After (the parody)

Chapter 5 - Surprise

Chapter 5 - Surprise?

It was the day after Tessa's whole 'let's bury Liam' idea had happened. Liam had laughed it off and taken Sulu home with him. This made Tessa very upset, because Sulu was Tessa's friend, and they were going to go out for omelettes the next day.

"Tessa?" Harry's calls from the bedroom.

"What is it Harry?" Tessa replies.

"Can you go and get some frosty flakes from the store? I feel like cereal."

"Ugh, fine. As long as you clean the fridge out, I don't want a repeat of the whole zucchini incident." Tessa answers.

"Fine then, but make sure you get a big box. There's ten dollars on the kitchen bench." Harry says.

Tessa picks up the ten dollar note before running down the stairs and getting in her car. She slammed on the accelerator and flew out of the car park.

Unknown to Harry, Tessa liked to drive extremely recklessly when she was alone. Looking at the speedometer, she noticed that she had reached 130km/h. A new record!

Now that Tessa felt like she was in Mario Kart, she could finally relax.

Tessa then pulls into the supermarket car park and parks her car.

Walking into the supermarket without Harry felt so unreal. Usually Harry would insist on going everywhere with Tessa. Tessa walks up to a woman and asks her which aisle cereal is in.

"Breakfast cereal is in aisle 4." Replies the lady.

Tessa walks down the aisle, browsing the shelves for frosty flakes when suddenly she bumps into someone, causing her to fall down, pulling many boxes of cereal off the shelf with her as she fell onto the floor.

"I am so sorry." The man says.

Looking up at the mystery pusher, Tessa gasps.

"Zayn?" Tessa whispers quietly, in a beautiful moment of reunited friendship.

"Melanie?" Zayn answers, also whispering beautifully.

"What? No." Tessa says.

"Oh." Zayn laughs. "Who are you?"

"It's me. Tessa."

"Oh! Tessa that rhymes with Loch Nessa monster." Zayn says, realising who she was.

"Um, yes?"

"Where have you been?" He asks. "I haven't seen you in so long!"

"Oh you know, around..." She says.

"Are you still-"

"Yes, I'm still with Harry." She says almost apologetically.

"What? No, what I was going to say was are you still into omelettes, because I know this fantastic place."

"Oh? Maybe we could get an omelette together sometime then." She smiles.

"I would like that." He says. "You dropped your frosty flakes."

"Thanks." She replies, taking them from Zayn's olive hand.

"I don't have your number, could you put it in my phone?" Zayn asks.

"Yeah sure, hold on, let me get my phone out. I can't remember my number." Tessa says.

"You know I always thought that if you had somehow managed to stay with Harry this long, you would either be pregnant, dead, or involved in some secret drug ring by now." Zayn says casually.

"What?" Tessa says, offended.

"Is Harry still an asshole?" Zayn asks.

"Is your mother still as fat as a pregnant whale?" Tessa replies.

"You leave my mother out of this." Zayn says.

"I bet if she jumped up and down, it would cause an earthquake."

"Yeah and I bet if you went to the doctor, they would discover STD's that they didn't know existed."

Tessa gasps.

"Kiss me." Zayn breathes.

And then Tessa kisses him, in the middle of a breakfast cereal aisle in a shitty supermarket.

"I really should go buy these frosty flakes." Tessa says.

"I'll call you, and we'll go out for that omelette." He replies.

"Goodbye." Tessa says.

"Later."