Chapter 9

ALLISON'S POV

Tonight is the night, Tonight is the night. That's all I can think as I walk through the halls at school. It's Friday. Tonight is the full moon. I'm terrified. How am I going to make it through this. I can't turn into a werewolf tonight. What am I going to do?

I see Scott walking down the hall in my direction. The look on his face is one of concern.

"Hi." He says as he pulls me into a hug.

"Hi." I echo.

"How are you holding up?" He asks. I shrug

"Not so good." I finally answer.

"I'm kinda freaking out. I don't know what to do. I don't know how I am going to make it through this. I just... I..."

"Allison, it's going to be alright. You know I'm here for you. We're going to do this together. OK."

I can't say anything right now, so I just nod my head. It will be alright. I mean, this is Scott. I trust Scott. He won't let anything happen to me. He won't let me hurt anyone.

The bell rings, making me jump.

"I have to get to class." I say

"Yeah, me too." Scott replies. He leans down and kisses my cheek, then I start off toward my first class.

The day went by in a blur. I went through the motions but wasn't really aware of what was going on around me. All I can think is 'tonight is the night, tonight is the night.' Those four words repeating in my head all day. I sit with Scott at lunch, But don't eat anything. When the lunch bell rings I get up and start walking toward my next class. Before I leave the cafeteria Scott walks up behind me. He grabs my hand and puts something in it, then folds my fingers around it. It's a folded up piece of paper, then he walks away without saying anything.

I look down at the paper in my hand. I unfold it, and read the 4 words on paper. 'Because I love you.' Even with all the fear that I feel, I can't help but smile a little. Those 4 words get me through the rest of the school day.

I find Scott at the front doors of the school waiting for me.

"Ready?" Scott asks.

"Not really" I say "But I don't really have a choice here, do I." I give him a small smile.

"By the way, Thank you for this." I say as I pull the paper out of my pocket. He gives me an ear to ear kind of smile.

"Anytime" is all he says, reaching out for my hand. I grab his hand and squeeze it gently.

"Let's do this." I say bravely. Not feeling brave at all.

When we get to Scott's house, he has me pull my car into the garage and shuts the door, just in case anyone happens to drive by, seeing that I'm supposed to be at Lydia's house tonight. I get out of my car and walk toward Scott. He leads me into the house.

"Are you hungry?" Scott asks. I shake my head. I can't think about eating right now.

"OK lets go right down then." He says as he walks to the door to the basement. He opens the door and starts walking down. I follow behind him. The basement is what I would call half finished. It has the concrete walls with small windows and has ceramic tiles on the floor. In the corner closest to the stairs, there is a washer and dryer and a long counter for doing laundry. There is a couch and a T.V. with a DVD player and a game system in the corner across from that and the back half of the basement looks like it is used for storage.

We walk over to the couch and Scott reaches down next to it and I see a duffel bag. He unzips it and I can see the chains inside.

"I don't think we'll need these but I wanted to have them down here just in case." Scott says. I nod my head.

"OK." I say.

He grabs my hand and pulls me over to the couch. I sit down right next to him and lean into him. We don't talk for a while, but I break the silence to ask a question. I look down at our joined hands as I talk.

"Is it going to hurt?" I ask. He doesn't say anything , so I look up at him. He is looking at me with a sad expression, and nods his head ever so slightly.

"Yeah" He whispers. "Yeah, it's going to hurt Allison." I just nod my head. My heart rate starts to rise from the fear. He hears that and scoots a little closer to me on the couch, wrapping his arm around me and squeezing me tight.

"I'm OK." I say " I kinda figured it would be painful."

"It will be easier to deal with if you find an anchor. Something that you can focus on to bring you back. Something to focus on to help with the pain. To keep you from losing yourself completely." He says.

Just then Scott looks up at the ceiling of the basement to the first floor.

"Stiles is here." He says as he is listening. We look over toward the door of the basement and it opens slowly revealing Stiles on the other side.

"Hey guys, you ready for tonight. Do you have the chains. Is there anything else you might need for tonight?" Stiles asks

"Yeah I think we've got it." Scott answers.

"Cool." He says as he plops down on the couch next to Scott.

"Stiles what are you doing here?" I ask

"Just wanted to make sure you guys are gonna be alright tonight, that's all." He says "You want me to stick around."

"Do you have a death wish?" I ask sarcastically. "Do you like getting nearly attacked by new werewolves?"

"Wow, someone is grumpy, full moon getting to you." Stiles also says sarcastically, With a smile. " And the answer to your questions is, NO. I'm just a great friend. Someday you'll realize that." He gets off the couch and starts heading for the stairs. When he reaches the bottom step he turns around.

"Be careful, and call me if you need anything." With that he turns back around and leaves.

A/N: Hey guys, I was going to continue with this chapter but I wanted to give you what I had so far. Full moon coming up next. Let me know what you guys think so far, Let me know if it starts to get boring. Also any ideas or suggestions are welcome. Please review.