"Oh my god why," you groaned as you assumed Megan threw herself on you. "Why the hell would you do that," you rolled over on your side grabbing your stomach in pain. That girl may be small but she was pure muscle.
"Um because! We came home to find a certain hottie and you passed out in your bed! Spill!" She squealed climbing under your covers next to you.
"You're so annoying," you rubbed your eyes rolling over and squinting at her. She was just staring at you with a child like twinkle in her eye like you were about to tell her, her favorite bedtime story.
You flipped on to your back sighing, realizing there was absolutely no way you were getting out of this. Not alive anyways. "Nothing happened. He took me home and I asked him to stay so he did. Speaking of where did he go?" You asked seeming as how she was now laying where he once was a couple hours before.
"Prince Charming left you a noooote," she cooed pulling out a piece of paper out of her pocket and handing it to you. You recognize it as the parchment from a notebook on your desk.
Kaylee,
Sorry I didn't want to wake you. You looked so peaceful. I had a mandatory early practice this morning. Text me when you wake up beautiful
Kyle
You half blushed, it had been years since you guys had slept in each other's bed. It was true you really did go your own ways in high school. Him the big jock. And you hanging with a bunch of misfits. But you still hung out off and on. But just like everyone else you pushed him as far away as you could when Maddy died. It felt good to reconnect. Like a breath of fresh air. And it was probably the first good nights sleep you'd had in months. You bit your lip thinking about everything last night.
Last night.
"Oh my god," you whispered your eyes glazed over with fear. You looked back up to Megan, "Megs if I don't turn before my birthday I ... I..." you couldn't finish the sentence. You couldn't even fathom that what damon had spilled ruining the moment between you and Kyle was true. That gave you less than a month. You were still unsure if damon was even telling the truth. But at this point there was nothing you could do.
She nodded surprisingly calm, "I know Damon told me."
You scrunched your eyesbrows together, "hey don't give me that look. I confronted him on making you upset and he like broke down and was crying and he told me." You could definitely see them being best friends in the future that is if damon stops being a douche.
Damon.. cried? The thought of that was odd. He was always so tough. The I'm to cool to have feelings type of guy. Focus Kaylee Jesus.
"God my head hurts," you rested it against your knees. The coolness helping a little. And then another thought popped into your mind.
"Where is Charlie?" You demanded standing up in a blur.
"She went home last night. Why?" Megan turned looking at you confused. Of course she did.
"I have to go over there," you turned grabbing your coat and shoes and running downstairs.
"Kaylee for God's sake hold on!" Megan shouted running after you. But you ignored her grabbing Ty's keys and running outside.
You turned on the car peeling down the driveway just as Megan ran out of the house followed by Leo and Jer. But you kept going leaving them all in a cloud of dust behind you.
You pulled into their driveway and got out nothing bothering to knock you pushed the door open.
"K?" Stefan called from the stairs resting his hand on the banister.
"What's wrong?" He appeared next to you. You knew your body language was giving you away. You're body visibly stiffened when he reached for you. You were doing your best to act tough but honestly your whole body was jello and you just wanted to cry and ask them why. But also what else they haven't told you.
"Where's your sister. We're gonna have a fun little chat," you grinned but you were shaking with anger. How could they not tell you? Something that literally is life or death.
Charlie walked out from the kitchen her face lit up when she saw you "Kaylee! I was just about to head over and check on yo..." she stopped recognizing your angry face. Her excited facial expression disappearing as she was reading your body language like it was one of her favorite books.
"What's wrong?" She asked walking towards you.
"What's wrong?" You mocked laughing.
"What's wrong is you didn't tell me that I had to kill someone. Literally murder them and become a wolf before my 17th birthday or I die. That's what's wrong," you spat looking between them. They both look dumbfounded.
Stefan gulped, "Damon told you."
"Yeah. Cause apparently he may be a monumental jackass. But he's been more honest with me than you two have!" Your felt the yellow bleeding into the aqua and your body shook violently.
"Why wouldn't you tell me this?" Your eyes were filling with tears. "God I can't stop crying," you turned toward the shelf.
"Kaylee we didn't tell you because we thought we could find a way around it. That's also why I was gone," Charlie said coming closer to you.
"Don't," you hissed turned around at lightning speed and she froze her hand only a few itches from touching you.
"How could you? This is something I should have known! I have a fucking month now. Don't you get it? I have to kill someone! Take their life away so I don't loose mine. How fucking dare you keep that from me!" You shouted some of the books on the shelves flying off towards them.
"Kaylee you need to calm down," Charlie raised her hands inching towards you.
"No. I'm done. I'm so done with you two. In fact I'm done with all fucking 3 of you. I'm done with the lies and I'm done with the bullshit. Don't come anywhere near me again," you said monotoned. The shaking and the tears completely disappeared. You shook your head at both of them before heading for the doors but stopped with your hand still gripping the door handle and turned back towards them. "And to think I called you two my best friends," you glared shaking your head once again before yanking the door open and slamming it as you walked out.
Your phone buzzed in your pocket as you walked back toward the truck and you slipped it out seeing a text from Kyle.
Meet me?
You smiled down at your phone climbing back in the truck. "Stefan! I trusted you! We should have told her when we told her everything. But you convinced me not too and now she hates both of us!" Charlie screamed so loud you didn't even need your hearing. You could hear her all the way outside. The slam of one of the doors inside made you cringe. The word splintering in your ears. You rolled your eyes and looked back down at your phone.
The creek?
You turned on the car and pulled out of the driveway connected your phone to the car speakers.
You got it. popped up on the dash. You couldn't help but smile.
You drove back to your house seeing Jeremy's car gone so you were assuming everyone else was as well. You slipped out wrapping the landyard with the keys around your neck and headed towards the creek.
You must have gotten there first because Kyle was no where in sight. You couldn't even hear him yet. But he was probably just getting out of practice. You sat on your favorite rock picking up random stones next to you and throwing them into the water. You were sucked into thought (like always). you did like Kyle. it has been so nice spending time with him again. But you knew this would never work out. Not unless you told him about everything. Told him about you. But you had zero idea how he would react. What he would do with that information. He somehow never questioned that your eyes changed to bright yellow. Like it was something that everyone's eyes did.
"There she is," you jumped at his voice. You were so focused on the water and your thoughts you didn't even hear him sneak up on you. You turned he looked hot, leaning his shoulder against a tree and looking at you. You slipped off the rock walking over to him. "And here you are," you looked him up and down once before grabbing a fist full of his shirt and pulling him down to you. Kissing his lips softly, and he wrapped his arms around your waist deepening the kiss. You broke away and he still had that big goofy smile, "something on your mind?" He asked as you walked back over and sat on the rock again.
"Why do you ask?" You kept your eyes on the water but you could still see him walk over and take a seat next to you. Looking at you like always.
"You forget We've known each other since we were born," he placed a hand on your thigh.
"You can tell me. Remember what I told you that day we kissed in this creek? Ride or die," he nodded. You smiled down at your hands remembering that day again.
Flashback..
"Come on Kyle! Last one there's a rotten egg!" You called over your shoulder jumping the two steps off his back porch. "Not fair! You always win!" You heard him running behind you.
"Don't be such a sore loser," You yelled again dodging through the trees and thorn bushes.
You finally broke into the clearing and ran as fast as your little feet could take you jumping into the creek. It was the beginning of summer so luckily it was a little deeper than normal.
You broke the surface seeing the sudds of where Kyle had jumped in. You swam over to the shallower end waiting for him to come up.
"Sore loser," you cupped your hand over your mouth as he wipped the water from his face and swam over to you. "You always win, I'm not sure why you're surprised anymore," you shrugged sitting next to you. You laughed, "you did win once," you defended laying your head on his shoulder.
"You let me win," he corrected pushing you in the water again but before he could you locked your grip around his arm pulling him in after you.
"See now that's rude," he said as you came up after him. "Now you know how it feels," you stuck your tongue out at him.
You swam to shore and sat down on the sand letting it cover your wet legs. You looked up at Kyle even for being young he was still much taller than you. But you saw him leaning into you and his lips brushed yours lightly before pulling away. Your eyes were huge and your cheeks bright red.
"Oh um sorry," his cheeks were just as red as he looked at you. "Did you.. um what?" You finally said.
You both kinda stared at each other in shock for a few moments before you came down to earth again. "I liked it," you finally said after you soaked it all in. And you scooted next to him and kissed him again softly.
You sat there for awhile enjoying the moment. "Thank you for being my friend," you looked over at him covering your eyes from the sun rays bleeding through the canopy of trees.
"I'll always be here for you. Ride or die," he smiled at you.
Ride or die.
End of flashback..
"It's not the easiest thing to just blurt out," you confessed staring at his hand around your thigh. "You're scaring me," he moved his hand covering your hands with his. You felt your body stiffen under his touch.
"Kyle I'm different. Like as in my DNA make up. It's why my eyes change color when I'm furious or heartbroken. It's because something lives inside of me. See my family we come from a line of werewolves. And me Im actually a reincarnation of a girl who lived in this very town in 1864. That's why if you look at the paper everyone sighed for the first founders party my name is on it. Werewolves are under a curse that, that side of them remains dormant unless you kill someone. Now normally people can go there whole lives without breaking this curse. But I unfortunately can't. I have until my birthday next month otherwise I die..." you put into words your pulse was beating in your ears searching his face for any sign on how he was taking this.
Awkward silence fell between you guys once more. "Please say something.." the wind picked up throwing your hair into your face. Throwing the scent of my animals and people into your nose as well.
"That's what you were so scared to tell me?" He finally said making your stomach explode over and over with butterflies. Only not the good kind. You were absolutely frozen in fear.
"Yeah?" You couldn't look him in the eyes.
"Sweetheart I already know," he placed his hand on your chin making you look at him.
"What?" The butterflies stopped. "What do you mean?" He didn't answer all he did was close his eyes for a few moments. That honestly seemed like years. "Because I'm a werewolf too," he whispered and his eyes were the same glowing green you saw at his party.
"You.. wait what?"
He nodded, "I broke the curse in freshman year. One of the guys had it in his head that I was sleeping with his girl and would not stop coming after me. So I pushed him and he fell causing a brain bleed. And he died a couple hours later," he explained looking ashamed. Like it physically caused him pain to talk about this. "So every full moon my parents lock me in our basement," he shrugged. You stood on your knees wrapping your arms around him, his body warm against yours.
"God I was so scared to tell you," you whispered against his neck speckling it with light kisses. You also felt dumb saying all of that when he already knew most of it.
"I feel like such a freak. And now that there's a literal countdown to it. I'm even more scared," you confessed. You never in a million years would have known. But it did explain a lot when you really started to think about it. Why he always could outrun even the guys on the varsity team, why he was so good at literally anything athletic. But the only part that didn't make sense was the anger. You had never seen him angry before.
"But what about the anger? Mine is horrible. So is my brothers. But I don't think in all the years I've known you that I've ever seen you angry," you sat behind him the rock freezing against your bum.
"I've known about it since I was young. My parents were very open about it. So they got me anger management. But it doesn't always work," he looked at you and you just payed back on the rock looking up into the tree canopy that lived above you.
"Look it'll be okay? It's tough to live with but if this is your supernatural destiny then don't you think you should do it? Don't you think there's a reason why the deadline happens to land on your 17th birthday? It could be worth knowing," he laid back next to you and you curled into his side laying your head on his chest like you did last night.
"I'm scared Ky," you admitted listening to the sounds of his heart beat.
"It's okay to be scared. I'll be here to help the entire way," he assured you wrapping you in his arms.
"Wait so does that mean you know about vampires?" You asked still watching and listening to everything around you. Taking in all the colors. The sounds. The smells.
"You mean the Salvatore's? I had my suspicions but I didn't know for sure till I was near that one by your truck the other day," he was running one finger along your forearm. "You can smell them?" You asked.
"You can't? How much do you know anyways?"
"Not a whole lot considering most of it came from vampires," you shrugged taking his hand in yours and throwing your legs over him.
"I'll help you with everything. At least what I know. But I'm still learning every day ya know? But I won't let you go through this alone. Never," he assured you looking at you like he was maping every feature on your face.
"Ride or die?"
"Ride or die."
