"Here you guys will be staying in Jess's room since she obviously not

here" Damon said. Tia looked into his blue eyes and she saw how deeply

he cared for Jessica. In fact everybody but Melissa had a sad little

spark in there eyes. Melissa looked terrified half the time.

Tia looked around. The room screamed "Jessica!" the walls were painted

a deep orangish yellow. It was surprising the walls weren't purple but

the yellow still was Jessica. There was a queen-sized bed that had a

brass footboard and against the bed there was a chest. The bedspread was

brightly colored oranges, yellows, and reds. There were clothes,

make-up, old textbooks, magazines, clothes sketches, and pictures everywhere.

On the small desk there was an open yearbook. Tia saw that it was from

their Senior Yeah at SVH. Melissa looked uncomfortable in the room. It

was probably to Jessica for her anyone.

Tia admired what Jessica had done with her life. She would kill to be a

famous fashion designer instead of a secretary. Jessica and Damon lived

in a beautiful 4-bedroom apartment. Megan had been surprised that it

was so big with 4 bedrooms, a moderately sized kitchen, a family room,

dinning room, and a library and Damon had confessed it was the biggest

apartment in the building. Like the penthouse. She looked over at Melissa

who was staring out the huge window.

"Jessica has all of you worshiping her. Maybe I was wrong about her"

Melissa said quietly. Tia was surprised that Melissa was admitting her

fault but in a way it made her blood boil. Jess was such a sweet person

how could it take a person 8 years to figure that out.

"We do not worship her but if you had tried to be friends with her

instead of spreading rumors about her you would have realized that she was

good person" Tia snapped. Melissa looked surprised. Tia picked up a

picture. It was of her, Jess, Liz, Connor, Maria, Ken, Andy, Evan, Jade,

Trent, Dave, Jeremy, Jeff, and Alanna. Of course Trent, Dave, Jeremy, and

Alanna had just come to see the rest of them graduate. Tia remembered

the graduation parties but one particularly struck her.

It had been at some El Carro kids house. Jessica and Tia had gotten

just a little tipsy that night. They both had been sitting in their

boyfriend's laps flirting like crazy and making out with them but Tia had

suddenly gotten the bright idea to go flirt with every person in sight. So

of Jessica and Tia had gone. They were both slobbering over Matt Welish

Wellmer Wells? When he had dared them to go skinny-dipping. They both

stripped down to their birthday suits and went swimming in the clear-

lighted pool. When they got out there clothes were gone and they just had

little towels. They had gotten plenty of catcalls and well Jeremy and

Trent lets just say they weren't sorry for all that flirting. Tia

smiled and laughed.

***

Melissa was hurt that Tia had snapped at her. She had admitted her

fault that's what counted. Tia burst out laughing.

"What?" Melissa demanded. Tia smiled.

"Oh it's nothing," Tia said as she caught her breath. Melissa smiled

tightly. This whole trip was a mistake. She felt like an outsider. She had

known Tia and Will hadn't wanted her to come but that's what had

compelled her to come. Tia was right Jessica probably was a very sweet person.

Melissa regretted not getting to know her but they were so much alike.

They had both been the leaders at their school, beautiful, captain of

the cheerleading squad, hot tempers, mindless followers, and a thing for

Will. Melissa knew that after a couple weeks Jessica had fallen for

Jeremy Armes Ambers Aames or something like that.

Then it hit Melissa. Jessica had forgiven Melissa a long time ago. She

remembered one day freshman year Will had broken up wit her and she had

been crying in the dorm bathroom. Jessica had walked in but instead of

walking out or ignoring Melissa Jessica had asked what was wrong.

Melissa had poured out the whole story while Jessica listened sympathetically.

Melissa hadn't felt like a dork. When she told Gina and Cherie these

things she always had. Jessica and Melissa had compared why Will was a

jerk but after that day Melissa refused to let her guard down for

Jessica. It didn't help that a year or two later Jessica and Will had been

madly in love. Melissa had heard Will was going to ask her to marry him

but that night she dumped him. She had been missing a lot and it was time

to pick up the pieces and start over.

*I know this is a short chapter but I just go back from some school

thing and I want to watch Charmed so you know I have to go but I'm going

to do Jeremy, Damon, Megan, and Connor in the next chapter. So there's

only about 3 or 4 more chapters left!!*