Moving day, hooray. That was current thought in Mae's mind, accompanied with a sarcastic tone. Technically it was moving days since they've been driving for a what felt like forever now, but whatever.

This sixteen year old, female werewolf was being plucked up from her home and moved across the country much like any normal teenager would have been. Of course a normal teenager would be moved across the country for something like a parent's job transfer, or moving away from one parent to live with another (which of course wouldn't apply here since Mae's parents were still together), or even something like being sent to a boarding school. Those were relatively normal reasons. Being told by your alpha to pick up everything and move to a place that she'd never even heard of before, was not. The Alpha had his reasons of course but didn't care to share them with any of the 'lower betas' aka the 'kids'.

Mae's parents were in the van in front of the moving truck while Mae rode with one of her packmates; Ty. Their pack was pretty small with it consisting Mae and her parents, Ty, their Alpha; Damon and his daughter. Mae was not too happy with the sudden move so she was not too keen on the idea of being stuck in the van with their Alpha during the long drive. Hence the decision to drive with Ty in the moving truck.

Mae, not really in a conversing mood, had her sunglasses on and tried her best to make it seem like she was asleep. Sleeping wasn't in the cards even though it would be the best thing to do to make the time go by faster. Between crappy rest stops and being in the truck, Mae was starting to feel cabin feverish. She didn't want to go where they were headed and yet she couldn't wait to get there either. Pretty much just so she could run and feel free for the first time since this godforsaken move started. At least she was riding with Ty for the duration. He wasn't just a packmate of hers but pretty much her best friend. Not to mention he had taken on a kind of older brother role with her. Been that way for as long as she could remember and yet not. It was weird, the not part of it anyway. She'd been having weird dreams for the past week or two. Mae couldn't ever remember them when she awoke but they always felt weird to her. Mae hadn't mentioned them to anyone because she didn't see the point and besides, a girl's gotta have a secrets.

"Feet down." Were the words that pulled Mae from her thoughts whose feet were up on the dash. Mae ignored his words and continued to act like she was sleeping. "You're not fooling me Mae. Feet down."

She pulled her sunglasses down to look at Ty and replied, "No way."

Ty, who was only a few years older than Mae sounded way older when he replied with, "Don't make me pull this truck over."

She laughed at his threat, "You wouldn't do that."

Ty looked at her briefly as he said, "Alright then, you can tell everyone why we had to pull over." He turned on the directional light to indicate he was going to pull over and Mae shook her head defeatedly as she pulled her feet off the dash and placed them accordingly on the floor. "Better?" A question to which Ty only replied with a nod as he turned off the directional light.

Mae rolled her eyes as she put her sunglasses on top of her head and reapplied her black lipstick. Once she was satisfied with that and had nothing else to do, she started to drum her fingers on her leg in boredom. The radio in the truck didn't work so she only had her memory to replay songs over and over again in her head. As much as she loved her favorites, a change of pace would have been really nice. With an frustrated sigh she tried the radio again.

"It didn't work any other time you tried it Mae. It's not going to work for you now." Mae just glared at Ty and continued to try the radio to no avail.

"How much longer until we get to Bacon Hills?" She asked. Ty chuckled as he stopped at a sign then turned to continue following the van in front of them holding the rest of their pack.

"Beacon Hills, Mae. Beacon Hills. Say it with me now. Bea-con." Mae shoved Ty after he replied like that, but not enough to disrupt his driving.

"Shut up. Now come on, how much further to Beacon Hills?" She made sure to put an emphasis on the correct pronunciation of the word.

Ty looked up at a passing sign on the side of the road reading: Welcome to Beacon Hills. "You tell me." Ty replied with a smirk since he knew that Mae had just seen the same sign he did. Mae just glared at him before putting her sunglasses back over her eyes.

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The first thing Mae wanted to do was take off for a run when they reached their new house, apparently it used to be some old B&B so there was plenty of room for everyone. Sadly, she didn't get very far before she was pretty much ordered to help with the unloading. Mae wasn't too happy about it but complied. After making it clear that she wasn't happy about it that is. Damon didn't care for her attitude and pulled her parents off to the side to talk to them about it.

"You better watch it, he's not going to put up with you forever." Ty warned Mae as they walked up the ramp into the back of the truck.

Mae didn't reply and silently grabbed the most important thing she packed; her cello.

Ty grabbed her arm before she could leave to bring it inside and tried again, "I'm serious. One of these days you're going to push him too far and he's going to kick you out of the pack. Do you want that? To be an omega? What do you think that'd do to your parents?"

Mae often hated how Ty seemed to know her better than she knew herself more often than not. In fact she had been thinking about leaving the pack for a little while now. Mae didn't confirm nor deny this when she replied, "You don't have to become an omega to leave a pack. You just have to find a new alpha." was her reply.

Ty looked worried because of her words but let her go when she pulled away to bring her cello into the house.

Her parents were nowhere to be seen and neither was Damon or his daughter so they must already be inside. Mae was headed that way herself when a blue jeep pulled up and a young man came out. "Hey! I heard someone bought this place? Planning on opening it up again?"

Mae pulled her sunglasses down onto her nose a little. "Not that I know of. As far as I know, it's home. Now if you'll excuse me, I have stuff to do." Mae walked past the kid and headed inside.

As she walked away she heard him call out, "Well, okay then. See you at school or something!"

Mae just waved her hand behind her and proceeded inside. Was this town so small that the most exciting thing to happen was a new family moving into town? If that was the case then Mae was going to go bonkers. At least she had a forest nearby and her cello in hand. As long as she had those two, she was sure she could survive….for now.

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Mae flat ironed her long brown hair for her first day of school. Accompanied with a pair of jeans, black converse sneakers, black lipstick, a purple tank top and black leather jacket. Not to mention her cello, since she was planning on joining orchestra or band if she could. Whichever allowed it the playing of a cello. Mae wasn't about to take no for an answer, hence her bringing her instrument with her. She still couldn't believe that her parents offered to come with her. There was no way that was going to happen. Mae didn't even let them drop her off, Ty was allowed to after Mae received a long lecture about behavior and stuff. She kinda blocked her alpha out after the first few sentences so she really didn't catch it all. Not that she really cared.

Anyway, in front of the school she stood with slightly narrowed eyes. Mae was feeling a strong sense of dejavu, which was weird for her. (Weird being a word that she's been using a lot to descrive things lately). She couldn't help feeling as if she'd been here before or at least seen it. Not being able to determine the cause of this feeling was making her uncomfortable. It didn't stop her from hearing someone come up behind her. Mae whipped around to find the nosy kid that stopped by when her pack moved into the old B&B. The guy held up his hands in surrender.

"Whoa there. Didn't mean to scare ya. Just thought I'd say hi and introduce myself since you really didn't give me a chance to do that before." he said to her.

Mae set her cello case in a standing position in front of her and leaned on it as she looked at him. He looked confused by her actions which made Mae say, "Well? I'm waiting, you gonna introduce yourself or am I going to have to keep referring to you as the nosy hyper guy?"

He laughed at her reply, "You're funny."

She cut him off before he could anything else, "No, I'm Mae and still waiting for who you are."

He liked her snark, "I'm Stiles" he answered right before the bell for first period rang out "and we better get to class." he added in afterwards.

Mae sighed but agreed and picked up her cello case, "Lead the way then." Mae really didn't need or want his help but she found this Stiles character mildly amusing so she'd put up with him. Stiles waved for her to come along and Mae walked into school with him to start her first day.

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That was the first time Derek saw her. Or at least the first time he thought he saw her. Derek had to talk to Scott about something so he was going to talk to him at school. As he drove by he saw her. Derek thought he was seeing things. He had to be. That girl leaning on the cello case couldn't be Paige. But it looked like her. He had only caught a glimpse as he drove by but he couldn't stop thinking that it looked so much like Paige. By the time he parked his car, since he wasn't about to ditch it in the middle of the parking lot, and got to the front of the school all the students were heading inside and she was nowhere to be seen. Derek couldn't get the glimpse of the girl out of his head but he had other things to deal with so he pushed it back and continued on with his main reason for going to the school in the first place.

(End Chapter 1)