The moment Liam entered Sierra's room, he was expecting it to be…well filled with pink and puffy things, really pink and puffy but, his thoughts were shut right out when he saw nothing but a descent unisexual room. The whole interior was grey and black with a hint of white in the decorations. He would've taken this kind of room any day…if he wasn't such a sloppy person.
"Sorry about all of this. I didn't get the time to clean my room this morning." Sierra giggled as she cleared her magazines on the ottoman. Liam shook his head.
"No. This room's…perfect." He commented as he stared at his surroundings and breathed in the wonderful scent. "Definitely better then my room."
She giggled.
Oh that beautiful melody…
"I sure bet so." She replied. Liam laughed. "So um…" She said awkwardly as she motioned to the chair. He smiled and took the seat. Sierra soon followed and jumped crossed legged on her bed and grabbed a few of her books from her handbag.
"So…what should we start with for our agenda today?" She asked as she paged through her thick Chemistry textbook.
"Uh…I don't know. Whatever you'd like," Liam suggested with a hunched shrug as he fiddled with his fingers. She grinned widely then dropped her books and stared up at him.
"Okay Superman." She began. "Tell me more about yourself."
Liam laughed.
"Well for starters. I've get shocked when people call me superman." He replied. Sierra giggled.
"Oh sorry," She blushed. "I-I saw your drawings the other day and you reminded me of Superman."
"So you think I'm a humanoid from the planet Krypton, only being sent to earth to hold a purpose for protecting my destroyed universe and miraculously start feeling my powers at the age of 13-" He rambled and Sierra halted him with a laugh.
"Hold on there, soldier." She retorted. Liam realized how stupid he was being and laughed. "Did he really get his powers at 13?"
Liam rolled his eyes at this.
"And no," She tapered her own eyes and fiddled with her charm bracelet. "I just think of you as a person who fights bad guys you know…Saves the world for supernaturalism!"
"You have no idea." He murmured under his breath.
"Did you say something?" She asked. He shook his head and she nodded. "Well anyway. Tell me more, all I know about you is you're stubborn and suck at Chemistry."
He laughed.
"That about sums me up." He said. She nudged his arm and groaned.
"Come on, be serious…" She moaned.
He bit his lip lightly and sucked in a breath with his eyebrows scrunched up.
"What else do you want to know?" He asked her.
Sierra shrugged her shoulders as she moved a strand of her hair to the side.
"Like what's your favorite color?" She asked.
"Okay now you've gone too far my friend." Liam joked. Sierra laughed.
"No seriously though, what is it?" Sierra asked again. Liam stared up into her amber eyes.
"Blue. What's yours?" He asked.
"Yellow." She replied. Liam frowned a little.
"Yellow. Like the sun?" He asked.
Sierra laughed knowingly that she didn't seem like the bright colored type.
"No. Not that yellow more like the pale tint kind of yellow. Like Vanilla." She replied. He smirked crookedly.
"That's beautiful." He replied.
Her cheeks flushed and she hid away from his gaze so he couldn't see her blushing at his cute smile and began fiddling with her bracelet.
"Yeah…" She trailed off. "Now on a more serious note: What don't I know about you?"
"Well…" He trailed off into deep thought before answering, "It's my second year in Beacon Hills High."
"I mean, obviously since we're sophomores." She guffawed lowly with a roll the eyes.
Liam's cheeks flushed bright red.
"I mean, I'm a transfer student." He said. She smiled.
"Oh. Where from?" she asked.
"Davenford Prep." He replied. She nodded. "Actually, I got kicked out, since we're doing a 'tell-all book.'" He announced. She frowned in reply.
"What happened?" She asked in concern.
Sierra was interested to know about Liam's past.
Liam half expected her to think that he was a problem child at school and that she'd be disappointed before hearing the full story but she wasn't, she was genuinely interested to find out more.
Liam sighed.
"I did something I totally still regret today." Liam replied nervously. Sierra nodded, realizing how much Liam didn't want to talk about it. "But I guess it got better being Beacon Hills."
Sierra raised her eyebrow.
"I heard a lot of weird things about this town and you're happy about it?" She teased. Liam shrugged.
"It's some tough to getting use to. Plus I had no choice since my stepdad found a job here." He replied. She nodded.
"What about you?" He questioned. "Anything interesting I should know about you?"
"That is none of your business." She teased as she crossed her arms stubbornly, with a smirk playing off her lips. He laughed. "No uh…well I'm not like most 16 year old girls my age."
He smiled.
"Why do you say so?"
"I didn't experience all the things a teenager should. Like you know, having girlfriends over, go to parties you know, the cliché perks of high school." She lay out. "Oh and check it out. I wear glasses." She said as she pulled out her spectacles and inserted them on. Liam laughed and smiled as if he thought she actually looked adorable in them. Which she did!
"All I do is sit in my room is I either grabbing a novel, I'd start listen to my favorite band The Vamps, schoolwork or play around with Mr. Templeton." She smiled.
Liam frowned.
"Mr. Templeton?" He laughed.
She nodded, then as if on cue, a miniature creature came crawling into the room and took a tiredly jump onto the bed and lay comfortably in Sierra's lap. She stroked its grey-furry back lightly.
"My pride and joy,"
Then the cat took notice of Liam's presence and gave him a very fierce dishonest scoundrel snarl of its teeth –which involuntarily caused him to jump in his seat– but soon groaned as it felt pain on its jaw and licked its tattered paws. The cat…Mr. Templeton got off of Sierra's lap and off the bed and began limping slowly out of the room, not even managing to swing its tail in the process.
"Wow. That's an old cat." He laughed.
Sierra's cheeks dilated and her face turned completely red, and she stared at the ground, covering her face and sniffed her nose.
Liam smelt the warm teardrops fill his nostrils and he watched the waters drop off her glasses onto her soft cheek and he watched, with his enhanced eyesight, the tears fall onto her bed like waters being dunked from the ceiling.
"Yeah…"
He got up from his chair and sat beside her. He lifted his left hand so it was in contact with her chiseled cheek and removed the tears from it gracefully and titled her face up so she was met with his eyes.
"I'm sorry." He said with such emotion that it almost broke Sierra's heart even more because she felt like she absolutely couldn't stand it if Liam ever felt a hint of sadness or guilt.
She drifted her head so her face could caress his velvety hand lightly.
"It's okay." She snickered nervously as her voice began to break. "I knew he would leave me some day. I got him as…well an actual Birthday present since I was like few hours old when he was born as well. He and I grew up together; he's the only best friend I had. The only person I could ever talk to since my mother wasn't around and I had no siblings then. Still to this day, whenever I get sad that my mom wasn't around, he'd always purr up next to me and keep me company."
"W-why wasn't your mother always around?" He asked.
"Well…My mother was a single mother for most of my life so it was obviously hard to be raising a child on her own, especially at a young age. So she had five jobs in order to make ends meet for both of us." She replied.
"Five jobs?" Liam questioned in bewilderment. She nodded. "Wow."
"It was rough for both of us, so my mom sent me to live with my grandmother for a while until she can land back on her feet." She added.
"Where's your dad?" Liam asked.
Sierra inhaled the air as she heard her father being mentioned. It was always hard talking about it to anyone but with Liam…she felt like she could say anything and put her full trust in him. He was a really good friend.
"The last time I heard from him was when he was in jail." She replied casually. Liam widened his eyes. "But I really don't care where he is at this point."
"I'm really sorry to hear that." Liam said sincerely. Sierra narrowed her eyes at him.
"Don't be. I don't need to be felt sorry for. I don't want anyone to take this as a weakness-" She said.
Liam frowned. "Who said anything about weaknesses? This is you being genuinely honest. It's what we came up with at the first time. In fact, I think you're pretty strong to have opened up like that."
Sierra managed to release a small smile.
"You think so?" She asked as she stared deep into Liam's glorious green-blue eyes that would knock any girl over like a bowling ball. Liam smiled and nodded as he stared into her amber eyes.
"Of course I do." He replied.
Sierra blushed sheepishly and pushed him away lightly as the tension became intense.
"Breaks over, now back to studying…" She whispered shyly. Liam laughed as he grabbed one of his books and vice versa and they began studying the basis of Biochemistry.
He halted during the session. "Hey, we're having a team checkup tomorrow afterschool for Lacrosse. I was wondering if you'd come?"
"Definitely yes,"
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Sierra began rushing outside of the school – after her fifth class – to see a huge line being formed. She groaned as she adjusted her handbag and jogged over to the increasing crowd –anyone would've thought she was stupid – and stopped when she reached her destination, only to be met with a line of only ten people!
She was signing up for the Academic decathlon at the school. Seen as that it's pretty much compulsory to join a certain extracurricular activity at the school, she thought 'why not join the nerd squad?' which brings her to the fact that she wasn't too shocked to see only ten people signing up for the team.
She bumped into a tall girl, probably 5`6 after being pushed slightly by the weird awkward geeky dude from behind her. Wow! And you'd think all the standards from California would be of the charts!
"I'm so sorry." She whispered as the girl turned around with an unfazed look on her face. She snarled under her breath.
"What?"
"I am-"
"Who do you think you are?" She grumbled.
Oh no…
First week and she already made an enemy. Great!
"I'm really sorry. I didn't see you there. I-" She said apologetically as her voice became frantic.
The girl just laughed and rubbed Sierra's arm lightly.
"I'm just messing with you cutie." She said. "By the way, love your outfit." She added, motioning to the tight dark denim jeans and complimented with a knee length sweeter and jacket.
Sierra got a proper look at the girl in front of her.
Dark silky chestnut hair fall off her shoulders, her statuesque body complimented with a dark coat and a scarf draped around her neck and underneath was a tee and dark jeans with sensible sneakers. It was a very hip-and-happening kind of look. Not too fashionable but not too easy breezy. You could see her entire personality, by sensing that she wasn't into the latest trends.
Sierra smiled.
"Thanks. I just threw it on." She said staring down at her outfit. The girl pulled her coat off and held it between her hands where he T-shirt had been fully revealed. "You're a Vamps fan too?"
"Like duh! Who the hell isn't? It's the 21st Century. Whoever says they aren't Vampettes…" She trailed off as she leaned in. "Are damn good liars."
Sierra giggled.
You could tell she was a funny cat.
"So you're signing up for the Academic Decathlon huh?" She asked Sierra.
"Yeah, I guess." She shrugged.
"Well I'm only doing it to try and form a chemical reaction that would blow up the whole building down."
Sierra widened her eyes.
Was she serious?
"Are you serious?" Sierra asked in shock.
"Well if I were serious would I be smiling?" She questioned her, with a wide grin. "Don't mind the grin. I was naturally born like this so ahem…" She laughed.
Sierra giggled uncontrollably at her and smiled sheepishly.
"What? Cat got your tongue?" She asked her.
"No…it's just." Sierra blushed as she shied away from her gaze and twirled with her charm bracelet.
She was shy and she didn't exactly know why (That rhymed).
"I'm Chelsea." She said extending her hand. Sierra shook it gladly.
"Sierra," She replied.
As they were next in line and were just about to sign them in, Sierra caught the glimpse of Liam walking past her angrily.
She frowned.
Who blew his top?
Then he heard someone calling her name and she looked forward to see she was next. She signed in and turned back to see that Liam was nowhere in sight.
That was strange…
It was finally Afterschool and Sierra was headed to the Lacrosse field with her new friend…Chelsea.
She was actually even cooler than Sierra imagined. She found out a lot more about her and realized that she was not only hilarious and outspoken but a real rascal at heart seen as she causes trouble at home and school, she was also incredibly smart street and school alike.
When they both reached the field they were immediately met with all the Lacrosse players lining up to get ready for evaluation. She felt Liam's presence run past her and she immediately grabbed hold of his arm.
"Hey," She greeted with a wide smile. "You looked really tensed earlier."
"Uh…yeah, I know. But it's okay. Promise," He said then ran back to the group. Sierra frowned a little, before following Chelsea's trail as they took their seats on the bleachers where a few spectators were sat, mostly the stars girlfriends.
Sierra watched as Liam prepared for the practice as he did his own warm-ups. But he was different today…he wasn't himself. Sure. He had always been…well not a happy jolly person but today he was different…almost worse.
Something was bothering him and he was determined to know why.
"Cute boyfriend," Chelsea commented as she pulled out her water. Sierra widened her eyes at her new friend.
"He-he's not…no…" She simply shook her head. Chelsea nodded.
"Whatever you say bookworm, but I can sense 'The Tells' riding all over the two of you." She replied. Sierra laughed.
"The tells?" she asked.
Chelsea nodded her head.
"Look. One minute, he's preoccupied with something and vice versa and two seconds later, you both look up and catch each other's eyes and the process continues." She said.
And as if her words had an effect, Liam and Sierra's eyes interlocked with each other for a split second before drifting away from each other. Sierra shook her head lightly.
"That doesn't mean anything." She replied as she pulled out her sketchbook and began drawing. Chelsea shrugged.
"Suit yourself. But you and I both know they're there." Chelsea retorted. Sierra sniggered lowly.
"Hustle people!" The Coach exclaimed and the group gathered around. "It's a whole new semester which for most of you losers think is a time you'd get new hot freshmen!"
The males roared with cheers except for the Captain and the petite girl next to him.
"But for a few of your loser asses will be one sad semester since its building season everyone!" He retorted. "This means, we bring in and kick out the unwanted energy around here and let's not forget we're switching to co-captains. Your current captain, McCall will help pick who's suitable for the higher title as the seniors leave next fall. So I swear to god, if you can all take a break from smoking pot, which is highly doubtful and get rid of those disturbing images of military tomahawks…bowing arrows being struck right through the chest, and surviving out of thin air yet having to pay $10,000 for hospital bills for the fucking love of-"
"Coach?" the Captain's voice cut him off. "We've got 2 hours."
"Oh right…I'd like to introduce to you all the newest member of the team. Well we'll see his playing now will we?" The coach said as he brought in a tall dude into the group. "Brett Talbot."
The captain glanced back at Liam who handed looked up one bit.
"So I hope we welcome him with open arms to the school. Oh and one more thing… don't mess this up idiots or this may be your final straw of ever getting laid and getting that recognition you deserve. Again, no pressure! Kick some Lacrosse ass and more importantly have fun!" He retorted with the last part filled with satiric.
The team exclaimed and began running over to their positions.
It was the scrawny dude with hair that flopped just the right way's turn and he sucked in a deep breath before jumping up for a shot and throwing the ball but only to miss it by a long shot.
The group laughed.
"Next time Stilinski." One of the members retorted.
"Dumbass," Chelsea laughed.
More people rounded up afterward.
"So who's the new guy?" Sierra murmured over to Chelsea. She shrugged.
"I don't know but I definitely wasn't expecting that from Beacon Hills 10 000 deer and one good looking, venison steak." Chelsea whispered to her and Sierra couldn't help but giggling in response.
After the Captain was finally Liam's try as he faced the goalie. Sierra was finally completely interested in the game as she watched friend shot and scored. Sierra muttered a 'yes' under her breath.
"Hey!" They heard a voice call for them and the unrecognizable person sat beside them. Sierra awkwardly stared up at him.
"Hi…" Chelsea said confusedly. "And who might you be?"
"Oh I'm Mason." He said extending his hand for a shake. Sierra smiled back sheepishly.
"You must be Sierra?"
Liam was in goal after that round was up and to the amazement of Sierra's eyes, he caught every shot, not even one single shot went past him…I guess that's why he was the goalie.
But then things went on a down-low when it was that new guy's turn and you could sense the bad tension arising from both of them.
"So they have met before," Sierra whispered to herself as both Chelsea and Mason were in deep conversation.
So if they met before then what happened between them so that there's so much intense air vaporizing around them?
Sierra was determined to know why.
It was time for the practice rounds and two people were defending the goal post, the captain and Liam –who you could vaguely see underneath that mask on.
A random player was up first and began running with the ball in his stick and ran past the captain but not getting through Liam as he pushed him down and Coach blew the whistle.
Sierra grinned widely.
The process continued after three more players before Sierra commented,
"He's amazing out there." She said.
"Yeah, he totally is." Mason and Chelsea said simultaneously. Sierra frowned as she watched the two people beside her stare at one specific spot.
They were staring at the new dude; Brett Talbot was doing his push-ups on one hand after the other. Sierra shook her head.
She had heard that Mason had been openly gay for the past two years from around but to find out it was actually true was weird…yet cool.
So her new friend and other new friend are crushing over the same guy?
This was going to be interesting.
When it was finally Brett's turn to face Liam and the captain, he inserted his helmet on and his perfect mouth gear with his eyes fixed on Liam in a threatening glare. Liam held his stick tighter. Brett released a small smile then started running towards them and the captain ran in front of him, waiting to tackle him to the ground before he reached Liam but Brett was too quick and did a maneuver over him and charged at Liam.
"Please Liam; don't let him get to you. You can do this." Sierra kept whispered to herself.
As if Liam had heard –which he did – he stared at her and gave her a small smile but in just a blink of an eye everything went all black for him.
Sierra jumped up.
"Oh god!"
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A/N: Dun, Dun, Dun! Drama! Drama! How did you like that chapter? Lol. Did you guys like the Liam/Sierra interaction of this chapter? Who liked my twist of bringing Brett into the mix? Is Liam okay? How about Chelsea and Mason? Please give me feedback on it by reviewing this chapter. And follow, favorite for interest in the story. Thanks for the support.
I thought for a while on who would be best suitable for the role of Sierra and I chose actresses Olivia Holt, Chloe Moretz and Dove Cameron but I was wondering if you'd list whoever you envisioned and I'll make an edit for the cover.
To all my reviewers: Thank you and keep them coming (new ones don't be shy)
Wolflover1989: Yeah, I also think there's something fishy about her. Thanks for the ship name! Lol! Siam is amazing. Thanks for the reviews Hun! You're the best.
