Note: I own nothing but my OC's, sadly
I sat on the lumpy couch upside down so that my feet stuck in the air and my head hung off of the bottom of the couch, making me stare at the TV. I sighed loudly to the rather large golden colored dog in the corner of the living room. School started back tomorrow and though I was happy to see my friends, I really didn't feel like going to my classes. The door to the small apartment opened and closed.
I lifted my head slightly to see my friend Raf enter the room. Raf was short; there was no doubt about it. Her tiny 5'3" frame and petite size made it easy for people to want to coddle her, like she would break. What they didn't know was that her petit frame consisted of nothing but muscle. Raf had a natural dark tan and a round face, but there wasn't an inch of fat on her body. She had the slightest hint of a tan, and jet black, silky, hair that fell to just above her butt. As usual, Raf had her hair braided down her back. I couldn't ever recall a time where Raf wore it any differently, except maybe all of it pulled up in a bun. Raf had three piercings in each ear lobe and her top right cartilage was pierced. She also had her nose pierced and her right eyebrow was pierced twice. They weren't loud piercings, in fact you could barely notice them, but it did make her look like she had a certain edge to her. Despite Raf's girly features, she was anything but girly. In fact, she wore clothes and acted the complete opposite of girly. Raf purposely didn't wax her eyebrows, making them a little bushier than most girls; she never wore make up, not even chapstick; her clothes were always t-shirts that were two sizes too big and granny jeans; she only ever wore flip flops unless her job required her to wear something else; her only jackets was one gray hoodie with a beige Carhartt jacket pulled over it. The most interesting thing about her was her dark gray eyes, that reminded me of storm clouds.
Raf was currently in her jacked and was wearing black dress pants and close toed black shoes. She threw her apron from the restaurant that she worked at on the coat rack along with her jacket. Before she could take off her shoes, her dog Jack ran to greet her. He jumped up on his hind legs; making him only two inches shorter than her, as he gave her, what she called 'kisses'.
"I missed you too big boy!" Raf cooed in a voice one would typically associate with the way you talked to babies. I sighed loudly from the couch.
Raf looked at me, "What you moanin' about over there?" She said in her slightly low, but still girly voice.
"I want to go for a run, but my mom told me I couldn't unless I had someone run with me!" I said while looking at her expectantly.
Raf sighed as she pushed Jack off of her. "But I just got off an eight hour shift at work!" She whined. "Can't you make one of your brother's go with you?"
I scoffed. "I can't make Patty or Garrett do anything! Pleeeeeeaaaaassssseeeeee!" I begged, knowing she couldn't say no to me when I put on my begging face.
She sighed loudly and slouched over in defeat while also hanging her head and letting her arms fall limply in front of her. "Fine. Let me go change." She said in a low voice that she drew out. As I jumped up and cheered, Raf began moving forward in the same position.
A few minutes later, Raf was back in a slightly baggy t-shirt and shorts that came to mid thigh.
"It's the middle of winter! How are you not going to freeze?!" I exclaimed.
She smirked at me and shrugged. "Come on Jack!" She called.
"Well, we aren't taking your motorcycle! It's too cold!" I called after her as I stomped out of her door and slammed the front door closed.
Raf turned around and rolled her eyes at me. "We aren't taking anyone's car anywhere. If we are going on a run, we are doing it right and running from the start." She said.
I sighed as I stood next her. Raf had such a dominating personality that I sometimes forget I was a few inches taller than her. My skinny frame stood at 5'7". I felt as though I towered over her. I wore sofie shorts over my running shorts as well as a t-shirt, which did little to keep me warm, which made my already pale skin look much paler. I pulled my shoulder length, straight black hair into a ponytail and began the jog with Raf and Jack.
I looked at Jack and noticed that he didn't have a leash on and was just running between us.
"Why don't you use a leash?" I asked
Raf's grey eyes met my hazel green ones and with the most serious face answered me. "Why would he need a leash?" She asked in complete confusion.
"To make sure he doesn't walk away! Duh!" I replied.
Raf glanced down to Jack, who was still running between us, then back up to me. "Right. Clearly I am going to have a hard time controlling him." She replied as sarcastically as possible.
"I will never know how you got him to be so obedient." I said as I shook my head.
"It's all part of my bond with him, Madison. It's all about how you form the bond. I rescued him as a puppy from under the house, and now he is loyal to me." Raf said smugly. I rolled my eyes at her.
"So this has nothing to do with the fact that you're a Werebear? Gosh that sounds weird. Almost like Care Bear." I thought out loud.
Raf scoffed out loud. "Maybe that does have something to do with it and maybe it doesn't. And werebear does not sound weird. What does sound weird is you saying gosh. Oh, and if you ever call me a Care Bear again, I will cut you!"
I laughed knowing she was halfway kidding, halfway serious. I abruptly stopped laughing as we came next to the Beacon Hill entrance.
"Let's go in here! I love running through the forest at night." I said excitedly, already turning into the forest.
"What! No way! The sign says no entrance after dark. Don't you know what's out there?!" Raf said as she ran after me.
"Of course I do! You told me about it! But that's why I brought you along. Now I am protected!" Raf rolled her eyes at me but followed anyways.
The deeper into the forest we went, the quieter and darker it got. The sounds of nature surrounded us, only being broken by our heavy breathing. We had long since stopped talking in order to be able to breath. Suddenly Raf stopped and looked around, her entire body going on alert. I stopped and opened my mouth to ask what was wrong, but was cut off by Jack's barking. I jumped in fright.
"What is it?" I whispered to Raf.
Raf's eyes scanned the trees as she answered me. "I smell something. I think -" Raf was cut off by a twig snapping some where in the distance.
Raf's head swung around to the noise and stepped protectively in front of me as Jack started growling, something I had never heard him do before. Red eyes shown in the distance from where the sound came from. A low growl echoed in the forest, loud enough that even my human ears could hear it. Raf let her own growl sound back. I could feel the vibrations of the growl go through Raf's body as I held onto her back. The sound of Raf growling no longer surprised me. I knew that she wouldn't do anything to hurt me and that she was perfectly capable of keeping herself in control around me.
The red eyes disappeared in the distance. Raf stayed in her protective stance, but spoke softly to me.
"We should go. That was an Alpha. Let's run." Before I could even respond Raf had spun around, grabbed my hand and begun to drag me out of the forest. We were almost out of the forest when I tripped on something and fell flat on my face.
"Uh, Madison! Seriously! We're not safe! We need to go. Madison? Hello? Earth to Madison!" Raf said as she waved a hand in front of my face.
I, however, didn't notice since my eyes were glued on a pair of legs, just a pair of legs laying in front of me. Raf finally seemed to notice what I was looking at as I heard her gasp.
"Shit. So I did smell…" Raf trailed off. I seemed unable to look away from the legs. The girl, and she was a girl considering the parts she had, had been cut in half right in above the belly button. The top half of the girl's body was nowhere to be seen, but I highly doubted I really wanted to see that. The girl's intestines' were falling out at the waist. At the sight of the intestines I quickly scooted back and threw up. Raf rubbed my back.
"Ok. Now we really need to get out of here." Raf said as she pulled me up. I shook her off as she tried to pull me forward.
"What? No! We have to call the police." I countered.
Raf looked at me baffled. "No we don't. We just pretend like nothing happened. Let the poor girl be someone else's problem."
I stared gapping at Raf. "Are you crazy? We just found half of a dead body. We have to call this in!"
Jack started whining and nudging the dead girls legs, as if he were sorry for the girl's death.
"Look, even Jack thinks that we should be calling this in." I added.
Raf huffed and rolled her eyes. "Well, be quick about it before we get killed by the Alpha too."
After quickly dialing the police, they were there in a matter of ten minutes. The Sheriff quickly came up to us.
"Are you girls all right?" He asked with a very kind voice.
"Yes sir." I responded quietly, still pretty shaken over finding a dead body. Well, half of one at least.
"Alright, are you young ladies both minors?" He asked next.
"No sir, I'm not." Raf spoke up.
The Sheriff glanced at Raf in surprise, as if expecting her to be younger than me. To be fair, Raf's shortness tended to make her look 15 rather than 19.
"Alright, What are both of your names?" He asked as the deputy next to him opened her note pad and was poised to write down our answers.
"I'm Raf Espinoza and this is Madison Elliott."
The Sheriff nodded in understanding. "Can you young ladies tell me how you found the body please?"
As we recounted out tale, the police began their search with dogs for the rest of the body. The officer that was taking down our story also tried calling my mother and my older brother, but neither of them answered.
"I can get her home Sheriff. It's no big deal." Raf answered.
The Sheriff nodded in agreement. "I'll get one of my deputies to walk you back to your car."
"Uh, actually, we ran here." I responded, while shooting a glare in Raf's direction to let her know that I blamed her for the car situation. Raf merely rolled her eyes.
"Oh, well then in that case, would you girls mind waiting around for a little bit until one of my deputies is free to take you home?" I nodded rapidly while Raf shrugged and nodded slowly. "If you will follow me then ladies."
Raf and I slowly trudged after the Sheriff and his deputies as they walked around the forest. Jack walked in between us, as if nothing was wrong and we were still on our run. I was thoroughly surprised that Jack didn't run up to the other dogs that the Sheriff had out sniffing. The Sheriff himself kept glancing at Jack wearily with his lack of leash, as if he expected the same thing any minute.
"That's quite a well trained dog you have there." The Sheriff commented while he shined his flash light around on the floor of the forest.
"Thanks!" Raf responded with a smile.
The Sheriff opened his mouth to speak, but Jack began barking as he ran up next to a tree close by, which then caused the other dogs to begin barking. The Sheriff scowled, as if to reprimand us for not having the dog on a leash, but before he could a body yelped and fell to the ground. Jack continued to bark at the man, while the deputies began running over.
"Hold it right there!" One of the deputies shouts as Raf pulls me protectively behind her.
"Hang on, hang on. This little delinquent belongs to me." The Sheriff says. Raf whistles and Jack stops barking and trots back to her side.
"Dad. How are you doing?" A gangly body says as he springs up. I gasp a little realizing that it was my classmate Stiles Stilinski. I had almost forgotten that his dad was the Sheriff. Raf looked at me questioningly.
"Do you listen into all of my phone calls?" The Sheriff asked.
"No!" Stiles quickly denied, but was given a pointed look from his father in response. Stiles let out a large sigh. "Not the boring ones."
"So where is your usual partner in crime?" The Sheriff asks as he begins to shine his flashlight around the woods, expecting to find another person.
"Who, Scott? Scott's home. He said he just wanted to get a good night sleep before first day of school tomorrow, you know, get some sleep before lacrosse try outs. It's just me…in the woods…alone…" Stiles trailed off seeing his fathers disbelieving look.
"Scott you out there? Scott?" The Sheriff called. There was no reply. The Sheriff sighed before turning to his son, grabbing him by the neck and jerking him into a walk. "Well young man, I'm gonna walk you back to your car, and you and I, we're gonna have a discussion about something called violation of privacy. Ladies, if you and your dog would please follow me." The Sheriff said as he passed by us.
As we followed I saw Stiles strain his neck in his fathers grip to try and get a look at us, but his father jerked his head forward as he continued to lecture him all the way to his car.
As we walked Raf leaned over to whisper to me. "Did I hear his Dad just call him Stiles? As in THE Stiles that you have been crushing on since we became friends three years ago?"
My eyes bulged and I quickly shushed her, looking up to make sure that Stiles or his father hadn't heard.
Raf chuckled. "I guess that's a yes." I slapped her across the arm, warning her to be quiet.
It wasn't long before we approached a blue jeep. "Alright son. You are going to take these two girls home. You are not going to bother them or annoy them on their drive. Once you drop them off, you go straight home. Is that understood?" The Sheriff said in a stern voice.
Stiles nodded his had dramatically. "Crystal." He replied. Stiles glanced at us for the first time. He glanced at Raf quickly, before looking at me. I could see a spark of recognition in his eyes and immediately felt my face burn from embarrassment at the sweaty way I probably looked. Stiles quickly glanced at Jack. "Uh, no. No animals go in my jeep." Stiles said firmly to his father and us.
"If Jack doesn't come, then I don't come." Raf said stubbornly as she crossed her arms.
Stiles threw up his hands. "That's fine with me. The back seats not all that clean anyways."
"Then my dog would probably have made it smell better." Raf quipped.
Stiles mouth opened and closed while he made an offended scoff. "I'll have you know that my car smells…never mind." Stiles said in defeat. Raf smirked.
"Stiles, you are taking all three of them home. Just help them get in the jeep." The Sheriff said as waited for us.
"Dibs on back seat! Come on Jack!" Raf said as she quickly opened the door and yanked the front seat back. Before Stiles could open his mouth, Raf had quickly jumped into the back seat followed by Jack. Raf slammed the seat back and peaked her head in between the front seats. "Well? Y'all coming?" She asked. I looked to Stiles who was looking at me. I shrugged and quickly looked away when I felt myself start to blush. I jumped into the front seat and the Sheriff shut the door for me.
Stiles slid into the driver seat and started the car before throwing a quick wave to his dad. "Sooo….Where to?" Stiles asked as he looked to me.
"Uh, just to the Meadow Apartment complex down the road." I said while blushing a little. Stiles nodded as he continued down the road. I felt Stiles glancing at me but I refused to look at him, knowing I would end up embarrassing myself.
"I go to school with you right? We've had a few classes together haven't we?" Stiles asked. I just nodded in response and tucked a stray hair behind my ear. "Your names Madison right?" He asked me. I nodded as I shivered at the cold. Now that we weren't running or having the potential of dying, I finally began to feel the cold of the night. "Are you cold? I have a jacket back here somewhere." Stiles said as he noticed my shivering form.
"No, no. I'm good. You don't have to…" I trailed off as Stiles continued to search in the back seat for his jacket.
"Aha!" He exclaimed as he threw the jacket in my lap. I quietly slid on the jacket and murmured a thank you.
"Don't worry. I'm not cold." Raf said as her and Jack popped their heads in between Stiles and I, causing us both to jump. They had both been so quiet I forgot they were back there. "And in case you were wondering, I don't go to school with you either." Raf interjected. Stiles still had a hand on his chest, like he was trying to calm down his heart. Raf glanced down at Jack's face, which was right below her own. "Jack says he's good too. He also says he's never seen you at school either." Jack began licking Raf's chin right after she finished.
Stiles rolled his eyes. "That's good because I'm pretty sure I would remember if I had a dog for a classmate." Stiles said as he glared at Jack. Suddenly Jack started barking and howling, causing Stiles and I to jump again.
"Raf! Can't you make –" I trailed off as I turned to see Raf looking out the back of the jeep, meaning she had probably heard the same thing that Jack had.
"Make it shut up! Please!" Stiles said as Jack continued to bark. Raf seemed to snap out of her trance as she wrapped her arms around Jack and scratched him while making a shushing noise.
"Right here." I said as we pulled up next to our apartment building. Stiles slowed to a stop. "Well, thanks for the ride." I said as I awkwardly stared at Stiles.
Raf popped up in between us again. "Yeah, thanks!" Raf said as she turned to look at me as I glared at her. "Come on! Out! I'm hungry!" I sighed and grudgingly got out of the car. Raf quickly got out and grabbed my arm as she dragged us to our apartment building. I turned in time to see Stiles driving off. I quickly slid my arm out from Raf's and threw a punch in her arm. Instead of even faking like it hurt her, she laughed and turned to face me.
"You are worse than my brothers!" I yelled at her. Raf laughed harder.
"I know." She replied as she smiled slightly.
I dropped my smirk. "What did you hear in the car?" I asked.
Raf's playful attitude went away and she looked at the forest beside our apartment building. "It was the alpha howling. I think it bit someone." I felt my heart speed up. "It smelled like a wolf out there." Raf mumbled more to herself than me.
"Don't go back out there tonight. Wait till tomorrow at least." I blurted. Raf nodded absently as she started at the forest still. "I'm serious Raf! Promise me!"
Raf mumbled something that sounded like "Yeah, yeah, sure."
I knew she was still going to go out as soon as I went back in my apartment. I searched my brain for a way to make her stay.
"Pinky promise me." I said. This seemed to snap Raf out of her staring.
"What?" She asked. I knew she never broke pinky promises. As stupid as it sounds, she thinks of them as a sacred bond. To the point of where if she breaks it, she will cut off her pinky. So far she hasn't broken one since she had both pinkies.
"Pinky promise me that you wont go out there tonight and that you will wait until morning."
Raf sighed in annoyance but took my pinky and shook it with her own. "Fine. Pinky promise. Now go to sleep you no good cheat." I laughed at Raf's look of pure defeat as I walked back into my house. As I shut the door, I had the sudden feeling that things were about to get crazy in this town.
Authors Note: This is my first FanFiction, so let me know what y'all think. I am open to anything that you guys think need improvement and what not. I'll post the next chapter hopefully with in the week!
