During a gym class at Beacon Hills High, Scott and Allison just went up the rock climbing wall when Erica was called up to go next. Making her way through the crowd she had this look of fear all over her. Already strapped in, she climbed halfway up when she freezes and starts to cry
"Erica you dizzy…is it vertigo?"
"Vertigo is a dysfunction of the vestibular system of the inner ear…she's just freaking out" Lydia said
"Erica?"
"Coach maybe it's not safe…you know she's epileptic" Allison said
"W…wh...Why doesn't anybody tell me this stuff? Erica, you're fine just kick off…there's a mat to catch you" still scared she lets go of the wall and lands on the mat. Walking away embarrassed she starts to hear the laughter from her fellow classmates.
After class Erica is determined to conquer the wall and heads back into the empty gym for another go. She again gets halfway up the wall when one of her infamous seizures starts to kick in causing her to fall to the ground. Scott senses her in danger and catches her before anything happens with the whole class rushing in right behind him.
"Put her on her side; put her on her side" Scott does as Allison said "how'd you know?"
"I just felt it" holding onto Erica
Now at the Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, Erica is stable and being examined by Scott's mom. "You know the last time we saw you Erica you were being so good about taking your medication" Ms. McCall said
"Are you going to tell my mom?"
"Well I swear I don't want, to but there is team of lawyers in the back who would break my legs and I don't know if you've seen my legs, but for a girl my age there still pretty hot, so" The comment made Erica smile "the doctors going to be In, in a minute, ok?"
"Ok"Quietly spoken then Mrs. McCall leaves the room and Erica finds it the perfect opportunity to go to sleep. Moments later someone rolls Erica's bed down the hall unnoticed into the morgue room waking her up. Scared for her life Erica sits up slowly at looks over at the man who just stole her from her room. To her surprise the man was pretty good looking like a male model and possible in his early to mid-20s, and then he began to speak.
Reading her medication bottle "side effects may include anxiety, weight gain, acne, ulcerative colitis, eugh…"
With a shaky voice "who are you?"
Looking up at her "Let's just say we have a mutual friend" smiling at her he puts the bottle down and walks over to her slowly "you get a… warning, right before you have a seizure"
"It's called an ora. It's like this odd taste in my mouth" trying not to make eye contact
"You don't have to lie Erica, what does it really tastes like?"
"Tastes like blood"
"What if I told you that all of this could go away? The side effects" he runs his hand up her left leg making her jump "the symptoms" he does the same with her other leg "all of it "he stops at her ankles. She starts to smile when he pulls her to the edge of the bed and then places his body between her legs making her feels a little uncomfortable "and what if all those things went away but everything else" he places his hand against her cheek "got even better?"
"How..."curious
Smiling "let me show you…"the man's eyes began to glow a deep shade of red as he leaned in and bit her
The next day Erica woke up in her room feeling much more alive and healthy. She got up and went to the mirror to fix her hair when she noticed how much different she looked then she did yesterday. She looked herself over and noticed some clothes that she'd never seen before and a box with a note on it. The note read:
'New clothes for the new Erica, enjoy!'
Getting excited, she quickly got ready for school and got dressed. Usually after she got ready for school she would go downstairs and head for school without any make up or her hair done but today she felt the need to do so. She let her hair fall down in large curls and made her make up noticeable but discrete. "Time for school..." She walked out the house and headed for school.
During lunch Erica was the last one to walk in purposely trying to make an entrance. The lunch room was pretty normal that day when suddenly everyone got quiet and was staring at the door. Erica had walked around the corner into the lunch room with all eyes on her in some leopard print pumps, a leather mini skirt and jacket, with a white tank top. Erica walked over to the first table of guys and bent down and took an apple off the tray of the closest one and took a bite without a word and walked away. "What, the holy hell, is that? "Lydia said to Stiles and Scott as she walked over.