Forbidden Love

Speechless

 Tessa is petrified.  She has nothing to say.  This has never happened before.  How can Tessa Winter, the daughter of a vampire leader and alpha werewolf, not talk to a normal teenage boy.  It’s like he fills that lacuna in her heart that’s always been there for some reason and that reason is him not being there.

“Are you okay?”, he asks in concern and helps her to pick up all her books.

Still no words. She has nothing.  “Come on Tessa, say something!” she thinks to herself.

“Sure”, she says after taking a big breath to calm her nerves.  She can tell he has a soft heart.  She senses his feeling of care and hope.  Not a lot of humans poses those feelings.  Most always just give her sadness and hate or sadness and jealousy. 

“I’m Luke”, he says reaching out his hand.

Tessa doesn’t take his hand and without thinking she replies with, “I know.”

He looks a bit confused as to how she knows his name if they haven’t met before.  Tessa realizes her mistake and starts to blush a bit.

“I mean.  I know, because news in this school spreads like a wild fire and when you’re new here, everybody knows you”, Tessa says with an awkward smile and red cheeks.  Then that feeling of not knowing what to say next comes back to her.  She starts to panic and starts to walk to math class.

“Hey, wait!  Where are you going?”’ he says waving one hand in the air and taking a quick jog to catch up.

“Math class”, Tessa says avoiding eye contact.

“I also have math next period.  Are you in room 32?”

“Yes”, Tessa answers in a high-pitched voice she didn’t even know she had.  If Luke is in her class that means math will also become a place of horror.  She can barely speak in his presence.  How will she answer with him in the same class?  She won’t even be able to concentrate, because when she sees him all she wants to do is run away.

They walk together in silence for a bit.  She can tell that he is quintessence of what most humans long to be.  His not only smart, he genuinely cares.  Then it hits Tessa.  He’s the guy all the girls will want to date and who all the boys want to be.  That means a lot of attention will be on him.  Most people change once they become the center if attention.  Tessa just told herself that he is no different from any other human.  He will probably change and become the jerk jock that everyone loves.  Immediately Tessa felt a sort of sad, relieved feeling, because if he becomes what she thinks he will become, then he’ll hate her like everyone else.  A part of Tessa knows this assuming she’s making is not true, but she doesn’t let that bother her.

“You’re not like most people here, you know?” he says breaking Tessa out of her thought bubble.

“No?”, Tessa answers unsure of what he meant by saying that.

“You’re the first person who doesn’t try to get to know me for no reason.  You’re also the first person who won’t talk to me or look my way.  I’m not quite sure if that’s a good or a bad thing”, he says with a hopeful smirk on his face.

Tessa knows that being rude won’t be the answer to what’s going on.  She also knows that telling him why she is like this is also not the answer.  Maybe she should just pretend that she forgot something and run back, to avoid his question.  Lucky for her they just entered the classroom and the bell rang.  She then hurries to take the seat next to Emily, leaving poor Luke wondering what her answer is.  He takes the seat on the left end in the front, next to Zach.  Tessa then puts down her books and takes a deep breath.  She knows he’s looking her way, but she doesn’t look at him and she pretends not to notice.  She just sits there, half listening to Mr. Black and speechless.