Meeting Derek Hale could be classified as the best and worst thing that has ever happened in my life... Depending on the day, or the situation. To everyone else, he is mysterious, angry,[s] fucking hot[/s] and pretty damn scaring depending on his mood; To the people who actually know the real Derek, which is very few believe me, they know he is all of those things yet a million more rolled into one.
I owe him my life in more ways than one, and he is the sole confident I have and has been since the day we met at the age of 14. "Whoa, how did you make it 8 years with Derek Hale and not rip your own head off?" Is probably what you're thinking at this point and let me just tell you the last 8 years of my life have been the hardest. I have never been through more physically and emotionally, but before we get into that mess maybe we should go back to the day that Derek and I met? Hold on tight, because it's going to be a bumpy ride.

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"My name's Ava Thompson, I'm a transfer student and I was told to get my schedule and information for my locker here?" I questioned the girl behind the desk.
"Oh! Yeah, I already talked to your sister a few days ago she already has her stuff, I have a few classes with her" She said with a laugh,
"My sister will probably like you" I said with a small smile, "let me go get your stuff and I will be right back" the nameless girl spoke and headed around the desk into a small office.
"I'm Eliza Hale by the way" She spoke as she came back around and smiled at me. "Here is your stuff Ava, have a really good day!" She said with a smile as I headed out the door.
"Thank you, Eliza!" I said with a genuine smile.

The school was a maze but I eventually found my way over the next several weeks. I made a few friends but no one that really stood until a boy caught my eye on the way to orchestra.
"Hey!" I said to get his attention and he stopped to look at me a curious look playing in his eyes.
"What happened to the side of your face there, that look vicious" I said without thinking.
"Oh, well my sister's boyfriend was trying to beat up on her and we fought" He spoke and I looked at him in shock.
"Oh my God, I'm so sorry I didn't mean to blurt that out. You must think I'm crazy!" I said and he laughed.
"Not really, I was kidding with you by the way. I just had a major fall off our stairs at home and bam right on the floor I went. It was pretty rough, but it's healing pretty well now" He said and I smiled.
"Ava Thompson by the way" I said as the bell rang,
"Well, Ava Thompson I will see you sooner rather than later hopefully" He spoke with a smirk and I smiled and headed towards my classroom a blush adorning my cheeks. I spared a glace back to see him smiling and turning towards his class and I giggled and bit my lip. In that moment, I somehow knew my life was never going to be that same, I just didn't know how right I would be.

My day flew by with thoughts of the mystery boy, who was he and why was he plaguing my mind? I even forgot to get his name, who does that? I thought and shook my head as I walked up to my sisters car.
"Ava we are going over to Lizzie's today before we head home is that alright?" Jade asked as I got in,
"yeah, I guess so. You mean Eliza Hale though right?" I asked with a cock of my head. She nodded and chuckled at me before starting the car and heading to the unknown house. We pulled up to a rather large house with a long driveway. The place was surrounded in woods but somehow it just made it more beautiful. I left my bag in the car and followed my sister into the house.
"Lizzie! Jade is here!" I heard someone yell and instantly recognized the voice, "Ava?" I heard and turned around. "You're Eliza's brother?" I asked and he laughed,

"Yeah, and you're Jade's sister. Looks like it was sooner than we both thought" he said and I smiled. "Yeah obviously it was," and he smirked a little. "Derek, quite hitting on Ava you little perv" Lizzie said and ruffled his hair making him glare at her. "Seriously Liz, go "Study" or whatever it is you guys are going to do" he said putting air quotes around study making me laugh. Jade shot me a look and I laughed a little "Hey you said make new friends, oh look a new friend" I said and he laughed a little. "We're going to go up to my room," Derek said and pulled my up the stairs and into his room. I walked and was hit with a smell, it wasn't a bad smell but it was boyish and you could tell.

"So you're the infamous Derek Hale" I asked with a smile. "You're the guy every girl can't shut up about" I said with a laugh. "What do you mean?" He asked and I laughed. "I can't go a class without hearing about how cute you are or about how amazing you are. I honestly want to shoot myself sometimes" I said with a slight chuckle.

"I mean, everyone does tend to love me" he said with a cocky little smirk and I laughed.

"What do you think of me?" he asked me and I smirked a little, "Well silly boy, I don't know you. How about I tell you when I get to know you better?" I asked with a smile. "How are you so sure you're going to get to know me?" He asked and I chuckled.
"Call it a hunch" I said with a smirk of my own.

"I guess that works for me, I mean you're the one that gets to spend time with me I mean I am pretty amazing" He said and I snorted. "God, I just got here, don't kill me by suffocating me with that ego please" I said with a laugh and he smiled at me. I felt a blush in my cheeks as he kept looking at me,

"So what do you want to do while they do god only knows what?" he asked and I shrugged.
"We could listen to music, I mean. What is in the Ipod of a Mr. Derek Hale" I asked and he laughed at me.
"A lot actually" He said and tossed me his Ipod. "If I let you see mine you have to swear not to judge me, I have a super weird taste in music" I said and laughed a little.
"I promise!" He said and I held out my pinky. He stared at it and I cleared my throat, he sighed and grabbed my pinky with his.
"Damn right" I said and handed him mine. He was honest he had a lot of music, and it was a lot of different genre's maybe not as many as mine but still. I smiled and hooked his laptop up to the iPod and started playing November Rain by Guns N' Roses, "I love GNR, and this song is one of the best. You have good taste" He smirked and I rolled my eyes.

"Of course I do, you do have a really weird taste in music you weren't lying" He spoke and I chuckled.
"You pinky promised not to judge Derek Hale" I said with a smile in my voice.
"Oh but I might just have to break that, I mean. Rap, Metal, Pop, I don't even know how to say some of these band" he said and I laughed.
"Well, you're judging me now. You're a pinky promise breaker!" I said with a fake angry look on my face.
"Oh no, what is my punishment oh queen of the pinky promise?" Derek asked clearly making fun of me with a dangerous smirk sitting on his face. I felt my heart flutter in my chest,
"I will think of it in time, till then just remember. You owe me!" I said with a laugh.

"What's your favorite color?" he asked suddenly. "Purple, why?" I asked giving him an odd look.
"We;re going to play 20 questions until we get bored with it, duh" he said with a smirk and I laid myself across his bed.

"Might as well get comfortable, hmm let's see. Favorite food?" I asked and he looked up in thought,
"I mean to be honest, I like food no matter what it is most of the time, but I really like Lasagna!" he said and looked proud and I couldn't help but to chuckle at how he was acting. The banter continued and we made out way around the room, laying on the bed, the floor, by the window, we even went down to the kitchen to get a snack.
"Do you want to play basketball?" Derek asked and motioned to the goal and make shift court he had outside, I gave him an incredulous look.
"I honestly suck so much at basketball it would make you laugh harder than you have all day!" I said and he smirked a little.
"You can't be THAT bad! Come on I'll help you!" he said and grabbed my hand as we raced outside. He looked like a natural playing around making me look like a complete idiot.
"Come on you try" he said and dribbled the ball my way.
"You see, this I can do, I can't run and dribble, but walking I got this!" I said with a laugh.
"Try and shoot" He said and I attempted and watched him laugh at me as it missed.

"I told you I sucked and that you would laugh!" I said feeling slightly dejected about even agreeing to come outside.

"It's honestly not that bad, come here I'll help you!" he said and I walked over in front of him. He positioned me in front of me, hand accidentally touching the part of my hip that was exposed. I held back a shudder at the contact and blushed. He placed his hand on top of mine and guided it up beside the hand that was holding the ball.
"Use this hand" he said grasping my left hand "to guide the ball where you want to aim, and just shoot" he said.
"on three" he said by my ear.
"one" he whispered and I closed my eyes,
"Two" his hand guided mine up

"Three" together we guided the ball through the goal and the contact was gone. The sudden cold where he was standing felt shocking and I walked away.
"See that wasn't as hard as you thought now was it!" He said and I smirked a little.
"Now if I could only do it by myself!" I said and watched him continue to play around. "We can work on it, I will have you playing like a champ in no time!" he said and I laughed.
"Derek! Ava! Where are you guys?" I heard Eliza yell and he shook his head leading me around the side of the house.
"We were beside the house shooting some baskets... well attempting to A kind of sucks" Derek said and I shoved him slightly with my hip and laughed as he stumbled slightly.
"Warn us next time, we had no clue where you were. Mom hadn't even seen you with her hawk eyes" Lizzie said. "I heard that!" I heard a magical voice say as she stepped out around my sister and Eliza.
"I'm Talia Hale, and you must be Ava." She spoke as I awed at her beauty, she looked as if she commanded respect and had little tolerance.
"Yes ma'am I am, it's a pleasure to meet you Mrs. Hale" I said and shook her outstretched hand, she pulled me into a gentle hug.
"The pleasure is all mine Ava. I have a feeling I will be seeing you around. The two of you should stay for dinner, you are welcome anytime" Mrs. Hale spoke and I wondered what she meant with her words.

"We would love to but, our Mom has been weird about being out on a school night, we're still getting used to the city and all" Jade said, "Speaking of, we might want to head out anyway Ave, I'll go get my stuff out of Lizzie's room and meet you at the car. It was a pleasure to meet you Mrs. Hale, thank you for having us in your home" Jade said as the three woman headed into the house.
"I'll walk you to the car" Derek said and I laughed a little. "Alright, you secret gentleman you" I said with a chuckle making him roll his eyes. "Yeah, yeah, just don't tell anyone" He said and I gave him a genuine smile as I climbed into the car.

"I expect to finish that game of questions rather soon, Ava Thompson" Derek said as he shut my door and Jade started the car.
"Find me whenever Derek Hale, I'll be around" I said with a smirk as Jade backed away from the house.

"What was that about Ava Danielle?" Jade asked and I laughed a little, "what do you mean?"I asked with a confused look on my face.
"I haven't seen you like that with any of your other friends at school, and then this kid shows up and you're like a ray of sunshine" she said and I snorted.
"I am not a ray of sunshine you ass, I talk to people all the time. I just met Derek today!" I said with a roll of my eyes.
"Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about" She said and I glared and turned the radio up to block her out until we got home.

That's how most of our days were spent, either Jade and I would be at the Hale's or Lizzie would be over at the house. Derek and I grew practically inseparable and eventually started dating. How about we skip right to that and the events that happened after

A/N: This won't all be flashbacks I'm just building the back story. Feedback is welcome, and needed, This story is also on Mibba. XOXO Stephanie.