Welcome to the second instalment of the Temptations series: Fearless Temptations. If you're new to Temptations, then feel free to go have a read at the first story 'Temptations' over on my profile. If you don't fancy doing that, then it is pretty simple to follow along and gather certain that have happened previous. Oh and welcome back if you're a previous reader!
After a long wait I can now reveal the first part of Fearless Temptations and the main idea of this story of the series. Just a reminder that this story has a slight AU theme to it, regarding my own story lines (it will follow the shows story line still, don't worry.) that I have incorporated to the shows original plot. I've also brought back a certain character back to the show that I personally love and wish would actually come back.
Plot:
It's the beginning of Sophia's Junior year. After a summer spent in London helping her Mom run the boutique away from Beacon Hills and trying to hide away from her problems, that began back when moments before Sophia was due to board a plane to the other side of the world, her heart got broken by ex-alpha Derek Hale. Now back from London, Sophia is dealing with heart break in the way she always does e.g getting wasted, all whilst starting a new school year, trying to come to terms with the fact her Dad is a werewolf hunter, help her best friend control her new wolf powers, protect herself from the supernatural world she is increasingly becoming more and more involved with, as well as trying to stop herself from falling from return of beta werewolf, Isaac Laheey.
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Wolf or the shows storyline.
Enjoy reading.
Intoxicated:
Another round of drinks were placed onto the circle wooden table that the group were spread around on a tray, most were huddled up beside each other deep in conversation or downing the rest of the drinks, preparing themselves for the other round of drinks that had then arrived at the table.
One of the younger woman at the end of the table leant over to grab two of the many shots on the tray and handed one over to the teenager sat beside her, at whom she believed was not much younger than herself. They had met when the woman and her group of friends had first came into the bar, she had noticed the girl sat by herself at the bar, twiddling her fingers with a straw and staring down at the wooden surface of the bar below. Noticing how sad and alone the girl looked, the young woman approached her immediately and basically begged her to come join her friends for the night.
Knowing that her own company was so not fun and would only drag her into feeling worse, the teenager finally agreed and joined the older crowd on a table within the bar venue. Already a number of drinks had been brought to the table consisting of shots, cocktails, beer and more shots. She was already beginning to feel the side affects of the vodka and cranberry she had first ordered that night when she had first arrived, as well as the couple of shots she had basically had shoved down her neck from the older crowd she was sat with.
She didn't really plan on getting on wasted tonight at all. She had only come out for a couple of hours for a drink to block out the thoughts in her head and get out of the house where she would be alone for most of the night. But the way the drinks kept coming to the table, she was pretty sure that her original plan was now out of the window.
The woman beside her passed her over one of the shot glasses and once she had hold of it, the woman beside her tapped their glasses against each other and motioned for her to tip back the alcoholic liquid. Copying the woman's actions, she brought the shot glass up to her lips and with one quick flash she downed the shot, trying to hide away how much it burned her throat and made her head begin to pound more than it already was from the loud base in the room. She quickly placed the shot glass back down onto the table, as the woman beside her cheered excitedly after taking her shot whilst she brought the back of her hand up to her mouth and wiped away any form of liquid from the alcohol from her lips.
Suddenly one of the couples within the group that were situated around the table began to argue, their voices getting louder and louder as it started to heat up between the two of them, everyone within the group attentions fell onto them and the woman even beside her began to get up to get involved with what they were bickering about.
Before she had the chance to see what all the commotion was about, her cell phone began to vibrate in the back pocket of the black skinny jeans she was wearing and it wasn't long before the sound of her ringtone played quietly out over the music in the bar.
Quickly she pulled the device out of her pocket and held it in her hands in front of her, her best friend's name appearing on the screen with an incoming call that she really was not expecting that night, at least not until later when she had gotten home and was about to go asleep.
Pressing the answer button, she carefully brought the phone up to her ear and placed her finger in the other ear, trying to block out the noise from the music, chatter and argument going on within the bar, before she finally spoke up with a hello.
"Oh my god, Sophia!" The voice on the other end yelled in panic, although she could only just about hear it over the noise "You have to get here right now."
"What?" Sophia asked her in confusion at what her friend was requesting when she was lead to believe her friend was busy all night.
"Please Sophia! I-i-i-i don't know..." She could barely make out what her friend was saying down the other end, her eyebrows puzzled in confusion once more as she slowly began to stand up from her spot around the table, the only thing that she could pick up was how terrified she sounded "Y-y-y-ou have to help..."
"Kelsey. I can hardly hear you. Just give me a second." Sophia told her as she squeezed her way past the woman who she had 'befriended' earlier on in the night and stumbled the quickest she could towards the back exit of the bar, knowing she had to know what was going on with her scared friend.
Sophia slammed her body into the back door of the bar, trying to get the heavy door open the best she could in the tipsy state she was in and the uncontrollable feeling of nerves that had crept on her when she kept replaying Kelsey's panicked voice back in her head.
Something clearly wasn't right with her best friend and she wouldn't stop until she found out what was wrong with her to cause her so much upset, especially when Sophia had last spoken to her friend she had been more than excited and happy that night, Kelsey was planning on meeting up with the guy she had been speaking to the whole summer and couldn't wait to tell Sophia all about how great her night was going to be.
Yet Sophia didn't understand that only within an hour or so, her friend's behaviour could have changed so drastically. Something bad must have happened. She hoped it was only something pety like he never showed up or he was a total douche. Every part of her was praying that it wasn't something worse like assault or something much worse, something she had been trying to hard not to think about since being back and was like a magnet for Beacon Hills.
Shaking away her thoughts, she stepped out into the gloomy, breezy and lightning filled outside. As best as she could, she began to climb down the few metal stairs that lead down onto the ground pavement below and brought her attention back on her friend down the phone "Kelsey! What the hell's going on?"
"Sophia," her friend cried, somewhat like she was in agony and Sophia really did begin to think the worst had happened "Please help me. I don't know what's happening to me and I'm freaking out. Please Sophia."
"O-o-ok Kelsey," Sophia tried to ease her friend and also herself as she tried to figure out what was going on "Just breathe. Tell me what happened."
"I don't know, Sophia!" Kelsey screamed again and it wasn't long before Sophia heard her friend begin to sob uncontrollably "I-i-i was just waiting for him to come meet me, then out of nowhere s-s-s-someone attacks me and I'm pinned to the ground. Next thing I know I'm l-l-lying on the floor, covered in blood and the biggest wound on my thigh. I don't know what happened Sophia, but I can't move it hurts so bad. P-p-please come help me."
Sophia's eyes widened in horror, her breathing picked up almost immediatly and she felt her heart beginning to pound in her chest, horror and fear washing over her within seconds at what she was hearing from her friend. Her brain began to put the pieces together and Sophia was already beginning to think the worst really did happened. But she wasn't ready to believe it just yet. She was hoping it was just her slightly drunken mind making her over paranoid and not thinking straight.
"Jesus Kels," Sophia sighed as she began to pace up and down the back alley way she was in panicked about this whole situation "Are you sure you didn't see anyone at all?"
"No I s-s-swear. All I remember was someone holding me down to the floor so I couldn't see, covering my mouth with their hand and attacking my thigh like it was a piece of meat." Kelsey sobbed back as she replayed the horrific events in her head and Sophia's heart began to sink lower at the realisation that the possibility she had been trying to ignore maybe really was reality.
This had to be some sort of joke or just her intoxicated head playing tricks on her.
She couldn't believe this was actually happening. She hoped that this was just some nightmare. She didn't want to have to live this. It wasn't supposed to be like this. It wasn't fair on Kelsey or anyone of them to go through this. This couldn't happen. She didn't want to believe it until she witnessed it with her own eyes and with others also.
"Ok Kels. I believe you," Sophia assured her as tears pricked her eyes and her pacing come to a stop in the middle of the alley as she tried to figure out what the hell she could do about this "I'll be there as soon as I can ok? Just hold on and stay put."
"T-t-thank you." Kelsey sobbed back as the pain began to get worse and Sophia had to hold back her own cry at how terrified her friend sounded.
She didn't even know if she could even hang up and leave her friend after hearing her in so much pain and knowing that she was dealing with this all by herself down some street in the middle of Beacon Hills. But if she didn't hang up and get some sort of help, then she was never going to be able to get to her friend's resuce and face up to what was possibly going on here.
Gradually she pulled the phone away from her ear and ended the call, before her fingers shakily went onto her contacts on the screen and she began to scroll through them trying to find one number in particular that she knew would be able to help her in this situation, which was slightly impossible when her vision kept blurring due to the alcohol she had consumed and the tears in her eyes.
Finally she found the number she was looking for and quickly dialled the number, her heart pounding more as she waited for the ringing tone to end and the voice she wanted to speak to pick up on the other side.
It felt like forever has passed until the person picked up the phone and answered it in a casual manner, having no idea that Sophia was freaking out and didn't have any idea who else to go to but him. She just hoped that he would be able to help her.
"Scott?" Sophia said when she finally heard his voice and tried so hard to fight the tears away "I need your help. Kelsey's in trouble and I don't know what do."
~ 5 hours before ~
"There you go!" The waitress smiled at the two girls she was serving as she placed two strawberry milkshakes down onto the table they were sat at, before she left them to consume their shakes.
Sliding hers more towards her, Kelsey took a sip from the red and white swirled straw, before she glanced over at Sophia who was playing with her own straw in her shake "I bet your Mom was happy to see you. Must have been nice to have one of her babies with her."
"Yeah she loved spending the time with me, even when we were busy working at the boutique, she said that her working day's go a lot better when I'm around," Sophia told her with a light smile as her mind flashed back to the past few months she had spent in London with her Mom "She even suggested I come live with her per-mentally and finish my education in London."
"No way! What did you say?" Kelsey asked interestedly, even though she was praying her best friend declined the offer since she didn't want her moving to the other side of the world and just leave her here in boring old Beacon Hills.
"I said no, of course," Sophia confirmed Kelsey's wishes "but the idea of finishing school earlier than intended does sound appealing."
"I agree," Kelsey giggled as Sophia took a large sip out of her milkshake "I can't believe tomorrow is the first day of Junior year already."
"I know. Only feel's like last week we were freshmen." Sophia replied.
"Exactly! So that means it is exactly a year until we start senior year, then we leave High School and go to College." Kelsey explained with a slight sadness in her tone.
"That scares me a little," Sophia chuckled lightly "Please don't remind me."
"Still not a fan of the college idea?" Kelsey smirked.
"I'm never going to be a fan of the college idea. I mean look at my sister, she went to college, got a degree and hasn't even used it. Not even once. She's ended up working down at the station on reception." Sophia explained.
"Oh c'mon! It's not all bad for her. She gets to work with that..." Kelsey titled her head to the side like she was thinking hard about something "... that hot guy, what's his name again?"
"Jordan." Sophia confirmed as she rolled her eyes playfully.
"Exactly! It's not all bad for her working with the hottest cop in the Hills." Kelsey grinned at the thought of him in his uniform.
"Calm down Kels," Sophia told her jokingly "You have a guy in your life right now, focus your attention on him."
"A girl can look, but doesn't mean she has to touch," Kelsey couldn't wipe the smirk off her face "I mean of course your sister's doing all the touching so it's fine."
"Kelsey!" Sophia gasped in disbelief her friend had said that.
"What?" Kelsey exclaimed and held her hands up in defence "You haven't been away that long to know that there is some serious sexual tension going on between them two."
Sophia found herself rolling her eyes again at her friends assumption about her sister and the deputy. Part of her knew it could be potentially true. There was something definitly going on between the two. She had noticed it whenever she had been with Daniella and the two had crossed paths.
But she had also had her suspicions from that day back in Mexico when they had set eyes on each other for the first time. Yet that was just it, was it the first time that they had met each other? From her eyes, Sophia knew her sister knew a lot more about Jordan than she had originally thought.
"Maybe. But maybe not," Sophia replied "I doubt Daniella would just throw herself at him. That's definitely not her style."
"Oh so you know her style?"
Sophia raised her eyebrows up at her friend "You know what I mean. She's still getting over her last relationship."
"I guess. But there's nothing wrong with a little distraction." Kelsey wiggled her eyebrows up, before Sophia leaned over and hit her friend on the arm playfully, the two girls erupting into laughter.
"Kelsey! Please! Seriously! Stop it!" Sophia whined but couldn't help but feel amused at the situation "You have really turned into a little minx since I've been away. I hope it has nothing to do with this guy."
"Maybe." Kelsey smirked as her cheeks flushed slightly in embarrassment.
"God help the guy!" Sophia teased as Kelsey flashed her a frown.
"Don't knock my confidence." Kelsey sulked before she finished off her milkshake.
"I'm just kidding. But seriously, we should start heading back so you can get yourself ready for your little date night." Sophia suggested pointing down to the shopping bags that were propped up against each other on the other side of the booth beside Kelsey.
"You're right. Let's go." Kelsey nodded as the two finished off their shakes and slipped out of the booth, Sophia helping Kelsey with her bags as they did so.
Once they had collected their things, Kelsey and Sophia made their way out of the diner through into the shopping mall they were situated in. They were now heading to the car park, to jump back into Kelsey's car and head back home for the rest of the day.
As they were rounding the corner past a row of stores, Kelsey's bodied collided with another and a few of her shopping bags tumbled to the ground below her. Noticing that her friend had stopped and dropped her things, Sophia spun back round and bent down to pick up the items that her friend had dropped on the ground.
Her hand was inches away from taking hold of the last remaining bag on the ground, when she felt someone else grab hold of it and pass it over to her. Quickly her eyes moved from the hand up to the person's face, her eyes widening a little and shock wiped over her to be met with someone she hadn't yet seen since being back in town.
"Scott." Sophia greeted him surprised, as they both jumped back up onto their feet and faced each other awkwardly.
"Hey." Scott McCall replied as he came to stand beside Stiles and Kelsey also came to stand beside Sophia, taking the bags back that she had dropped from her grasp when her body had collided with Stiles moments ago and he had apologised for seconds later whilst Sophia and Scott had gone for the bags.
"You're back!" Stiles chimed, knowing that both he and Scott were surprised to see her back after her time away already.
"Uh yeah. I got back yesterday afternoon." She told them with a slight smile.
Kelsey glanced between the the three of them, her attention mainly focused on Sophia though, watching her body language and listening for the tone of her voice. She knew that her best friend right now must have been feeling uncomfortable to see the two guys again, especially since it was the first time since she had returned home and wasn't expecting such a quick reunion to take place.
"That's great. Good to see you." Scott smiled back at her as Sophia continued to awkwardly smile at him.
Her best friend was so right. Sophia felt mortified to have bumped into the two so unexpectedly. She was hoping that when she would next see them again it would have been at school, a quick glance in the hallway during the first few days back and she hoped it would be at least a few weeks until they actually sparked up a conversation properly.
But here they were in the middle of the mall the day before school started again, looking around at each other awkwardly and the atmosphere around them was thick with tension about only one thing in particular. They all knew why it was so tense. There was no reason to wonder.
"Well this is unexpected." Stiles broke the silence that had fallen between them.
"Isn't it just?" Kelsey laughed awkwardly back.
"Who would have thought we would have bumped into you two of all places?" Stiles was the one to chuckle awkwardly this time.
"What a coincidence?" Kelsey replied back, as Sophia glanced between the two of them inn humiliation at how silly this whole thing was, they should have just been acting normal around each other.
But instead they were acting like what happened the last time they saw each other was a subject that was raw and never to be spoken about again. Sophia hated this. She hated knowing people were walking round egg shells on her already and she had only just been back a day yet. This had to stop.
Couldn't everyone just act like their usual selves instead of trying to overcompensate for her?
"Soo..." Stiles hummed "Sophia..." Kelsey turned her head to look at Stiles, shooting him a hard and stern glare in his direction, which he chose to ignore against his own risk as Sophia looked at him in anticipation of what she knew was to come "Have you spoken to Derek recently?"
"Stiles!" Scott and Kelsey groaned back at him.
"What?" Stiles shrugged.
"What the hell?" Kelsey yelled at him in annoyance as Sophia lowered her head slightly, wanting the ground to just swallow her up right there and then "You're not supposed to bring up the D-word."
"I was just asking what everyone wants to know." Stiles held his hands up, looking over to Sophia with an apologetic smile on his face.
Raising her eyebrows up at the three faces that stared back at her, she rolled her eyes in annoyance at how childish they were all being and how much she hated being stuck in this awful situation.
She knew Kelsey was just trying to stick up for her, she appreciated that so much but she didn't want her best friend to fight her own battles for her. The same with Scott. He was too good for his own good sometimes. Then there was, Stiles. He was so right. He was only asking what everyone wanted to hear the answer to. Sophia knew that. But she wouldn't let her friends break her down so easily.
Shaking her head in defeat, she turned round on her heel and began to march away from the group of them. Quickly she hurried towards the exit of the mall and over to the car park, where she knew Kelsey had parked her car hours ago when they had first arrived at the building. She knew with in no time Kelsey would follow her to check on her.
"Seriously Stiles?" Kelsey shook her head in frustration at them, as she looked away from where she had last seen Sophia run off "It was going so well before you two showed up."
"Us two?" Scott repeated in disbelief that she had included him in the mistake his friend had made.
"Yes," Kelsey hissed back before she began to slip past them "I have to go."
Kelsey quickened her pace, wanting to get to her friends aid and get away from the two boys who had caused her friend upset. It was true. It had been going so well since they had showed up. Kelsey had even started to believe things had worked out for the best this time.
Yet this was what Kelsey had feared for. It was too good to be true that Sophia was happy and in a better place than when she had last seen her in Beacon Hills, the same day that she had left to go to London for the summer. Instead, she knew her best friend deep down inside was a mess. But she just didn't show it. Not easily that's for sure. Because that's what she had grown to do. To suppress and hide her emotions.
Once Kelsey reached her car, she noticed Sophia leant up against the passenger side of the car with her arms folded and her head looking down at the ground. However, when she heard footsteps coming towards her, she glanced towards her friend and gave her a light smile.
"Are you alright?" Kelsey asked concerned as she got out her keys for her car out of her purse.
"Can we just go?" Sophia ignored the question as she spun round to get inside the car and laid her hand down on the handle of the door "Please."
Without even opening her lips to speak, Kelsey unlocked the car and watched as Sophia climbed inside, closing the door shut behind her and leaving Kelsey with nothing left to do than lay her bags into the trunk of the car, before joining her inside the vehicle to drive away from the disaster end of a shopping trip.
Around twenty minutes later, Kelsey pulled up her car into the driveway of Sophia's house, before she shut off the engine and turned to face her friend worriedly. In this moment in time, Kelsey had no idea what to do. She hadn't seen Sophia in this way for such a long time.
The day when she had left the airport, the girl had been a uncontrollable sobbing mess, a sight she hadn't seen in months and to be honest it scared her a little to know that it took something like that to just change her all over again.
Over the past few months before the incident, Sophia had changed slightly. Kelsey assumed it was because of the new relationship that Sophia had gotten into. It somehow had matured her and made her act a lot more tough about certain things.
Also she assumed it was because of the people she had been hanging around with, Scott and his team of friends. During the day at school, Sophia was happy to hang around with Kelsey and their old gang just like they did everyday since starting high school two years ago. But at night, when Sophia was around Derek, she knew that she also teamed up with Scott and his friends for after dark activities, that Kelsey still to this day had no idea about.
Part of her didn't want to know, even though her friend had assured her many times that they were just hanging out and she had even seen it for herself a few times when Sophia had dragged her along to hang out with them also. But even when Sophia was with these people, Kelsey could see that this was when she was seemed to be the happiest. She seemed stronger and more proud of who she was. Kelsey could handle that. It was easy.
But this. Kelsey had no idea or control over. She didn't know what to say or do in case she pushed her friend too far. But then there was the other side of her that felt like if she didn't do anything for her friend, then Sophia would push herself more and more into a dark place that she didn't tell anyone about, even though everyone had their suspicions about.
It never went unnoticed to them, especially Kelsey who had grown closer to her friend over the past 6 months or so. She had imagined it was because of the fact she knew about her friends secret relationship. But mainly it was because of how much the two just clicked. They didn't judge each other. They stuck by each other. They understood each other. It wasn't the same with the others in their circle of friends at school.
"Are you ok?" Kelsey questioned again for the second time that day, hoping she would actually get a proper answer this time and not something brushed off.
"I'm fine, Kelsey." Sophia mumbled back, not looking at her in case she truly showed how she was feeling, she didn't want to appear weak to her, not anyone.
"You might be now, but you weren't back there," Kelsey sighed as she glanced down at her lap feeling guilty "You're not mad at me for not sticking up for you more, are you?"
"Of course not!" Sophia took the chance to finally look at her friend this time, giving her a reassuring look to make her know that it wasn't true what her friend had presumed "Don't be silly."
"Good because I guess what Stiles asked is just what..." Kelsey began but couldn't finish due to her nerves around the subject she was going to bring back up again.
"What?" Sophia asked wanting her friend to continue, but when there was silence still coming from her, she knew she had to get it out of her "Spit it out, Kels."
Sophia wanted her friend to think that it was no big deal to her. Even though, deep down Sophia had been feeling terrible about coming back here and being reminded of everything that she had once been apart of before she left for London.
Three months felt like a long time in her eyes. Three months away from the life she had been living for over six months. The same routine and the same people. Everything felt like it was still the same. But reality was it had changed. Nothing was ever going to be the same for her in her eyes. It was something she was going to have to get used to whether she liked it or not because there was nothing she could do.
"I mean, how are you really?" Kelsey finally spoke up as Sophia's mind drifted away from her thoughts and back on her friend beside her "How are you really about the whole Derek thing? You have hardly mentioned him all summer, not even on texts and certainly not during our phone calls,"
Sophia felt her chest go tight at the mention of his name all over again. It felt like someone was stabbing her repeatedly in the chest whenever they brought him up. She just wished it didn't have to feel like this.
But Kelsey had noticed her friends mood ever since Stiles had brought it up all over for her again and now she was doing the same, just because she wanted to help her, not punish her more, so she continued on "You didn't even mention how you were feeling, Sophia."
"Kelsey..." Sophia sighed looking away from her friend and out the window, still hesitant to show her true emotions.
"I'm worried about you, Sophia. You're my best friend. You were away the whole summer and you've come back here like, like..."
"Like what?"
"A new person." Kelsey informed her sadly.
"What?" Sophia couldn't help but chuckle in shock that her friend had thought she had changed that much, had she really changed that much? Deep down, she knew her friend was right, but she just didn't want to believe it, she couldn't believe it because otherwise he won.
"You've changed since you went away. I don't know if it's Derek, or maybe it's from being away from town for so long, or maybe it's just because you're fed up with me going on and on about..."
Sophia quickly cut her friend off as her head spun back round, knowing what Kelsey was going to say next, which was certainly far from the truth, sure she was feeling hopeless about her love life, but she certainly wasn't feeling that way about her best friends "No Kelsey. It's not that. I'm not fed up with you. I am happy for you, so happy for you."
"But there is something wrong, though?" Kelsey guessed as Sophia's eyes met with hers.
She could see it all over her face that there was. Just like she heard it in the tone of her voice over the phone when she was in London. Just like how blunt she had been with Kelsey on a few of her texts. Just like she noticed when she had picked Sophia up from her house earlier on in that day. She looked tired and it wasn't from the jet lag that's for sure. She looked hurt and like she just wanted to run away.
"I guess it's just trying to adjust to life back in Beacon Hills again," Sophia began to explain, not wanting to tell her the full story, but enough to get her to stop feeling so guilty "Obviously being back here is bringing stuff up about what happened when I was last here."
Kelsey was the one who didn't want to hold back any more, she was just going to ask whatever she wanted to know because this was progress, her friend was making progress about opening up to her and this would be the decider of if Sophia was going to be 100% honest
"Have you talked to him? I mean properly talked to him."
"Not really. A few texts here and there." Sophia informed her with a sad tone.
"Sophia..." Kelsey said sympathetically because she really didn't know what else to say.
"It's ok Kelsey," Sophia assured her with a light smile "Seriously, it's ok."
Her friend had to stop feeling so bad about something that really wasn't her fault.
"I feel bad. I'm spending the last night of summer meeting up with some guy. Instead I should be with you, watching our favourite movies, eating ice cream and pizza." Kelsey sighed helplessly.
"You shouldn't feel bad, ok?" Sophia told her as she laid her hand on her friends shoulder and gave it a light squeeze "Because this is what you have wanted for so long, a proper chance with a guy that you like and he likes you. Plus from what I've heard you sound perfect for each other. You deserve this more than anyone I know, Kels, you know that right?"
"I do now." Kelsey smiled at her, knowing her friend was being honest and truthful about this, also noticing how instantly her mood changed when the subject was off her.
"So enough sulking about me, go home, shower, put on your new outfit, get dolled up and could meet the guy of your dreams." Sophia smirked.
Laughing at her words, Kelsey nodded her head and squeezed her friends hand excitedly, before she seeked reassurance "You sure you'll be ok?"
"Of course," Sophia nodded as she took off her seat belt and grabbed hold of her door, ready to get out of the car and head inside "Now go. I'll see you tomorrow at school. Don't forget to text me after to tell me how it went."
"I will," Kelsey promised as Sophia hopped out of the car and closed the door behind her, as Kelsey unwound the passenger window to call out to her friend, who was already making her way up to the front door of her house "It's good to have you back!"
Once Kelsey had safely and carefully reversed off the driveway and accelerated back down the street towards her own home, Sophia made her way inside her house and kicked off the flats that she had been wearing.
Feeling overcome with hundreds of emotions and tiredness from the jet lag of still having her body in London zone, she trudged her way up the stairs and headed towards her bedroom, feeling like a long nap was in order to sleep off the encounter she experienced at the mall that had brought up a lot of feelings she had been trying to suppress.
As she reached the top of the stairs, Sophia was met by the sight of Daniella popping her head out of her own bedroom to greet her younger sibling "Hey, did you have fun?" Daniella asked as she flat ironed her hair.
"Yes it was good seeing Kelsey again." Sophia answered with a light smile, trying her best to hide her horrible mood from her sister, to avoid any further questions from anybody else that day.
"You all ready for school tomorrow?" Daniella questioned as she finished off her hair, before turning off her iron and following her sister into her bedroom, where Sophia had already began to make her way into moments before.
"No not really," Sophia yawned as she collapsed down onto her bed "I don't think any high schooler is ready to go back, especially the ones with severe jet lag and their sister as their guardian."
Rolling her eyes at her sisters remark, she leant her body against the door frame of Sophia's room and folded her arms across her chest "Back to normality will be good for you, get rid of your jet lag and focus your mind on what's important."
"What another year slugging my way through high school?" Sophia raised her eyebrows up mischievously.
"As I said, school is important," Daniella tried to tell her, knowing Sophia was only messing when she said she was 'slugging' her way through school, when Daniella knew Sophia had a bright head on her, but however smart Sophia was, she had no idea what was about to come out of the mouth of her older sister "Plus there's also the early morning wake up call I'll be giving you every day."
"What?" Sophia shook her head confused, getting up early for school was bad enough, let alone earlier than usual "What wake up call?"
"Our training?" Daniella told her as Sophia frowned in response, not liking this idea what so ever "C'mon Sophia, just cause you went away for the summer and the supernatural world has been a little sparse lately, doesn't mean our training, the training you promised we'd do together, just suddenly stops," Sophia felt like she was really regretting making that promise to Daniella all those months ago "Did you work out when you were away?"
"Sometimes." Sophia shrugged.
It was half true. She sometimes went for a run. She sometimes headed to the local pool with her mom. That was how far her exercise plan stretched during her time in London.
"Sometimes isn't going to cut it in the supernatural world, how are we supposed to protect ourselves?" Daniella asked annoyed at how little Sophia had been taking this seriously whilst she had been away.
"I'm not in that world any more, Daniella." Sophia told her sister, before she sat up from her bed and pulled off her leather jacket.
"Of course you are, Sophia," Daniella corrected her quickly "Our father is part of that world, so whether we like it or not, we're born fighters."
"I don't want nothing to do with that man!" Sophia yelled back at her older sister in anger that she was bringing him up after all this time. She didn't want nothing to do with him and didn't want the rest of his family to either.
It wasn't just what happened the last time she was in town that had caused her so much pain. But it was also what she had learned from her Mom when being in London. Part of her shouldn't have been so upset by it. But she was. It made her think about how twisted and messed up her whole had been. The years of lies she had been brought up on and every single word either of her parents murmured made her doubt what had been a loving family she had born into was just fake.
"Did you know Mom and Dad are getting a divorce?" Sophia asked her sister timidly.
"Yes," Daniella lowered her head glumly at the reminder, she could relate to how Sophia was feeling, because she was going through the exact same feelings about her own upbringing and family "Mom called before your fight got into London at the start of the summer. She told me they were getting a divorce and no more questions should be asked."
"Exactly the same thing she said to me," Sophia sighed as Daniella lifted her head to look across at her "Do you think she know's about Dad?"
"I have no idea," Daniella admitted honestly as she glanced down at the rose gold watch on her wrist "But if he can lie, then what's stopping her? I have to go. Dinner's in the fridge. I'll be back later tonight. Don't stay up too late, it's a school night."
"Yes Daniella." Sophia rolled her eyes playfully as Daniella's attempt's at being the responsible one. It had been going on for far too long now it had to stop. It was too amusing.
Daniella turned on her heel and began to head downstairs, still talking to Sophia as she did with a louder pitch "And training starts tomorrow after school. I'll let you off for one morning since you've only just got back and school starts again. But the day after, I expect you up bright and early."
"Whatever Daniella."
"And Sophia..." Daniella called from downstairs as she slipped her feet into her heels and grabbed her bag for work.
"Yeah?" The younger sister yelled back.
"I love you."
"Love you too!"
When she heard the slam of the front door and her sisters car start in the driveway, Sophia got up from her spot on her bed and wondered over to one of draws in her room. Her hand hesitantly lingered over one of the top draws in particular, her heart racing and her her chest tightening about what she knew was inside there.
She debated for minutes about whether or not she should even look inside, maybe it was way too soon for her to jump straight into everything she had been trying to forget the past few months? But if she didn't do it now, then how else she was ever going to move on with her life and be able to get over what had happened.
This was her chance. Her first chance since being back to make a change in her life, to get rid of what was holding her onto the hope of their being a chance that things could go back the way they were. But was it really going to be that easy to just give up on the idea completely when it was so sudden and unexpected for her.
Plucking up the courage, she slowly pulled open the draw and her heart sank when she saw the bundle of things sat inside inside, untouched since the last time they had last been there and the morning of that day when everything seemed to change for the worst after it had been going smooth for so long.
Shaking her head at the bad memory, she pulled out one of the basic grey t-shirts on the top of the pile. It was like it was a bad habit, but she couldn't help but bring the material up to her face and inhale the smell that was once there, hoping that there was something there to just relief her for even just one second of all the pain she was feeling about being back in Beacon Hills again.
From just sitting and being unloved in her draw, the once familiar scent to her had seemed to erase faintly over the time she had been gone and her room had been closed up to the world for the past three months. A sinking feeling came over her again, knowing that this was such a waste of time and she was acting so silly about getting her hopes up about something so pathetic.
Tossing the t-shirt down into the draw, she let out a frustrated groan and collapsed back down onto her bed, her hands on her head trying to block out the thoughts she was having about the one person who had consumed her heart, body and mind the past 6 months or so.
Would she ever be able to get over that day and just move on from it all?
Trying to control her erratic breathing, she gently shut her eyes and focused on her surroundings, the painful sound of silence lingered in the home she lived in. It reminder her of the time when she thought she had lost Daniella. The time when she had been so desperate and lost that she had no idea what she was doing with her life. The time when she had started drinking to make it through her weekends at home alone. The time when she had even began to dread the worst that had happened and how she was going to have to explain it to everyone.
But of course, she got saved one night. One night when she went to the bar to drown her sorrows and pretend she was someone else for just one night. The same night when she had met him properly for the first time. The night when she fell fast and never looked back. The night that somehow made every day after that a little easier to get through.
Yet all it took was just one day for it all to come crashing down on her again. It was time was repeating its self all over again. Sophia was partly glad she went away to London for the summer because it gave her a chance to break out of the reality world she lived in, to forget all about the troubles within her family, what happened to Caleb, the supernatural world she lived in and unexpectedly it helped her distract herself from the one guy who turned her back on her at the last second.
There was only one thing who wouldn't do that to her now. It was the only thing that had made her feel good for a while. It was the one thing that he couldn't take away from her this time round and even if he tried to, she wouldn't let him because she was done listening to him and all the false promises he had made to her. Because this was her night to have fun, with no rules or no one watching over her.
Reopening her eyes, she leant back up and stood up from the bed, before she wondered over to her closet and pulled out a new top that she had purchased whilst in London. Pulling off the sweater she had been wearing that day to go shopping, she swapped it for the new top that consisted of a grey jersey material with short sleeves, a tie front top that revealed the smallest amount of cleavage and sprayed her body with a fragrance to freshen herself up for a bit.
Grabbing the leather jacket she had tossed down earlier, she slipped it back on and grabbed some notes out of her wallet, as well as her ID card, before she headed downstairs to call a taxi and slip on her ankle boots to wear for the rest of the evening.
Once she had made her call, she placed her phone into her pocket and wondered aimlessly around the house until she got the call to say that the taxi was outside, ready to pick her up and take her to her destination for the evening.
Going over to the refrigerator in the kitchen, Sophia scanned the contents of it to find something that she could drink in the meantime. Her eyes focused on a bottle of whisky her Dad had last drank when he had last been at the house, the same night that her murdered Daniella's boyfriend, Caleb. Another reminder to Sophia of why she needed to get out and just take the edge of everything even if it was only for a bit.
Picking up the bottle, she undid the lid and slammed the fridge door shut with her hip. Bringing the bottle up to her lips, she took a deep breath and took a large swig out of the alcohol substance. When she brought it away from her and swallowed it down, she could already feel the harsh burn in her throat, as well as the uneasy feeling going to her stomach, but it didn't stop her from carrying the drink through into the sitting room whilst she waited.
Because nothing or no one was going to stop her from having fun that night.
Or maybe there was.
Author note: I hope you enjoyed the first part of Fearless: Temptations. I am so happy that I have managed to write the first part finally and get it up for you guys after months of debating whether to continue. It's hard work trying to write Derek into the show when he's not been in it all season. But I think I have some ideas that I hope you guys will enjoy.
You might have noticed that I also added a certain past character to the show. One of my favourites. I think he's going to be made very good use of within this story and going to break for a certain character of mine. Have no fear though, Derek will still be making an appearance in chapters, he isn't gone out of the picture for good.
Anyway, thank you for the support since I have been away and busy thinking. I do really appreciate it and really want you guys to like it.
Let me know any thoughts you may have. I'll be sure to read them and reply to any questions.
Thanks so much,
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