• Phase • Derek Hale/OC • Teen Wolf Fanfiction •

Clarity

"Hey!" Sam happily exclaimed as she dropped her book bag to the floor and rushed forward, throwing herself in Derek's arm as she leaned up and kissed him.

"Hey yourself." He mumbled against her lips with a smile of his own.

Her stomach was immediately in flutters at his touch.

"I'm happy for you guys... really, but do you have to do this right in front of me?" Isaac complained as he picked an iPod up from Sam's computer desk and started to look through the songs.

Sam stepped back, her cheeks darkening, she looked across her room to where Isaac was sitting.

"Uh, sorry... I didn't know you were here. I'm just excited." She announced with a smile.

Smirking, Isaac didn't take his eyes off the iPod as he teased, "Excited... aroused... something like that."

Her eyes widened and her mouth hung open in shock, she glanced to Derek who looked at her, obviously trying to hold back a laugh or at least a smile.

"That's not what I meant, Isaac!" She said, rolling her eyes and hoping her cheeks would lose their new found red hue. "School's out for summer, which you might know if you'd made it to the last half of your classes."

"Nah." He responded nonchalantly, dropping the electronic device to the desk with a small thud.

Then she looked between them and finally asked, "Wait? What are you doing here?"

"There is something you both need to see." Derek finally said, his eyes lingering on Sam as he turned and headed for the door.

Once the trio walked outside of the house, Sam looked up to see Derek's new car, parked on the side of the street, with Peter Hale leaning against it, eyeing the house.

"What is he doing here?" She asked, she knew Derek had been talking to his uncle lately and it worried her.

It wasn't just the stories she'd heard from Derek about Peter; it was a feeling she got the first time she laid eyes on him.

He wasn't someone who could be trusted;she could feel it in her bones.

"Nice to see you too, little wolf." Peter greeted with a smug smirk.

Ignoring him, she looked to Derek who instructed everyone to get in the car.

Just as she started to get into the middle seat beside Isaac her mom pulled up in the driveway.

"Hey mom." Sam greeted, hopeful.

Shutting the car door Amanda looked over, her eyes only briefly looking over the three male werewolves her daughter was leaving with.

"Hello Samantha."

Frowning at her mother's emotionless tone, Sam looked down to the ground for a few seconds.

"Uh, Jake is staying at a friends tonight, I dropped him off after school."

Her mother seemed to be looking at everything but her own daughter as she protested, "It's a school night."

"Today was the last day." She reminded her.

Amanda sighed at herself, not sure how she could have forgotten that. She opened her mouth to ask Sam where she was going, but then stopped.

"There is left over lasagna in the fridge... in case you're hungry later." She called after her mother, watching as she nodded briefly before going inside the house without another glance at her.

As Derek pulled away from the house, Isaac looked over and asked, "She's still not really talking to you, huh?"

Shrugging Sam glanced up to see Derek watching her in the rearview mirror.