Haunted

Chapter 6: Second Trial

By Friday lunch time, Clark felt well and truly settled in. He'd had at least two lessons of each of his classes allowing him to get his head around exactly what his classmates were learning about. In some cases was the same as his old school and in others very different. He was also beginning to get used to all his new and different teachers. 

He hadn't had a history class with Mr Kenneth since the beginning of the week but Clark had seen him around the school and in between classes more than he had seen any of his other teachers. He suspected that the guy was keeping a close eye on him, worried perhaps that he might self-destruct. As much as Clark wanted to, he couldn't blame his teacher for that concern. Clark had stuck to his plan of ignoring her but it didn't stop his sister from suddenly appearing, and just as quickly disappearing, during everyday events. Ignoring her certainly didn't help the nightmares.

Clark was sure that his situation wasn't helped by Laura still being missing. That only added stress to his load. Derek was insistent on finding her himself and not getting the police involved. Because of this, Clark had to act like everything was normal in school; as if his older sister - who had taken over as a mother figure in his life when he was ten-years-old - hadn't vanished of the face of the earth. Allison was the only person he'd mentioned it to and she seemed to had completely forgotten for she hadn't mentioned it again, perhaps distracted by the misunderstanding and the following lies that Clark had fed her. It left Derek as the only person that Clark could actually talk about Laura to but even he was reluctant. Derek had never been the best when it came to opening up and expressing feelings but any attempts Clark made to discuss their Laura situation was quickly ended or moved on to Scott.

Scott was a whole different problem. Clark's childhood friendship with Jackson had thrust him straight into the popular crowd. He was sitting at a lunch table surrounded by people who he had come, over the week, to call his friends; Danny, Jamie, Kyle, Jackson, Lydia and Allison (who'd caught him before leaving the diner and pointed out that her dad doesn't know who she hangs out with at school). Clark had quickly realised that Scott, despite being on the Lacrosse team with a lot of these guys, was not so popular. It wasn't that he was unpopular; he just appeared to keep his head down and be attached to Stiles. With Jackson's friends all being surprisingly welcoming and talkative, Clark struggled to find the time to have a proper conversation with Scott.

"Hey," Jackson tapped Clark on the side of his arm to gain Clark's attention and lift his eyes from the tray of food he was staring at to the people who were all staring at him expectantly. Clark's eyes shifted between them uneasily, feeling like he had missed something. Allison was giving him the same look as she had during the entire 'why are you acting weird' farce before their misunderstanding. Yeah, he had missed something. From his confused look, Jackson appeared to gather that he had not been listening at all. "I said, are you sure you can't come to the party tonight? Even Allison is coming now."

Clark looked at Allison in surprise. After meeting her father he had quickly drawn the dots that it wasn't a coincidence that 'family night' fell on a full moon. He had no doubts that it was Argent's way of keeping Allison safe from the out of control werewolves running around under the control of their primal instincts. "Wait. What happened to family night?"

"She got herself a date," Lydia answered for Allison and was looking at Clark as if he should have known the answer to that question already. Clark didn't understand; he'd only heard talk about Allison having a date once before, at the diner, and that was with Scott.

Oh shit.

"Scott's going to the party tonight?" Clark checked to make sure he was following properly. A house full of partying teenagers was one of the last places Scott should be for his first full moon as a werewolf.