Chapter 2 Social Ladder

Tessa bent her head to laugh at the curse word the guy seated beside her threw at her. He glared at her and then turned back to whatever Mr Gordon was teaching them. Tessa immediately brought out her notepad writing and scribbling in it as Mr Gordon continued teaching.

Even years after they became best friends, Tessa didn't know why Blaine Bentley became agreed to be her best friend.

Blaine Bentley, that name definitely wasn't a name nobody wouldn't recognize if they heard it. A superhot dude with killer looks that could send any girl to their graves and more, he was one of the key members of the school basketball team. He was everything a girl wanted in a guy.

Back then, Blaine was the first to seat down on the same table with her at the cafeteria while others stayed away from her, it was more funny because a lot of girls had been looking at Blaine and wanting to seat down with him and of every table, Blaine had to seat down beside her.

Even Tessa herself was taken aback and was curious about why Blaine had chosen to seat down opposite her.

FLASHBACK

"Hey" Tessa called and Blaine raised his head to meet her coffee brown ones.

"Huh?" he asked and Tessa uncomfortably looked around the numerous eyes on them.

"I think you are on the wrong table" Tessa replied and Blaine looked around as well before turning back to Tessa.

"No I don't think so" he replied while Tessa shook her head.

"Why are you seating down on this table? Can't you see everyone is avoiding this table?" Tessa asked in reply while Blaine nodded.

"Yes, I can see that everyone is avoiding this table" Blaine replied making Tessa raise her eyebrows at him. If he knew why was he seating down on the table, then?

"Why are you seating down here then?" she asked curious.

"I'm curious" Blaine replied while Tessa raised her eyebrows.

"You are curious?" she asked while Blaine nodded his head.

"Curious as to why there's nobody seating down here. They are squeezing themselves son other tables when there's a lot of space here" Blaine replied and Tessa stared at him in shock in surprise before chuckling lightly.

"I'm dressed weirdly and I look weird. Is that enough reason for you?" Tessa asked while Blaine stared at her like he she had just said gibberish.

"Who said you looked weird?" he asked and Tessa chuckled again.

"There's really no need to seat down here. Everyone is boring holes into my head and my body" Tessa replied and Blaine shrugged.

"What does that have to do with me?" he asked and Tessa realized that Blaine was seating down there intentionally.

"In summary, no matter what I say today you are going to seat down there" Tessa said and Blaine nodded.

"Yes. There's a lot of space" Blaine replied and Tessa shook her head as she continued eating.

"What's your name weird girl?" He asked and Tessa raised her head chuckling.

"I thought you said I wasn't weird" Tessa replied as Blaine furrowed his brows.

"Did I say that?" Blaine asked and Tessa stared at him incredulously.

"Didn't you say who said you looked weird?" Tessa asked and Blaine nodded.

"Yes, I did say so" Blaine replied while Tessa folded her arms.

"So?" she asked.

"I was asking to agree with whoever had said so, you look weird" Blaine replied and Tessa froze for a minute before bursting into laughter,

This dude was a circus clown.

"Tessa" Tessa said after a while and Blaine raised his head to face Tessa.

"My name is Tessa O'Bailey" Tessa repeated with a small smile.

"Blaine Bentley" Blaine replied and Tessa snickered.

"Well nice to meet you jerk Blake" Tessa said bursting into laughter.

"Same here weird Tessa" Blaine replied as they both burst into laughter.

FLASHBACK OFF

Even though that was over three years ago, the memory always made Tessa smile and laugh each time she remembered it. There were already signs of how cool Blaine was going to be back then and how they grew older, he kept getting cooler and cooler, popular and more popular. At a point, Tessa thought he was going to stop talking to her and they would stop being best friends but they never stopped being best friends.

Blaine had a lot of popular and cool friends but he didn't stop being friends with her even when a lot of students frowned at it but Blaine had never been the one to mind other people so he never minded or even cared.

He was and is always her best friend.

Till the end of Mr Gordon's class, Tessa made sure to listen carefully and well and by the time the man was done with his class, Tessa had two pages full.

"Miss Tessa, make sure I see those handouts before you pass them around" he said and Tessa nodded.

"Yes Mr Gordon" Tessa replied and watched as the other man packed his books and walked out of the class. The class became rowdy barely a second later.

"Are you crazy?" Blaine asked as he turned to Tessa who turned to him and gave him a weird smile.

"Don't look at me like that" Blaine said glaring at Tessa.

"What were you thinking? Coming late to Gordon's classes, you must have sold your head the night before" Blaine continued and Tessa laughed.

"Don't get so worked up, he left me off, didn't he?" Tessa asked and Blaine shrugged.

"He won't the next time" Blaine replied as Tessa pouted.

"You think there's going to be a next time?" Tessa asked and Blaine glared at her without saying anything.

"Grab your bag, breakfast is on you today" Blaine grumbled and Tessa laughed again.

"You'll have to go without me, I need to get these done with" Tessa replied raising up the two sheets in her hands.

"I forgot about that already" Blaine replied and then someone yelled his name the next minute.

"Let's go grab breakfast"

"A minute" Blaine yelled as he turned to Tessa.

"Would you be fine?" he asked and Tessa stared at him weirdly.

"Are you treating me like a two-year-old right now?" Tessa asked and Blaine glared at her playfully before shooting to his seat.

"Fine. Suit yourself" he threw at her before walking away with Tessa's laughter in his ears.

Tessa sighed softly as she packed her bags. Seeing the girls standing at the entrance and chattering loudly; she regretted sending Blaine off on his own, she should have at least used that opportunity to escape from the class.

She had been able to avoid them well for the past two months and now, she had to face them. all her efforts in the past days have been fruitless all of a sudden. Tessa sighed softly as she grabbed her bag

It was just this once, she was going to let herself be pushed her around, she was so lucky to have avoided them in the past months. Everything was going to be kay as long as they didn't drag her to the restroom.

And that was almost impossible.

Sucking in her breadth and taking it out, she slung her bag over her shoulders as she walked towards the door as slowly as ever. There was suddenly a commotion in the hallway and everyone rushed out. Seeing as the girls at the door had disappeared; Tessa ran out of the class, there were lot of students crowding at the entrance of the hallway and Tessa didn't have an idea why, she didn't want to know why either.

The fact that she was safe was more prominent to her and she quickly made her to the library. She would have to type everything she had written, read over, edit out some parts till they were perfect, print and then go and show it to Mr Gordon before making multiple copies and then giving them to everyone and then sending it to their mail.

Tessa looked at her post its note and everything she had written down nodding her head and sighing softly. She leaned against the wall and sighed again. Seeing those girls at the door that brought back the fear that Tessa thought she had abandoned in the past few months.

Seeing them had reminded her that she hadn't abandoned the fear at all, it had only gone into seclusion because she hadn't seen them for a long time. She rubbed her forehead bringing out the bottle of water in her bag and taking a few gulps.

It was so pitiful being at the bottom of the social ladder.

She smiled at the librarian as she walked into the library while the older woman offered her a smile in reply before returning her focus to her phone. Tessa didn't have to look at the reflection on the woman's glasses to know that she was watching a BTS concert video.

Tessa ignored her phone that was buzzing quietly on the table beside her as she worked. She knew it was from the school forum notifications. She hadn't bothered to wait to even know what was going on.

By the time Tessa opened her phone to see what was going on, she wished she had waited.