All There Is

Chapter 7-Hardin

                   Tessa runs into my arms and pressed her dressed body against my naked chest,I only have boxers on right now but that is honestly the last thing I'm worried about.This strong girl who had my heart in her hands in mere hours and then crushed it without so much as a quiver is now laying in my arms crying.She seemed like she didn't care about anything but judging to how hard she is crying into my chest, she clearly does care.

"H-Hardin."She stutters and continues to cry into my chest.

"Hey.Hey it's gonna be okay."I caress her hair.After a minute or two she pulls away from me ,her nose sniffling.

"I-I'm sorry for all this."

"It's fine.It's totally fine."I cup her face with my hands rubbing away the tears and dripping mascara from her beautiful face.She is wearing a red dress that dips down into the valley of her breast and is tight around her small waist.It is super hot not that i have a lot to compare too,I mean the most revealing thing Steph over wore was a swim suit and she had a shirt on on top of that.Steph aside there is no way that dress can be comfortable for her and something is telling me she needs comfort.

"Wanna get changed?"I ask her with the softest voice my deep British accent can manage.My family would always say how ironic it was that I had a extremely deep voice that can be intimidating yet I have such a soft demeanor.Now that I think about it they pretty much picked on every single thing about me and I took it for all my life.You would think after all that I would have pretty thick skin.I don't.

"Y-Yes.Please."She gets up but I just push her down to sit on my bed.

"Lay down."She nods in agreement to my statement.She leans back on my pillow and I kiss her forehead before making my way to her closet.Her side of the room is such a contrast from mine, its very navy and dark as where mine is pastel like.

I reach into her drawer and the only pajamas there are now pajamas just a bunch of clothes.I decide to just grab one of her bigger T-shirts, well big on her small body.I also grab a pair of loose black shorts.I reach into her underwear drawer and the only thing there is lace, lace and some more lace.I can feel my bulge coming into precence.

I ignore the bulge when I look at the blond girl on my bed gripping my pillow almost like if she didn't she would fall.I go over to her and look at her,I tuck a piece of her blond lox behind her hair.

"Here are your clothes.I'll turn around so you can change."I begin turning around but am stopped by her angelic yet raspy voice.

"Hardin.Can you...change me please?"She has tears in her gorgeous grey-blue eyes which makes it absolutely impossible for me to say no to her.I stay silent for a while contemplating what my answer should be.

"I'm sorry Hardin.I'm just really overwhelmed right now and-"

I cut her off "Tess.I-It's fine.I'll change you."I a side of her face with my hand and caress her cheek with the pad of my thumb.I pull away and take a look at her.She's so vulnerable right now.I mean she just apologized to me for no good reason.How can this be the same girl who only hours ago told me she doesn't care about me?I push the thought to the back of my mind and stay in the moment, the moment with her.

I take the tight red tress off of her model like body leaving her in underwear and no bra.Oh god.I slide the t-shirt on her and her shorts on.I then pull my comforter up to her, covering her from the cold air our fan is giving the dorm.She looks so pale, her used to be smooth plumb limp is now cracking, and she looks like a  shadow of the bad girl I saw walk in earlier on today.

I kiss her head and turn away but something stops me.Her hand is wrapped around my wrist stoping me from moving."Stay.Please"She pleads and looks at me with those blue-grey eyes.Once again capturing me in her spell and making it absolutely impossible to say no to her.

"O-Of course."I slide into bed next to her.She doesn't cuddle up into me but we rather just stare at each other for a moment.After long moments of silence her goes up to my hair that is resting on my forehead coming close to my eyes.I have intend on cutting it but just never got around it and I don't have gel in it right now, making my dark hair floppy.

She scratches my head and leans closer into me as if on instinct I wrap my arms around her waist closing off the proximity that once was between us, pressing our bodies against one another in the most intoxicating way.

She leans into kiss me but I pull away placing a kiss on her head instead.She sighs and turns away from me but I just turn her right back to face towards me."Tessa I know I may not mean anything to you."

"Don't say that Hardin."She grabs my face."I'm not saying you and I are gonna get married and have kids but there is clearly something here.I just don't know what.Yet."

"Okay."I smile.

"Okay?That's it."

"Yes.Okay."I kiss her forehead again and she smiles, placing her head on my chest.We spend the rest of our night like this in silence, the silence isn't awkward or sexual it's just silent.In which we spent the silence between now and us falling asleep probably enjoying eachothers prescene and thinking about the person we are laying next too,I know I certainly was.

I wake up to the sound of someone pounding on our door.Tessa groans burying her face into my armpit."Get the door."She mumbles into my chest.I sigh and kiss her forehead.She smiles looking at me as I make my way towards the door.

"Nice ass Scott."She coos making my face turn bright red which just amuses her even more than she already was.I open the door to a tall man who burst past me to Tessa.She immediately shoots up and I can't help but wonder if this is a guy she is involved with which sends a pan of jealous towards me.

"Landon what's wrong dude?"She asks trying to rub the sleep away from her gorgeous eyes.Dude?That's not something you call a significant other.My shoulders visibly de-tense as I have come to the conclusion that they are only friends.

"Tessa.Look what Trevor sent Robert and just about everyone else in the school."He sits down on my bed and shows Tessa his phone and her eyes immediately well up with tears.She then grabs her jacket and runs out despite this Landon and I's calls for her.

"What the hell was that about?"I ask him running my fingers through my hair.

"You don't know do you?"He sighs.

"Know what Landon?What's wrong with Tessa?"

"Sit down and I'll tell you everything."I oblige and I just know this is gonna be a long emotional conversation for me and I don't know if I'm ready to discover the mystery that is Tessa Young.