Derek's minions left, with Derek leaving soon after, he was chasing after Jackson. Stiles got the bandages out of his jeep and gave them to me and left with Scott to chase after Derek but not before apologising that he couldn't help me put it on. Allison took Lydia and I home, the whole journey back Lydia was freaking out and wanting explanations. I was just so tired, I sat in the back seat and rested my head against the back window and watched the world go by. I could barely focus on anything my eyes just kept involuntarily closing.
"Hey Emily we are here", Allison's voice woke me up. I looked out the window to see my house across the street.
"Oh sorry I fell asleep", I rubbed my eyes and got up. "Thank you for the lift, I'm glad you're safe Lydia let's talk about this tomorrow okay?" Lydia just nodded her head and smiled softy.
"Sounds good, good night Emily", Allison said before I opened the door and got out of the car.
I snuck quietly into the house, praying that my dad didn't catch me sneaking into my room. He didn't thankfully. I replied Stiles' hoodie and took my jeans off, I tried my best to hold in my moans of pain. I then got the bandages that Stiles gave me and wrapped it around the scratches. I finished getting ready for bed before finally crashing onto my bed and sleeping.
When I woke up in the morning, I felt too drained and exhausted to go to school, I hardly slept last night with everything that was on my mind and my leg was throbbing all night. I put my dressing gone on to hide my bandaged leg, I then went downstairs to inform my dad that I wouldn't be going to school. He wasn't happy that it was my first week at school and I was already missing a day, I had a track record of skipping school. However, after some protest he gave up and let me have my day off. So I went back upstairs, jumped into bed and went back asleep.
I didn't sleep for much longer only an hour or so which is unfortunate as I will still tired when I woke up but my body wouldn't allow me to go back asleep so I decided to get up. I went in the shower to wash myself up I still had blood down my leg, it had dried up now and I had to scrub some off which pulled on the scratch causing some parts to open back up. I finished showering, I got ready to bandage my leg back but I hesitated. I stroked the area around the scratch on my leg, as I got closer to the opened areas pain pinched my skin. It looks like an animal attacked me, maybe an animal did attack me... are werewolves animals ? Isaac doesn't look like an animal, but werewolf Isaac had claws and canines. I had always believed in the super natural, I always loved conspiracy theories and believed most of them. I'm shocked but not surprised that werewolves do exist. Jackson being a lizard man... thing that did surprise I've never heard of anyone being a lizard. There was some weird guy from my town back home that I always thought was a werewolf he just acted so animal like, when he would get angry his veins would turn black I always assumed it was a medical condition. My finger moved over a little bump on a closed over part of the would, pulling me out of my thoughts. I fingered the area a bit more and it felt like something was stuck in there. Crap, I'm going to have to get this out. I opened the drawer under the sink and got a razor blade and a pair of tweezers. I sat on the toilet, turn on the flash on my phone and place my phone on the sink with the flashlight hanging over the edge shining on my thigh. I held the razor tightly and with my other hand I pulled my skin back. I took a deep breath before moving the razor towards the bump. All of a sudden there was a banging on my front door, I dropped the razor.
"Sh*t", I said staring at the razor on the ground. The banging carried on so I put a pair of shorts and a oversized top on and ran downstairs. I opened the front door revealing who was banging my door... Stiles. "Oh hey Stiles, to what do I owe the pleasure?"
"Allison told me you weren't at school so I thought I'd come and check in on and see how your leg is doing", he said looking down to see my bare leg. "It looks better". I blushed as I watched him staring at my leg. I know he was just checking out my scratch but I couldn't help but feel flustered.
"Well yeah, it hurts a lot". I place my hand over the area in hopes he would stop looking. "Actually are you free right now to help me with something?"
"Yes", he blurted out before realising how eager that sounded and coughed awkwardly before carrying on. "Yeah I mean I'm free for a few minutes". I grabbed his arm and brought him into my house and took him upstairs. "Huh this layout is very similar to my house".
"Well we are neighbours", I said leading him towards my bathroom.
"That makes sense", he emphasised the word 'that'.
When we were in the bathroom I sat back down on the toilet and picked up the razor as Stiles crouched down next to me.
"I was just feeling the scratch and I felt a bump like something was stuck inside right here", I grabbed his hand and placed it on my leg letting him feel around till he found the spot. "That's it".
"Yeah it does feel like, um, something is in there", he awkwardly fumbled his words as he left his hand on my leg.
"I was just about to cut it open and now you're here you can help me", I handed him the razor.
"Emily I can't cut your leg open". He tried to hand the razor back to me but I place my hand on top of his.
"Yes you can Stiles", I said reassuring him. "You won't hurt me and it's just one simple nick in my skin".
"You know when you asked me to help you with something I thought you meant your homework", stiles said chuckling to himself while rotating the razor between his fingers, being careful not to touch the sharp ends.
"And when you asked me to come to Scott's to study I thought we were actually going to study". I bit my lip playfully. I could see him shocked and impressed by my quick witted answer.
"Touché", he shook his head and I felt his breathy laugh on my leg sending shivers up my body. "Okay, okay let's do this".
I grabbed the tweezers and got them ready to get whatever is in my leg out. He delicately place his fingers on my thigh and moved them around until he found where the bump is, then he moved the razor towards my skin. The razor gently touched my skin and carefully moved its way downwards, it lingered there for a few seconds before Stiles lifted it out of my skin. I was too mesmerised by it's movements and how delicate Stiles was being to notice the pain. I too a deep breath and pulled back my skin as blood starting rising upwards, I put the tweezers into my pierced skin and fiddled around a bit, before I felt something and I used the tweezers to grip onto it and pull it out. I lifted the tweezers towards the flash light on my phone to see what I had just grabbed out of my skin. I felt a cold towel on my leg and I looked down to see stiles cleaning up my cut. He grabbed my bandages that were laying on the floor next to him and started wrapping my leg up. I looked back over to the tweezers and examined what they were gripping onto. It was thick, long and sharp.
"That looks like a nail", Stiles said moving his head closer to the tweezers to get a better look. He place his hand on the tweezers. "May I"?
I nodded my head and let him take the tweezers out of my hand. He put them closer to his eyes and then moved them downwards to his nose and sniffed the nail.
"Did you just sniff it?" I asked disgusted.
"I don't know why I just did that", he replied embarrassed. My cheeks swelled momentarily with pressure and I let out a suppressed laughter. Instead of being more embarrassed Stiles joined in. We laughed for a few moments, before Stiles eyes met mine and my chest rose and I let out one final chuckle while grinning from ear to ear. His eyes were sparkling under the yellow bathroom light, it's not a flattering light but they made his eyes look like pools of honey. "Umm I should get going, I was going to check on Lydia and I need to get back to Scott and Allison".
"Yeah", I said dreamily before reality hit me. "Oh you need to leave, of course that's okay. Well thank you for helping me with this". Stiles helped me up, we awkwardly stood there for a while. "I'll walk you downstairs". We walked downstairs in silence none of of saying a word I tried to think of something to say just to make small talk but anything I thought of didn't seem good enough. We got to the door and again just awkwardly stood there for a while. "Thank you again", I said while tucking my hair behind my ears.
"It's okay. Well I'll see you tomorrow". He jerked towards the door, he stopped for a moment his hand lingering over the door handle before he shook his head and opened the door and left.
I did nothing for the rest of the day but my thigh began to heal up so I didn't need to bandage it anymore, I went to bed earlier so that I would get enough sleep and be mentally ready for the day tomorrow. At school everyone was buzzing about this underground rave that was happening. It seemed to be a recently organised event as I hadn't heard about it till today so I hadn't been fortunate to get tickets. Maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to go especially since the day after is Lydia's party. I walked into school and noticed Allison walking with some guy called Matt who is obsessed with her, so I sped up to join them and safe Allison from this creep. "Hey guys, did you hear about this rave happening?"
"Yes, I was just asking Allison if she wanted to come with me", Matt replied fiddling with the three tickets in his hand. Allison closed her eyes I could tell she did not want to go. I think I'm about to kill two birds with one stone, help Allison out and get myself a ticket.
"Well Allison has already agreed to go with me, unless you have enough tickets then we can all go", I smirked at Matt hoping he would take the bait.
"Well I do have a spare ticket if you want to come", bait taken.
"I would love to", I said grinning widely.
"Well here you guys go". He handed the tickets to me and I proudly took them and place them in my pocket.
"Thanks Matt, see you later", I said sending him away.
"Thank you Emily, I really do not want to go with him", she whined.
"Now you don't have to, here have your ticket". I got a ticket out of my pocket and handed it to her. She took it and held it in her hand.
"Thank you", she mouthed before walking off to her lesson.
I had a few test this morning, my first week and I've already had my midterms luckily I revised a lot before moving over here and most of it is kind of similar to the stuff I learnt back home but doing the test is so different. Colouring in a letter, it feels like I'm doing a lottery and just choosing any letter I feel like. Hopefully my lesson this afternoon wouldn't be too bad. Walking to my next lesson I heard a familiar voice, it was Stiles. He was standing on the top of the stairs talking to Erica, actually it looked like more than talking. She had her hand on his chest, he was pushed up against the wall and their was only a little space between them. The more I watched them the more it looked like they weren't just talking. My heart dropped and my chest felt heavy, I wanted to look away and I tried to but I needed to walk that way to get to my next lesson. I carried on walking, I kept my eyes forward as tried not to look over but as I walked up the stairs I couldn't help but to glance at the pair. Stiles eyes moved to meet mine and a look of panic came over his face. I darted my eyes back to the corridor and carried on walking trying to forget about what I had just witnessed.
I didn't forget, that image of Erica towering over Stiles very dominantly stayed in my mind all day and it was all I could think about. I didn't notice Stiles after that for the rest of my day I was too focused with my own thoughts to notice anything else. I didn't even know that Allison, Scott, Stiles and a few others got detention it wasn't until Lydia told me.
"It's their own fault, Scott and Jackson were fighting. You should've seen the damaged they did, they're lucky they're only getting detention", she scoffed as we walked out of school.
"How come everyone else got detention?" I asked mostly wondering how Stiles was involved.
"Well they were all there, so Mr Harris just gave them all detention". A black car pulled up car in front of us and beeped. "Come, I'll drop you home".
"You sure? I can get the bus", I said while she opened the car door for me.
"No friend of mine is getting on those things", she flicked her hair before getting in the car. "Come on".
I followed and got in the backseat next to her. A beautiful woman was driving, she spoke so softly as she said "Hi you must be Emily, I'm Natalie Lydia's mum".
"It's lovely to meet you, thank you for the lift home", I said extra nice to try and make an impression.
"It's no bother, so girls how was your day?"
We talked about our day, our friends getting detention and how I'm finding being in America. Lydia's mum was so nice and welcoming but the car ride soon came to an end.
"See you at my party", Lydia said as I left the car. I don't know if I should be excited or nervous for this party...