"Hey, Derek, where's Kaiden?" Tala asks as she got off the stairs. She's dressed in a black tank top, a pair of black skinnies, her black leather gloves, her black leather boots, and her black leather jacket. She had her curly hair sprawled across her back and her eyes wide with question.

"He just left for school."

"Are you serious? He couldn't even wait for me?" Tala asks with anger in her voice.

"He's still mad at you." Tala's anger slips and she heaves a sigh.

"Great. Can you drive me to school or did Kaiden take the car?"

"Here." Derek throws her a pair of keys, causing her to frown. They weren't keys to the camaro, but what were they to if not the camaro?

"What are these?" She asks as she looks at the keys.

"I figured we all have better things to than have me drive you to school every day or have you guys either walk or take my car, so..." Tala looks at the front door before looking at Derek. She walks out onto the front porch and sees a cherry red corvett with white racing stripes. "Kaiden wanted a viper."

"He went against Chevy?" Tala asks with a dramatic gasp, causing Derek to chuckle.

"Drive slowly and carefully." Tala smiles and kisses his cheek.

"You made up for making me go to school." She says before heading to the new shiny car. Many people don't realize just how much money the Hales had. Their family was loaded and when they died the cousins got the money equally divided into fifths, which was now stored into secret and hidden safes.

Tala hoped inside the car and turned it on, letting the engine scream. "Oh, I can get used to this." She smiles before closing the door and taking off for school. She was able to tell quiet easily which car was Kaiden's. His car was a black viper with dark green racing stripes. She parks next to it and hoped out of the car. She ignored the shock looks from everyone, the wide eyed stare, and she headed for the front entrance and to the office. She found Kaiden already in the office and headed over.

"You must be Ms. Hale, Mr. Hale already said you were on your way. Here you go, everything you need." Tala simply nods before her and Kaiden headed back outside.

"How did you know I would show?"

"Because you feel very guilty for last night and Derek would have dragged your ass here if he had to."

"I'm really sorry about what I said about dad. I shouldn't have said that." Kaiden sighs and wraps his arms around his sister.

"You just miss dad, I know." She sighs and wraps her arms around him.

"I wish he was back to how he used to be." Kaiden sighs next before pulling out of her embrace.

"Come on, we need to find our lockers and get our things for our first class."

"What do we have first?"

"English." Tala nods before looking at the lockers, looking for hers. She finds her and is very happy to find Kaiden has the locker beside her.

"Do you think Derek will find, Laura?" Tala asks.

"I'm sure he will find-" Kaiden frowns and looks down the hallway. "Do you smell that?" Tala frowns before turning fast on her heels and looks down the hall with her brother.

"It's a werewolf." All werewolf has a distinct smell, but each werewolf has their own scent too. Tala and Kaiden knew each other's scents so well that they could sniff it out in a crowd of a million people. The same goes for Derek's scent. This scent wasn't there's or Derek's. It was someone different.

Down the hall walked to boys, one with a mop of brown hair and the other with a buzz cut. "You don't think..."Kaiden looks at Tala.

"He smells new." Tala confirms his fear, causing him to sigh.

"We'll have to tell Derek when we get home." Tala nods before closing her locker.

"But first we have to get through today. Come on, let's get to English."

The twins get home and find Derek finishing covering a hole in the ground. "Derek?" Kaiden questions as he walked over to his cousin.

"What?"

"What are you doing?" Tala froze as she saw the purple flower.

"Is that..." Her eyes goes to Derek. "This is a Hale grave."

"You found Laura." Kaiden says, causing Derek to nod.

"No." Tala breaths out as tears consume her eyes. All Derek could do was hold his arms out to her. Tala ran into his arms and buries her face into his chest.

"What killed her?" Kaiden asks as he looks down at the covered grave.

"She..." Derek looks down at Tala, causing Kaiden to nod in agreement. Tala didn't need to hear this.

"No." She pulls away and looks at them. "I want to know. What happened to my cousin?"

"Hunters weren't the cause." Kaiden and Tala look at each other a big taken aback. "She was ripped apart." Tala's eyes widen and tears fill her eyes. "Ripped into two."

"Oh my god." Tala breaths.

"You think a werewolf did it?"

"Had to be."

"We smelled a werewolf at school. He was new." Tala adds.

"He must be trying to raise his pack." Kaiden says. Derek frown as he hears something close to his house.

"That's the same scent I smelled at school." Tala says as she sniffs. Derek pulls his shirt back on, grabbing his leather jacket and putting the shovel back into the ground.

The three of them head through the woods, heading towards the voices. "Maybe the killer moved the body." Tala recoganize the boys, the one talking is the buzz cut, while the one on the ground searching through the leaves is the mop hair guy.

"If he did, I hope he left my inhaler. Those things are like 80 bucks." The mop haired guy says as the three Hales stood off to the side, staring at them. The buzz cut notices them and hits the mop haired guy. The boy stood and they both faced the Hales. Derek started to them.

"What are you doing here?" Derek asks, but the boys only stare at him with wide fearful eyes. "Huh?"

"It's private property." Kaiden says, causing the buzz cut to look at him. Kaiden froze as he stared at the deep brown eyes. He felt warm all over, his hair stood up on end as if he had ultimate static electricity, and his heart was racing.

"Sorry... we didn't know." The boy says as he stares at Kaiden.

"Yeah.. we uh-we were just looking for something, but uh-forget it." The other says, causing Derek to pull something out of his pocket and threw it at Scott. Scott caught it and looked down at the inhaler in his hand.

The Hales turned and went to left, but noticed Kaiden still staring at the boy. Tala nudged him, causing him to turn and head off with his cousin and sister. When they were far enough away Derek turns to Kaiden. "What the hell was that?" He looks over at Derek.

"What?" Derek frowns and glares at Kaiden.

"What was that about?" He motions to where the two boys were now walking away.

"I... uh..." Kaiden eyes goes back to the boy. His mind going blank as he gazed longingly at the boy. Tala frowns and looks at Derek, confused as to her brother's strange behavior. Derek frowns before his eyes widen.

Derek moves forward and snapped his fingers in front of Kaiden's eyes. "Huh?" He asks as he looks back at his cousin. "Sorry what were you saying?" Derek pushes Kaiden's chin up, staring into his eyes. His eyes are dilated a large amount and his cheeks were flushed.

"You got to be kidding me." Derek growls as he lets Kaiden go.

"What?" Tala asks as Kaiden frowns at Derek.

"The kid's his mate." Derek snaps. "Kaiden found his mate."