Chapter 7

Rejected

Sabrina woke up this morning with a smile and messy hair which had to be dealt with asap. She then took out a maroon knit sweater with a navy blue skirt out of her closet. She braided her silky brunette hair and did her makeup. Sabrina spun around the mirror a few times, admiring herself. A week ago, she didn't even care about how she looked. But now she was a sophomore, it's time to move up on the social ladder of Beacon Hills High and make a name for herself. She then exited the house while her parents were still asleep from their night shift at the station the night before. Stiles happened to be leaving the house at the same time. And as he locked the door behind him as he stopped to look at Sabrina. Sabrina turned away as she saw Jackson parked on her driveway, waiting to drive her to school in his Lamborghini.

"What was that look?" Jackson asked as Sabrina got into his practically new car.

"What look?" Sabrina asked. Jackson gave her a face of disbelief.

"You and Stiles." He explained as Sabrina looked out the window.

"He wants to talk to me, but I don't think I should, after everything that's happened so far." Sabrina said lying to Jackson. Truth is Sabrina couldn't be mad at anyone for more than two hours, it wasn't in her nature to stay mad at someone.

Sabrina got to school and successfully avoided Stiles for 2 classes until Lydia cornered her as Lydia smacked her books down to the floor with a loud bang.

"You stay away from Stiles, or else something's going to come bite back at you and it'll be when you least expect it. He's my boyfriend if you didn't notice." Lydia threatened Sabrina against the locker where she cornered her. Other people started to pile around as they started to slow down to watch Lydia clashing with Sabrina. Others whispered and snickered as they watched the scene. Lydia slammed her fist against the locker right beside Sabrina's head. It made her jump at the sudden loud noise ringing in her ear. Sabrina wasn't one to start fights, let alone end one. Lydia always had a bone to pick with Sabrina, but Sabrina wasn't sure why.

"Hey hey, break it up." Coach yelled from down the hall as Lydia turned around and smiled at coach as she pranced away. "Detention for you, Miss Martin." He said as she didn't turn back and walked down the hall as the crowd, faded away, everyone going about their regular business and onto their next class of the day. Sabrina felt her anxiety rush away as Coach turned to face her. "Collins, you okay?" He asked gently as he placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Um, yeah." Sabrina said picking her stuff off the floor.

"If she does that ever again, you tell me. Okay?" He asked in a quiet voice, bending down to help her pick her stuff off the ground. He'd never spoken that quiet before, he was always yelling at everyone on the lacrosse team.

"Okay, go to class." He patted her back as she turned to walk down the hall. "And don't worry I'm not going to tell your parents."

"Hey, Stiles. Did you know Lydia just cornered Sabrina and basically told her to stay away from you? I swear, Lydia was about to hit her." Scott said after he watched the whole thing in the hallway and walked into the boy's locker room.

"Is Sabby alright?" Stiles asked with a worried look on his face as he took off his shirt and put on his gym clothes for lacrosse practice.

"Yeah, Coach broke it up. But, Sabrina seemed kinda freaked." Scott said reassuringly.

"Hey Aiden," Lydia said as she arrived at his locker.

"Stiles and Scott were talking about Sabrina in the locker room. Why would you do that?" Aiden asked a bit angered by her sudden outburst on Sabrina.

"I was trying to get her to stay away from Stiles." Lydia simply said.

"I thought you were dating me?" Aiden asked.

"I am. I'll end it. Soon. I just need more time." Lydia said walking away from a clearly frustrated Aiden.

"Hows tutoring?" Ms. Anderson asked Sabrina and Stiles who stood in front of her desk.

"Pretty good." Sabrina said smiling to the teacher as if nothing was wrong between her and Stiles.

"Okay, lets see if he does well on the test in two weeks then." Ms. Anderson said smiling as she dismissed the two teens. Stiles was about to say something before Sabrina quickly walked down the hall and other students started to pile in the hallway for lunch. Sabrina then found Allison near her locker and joined her. Allison and Sabrina walked down the hall on the way to lunch when they were stopped by Cora Hale and Erica Reyes a.k.a. the popular girls, even more than Lydia.

"Are you both new here?" Erica asked as Allison and Sabrina stopped in the hallway abruptly.

"I am," Allison smiled. "And Sabrina's been here a long time."

"Oh yeah," Cora pointed as she remembered Sabrina. "I didn't recognize you. You look really nice. I like your sweater, Brandy Melville?" Cora complimented as Sabrina nodded and smiled brightly.

"Anyways, do you wanna join us for lunch?" Erica asked as she chewed some gum. If you wanted to get in with the populars, they were the ones to get in with.

"Sure," Allison said before Sabrina could speak. Cora and Erica then turned around and led the way for their two new additions to join them at their populars table in the cafeteria. The group of four then sat at the popular kids table where Stiles sat with Scott. Stiles looked at Sabrina as she looked away, breaking eye contact. She wanted to make up with Stiles so bad, but she couldn't get him alone for long enough to talk to him.

"Hey Stiles," She said as she kissed Stiles while staring at Sabrina. Truth is, Sabrina felt a little jealous. Stiles needed to talk to Lydia about what happened between her and Sabrina. But he couldn't talk about it at the table with Sabrina and everybody else around.

Sabrina walked into 's chemistry class. She sat down at a spot in the front where Allison sat with her.

"Hey," Sabrina said as Allison smiled back.

"Have you talked to Stiles?" Allison asked as she placed her backpack on the floor. She had been wanting to ask her since Saturday. She was going to ask her at lunch, but they couldn't talk about it with Erica and Cora around to listen in.

"No." Sabrina replied with a confused look.

"Oh Okay." Allison said.

"Did he say anything to you?" Sabrina said urgently. "Like anything at all?"

"Um no." Allison smiled awkwardly as she realized where the conversation was going.

"You're lying." Sabrina said smirked.

"No I'm not." Allison defended herself.

"Yeah you are, what did you say to him?"

"I might've told him that you liked him and he might've told me about everything that happened this weekend." Sabrina groaned as she leaned back on the stool. "I understand if you're mad."

"I'm not, you just did the hard part for me. But it's obvious he's not going to break up with Lydia anytime soon or like ever." Sabrina said looking down at her binder as she opened it.

'I don't know about that.' Allison smirked at the comment in her head as Mr. Harris came into the science lab.

"Okay, I'm going to assign lab partners." Mr. Harris spoke before Sabrina and Allison could continue their conversation. Mr. Harris then looked at his sheet to call out the lab partners.

"Okay, Scott and Lydia." Scott groaned quietly as he moved his stuff from where he sat with Stiles to the empty spot beside Lydia.

"Sabrina and Stiles." Sabrina rolled her eyes as Stiles just stared at her as she switched her spot from the front to the back where Stiles sat.
"Marie and Jackson." Marie mentally thanked the heavens above for the seating plan as she didn't have a bad lab partner this year.

"Allison and Aiden." Mr. Harris said, listing off the other groups as everyone got settled in their new seats. Mr. Harris then began teaching as Stiles tried to stir up a conversation with Sabrina in the back of the class where no one could hear.

"Sabby, I know that you can't stay mad at someone for more than two hours." Stiles smirked. "And I know for a fact you're dying to talk to me." That was true, she couldn't be mad at anyone for too long.

"I'm sorry," They both muttered under their breaths. They then looked at one another, realizing they both just said the same thing.

"Friends?" Sabrina asked calling a truce.

"Friends." He smiled back. Not friends for long. "Sorry about Lydia almost hitting you."

"I'm okay, aren't I?" She said opening up her notebook.

"Please tell me if anything like that happens again." Stiles said sincerely.

"Okay." She said as she looked into his dark chocolate orbs.

"Marie, if I ask Sabrina. Do you think she'll go out with me?" Jackson asked urgently in the middle of science. Marie looked up from her iPad with a guilty face.

"Maybe." She stuttered as she felt her heart shatter.

"Great," He said as she was left wondering if she could just move on from him. Jackson then looked towards the back to Sabrina who was currently listening to the lesson that Mr. Harris was teaching.

"So, what's going on between you and Aiden?" Scott said breaking the silence between them. They weren't friends, they only talked when they had to.

"What do you know?" Lydia scolded, staring down Scott, who didn't back down.

"I assume things, but they're probably true." Scott said of matter of factly.

"Are you gonna tell Stiles, the kid who is madly in love with me that I'm cheating on him?" Lydia raised her voice, still keeping a whisper.

"Pretty much." Scott said.

"You need proof and you don't have that." Lydia said smirking.

"You can be amazed at how fast he can change his mind about a cheater."

Jackson gathered up enough courage to ask Sabrina. After the bell rang, he packed up and walked towards Sabrina and Stiles near the back of the classroom.

"Would you like to go on a date with me?" Jackson asked as Sabrina froze. Stiles packed his stuff slowly, waiting for Sabrina to speak.

"Jackson, I'd love to but. I don't want to ruin our friendship. I just don't want things to end up awkward between us." Sabrina said turning Jackson down as his face dropped as she grabbed her bag. That wasn't the number one reason though, she wanted Stiles and besides Marie hadn't made the move on Jackson. "I'm sorry." Marie smiled in triumph that Sabrina rejected Jackson. She said leaving him in shock as she exited the classroom. Stiles then followed closely behind her.

"That was kinda cold." Stiles said as she stopped at her locker and quickly undid the lock. Stiles then went to open his locker right beside hers.

"I don't want to damage our friendship, but I also don't feel the same way." Sabrina said placing her chemistry textbook into her locker as she was about to leave to go home.

"Do you want me to drive you home? Since I guess Jackson was going to, but that backfired didn't it?" Stiles offered.

"Yeah, Jackson was going to but I guess that's not an option anymore." Sabrina said closing her locker. Stiles then dug out the keys to his jeep and gave them to Sabrina. "You want me to drive?" She looked up at him with wide eyes.

"Wait for me." He laughed. "I gotta go grab some stuff before I go."

"Okay." She said before walking down the hall.

Stiles thought about what Scott said about Lydia almost hitting Sabrina. Stiles walked towards Lydia in an empty hallway. His shoes echoing as he walked towards her.

"Hey, did you tell Sabrina to stay away from me?" Stiles said as Lydia turned around to see Stiles. Lydia raised her eyebrow.

"Yeah, she's been acting like she's still friends with you." Lydia scoffed.

"Cause she is friends with me, she been my friend since I was born." Stiles said angrily, defending Sabrina.

"She's a loser, but by all means you can join her in her loserdom." Lydia winked before she turned around and began walking away.

"Without me, you're gonna go back down the pyramid." Stiles said stopping her in her tracks. She then turned around and walked back towards him.

"You are too, might as well go down together. And I would think twice before making that decision." She said pointing her finger on Stiles' chest at each word before crossing her arms.

"Trust me, I've thought about it and I've made up my mind. I'm breaking up with you." Stiles said without hesitation.

"Fine, try to find someone else better than me." She flipped her strawberry blond hair and turned around, walking away from Stiles. "Cause you won't."

"Hey," Sabrina said as Stiles huffed out a breath of air after opening the door to the driver's seat of his jeep.

"Hey," He said closing the door as Sabrina tossed him his keys.

"Bad day?" Sabrina asked as he nodded in agreeance.

"You?" He asked, looking up at her, his lips curling into a smile.

"Yeah." Sabrina said as he started the car. The car ride was relatively quiet until Stiles said something that could change everything.

"Do you want to go out with me? Like on a date?"