killed dad. At the end of the night I told Vince that I would help him plan revenge on Jason. I know, just by talking to him for those few hours, that he wanted to avenge the death of Ashlynn, his girl. And I wanted to kill Jason for my father. I wanted him to burn in hell for all eternity. Never again will he do to anyone what he did to Vince and I. Also, I respect Cameron so much more than I did. I have to go to the hospital and tell him how proud I am that he did that for a friend. And how much Jason should drop dead. It's getting really late or early, so I am going to go to sleep. Goodnight!

                                                                                                ~Tessa333