Anything But Problematic

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Chapter 4 – Monsters

Derek bounced through the day waiting for the day to be over so he could walk Kyra home. He thought of a way to tell Sally that he was walking Kyra to his house so she could monster proof his sister's room, but he couldn't find a good way, so he decided that not telling her was the best idea. Casey on the other hand was furious, sending Derek and Kyra an evil look every chance she could, especially after Kyra didn't have to participate in the lap running in gym class. Though this was all mysterious and such Derek wasn't interested in Kyra's special Gym class treatment, her mysteriously Alpha whom acted a lot more like a body guard then a pet, or the fact that she seemed to live all alone, entirely parentless, Derek just wanted to get her walking to his house so he could have some alone time with her. Once the bell rang Derek raced down the halls towards her locker, once he got close enough he slowed down, smoothed down his hair, took a few deep breaths and then strutted up to her.

"Hey Doll, you ready to go?" Derek asked leaning against the locker beside hers.

"Sure, but don't call me doll." Kyra responded.

"Aw come on! I give everyone a nickname, like Casey, I call her princess… or Kulztzilla, you can be my Doll." Derek offered clapping a hand on her shoulder.

"If you call me doll one more time, I'll let Alpha bite you." Kyra responded with a large teasing smile on her face, or at least Derek hoped it was a teasing smile. She didn't respond to any of Derek's prodding comments as they walked the halls together, in fact she look utterly determined to just get out of the school, and definitely not paying any attention to him at all, which was unacceptable. Once outside of the actual building Derek had finally had enough.

"Alright Icicle! I want an actual responses to questions, not just "uh-huh" and "m-hmm", talk to me, give me something! For god sake I'm the most popular boy in school! At least act awestruck by me, or grateful to be in my presence." Derek cried. Kyra turned to look at him, but didn't respond. She merely put her fingers to her lips and let out a shrill whistle that nearly caused Derek to cry out in pain. Derek brought his hands to his ears.

"Talk about high pitched! Warn a guy next time!" Derek cried.

"Sorry, it's really the only thing that he responds too." Kyra apologized bending down to pet the dog who had come running from some where behind the school.

"He's trained to respond to a whistle?" Derek asked.

"Sure, my dad trained him for a lot of things." Kyra responded.

"What happened to your dad?" Derek asked before he could stop himself.

"He died, about a year ago." Kyra answered after a while, "Are we going to walk or not?" Derek smiled at her.

"Sure. So hey, if I can't call you Doll what can I call you?"

"Well, my friends used to call me Raw-Raw, or Pom-Pom, cuz I was cheerleading captain. But I don't think that fits anymore." Kyra responded.

"Well, until we think of a better name, I'm just gonna stick with doll." Derek smiled, putting an arm around her waist and pulling her in close to her side. Alpha, who was walking a few feet a head of them whirled around snarling dangerously at Derek, who removed the offending limb immediately.

"HEY! We talked about this Alf, guys are allowed to touch me! Now save the scariness for Marti's room!" Kyra cried, pointing a finger at him, the Dog bent his head down in a submissive manner, then huffed greatly – which sounded more like a huge sneeze – in Derek direction before turning around and trotting away.

"And that was very rude!" She called after him.

"You talk to your dog?" Derek asked.

"Yea, he's kinda the only one around to talk to most of the time." Kyra shrugged picking up the pace.

"Really? Wow, must be nice." Derek replied struggling to keep up with her.

"Yea, but it gets lonely… say is uh… Casey still really mad at me?" Kyra asked. Derek looked at her, suddenly his strong independent Kyra looked scared.

"Yea but that doesn't matter, you don't need anyone right?" Derek asked, Kyra looked at him oddly so he elaborated, "Well I mean, you seem to be alright so far, you know with everyone at school being so cold to you and then there's the whole sitting outside alone except for Alpha I suppose, you just sorta give off this air of being oh I don't know –."

"A loner?" Kyra finished for him. "I tried, but no one seemed to want to accept the new me, the me that isn't all pep and sports."

"Why does that have to be the new you?" Derek asked.

"Cuz the old me got sick and died." Kyra responded. Derek thought this over, maybe there was a whole different story behind Kyra that nobody bothered to get.

--3--

The three were met at the McDonald-Venturi household with many smiles and hugs and only one cold stare.

"Come on Kyra I'll show you my room and all of my stuffed animals! Maybe you can bring Bolt over next time to meet all of my friends!" Marti cried grabbing Kyra's hand and dragging her upstairs as Alpha followed.

"Oh she is such a sweet girl, all nice and polite!" Nora cried. Derek smiled inwardly agreeing.

"No she's not! She's rude and selfish and wasting all that talent!" Casey cried. Derek glared at her.

"Casey you don't know everything! I think something happened back in where ever she came from, something bad!" Derek exclaimed.

"Well from what the newspapers said about the accident was that she and her father were out driving when they were hit by an out of control semi and only she survived." Derek's dad explained showing the printed off article from New Brunswick. Casey looked at it.

"She was in an accident?" Casey asked.

"Geeze she didn't tell me that, just that the old her got sick." Derek replied ripping the piece of paper out from his dad's hand. Derek looked up to the stairs where he heard an eruption of giggles and barking.

"I'll go check on them."

--3--

She was kneeling beside Marti's bed beside a sitting Alpha holding out a doll Marti thought she had lost weeks ago, Derek smiled as she talked with Marti, liking just how good she was with children.

"Hey do you think you could look for monsters under my bed?" Derek asked. Kyra smiled at him.

"Just me or Alpha too?" She asked.

"Just you, if Marti could spare the moment." He asked, waiting for Marti's approval.

"Sure, I can do Alpha's hair again!" Marti cried, Alpha turned his head to his master whining at her, begging her to take him with her.

"I'll be fine, behave I'll take it all out before we leave so you don't get teased at the dog park." She whispered before leaving while Marti was too busy getting ready to hear her. Derek smiled and lead her across the hallway to his room, being sure to lock the door behind them.

"So uh… scary monsters under the bed huh?" Kyra asked.

"Nope, just wanted you to myself for a moment." Derek replied. Kyra blushed and looked away from him.

"Oh, uh… what for?" She asked, avoiding eye contact.

"There's a mystery around you, Kyra, and I would like to figure it out. So you can either help me or I'll just do it the hard way." Derek replied seductively inching towards her. Kyra looked up into his hazel eyes as she watched his face inch closer to hers. Derek grabbed her quickly and pushed her to his chest.

"I want to know everything about you." Derek whispered, ignoring the scratching sound at his door.

"That's Alpha, you should let him in." Kyra whispered, but didn't move, she seemed mesmerized by his eyes.

"Why are you all alone? Wasn't there anyone you could stay with?" Derek asked.

"Sure, I'm with my boys, they're just busy with their jobs and such so I'm home alone a lot." Kyra responded.

"You're boys." Derek snarled, realizing that she lived with her eight boyfriends.

"Yes."

"What if I wanted you to myself, do you think you could let them go?" Derek asked.

"What do you me-?" She started but Derek cut her off crushing his lips to hers, just as a loud bang erupted in his ears. Derek whirled around to see his door hanging loosely on one hinge, and in the door way Alpha his ears laid back and teeth bared.

"Quickly, let go, he thinks you're hurting me." Kyra snarled pushing Derek's hands away, but Derek could only hang on to her, afraid to let her go.

"Derek, LET ME GO!" She cried, just as Alpha lept at him. Kyra pushed herself in the way so that the dog landed on her, but both ended up on Derek cluttered floor.

"ALPHA OFF!" She screamed pushing herself up. Derek lay on the floor winded wondering how the hell this could have happened in such a short space of time. "That's IT! HOME NOW!" Kyra cried pointing out the door. Alpha hung his head but obliged trotting out of Derek's room and out into the hall way, just as Sally came up the stairs. She froze as she saw Kyra walk out of Derek's room and her mouth fell open.

"I came here to see why you didn't wait for me after school but now I can see that you were busy with little miss eight boyfriends!" Sally cried.

"What are you talking about?" Kyra cried.

"I TOLD YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM HIM!" Sally cried.

"I'M NOT HERE TO SEE HIM!" Kyra cried back.

"NO ONE WANTS YOU HERE!"

"AND I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE, BUT I'M CAPBABLE OF SACRIFCE FOR THE ONES I CARE ABOUT! WHAT ABOUT YOU?" Kyra screamed, she then lowered her voice to address Sally, "Everyone thinks I'm sweet and kind, but I'll beat you senseless if you EVER yell at me again you got it! I'm not a nice sweet girl anymore, and I won't be taking anymore of this Bullshit from anyone at your school anymore, and that includes you." And then she left. Derek watched her leave, she apologized to his parents and then shut the door behind her leaving a stunned Sally behind.

"You had better listen to her, apparently she played with boys hockey too." Casey replied before shutting her door behind her. Derek scowled, it wasn't fair, he only wanted to get to know her a little better, but now it seemed that once he had a small piece of the mystery solved a new aspect of it would come to light, weaving a more complicated trail of clues for him to follow. Would he ever be able to unravel the Mystery of the would be Cheerleader?