My mind was still reeling from the event at the school, so when I received a text from Lydia Martin it didn't seem too strange at the time, now that I think about it, it must have been a mixture of the wooziness of fainting and backlash of the pain from the alpha call in the school. I remembered the drive home, but I don't really remember actually arriving home. The text from Lydia read:

L: Hiya just wanted to say thanks for not saying anything about how clever I am, and to lets you know I am sorry for being a stuck up bitch to you, wanna hang? Grab some coffee maybe? Let me know xx :) Lydia

I looked at the text in shock.

She wanted to grab coffee with me? The girl she used to pick on. Had she lost her mind? I shrugged and sent a reply

M: sure I'll grab a hot drink with you, not really a coffee fan. I will forgive you,but I won't forget. I'm not the only one who noticed your intelligence you know.

I grabbed a pair of jeans, which happened to be my turquoise blue skinny jean, a white graphic tee and a pair of turquoise patterned white doc martins, I put on a black hoodie and picked up my cell phone and purse and went down into the kitchen. "hey uncle" I smiled at him, he smiled back showing his fanged teeth "going out somewhere?" he asked, I nodded at him walking to the sink and grabbing a glass of water to keep myself hydrated "yeah I'm meeting a friend for a drink at a diner, I've got my cell phone and some money so I will be fine" he looked at me "are you sure you should be going out?" he asked, I finished off my water "isn't this the reason why you bought me here, to get socialised?" I put air quotation marks around the word socialised he growled lowly at me and walked away, I chuckled knowing I had won.

I went outside to my car and saw a note shoved in the door panel

Hello Meridithe

looks like I'm in for a challenge

why don't you just agree to a date and make it easy

J

I internally screamed at his arrogance.

How could one person be so cocky and arrogant?

I rolled my eyes and set the note on fire with my handy cigarette lighter that I keep in a compartment in my shoe and tossed the ashes down on the floor. I got in my car driving away and singing along to Porcelain Black.

After a short drive I got out of the car at the cosy café that few people knew about but sold amazing hot chocolate with melted chocolate flakes on top. I went in and ordered mine and sat down at a table in the corner, as my drink arrived I saw Lydia come in through the door. I smiled at her and she came to sit across from me with her low fat caramel cappuccino, after a moment she started to talk "look I don't expect you to forget what I did, but can we start over?" I raised my eyebrow "like I said earlier, I will forgive you but I won't forget what happened" she looked at me and spoke again "so I want to thank you" I looked at her puzzled "for not saying about how clever I am" I smiled at her "I heard the literature teacher ask your parents if they would give permission for you to be IQ tested" she looked at me with a smug smile "oh really now" I shook my head "oh great and now your ego won't be able to fit through the door" I smiled to show that it was light hearted teasing.

We talked for about 2 hours, connecting and bonding. We agreed that this was something we should have done long ago, I hugged her causing her to freeze out of shock, but gradually hugging back.

The next day I woke up, showered and dressed in a coral sleeveless dress, black ankle boots, a blazer, my mums butterfly necklace and a bracelet I got from Nairobi. I got to school and saw Alison's fathers car, I also saw police around the school. I saw Alison walking out of the car so I caught up with her "hey cute jacket" I nudged her shoulder "right back at you with the bracelet" she grabbed my wrist and lifted it up to eye level "where did you get it? And can I go and get one?" I laughed "unless you can afford a trip to Africa and back, then yes you can certainly go and get one, my unlce got this one from Nairobi" she looked at me "why is it everybody has been to a lot of places and I haven't" she pouted, I smiled and nudged her again "don't worry, your travel time will come and you can then dazzle me with all of your fascinating stories and make me jealous with all of the fabulous things you get from the places you go" she laughed at my words and we went to class and sat near to Lydia in an effort to keep away from the boys.

"this is so weird, everybody's talking about what happened the other night, and nobody knows it was us" Alison said as we walked out of the classroom "thank you for the protection of minors" Lydia said "Lydia, Meridithe do you think I made the wrong decision?" Alison asked us exhaling "about that jacket with that dress?" Lydia asked "absolutely" I chuckled "I don't think she meant that Lydia" I looked pointedly at her "you know what I mean" Alison turned and looked at us "hello! Scott locked us in a classroom and left us for dead! He's lucky we're not pressing charges" I scoffed "and if any of us got injured then that would be more to add to the list" the bell rang "hey I gotta love you and leave you, I gotta get to my test, I will text you my wardrobe choices for tomorrow Lydia" I smiled and hugged her. I walked into my classroom just after Scott did and I took the seat behind Stiles "you have 45 minutes to complete the test" Mr Harris said "25% of your grade can be earned right now by writing your name on the cover of the blue book" I saw Stiles immediately pick up his pen and scrawl his name on the front on the book and I stifled a giggle "however as happens every year one of you will inexplicably fail to put your name on the cover, and I'll be left questioning my decision to ever become a teacher, so lets get the disappointment over with" he raised a timer "begin" after 5 minutes Scott walked out "Mr McCall!" the teacher shouted after him Stiles ran after him "Mr Stilinski!" I got back down to my paper and resigned myself to just worrying knowing that Stiles will know what to do.

Before lacrosse practice I got a text from Stiles

ST: I got first line!

I laughed at his use of explanation marks, as I walked down the corridors I saw Lydia in an office with Scott, they got closer together and started making out. My mouth dropped the girl didn't even realise how bad Stiles had a crush on her.

At practise the boys were training and I saw Someone knock down Danny. I ran over and knelt by him Jackson moved to take his helmet off "be careful he may have a concussion from the impact, who did this?" I asked, motioning to his bloody nose and dazed expression "my co-captain, Scott McCall" I blinked in shock why would Scott do that "are you sure? I mean it isn't like him to be like that" I got up and walked away.

What is up with this boy?

Later that evening after training I bumped into Stiles who was, like me, on his way to Scotts house to help him with the full moon and controlling him"hey can I ask you something?" he asked, but before I got a chance to reply he asked me his question "did Scott kiss Lydia?" I looked at him then to the floor and nodded "when?" he looked so upset, I felt like I had kicked a puppy "when you asked him to talk to her for you" I felt even worse as he looked completely broken. We walked to Scotts house in silence, I grabbed Stiles hand and squeezed it "I will always be here for you if you need me you know that right?" he nodded as we approached Scotts house. We went in and saw Scotts mom "Scott?" she called out "nope" I said "stiles" he said plastering a fake smile to his face "key" Scotts mom pointed to the object in Stiles hand, which there was a duplicate of on my keys also "yeah I had one made" she shook her head "that doesn't surprise me, scares me but doesn't surprise me" Stiles threw down his sports bag, which held the last option and they made a noise "what is that" I reached inside my bag and pulled out the fake project sheet "school project" Stiles said "Stiles, he's ok right?" she looked at us "I need to go to the bathroom so I will meet you up there" I walked away and went into the bathroom, changing the bandages on my stomach as I could feel blood seeping threw them and it would stain my shirt.

I walked out of the bathroom and into Scotts room were I knew Stiles would. Scott was sat in there on the chair with a scary gleam in his eyes "you think I'm gonna let you put these on, chain me up like a dog" Scott asked with a edge in his voice so I quickly passed Stiles the handcuff that I stored in my back packet, where he quickly moved to chain him up "what the hell are you doing?" he yelled "protecting you from yourself" Stiles stated "and giving you some payback" I looked at him "for making out with Lydia" I stayed while Stiles went to the kitchen, when he came back he had a doggy bowl and a bottle of water in his hands "I bought you some water" he said pouring the water in to the bowl "I'm gonna kill you two" Scott called after him throwing the bowl at us "you kissed her Scott" he turned around and stared at Scott "ok you kissed Lydia, that's the one girl that, you know the past three hours, I've been thinking its probably just the full moon, you know? He doesn't even know what he's doing, tomorrow he'll be totally back to normal, he probably won't even remember what a complete dumb ass he's been, a son of a bitch, a freaking unbelievable piece of crap friend" I walked up to Scott and looked at him "she kissed me" Scott said, provoking him "I didn't kiss her, she kissed me" he kept going on about how she kissed him, so I did the perfectly logical thing I could think of, I slapped him and I slapped him hard, he pushed me away from him, ripping a few of my stitches. I looked at him "I don't even know who you are at the minute Scott McCall" after a few minutes Scott started to ask to be let free and started to go on about how it was the full moon.

The moon started to reach its apex and I heard Scott screaming in pain, I started to cry, hating hearing my friend in pain, after a moment the yelling stopped, "Scott you ok?" Stiles called, I opened the door to see an empty room, I looked at Stiles and we both ran. I ran to the forest and saw a fight of two werewolves. Derek shifted back and moved closer to Scott "what's happening to me?" Scott asked. I walked up to them "exactly what he wants to happen" I left and teleported in to stiles truck, we soon came up to a site were there was a load of police cars. Stiles dad was nowhere to me seen. We looked at each other and got out of the car. We started to look around for his dad, and we saw a corpse come out of the site, to my relief it was Stiles dad. His father came out a moment later. Relief crossed Stiles face as he realised that his dad was ok. He hugged him tightly.

Later that evening I got a text from Jackson

J: hello Meridithe I know what Scott is

I dropped my phone in shock, damn it we have a problem.