Jade's eyes fluttered before fully opening up the following morning, the sound of the alarm that's buzzing and beeping about a feet away from where her head rested felt as if it's beeping inside her head which made her jump and almost fall off of the bed, she clung onto her bed sheets before she could hit the wooden floor and successfully climbed back up onto the bed. Moaning; Jade stretched out an arm to reach out for the alarm, trying to shut it down before she gets some serious headache, and the next minute the sound of its shattered metal and plastic pieces was heard, she widened her eyes to find a few screws and pieces in her hand. She groaned and pulled the covers to cover her face from the ray of sunshine coming through the small gaps between the curtains.

She heard someone clear their throat. "You should get up, it's almost 10 am, you'll end up ruining your sleeping pattern and that won't be pretty." James's voice said. Jade pushed off the covers to find James poking his head through the open gap.

Jade sighed. "For how long has it been beeping?" She asked her brother, who obviously had just woken up.

"Every fifteen minutes for the past three hours." James lied, his eyebrows furrowed as he attempted to keep a straight face to hide his sarcasm, then he ended up letting out a laugh, "Don't worry, it's has been on for only half an hour." James walked into the door, he was in a suit, with a tie and everything. His hair was combed.

Jade raised an eyebrow at him. "What's up with you? Mr. Fancy." Jade asked, she sat up and pushed the bedcovers with her feet, she still had the clunky boot on, and the gauze covering the wounded parts of her body that's all healed, she was still in shock but Derek made her swear not to tell anyone about this werewolf thing, which means no one can know that she's all healed. Jade stood up and walked over to her half-open closet, she grabbed a pair of jeans a tank top and a thick maroon sweater to keep her warm from the chilly weather, even though it's only September and they're in California.

A lop-sided grin appeared on the side of James's face, "I've got a job interview." He answered proudly, "I brought a suit case and everything. And guess what? It's got a high salary and a good position at the company; I might even be able to fund your university payments." James seemed happy, in a very ridiculous way.

"You already have a job." Jade furrowed her eyebrows, "And you're terrible at it." She said sarcastically. She walked back to the bed, she sat on it, hiding the fact that she's actually able to stand up and walk in completely normal way.

James proudly smiled to himself. "Well, they decided to give me a chance and promote me, all I have to do is present some sort of presentation and list the reasons why I am that much of an important person to them and then I'm the co-manager of the HR department, cool huh?" James said.

Jade was sort of surprised, she didn't expect James to get promoted. "From a secretary to Human Resources department manager?" Jade was now pulling her hair up into a ponytail, pretending to struggled with it. Then she got up, walked over to her bathroom, she started brushing her teeth after she splashed her face with warm water.

"I wasn't a secretary, I was an unimportant employee, and I became pretty important to them, obviously. I deserve to be promoted, plus I'm not going to be THE manager, just a co-manager, that means my opinion is important to them but not as important." James said as he leaned against the door pane between Jade's bedroom and the bathroom. "I get to boss a bunch of forty year olds, how cool could that be?" James said, slowly drifting into his own thoughts. "Then the next promotion will probably be the manager, full-time manager, and that's when they'll pay me the big bucks."

Jade tried to be happy for him, but there was so much going on in her mind. "That's great, I'm happy for you, you should go before you miss your interview or presentation or whatever you want to call it." Jade said as she sat on the edge of the bathtub, faking a smile, there's so much going on in her life right now that she can't even show her brother a real smile. James smiled at Jade before walking out of her bedroom and down the stairs; he must've grabbed his suitcase before leaving. Jade heard the front door slam, he finally left. "At least someone's having a good day." Jade said to herself.

She whistled to the rhythm of the song that was now playing on the radio as she flipped over the pancakes in the pan, James isn't going to be home until 3pm, and his working hours are more likely to be longer if he got the position of a co-manager of a department at the company so she didn't have to put on those annoying clunky boots, not unless he's home. Jade suddenly started singing along.

And all of a sudden the music stopped playing. She furrowed her eyebrows suspiciously and turned around to see the last person she expected and wanted to see, Derek Hale. She gasped and her hands hit the handle of the pan, making the undercooked pancakes fall over the tile floor of the kitchen. Jade swallowed, "You know you could always try the doorbell. She whispered, half-scared half-angry at Derek. She didn't want to cause attention, so that the neighbors wouldn't come barging in worried that Jade might've somehow fallen down the stairs, James did ask them to keep an eye on Jade for him, in case she needed anything.

Derek coldly walked over towards her, "You're late," He gestured at the clock hanging on the wall as he did, he had that threatening look on his face that worried Jade. "You're supposed to meet me at 10." Derek gritted her teeth and clutched his fists angrily as he walked over to Jade, his bushy eyebrows were furrowed.

Jade's big brown eyes widened fearfully. "I- I'm- I'm sorry." Jade said with hesitation, "I didn't realize that it's already past ten." She took a few steps backwards and way from Derek, tripping and almost falling over the oven that's still producing hot blue flames, but Derek surprisingly grabbed her wrists with an inhuman speed and pulled her away from the oven. He then walked past by her and turned off the oven.

Derek's dead-cold features broke and changed into a little almost-frown. "Just stick to the timing I give you. Now, eat up and just meet me there. Don't be late because this isn't just some favor I'm doing." Derek said before letting go of her wrists that he'd been gripping on and walking through the arch that connected the kitchen to the living room and towards the front door, he slammed the door shut after he had left.

Jade was still in shock, even after Derek left. "What's his problem?" Jade thought. She no longer felt like eating so she ended up cleaning the mess and simply left, sneaking in attempt to be invisible.

Last Edited: June 27th, 2013.

To anyone who had read all of my edited chapters, I suggest you be patient and wait until I finish editing the next chapter. Like I said a million times before, the story sort of changes in the new following chapters.