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Chapter 49
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As the group of six teenagers all approached the locked doors to the closed ice rink later that same night, Stiles quickly unlocked the doors and he and Scott held the doors open for the three girls. Allison led the way inside, pulling Scott in with her. Lydia came in next and stopped beside Stiles as she took in what they had done for the girls. She even managed to look impressed, which Stiles took full credit for, of course. Lydia shot down his look of accomplishment though as she strutted off to join Scott and Allison. Stiles looked after her with a put out look, which didn't last long, because Laci came up next with Matt behind her.
She didn't even seem to notice Matt much as she kissed Stiles' cheek and gave him a warm smile. "This is gonna be really awesome, Stiles. Thank you for doing this for all of us." she whispered to him before going inside of the rink with a wary Matt following inside behind her. The boys shared a look, Stiles looking smug at the fact that Laci was enjoying him being there more then she was Matt. Course, he wasn't that much further up her list of pleasant company since he was the one who set it up, but those were the tiny details that were easily over looked. He checked to make sure no one had seen them before heading on side with all of the others.
They all split into twos the second the pair of skates were all handed out. Laci very much wanted to hit Stiles and Scott for leaving her alone with Matt. She knew that it was pay back for her little secret run in with Isaac during lunch. It wasn't like she had planned on him pulling her behind the gym and making out with her, though. Not that she minded the make out part, it was intense and she had really missed him, but she just hoped Derek didn't give him too much trouble for it. He might have his hands tied with his newest bitten teenager, though. Stiles had filled her in on the scene that Erica made in the lunch room before taking off in Derek's car with him, which was when they picked up Isaac too.
Laci was lacing up her shiny white skates as Matt was messing around with his camera that he had brought with him. He seemed to always have it with him, she noticed. "So I take it that I should have done my hair better?" she asked him, having gotten annoyed with the awkward silence that was going on between them. They could talk without making it seem like a date, couldn't they? She had to, she just had to think of Isaac. Which wouldn't be so hard, especially since she could still feel his last kiss on her lips. She blushed at just the memory of their last little make out behind the gym.
Matt glanced up at her with a half smile as he looked her over. She didn't know what to do when he checked her out, but he knew that she looked really cute. She was wearing her usual style of a knee length dress in a very light shade of green with her white tights on underneath it. Her dark curls were just tied up in a messy pony tail, stray strands sticking up in front of her ears. He caught her off guard as he reached up and tucked the strands of hair behind her ears. "There. Picture perfect now." he told her with a small smile. She blushed and looked away to hide her panic.
Red warning signs were going on inside of her head. She needed to get out of here, and she needed to leave now. She'd known Jackson Whittemore long enough to know when a boy was hitting on her. She had a boyfriend, though, and her said boyfriend wasn't the one who was tucking her hair behind her ears right now. She looked up to see Matt leaning in toward her. Her eyes widened as she shot up from her spot on the bench and left, claiming to him that she saw a Reese's in Stiles' hand that had her name on it. Matt just watched her leave with a tight lipped smile, forcing it to be on his face after her being so oblivious. He raised up his camera in his hands and snapped a shot of her retreating form.
Unknown to him, Stiles had caught him taking the picture of Laci's backside. He gritted his teeth together, now regretting not looking harder for someone else to come. He looked over at Lydia to see her laughing with Scott and Allison. At this point, he wished that he had invited Jackson to come with them instead of that creep. He looked up when Laci plopped herself down beside him and held out her hand. He looked back at her confused, not knowing what she wanted from him. She gave him a pointed look in return. "You give me that Reese's right now, Stilinski. You owe it to me for coming on this thing." she told him as she held out her hand toward him again.
He glanced back at Matt to see him tying his laces to his own skates now. That was perfectly normal, wasn't it? He looked back at the waiting girl in front of him as he sighed as he grabbed the second Reese's from the pack that he had packed for him and Lydia, and went to give her the last one since he had already given one to his date. "Fine, you and you're Reese's obsession can have my last . . ." he trailed off as she snatched the chocolate from his fingers and took a satisfied bite out of it, smiling back at him happily. ". . . one." he finished as she took another bite out of it.
She smiled smugly as she chewed happily on the last of her piece of the Reese's. He chuckled and shook his head at her as she licked her fingers with a smile on her face. She felt more comfortable with Stiles then she did when she was over there with Matt. Maybe it was because they were just best friends, and Matt, unlike Stiles, thought that it was going to be more like a date then she wanted it to like. "Come on, I bet that I can out skate you." she said over to him with a wink as she got up, grabbing his hand, and pulling him down to get to the actual ice. Stiles followed behind her with no complaint as they carefully got onto the ice together.
Stiles paused in the entrance way and watched on as she took off ahead of him and began skating around like she was a pro. He sighed dreamily as he leaned against the glass wall. He was so caught up in watching her, that he didn't notice Lydia come up behind him. "You know if you want to get her attention, you need to stand out. She won't notice you when you sit on the side lines all the time." she told him seriously. He looked down at her in surprise as she looked back up at him with a bored expression. "Just like you're doing right now." she said to him with a quick unimpressed look over to him before taking off on the ice.
Matt was standing in the little entry way that led onto the ice, his camera ever present in his hands. He looked to his left and saw Allison trying, and failing, to teach Scott to skate on the ice. He snapped a quick picture of just Allison, a small smile on his lips as he reviewed it before he looked over to his right. Stiles and Lydia were skating around on the opposite side of the rink, but they weren't alone. No, Laci was skating with them, laughing her head off as she and Lydia skated circles around Stiles. He raised his camera up again and took another round of pictures of Laci as she laughed.
He looked up and saw that Scott had stopped skating with Allison and was watching him with a confused expression. He flashed him a quick smile and a small wave before he set his camera down on the bench and got onto the ice with the others. He skated up to the two girls and Stiles with a smile plastered on his face. "Mind if I cut in?" he asked out to them, though Lydia and Stiles could both see that he was really only asking Laci. She wouldn't even look at him, though. She didn't want to be around him, not when she knew that he wanted to make a move on her.
Stiles was about to open up his mouth to tell the guy that he could leave now, that he was no longer needed here, when he noticed Laci's nervousness towards Matt. That only encouraged him to do it more, but before he could, Lydia tugged on his arm, stopping him before he could make a sound. "Of course, she is your date tonight after all. Come along, Stiles." she told him as she yanked Stiles closer to her side with a forced smile. "Have fun, Laci." she said with a smug look to Laci before she dragged Stiles away from the two.
Laci shot the red hair a quick glare before she straightened up and gave Matt a nice smile as she looked over at him. He smiled back at her, as if he didn't see that she was less then happy about being left alone with him. "Shall we?" he asked her as he held out his hand toward her, fully expecting for her to take it. She was extremely hesitant about it, something was still setting alarm bells off inside of her head, but she chose to ignore them as she gave him a nervous nod of her head and took his hand. Without another second to waste, he started to pull her off to skate around.
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As they skated around for the next hour, she sent a 'help me' look to her brother. She wanted to be away from Matt, but there was nothing Scott could do about it. Allison was pulling him out of the rink to go to the photo booth that they had seen earlier. He gave her an innocent shrug of his shoulders, mouthing a quick "Sorry," back to her as they left around the corner together. She sighed softly, knowing that her brother was no help what-so-ever. She looked around for Stiles next and sighed sadly when she saw him having fun with Lydia. She couldn't ruin that for him just because she wanted Matt to let go of her hand.
God, she really missed Isaac. She wished that it was him that she was skating with right now, not Matt. He was sweet guy and all, but he wasn't her boyfriend. He wasn't Isaac, and being on 'date' with him, no matter how much she didn't want to be, wasn't where she wanted to be right now. She wanted to be at the broken down subway train with Isaac. She didn't even care if Derek, okay him she might care about, or Erica were there. She just wanted it to be her boyfriend that was holding her hand, touching her hair, making her laugh and smile. Where was Isaac when she needed him?
She was pulled from her thoughts about her boyfriend when Matt suddenly pulled them both to a stop in the middle of the rink. She looked up at him confused, not knowing what he was doing now. "I had a lot of fun so far tonight, Laci." he told her as he slid in front of her. She felt her heart to race, and not in the good way, as he took a hold of both of her hands. She was froze where she stood when he cupped her face. "I was wondering . . . If I could," he trailed off as he started to lean in toward her again.
Just as he was about to kiss her, a blood curling scream erupted inside of the rink. Laci immediately moved away from him just as he leaned in for the kill. She saw that it was Lydia, who was only across the rink from them, that was screaming her head off like an actual crazy person. Stiles was trying to calm her down, but it wasn't working out well for him. "Oh, my god," she gasped as she went to go over to them, leaving Matt to lean in too far and fall flat on his face. He growled in frustration as he hit the ice with his fist and looked up to see Laci and Stiles helping a distraught Lydia to her feet and skating her over to Scott and Allison, who had come running in when they heard their friend screaming.
Well, this date night was over.
