The warm sunshine creeped through the unshut blinds in Tessa's room as she squirms her legs and rolls over. Yesterday was a terrible day, but yesterday was history!

Her eyes were puffy and looked like she was on jingle-jangle, but she swore to god she never did drugs, she'd drink occasionally but drugs? That was out of her league.

She hears muffling noise's from downstairs but laziness took control and her brain shut itself. So she decides to shrug the fact that she even heard these noises and goes to shut the blinds in her room. Quickly getting distracted she leaves it open and stares at the empty room across from her.

Shawn was not a morning person. Talking about waking up, he'd never wake up if he slept, he'd wake up after hours. What was intriguing is that he slept late but was up early, the house too seemed deserted.

"Must have gone on another hunting expedition." she tells herself.

It was certainly going to be a long day at school, the thought of Ronnie coming up to her and trying to convince her made her shiver in disgust.

"Tessa!" Ronnie calls out to her as soon as she enters the hell hole.

"Save it." she warns him, but Ronnie isn't a person who lets go.

"But I love you though..." He says when he was cut-off, that word that four letter word made her want to kick him where the sunshine doesn't shine, the urge to do that was overtaken by her brain saying it was a bad omen if you have ideas like that.

Instead she decides to slap him. His pale white face had a clear cut red palm printed and people gasped at that sight.

"If I were you, I'd turn that into a tattoo out of humiliation for what I did." she barks and walks away as fast as she can.

"Nice shot!" Neil joins her journey as she rolls her eyes.

"That was a never-mess-with-me warning Neil, it was free size, meant for all." she warns.

"I would never want to be with you." he chuckles imagining himself making Tessa his girlfriend.

"You'll regret it Schnapp." she raises her eyebrows, she was walking backwards when she bumps into a hard muscular structure.

"Mendes!" She exclaims "I was actually looking forward to meet you." she smiles, for the very first time.

"And I was not." he says pushing her tiny body off his path and Neil brings his first to his mouth and scoffs as she stares at him in utter disbelief.

"I just... wanted to say sorry." she bursts.

"Do you want me to tell everyone how you were staring at the wall again?" He chuckles and everyone stare at her causing Tessa runs to the bathroom out of embarrassment.

"Why is he being so mean to me?" She asks herself .

"Maybe I was never enough for anyone. It wasn't like I was trying with him, I was just to apologise." she sobs.

The rest of the school day went pretty fast, it included no one interacting with Tessa. She received frequent looks from Ronnie, as for Shawn he didn't look once. That was improvement.

"Where do you think you are going Shawn?" Ronnie asks Shawn while he was on his way to his car.

"Home, that's where everyone is supposed to go." he tells the group of boys.

"Go to hell!" Ronnie compliments and the next thing Shawn knows is he is in an open field with a bunch of boys surrounding him, ready to kill him.

"My dad is super pissed at me and that's all thanks to you. I'm super pissed too." he says pushing him on the ground. The blows were pretty hard and Shawn couldn't move a muscle but most importantly there was no one he could tell all this about too.

"Tessa." An irritated Neil blares on the other side of the phone.

"Hmm?" She says painting her nails, she needed a day off.

"Did you send Ronnie to beat up Shawn by any chance?" He asks

"What? No!" She says shutting the lid of the paint.

"Well he got beaten up pretty good and he can't move, anyways I guess Ronnie did this on his own." He says and hangs up.

She quickly changes into something more presentable and quietly sneaks out of her bedroom window into the house next door. She softly knocks on the door and waits patiently for it to be opened.

"Tessa?" Neil asks surprised.

"Move." she says pushing Neil and shutting the door, without asking further questions she takes the stairs and asks Neil to stay down.

"Mendes?" She asks slowly pushing the door to reveal a bandaged Shawn and gasps at the sight.

"If you are going to slap me, I'm going to die." He jokes weakly, it wasn't even funny anymore.

"I didn't send him." She says sadly.

"Sure." He chuckles.

"I know you don't believe me, and that's okay but I didn't send him." she says sitting next to him on his bed, Shawn looks at her suspiciously.

"If there's anyway I could make it up to you-"

"I'm sorry!" Shawn states.

"You're what?" She asks unbelievably.

"I'm sorry for insulting you, it's something I shouldn't have made fun of. Everyone deals with things their own way and I was really angry when I said that." he shrugs his shoulder and groans in pain making Tessa giggle.

"And about you, it'd be helpful if I could borrow your brother's guitar? Mine's really not that functional and I mean that only if you don't mind." he asks cautiously. 

"Consider it done, it's been two years since anyone's touched it." she smiles.

This was just the beginning

*Edited*