That Girl (Part 2)

Chapter 8

EDITED

"I don't get it." Haylie confessed to Stiles just as Scott and Alison started on the climbing wall.

He rolled his eyes back. "What's not to get? Something attacked Scott and Alison."

"Something." She clarified in a whisper, knowing the whole gym class didn't need to hear this. "Something that wasn't a werewolf. And it wasn't human?" Stiles nodded folding his arms over the grey gym t-shirt. "And they said it had a tail?" He nodded again. "Scott doesn't have a tail. Derek doesn't have a tail."

Stiles smirked. "You would know."

She reached out, hitting him in the arm harder than she meant to as he squealed like a girl and cradled it. Instead of apologising, she moved over to Lydia watching with boredom. "Hey." Lydia said with a frown as she watched Scott and Alison on the wall. "I forget, are they pretending to not be totally into each other?"

Haylie looked back up the wall as they smiled at one another with a look that only people that are 'totally into each other' had. Before Haylie could defend them, Alison moved her foot, tripping Scott off the wall.

The class laughed, including Haylie as the coach bent down to Scott on the floor. "I don't know what it is McCall, but your pain gives me a special kind of joy." Coach stood up again and looked at his clipboard. "Next two, Stilinksi and Erica." When neither twin moved Coach rolled his eyes and mumbled something about it being obvious before pointing at stiles. "That was smooth." Haylie teased when Alison moved into position next to her.

"Shut up." She sighed while rubbing her neck from the stress she was under. Trying to hide her relationship with Scott was never a long term solution.

Before Haylie could ask if she was okay, the sound of crying filled the gym. Everyone stopped their own conversations to see Erica was now on the wall alone after Stiles had finished. "Erica. Are you Dizzy? Is it vertigo?" Coach shouted up but Lydia frowned as she moved next to him.

"Vertigo is a dysfunction of the inner ear." She said, her brains slipping through the cracks. "She's just freaking out."

Haylie moved to the other side of him just as Erica squeaked back. "I, I'm fine!" The crack in her voice said she was anything but fine.

"Coach maybe it's not safe. You know she's epileptic." Haylie said just before his head snapped to her.

"What?" He spat. "Why doesn't anyone tell me this stuff? Erica, you're fine." He tried to appear calming as he called up to her again. She was clinging onto the climbing wall for dear life. Her oversized grey tracksuit did well to hide how much she was shaking. Her blonde messy hair was hanging down her back as she stared at the ceiling, probably doing anything to not look down. "Just kick off from the wall. There's a mat to catch you."

Erica didn't move straight away but after realising she didn't have much of a choice, she slowly let go and let her body gently descend back down to the ground.

"There you go. You're fine. Walk it off." Coach instructed, completely ignoring the snickers of the other students as she slowly moved through them and out towards the gyms exit.

"Hello?" Haylie answered her phone just as she reached her locker.

"Hey, it's Jessica." Without even knowing why, Haylie checked over her shoulder before letting her back fall against the metal to make sure nobody snuck up on her.

"hey, how are you?"

"I found something on the necklace you gave me. I think we should meet this weekend."

Haylie didn't know what she was expecting from Jessica when she called but she quickly nodded, feeling a sense of excitement. "That would be great. Where?"