Chapter 5 UNEDITED
"Looking lonely there."
After Scott and Stiles ran out on me earlier I realised I'd have to spend my study period alone, which ended up with me sat at a desk in the Library, surrounded by notes and books as I worked on my biology paper. I look up from paper covered desk to see two boys smiling down at me, and these two boys just so happened to be the set of new twins that recently joined school.
"Uh yeah," I laughed a little, tucking a piece of hair that was in my face behind my ear, "I guess I am a bit. My friends rushed off claiming that they had something to do, so here I am, studying along." I gestured to my work pile in front of me as I spoke, and the two boys looked down at me sympathetically.
"Well they don't exactly sound like good friends. I'm Aiden and my brother here is Ethan, mind if we sit?" The boy, Aiden, spoke again.
"oh, yeah, yeah, sure, you can sit." I spoke hastily as I began to frantically scrape my paper and random notes into a semi-neat pile to clear some room for the twins to get work out if they wished. "My- uh- My names Danni." I stuttered out as they sat down at the desk. Did I mention how good-looking these twins are? No? Ah, okay, well the simple answer is very.
"So, Danni." Ethan began, leaning close to me over the table as he slowly pushed my laptop closed. "Who are your friends?"
"Your bad friends." Aiden cut in, and I felt my mouth frown slightly at his words.
"They're not bad friends." I quickly jumped to the rescue of Stiles and Scott, "They're just busy, you know? Don't always have time for me. Which I get, I mean It's fine. But yeah, they're names are Scott and Stiles."
"Scott and Stiles." Aiden said in an almost patronising tone, looking to his brother, who's tone seemed to match his own.
"They sound familiar, say Aiden, are they on the lacrosse team?"
"Ah, yes, that must be where we know them from." Ethan then place his hand on his brother's arm, and looked my way, a slight smirk on his face.
"Hey, Danni, aren't you Stiles' girlfriend?" I felt uncomfortable under the twin boys' gaze, their words and questions almost condescending making me feel as if I was being pushed into a corner, yet, I felt inclined to answer any questions they wanted.
"Ye-yeah, I'm Stiles' girlfriend."
"I see." Aiden spoke, smiling towards his brother. "So, Danni, where exactly are your friend and boyfriend."
"I'm not sure. Like I said, they ran off on me earlier." My voice growing quieter and quieter as I felt an ulterior motive behind the twins' curiosity that was much more than concern for myself. However, my answer didn't seem to do much to satisfy Aiden as his face seemed to turn hard and he leaned closer towards me.
"You're not, lying, to me, are you Danni?"
"No- no I swear, I-I really don't know." Ethan suddenly placed his hand on Aiden's arm and pulled him away from me, causing Aiden to glare his way.
"I don't think she... knows Aiden." Aiden stared at his brother until something seemed to click in his brain and the hard look on his face turned back into the smile that was there when he first approached me. The two boys then stood up from the desk and smiled down at me.
"Okay, thank you Danni, lovely speaking with you. Good luck with your Biology paper." Aiden spoke before he and his brother walked away and straight out of the library. I stared at my desk, confused. I opened my laptop back up when something clicked in my head.
"How did he know I have a Biology paper?"
My phone lit up on the table beside me, a text from my mom telling me she picked up another night shift. I chewed my lip as I picked up my phone, Aiden and Ethan were being strange about Scott and Stiles, really strange. Aiden in particular got quite aggressive when I didn't know where they were.
I dialled Stiles number and held the phone up to my ear, Stiles answered almost instantly.
"Hello?"
"Hi- uh- Danni, look I can't really talk right now, but are you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine. I need to tell you something though so can you come around to mine tonight? I can pick up some takeout?"
"Yeah of course babe, I'll see you tonight. Gotta go, love you."
"love you too."
I quickly sent my mom a text of my plans before I began writing my paper again, knowing that if
Stiles was coming over for dinner I wouldn't have much time to work on my paper at home.
There were four chased knocks at the door, and I hopped up from my seat on the sofa to answer. When I open the door, a boy called Tom was stood at the other side holding a large pizza in his hand.
"Hey Danni." Tom smiled brightly, nodding his head slightly. Tom was a senior and on the Lacrosse team with Stiles, which is how I know him.
"Hey Tom, how much is it?" I asked, reaching for my purse.
"Just $15. Stiles coming over?" Tom asked, peering slightly into my house as I handed over the money for the pizza and a few dollars extra.
"Uh yeah, should be here soon I hope." I answered, taking the pizza. "See you tomorrow, Tom." I waved before shutting the door and placing the pizza down on the kitchen counter. I looked up to the clock on the kitchen wall and saw that it was 6:15, Stiles should be here soon. I sat back down on the sofa and continued watching gossip girl on Netflix.
"Danni? Danni? Wake up sweetie." I felt my mom's hand on my shoulder as she woke me up, I glanced around warily and realised that I was laid on the sofa, the tv now switched off.
"Mom? What are you doing home so early?" I asked, confused, and my mom's eyes softened, a deep coating of sympathy over her face.
"Sweetie... It's 4am."
"What...?" I quickly grabbed my phone and sure enough the time read 4, I skimmed through my messages... Not even one was from Stiles.
"What do we do till then?" Stiles' voice flittered as he hiked his bag further up on his back, and Scott just looked at him plainly as the school bell rang out in the distance.
"What, right now? We've got English."
"You have English." I spoke, standing in front of my two closest friends causing them to halt in their path, "Stiles however, needs to have a word with me." The two boys looked to each other, confused, and Stiles tilted his head towards me.
"Why, what do you need to... oh." Stiles realised what he had done when I raised my brows at his 'almost' question, and a look of culpability immediately spread over his face. "Oh my god- Danni I'm so sorry."
"What? What's going on?" Scott asked, clearly oblivious, and I turned my head to face his way.
"Go to class Scott, you don't want to risk any more late marks, we'll be right behind you." I said, an edge still in my voice.
"Uhh, okay." It was clear Scott was beyond confused, meaning Stiles obviously hadn't mentioned that he was supposed to have been coming over to mine last night, that, or he had also forgotten. "See you then?" Scott joined the crowd of students that were going into the school, and made his way to English, while I turned and faced Stiles, who had a guilt-ridden look upon his face.
"So, care to tell me while I was still on the sofa at 4am when my mom got back from her goddamn night-shift, and you still hadn't showed up, or even bothered to send me a text to tell me you couldn't make it?!" I almost yelled but tried my hardest to keep my voice contained as I didn't want to draw any unnecessary attention to Stiles and me.
"Danni, I'm so sorry." Stiles spoke, taking a step towards me, but I only took a step backwards in return, which caused a frown to embed itself on Stiles' lips. "I just got so caught up in something else that it completely slipped my mind. I promise, I really didn't mean to." Stiles pleaded, but recently his excuses were always the same.
"What do you mean 'caught up in something else' what were you doing Stiles?" I questioned further, for once just wanting an honest answer from my boyfriend on his whereabouts.
"I was, just with Scott... we were practising, lacrosse." He strung together loosely, and I felt my heart break slightly, knowing his words were false.
"You were practising lacrosse... all night?" I tried one more time, giving Stiles the chance to tell me the truth. But of course, he didn't bite.
"Yeah, when we got back to my house we were so tired we just fell asleep, and I completely forgot to text you. I promise, I won't do it again okay?" I sighed, rubbing my forehead in defeat, knowing I would never win.
"Okay."
"Good." Stiles chirped, grabbing my hand and pulling me towards the entrance of the school. "Now I do believe we have an English class to attend, that we might just be the slightest bit late for."