Before He Lied

Hardin Chapter 34

I wish Kim wasn't at the dorm, I wanted to spend the day with Tessa. I wanted to just lay in bed all day and watch movies. I guess we can can just do that tomorrow, I need to get these chapters done anyway.

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While I sit in the office and attempt to write "my" story I can't stop thinking about Tessa, I never had a person to miss so this feeling is new to me. I wonder what she's doing, is she writing notes? Is her hair in a bun? Whenever she does her work she ties her hair up, she looks so beautiful with her hair up. Her bangs frame her face so well, to be honest anything looks good on her.

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I just sit and wonder if she's pulling her bottom lip between her teeth, she always does that when she's trying to focus. I wonder if she's thinking about me? Does she miss me as much as I miss her? I hope she does miss me, I would much rather be with her right now. Even if all we were doing was studying, I would gladly sit and watch her scribble on a buch of papers. I love when she scrunches her eyebrows when she confused or when she bites the inside of her mouth when she gets nervous. I guess I never realized how much I was missing out on, relationships always seemed too high maintenance. I thought that having some girl around all the time would be annoying but I was so wrong, she isn't some girl. If I only had five more minutes left on this earth I would spend them all with her, I just love her so much. I've never felt love before, hell I'm still confused if what I feel is love. I've never been loved by anyone, I don't even love myself. I like to think that one day I would earn her love, I'm so difficult.

"You have a minute?"

I look up and see Steve standing in my doorway.

"Yeah." I say.

"Josh just quit and he was supposed to print the new covers for the October catalog, I would do it but my daughters dance recital is in 30 minutes and if I miss it my wife will kill me. Can you do it for me? I'll pay you extra this week for overtime."

I sigh.

"Yeah sure."

"Thank you."

He goes to leave but he steps back inside my office.

"Also, if you know anyone that would be interested in a paid internship please send them my way. Now that Josh is gone everything is just piling up, I barley have time to do anything."

"Does this person need experience?"

"No, as long as they can use a stapler and read I'm happy."

He leaves the room.

Would Tessa even be interested in working here? There's a job opening at the library too, I would love for her to work here. We could spend so much time together, I guess asking never hurt.

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After writing a few chapters I walk over to the copy room and start printing the covers.
Suddenly the printer runs out of ink, this is what I fucking get for being nice.

I walk to the supply closet and look for more ink.

"Where the fuck is the ink!"
I say in frustration.

"Top shelf, third basket."

I quickly turn around and see a girl standing in the door, she looks like she's 12.

"Who the fuck are you?"

"You said a bad word." She's says.

"No I didn't."

"Yes you did, you said a bad word." She crosses her arms.

"What are you even doing here, you're a kid."