Tessa Young: A Short Story

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Tessa Young a nice, sheltered girl is finally moving on to college. With her always having such great grades and always having her sweet boyfriend, Noah, to help her, she has had a pretty good life. Sadly, Noah is a year younger and will not be joining Tessa at Washington State until after his senior year. When Tessa, her mother, and Noah get to the university for her to settle in to start her college life, they meet her roommate, Stephanie. Stephanie is a tattooed, pierced and very scantily dressing girl with fire- red hair. Automatically Tessa, her mother, and Noah do not like her. Her mother wants to change Tessa’s roommate but Tessa decides just to give it a shot, since Steph seemed nice enough. Once Tessa is settled in and her mother and …show more content…

Her first few classes go great and she really likes them. It’s the last class of the day and she gets there early but there is already someone sitting in the front row. Seeing that he seems like an organized person Tessa sits down beside him. She finds out his name is Landon and she already can tell they’re going to be really good friends. When the class starts everyone is in their seats and the professor starts talking when the door opens loudly, and in walks Hardin. Surprisingly, he takes the seat right beside Tessa. She really does find him very attractive but his attitude ruins his looks. Soon Hardin is all Tesa can think of and one night at a party they kiss. They soon make this a very common thing. One night Tessa stays the night with Hardin and leaves him the next morning to meet her boyfriend. Tessa and Noah are fine and just sitting in her room when Hardin comes barging in mad. Hardin maes Tessa tell Noah about him and her. She hates Hardin. Hardin and her get over their fight and soon move in together. Tessa’s mother does not like this at all and comes into their new apartment and her and Tessa get into a huge fight. Her mother hits her and tells her that Hardin does not love her and leaves. Can Tessa and Hardin’s relationship face all the hard times to

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