Chapter 4 (Allyssa's POV)
I woke up the next day in Derek's arms and smiled widely. He was shirtless and the covers only came a little above his hips, I admired his amazing physique. The alarm clock started to go off indicating it was 5:30 and I had to get ready for school. I turned it off quickly hoping it didn't disturb Derek, he stirred but stayed asleep. I got up slowly and went to the bathroom to take a shower. I turned my music on lowly so it wouldn't wake him but to where I could still hear it, it helped that since I got the bite my hearing was like supersonic. I turned on the shower as hot as it would go, stripped, and then got in. I took my time, reveling in the warmth of the water. I got out about an hour later and wrapped my body in a towel. I walked into my room to get my comb and Derek was sitting up.
"Good morning, beautiful." He said and smiled.
"Morning." I said and walked over to his side of the bed, sat down, and kissed him. We sat there for a couple of minutes doing nothing but kissing. I pulled away and smiled. "I should probably finish getting ready." I said and he nodded.
"I can always help you get dressed." He said teasingly. I shook my head and giggled. I went over to my drawers and grabbed a red lacy bra and matching panties and went into the bathroom to put them on. I came back out wearing nothing but my bra and panties. He had been sending a text to someone and when he heard me walk out he looked up and his jaw dropped. I didn't really expect that type of reaction, but I wasn't going to argue. I didn't mind him seeing me like this. In fact, I kind of liked it. I walked over to my closet to find an outfit for the day. I held up stuff for his opinion and he decided on a pair of white cut off shorts, a grey vest, and my grey vans. I got dressed and walked over to him. He ran his finger over the part of my stomach that was showing, he messed with the dangle of my belly ring and poked my tattoo, I giggled. He kissed me and put his hands in my hair and then slowly moved them down my bare back. I shivered at his touch. I pulled away. "I still have to finish getting ready, you know." He nodded. I looked at the time and it was 6:55, I wouldn't have time to straighten or curl my hair, so I just let it fall to the middle of my back in loose waves. All the make-up I wore was a light layer of eye liner, and mascara to make my lashes look thicker; on my lips I wore a soft pink lip balm.
"Do you want breakfast?" Derek asked me, I shook my head and walked into the bathroom to brush my teeth. I looked into the mirror to see what I was doing and I saw Derek come up behind me and I felt him put his arms around my waist. He started kissing my neck and I shivered. I spit out my toothpaste and rinsed with mouthwash and water then turned around and kissed him. He deepened the kiss and lifted me by my waist. I wrapped my legs around him and he carried me to the bed. He started kissing my neck and I looked at the clock again, it was 7:25. I jumped up quickly, "I have to get to school, or I'm going to be late."
"I can drive you." He offered and I nodded and grabbed my purse and phone. He grabbed my hand and we ran downstairs and out the door.
We were at the school within the next twenty minutes. I gave him a kiss and got out of the car. I started walking off and he rolled down his window and yelled out, "I'll pick you up after school!" I turned around and blew him a kiss and ran inside. As soon as I got through the doors I bumped into Allison. "Hey, Alli." I said.
"Hi, Ally." She replied, smiling at the fact that we had the same nickname, just spelled different.
"I haven't seen you in a while. How've you been?" I asked her awkwardly.
"Oh, I've been okay. You know since the breakup." I nodded.
"Well, I know for a fact that he misses you, maybe you should give it another try, maybe Uncle Chris might come around this time." Alli nodded and smiled a big smile.
"Yeah, maybe he will. Well I have to get to class I'll see you around." I nodded and walked to my locker. I grabbed my books and walked to my first class.
The morning flew by quick and before I knew it, it was lunch. I walked over to the table I had been sitting at since I got here. Isaac was already seated next to Scott. I put down my tray and sat down across from Scott. I bit into my apple.
"So, Derek gave you the bite." Scott said and I almost choked. I wiped the corner of my mouth and smiled shyly.
"Uhm, yeah. I asked him for it the other night when you were there." Isaac looked up at me and gave me a look that said sorry.
"Did you think of what might have happened if you rejected the bite?" Scott said furiously. I nodded. He sighed and dropped the conversation at that. We sat there in silence until the end of lunch. When the bell ring I jumped and hurried to my next class. It was my second to last class of the day and I wanted to hurry up and get it over considering I had a free period the last period of the day and I had been going to the art room for the last couple of days. Class didn't go by as fast as the others but I guess it's because I was actually looking forward to something and being able to get my mind off of everything. The bell finally rang after what felt like a century of day dreaming. I went straight to the art room and got out my sketch pad.
I spent the whole period sketching, not paying attention to what I was actually sketching. When I actually looked at the sketch I noticed it was a drawing of a boy in what looked like a life guard chair with blood pooling around him on the concrete. It looked like his throat was slit, but you could also tell it looked like his head had been bashed in on the right side. I jumped back at the sight of how gruesome it was. The bell rang and I grabbed my bag and ran outside looking for Derek, he pulled up less than a minute later. I ran up to the car and jumped in, he looked at me smiling and as soon as he saw the look on my face, that gorgeous smile that I loved so much vanished.
"What's wrong?" He asked urgently, as if he thought someone had hurt me. I pulled out the sketch book from my bag and showed it to him.
"I had gone into like a daze and when I snapped out of it, I had drawn this." He looked at the sketch and his eyes kind of narrowed.
"What's this?" He asked me as if it didn't mean anything.
"I don't know, I was hoping you did." He shook his head. "Well, then maybe it is nothing." He nodded.
"Oh, by the way, tonight is your first full moon, and I am going to try and get Boyd and Erica out of the vault." I nodded and realized he mentioned Erica.
"I thought Isaac said she was dead."
"No, he said he lost her, he meant since she was taken." I nodded understanding. "Wait, if you aren't going to be here with me, who is going to help me through my first full moon?" He gave me a look.
"Isaac." I shrugged thinking it wasn't that bad; I mean we were still friends. "And my Uncle Peter." My eyes widened but I wasn't going to say anything.
"What's it going to be like?" I asked scared of what might happen.
"You are going to be stronger than ever, angrier than ever, and you will want to rip apart anyone in sight." I laughed sadistically.
"Good thing I had my period last week then." He laughed a little.
"Erica said that on her first full moon, too." I smiled. "Well then maybe she and I will get along." I said as he drove off. We stopped at Taco Bell on our way to my house and got some food.
We pulled into the drive way around 4:15 and I really had to go to the bathroom and Derek found that funny. I hurried to the door and unlocked it, Derek followed behind me laughing. I ran inside and straight to the bathroom, when I came out Derek had poured us drinks and he smiled at me.
"Better?" He asked teasingly. I nodded and took a sip of my drink; as soon as it touched my tongue I could tell he put rum in it.
"Trying to get me drunk without telling me?" I asked.
"Ha, no it's just it is easier to go through the change if you are." I nodded and took and a large drink, it burned my throat as it went down. I walked over to the couch with the bottles of rum and Dr. Pepper. He followed with the bags of food. I turned on the TV to Family Guy. We ate and I drank. It was around six when Isaac and Peter showed up and I was full on drunk.
"Isaac!" I ran up to him and hugged him.
"Is she drunk?" He asked Derek pissed off.
"Yes, I am." I answered slurring my words. "Derek said it will help me with the change." We walked down to the basement.
"It will, but you will have a hangover tomorrow, during school." I hiccupped
"Oopsies." I giggled. Derek went outside and came back in with a large chest. "What's that?" I asked.
"Something else that will help you get through the change, Drunky." He opened it and tossed a crown with sharp screws to Isaac.
"Same thing we used for Erica?" Derek nodded. "We might need more because Erica had gotten out and I am pretty sure Ally is stronger." Derek nodded again and tossed chains to Isaac. "That's better." Isaac turned to me. "Okay, Ally, this is going to hurt. Peter and I are going to hold you down while Derek puts it on." I gulped and nodded. Derek walked over as Isaac grabbed my hand and Peter grabbed my shoulders. Derek put the crown on my head and started screwing the spikes into my skull. I screamed out in pain and my vision blurred from blood. Derek continued at this for a couple minutes and by the time he stopped I was in Isaac's arms crying. I could feel the chains go around my wrists, ankles, and neck; I could hear them putting the chains around the pipes. I was completely sober by the time I could see clearly again. Isaac got a wet rag and was wiping the blood off of my face. I was crying from the pain I felt and Derek walked over to me.
"I have to leave now; I should be back by tomorrow morning, okay?" I nodded and he kissed me gently. He walked towards the stairs and Isaac followed him. I could hear them whispering, but I couldn't focus in on the words. I saw Isaac nod before he walked back over to me.
"You okay?" He asked me. I nodded.
"Can you get me some water, my mouth is really dry." He nodded and ran upstairs. I looked over at Peter and he was already staring at me. "What?" I asked nervously.
"So, you're the girl, Kate's daughter, and the first girl my nephew has been this awe struck over since he was about fifteen."
"Uh, I guess." I said slowly. He walked away.
"Good, so now I have her if I need to get Derek to do something." I heard him whisper right before Isaac came back downstairs. He held up a glass of water with a straw in it.
"Isaac come her." I said, he moved a little closer. "Closer." I gave him a look so he would understand I had to tell him something. "I don't trust Peter, he said something he thought I couldn't hear but I did." I said low enough that I knew Peter wouldn't hear.
"What did he say?" He asked right before I got a sharp pain in my fingers, I looked down and saw long claws. I could feel my teeth elongating.
"It's happening isn't it?" I said each word between short breaths. He nodded. I groaned as I could feel my eyes changing. I started slashing because of the pain, and all of a sudden I felt pissed. I started kicking and wiggling trying to get free.
"Ally, you have to calm down, try to stay calm. Find an anchor. Find something to keep you here, Derek uses anger, I use my dad, Scott uses Allison, find something." I listened to him and tried to find one. I started going through the list of people I cared about. Then I went through all of my emotions, nothing was working. I tried focusing on things I enjoyed, none of that worked. I couldn't think of anything else and then I realized I hadn't tried using Isaac as an anchor when I went through the people I cared about. I thought of Isaac and how happy he was when we had first kissed, how upset he was when he found out I had gotten the bite and that I had kissed Derek, how I thought he was happy for me and Derek when he gave us his blessing; all of a sudden I could feel myself calming down. I didn't feel myself change back to human, but I did calm down, I wasn't angry anymore. Oh, god. This isn't good. If anyone should be my anchor shouldn't it be Derek? I thought to myself. I looked up at Isaac and saw him smiling at me. I smiled back at him and immediately stopped realizing I was still wolfed out.
I was still in so much pain, and I was exhausted, but we were only a couple of hours into the full moon. Isaac could see that I was exhausted and in pain, he put his hand on my arm and his veins turned black and at the same time my pain eased up. I slumped against him in relief.
"How much longer?" I heard Isaac ask Peter.
"Three hours."
"You hear that, you are almost done." I nodded and I started getting really dizzy.
"Isaac, I feel really weak, I don't think I can," My knees started to shake. "Hold myself up anymore." I had just finished when I collapsed, I had enough slack on the chains to let me fall but my arms were still raised. I could feel Isaac unchaining my hands for a second and putting them on the same pipe but farther down, he pulled them taut. I lay down and started shivering; Isaac went upstairs for a couple of minutes and came back down with two pillows and a large blanket.
"Peter, go help Derek, I got it from here." Peter nodded and left. Isaac put a pillow next to me for my head and one about two feet from that for him. Before he lay down, he covered me with the large blanket and went upstairs to get me another glass of water. When he came back downstairs he showed me a text Derek sent him.
"I won't be able to get over there until tomorrow afternoon, do whatever she asks of you or anything that will comfort her. Tell her I'll be over there as soon as I can. And sleep downstairs with her tonight; I don't want her alone, especially with Deucalion alive still." I read it out loud and sighed. I leaned my head on my pillow and got as comfortable as I could on the fresh wood floor.
Apparently I had dozed off because when I woke up the sun was starting to rise, and I was cuddled to Isaac's side. He was looking at me.
"See, that wasn't so bad." He said and got up to unchain me. "This might hurt again." I grabbed his one of his hands as he started to unscrew the crown with the other. When he was done I didn't bleed, but my cheeks were wet from tears. I was too weak from the pain and he carried me to my bedroom. He put me in my bed and covered me up. He started to walk out of my room when I stopped him.
"Wait, don't go. Stay with me tonight. I'll text Derek, so if we aren't up when he gets back and sees us he won't get the wrong idea." Isaac nodded and got into bed. I sent Derek a text, Isaac is staying in my bed with me tonight because I don't want to be alone, don't get the wrong idea. I'll see you when you get here later today. I didn't wait for a reply before I turned off my phone, I knew I probably shouldn't do what I did, but I cuddled into Isaac's side and feel asleep. That night I had dreams that left me wondering whether I had made the right choice or not.