[h3][color=cd9575]Tessa Gray[/color][/h3]
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Location: Wilcox Lodge -> The woods
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It was a normal party, Tessa assumed anyway, she had been to so few. Janice had been invited to more, and most of the time Tessa was invited along because who invites one twin and not the other? But that had been ages ago, and they had all been kids and people weren’t murdered in the five minutes you weren’t looking. 

Tessa wasn’t going to be drinking, she did sometimes, but if she went home after this and her mom had realized she wasn’t up in her room playing Zelda; she’d be dead meat if she smelled like booze when she got home. Usually the loud music from one of her games kept her mom from bothering her; Tessa prayed it’d work this time too. 

What she wanted to do was get Mal by himself. Not next to one of his friends, especially not King. Who looked ill or something. Maybe he really did have the ability to sense emotions. That had to be a useless power. Tessa glanced at King to where he was sitting talking to a teacher on a log that had been dragged over for the simple purpose of making better seating. 

When the teacher left Mal joined King again. [color=cd9575][i]Ugh[/i][/color] She’d never be able to talk to him. [color=cd9575][i]Fine[/i][/color] She’d just talk to him next to King, that was the dumbest thing she could do, but she needed Mal’s help. Rather, Grant needed Mal’s dad’s help, but it was all the same in a town this small. 

King stood up and ran off? Tessa stared as he ran into the woods. That made no sense, where he and Mal fighting? Then Jade was yelling. Hell Tessa wasn’t even looking in the girl’s general direction, why was she going off about people looking at her? Wasn’t the point of the slut act?

The earth shook. 

Not just a little either. It was an earth wrenching rippling of an earthquake. Jade needed to calm down. 

Tessa was knocked off her feet. A fissure opened where she had just been standing. It cracked further open. [color=cd9575]“Jesus.”[/color] Jade was gonna kill someone if she didn’t cut it out. Tessa scrambled to her feet, getting farther away from the fissure. She had no desire to fall into that. Any composure she had retained cracked wide open, as wide as the fissure appeared in her panicked state. She turned on the ball of her foot and ran into the woods. 

There were others running the same direction as her, but for the moment all Tessa cared about was getting away from the ground that was trying to eat her. Away.