Applescript - path to file

Hi there,
I was making a simple applescript... but I'm a Windows user, and I'm using a Mac environment to code some stuff to a friend and I probably am stepping onto some minor details from OSX.
Here's my question... I have these files:
So.... I have on the same folder:
Teste (the AppleScript file)
and teste.jsx (the ExtendScript file to execute some functions on InDesign).
What I was trying to do on the AS file was as simple as:
set theFileScript to "teste.jsx" as alias
tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2014"
do script theFileScript language javascript
end tell
But when I run it I get: "File teste.jsx wasn't found".
I already looked around and I got the idea that if I wanted a relative path (that's what we call it in Windows) to a file in the same directory we just needed to put the name of the file (just like in Windows).
But from this test and some others I did I don't think that's true, how may I solve this?
Many thanks for the help!

Code is:
set theFolder to (choose folder with prompt "Select the start folder")
set file_list to every file of theFolder
repeat with myfile in file_list
    set file_name to name of myfile
    set file_path to path of myfile
    log (file_path & "/" & file_name as string)
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