Long time since I wrote last so as I always I apologize for that but it truly is impossible when working 2 jobs plus uni to have any time to write! The song for this chapter is "We Are the Kids" by: Walk the Moon. As always, read, enjoy, and review!
Chapter 25: "We Are the Kids"
"Lost boys, lost girls, hot tires, wild animals
We won't live forever
Hand over the future, I rip holes in my shirt
There's mud on my shoes, there's sun on my skin
I am brand new
We shout at the cops, we howl at the moon
just a matter of time don't you get it
We are the kids that you never can kill
You never can kill, you never can kill
We say that we won't but you know that we will,
You know that we will keep on"
Lydia hated to be caught in the middle of any argument, unless she was the cause of it and right now that was not the case. Her beige high heels clicked with as much attitude as she could muster as she sauntered down the hallway like it was some kind of cat walk. Allison rolled her eyes at her best friend's obvious annoyance and decided to bite before Lydia twisted her ankle with her over exaggerated gate. "Yes, Lydia? Something bothering you?" A flip of rosy red curls and a flash of emerald green eyes was all the response that Allison was given by her best friend before Lydia looked at her with obviously feigned blankness, "I have no idea what you could possibly be talking about."
Allison rolled her eyes and found herself actually working hard to keep up with her high-heeled friend even while wearing her comfortable and far more efficient combat boots. "Lydia, is this about Scott and Isaac arguing?" The huntress interrupted her best friend and smirked with a decidedly Isaac-like attitude as Lydia turned around and gave her a surprised look that the red head quickly hid with a slight frown. "No." Her pouting at having been outed for her annoyance so easily was hardly hidden as she stomped her heels with just enough force to make them click and clack with far more noise than necessary for the last 10 yards to her locker. "You sure?" Allison pressed as she whittled away at her friend's annoyance with an honest smile now as she leaned against the locker right next to Lydia's with her arms crossed. Finally, the red head's offensive broke down and the girl sighed dramatically as she turned to Allison and admitted, "Yes, the balance is off. It's a schism right down the middle and I don't like it. I refuse to pick sides and you cannot convince me to otherwise."
Glancing down the hallway and grinning knowledgably, Allison cocked her head down the hall and her grin widened. "Who says you need to?" Following her best friend's line of vision, Lydia caught sight of Scott and Isaac discussing something almost amiably. Given their past few interactions leading to, at the very least, near blows and yelling matches, the two boys being on speaking terms was a huge improvement. Lydia looked back at her best friend with her eyes wide with surprise. "You're kidding me." Allison followed her gaze and managed a slight smile despite her own lingering anger with the Alpha. Isaac's capacity to forgive was larger than hers apparently, either that or he was way more diplomatic. "Not at all, Isaac knows the consequences of him and Scott fighting. It was hurting all of us."
Lydia gave her a look that said that she didn't entirely believe Allison but the red head was not about to push the group back into fighting. "Fine, don't tell me everything that's going on." She flipped her hair, grabbed the necessary textbook from her locker and slammed it closed purposely before finishing her point, "But don't any of you mess it up." Allison smiled lightly as Isaac, hearing all of this glanced over at her and grinned back, but the grin was gone before she replied. "We won't, I cannot say the same thing for Scott but we won't." Lydia had clearly stopped listening at this point and was ogling some new boy and soon was chatting about the new specimen having seemingly moved beyond the issue and onto the new topic at hand. Allison was not fooled by the genius redhead's antics but she played along, not so unlike that of how Isaac was playing along to keep the pack together.
"Should I go after him?" The redhead asked turning to Allison and forcing her to pay attention again to her old friend, "Or perhaps him?" The huntress rolled her eyes and played along as she barely gave the two teen boys a second glance. "They're only freshman. Same age as Liam." Lydia flipped her red hair back over her shoulder and gave her a very knowing grin as she added, "We all make sacrifices." It took a millisecond for her to hide her surprise at Lydia's not so obvious comment on the two supernaturally gifted boys having made their peace and were moving apart now. "Yes, yes we do."
Isaac joined the two girls at their lockers and looked slightly confused when Lydia gave him a long hard look. "Is there something in my teeth?" The teen asked trying to figure out the exact reasoning behind this intense examination from the banshee in front of him. "Nothing, you just seem to be full of surprises lately." His eyes narrowed and his brow furrowed in confusion as he tried to figure out exactly what Lydia was referring to this time. "Don't strain yourself to figure that one out," the girl added as she left a very confused Isaac and a slightly smiling Allison standing at the lockers.
Still rather confused, Isaac was pondering exactly what Lydia meant when Allison grabbed his hand and squeezed it bringing him back down to Earth. "You're the bigger man." She explained what Lydia meant with a smile that was reciprocated by a smirk. "Well of course, I'm bigger. You know that better than anyone." That smirk earned the teen boy a smack on the shoulder, "I did not mean in THAT way!" She paused and watched as his smirk only grew wider causing her to slightly blush. "Although it is true. She meant that you were the figuratively bigger man, for not continuing to argue with Scott even if you were right about everything." It took him a full minute to stop his smirking, but once he had it turned into a natural smile.
Allison, still blushing slightly, grinned herself as the two walked out of the door and towards her waiting car. She let go of his hand only to walk around the vehicle and slip into the driver's seat while Isaac travelled around to the passenger seat. "Where to? It's your one day off from lacrosse practice." He smirked immediately at that one and she rolled her eyes, "Preferably appropriate." Isaac chuckled to himself, "Stiles and Malia need an addition on their date tonight, well Stiles needs assistance to get Malia through the dinner portion of the experience." Allison cocked an eyebrow at him praying that he was joking, she could never imagine Isaac agreeing to such a task. "You're joking, right?" His smirk was all the answer that the girl needed to sigh in relief and earn his laughter in return. "There's a lacrosse bonfire happening tonight and I was hoping that you'd come with me."
"Couldn't have asked earlier?" She teased with a grin knowing full well that the date and place were not revealed until the day before as Scott had used as his excused when he had not taken her the previous year. Getting Isaac to stammer still over such things made her laugh because despite the fact that they shared a bed, he still panicked every time she teased him. "You know that, I mean, they don't set the date until today, and I would've asked you earlier but…" Allison still giggling and clearly not too upset interrupted him, "It's fine Isaac I know, but that's not until tonight." Finding themselves at the exit of the high school at this point, Isaac opened his mouth to suggest some things involving a bed and no clothes but he was interrupted by Allison slamming on breaks to stop herself from running over a figure standing menacingly in the middle of the road.
Isaac bit his tongue roughly as his mouth slammed shut in surprise at the sudden stop and the seat belt bit into his shoulder harshly. Allison's head whipped forward sending her short curls flying over her head and into her eyes. Flinging it back quickly, her brown eyes flashed yellow as she focused on the figure in front of the car blocking their way. "Allison is that you?" The figure rasped sounding light enough to be female but lacked a certain human quality to it making it sound spooky and animalistic in nature. Her boyfriend, having finally composed himself, managed to look up in anger at the request and growled himself, "Who's she?" Glancing over at him, he saw that his lovers face had gone white as a sheet and her brown eyes had widened in her terror. She looked ready to spring out of the car and sprint off into the woods away from the figure, like she already knew who, or what, it was and feared it at her very core.
"You can see her too?" Allison's surprise that he could frightened him as it sent him back to dealing with the Nogitsune and the dreams, truly nightmares, from the door left open in her mind after dealing with the Darach. It didn't get better once she had died, the nightmares only got worse and Isaac's warmth and touch seemed to be the only things that kept them at bay most nights but they still snuck in and tortured her so much that they caused her to wake up screaming in fear. "Of course I can Allison, the days of seeing things are over." He left the unspoken bit about the nightmares out of course, that was something that did not need to be said. "That's not the problem right now, Al. Who is that?" His voice shook with what was either rage or fright, even he could not have told you which it was in that moment. She was saved from the pain it was quite clearly causing her when the figure responded for her, "Won't you come out and say hello to your dear Auntie Kate?"
