WANNABE - ☆ᵉᵗʰᵐᵃ☆

Chapter 14

Tessa

I ran to the car that Harley pointed out; a white Jeep.

"Hey hey hey," I said to Ethan and Grayson from the back seat.

"Hi, Harley." Ethan said, pointing his camera at me. "Did you miss me?"

I pretended to think about it a little bit. "How about no." I stated.

"Hey! You don't get to talk to your dad like that!"

I was about to say some stupid comeback when the car behind us honked it's horn, signaling us to move forward.

"Did anything memorable happen at camp?" Grayson asked me.

"Eh, not really. We had this party yesterday and it was super fun. I got to go in the dunk tank. It was great." I responded.

I was very confident when I walked into the house a few hours later. "Ahh, it's good to be home." I sighed.

"Okay, go unpack. We have a video to film when you're done." Ethan told me. I walked to my room and started to unpack.

I was about to put the first shirt in Harley's dresser, but when I opened it, all of the clothes were crumpled and unfolded. I cringed and took out all the shirts, folded them, and put them back.

"Harley, what's taking so long?" Ethan came into my room. "Uh, why are you folding your shirts? You never fold things." He observed.

"Yeah, just... we had to fold them at camp, so I guess it just became a habit." I explained.

"Uh, okay." Ethan said as he eyed skeptically and left.

I quickly threw the rest of the clothes in the drawers to fold later. I met Ethan and Grayson in the filming room and they did their signature "YO!" intro.

Oh, school. What a beautiful place, full of young, innocent souls who are ecstatic to come back every day, because they love learning.

Hint the sarcasm.

Harley's school looked like any other school. People were in groups, talking and comparing schedules, and sixth graders glanced from a map of the school to their schedule, looking very nervous.

I look at 'my' Instagram, seeing pictures of my friends and I.

"Boo!"

"Ah!" I yelled. I turned around and immediately recognized Sasha Reeves. "Hey! How was your summer?"

 "Oh, it was pretty low key. I went to Santa Clara to visit my cousins." She shrugged. "They're younger than me, so they kept on bugging me about playing games on my phone. Didn't you go to summer camp?"

"Yeah. It was fun. I met some really nice girls. And a really pretty and smart girl named Tessa, who was especially nice." Okay, I might have made the 'especially nice' part up, and I was giving myself some publicity, so sue me. "Hey, uh, Where's everyone else?"

Sasha checked Snapchat. "It looks like Evelynn is coming here, and Abby is still at home. She's probably going to sleep in, on the first day of school."

I checked my own Snapchat, and scrolled through the names of people I didn't recognize. I hoped nobody would find anything that was off about Harley.

"Don't worry, guys! Evelynn is here!" A girl with curly brown hair ran up to Sasha and I, wrapping her arms around our shoulders.

"Hey, Evie! How was your summer?" Sasha smiled.

"It. Was. Beautiful!" Evelynn answered dramatically. Harley told me she was a drama queen, but I like her. "I went to Oahu, and Portland, and Dallas, and New Orleans, and New York City, and San Francisco! I took so many pictures. It was great."

"Aww, that sounds fun. I love San Francisco. Once, I walked across the Golden Gate bridge. It look forever, but it was warm, so it was okay." I said, recalling one summer day two years ago.

"When did you go to San Fran? I thought you didn't go to Northern California?" Sasha asked.

"Aww man, Harley probably doesn't go to San Fran because Mom is there," I thought. "Oh, Grayson took me a week ago." I nodded, hoping they didn't notice anything fishy about me.

"Hello, Three musketeers! Abigail Taylor Chang has arrived!" A short asian girl strutted up to us. Abby. All of Harley's closest friends were here.

"You sound just like Evelynn when she came here." I pointed out.

"What can I say? I'm contagious." Evelynn smiled and flipped her hair over her shoulder. Dramatically, of course.

Hey hey hey!!

thanks for being patient with my updates. I will try to be more consistent and write these chapters early. thats all for now, i guess. See ya later!

XOXO, Lia <3