Forgotten (Stalec)

Chapter Five

Stiles POV

Okay so I'm definitely going to do more investigating today. I mean this is something that definitely needs to be investigated. I just don't know if this is something that I should tell the pack.

I mean I would absolutely trust them with my life, but what if this is something that I just need to figure out on my own.

No. Now I'm going crazy. Of course this is something I need to tell Scott. Scott's my best friend. He's my brother. There's no way I can keep a secret this big from him.

Okay so maybe I can just skip school tomorrow and talk to him then. That is if he'll skip school with me. We've done it dozens of times before. Doing it now wouldn't make much of a difference in anything.

...

Okay today's the day to tell him.

I already called him and told him to be here by around 10 am. That should be enough time for me to figure out how to explain anything and everything.

Then the door knocked and I realized that it was 10 am. Well time flies by when you're anxious about telling someone something I guess.

Of course I opened the door and let him in. Why wouldn't I? I mean I'm only about to tell him things that might make myself seem absolutely crazy!

"Stiles are you okay? I mean you wouldn't ask me to skip school for no reason." He looked worried and I couldn't blame him. He'd only been in the house for two seconds, not even enough time to close the door, and I was already pacing.

"Okay I'm just going to come out and say it. I think something is wrong with me." Scott didn't look like he believed me until I pulled up my sleeve to reveal the tat-rune on my wrist.

Then he was all over me. Asking how I got it? What did it mean? Wasn't I scared of needles? All of these were valid questions that I didn't have very good answers for.

"I don't know where it came from. It just appeared. I don't know what it means, and yes I'm scared of needles." I think I covered all of the questions. Eh if not he'll bring it up again later.

He was giving me this look. Definitely a worried look, but it didn't seem like he knew why yet.

"Well how do we start to figure it out? I mean you're the one that usually comes up with this stuff." He's right. I do usually come up with this stuff.

"I think we need to start with the two new kids, Clary and Alec. It has something to do with them I can feel it." I sat down and started to fidget with my fingers. More like wringing them together actually.

Scott just ended up sitting beside me, and trying not to look at the new tat-rune. Rune. I need to stop forgetting that.

"Look. I don't think you're cursed or anything. This might just be something that'll go away eventually you never know?" Scott was trying his best to be as comforting as he possibly could be, it just wasn't helping at all.

What if there actually is something wrong with me? Not after the nogitsune. There is no way I can deal with another creepy thing happening to me. Last time I killed a pack member and Lydia's boyfriend...

It's still really hard to think about.

I don't know I guess I'm just being really cautious. Last time we weren't and that happened.

Okay can someone tell me why I thought that what happens next is a good idea?

I reached over and touched the rune.

Flashback

"Here this is an anti tracking rune. What we're doing is dangerous and we can't have anyone tracking you." A dark haired boy who I soon recognized as Alec from Economics said as he started burning into my skin.

I could almost feel myself trying to hold back a scream as he did it.

Flashback end

I grabbed the rune on instinct as I remembered the burning pain of the...the...what was he using?

Stele

Stele? What the heck is a Stele? Is it a welding tool? Was he literally taking fire to my wrist?

Not even gonna lie, that's rude.

"Okay so we find the two of them and what? We have no evidence leading them to any of this."

I put my wrist up showing the rune.

"We have this. I just had like a flashback of some sort. Or maybe a flash forward? No definitely a flashback. I saw him giving me this. The only thing is I don't know him. Why would I have a memory of someone I don't know?"

He looked just as confused if not more than I was.

Why was I remembering people that I don't know? Unless I do know them and I just don't remember it? Okay now I'm confusing myself way more than I need to be.

"Look Scott I don't know how I know but I do. I just know that we need to find them and confront them about this. I feel like they are the reason this is happening to me and I'm going to be honest. I'm scared. This is making me really nervous about what's going to happen." Scott placed a comforting hand on my shoulder.

I'm really lucky to have him as a friend. He's my brother.

"It's going to be okay. We're going to figure this all out. I can promise you that much. Nothing is going to happen to you." I could tell he meant it so I nodded while still wringing my fingers together.

Could my anxiety calm down for maybe a couple of minutes? If it could that would be nice.

After a couple minutes I got up and walked over to the door.

"Okay Scott let's do this. Let's go confront them and get to the bottom of what's happening."