CHAPTER 25

TESSIE'S POV

I walked down the hallway heading to my locker slowly. I could hear voices around me but I couldn't make out anything anyone was saying. My thoughts were wandering somewhere between the sheets on Jace's bed and his bedroom, in the hallways of our house, our living room, our kitchen—

Whoa. Did I just think of it all as ours? It was funny how I didn't want to associate with him from the first day but now I was considering things as 'ours'. I chuckled softly and bit my lower lip with a dreamy smile. I clutched the books in my hands closer to my chest as the thought took root. Suddenly I was leaning against my locker and I couldn't tell how I got there.

"Still thinking about penises and hormones?" Ava asked as she banged her locker closed. It was next to mine. "Oh, right. You joined the club so it's hard not to."

"Oh my God! Could you be any more vulgar?"

"Hmm," she pretended to think. "I don't think so. I'm not getting any action and