Chapter 11

*Derek's PoV*

I casually walked out from the trees and into where Chris, Jackson, and Kori could see me. "What are you doing out here Derek?" Kori asked me. She was now standing up next to Jackson. "I was just out in the woods when I heard a scream and I came as fast as I could." I said lying a little. "Well, how nice was that." Chris said. "What are you doing out in the woods, Kori?" I asked her. "I was running." She said.

"Well Kori, your brother is worried that something happened to you since you were gone for so long." Jackson said. "Okay. Bye Derek, Bye Chris." She said. "Bye Kori." We both said. "BYE." Jackson yelled at both of us as they were walking away, I assumed Kori probably told him to say bye.

"What were you really doing?" Chris asked me. "I was over by my house outside when I heard a scream from deeper in the woods behind my house. I came to see what was going on." I said. "It didn't have anything to do with it being Kori that screamed." He said. "Well I ran faster then I did before I knew it was her." I said. "Oh ok good to know the truth." He said. I was a little confused, what did they think that I was doing. "Okay. I'm going to go now. Bye." I said as I started walking away from Chris. He said nothing back to me.

I had just left and I looked at the text from Scott again and didn't reply to the message, cause I didn't think that he wanted me to I also had nothing to say to him. I got back to my house and got into my car and turned on the radio. That stupid Justin Bieber kid was on AGAIN. "What the hell? His songs are always on..!" I yelled inside my car and turned the station. That station was playing Pay Phone my Maroon 5. I kinda liked that song, so I left it there.

I got into town and got something to eat. I was a little hungry and why not I drove into town so I should do something. I went to subway and order my food and left again. Just as I was leaving I saw Kori and Scott walking out of their moms car. I walked past them and smiled at Kori and Scott, Kori smiled back and Scott glared at me. I got in my car and the song I Wont Give Up by Jason Mraz came on and it reminded me of what I'm doing right now, with Kori and how I'm not letting Scott make me leave.

I had just gotten to my house and I walked in and looked around the house. I don't know what I was even thinking I was going to find. There was nothing,…Nothing left of this house except memories.. Good and bad. The only thing that I knew was still there was a few photos that I had the day the house burnt down. I walked over to the spot where they were, I opened the box and the pictures were on the top cause that's all there was left on my past that others could find. There were pictures of me, Laura, parents, all of us. My family in general, really. There was one picture that was at the end of the pile, it was a picture of me holding Laura when she was a baby… The caption on the picture was: Big Brother, always loving and protective of his baby sister…

I read the caption of the picture "Too bad I failed at my job. I didn't protect her enough if I had she would still be here.." As I said that I silently let a few tears fall down my face. I heard something outside, I didn't know who or what it was though.

I put the pictures down in the box and closed the box and hide it again, tried my best to wipe the tears off my face. Got up and walked over to the door, as I was walking I whispered "I'm sorry I failed Laura..!" Not loud enough that the person on the other side of the door could hear if even if it was a werewolf.

I hadn't even opened the door and I knew who it was. It was Stiles. I opened the door and he looked shocked and scared. "What do you want Stiles?" I asked him. "Were you just crying..?" He asked with concern in his voice. "I asked you, What do you want Stiles?" I said again. "I'm not going to answer until you tell me if you were crying." He said in a stern voice, he really wanted to know. I wasn't going to tell him that I was though. "No I wasn't. Now what do you want?" I said in a deep intimidating voice. "Yeah sure you weren't, whatever Scott told me to come here and well he never really said why to come here…" He said. I shook my head and sighed at them. "Well do you want to come in or not cause I'm not standing here all night long. Sorry." I said.

"Sure, just don't kill me if I do something or say something. Cause you've made threats, Scott said that you would never kill me cause you don't want to be like your uncle and cause if you were going to you would have done it already. But I don't trust him or you. You scare the shit out of me, all the time even if you don't try to." He said. 'Scott was right I would never kill Stiles cause he had helped me and even saved me before but I was going to let him keep thinking what he was. "Good idea Stiles, don't listen to Scott. You are right this time around. You should be scared of me, I am bigger and stronger then you by a lot Stiles, I am also bigger and stronger then Scott so give him advice and think like you do." I said to him. 'Thanks. I'll take that as a complement coming from you." He said. It made me grin but I didn't let him know that.

The rest of the time that he was here was just awkward. He fell asleep in the chair so I went behind him and growled, he woke up right away and ran out of the house and into his jeep and left. I laughed soooo hard after he left.

I sat there and just thought for the rest of the night.

*A few days later*

*Kori's PoV*

It was a Friday and I got my car back tonight and I was going out to dinner with friends. I got home from School with Scott and my keys were on the table along with some money for me and Scott. We had planned since we Allison and Scott's, and Angie and Stiles, and mine and Jackson's anniversaries were all pretty close to the same time we would all just go out to dinner and stay the night somewhere tonight.

I had bought Jackson the perfect gift, I bought him tickets to go to a lacrosse game. All the girls bought the guys the same gift and we bought two so that we could all go with them. All the guys like lacrosse and they are all on the team just Stiles doesn't really play much.

Everyone was at our house ready to leave. We were talking 2 cars mine and Jackson's. Jackson's other car not the Porsche but his other one was what we were going to use when we were there. I had the other nicest car besides him so I was also driving. All of our things went into Jackson's car and we left.

We just left and Angie was saying that we should play music which I was fine with. I plugged in my I-Pod and the song Think I'm Fallin for You came on and we all started to sing along with our windows down. We couldn't hear any music from Jackson's car until the song Remember the Name came on we heard them turn it up we did the same. Scott must have been using his I-Pod to since it was the same song. I turned it down and Scott called Allison and put it on speaker as did she. They were all rapping along with it and we could hear them more then the song, we just laughed and listened to that.

We got there and parked, but left our stuff in the car while we went in and got our rooms. Jackson and I were sharing a room, Stiles and Angie were sharing a room and Scott and Allison were sharing a room. Scott didn't like the idea but everyone else did. I think he liked it for him just not for me and Jackson. We already knew that we were going to go swimming before we eat tonight.

We got our rooms and the guys brought the stuff up into the rooms that were all right next to each other. I ran into the room and my and Jackson raced for the bathroom to change in, but I beat him. I was just about to change when he knocked on the door and said "Kori, my swimsuit is in your bag remember." "Yeah, I remember." I said while getting my swimsuit on, it was really cute hot pink and black stripped bikini with the bottoms that tie on the sides. "Well… can I get it." He asked. "Yeah sure just come in." I said. He walked in the bathroom with just his boxers on. "What do you think?" I asked him. "Wow you look hot and you change really fast.!" He said. "Yeah well sorry." I said and walked out of the bathroom.

We walked out of the room and all the girls had on strip's. Allison's was light purple and black and Angie's was lime green and black. All the guys matched their girlfriends also. Scott was wearing just plan black shorts, Stiles was wearing lime green shorts, and Jackson was Gray and Black striped shorts. We walked down to the pool and put our things down. Scott and Jackson jumped into the pool right away, Allison followed after them, Angie and Stiles held hands and jumped in, it was cute.

I wanted to go down the water slide. Allison, Angie, and I went down. It was fun and the guys did the same thing. Allison's top came untied and she went over to Scott and asked " Will you please tie this?" Turning her back to him so he could tie it. "Sure." He said. He tied it way too loose. "Kori can you please tie it the right way?" She asked me. "Yeah." She came over to me and I tied it tight. "Thanks Kori." She said as she fell back in the water. "Why did you tie it that tight Kori?" Scott asked me. "Well because it has to be that tight so that it doesn't come untied again." I said. "Doesn't it hurt though.?" He asked me. "No. Maybe to you men but not to us." I said.

Angie laughed and said "Nice one Kori. That is true." Scott looked at me and came and picked me up. Jackson came over and said "It's my turn." He picked me up and put me on his shoulders. Scott and Stiles did the same and we played chicken until it was time to go back to get ready.

This was going to be interesting… I want to shower first but Jackson almost takes longer to do his hair then I do. Hope I get in there first. Either way, I'm not waiting to take a shower.