*This chapter had me reminiscing back to my high school days of school bullies and the cruel things the girls used to say to me... time for a little social justice on how i wish i had handled those situations*
Chloe was at her locker getting out her books when she began to feel like she was being watched. She glanced up quickly to notice a few heads turn away… they were looking at her, the new girl who was in the room that got attacked by birds. I should've figured she thought to herself. She looked back down at her books in her locker and took a deep breath you can do this Chloe, second time's the charm! She closed her locker about to head over to Stiles and Scott when she turned to see Aiden standing on the other side of her locker. Chloe nearly jumped out of her skin, she placed a hand over her heart to calm herself
"Jesus Aiden, you scared me" she said smiling up at him.
"Sorry, didn't mean to scare you again…especially after yesterday…" he said so bluntly referring to bird incident that happened yesterday. She was a little taken back by him
"I-I guess…" she said straitening up her stance. Aiden didn't move out of her way nor did he say anything besides stare at her. She looked down at her shoes, unsure of how to act right now. She finally looked back up at him and met his gaze briefly
"Well… thank you for worrying about me, but I've got to get to class now so…" Aiden then smiled and stepped out of her way and let her pass. She gave him a weary smile then walked past him towards Scott and Stiles. Aiden creeped her out to no end, but maybe he was just a really intense guy? She shouldn't judge. She made it up to Scott and Stiles just as the first bell rang signaling two minutes until class started.
"Well…" she said walking up to the two boys who turned to her, Stiles was more jittery than usual. "-We better get to class" she said with a small smile. I guess I snuck up on them… ha-ha. Stiles nodded and then gave Scott a parting look before walking off with me towards Ms. Blake's English class.
"We can do this" I said more to myself than anyone. Stiles gave me a reassuring nudge on my shoulder as we walked towards her new room, since the old one was under repair. We walked into English and I saw Lydia and Allison already there whispering quietly. Stiles walked behind her as they entered the classroom. They walked past Lydia and Allison, who stopped their conversation to catch Chloe's gaze. Chloe offered a quick shy smile paired with a wave of her band-aid clad fingers and Allison offered one back while Lydia smiled and then saw Stiles behind her and sent her a wink. Chloe blushed and then walked back to her seat trying to hide her face from Stiles who was behind her. They both took their seats and faced forward as Ms. Blake entered the room.
"Welcome back class, I plan to pick up where we left off yesterday with the syllabus and then we'll end the class with any questions you may have…" she looked out bravely over her class then nodded and walked behind her desk looking at her desk top "-please pull out your syllabi." As the class all looked at their folders and backpacks rifling through to find their syllabus's that were quickly forgotten yesterday. Chloe looked up and caught Ms. Blake glancing at the window in a moment of hesitancy, she caught Chloe's gaze and stopped. Chloe offered her a small encouraging smile and nod. Ms. Blake nodded back and then continued confidently with her lesson. Yup… I like Ms. Blake.
After her first class was over she finally headed to her second class for the first time. She looked down at her schedule confused until Stiles saw her in the hallway still standing outside their English class. He smiled and double-backed to her
"Need some help?" he offered walking up to her. She gave him a thankful smile and showed him her schedule. Stiles stepped up next her and looked down at the paper. Quickly committing her daily classes to memory, he then pointed her in the right direction to her second class of the day.
"Looks like we only have first hour together" he said with slight disappointment. She looked up at him and gave a weak half smile
"Well, we'll just have to catch up at lunch and on the way home."
"We actually have different lunches too…" he said frowning at her schedule. She looked at him with disappointment while he was still looking at the piece of paper in both their hands. Stiles finally met her gaze and gave her a small smile
"Hey, it's not like we're next door neighbors? We still got first period together." She gave a weak smile back and looked down at her schedule taking it away from Stiles.
"I was just hoping there would be someone I would know in my classes to… you know have a study buddy or something" she said looking up at him nervously. He through a comforting arm around her shoulder and started walking her towards her second class.
"Well that is why we make new friends" said Stiles in a playful tone patting her shoulder the pushing her forward towards her next class. Chloe rolled her eyes and shot him a playful glare
"Fine…" she said as she grudgingly started walking away "But don't forget me!" she called behind her to Stiles. He laughed at her dramatic playfulness but deep down was saddened by the fact they only had one class together. He wanted to keep her safe but it would be harder to do that on top of everything else, so maybe it was good she would be separate from the rest of them; away from the danger. He turned and headed towards his classes away from Chloe… hey, he would be seeing her tonight anyway. With Scott crashing in the backseat.
It turns out that Allison was in one of her classes and Danny, a nice guy Scott had briefly introduced her to from the lacrosse team, was her chemistry partner. They only talked briefly, but Chloe knew that he was a good guy and that she had made a friend. Danny also had her lunch period, unlike every single other person she actually knew. So she sat with him and a few more of his gay and lesbian friends, who still didn't talk to her much but were friendly. Her last class of the day she walked in only to see one open spot left and it was in between Aiden, who was staring creepily at her again, and another boy who looked exactly like him. Holy hell I get to sit in between two Adonis's but I can't enjoy it because they both give me hella bad vibes. Chloe locked gazes with the twins and sighed in defeat as she began walking towards the last open seat between them. She sat down and refused to meet Aiden or his twin's eyes as she kept her eyes cast down and pulled out a notebook, folder, and a pen.
"Nice to see a friendly face" she heard quietly said to her. She couldn't help but look over at Aiden and smile. She knew the feeling, she had said that almost that exact thing to Stiles on their first day.
"Same" she responded back.
"This is my twin brother Ethan" he nodded towards the other side of me but never dropping my gaze. Chloe turned to her left to see the identical boy on her other side and smiled. He offered a hand and a more genuine smile, Chloe accepted his hand and weakly smiled back
"Sorry about my brother… he can be a bit… intense sometimes." Ethan offered and Chloe blushed you have no idea. She then turned and faced forward for the rest of the class. When class was finally finished she packed up her stuff quickly trying to escape the intimidating twins. She started walking out of the room when a group of girls stopped her
"You're Chloe, right?" one of them asked nicely. Yes! Make other friends in this class so you don't have to sit by the creeps! Plus then you can tell Stiles and he'll be proud of you.
"Yeah" she said smiling.
"So, you're the girl that causes accidents?" said the girl with a nice tone but a vindictive look in her eye. The smile on Chloe's face dropped, so the group of girls in front of her that she was considering making friends with, were those bitchy high school girls…alright, fuck being nice.
"No, sorry… you must have me confused with your mom" she said as she brushed past them, only assuming they had shocked expressions on their bitchy little faces. She walked out into the hall feeling accomplished about putting those girls in their place, but it hurt her to think that that is what people called her… but it made sense. Before she could get too lost in thought, Ethan and Aiden walked up next to her
"That was bad ass, sorry what they said though. May I walk you back to your locker?" asked Aiden as Ethan nodded with a knowing smirk that confused her as he parted ways.
Chloe looked back up at him in shock, maybe he wasn't all that bad? And she could use a buffer between her and the ass holes that she had as peers.
"Um… sure" she said and then looked down at her feet before starting to walk towards her locker, Aiden on her heels. She made no attempt at conversation with him until they made it to her locker. "Well… thank you for protecting me from the evil students of Beacon Hills high" Aiden smiled down at her with a dark but knowing look in his eyes. She politely smiled back then said "I think I got it from here" she said dismissing him "…thank you." She then turned towards her locker hoping he'd get the point to leave. She put her books away and grabbed the things she needed for homework before going to Heather's party with stiles. She smiled to herself and when she turned around she saw Aiden, in fact was gone, but saw Danny in his place. She smiled up at him
"Hey Danny?" she greeted him puzzled.
"Hey, do you know the Devereaux twins? He asked. He then glanced down the hallway longingly a little too long for her to not catch on. She followed his line of sight and saw Danny was watching Aiden and Ethan. She tapped Danny on the shoulder to get his attention and break him from the weirdly tense staring session at the gorgeous twins. Danny looked down at her and she softly smiled up at him
"They're both in my last class, my seatmates actually…why, got your eye on one?" she playfully asked him. He bushed then slowly and hesitantly nodded and gave her a crooked smile
"Ethan actually… he's the gay one" he said matter of fact like. Chloe raised her eyebrows in impressment and smiled proudly
"I'll see what I can do for you Danny, I'll be your wing-woman." Danny smiled shyly but thankfully at her then walked away towards his locker in the opposite direction of the twins. Chloe closed her locker with finality and then headed towards Stiles' locker. She walked up to him and smiled half heartedly
"Hey, ready to go?" she asked.
"Yeah" he answered then grabbed his back pack and shut his locker then began walking towards the parking lot. Chloe lagged a bit following behind Stiles to his jeep, she couldn't help replaying her last class period with those mean girls over and over again. When she climbed in and set her backpack on the ground is when Stiles noticed her sluggish and dour mood
"Hey Chloe… are you ok?" he asked starting up the jeep. Chloe looked down at her lap as she buckled her seat belt.
It's fine just…today, these assholes said I was 'the girl who caused accidents' and… they're kind of right, I mean ever since I showed up everything-" she said taking the occasional glance out the windshield in front of her while staring mostly at her hands on her lap.
"They said what?!" Stiles asked slamming the jeep back into park and turning it off. The sudden jerk caused her to hit her head against the dash board seeing as how she was already slouched forward.
"Ow! Stilinski!" she said holding her head in shock and pain. She finally looked over at him incredulously to find an angry and shocked look on his face as well.
"I'm sorry Chloe but who the hell do those Assholes think they are! Saying something like that?!" he said loudly banging his hand on the steering wheel and glaring out the windshield. Chloe felt her chest constrict with adoration and anger of her own towards those bitches. Stiles really cared about her! Like cared enough to get angry and hit things… maybe not in the way she would've liked for him to care but it still felt awesome.
"Hey…" she scooted over and threw her arm around his neck softly in a hug as a thank you. Stiles eventually hugged her back.
"Those assholes have no idea what they're talking about ok?" Stiles said pulling away to look at her. Chloe wouldn't meet his gaze; she was happy he felt this passionately about this but 'the assholes' had a point.
"That's all they are, Ass holes, ok?" and grabbed her shoulders to look up at him, she still didn't meet his eyes "They don't know anything, and they don't know you" he said the last part quieter as she finally met his gaze. She placed her hands on his arms that were still on her shoulders and gave him a small smile then sighed. Her breath washing over his face and he suddenly became very aware of how close she was and got a brief flashback of his dream. Flushed, he then hesitantly pulled his hands off of her and gave her a reassuring smile.
"No one should ever call you anything like that… cause they're wrong" He told her with a small bit of confidence ebbing its way back into his stare. Chloe looked down still feeling unsure about everything but gave a half-hearted smile
"Thanks" she muttered. Stiles gave her a worried look as she pulled away and sat back in her seat. Stiles started the jeep again and pulled out of his parking space. Once they were out of the parking lot and away from the assholes Chloe began to feel a little better, actually looking forward to Heather's party. She scooted over again and rested her head on Stiles shoulder as he drove, and as usual, he put his arm around her and had that little half smirk on his face as he drove to their houses. He parked in his driveway and looked down at her as she sat up and gave him a warm smile, he was about to say something when Chloe's phone began ringing. She looked at it and smiled
"Speak of the devil, it's Heather calling" she looked to Stiles who was also smiling at her and grabbing his back pack out of the backseat.
"I'll call you around seven and then we'll head out to her party?" she asked him before picking up.
"Yup" he responded finally reaching his bag.
Stiles went to open his door when Chloe leaned over and kissed him on the cheek. It was short and sweet and she jumped out of his jeep and answered her phone before Stiles could get a word out. He smiled a dopey grin and rubbed his cheek so ensure that really happened, then climbed out of his jeep to go do what little homework he had before Heather's party.