Chapter 11 - You're Mine

HIGH SCHOOL - PARKING

Seated on the front stairs in front of the school building, Mickey waited for his mother to arrive so he could head over to Allisons' place. He didn't have a grade below C in chemistry so there was no reason for him to be in school at such an hour, but his mother had been very stern when telling him to show up for a talk after the meeting. So he'd gone to school, in the dark and all just to have a chat with the woman.

''Mickey?'' A familiar, gentle female voice spoke from below the stairs bringing his attention to herself.

He found himself staring down at no other than his most favorite woman in the very whole world, Melissa McCall the greatest woman on earth. He smiled down at her before pushing himself off the stairs to pull her into a hug.

''Oh I see you've missed me.'' The woman teased as she returned the hug before pulling away, a bright smile on her lips as she stared into the teens pale green eyes that shone with the same amount of happiness.

''You bet I have! Haven't seen ya in such a long time.'' Mickey said as he shifted leg to lean on, hands now stuffed deep into the pocket of his hoodie.

''I don't suppose you've seen Scott?'' Melissa suddenly asked, her expression going from happy to worried and also a bit of irritation. But Mickey only shook his head.

''Can't say I have...'' He trailed off as his eyes caught sight of Allison's parents as they walked out of the school building, Melissa followed his line of vision and also found herself staring at the two parents.

While Mickey just greeted them with a nod from a good distance, Melissa stormed past him and headed for the two parents. Knowing what would happen, Mickey made a point of ignoring them as he instead looked around the parking lot where he saw Allison and Scott just arriving in Allison's car. Meeting eyes with Scott, Mickey raised his eyebrow in confusion before flicking his eyes towards the others mother. He didn't need to hear to know that his friend had let out the most of pained groan, Scott was in so deep of trouble and most likely so was Allison. He turned to smile at her which she returned before her attention turned to her parents.

''My daughter - is right there.'' He heard Chris say from behind before Melissa suddenly stormed past, her stormy eyes set on her son who'd gotten out of the car standing beside Allison. Both of them looking guilty and kind of embarrassed.

''Where exactly have you been?'' Melissa questioned her son who sighed before trying to come up with a good excuse.

''Nowhere, mom.'' Was the best he came up with, Mickey just smirked as he slowly headed down the stairs. He wanted to talk to Allison, he's missed her soft hugs.

''Nowhere, meaning not at school.'' Melissa lectured irritably as her eyes went back and forth between the two teens.

''Kinda,'' Scott said from lack of any good arguments, like what do you really say when your mother catch you skipping school?

''It's not his fault. It's my birthday, and we were -'' Allison came to his defense but was cut off by her father as he came up to them.

''Allison. In the car.'' He commanded in a stern voice and Mickey was about to jump in saying he needed to speak with Allison if just for a moment, he surely hoped that Chris would let him but had no high hopes.

But he didn't get to do it before a woman screamed and people suddenly started running around wildly across the parking lot, Mickey's eyes instantly went to the ground as he searched for anything that could resemble the alpha. But he saw nothing other then scared, panicked people running for their cars or just running to get away from the danger running around in the shadows of the cars. He then turned to look at Scott but the puppy wolf seemed as clueless himself, nothing to help there. So he headed towards the cars his eyes catching sight of a blurry shadow running past the cars just a few meters from where he stood, but wasn't that thing too small to be the alpha?

He heard someone opening a car door and glanced behind him to see Chris now armed with a handgun, he raised an eyebrow at the man who just looked at him with a blank look before walking away to find the creature lurking in the shadows. Mickey would have followed him if it wasn't for the car which suddenly started backing straight towards him, he didn't get enough time to react as the car suddenly slammed into him. He hit the ground hard as he let out a groan, it hurt.

''Are you alright?'' A woman sobbed as she leaned down to help him up but Mickey just smiled and waved her off, he wasn't that hurt.

''I'm alright ma'am.'' He reassured her as he got up on his feet and moved out of the way so she could back her car away.

He was about to turn around when bullets ripped through the air and everything stopped, the panic disappeared as the danger was now dead. Mickey watched as people started to group around the dead animal and with his curiosity taking over, Mickey hurried to see what had caused such an uproar. Indeed it was a mountain lion but wasn't that ironic?

Looking behind himself and away from the crowd of people, Mickey's pale green eyes caught sight of Allison standing all alone with her back against one of the pillars of the school building. The look on her face made his heart clench, he sighed before heading over to her.

''You alright?'' He asked as he reached her, his eyes scanning her for any injuries.

''I'm fine, you're bleeding!'' Allison exclaimed as she stared at his arm, confused Mickey looked down and noticed blood dripping from his injured hand.

''Seems they finally got the mountain lion terrorizing the town.'' He joked about earning himself a chuckle from the beautiful girl but she quickly turned serious as she noticed what he was trying to do.

''We need to get you to a hospital,'' She spoke in a no-nonsense tone and Mickey winced, he hated hospitals and was pretty sure that it was just a bad scratch that would heal in no time.

''It'll heal,'' He tried to reassure her, his hands going to the back of his head as he sheepishly ruffled his hair. She just looked unimpressed but he changed the subject, ''What were you doing with Scott?''

His question seemed to have taken her off guard as she just blinked at him, unsure what to answer before a smile formed on her lips, ''We were just hanging out, he wanted to do something nice for my birthday.''

''I thought he'd let you go.'' He frowned in all honesty, his eyes never leaving those beautiful brown orbs of the towns most amazing girl who was actually smiling at his stupid ass jealousy. ''I hope he ain't stepping over any boundaries.''

He really had to stop reading all those cheap romance novels before he turned crazy, he really sounded like some stupid male protagonist in a Romeo and Juliette story. But it seemed to work because Allison was giggling, no she was actually fully laughing at his misery. But she wasn't laughing to be mean but because Mickey too was laughing at himself and at how stupid the whole thing had turned. But like all good times, it turned back to all serious mood.

''You know I'm with you, right?'' Allison sounded so genuine when saying it but Mickey couldn't help the sad smile on his lips, it wasn't fair towards Scott that Mickey doubted him.

''I know, it's just scary,'' He admitted with the biggest grin on his face before suddenly leaning in closer to the girl's ear. ''I can't let him think he's got a chance.''

His words cut straight to the girl's heart which brought so much blood to the poor girls' cheeks that she reminded Mickey of tomato, he didn't even feel the half-hearted punch she gave his shoulder as he straightened up. He smiled and Allison also smiled before he wrapped his arms around her waist and brought her to his chest.

''Also, happy birthday.'' He mumbled into the top of her head.