Monster in Me | Teen Wolf [Book 2]

Anchors

Stiles lay in bed mumbling, "No, no, no, no, no. Don't let them in. Don't let them in. No, don't let them in." As he's mumbling, he slowly starts getting more worked up, gasping, panting, and moving around.

Someone sleeps soundly next to him, waking up due to his movements. "You Okay? Stiles?" Scarlett asks sleepily, rubbing her eyes.

Stiles exhales, looking at the brunette beside him, "Yeah, I was just dreaming. It was weird, like a dream within a dream."

"Like a nightmare?"

Stiles sighs, "Yeah. Wait a second, Scar. What are you doing here?" Before Scarlett could reply, Stiles bedroom door creaks open, "Hang on."

"Stiles, where are you going?"

"I'm just gonna close the door."

"Just go back to sleep."

"No, no. I should close it."

"Don't worry about it."

"What if someone comes in?"

"Like who? Just go back to sleep, Stiles."

Whispers can be heard from the other side of the door, "No. But what it they get in?"

Scarlett sounds a little more panicked now when she replies, "What if who gets in? Stiles, just leave it. Please, Stiles. Stiles, come back to bed. Stiles, please. Don't, Stiles. Don't! Don't go in there, please, don't. Please, Stiles, don't!"

Stiles heartbeats fast, the wind whooshing past the window. "It's a dream. This is just a dream." He starts saying to himself, "Get it out of your head, Stiles. You're dreaming. All right? So, wake up, Stiles. Wake up, Stiles. Wake up!"

After another dream within a dream, Stiles wakes up in his bed screaming. His dad runs in, rushing to his side to help calm him down. "Hey, hey, hey. It's okay. It's okay. You're okay."

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Scarlett's in her room getting ready for school when she overhears Scott and Isaac talking, "Hey." Isaac greets, standing in front of Scott's door. 

"Oh. Hey." Scott answers back, just as awkwardly.

"Um, are you going to school?"

"Yeah."

"Okay, me too."

"Good."

Scarlett shakes her head as she listens on to the awkward conversation. "Can you both stop being so weird? You're literally making me want to off myself." Scarlett pipes in, sticking her head out into the hall.

"No one is telling you to listen in." Scott scolds.

"Yeah, well." She gestures to herself, "Werewolf. Plus you're a door down from me. It's kind of hard not to overhear." Scott rolls his eyes.

"Can I ask you a question?" Isaac asks Scott, breaking up the argument between the McCall siblings. Scott nods so Isaac continues, "Are you angry with me?"

"No." Scott says.

"Are you sure?"

"No."

Scarlett's eyebrows knit together in confusion to his answer as Isaac asks another question, "What's that mean?"

"I guess I'm not really sure how I'm feeling."

"Okay. Do you hate me?"

"No, of course not." Scott reassures.