A/N: Disclaimer: My first fanfic. I DO NOT own any of the characters except fo rmy OC's which are Corinne and Nathan and possible one other person.


Prologue

She kept running and didn't stop for anything. She had never been so terrified in her life. She fell to the ground and felt the world closing in around her, touching her fingers to her head she could see the blood.

Someone walked up to her but everything was blurry since she didn't have her glasses. She couldn't see and she felt her self blacking out. She felt them grab her hair and she tried to yell for help but no words came out.

"Please don't do this!" she managed to say.

The strange person laughed at her, as they dragged her by her hair around the forest floor.

"Please! Why are you doing this to me?"

The last thing she heard before blacking out was the sound of the person laughing.

Chapter OnePut Your Records On

~Corinne POV~

I smoothed down my dress and looked at myself in the mirror. I had on a strapless red dress that went down to mid thigh. Around my waist was a black belt and I had on a black, waterfall cardigan. My long blonde hair was curled and I had on a red headband with a bow. I had just put on some red lipstick and a little bit of blush and eyeliner. After applying my mascara I put in my black heart earrings and had a white heart in my left cartilage. I spun in the mirror looking down at my black converse that had red laces and then walked over to my bed to grab my bag. I sprayed some Taylor Swift perfume and then headed downstairs with my phone.

My grandmother was in the kitchen making a plate for me and my brother. I kissed her on the cheek and she smiled at me.

"Morning Corinne." she said giving me a hug.

"Morning Nana." I sat on one of the stools at the bar counter. My brother came downstairs and said morning to our grandmother before sitting next to me.

"Morning Cori," he said pulling out his phone.

"Morning Nate." I smiled when her Grandmother gave me a plate with bacon and eggs on it. "Thanks, Nana. Your the best." I said smiling.

Nathan made a pouty face. "I thought you said I was the best?" I gave him a hug.

"Your the best big brother and she's the best grandmother. Your both the best."

Nathan hugged me back and scarfed down his food in a hurry while I took my time. I finished and went into the living room where our great Dane, Charlie, and our chocolate Labrador, Asia, were laying on the couch. I went over and Charlie jumped up, almost as tall as me. I pet him and kissed him on the nose.

"Hey, Charlie!" I said as I pet him. "Whose a good doggy? You are! Your such a good boy Charlie." I reached up to the top shelf of the cabinet in our living room and grabbed and bone for him. He took it happily then I turned and pet Asia, who was asleep on the couch. I kissed her on the head then headed for the door. Charlie followed and Nathan jumped when he ran over.

"Calm down Nathan," I said laughing as I pet Charlie again. "He doesn't bite."

"Doesn't mean he doesn't scare me." Nathan moved slowly towards the door not taking his eyes off of Charlie. Charlie had lived with us since he was a puppy and Nathan had always been afraid of him since he was such a big dog. Nathan preferred to be around Asia, especially since she was still a puppy and wasn't nearly as big as Charlie was.

I told Charlie to stay as I opened the door so Nathan could head to his car. "Bye, Nana!" I called into the house before shutting the door.

We walked to our cars, mine was a blue Chrysler 300 and his was a silver Corvette. I got in and watched as my brother pulled out before me. I tossed my stuff in the back and made sure I had everything before pulling out and heading to Beacon Hills high.


I pulled into the first space I saw and waited for a moment before getting out. It was the first day and even though I knew everyone already I was still nervous. I took a few more minutes to mentally prepare myself before I got out. My brother was near the entrance standing with a bunch of girls. I rolled my eyes and walked up to the school. As I walked to my locker, most of the people in the halls greeted me. I knew a lot of people in the school, mostly since I was really friendly. I was friends with every club in school and apart of some. I was friends with the entire lacrosse team and with the swim and cross country teams which I was also on.

I waved a lot and smiled even more, by the time I reached my locker my nerves were gone and I was ready for the day. I saw my friend Jackson standing by his locker and walked over. Jackson smiled when he saw me walking over.

"Hey, Cori," he said hugging me. I hugged him back smiling, he gave amazing hugs.

"Hey, Jackson. How was your summer?" I asked leaning against the locker next to his.

"Interesting. I wish you would've come over more often though." he said smiling at me.

"Yeah, but I felt weird about hanging out sometimes since you and Nate are best friends and Lydia can't stand me." I gestured to his girlfriend as she stood at her locker down the hall talking to one of her friends.

"She'll get over it." he said with an annoyed look on his face as Lydia made her way over to where we stood.

"Hi, Jackson." Lydia kissed him passionately and I turned away. I don't know what her problem was with me but I really hoped she would get over it soon. Jackson and I dated when we were in middle school, the entire three years. It was great and everything but we were growing apart as a couple and were more of best friends. After we split Lydia started dating him and it looked like she was jealous of our relationship or something because she hasn't liked me since. She always makes it her mission to do excessive PDA whenever I'm talking to him, probably to make me jealous but it doesn't.

I laughed to myself when they stopped sucking face. "I'll see you later, Jackson. Bye, Lydia." I gave him a quick hug before walking off, just to irritate her. I was usually the nice one but sometimes it felt nice to piss her off since she held a grudge against me for no good reason.

I continued down the hall until I got to my first class. I sat towards the back of the class and pulled out my notebook. I saw my friend Stiles come in the room with his best friend Scott. Stiles and I had been close since second grade. He came over a bunch of time over the summer and we talked all the time. I hadn't gotten to know Scott as well but he seemed really nice.

"Hi, Stilinski." I said as he took a seat in front of me. We usually greeted or said bye each other by last name since my dad had been a Marine and everyone called him by his last name.

"Hey, Lewis. Hows it going?" he asked turning around in his seat while Scott sat next to him.

"It's going pretty good. Nana said I could have the party this weekend." I said smiling. I had been begging Nana to let me have the party and she had finally given in to my puppy dog face.

"That's great. Am I invited?" he asked.

"Actually I was wondering if you and Scott could help me set up. Nathan is helping and Jackson is too but I don't think they will be willing to do all the heavy lifting stuff." I said talking with my hands.

Stiles shrugged. "Sure, but I don't think Jackson will want me there."

"I don't think Lydia will want him there but he is coming anyway. He can get over it long enough to help me out."

"Alright. Just text me when to come over and I'll be there."

"Thanks hon. What would I do without you prince charming?" I said pinching his cheek.

He moved away and rubbed his cheek. "You would be miserable and my cheeks wouldn't hurt." I laughed as he turned back around and the teacher stood in front of the class.

A new girl walked in with the principal and I smiled at her. The brown haired girl smiled timidly at the class showing off her adorable dimples. She was introduced as Allison Argent and we were told to be nice to her. She came and sat in the seat next to me. Scott turned around and handed her a pen before turning back around. I tapped her shoulder.

"Hi, I'm Corinne Lewis." I said giving her a small wave.

"Allison." she said smiling.

"Welcome to Beacon." I said before turning to face front as the teacher started the lesson.


When school ended I went to my locker and noticed Allison walking over. She opened the locker right next to mine and I smiled.

"Hey, looks like we'll be seeing a lot of each other this year." I said looking her.

"Yeah, I'm pretty excited to be next to someone nice." she said taking some things from her bag and putting them in her locker.

"Thanks. Are you doing anything after school?" I asked leaning against my locker.

"Just headed home. Why?" She closed her locker and turned to face me.

"I usually go watch lacrosse practice after school. It's our schools sport and I was wondering if you wanted to come watch with me." she bit her lip as she thought about it.

Before she could answer Lydia walked over with Jackson in tow. "I love your jacket." Lydia complimented.

I rolled my eyes and opened my locker. Lydia and Jackson told Allison about lacrosse practice and how Jackson was the captain of both the lacrosse team and the swim team.

"Are you going to the party this weekend? It's a back to school party and everyone's invited." Lydia asked her, referring to my party. I threw one every year, though my Nana almost told me no this year.

"It'll be fun." I interjected. Allison smiled at me.

"I can't. We have a mandatory family night on Friday. Sorry." Allison lied. I knew she was lying because I was pretty could at noticing the signs. My mom worked for the Lightman group and her job was to assist in investigations by telling if they were lying. She taught me a few things so I was really good at it now.

Allison fidgeted and Lydia pouted. "Well, you have to come to lacrosse practice with us."

Allison's eyes went wide and I knew she would probably try to make up something. Before she could Lydia was dragging her off and I followed behind her since I was going to the same place.


I enjoyed lacrosse and I practiced with Jackson a lot over the summer. Stiles and I practiced too and he wasn't as good as Jackson was but he was definitely getting better. Jackson went to the locker room as we headed up the bleachers to get good seats for practice.

I saw the players come on the field a few minutes later and yelled out my brothers name. He gave me a wave and then turned his attention back to the field.

"Who's Nathan?" asked Allison.

"My older brother. He's a Junior this year, second best on the team." I said without looking away from the field.

"Who's that?" Allison asked pointing to Stiles's best friend. I looked at her face and could tell that she was into him.

"I don't know who that is." Lydia said looking out onto the field.

"That's Scott McCall." Lydia glared at me and I just smiled. "I'm friends with Stiles and they are best friends." I explained to Allison. She nodded and we both looked back to the field.

The boys started practice and I was focused on one player. Isaac Lahey was in line to throw balls at Scott, who was strangely in goal. I had the biggest crush on Isaac and he was probably the only person I never really talked to other than Lydia. I was shy around him and I used to go so far as to avoid him because I was too afraid of embarrassing myself. I put my elbows on my knees and my head in my hands and watched him as he stood in line waiting for his chance to shoot.

I could overhear Lydia and Allison talking next to me about how well Scott was doing but I was too focused on Isaac. He looked up at me and gave a small wave which snapped me out of my trance. I looked away, covering my face with my hand.

"What are you doing?" Allison giggled.

"Psh. I'm not doing anything. What are you talking about?" I turned back to look at the field as Jackson pushed Isaac out of the way. He ran forward with the ball, jumping int the air to throw the ball. I rolled my eyes at him and jumped up when Scott caught the ball in his net. We all cheered for Scott and Jackson gave Lydia a look that showed he disapproved of her cheering.

I cheered but kept my eyes on Isaac as he walked over to the bench. He took off his helmet and ran his hands through his brown hair while he drank from a water bottle. He was so amazingly cute and I couldn't help myself. I wished I could just talk to him the way I could talk to everyone else.

~(After Practice)~

I went to yearbook then headed to the video store for work. I worked there during the week and worked at the animal clinic on the weekends. I walked into the video store and saw the manager, Steven, smacking his gum behind the counter while he took out a movie for a customer.

"Your not dressed yet?" he asked as I walked by the counter.

"I just got out of school. I'll get dressed right now." Steven groaned and I took bit the inside of my cheek.

I couldn't stand that guy. He didn't deserve to be manger, he was such an asshole. The customer was arguing with him by the time I changed and Steven just rolled his eyes at the man.

"You." he said looking at me. "Help this customer."

The man groaned and I walked over with a smile on my face. "Sorry about him."

The man shook his head. "It's alright. I just want to get this movie but he said you have it but I can't rent it."

I looked at the paper where he had A Few Good Men written down. "I think he meant that we have it but maybe someone has it out right now. I can check for you." I typed some things into the computer then gestured for the man to follow. I went out to my car and he looked a little confused.

I pulled the movie out of the backseat of my car. "It's my copy but I don't mind letting you borrow it. It says that someone borrowed it a couple years ago. We didn't get it back and I guess he didn't put in the order for new copies."

"Thanks. I appreciate this." he said as we walked back inside. I went back to the counter and pulled a notepad out of the drawer.

"I need you to right down the information on your Movie Magic card." I handed him a pen and he looked confused.

"I still need your information so I can get the movie back. Same policy if you rent from here except the information is already in the computer." I said smiling. He nodded and wrote his information in the notepad.

"Thank you, Mr. Argent." I said looking at the name. "Did you just move here?"

"Yes. Why?" he asked as he picked up the movie.

"I met your daughter, Allison today in school. She's really sweet." I smiled as I tore of the page, folding it before putting it in my pocket.

"Oh, yeah she's a great girl. Are you Corinne?" he said looking down at my name tag. I nodded.

"She mentioned you and how you were nice to her today." he said smiling at me. He had a very friendly smile and it reminded me of my Dad's smile.

"Mhm. She was really nice too. I'm excited for this school year with her."

"That's great. Well, I appreciate you being a friend to her. I'll be sure to return the movie to you."

"No problem. You can just bring it back here. I work her during the week and if I'm not here then you can just ask Allison to call me. I gave her my number after school today."

He nodded. "Nice meeting you, Corinne." I smiled an waved as he left. Steven came from the back and smelled like weed; not a surprise.

"You get him to leave?" he sniffled and walked around the counter.

"Yeah. Why didn't you just tell him that the movie was out?" I was a little annoyed with him since he was always in the back doing drugs or something.

"Because I borrowed it you dumb ass." he laughed then walked around the store. I couldn't wait until the weekend when I got to work at the animal clinic.

The rest of the time I helped customers and organized the movie shelves while Steven flirted and smoked in the storage room. Finally the night shift employee came in and took over. I thanked him then went to my car to head home. It was still light outside and I changed into my running clothes.

"Nana!" I called. She came from her office and smiled at me.

"Yes?"

"I'm gonna walk Charlie and Asia. I'll be back soon okay?" I grabbed the leash from by the front door.

"Be safe and watch out for cars." I nodded as she went back into her office.

I put a leash on Asia but not on Charlie. He never ran off or chased after cars, he always wanted to be by my side. Asia was the opposite and chased after everything so I had to put her on a leash.

I ran with Charlie keeping upside me. We jogged through the forest and stopped when I needed to catch my breath. I leaned up a against a tree while Asia sat at my feet. Charlie sat down with his tongue hanging out of his mouth and I smiled at him.

I was getting ready to run back home when Charlie barked. I looked around and he continued to bark then took off running.

"Charlie!" I grabbed Asia's leash and ran after him. I ran until I saw the Hale house. I hadn't been here since the fire and I froze. I looked at the charred house and felt my heart pounding in my chest. My mom had been good friends with the Hale family. I had played at their house when I was younger and I was good friends with Cora Hale. I walked up to the house slowly and called out to Charlie. I looked around and didn't hear anything. Picking up Asia, I walked up the steps to the once beautiful mansion. I hesitated before opening the door and covered my mouth when I was saw the inside. Everything was black and charred. I felt tears come to my eyes then took a deep breath. I called out to Charlie as I walked into the living room.

Charlie was in the living room laying on his back. Derek Hale was leaning over him rubbing his stomach. The dog jumped up and ran over to me. I leaned down and pet him as he licked my face.

"Hey, Charlie." I stood up and looked at Derek. He looked at me with an intense stare and I stared back. I was fighting the urge to hug him but I gave in and ran over.

I wrapped my arms around him and felt some tears roll down my cheeks. I rested my head on his chest and he wrapped his arms around me after a few seconds. I thought I would never see him again but there he was. I pulled away and wiped my face.

"I can't believe it's actually you." I smiled and looked down at Charlie who was sitting next to me.

"It's good to see you Corinne." Derek hugged me again and I didn't want him to let go. I didn't want it to be the last hug we had.

I stepped back, not really sure what to say. All the years I thought of what I would say to each member of the family and now I had no idea what to say.

"How's Nana?" he asked as he leaned down to pet Charlie.

"She's great. Nathan decided not to leave and he stays with us." I pushed some hair behind my ear.

"And your Dad?" My smile fell some but I made it come back.

"He's overseas still." I felt my heart speed up and Derek looked up at me, like he knew something was wrong.

"What happened?" his expression was serious.

"He went MIA a year after the fire. They haven't found him and we haven't heard from him. Nana and uncle Calvin said we should have his funeral so we did. We buried an empty casket a couple years ago." I looked down at my hands as Derek held me again. I couldn't hold back my tears and he allowed me to cry into his chest.

He let go of me and wiped the tears off my cheeks. "I'm sorry about your Dad. He was a good man." I nodded.

"I better get back. I told Nana I wouldn't take too long walking them." I gestured back to Charlie and Asia.

Derek knelt down to pet Asia. "When did you get her?"

"Two years ago. Nathan was afraid of Charlie and said he wanted a dog of his own. He picked out Asia and says she's his dog even though I walk them and take care of them." I smiled to myself as I remembered this morning.

Derek stood and smiled at me. He had a great smile and I couldn't remember the last time I'd seen it. I hugged him one more time and he walked me to the door.

"Corinne," he called my name as I was headed down the steps. "Try to stay out of the woods. It's not safe here." he was serious and it scared me a little.

I nodded. "I will, and I'll tell Nathan too." I trusted Derek, he was like family to me. Even if his warning gave me chills I would listen because he wouldn't do anything to put me in danger.


A/N: So this is my first fanfiction and I'm not really sure how it's going to turn out yet but please review and what not so I can improve it. This first chapter was basically meant to introduce you to the characters. It will get better then this hopefully! Thanks to those who read :]

~EmoCupCake15