pulled in the driveway. Jade jumped out and walked into the house. Jade went into the bathroom and brushed her teeth. She took off her clothes and put the sweatshirt back on and walked to her room. She sat on her bed and smelled the shirt as she giggled and texted Tessa.
-does your new sweatshirt smell as good as mine?!?!?!...J
-yes it does, goodnight… sweatshirt dreams…I mean sweet dream, lol…T
Chapter 3
Jade woke up and smiled as she smelled her new favorite shirt. It was cleaning day, she thought which took the cheesy grin off her face. She went to the bathroom, brushed her teeth, and pulled her hair up in a bun. She went back into her room and took off the sweatshirt and laid it on her pillow. She threw on a tee-shirt and shorts, getting ready to clean the house.
She grabbed her phone to send a text.
-Good luck today…J
-Wow good morning pretty girl, that’s the first time you have texted me first, I like it…T
-LOL…J
- My sweatshirt keep you warm last night…T
- Actually it did, just took it off…J
- I don’t know which part I like the best….T
-?????? J
-my shirt keeping you warm all night, or the part about you taking it off …T
-Hm!...J
-too much??...T
-YES!!!...J
-Sorry pretty girl, just being honest…T
- Like honestly…but slow down boy…J
-Got it…see you later pretty girl…T
~
Tessa woke up and smelled her shirt smiling faintly. Her dad knocked on the door, “Tessa you up?” he asked as he walked in.
“ Yep,” she said, “It’s quiet here today.”
“ Too quiet,” he said sadly. “So tomorrow is your birthday and I thought maybe tonight you’d want to invite some friends up and stay at the Camp. The only thing is Alex and a couple of friends will be in tents outside to chaperone, and I have to deliver a load of hay to New Jersey. Your mom will be stopping up to check on you.”
“ Forget it then, I don’t want to see her. Alex will be there, Dad I don’t want to see her, especially with my friends around,” Tessa grumbled.
“ Okay I will see what I can do, but tomorrow we are all going to have dinner together for your birthday. Tessa, she is your Mother and regardless of what’s going on with us she does love you, no arguments, got it!” he said sternly.
“ Fine,” she said and grabbed her phone and texted the girls.
-So Dad just said we could use the camp tonight to sleepover for my birthday, so here ’s your invitation, Becca please invite Phoebe, I don’t have her number.
She pushed send.
They all responded that they were coming. Tessa smiled.
Tessa got up and decided to clean. She started with her bedroom. While cleaning her room she looked in the mirror, she was still wearing his sweatshirt, and it stilled smelled like his cologne. She cleaned the entire house wearing his shirt; she laughed as she slid across the wood floor in her socks like the scene in one of her mom’s favorite movies. Her mom she thought, and she felt tears well up in her eyes. She cranked up the music and danced around to Pearl Jam. She finished cleaning and headed to the shower.
Tessa texted her mother
-I am going to Alex’s game; can I pick up the kids and take them with me?...Tessa
-We will meet you there…Mom
-Can’t wait!...Tessa, She typed rolling her eyes
-I love you Tessa…Mom
She threw her phone on the bed and threw in a load of laundry. She cringed as she saw his sweatshirt soaking into the wash, “Damn IT!” she said.
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Tessa pulled into the parking lot and looked around for her friends. She saw Jade, Phoebe, and Becca sitting on the bleachers a few rows behind the cheerleaders. She rolled her eyes as she walked up.
“ Nice seats,” she said as she sat.
The game started, and the Saints were ahead. Luke could not throw a bad pass if he wanted to today, and between Tommy and Alex, they caught every one. With each touchdown Tommy made he would hold up his “J” and smile at Jade. Alex returned a punt and ran eighty yards to score a
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