Tess was silent for a while, and then began telling Ellie.

"Want to go swimming?" He asked again softly. She soon forgot about her outburst and focused at the darkness around them. Who would see? Tess nodded slowly. Eric leaned closer to her, looked at her lips then pulled off his shirt. She kept her eyes on his; he pulled of his jeans revealing boxers.

He turned and sprinted towards the ocean then dived in. Tess shivered, the night was getting colder, and she noticed that the moon was only a crescent tonight. He called for her from the water. He was laughing, it was the first time she had actually heard him laugh.

She dropped her shoes in some tall grass and slid off her skirt and pulled off her shirt. She bit her lip, the hairs on the back of her neck rising. Gosh, it was cold.

Tess slowly walked towards the waves, Eric was now waiting with the water gently rushing around his ankles. She noticed that he didn't seem bothered by the coldness of the night.

He reached out for her hands, and then pulled her to him. His arms clasped around her waist, chills ran through her.

Eric smirked down at her and began pulling her towards the water. He tapped his fingers gently against the small of her back then threw her into the water. Freezing water rushed around Tess as she fell into the waves. Once she surfaced she felt less self conscious about being in bra and panties.

He began swimming towards her then pulled her up against him. She shivered and closed her eyes.

Ellie sighed dreamily. "That's so sweet......" She murmured then looked back at Tess wanting her to go on.

Eric's lips were hovering over Tess'. Why did I let him do these things to me? Forget all my troubles and do what I usually would never do? Tess thought, feeling his hands slowly travel up her back.

Tess closed her eyes and laid her head on Eric's lean chest. She would have never gone off to a club that she hadn't heard of or meet a guy there she didn't know she didn't know. She would have never gotten into a guy's car that she didn't know. And she most definitely would have not stripped nearly naked and gone swimming with him in the ocean at this time of the night—or morning whatever time it was.

His lips were gently kissing her neck. She shouldn't be doing this...she didn't know him at all...... She opened her eyes and watched the stars as the waves gently rocked them. Tess' arms where holding onto Eric while his where on her roaming on her back.

Tess slowly pulled away from Eric letting cold water rush between them.

"What?" He asked looking at her. His eyes seemed endlessly dark and Tess just stared at them.

"I think I need to go home." She finally said. She kept a smile inside, relieved that she had made the right choice. Hazel would be proud of her decision and if her mother ever paid the slightest attention to her personal life—she would be proud too. Hopefully.

The ride back to The Verve was quiet even though Eric's stereo was loud. Tess instead of looking down at her hands or staring blankly ahead of her she watched the stars out the passenger window. Eric's hand was entwined with her's but she didn't think of it as anything.

She had noticed that he didn't seem the least interested her as a person only as the opposite sex. Tess felt her emotions begin to bubble up to the surface. Why should she care? She didn't have any attachment to him either—--so why did it matter so much to her?

Eric stopped the car and watched her. She was beautiful. Tess ignored the way he was gazing at her. He was probably wondering the next way or more successful way to "nail" her. She fought the need to yell at him if he was thinking that. Her car was parked a few spaces away.

"Tess......" He murmured touched Tess' hair. Tess was suddenly very aware of her body and his leaning closer to hers. She moved her hand on the knob of the car door.

"Goodnight Eric." Tess told him and got out. She rubbed her arms once she sat in her car, feeling cold without him next to her. She glanced out her window and saw that Eric was still watching her......Tess frowned and drove out of the parking lot making sure she drove around for a long time......last thing she wanted was for him to find out where she lived and who she lived with......

"So you just left when he was waiting in the car—watching you like some weirdo stalker?" Ellie asked. They were sitting in the kitchen nibbling on some chocolate chip cookies. Tess pulled her legs under her and bit into another cookie.

"And you didn't even let him finish what he was saying." Ellie pointed out and slid a glass of milk across the table to Tess.

She laughed. "Ellie I really doubt that he intended on finishing what he said."

"Are you suggesting he is some slime bag that just wanted to sleep with you?"

"That is exactly what I am suggesting." Tess replied dipping her cookie into the milk. "He doesn't seem to want to get to know me as a person at all just my body."

Ellie nodded and was silent for a little while.

"He does sound really strange." She said her mouth full, crumbs falling all over her lap. "I mean he just showed up out of no where, knowing you, and then the nerve of that arrogant jerk trying to seduce you on your first date." Ellie shook her head furiously, her ponytail jerking around. I laughed.

"I am glad you stopped it." Ellie told Tess proudly and gave her another cookie as if it was an award of sensibility. "But it did sound pretty romantic......and I am a sucker for romance." She sighed.

"Are you? Then do we have time to watch Pretty Woman?" Tess smiled pulling the DVD out of her bag. Ellie's eyes lit up.

"We have time for Julia Roberts any day!" She gushed grinning tremendously. "My family is Julia Roberts obsessed. I'm not kidding. We have all her movies but this one."

"Really?" Tess asked drinking up the last of her milk. Ellie nodded and began cleaning up her crumb-mess.

"Wanna go watch it before we go to bed?" Ellie asked dropping the two glasses into the sink. "It's only eleven."

"Okay."

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Tess stirred and lifted her palm to place it over her face. She heard faint music—had Hazel decided to clean this morning? Usually she cleaned on Saturdays...Tess slid out of bed and crossed the room to where her bathroom door was. She reached for the doorknob and heard clatter. What was that? Squinting, Tess saw that she had her hand where a lot of perfume bottles where. Whose where these?

Suddenly the image of Ellie's twin sister, Madison, sprung to her mind. Madison and Ellie Richards...

Tess opened her eyes all the way and realized she wasn't in her room—her house. Her feet padded across the carpet to the door, she slowly opened it hoping not to wake Ellie who had now taken up the entire bed.

Pounding music exploded around Tess as she went downstairs. Melanie and Madison where dancing around the kitchen while attempting to cook while Nickelback poured from the sound system.

"Good morning Tess!" Madison hollered taking a break from singing to "Figured You Out" while Melanie just smiled and continued singing. Melanie wore some denim jeans that were splattered with flour with a blue tank top and her hair tied up.

"Eggs!" She yelled out to Madison who, like Tess, was still dressed in pajamas, raced to the fridge. She pulled out four and tossed them to Melanie who caught all of them with skill. Tess gaped at them. Suddenly the kitchen became quiet.

"Want to help?" Melanie asked wiping her palms on her pants. "We could use the help since Ellie still isn't up."

"Um, sure, what are we doing?" Tess said hesitatingly.

"Breakfast." Madison grinned as Linkin Park now boomed in the kitchen.

Tess laughed as she and Madison danced around the kitchen, going deaf from the music and Melanie's singing, as they set the table and helped cook the huge breakfast that had weird looking pancakes, eggs, bacon and toast. When Ellie finally came down Tess was having the time of her life. Never in her house did they do things like this.

"Okay Mel—pass the bacon!" Marissa whined from at the end of the table. Only their voices now echoed in the kitchen. Melanie stood up to go to Marissa while Madison was talking on her cell phone to her boyfriend...Carl was it? Ellie dumped a load of eggs on Tess' plate.

"They're Melanie's pride you know." She informed her with a fake serious look. She continued to pile eggs on Tess' plate. "She would be deeply hurt if you didn't at least try them!"

"Ellie! Stop hogging the eggs!" Came Marissa's voice. Ellie turned towards Marissa and flung a spoonful of eggs at Marissa's long sleeved shirt.

"Michelle!" Marissa squealed, looking at her shirt then giving the laughing girls a wounded look.

"It's not funny!" Marissa snapped and threw her pancake at Ellie. Tess folded her hands in her lap and silently watched furious Ellie chucked a fistful of eggs at her younger sister. Melanie watched this and as the oldest child and sister of them took the best course of action: she picked up a slice of toast and threw it at Tess.

Author's Notes: Sorry about the chapter, I hope you liked the beach scene! I was so excited to finally write it and I really ,really hope it's ok......lol, I was and AM so worried about it......but I think it actually came out pretty good! Um, I was trying to do more with the sisters because I really want them to be in the story some but the food fight didn't turn out entirely the way I wanted it to—but hopefully its ok...

HermioneRules7: My first reviewer!!!!! Thank you so much for reviewing and thank you thank you thank you!!! I am really glad you like my story and I hope you continue to review even if you don't like the story!!

C: Thank you also for reviewing, my second reviewer—thank you SOO much for reviewing!! Please continue to pleaseee? Lol.

Apolla: Thanks for reviewing—you're reviewer number three!! Hey I was just wondering is your name suppose to be close to the name Apollo or....? I first would like to thank you again for reviewing and answer some of the questions and such that you posted ( ). Thank you I am really glad you like my story and I hope that you continue reviewing. In this chapter (chapter four) I put more of what Tess thinks since it really is important since she is the main character. And you also stated, "don't fear fluff"—what is fluff?? And about Tess' power, I chose that power because later on in the story she uses that more than she would use any other I could choose, and its really difficult to come up with a power that usually isn't over used (Like in the show Charmed, or the DOTM books or any of the X-Men graphic novels/comics/movie/and show). It is a lot, I guess in some ways, like Catty's concerning that it has to do with time—but I didn't mean for it to be like that. And since Catty is almost 17 I don't really think that her power will expand more but it might—and if it does I will have some problems. Lol. And also about her meeting the other daughters of the moon I still haven't completely decided if I wanted to include the plot line with the daughters' destiny.....but she will eventually meet all the daughters but I just didn't want Tess to meet all the daughters at once I wanted to kinda do it gradually—if that makes any sense. Lol. Well hope that helps—please continue reviewing!! Even if you don't like how the story goes!!

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