So sorry, the past few weeks have been kinda hard. My Grandma was dying and was in horrible shape... then she died. So, sorry if this chapter sucks! And I will try to get to my next chapter as soon as I can.

NOTICE:: About my Random Onesies, I will upload the chapter it just might take a bit. I had this long awesome chapter typed and almost done... when it got deleted. DANM YOU FAN FICTION STORY TIMERS!

Questions were fired at them once they walked through the door but they stayed quiet until they were finished. Finally Kit asked:

"What happened?"

Derek and Chloe looked at each other, having a silent conversation. Should they tell them? Everything? Just bits and pieces of it?

"Well?" Amy asked, glaring at them. If it wasn't a good answer they were going to be in deep shit.

"W-well..." Chloe started, looking at Derek for help.

"It was my fault." Derek said monotone. No expression in his eyes but he looked at Kit and Amy hard. "I was changing."

Lauren piped up. "Then why was Chloe with you?"

"Because -" He started as Chloe interrupted.

"Because I wanted to go"

Lauren's eyes widened. "Why? Why did you want to go?"

Chloe's eyes narrowed as she tried not to clench her fists or glare at her aunt. At least not too hard.

Instead she swallowed. "I go to all of his changes."

"You - you what!" Lauren exclaimed, glaring at Chloe first and then Derek. "How could you let her go? I mean -!"

"That's enough." Kit angrily interrupted. He gave her a look before turning back to Chloe and Derek with softer eyes. "Continue."

"Well," Chloe said, glancing at Derek. "It's kind of a long story."

"Then we'll move to the couch." Kit replied, walking down into the spacious living room. Everybody followed suit and sat down somewhere except for Derek, who stood beside where Chloe was sitting.

"So," Chloe continued. "We went because Derek was changing and we had to leave early to find the woods. Then, once he was done, Nate came." She looked at everybody's reactions. Kit nodded like it wasn't a surprise, Simon and Lauren's eyes were wide open and full of questions. Amy was just sitting with a blank expression waiting for Chloe to continue. She did:

"Derek couldn't smell Nate for some reason and then he left a bit after. Then Derek and I were wondering about it and fell asleep. The next morning, we went to the car but I forgot the keys so we started to get lost and couldn't find the trail again so we wondered around looking for it. We never found it though, instead we, " She started to blush remembering the kiss they shared. "w-we f-fell through the ground!"

That's when Kit leaned forward as if he was just now interested in the story she was telling them.

"Fell through the ground?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

Chloe and Derek nodded.

Kit nodded too. "Continue."

Chloe took a inhaled shakily and picked up where she left off. "When I woke up, I was in this dark room and was strapped to a chair. Derek was right by me and was still passed out. Then, a man came in. He was dressed in blue robes with a hood over his head, the robe was pulled together with a gold thing that had a symbol on it-"

"Can you explain this symbol?" Kit asked inquiringly.

Chloe nodded. "It was a flame with a line going down, and line going across, and a line that was diagonal and went through both of them. Anyway, he told me that we had to find an organization called SWIM and we had to take them down. Also, I'm guessing that they are the ones who have Tori."

"SWIM." Lauren and Kit whispered at the same time.

Kit jumped up, "Excuse me, kids." He speed walked into the hall and disappeared.

Lauren looked at Chloe. "The Sorcerers and Witches Intent on Magic?" Chloe nodded, remembering the man saying that to her.

Lauren stood up. "Chloe?" She asked. "We'll talk later, okay?" She said that in her non-arguing business voice.

"Okay." Chloe said.

"Oh, and you guys are all going to school tomorrow while we do research." Lauren looked at all of them before stalking out of the room and after Kit. Amy also got up, gave us a short nod and followed their trail.

Chloe, Derek and Simon stayed in silence, none of them wanted to go to school the next day. Work and studying did not sound like a good plan.

"So," Simon broke the silence. "You guys really do have all of the adventures without me."

Chloe cracked a smiled and rolled her eyes with Derek. She stood up and made her way to the kitchen to get a mug of apple cider. She asked the boys if they wanted and they came in to help with theirs. She reached up and grabbed three mugs from the cabinet before setting them on the counter. Then, she went to another one and took out a box of apple cider powder. They took turns filling their mug with boiling water and putting the mix in them.

"Anyone want a cinnamon stick?" She asked holding out a bag of them.

Simon smiled and took one out of the bag, his hand barely brushing hers. She didn't notice and went over to Derek, smiling with her cheeks tinged pink and giving one to him. He gave her a shy smile.

Simon, on the other hand, felt his cheeks getting warm from the touch and took a huge gulp of his hot apple cider. He was trying to pretend to take no notice of their hands. Thats when the boiling drink charred the inside of his mouth and throat.

He screamed.

~Later that night~

Derek asked his dad a question that he had been confused about for a while. How did he and his parents have the same last name? Wasn't his just made up?

Kit smiled. "I wondered when you were going to ask that." He turned his chair away from Steve's desk and turned to Derek. "This one is your real one. I couldn't think of any new ones so I just used your real one."

Derek blinked and raised his eyebrow. "Isn't that dangerous?"

Kit shrugged. "Probably. But, I couldn't think of another one. What was I supposed to do?"

Derek sighed and shook his head.

Kit sighed too. "That's not all you came up here for, is it." It wasn't a question.

Derek looked down and grumbled something.

"Something happened with Chloe." That wasn't a question either.

Derek looked at him and nodded.

Kit took a deep breath and gestured to a chair on the other side of the desk. Derek walked over and sat in it.

"What happened?"

Derek took a deep breath and mumbled something ineligible.

"What?" Kit asked.

"We-we, well..." Derek stuttered.

"Derek." Kit said sternly.

"We kissed." Derek blurted, looking at Kit.

Kit nodded. "And you don't want to tell Simon." A statement.

Derek nodded. "He likes her. I can't tell him."

Kit sighed and rubbed his eyes with his forefinger and thumb. Derek was stupid. He was really giving up the first girl he really, really likes for Simon? The Simon that gets all the girls he wants and has a new one every week?

"But Simon always likes girls." Kit said. "You on the other hand, never do."

"Yeah," Derek replied. "but, he likes her a lot. Not like the other girls he has dated."

That was true, sadly. Kit noticed all of the emotions that passed Derek's eyes before he replaced it with his blank expression. Sadness, anger, jealousy, longing.

"Derek," Kit said softly. "do you like her?"

Derek hesitated but nodded. "I really like her." He said quietly.

"Then you have to tell Simon. He'll understand."

"No!" Derek exclaimed, eyes wide. "I mean -I," He sighed. "I don't know."

Kit looked at him sadly. "Want me to talk to him?"

"No." Derek shook his head. "If anybody should, I should."

"So you are?"

"No."

Kit's eyes narrowed before he thought of something that would hopefully change his mind. "Did Chloe kiss you?"

Derek blinked. Twice, he thought and nodded.

"So that means she likes you too." Kit smiled at his expression. Jackpot!

Derek shook his head slowly as of trying to process this new information. "No, she couldn't."

"She kissed you right? Then she should."

"But, she..."

Kit wanted to scream at Derek. I though you were the smart one? He wanted to yell. Just how dense was he?

"Derek, she does."

Derek just looked at him as if he was trying to see if he was telling the truth.

"And now you have to go and talk to Simon."

Derek nodded slowly. "I have to go talk to Simon." He repeated as if he was in a trance. A small smile started to play on his lips and he started to walk away. He stopped at the door. "Thanks, Dad.' He said and walked out.

Kit smiled and shook his head. At least he got one thing settled.

Chloe sat in her bedroom on her bed. She was absentmindedly messing around on the internet when a knock sounded on her door. She called out:

"Come in!"

Lauren stepped into her bedroom and made her way to the bed. By the way she was carrying herself, Chloe could tell that she didn't want just a friendly conversation. Chloe closed her laptop and sat cross legged on her bed.

"Hey, Aunt Lauren." She said quietly.

Lauren gave her a little smile and sat down next to her. "Chloe," She started, "about Derek -"

Chloe cut her off. "I really like him, Aunt Lauren."

Lauren blinked. "You, what?"

"I really like him." Chloe repeated, looking Lauren in the eye.

"But Chloe," Lauren sighed sadly. "He's so, so -"

"A werewolf?"

Lauren sighed again and shifted in her seat. "Yeah."

"He's not dangerous, Aunt Lauren. He's really not. He always saves us and try's to help us. He only cares if we are safe, he would never do anything to hurt us."

"What about your arm?" Lauren piped up madly, referring to when they were at the Lyle house and Derek accidentally grabbed a bit too hard.

"It was an accident." Chloe replied.

"That's the point, Chloe." Lauren exclaimed. "He won't mean to but he can hurt you, really hurt you!"

"He didn't mean too and I know he won't do it ever again. He didn't know how tiny I was. You should have seen the look on his face when he did that, it was pure horror, like he didn't mean to and he was sorry and he was afraid of himself."

Lauren sighed. It was probably no use, but she felt as if she had to argue and get Chloe back into the right of her mind. "Chloe,"

"Please, Aunt Lauren?" Chloe asked. "I really like him. Please don't ruin that for me."

Lauren looked into her nieces eyes sadly. She really did like him. "Okay." Lauren whispered.

Chloe smiled ear to ear and hugged her. "Thanks."

"But," Lauren started.

Chloe pulled away a little. "But?"

Lauren smiled. "You have to tell me what happened today."

Chloe started to blush. "W-w k-kissed."

Lauren smiled sadly. She had to face it, her little Chloe was growing up. She gave her a squeeze before getting up. "I love you." Lauren told her.

Chloe smiled at her. "Love you too." She replied.

Lauren shut the door behind her and started to make her way to her bedroom.

SO SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG! I know how each chapter is going to play out though so I should start updating sooner. Sorry if this chapter was a bit corny or OOC I just wanted to get them admitting that they like each other.

Believe it or not, there is only a few chapters left! I happy but sad at the same time! Oh and I have one teensy question to ask.

Do you think my writing has improved since the first few chapters? I think it has but I'm not sure.

Thank you everybody! :] I love you all!