Chapter 2

Kendall

I woke up feeling repulsive and having the worst hang-over. "Ugh, who brought me home?" I wondered aloud.

After every word I spoke, I could hear my head throbbing with the beat of my words. "I did." Said a familiar voice.

I looked next to me and saw Ashlyn in my pink lounge chair next to my window. "Thanks Ash."

"No problem. Do we have any plans today?" She said with a smile on her face.

I got up and made my way to my huge mirror in front of my makeup desk. "I look like a train wreck." I tried brushing through my hair, but my brush got caught.

"I bet you feel like one too. I'm guessing no shopping?" She came up behind me and grabbed the brush out of my hair.

"Not unless this headache miraculously goes away. I'll be right back, I'm taking a well earned shower."

I turned on the shower head and looked under the sink for towels. Once I found one, I tried looking for shampoo. "Hey Ash is my shampoo out there?" My head was still screaming, but I needed the shampoo.

"Uh, yeah. And you got a text." Ash said, while handing the shampoo and my phone to me.

I expected to find the text from Wesley, but it was from Bryan. I had a lot of fun last night. What was that supposed to mean? I didn't even hang out with him. I tried to think. The more I thought about it, the more I couldn't remember. "Um Ashlyn, is there any reason why Bryan Moroose would be texting me?"

"Well you kinda attacked his face last night." She called from my room.

"I what?" I screamed making my way out of the bathroom, half naked.

"Oh my God. You don't remember." She looked at me and sat on the bed.

"I can't remember anything! The last thing I can remember is kissing Wesley, not Bryan!"

Ashlyn looked at me like she was sorry for me. Now I really did feel horrible. I forgot about the shower still being on. I didn't really care. I fell back on my bed and listened to the water coming from the bathroom.

Tessa

"This computer is so stupid." I mumbled, hitting more buttons on the keyboard.

Finally I got the homepage to pull up, but once I moved the mouse, it went black. I gave up and shut my computer. I put my computer to the side and went to the other side of my room. "I need to get new posters." I said to myself.

I looked at all of them. My Chemical Romance, Pierce the Veil, Black Veil Brides, and a lot others. In my mind, they are the best bands, but to the rest of the world their emo kids who cut themselves.

"Those posters are old." My sister said, popping up beside me.

"That's what I've been saying." I took one of the posters down and sat it on my desk.

"Get mom to get you some new ones." She grabbed the poster and held it out in front of her.

"I doubt it. She doesn't even like me. After you uh- um-"

"Died?" She said looking at me.

"Uh- yeah. After you died, she barely even talks to me or anyone."

"Sounds like mom." With that comment, she disappeared again.

"I know you didn't die." I said under my breath. "I know."

I went back to my bed and grabbed my jacket and headed down the hallway. I looked in the kitchen and mom was nowhere to be found. She was probably still out with her 'boyfriend'.

I opened the front door and stepped outside. The cold air felt good against my face. I started walking down the sidewalk towards the convenient store.

Once I got there I went to the back of the store and got a Monster. "Hey, uh- um Tessa?" Someone said from behind.

I turned around to find the most popular jock in school starring at me. "Yeah, and your Wesley. Right?" I said closing the freezer.

"Yep." He said opening the freezer again. "And you have a very good taste in drinks."

"Uh, thanks." I said, trying to smile.

He closed the freezer door and turned back towards me. "Listen, I know Kendall is a bitch to you and I wanted to apologize about her."

"Hah it's ok." I said, a little confused. "Is she here with you?"

"No we kinda broke up last night." He said, starring down at his drink.

"Oh, I'm sorry." I said.

"It's fine. I found her kissing another guy at a party and I got really pissed and stormed out."

I nodded and listened to the rest of his story. Why in the world is the most popular guy in school telling me about his love life? All of these questions were running through my head.

"Well I better go." He said starting to walk towards the cashier.

"Ok. Well nice talking to you." I said. I tried to smile, but it was a little too much.

He turned around and went to the front of the store. "Nice talking to you? Really Tessa?" Justine said appearing next to me.

"That's all I could think of!"

Mason

"Time to get up." Said the familiar voice at my door.

"I'll be up in a minute." I said back at my aunt.

I went into my bathroom and combed my hair and put on my dark green beanie. I grabbed my bag and headed out my bedroom door. "Breakfast is on the table." My aunt said, once I reached the bottom of the stairs.

"Not hungry." I mumbled, heading towards the front door.

"Have fun at school!" I heard while closing the door.

I walked towards the bus stop and sat in the grass. It was five minutes before the yellow bus came up to my stop. I stood up and went in the bus. I tried finding a seat by myself, but all seats had at least one person. That's what I get for living so far away.

"You can sit with me." Said a voice behind me.

"Uh- thanks." I said to the guy while I sat down.

"The name is Ryan." He said.

"Mason." I said, regretting saying my name. I knew he would recognize me sometime.

"Cool. I just moved here from Oklahoma."

A wave of relief pasted over me. He had no idea who I was.

We talked the whole way there about random stuff. It ended up we had a lot of stuff in common.

"We'll have to hang out sometime." Ryan said, stepping off the bus.

"Definitely." I responded heading off to the front of the school.

I still got a lot of strange looks from the people at my school, but nothing could ruin my mood. I made an actual friend who had no idea who I am.

Wesley

"I told you. We broke up." I said to Ashlyn for the fifth time.

"You know Kendall is really upset." She said.

"I don't really care. She's Bryan's problem now." With my response, I headed off to my third period.

I entered the class to see Kendall in her normal spot. She smiled at me, but I just looked the other way. The only other open spot in the room except for mine was at the front of the room. I walked towards the seat and I sat down.

"So, now you're just following me?" Said a voice behind me.

I looked behind me and saw Tessa looking at me. "Let me guess, your seat is right there." I said, pointing towards the empty stool next to mine.

"Yep." She said, taking her seat. "I'm guessing you didn't want to sit next to Kendall."

"Yep." I said, smiling at her comment. "I'm guessing were lab partners now."

"And I don't get any say in that?" She said smiling at me.

"Nope. You're just stuck with me. Not unless you want Kendall as a partner." I said, already knowing her answer.

"Oh no. I would pick anyone over her any day." She said, trying to hold back laughter.

"Me too." I said at the same time the door closed.

"Ok class. We're going to be conducting an experiment today." Mr. Wad said. "We will be using the tools that are laid out on your table."

"This looks like fun." I mumbled.

"Yeah right." Tessa said, laughing out loud.

"Mr. Barringer, do you have something to say?"

"Um, no sir." I said.

"Well I would recommend being quiet." He said turning back towards the board.

"See what you did? You got me in-trouble!" I whispered to Tessa, joking around.

"You were the one who talked first, remember?" She said smiling from ear to ear.