CHAPTER 2

It was the end of the week on a Friday night when Lydia received her first text from Aiden. When her IPhone chimed that she had an incoming text message, Lydia was reclined on her bed, paging through the latest fashion magazine and circling the outfits she liked and would later buy. Picking up her phone she saw it was a text message from Aiden. Setting her phone down, Lydia continued paging through the magazine after deciding to wait 1 hour before replying to the text. Picking the magazine up and calling for her dog Prada, she headed out towards the pool, phone left behind on the bed. Lydia returned to her bedroom an hour later to find her phone had many texts from Allison and Stiles. After replying to those, she looked at the text from Aiden again, which read:

"Are we still on for studying tonight?" his text said.

Her fingers flew over the keyboard as she texted the following message

"Sure, see you in a little while?"

After she changed into something a little sexier she flashed back to a conversation she and Aiden had at her locker earlier on that day.

"What about tonight?" Aiden asks with a fist up against the adjacent locker

"Nope, studying." She replies placing a notebook in her locker before closing and locking it with a loud bang. She misses the incredulous look along with raised eyebrows displayed on his face.

"I could help you." He says with a hint of beg hidden in his tone and lean in closer as she turns around

Turning toward him, she crosses her arms and rolls her eyes "Do you have an I.Q. higher than 170?"

"Okay you could help me, tonight then?" he asks with a smile that earns no reply from her but a pat on the chest and a half smile. To those who dared a look Aiden as he sauntered down the hallway they would see him with a cocky grin on his face.

Aiden had still not arrived when Lydia flashes back to another conversation she and Stiles had shared that day. Stiles and Lydia had been outside walking and Stiles had rambled on and on about a temple in Calcutta that sacrifices a child everyday. Dead Baby Day is everyday in Calcutta.

"Why are you telling me this?" She questions, baffled as to why he had chosen the topic.

"Because Scott is dealing with the alpha twins." Stiles replied. Lydia stops abruptly and looks back at Stiles.

"You don't know about the alpha twins?" he continues

"Alphas?"

"Ethan and Aiden!" he exclaims in one breath.

Lydia shakes her head up and down "Oh yeah, I know about them." And turns around sharply, her heels going tip tap – tip tap as she starts walking again. Because Stiles was walking behind her, he missed seeing the brief scared look that flashed across her face. She blocks out the rest of what Stiles talks about to focus on the news about the alpha twins. She admits that she had been surprised to find out that the twins were not only werewolves but also alpha werewolves. After getting over the shock of it and being the last one to know about Aiden being a werewolf, the fact that he was one didn't bother her as much as it did moments ago. Heck, her ex boyfriend Jackson had been a homicidal lizard. So if she could handle a homicidal lizard she could handle a werewolf.

At least 2 times a week, Aiden and Lydia would secretly meet in the Coach's office to have a heavy make out session followed with lots of groping. Lydia was surprised that no one, especially Allison, would question her when she didn't show up to class or was always late to class. Not to mention that Aiden was constantly coming over to " study" at her house. Lydia was constantly too distracted by thoughts, images and the actual boy himself that she began to tell him she had plans with friends just so that she could be a good A student and do schoolwork. Lydia was slowly beginning to fall Aiden. When she was with Aiden, she could be her true self and she could let go of her worries when he was near. Lydia usually told Allison everything but Aiden was the one secret she wanted to keep herself.

Lydia hadn't seen Allison too much lately so when Allison had asked her to tag along to a cross-country meet, Lydia had quickly agreed to go with her. The cross-country meet was unfortunately on a Friday and was at least 5 hours away, so Lydia brought along some homework to occupy some of the time driving in the car. They were 2 cars behind the school bus and Allison was so close, it looked like she was going to mount the bus or rather the person inside it. "With any luck it would start raining and they could turn around," Lydia thought as she glanced at the dark and stormy cloud outside. Hoping to take her mind off things, Lydia started highlighting left handed in her Thermodynamic textbook.

"So is that whole not letting them out of your sight thing literal or more like a general rule?" Lydia asked after glancing at the gas gauge.

"Why?" Allison asked, looking out the corner of her eye at Lydia.

"You're running on fumes."

Allison glances at the gas gauge "Shoot."

"Yeah and I'm pretty sure that bus holds a lot more gas than this Toyota."

"What if we stop?"

Lydia flipped another page and began to highlight in her textbook again "Is that really that big of a deal so we lose them, we know where they're headed."

"You didn't see what happened."

"I know who started it." Lydia muttered under her breath, accidently loud enough for Allison to hear.

"Is that what Aiden told you?" Allison asked taking her eyes off the road for a second to stare expectantly at Lydia.

"Aiden?" Lydia says glancing at Allison when a thought suddenly dawned on her

"Whoa, hold on a second, is that why you invited me on this whole little road trip thing?" Lydia gestured with her highlighter as a thought dawned on her " Oh my gosh, you're keeping an eye on them and me."

As they continued zooming by, flashes of the mountains peeking out underneath the dark sky are beautiful but do nothing to distract them from their conversation.

"So there is nothing going on between you two?"

" I'm appalled by the insinuation."

" Nothing?" Allison says smirking

"Nothing." Lydia dramatizes with her hands, secretly fibbing through her teeth. In the moment of silence in the car Lydia flashes back to a scene between her and Aiden that happened a few days ago. The scene in her head is of her and Aiden are French kissing in the Coach's office. Lydia suddenly pulls away when she feels his hands clasping her waist and roving nowhere else.

"What do you think you're doing?" She asks slightly out of breath and flushed glances up at him

Aiden pulls back a few inches from her face "What do you mean?"

" I mean you're hands." green eyes glancing into his caramel eyes.

Aiden looks down "They're on your waist." rubbing his head slightly confused

"I know." Lydia says exasperated "What am I a nun?" then grabs at the collar of his denim shirt and her hands come to a resting spot on either side of his neck

" Put them somewhere useful." Lydia says rather seductively as she looks into his eyes.

Aiden bends down suddenly picking her up causing her to wrap her legs around his waist. Lydia's hands wind around his neck as his hands grab hold on to her black leather behind. Lydia is so high up that she has to gaze down at him from her perch.

"Is that better?" Aiden asks, craning his neck to look at her.

"Moderately." Lydia replies as he laid her roughly down on the teacher's desk and Lydia looks up at him as he towers over her. Lydia is drawn out her flashback by a loud coughing noise and she finds herself putting lipstick on " What?" she asks glancing at Allison. " How the heck did I get my lipstick out of my bag during my flashback." She ponders in her head as they trudge along on the highway.

That night, all alone in a penthouse room with 2 beds sat Aiden wishing he had gone to the track meet competition with his brother. Instead he was stuck here unable to sleep, mourning the loss of Ennis. He wished Lydia were with him here so he could fuck all his problems away for a little while. He and Ethan considered Ennis to be a big brother to them and the loss of him was already felt in Aiden's heart. "Snap out of it and stop being a softie Aiden, your not one." He thought chastising himself. Aiden had meant to send Ethan a text earlier with the news of what had occurred but Aiden had been too sad to even consider texting Ethan. Knowing his brother was worried out of his mind, he shot Ethan a quick text about what had happened to Ennis. Climbing back under the covers he debated over and over again in his head about sending Lydia a text. His fingers poised over the keyboard, itching to type out a message about how much he wanted her right now but he decided against it. Setting his phone on the bedside table, he reached to turn off the lamp and settled against his pillows for a deep sleep.

The next morning, Aiden had barely wiped the sleepiness out his eyes when his phone started to blow up with texts from Lydia and Ethan. Sprawled out on the bed, he quickly stretched out his muscles and reached for his phone. Opening the texts from Ethan, he could feel the devastation and sadness in his brother's words. Ethan also told him that he was on the bus on his way back to Beacon Hills. Not until after he and Ethan had texted back and forth for a few minutes did he look at the texts from Lydia. She wanted to know if they could get together tonight. Aiden would always jump at the chance to spend time with her and was always at her beck and call. After they had set up a time to meet at a local coffee shop, Aiden hopped out of bed and headed to the shower, ready to start his day.

After a few months of Aiden and Lydia getting together to either study or hook up, Aiden started getting this weird feeling in the pit of his stomach. A feeling that he was falling in love with Lydia. He began to notice the way her nose wrinkles when she talks about certain things and the way her dimples flash when she laugh. Damn he had it bad for her. Even Ethan began to notice a change in him that he brought it up one day at school. They were standing at Aiden's locker animatedly discussing Lydia

"Aiden you can't fall in love with her!" Ethan said trying to make me listen.

"I'm not even in love with her; and why are you even telling me this!" I exclaimed pushing him to the side.

"Your eyes dilate when you look at her." Ethan said matter of factly "You are in love, plus you can't be in love with her because you will eventually have to kill her." He said reminding me of my duty.

"And she's not even in love with you." He said pointing in her direction.

A little ways down the hallway stood Lydia with another guy. This guy reeked of arrogance and expensive cologne. From the way they were talking to each other it was like they knew one another. Deciding to eavesdrop, I used my super hearing to amplify what they were talking about.

"Please go out with me tonight." He said in a pleading tone, desperately trying to convince her. At that exact moment jealousy started to bubble up inside Aiden. My fists clenched, barely able to restrain myself from wanting to punch his pretty boy face.

"No thanks Jackson, I'm already busy." She said pushing him away as hard as she could.

" That a girl Lydia show him who is the boss." Aiden thought.

" Jackson please, just leave me alone." She begged trying to walk away but he caught her around the waist, trapping her from escaping in his arms.

"She said leave her alone." Aiden bellowed walking towards them.

"What are you going to do about it loser?" He said stepping towards me, fists clenched tightly at his side.

"You want to know why she rejected you?" Aiden stated, rolling his sleeves up, about to show off in front of Lydia and display his brute force." Because I'm her boyfriend." Aiden really wasn't her boyfriend but Jackson didn't know that. When Jackson wouldn't leave, Aiden kept stepping closer and closer, getting into Jackson's personal space. Hoping to avoid a fight Lydia stepped in, placing a hand on both their chests. Glancing into Aiden's eyes she could see a banked fire about to ignite if Jackson dared to brush her the wrong way again. While she had dated Jackson she learned that he was all talk and no action. That much hadn't changed as Jackson luckily got the hint and left the school like a puppy dog ashamed with his tail between his legs.

"Thank You." Lydia smiled at him, pulling him in for a nice tight hug. She liked how protective Aiden had acted towards her in the encounter with Jackson.

"No problem." Aiden replied, flashing a toothy smile over the top of her head. This is the first time Lydia had shown any affection to Aiden.

Aiden had a hard time remembering his duty to his pack when his feelings towards start to change the more he got to know Lydia. Flashing back to an event the previous week, he remembers the moment his feelings changed and how much he wished she were his girlfriend. Like always when they wanted to hook up, they would meet in Coach Finstock's office, the thought of getting caught a turn on to them both. Aiden could feel Lydia's fingers in his hair, gently tugging as her tongue slips inside his mouth. Not knowing what do with his hands, he lets them roam around her waist. Lydia licks her lips hungrily as she tugs at his red sweater shirt making him decide between either lifting his arms overheard or keep the shirt on and let it keep obstructing his vision. Once the shirt is off and tossed to the floor, they embrace again, this time his arms clasping her waist while hers lay around his neck. Giving into an urge Aiden leans in to kiss her but before he reaches her lips, she takes charge by grasping his chin, forcefully turns his head to the side, then leans in to kiss it when the fire alarm goes off causing them to break away.

"Just my luck." Aiden curses the fire alarm silently.

Due to his supersensitive hearing Aiden places his hands over his ears while Lydia looks on annoyed that the fire alarm had ruined this moment and her mood. Placing her hands on his abs, she pushes away and goes to grab her things on her way out the door when Aiden stops her by asking, "Where are you going?" Dropping the handle to her purse, she turns around to look at him "It's a fire alarm." She huffs. Grabbing her hand, he pulls her closer.

"When in high school has a fire alarm actually been a real fire." Aiden said confidently

"That's exactly the kind of thing you'd expect two dumbass students to say just before getting burned alive." Lydia stares at him somewhat dumbfounded as to why he hasn't moved from his spot on the desk. Aiden just sits there looking at her with a huge smile on his face, looking like a kid in a candy store.

"You first." Lydia says moving away and cocks her head towards the door "Go." She urges, sounding eager to get rid of him and get a move on. Aiden leans in to place one quick kiss on her neck and Lydia smiles faintly as he quickly dons his shirt and leaves out the door first. Lydia then again grabs her stuff and heads out the door shortly behind him, only to be stopped in the doorway by Cora, who warns her that Derek wants her to stay away from Aiden. Annoyed with Cora, Lydia retorts back with how Jackson used be a lizard and if she could handle a lizard then she could definitely handle a werewolf. Stiles suddenly appears behind her and begs her for a favor. After agreeing to his pleas, the three of them head off to do requested favor.

Later that night after helping restore the power to Derek's loft, Lydia sees Aiden, Kali and Ethan leaving Derek's loft and is about to call out to him when a heart wrenching sobs could be heard inside the loft. Going inside to investigate she finds Boyd dead and after hearing the whole story learns that Ethan and Aiden had helped kill Boyd by forcefully pining Derek arms.

The past two weeks were taking a toll on Lydia who secretly missed Aiden but strongly felt that what he has done was wrong by helping kill Boyd. Avoiding him in the hallway was hard and nearly impossible to do. Just this week alone she has been going out of her way to avoid him and not acknowledge him whenever they do run into eachother. One day in class she couldn't handle avoiding him any more and wanteddesperately to see him and the perfect came in the form of Scott and Stiles. They wanted her to distract Aiden so they could talk to Ethan. Over the last two week the twins were literally sewn together at the hip, never going anywhere with out the other one nearby. From past experiences Lydia knew the only way to distract Aiden was by making out with him.

So there they were in the Coach's office yet again getting hot and heavy. Lydia pushes him back against the table, which he collapses on top of. Lydia reaches for his shirt and began to pull it up, stopping when he gives her a look. A look of wonderment.

" What's that look for?" she asks

" Nothing." He replies, " I'm just kind of surprised, you've barely talked to me since…" he trails off

"Since? Since what? Since you killed Boyd?" she questions inquisitive

" I told you that was Kali." – Aiden looks into her eyes " I didn't have a choice."

Leaning in closer to his face, Lydia states somewhat questioning " I thought you were all Alphas."

" Yea well its not as democratic as it sounds. If you are thinking I should be all filled with remorse, just try and remember Derek killed Ennis." He said somewhat smug.

" So its his turn to kill someone now?" Lydia questions " Is that it?"

" Maybe?" he replies" Maybe like the time he and Boyd try to kill you!"

" How did you know about that?"

Opening his mouth he was about to reply when suddenly a loud screeching and banging sound could be heard from the doorway. Lydia looks at it in shock as a spiral is etched in the glass.

" What the hell is that?" Lydia screeches

" Derek." Aiden replied with a menancing, ready to a fight look appearing in his eyes and on his face.

While this is going on, nestled in a nook in a hallway above the stairs stand three boys. These boys to passerbys look like they be about to start a fight but once you get closer you'd realize they're just animated. Scott and Stiles are questioning Ethan about his past and how he became a part of the alpha pack. Ethan goes on to explain what Aiden and he did to their original pack but halfway through this conversation, Ethan is alerted that his brother is in pain and trouble while talking to Scott and stiles when he feels a sharp pain in his chest.

" Derek." Aiden

"Aiden stop please." Lydia pleads reaching a hand out to stop him

"I'm right here Derek." Aiden challenges his red eyes flashing as he advances further into the locker room.

" I'll scream." Lydia threatens

" You want to fight Derek? Come and get me. " Aiden roars as he is pushed into a row of lockers with a loud crash bang by Cora who rips his shirt to shreds by claws to the stomach.

Grasping Cora's throat he tosses her backwards and she lands on the floor skidding towards a row of sinks banging her head. Lydia looks on, frozen to her spot in shock from the violence he is showing.

Aiden then grabs a heavy piece of weight all while Lydia is screaming " Aiden Stop." And with force hits the side of Cora's head knocking her back to the floor. Growling he approached Cora again, this time Lydia has unglued her feet from the floor and tries to protect Cora as he approaches closer- weight lifted over his head. Ethan and Scott desperately try to pin his arms in place and take the weight from him, only stop him.

" Aiden, you can't do this." Ethan shouts angrily in his face.

" She came at me." Aiden says trying to justify his actions.

" It doesn't matter." Ethan shouts angrily

" Kali gave Derek until the next full moon." Ethan pauses to catch a breath.

" You can't touch him or her." Ethan continues to say still holding his brother back.

Already back to normal, Aiden expresses regret and glances at Lydia, who looks back at him in shock. Ethan grabs his brother by the arm and they exit the locker room.