Chapter 4

"Thereare no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood."

Waking up the next day was painful. To know that she had to start school halfway through a semester was a bit daunting. She could already feel the whispers and constant stares that would follow her all day. "Who is that?" "She's new isn't she?" "Oh my god look at what she's wearing!"

Will rolled over burying her face into her pillow before sighing, throwing her duvet off and climbing out of bed. "Uggggggghhh, school." She mumbled to herself as she dragged her sleepy self across the hall to the bathroom to shower.

Showering on the first day of starting a new school is never fun. Most days the majority of her time spent showering was spent on contemplating everything in her life, things she had done wrong, how things could have been better etc. so when you pair that with the worries of starting a new school you basically get 25 minutes of very unlikely to happen scenarios which all end in being mortally embarrassed and shunned from Beacon Hills. It's safe to say Will may have been just a bit nervous.

Finally realising that there was a very very small chance that she'd forget to wear clothes to school that day Will climbed out of the shower, wrapped a towel around herself and picked up her pajamas.

Just as she was leaving the bathroom Isaac came out from his room. He was already dressed and Will had the feeling he had been up for quite a bit longer than she had. She was also acutely aware that she wasn't actually wearing anything except for a towel.

"Morning." He shot her a small smile as he closed his bedroom door.

"Hi." She replied "I mean...good morning...that is I hope you have a good morning. I'm not telling you to have a good morning you might not-" She stopped herself mid-sentence cursing herself in her head. That made no sense!

"Uh-yeah." She finished avoiding making eye contact with him and all but ran back to her room slamming the door behind her.

Squeezing her eyes shut and shaking head at her previous behaviour she leaned against the door hitting her head softly against it repeatedly. "I'm so stupid." She muttered under her breath.

Telling herself there was nothing she could do about it now and then realising that if she didn't hurry up she'd be late for school (she wasn't the fastest shower-er) she threw open her closet and grabbed the nearest pair of leggings she could find- a giraffe sunset silhouette patterned pair- and a grey sweater.

Will wasn't into fashion. At all. She could dress up if she wanted to but she didn't really see the point. A pair of leggings, usually some sort of bright print, a sweater and her trusty combat boots suited her fine. They were comfy and it wasn't all that horrendous looking.

She dried her hair as quickly as possible without making it look like she had walked through a tornado and checked herself once over in the mirror.

Deciding that she looked pretty much the same as any other day she pulled on her combat boots, tucking her phone into the left one, grabbed her bag that she had prepared the night before (new notebooks and pens and pencils! She may or may not have spent a while just looking at them and their wonderful newness...) swung it over her shoulder and raced downstairs.

"Practising for cross country?" Scott smirked as she she grabbed an apple from the fruit bowl breathing heavier than normal.

"Is it that obvious? It's just that this house has the perfect terrain." She replied waving her hand that wasn't holding the apple around vaguely. "Where's Isaac?"

"He left already. Are you ready now?" He asked rolling his eyes and hauling his rucksack onto his shoulder.

"You were waiting for me?" She enquired as he pushed her towards the door.

"Yeah. Didn't want you to get lost." He replied following her out of the door pulling on his motorcycle helmet as he did so.

"I won't get lost." Will called over her shoulder as she opened her car door and Scott climbed on his motorcycle.

"Just follow me." He said over the sound of his bike as he started it. Scott waited for Will to climb into her car and start it before he pulled out of the driveway.

"Please don't let me die." She whispered before biting her lip and pulling out of the driving following after Scott.

"Where's this room?" She asked Scott pointing to a classroom stated on the timetable she was looking over as they made their through the mass of people all heading to their first lessons.

"It's down that hallway two doors down from-" He looked over her timetable "That one." Scott pointed at another room he was sure she knew the location of.

"Right...I think I got it now." She tucked the schedule into her bag and hefted it onto her shoulder properly.

The whispers and stares weren't as bad as she had imagined them to be. Most people didn't care they just vaguely acknowledged that they hadn't seen her before and carried on with their lives which pleased Will a lot. And so far none of her shower scenarios had happened and she was still allowed to walk through the halls without things being chucked at her.

"So, chemistry...woo." She cheered unenthusiastically as Scott led her to their chemistry classroom. It turned out they shared the same Chemistry and English class which was good because she didn't have to worry about getting lost and being late.

Will was really glad that Scott was helping her with finding her classrooms and things instead of just leaving her to figure it out on her own. She knew that most people wouldn't and it occurred to her that Scott was more of an older brother to her than a cousin. She'd only been away from her home town and her father for a few days and she was already happier than she'd ever been back there.

Entering the classroom a large amount of people's heads snapped up alert to the fact that she was new. Her eyes widened slightly. She felt like a spot light had been shone on her. She made her way to the teacher- She had been informed that the current teacher was ill so they had a substitute instead- making sure she didn't trip over her own feet as she did so and handed her a slip of paper just like she had been told to when she received her timetable.

"Right, take a seat at the back." She instructed pointing to the only available space in the classroom. Will glanced to the back of the classroom to see that the space was next to someone very familiar which was good in some aspects and not so good in others (She seemed to have a problem with embarrassing herself around him)

She slipped into the seat next to him, turned to him with a smile and whispered "Hi, I'm Will. I'm new."

"Isaac." He replied matching her smile. "You look familiar, have we met before?"

Pretending to think for a while she frowned "Isaac...It's not really ringing any bells..." She trailed off and Isaac let out a quiet laugh.

With a lapse in conversation Will turned her attention to the front of the room where the teacher was writing on the chalkboard. After a few minutes Will was very aware that the teacher had absolutely no idea what she was talking about. Will didn't even like chemistry so for her to know that something was wrong there had to be some pretty big mistakes.

"Is she qualified to teach chemistry?" She whispered to Isaac frowning at the 'teacher' who looked about as confused as Will felt.

"No." He replied simply.

"Ah." She said nodding her head and dropping her pen onto her notebook deciding note taking probably wasn't the best idea.

Feeling her phone vibrate in her boot Will bent down to fish it out.

Scott: How are you finding chemistry? ;)

Chuckling she tapped out a quick response.

Me: Shush! I'm trying to take notes here! This is really important stuff...

Laughing to herself at her amazing humour she bent down again to return her phone to it's previous place something catching her eye as she did so.

"Oh coo-" As she was straightening up she smacked her head on the corner of the lab bench. "Ouch." She pouted at Isaac who was trying not to laugh.

"Careful." He pointed out when he had regained his composure.

"Thanks." She replied straight faced. "I was going to say 'Oh cool, you play lacrosse.' but I'm not going to any more. Now it's... not...cool..." She grimaced at her very bad insult. In fact it probably didn't even qualify as an insult. "Uh-yeah not cool." She confirmed.

"Hey Isaac?" She asked after another lapse of silence.

"Mhm?"

"Is there a cross country team here?" Will whisper asked. Her mind had gone back to earlier this morning when Scott had asked her if she was practising for cross country and for some reason she really wanted to join.

"Uh, yeah. You should sign up soon though they've got a meet coming up." He whispered back.

A meet sounded fun. It gave her a reason to get out of chemistry for a day.

A/N:

I thought I should just point out that this is set between 'Unleashed' and 'Frayed'. Just imagine there is a really long time gap between the two episodes :P

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