"Lydia?"
Lydia was looking through dresses on clearance when her mother called for her. She turned toward the dressing rooms and her mother walked out. She was wearing a black knee length skirt and a white button down blouse.
"What do you think?"
"Hmm… not bad, but it's too business woman cliché."
Lydia's mother turned to the mirror, smiling at her daughter's reflection.
"Well what should a woman who is returning to work where for her first interview in sixteen years wear?"
"Well, I think you should show off some of your best assets." Lydia answered, as she turned to grab the two dresses she had chosen for her mother.
"I'm not going to show cleavage."
Lydia smiled and handed her mom the dresses.
"Like the skirt and blouse, cleavage is an overrated cliché as well. You are going to show off the long legs and leave everything thing else to the imagination. Another benefit would be that if they won't be able to stare at your legs from across the desk, and your boobs will be covered. It gives you the advantage of having to talk your way into the job, instead of working your way."
Lydia's mother scoffed and took the dresses back to the dressing room.
"Oh sweetheart, I almost forgot. I just heard that two students in your class was declared missing a couple of weeks ago. An Erica Reyes and Vernon Boyd. Did you know them?"
Lydia stumbled a little. She thought about the last time she had seen Erica and Boyd. They were trying to kill her because they thought she was the kanima. But before that she remembered Boyd sitting at a table by himself and Erica having seizures, and then Erica walking like a runway model into the cafeteria.
That was the last time she remembers seeing them in person. She heard about what happened after though. She heard how they left Derek, took off on their own, only for Allison to corner them and shot at them. She remembers Allison almost shaking when she told Lydia that she wanted to kill them. They were held in Gerard's basement until Chris let them out. No one's seen them since. Lydia felt that they had run as far as they could to get away from Beacon Hills. However, a small part of her felt that Boyd and Erica weren't safe at all. It was a nagging feeling. She tried to shake it off. Derek probably had them holed up somewhere, trying to train them. That was all.
"No," she answered her mother. "I didn't know them at all."