Saved by the Sea (PJOxTW)

Chapter 21

I walk into class one morning and am greeted to an amazing sight.

"Isaac!" I yell and run up to hug him. He laughs at me but accepts the hug. I lean back with a frown on my face, slapping his chest. "You didn't tell me you were coming back to school!"

"I wanted to keep it a surprise." He shrugs.

"Asshole." I smack him again for good measure. "How are you doing?"

"Good Soph. Don't worry so much about me."

"Yeah right! Like I could stop!" I turn to set my stuff down at my seat. Scott comes into the classroom and freezes as he sees Isaac. I frown. "How assholey have you been lately?"

He just gives me a sheepish grin. Great. I sit behind Isaac next to Scott, groaning at the headache that I know will show up by the end of the day.

"Dude, I just talked to my dad, who just talked to Jackson, and I've got really terrible, horrible, very, very bad news..." I run my hand down my face, then turn to glare at Stiles.

When class is over, I feel two sets of hands pull me out of the room.

"Really guys?"

"All right. I only found one thing online called a Kanima-- it's a Werejaguar from South America that goes after murderers." Stiles says ignoring my complaints.

"That thing was not a jaguar..."

"Yeah, and I'm not exactly a murderer."

"You absolutely hate blood Stiles. You aren't a murderer." I tell him.

"Yeah, but you did see it kill somebody, which is probably why it tried to kill you. And it's still trying to kill you, and it probably won't stop until you're dead." Scott rambles on, not noticing we are staring at him like he is stupid.

"You know, sometimes I really begin to question this "friendship."' Stiles says to me.

"It could be after me. I've killed monsters before." I say.

"I highly doubt that counts Soph." Stiles disagrees.

"Make more sense than you! I asked you to take care of a spider in my room the other night and you jumped on the bed yelling at me to kill it." Scott bursts out laughing ahead of us. Stiles goes red in the face.

"Y--you j-j-jerk!" I stick my tongue out at him. He starts to chase me but I spin out of his way.

"Not today!" I take off towards the next class, grabbing Scott on the way, laughing together.

We grab seats and I get out my stuff for class when Jackson sits next to me.

"Hey, princess," I gag at him. "Testicle Left and Right-- what the hell is a Kanima?"

We all face him, confusion on our faces but Coach starts talking.

"All right, listen up! A quick warning before we begin our review-- some of you, like McCall, might want to start their own study groups, because tomorrow's midterm is so profoundly difficult-- I'm not even too sure I could pass it!" Lovely. Just what we need right now.

"Okay, I need a volunteer at the board to answer the first question. Who's got it, huh?"

"Paralyzed from the neck down. Do you have any idea what that feels like?" Jackson sneers at us.

""I'm familiar with the sensation..."

"So sad. Couldn't have happened to a nicer person." I mumble. Stiles snickers at me.