I walked up to Allison the next morning at school. "Hey. You didn't call last night. Did you guys find anything?" I asked her, nervously playing with my shoulder strap. "No but my dad caught Scott. They were with your mom…" She trailed off. My mother is a crazy, venomous woman. "Is Scott ok?"Allison nodded and gave me a small smile. She seemed usually somber today. "Hey, you ok?" She stopped walking when we got to our lockers and nodded. "Yeah yeah. It's just…" she gave me a distressed look. "It's just everything. With Lydia and my dad. Sneaking around with Scott. And now my grandpas in town-" Wait what?" I cut her off. "Gerard's in town?" I asked her, grabbing hold of her arm. She gave me a confused look and closed her locker with her free hand. "Yeah but I haven't seen him since I was little. How do you know him?" I groaned as we walked toward the front of the school. "You know how I knew about hunting before you did?" she nodded as we turned a corner. "Well everyone needs to be trained somehow.." I trailed off. Her eyes widened. "You…" I shook my head. "Our mothers."
"I'll see you in English ok." I said to Allison. Stiles had texted me that Scott had smelt another werewolf and I had free period so I was going to go watch practice.
Allison nodded at me and disappeared into her classroom. I turned around…then I hit something and fell. I landed on my ass. "Ow." I said when I landed. "I'm sorry! I wasn't watching where I was going!" I looked up to see that I bumped into someone not a something. And that someone was a really cute lacrosse player. Who was not bending down gathering my books with a guilty scared look on his face. I quickly snapped out of it and started to help him. "No no. It was mine. Don't worry about it." I said giving him a friendly smile. He didn't look at me. He was purposely trying not to look at me. "No I wasn't watching where I was going and I pushed you over. It was my fault." I furrowed my eyebrows at him. "No it's really ok." I went to put my hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry bout-" I stopped talking when he flinched. He physically moved away from hand and looked up at me. I then saw who this cute lacrosse player was Isaac Lahey.
Isaac stared at her. He realized who she was once he heard her voice. Derek had told him about the Argents and the Barburacs. How they were hunters. He didn't believe him. He could never picture Jade Barburac a hunter. The girl who played with him all of grade school. The girl who still talked to him despite her friends thinking he was weird in middle school. The girl who he'd seen yell at Jackson Whitmore for bulling him just last year. The girl who he's had a crush on since he was five. Isaac stared at her. He could smell her sent of vanilla. He could here her heartbeat. He could still feel her hand on his shoulder even though she had removed it. He could feel his heartbeat rising and he started to breath heavier "Isaac? You ok?" he snapped out of to see her still crouched on the ground next to him. "Uh yeah, yeah. I-I'm fine. Are y-you ok?" He asked nervously as they stood up. "Yeah I'm fine. Thanks for helping me." She said. "Yeah no problem." He said handing over on of her books. He felt his hand tingle where her fingers touched his hand.
They stood in awkward silence. Isaac was beating himself up trying to think of something to say. Here was the girl he was practically in love with, standing right in front of him…alone, and he couldn't think of one decent thing to say. "So you play lacrosse." Isaac's eyes shot up to her. She smiled kindly at him. He'd missed that smile. "Yeah. I actually have practice right now actually." He said. Isaac took a deep breath and with all the confidence he could muster, asked. "You have free period right now right?" she nodded and smiled. But not the smile that said I don't want to talk to you but I'll be polite. But one that said I like talking to you. "Well do you want to come and watch? Coach is finally taking me off the bench this year and letting me play." Jade's smile grew wider. And Isaac would've sworn that he heard her heart beat faster. "I would love to." Isaac smiled at her as they started walking to the field together. He could still hear her quick heartbeat. He didn't fail to notice that his was beating faster too.
