I'd say I was about half the distance home when I realised I forgot my scarf. Dammit. It's not like it was a cold day or anything but my scarf was my comfort. It used to be my mum's, until she passed away. Then I kind of adopted it. It is old and frayed, but it is still comforting. It's a red and black tartan scarf.
I turned the corner of the street I was on and to my surprise I came face to face with someone not particularly popular in my friendship group. Theo. I stumbled back, not ready to bump into him.
"Natalie. Why are you on your own? I thought Stiles would make sure you have 24/7 surveillance." He leaned against a lamp post.
"Why ask such a pointless question when you already knew that I'm on my own since you were here, waiting for me? Talk about deserpate." I snapped confidently. Way more confident than I actually felt. Theo scoffed.
"I would be very careful about what you say Stilinski." He stood up straight. Almost looming over me.
I couldn't help but take a step back. After all, he was older than me, taller than me and very intimidating. I was also considering the depressive fact that he has fangs, claws and not to mention the superhuman strength. And I don't have anything. I doubt a ruler or a pencil would stop him from ripping me into pieces. Just a guess.
"I could kill you right now and no one would even know." He smirked, as if reading my mind. I couldn't help but panic slightly.
"Scott would kill you. You couldn't unveil your plan if you're being murdered by an alpha can you?" I tried to withstand my ground. He scoffed at me again.
"I'm not scared of Scott." Theo shook his head.
"You're a bad liar." I tested him.
Footsteps were coming from around the corner. Jordan came into view and stopped dead when he saw me and Theo. He had bright pink earphones in. Oh no, wrong time Jordan. Wrong time.
"Hi Natalie." He said taking one earphone out and cautiously glancing at Theo.
"Hi." I say, suddenly remembering that Liam had said the words 'Stay away from Theo. Like, well away from Theo.' Sudden panic hit me like a double decker bus. My eyes darted around for an escape route.
"Is everything okay?" Jordan asked, gathering that Theo made me feel uncomfortable.
"That's a bit of a nosy question. It's not really your business is it-" Theo said, stopping after he realised he didn't know this new boy's name.
"Jordan." He raised an eyebrow to Theo.
"Jordan. You should mind your own business or you'll get into the wrong kind of trouble." Theo threatened.
"Oh please. You don't scare me dude." Jordan said, he basically laughed. I clenched my teeth in worry of what Theo's reaction would be. To my suprise, he didn't have a comeback.
"Tell Scott to stay out of my way." He said to me before he pushed past Jordan with his shoulder and turned the corner.
"What was that about?" Jordan looked at me confused.
"Trust me, you wouldn't understand." I shook my head. Jordan shrugged.
"Oh, I'm actually glad I ran into you!" He smiled and flings his backpack off into his hand and starts to rummage through it.
"Y-you are?" I say with confusion.
"Yeah, here." He says as he hands me my scarf.
More panic rushes through me, how did he get this? It was in my locker. My bow and arrow is in my locker! Oh no.
"What. Where did you-" I began.
"You left your locker door open. This was hanging out, I figured you would want it." He shrugged and threw his bag back over his shoulders.
"How did you know the locker was mine?" I ask, alarmed.
"Your name is written in it, and there's a picture of you and your friends stuck in there. Don't worry, I locked it after." He said.
I stared at him in disbelief, surely he had seen my bow. Why was he not questioning me about it?
While I was stuck on the spot, contemplating whether my entire cover was blown. Jordan had walked ahead of me, and stopped at the turning of the woods. He stopped and turned around to look at me.
"So are you coming?" He grinned. He had a sort of crooked smile that made me blush.
Before I could answer him, he turned his direction to face the forest and he started to walk into it, along the overgrown path. It happened to be the same woods that Scott had been bitten in the first place. Where all this started. I didn't really like to go in there, only when I had to. Like if we needed to find the nemotone which is what me and Liam were looking for last night if you're interested. Jordan didn't even hesitate, he wondered into the unknown, I could barley see him.
"Jordan! Don't go in there, it's dangerous." I called after him. No reply. "Great. Just great." I say to myself as I hurried after him. I'm not being held responsible if anything happens to him.
I stumbled into the shrubs and trees. I guess you could say I'm not one with nature. The uneven ground always catches me off guard.
"Jordan!" I hiss. Too weary to shout.
Suddenly I slip on some fallen condensated leaves, my foot overtook the other with great speed and threw me off balance. I started to fall backwards but thanks to my reflexes I tried to regain my posture. However, I tried too hard and fell to my knees instead. Who am I kidding, my reflexes are crap. I got to my feet and examined the patches of mud on my skinny jeans. I groanded and passed through a wall of vines. I had never been to this part of the forest before. On the other side there was a stream. A stream you would expect to see on tumblr or instagram. Jordan was calmly sat on a large rock next to it. He was clearly in his element.
"What took you so long?" He stood up.
"Hmm well." I pointed to my mud stained jeans.
"Damn. What happened?" He smirked, he knew exactly what happened.
"It's not hard to work out." I threw my arms in the air.
"Did you have a nice TRIP?" Jordan tried to hold in a laugh.
"That's not even funny." I say, despite laughing. I push him away by the chest.
We stared at the flowing water for a while. Mesmerised by it's serenity. I glanced at Jordan who was contently smiling at the sun's reflection from the stream. He took his phone out and took a picture. He clocks onto me watching him.
"Its for drawing." He started. "I like to draw and paint pretty things. Like sunsets ya know." He finished. I couldn't help but smile.
"I used to play the piano." I blurted out.
"Used to?" He raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah. I don't anymore." I say casually.
"Why not?" He asked.
"I guess I don't have time for it now." I shrug.
"Really? How come?" He threw a rock across the stream.
"I don't know." I looked at the ground.
The truth was, I did know. The supernatural have taken over my life, all the hobbies I once had went down the drain, along with my innocence and my normal life. I bet if you asked anyone if they wanted to be a werewolf they would say yes. I wouldn't. I would say no. I wanted my normal life back so desperately.
"So. Why do you have a bow and arrow in your locker?" He looked me in the eyes. This caught me completely off guard.
"What. I-I do archery." I surprised myself with a decent lie.
"That's pretty cool." He nodded. "Just wanted to check that you're not a serial killer or something." He laughed. I joined him, unable to say anything other than laugh nervously.
"How come you moved to Beacon Hills?" I tried to change the conversation. Jordan hesitated.
"I graffitied pretty much everywhere, all the time." He said embarrassed.
"That's not that bad. My friend Liam got kicked out of his old school for smashing up his coach's car." I smile, trying to make him feel better.
"Wow. Hard-core." He laughed. "The boy with the blue eyes?" He asked.
"Yeah that's him." I confirm.
"Oh, I thought you two were dating."
"No! No way! He's a good friend but he's not- no! Anyway he's got a girlfriend. Kinda." I say in defence.
"That sounds convincing." He chuckled. "Besides, I didn't fit in at all, in my last school. It was full of stuck up, self absorbed kids."
"I never fit in. It's like someone is preventing me from fitting in. I'm permanently banished as an outsider." I find myself saying. It must of sounded so stupid and pathetic to him. There was deafening silence.
"We could be outsiders together." He smiles at me. Our eyes locked with each others.
"Then we wouldn't really be outsiders." I grinned.
"Exactly. We wanted to fit in somewhere." Jordan shrugged. I had the most stupid smile on my face.
"You're so cheesy, I think I'm gonna puke." I laughed.
"On that note, let's go. My mum is probably wondering where the hell I am." Jordan sighed.
