I awoke to the sound of Liam's voice. He was talking to someone on the phone. It would probably either be Hayden or Mason. My eyes searched the room, now that it was morning and the sun shone brightly through the windows, the mess we had thought we cleaned up was still looming. Furniture in pieces and a group of non normal teenagers crashed out in the middle.

I glanced down at Jordan who was fast asleep, his hair wildly sticking up in different directions. I sat up on the sofa and swung my legs over to place my feet on the ground. Soon I realised that everyone was still asleep, Liam and I were the only ones awake. Liam was pacing the room, he was obviously worried of nervous about something.

"Okay. Yeah. Be safe." Liam spoke into the phone before hanging up. He looked at me and his eyes were filled with resentment.

"Morning sour wolf, what's with you?" I said sarcastically.

"Theo is hurting Hayden. Like physically hurting her, Tal." Liam steamed.

"What the hell. Why?" I gasped.

"I don't know! I just told her to avoid him until we figure something out." Liam said, frustratedly running his fingers through his hair.

"We need to wake up Scott." I shook my head.

~~~~A couple of days later~~~~

Monday.

"Liam! Don't do anything stupid!" Mason called after him.

Mason and I were trying to keep up with Liam in the school corridors. He was speed walking to try and look for Theo. It was hard to keep up with an angry werewolf in a busy corridor full of boisterous students.

"Hey Liam. Scott said that he'll deal with it and he will. Just be patient, Hayden is staying at Malia's now anyway." I spoke to him from behind, trying to get him to stop.

"I'm just going to talk to him." Liam said through gritted teeth. I ran to get in front of him and halted him quickly.

"Listen to me, this is a public area. You can't make a scene." I reminded him.

"She's right. You need to chill out." Mason agreed.

"Why does Liam need to chill? What's happening?" Jordan seemingly appeared from nowhere. He walked towards us.

"He thinks it's a good idea to 'talk' to Theo." Mason explained.

"There he is." Liam clocked onto Theo's location. We all turned around to see where he was.

Theo was getting something out of his locker, Josh was with him, stood by him like a dog obeying his master. I saw Liam's eyes flicker with rage. He moved me out of the way using his hand and headed straight towards Theo.

"Good choices! Make good choices Liam!" I called after him.

"You know, no matter how any times you say that to him it makes no difference right?" Jordan scoffed as he quickly followed Liam.

Once Liam reached his target, he slammed Theo's locker door shut. Theo was taken by surprise at Liam's confidence. Liam grabbed Theo's shoulder and smashed his back against the locker and held him there, the back of his arm placed firmly across Theo's collarbones.

"If you think you can get away with hurting her, you've got another thing coming." Liam threatned him, his jaw tightly clenched.

A crowd of students congregated around the situation. It's not every day that a sophomore slams a senior into some lockers.

Josh gripped his hand on Liam's spare arm. But just before he could pull him off of Theo or twist his arm around, Jordan grabbed Josh's forearm and removed it from Liam. He threw Josh's arm back towards him. Josh gave Jordan a cold death stare as Jordan returned it with a quiet growl.

"For God's sake." I whisper under my breath.

"I would be careful with who you choose to threaten, Liam." Theo smiled slightly.

Before Liam said something he would regret, I took my initiative and got involved.

"Okay this is neither the time or place for this. Liam just leave it." I tugged on the sleeve of his spare arm.

"You should listen to her. Leave it." Theo patronised Liam.

"For now." I added, staring icily at Theo.

"Yeah dude. We should go." Mason put his hand on Liam's shoulder and gently shook him.

Liam reluctantly removed his arm from Theo and gave him one last threatening stare. Theo just smirked at him and started to head off down the corridor. Jordan and Josh were shooting metaphorical daggers at each other with their eyes. Theo physically had to pull Josh away by his arm to get him to move away from Jordan. The crowds started to thin out once people knew that nothing was going to happen.

"Jeez Liam! You might as well audition for to be freaking Romeo in the school play because that was so much of a scene." I threw my arms in the air in frustration. Mason giggled at my comment. Liam didn't answer, his gaze was on the floor.

"Relax. Nothing happened." Jordan shrugged in Liam's defence.

"Nothing happened? Nothing? Liam just pretty much tackled him! This isn't lacrosse you know." I placed my hands on my hips.

"I know, I just got angry. He doesn't even care. He could hurt Hayden and not even feel guilty about it." Liam clenched his fists.

"Listen, Theo is a grade A asshole. But Hayden is safe at the moment so it's pointless to do something drastic." I reassure him.

"He still did it. There are cuts on her, deep cuts." Liam looked at me. His eyes filled with sadness.

"She'll heal won't she?" Mason asked.

"Yes but that doesn't change anything." Liam shook his head. "It makes me want to slash him up and see how he likes it."

"Woah no Liam, bad idea." Mason waved his hands around.

"Yeah that's not the best thought. Scott said he'll deal with it so he'll deal with it." Jordan attempted to reassure him.

"Fine." Liam said bluntly. "I'm going to find Hayden, see you guys later." He said before walking off.

"No one tells anyone about this. Liam doesn't need Stiles acting up on him." I tell Jordan and Mason. They both nod and Mason leaves to follow Liam.

"There is alot more drama here than at my old school." Jordan took a deep breath in.

"Welcome to Beacon Hills, please enjoy your stay, the exits are here, here and here." I scoff. Jordan grinned.

"Hi Jordan!" A girl with wavy red hair and pure blue eyes approached us. She wore a turquoise summer dress and dark brown high heeled boots.

"Hey." He smiled at her.

"Do you want a lift home today?" She grinned at him to reveal a perfect smile.

"No it's okay. I've got stuff to do." He replies, I couldn't read his expression.

"No problem! See you later." She smiles and turned back around to the direction she came from.

"Who was that?" I asked as soon as she was out of hearing range.

"That's Victoria. She's in the year above us. A junior." He explained as we started to walk slowly to class.

"Oh. How do you know her?" I questioned.

"I met her yesterday in town, before we all went to Scott's. We talked for a while." He shrugged.

"Right. Well she just completely ignored my exsistence back then." I scoffed.

"She doesn't know you..." Jordan smiled and frowned.

"So? It's just simply being polite. She could of said hi or something." I snapped.

"Why does it matter? She's just a girl." Jordan shrugged.

Just a girl? How can he say she is just a girl? She is clearly stunning and flawless. I could read him like an open book. Of course he thinks she's beautiful, anyone could see that. Wait why am I getting so worked up? I couldn't care less what he thinks of her.

"What lesson do you have now?" I asked, diverting the subject of Victoria.

"Biology." Jordan groans.

"Ha you suck at biology." I mocked him.

"Well if you helped me with it then I'd suck less." He sighed.

"When? We're always busy with Theo this, dread doctors that and not to mention the-"

"Tonight." He interrupted.

"What? Don't you all have to come to mine and Stiles tonight for a meeting about Hayden? You know. This big vote on whether or not she's in the pack?" I reminded him.

"Yeah but before that. I'll come over earlier." He explains.

"Hang on. Why are you involved in our meeting? You're not even in the pack." I frowned.

"Scott said I could observe. I'm still an omega don't worry." He rolled his eyes.

"Right. Okay, so tonight at mine?" I confirm as we stop outside his class.

"It's date." He smirks. I stare at him in frustration. "Okay. Not a date." He holds his hands up in surrender as he disappears into him classroom.


As soon as the day ended I rushed out of the school and begged Stiles to drop me home. Due to my incredible persuasion skills he gave in and took me home in the jeep. Once we reached our house, Stiles went straight back out to 'deal with something'. I couldn't even be bothered to ask for the details. To my surprise, Dad wasn't home either, he must be working late at the station. So I was home alone. It felt weird having the house to myself, normally it was a busy household. There was always someone here with me, it's mostly Scott and Liam that are practically here 24/7.

After a couple hours of reading, watching tv, and relaxing, I started to get lonely. Since the house was so quiet it kind of creeped me out slightly, I was used to noise around me. Not silence. I hopped onto my bed and dialled Liam. Hopefully he had cooled down a bit now. Unfortunately, his phone went to voicemail, he was probably having some alone time with Hayden and I did not want to interrupt that. Suddenly I heard a creak that was located behind me. I gasped and turned around to see that Jordan had just entered through my window. Again.

"Seriously! Use the door!" I sigh, standing up and walking past him to shut my window.

"Sorry." Was all Jordan could come out with.

"How the hell do you even climb up to my window?" I frown as I looked outside, staring down at the far away ground. My bedroom is on the second storey of the house.

"You see that tree?" Jordan said while pointing to the smallish oak tree that was a couple of meters away from my window. "I climb that and then I jump to your window." He finished.

"Hmm." I mumbled. "Well remind me to keep my window closed then." I shrugg as he rolls his eyes.

I searched my messy desk for my biology books and a spare pen and notebook. My desk was full of pointless notes and clues that Stiles and I had worked through when we were trying to work out if Theo was an imposter or not. Once I found all the things I was looking for I strolled to my bedroom door and turned around to see Jordan still stood by my desk.

"Are you coming or are you just going to stand there like a-"

"Is that your mum?" Jordan asked, signalling to a picture on my desk.

I walked over and my eyes scanned the photo of Stiles, my mum and I. It was taken a couple of weeks before our mum died. We got it printed out because it was the most recent picture that dad had taken of us three. We were on the beach and stood in the sea, our mum stood behind us and hugged us from around the shoulders. It was a typical family photo to be quite honest.

"Yeah that's her." I sighed.

"What was her name?" Jordan asked calmly.

"Claudia." I almost whispered.

"She was very pretty." He smiled, his eyes fixated onto me.

"I know." I smiled at the memory of her.

"I guess that's why you're so pretty." He smirked.

"Ergh." I rolled my eyes in disgust as I strutted back to my bedroom door.

"What? Did I ruin it?" He laughed.

"Come on hotshot, let's help you get at least a C in Biology." I headed for the stairs, he was trailing behind me. I couldn't help but smile to myself.


"No! That's the ventricle. That's the atrium." I explain pointing to a diagram of the human heart that was spread out on the kicthen table.

"What's the difference?" Jordan stared at me blankly. I returned his stare, my mouth hanging open.

"Are you joking? I just went through that!" I rubbed my face with my hands in stress.

"Sorry sorry! I can't concentrate."

"Okay. Let's try something else. Draw a plant cell, come on that's easy enough." I shrugged, pushing the notebook towards him. Instead of drawing he just continued to look at me and search my face with his eyes. I sighed.

"Look." I pulled the notebook closer to me and started to sketch it out. "This is the cell wall and inside that is another wall called the cell membrane."

I looked up to see if he was listening, instead his attention was on me. His pure green eyes infecting my stomach with buttetflies. As much as I love butterflies, I wanted to swat them away and remain feelingless. I hated the way he made me so vunerable, I knew that he was my weak spot. I've been so head-strong and confident for the past supernatural years of my life, but now I feel weaker. I hated it. He, being a werewolf had so much more power than me, which is what I couldn't handle. I had finally realised. Why I felt so strongly about not dating a werewolf. It was because I want to be strong, I don't want to be protected and I don't want someone else to fight my battles for me. Ever since my mum died, I had learned to stick up for myself and be a stubborn girl. Jordan had awakend the small, scared 6 year old that had just lost her mother. The loving and innocent side of me that had been forgotten since Scott had been bitten. I had worked all this out, just by looking into Jordan's serene green eyes. My realisation. All of a sudden Jordan stopped staring at me and his head shot to the direction of the closed kitchen door.

"Scott and Stiles just pulled up in the jeep." He said, obviously having heard the jeep's wheels screeching to a stop.

"So?" I shrugged.

"They smell bad." Jordan frowned.

"Maybe they didn't have time to shower, they are boys after all." I laugh at my own joke.

"No, their chemosignals. They're bad. They're panicking." He shook his head.

"What?" I stop laughing and frown. Just then, Stiles abruptly opened the kitchen door with Scott behind him.

"Natalie. Have you talked to Liam in the last hour?" Stiles shot me a question.

"No. He hasn't talked to me since school. Why?" I frowned.

"Oh no." Scott swallowed as him and Stiles ran their hands through their hair.

"What? Why? What happened?" I say, my heart starting to beat faster and faster awaiting Scott's answer.

"We can't find him. He's missing."