Disclaimer: I do not own MTV's Teen Wolf.
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Stiles, Scott and I were talking among ourselves up against Scott's locker, when Stiles nudged Scott in the side.
"What are you looking at?" Stiles asked, causing Scott to look at him.
"Me?" He replied, clearly distracted. I bit my lip to keep a laugh in.
"Yes, you. Are you looking at her?" Stiles moved his gaze to Kira, who was going through her locker across the hall. A smile spread across Scott's face.
"Who, her?" He motioned to Kira, playing dumb. I face palmed at his failed attempt to be nonchalant.
"Yes, Scott. Kira. Do you like her?" I joined into the conversation, genuinely curious.
"No. I mean, yeah. Yeah, shes new." Scott pointed out the obvious, averting his gaze to meet my eyes. Stiles chuckled, slapping his hands on his thighs.
"So? Go ask her out." I added in, pushing him in her direction. He quickly rebounded and took his position in front of us again.
"Now?" He questioned, giving me a look. I nodded, waving my hands in Kira's direction.
"Right now. Scott, I don't think you get it yet. You're an Alpha. You're the apex predator. Everyone wants you. You're like the hot girl that every guy wants." I laughed at the analogy Stiles gave, covering my mouth.
"I'm the hot girl?" Scott mumbled, looking out into nowhere.
"You are the hottest girl." Stiles put his hands on Scott's shoulders, then turned and walked away.
"I'm the hot girl." Scott said confidently, still looking into space.
"Yes you are." I replied through laughs before turning around to follow Stiles.
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Later that day, Stiles pulled the fire alarm due to a convicted mass murderer named William Barrow being seen nearby. The man was an engineer and I came to the conclusion that he could blow up the entire school. Long story. They didn't find him, and I was feeling pretty shitty about causing unnecessary problems for everybody. Stiles invited me over, knowing how I wasn't very happy.
"What do the different colored strings mean?" I inquired, laying down and looking at the giant board in Stiles bedroom. It had pictures, newspaper articles, and notes all about the current crimes and issues going on in the town.
"Oh, just different stages of the investigations. So green is solved, yellow is to be determined, blue's just pretty." He replied, taping something on the board.
"What does red mean?" I asked, wrapping one of the red strings around my fingers.
"Unsolved." Stiles told me simply, stepping back and observing the board.
"You only have red on the board." I added, looking at the many red strings attached to it.
"Yes, I'm aware. Thank you." Once again with the sarcasm.
"Did you get detention for pulling the alarm?" I questioned, moving my hair behind my shoulders.
"Yep, everyday this week. It's okay though. You were just trying to keep everyone safe." Stiles replied, moving something on the board.
"We didn't even have any proof he was there." I whispered, still twirling the string around my fingers. Stiles must have sensed the change in my voice, because he came and kneeled by the bed.
"Olivia, you were just being prepared." He began unwrapping the string from my fingers and reassuring me.
"But he wasn't there, and I got you in trouble." I truly felt guilty. He didn't deserve to have detention all week. If anybody did, it was me.
"Hey, stop it. You're almost always right about things. You're incredibly smart. Don't start doubting yourself now." Stiles said sincerely, making me smile. The string was now completely off of my fingers, and he held it in his hand.
"Thank you, Stiles." I mumbled, resting my head on my hand.
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Later that night, Lydia sensed something was wrong and returned to the school. In the chemistry classroom, somebody had written atomic numbers on the chalkboard. She ended up figuring out that the numbers written meant Kira. The man who had caused all the commotion earlier, William Barrow, had kidnapped her and taken her to a power substation. There he attempted to electrocute her, to which she somehow absorbed the electricity without being harmed while Scott watched. Lovely, another supernatural creature. Not to mention Isaac claims to have seen five masked men with glowing eyes, like a "firefly". After the events at the substation, some parts of the town were having a blackout.
"So there's a black light party?" I asked Stiles curiously, to which he nodded.
"More like cancelled party. The venue I booked wont have power for at least another day." Danny approached us, joining into the conversations. My excitement faded away and my smile dropped.
"Do you want help finding a new place?" Stiles questioned, closing his locker.
"What's the point? Nothing in town is gonna have power. Thanks anyway." Danny turned and walked away, leaving me and Stiles alone. My eyes darted around the hallway, and the bell rang dismissing us to our next class.
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"Do you have your phone? I'm going to show you something no one else has ever seen. No one except for Barrow. Take a picture of me. And use the flash." Kira said to me as we sat next to each other in the hallway. It was lunchtime, and I was eating a ham and cheese sandwich. I took my phone out of my purse, opened the camera, and took a picture of her.
"Whoa." I gasped, looking down at the phone. In the picture, Kira had an orange glow surrounding her. When I looked up, she had an uneasy look on her face.
"What is it?" I added, to which she shrugged.
"I don't know. It started showing up a couple of months ago. It only happens with the flash on. And I don't know how, but Barrow knew about it. He used my own phone to take pictures of me." She answered, still looking at the picture. Kira's phone had been taken from the substation by the sheriff as evidence.
"We need to get your phone back." I sighed.
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