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Well hopefully everyone likes the story so far...reviews are much much much appreciated so please post your comments and criticism! I first started this at three in the morning and I really didn't like it at all but I used some of it and tried to rewrite it...I might have to rewrite it again...the next chapter will be about what happened on the beach! Lol, thanks again and enjoy chapter three!

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Tess felt a giant glob of cheese fall from her mouth and onto the table. Ellie and her couldn't help but laugh. Pat' Pizzeria was one of Tess' favorite places to eat; they had only waited for a few minutes before their drinks and steaming pizza where laid on their table. She loved how she could just slid onto one of high stools and spin, she often spent time staring at tall tables' surface that had collages from old magazines. Pat's was never quiet since they always had live entertainment.

"So how long have you lived in L.A.?" Ellie asked sipping her coke. Tess whipped her chin with her napkin.

"For two weeks, right before school started." Tess replied. "You?"

"All my life, but this is my first year at La Brea, I went to Turner before."

"Turner?"

Ellie nodded, "Turner is second to La Brea. Mostly people who get expelled from here go there."

"People like...?" Tess asked. Ellie pulled back her dirty blond hair, her brown eyes watching Tess observantly.

"You don't honestly know?" Ellie said surprised. Tess shook her head.

"Sorry I am not much on gossip."

"You will be," Ellie smiled. "This school has loads of it. Catty's boyfriend Kyle—he goes to Turner. He's a strange one he is."

Tess remembered the guy that had taken off with Catty; she didn't say anything to Ellie about it she just nodded.

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They spent the rest of the afternoon walking around and occasionally popping into stores. Ellie introduced Tess to The Spinning Record, which was a music store that had any sort of music from the fifties and up. They spent a lot of time there putting on music and dancing to it until one of the guys working there, Jared, asked Ellie out, she had avoided the question then they both had made a planned but skillful exit.

Laughing they piled into Tess' car, a few shopping bags piled in the back.

"I don't see why you didn't like him!" Tess told her once she turned on the ignition and turned down the music.

Ellie shook her head, "I would never—no, no, no! Well what about you...I noticed that you seemed completely uninterested when that waiter at Pat's came onto you..." She let a sly smile slip onto her face.

Tess looked down at her lap, out the window then at Ellie. "What?" She laughed.

"Come on Tess who is he?" Ellie asked, her face shining. "Ooh, what is that? Are you flustered?"

Tess scoffed, trying to hide her blush. "No! Of course not!" Ellie looked at her.

"Seriously tell me...who is he? Does he go to La Brea?"

Tess shook her head. "In all honesty I really don't know that much about him..." It was true, she knew his name and his calm seductive manner, his blue-gray eyes and......

"Well tell me what you do know." Ellie insisted. Tess pulled the car over at Ellie's house. It was a two-story house, had three dogs lazily sleeping in the front, a basketball goal without a net and a pogo stick abandoned on the side.

"I should warn you..." Ellie said getting out of the car. "Um, my sisters...it gets crazy in there."

Tess smiled, "I can't wait to meet them." Ellie gave Tess a looked before going in. The house was tidy but once the door open a small girl came bouncing down the stairs.

"Madison and Melanie are at it again." Said the small girl to Ellie then turned to Tess. "Who are you?"

"I'm Tess." She smiled and shook the little girl's hand.

"I am Marissa Elaine Richards." The little girl said proudly. "Do you like my shoes?" She asked she lifted the skirt part of her Beauty and Beast dress. They were red high heels. "They use to be Dorothy's you know." She nodded, her blond ponytail bobbed. Marissa began to twirl around, her yellow-gold Belle dress swirling around her.

"Really?" Tess smiled, squatting down so she could talk to her.

"Yes and I used these shoes to get home today." She nodded then skipped off towards the kitchen.

"Marissa thinks they are the real Dorothy shoes." Ellie murmured slightly embarrassed.

"They are the real Dorothy shoes!" Marissa whined from the kitchen. Tess laughed and noticed two teenage girls tromping down the stairs.

"Ellie—!" Called the older one. "Whose shirt is this? Mine or Madison's?"

Ellie rolled her eyes and snatched the shirt from Melanie. "It's mine. I bought it two weeks ago."

Madison laughed. "See, I knew it wasn't yours." Tess' eyes widened, at Madison's appearance and at Ellie's—they were twins.

"What's wrong?" Melanie asked, pointing to Tess. "It's not my teeth—I mean Madison said I had bad breath but really getting advice from her is totally unreliable." Madison scowled at Melanie but Ellie grinned.

"No, it's not that-----I just didn't know that..."

"That we are twins?" Madison beamed. "I am actually quite proud of my twin here," Madison hooked an arm around Ellie's neck. "But for some reason the feeling isn't mutual."

Ellie pushed off Madison's arm. "I like being your twin fine."

Madison rolled her eyes. "I don't see who wouldn't want to have looks like mine." She laughed, smiled at Tess then ran up the stairs with Ellie's shirt in her hands.

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Spending the night at Ellie's house was more fun than spending the day at Tess' with a celebrity there. Once Mr. and Mrs. Richards came home they had brought Chinese food. They all had sat down at the table and it was chaos, four conversations going on at once, people getting seconds, the two small dogs running all around their feet hoping for some food. Tess loved it.

Once dinner was over Madison and Melanie left to go to the movies and Mrs. Richards went to tuck in Marissa.

"But I want to stay with Ellie and Tess! Please momma! I will be good!" Marissa's bottom lip poked out, her eyes large and looked like tears could spill from them in any second. Ellie grabbed Tess' arm and she took her to her and Madison's room. It was large with a double bed, a desk with a computer, two dressers and a walk-in closet. Tess walked over to one of the dressers that had a built in mirror, pictures were tapped to it.

A few of them were just of Ellie and Madison then them with friends and family. Tess felt a twinge of jealous and looked back at Ellie who was lying on her stomach, remote in hand looking for a movie to watch.

"Any genre of movie you wanna watch?" She asked. Tess sat down next to the bed.

"What's good?"

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They had chosen The Butterfly Effect, which they both ended up loving.

"How'd you know the ending?" Ellie asked, sitting cross legged on the bed, a pillow entwined in her arms.

Tess shrugged. "Just guessing really and it's sorta easy to tell." She took some popcorn from the bowl that Ellie had nearly tossed at the screen earlier in the movie. Ellie nodded and fell back on her bed, her hair falling on her face.

"So what is he like?" She asked. Tess leaned back on the bed, happy that the lights were off, she closed her eyes.

"Who?"

Ellie snorted. "This guy of yours."

Tess laughed thinking about him. "I guess he's about of high school—"

"You mean you don't know?" Ellie asked crazily. "How'd you meet him?"

Tess sighed looking up at the glow in the dark stars on Ellie's ceiling. "After school one day...he was waiting for me at my car—"

Tess smiled when Ellie interrupted her again. "He was waiting for you? Man, he sounds creepy already!"

"He is gorgeous; he has the most beautiful face you've ever seen with cloudy blue eyes and great lips. He has the arrogant, sexily dangerous look." Tess giggled feeling silly talking about him. Ellie rolled over so that she was facing Tess.

"Oooh..." She murmured. "And......?"

"At first I felt really annoyed because he was talking to me like he knew he could have me or something." Tess said honestly. "I felt really irritated by it. And then he asked me to meet him at The Verve—"

"The Verve? Usually only college kids get into there!" Ellie awed, her chin in her hand.

"Well we didn't stay to long just for about two dances then we went back out into the parking lot...(Ellie hit her shoulder because she paused for so long), we kissed and he drove me to the beach." Tess said finally.

"The beach?" Ellie repeated; Tess knew Ellie was smiling even though she, Tess had her back to Ellie. "What happened?"

Tess was silent for a while.