Awoken Chaos

Chapter 7

Brooke parked her mother's car beside the only other one in the lot. The night sky shone through Brooke's side view mirrors. Brooke unbuckled herself then walked up towards the entrance, until she saw Lydia sitting obliviously in her car as she fixed her makeup. A snicker left Brooke's mouth as she shook her head and walked inside Video 2C, the only rent-a-movie place in town. But people would rather buy movies then rent them because the place was always deserted.

"Hello? Can someone please tell me where to find The Notebook!" Someone called out when Brooke stepped in.

"Try the 'I want to throw up' section." Brooke suggested making the tall, short sandy blonde haired person turn around. His blue eyes smiled when they laid on her.

"I would not be surprised if that's where it would be." He answered.

"Let me guess, Lydia chooses the movies." Brooke chuckled when Jackson nodded.

"So, what are you doing here? You and the nerds having a movie night." Jackson said while the two walked down another row of movies. Brooke rolled her eyes at him.

"I'm looking for the original ghostbuster movies for my mom. And you're just jealous that you don't have enough real friends to have movie night." Brooke stated which made Jackson scoff with a grin on his face.

Jackson opened his mouth to retort but Brooke shushed him before he could speak. He scrunched his eyebrows at her so Brooke pointed to the feet on the ground around the corner. Jackson took hold of her hand and they carefully stepped closer to the mysterious feet. Gasps escaped their mouths as they staggered back at the scene.

Jackson wrapped Brooke in a protective manner as they turned around to bolt for the front door. Brooke's eyes stung with tears, she had seen a lot of bad, horrible things, but seeing that man's throat slashed out made her want to throw up.

The two terrified teenagers bumped into a ladder and lights began to flicker throughout the whole store. Jackson and Brooke shared a worried glance just as a low growl echoes from behind them. Crimson red. The alpha's eyes stared into Brooke's which cause her to freeze to the ground.

"B, we need to move slowly." Jackson whispered, his arm still wrapped around Brooke's waist.

Jackson's leather jacket pressed against Brooke's skin as he pushed her along with him behind a row of shelves, but the alpha knocked them over like dominoes. In the moment, Brooke shoved Jackson out of the way before the shelf they hid behind crashed on top of her legs. She bit her lip shut as the pain seethed from her toes up into her whole body.

Brooke motioned for Jackson to run, but he wouldn't. He laid down perfectly still in front of her. Their faces lied so close together that they could feel each other's breathing, their noses nearly brushed each other. Their breathing quickened and got louder as the alpha suddenly appeared directly above Jackson. He squeezed his eyes shut, as if he could wake up from the nightmare. And Brooke just had to watch, she felt vulnerable and useless for the first time in a long time. She trembled and winced as the pain shot through her legs.

The alpha used his gnarly edged claws to pull back the collar of Jackson's jacket to examine the marks on his neck, the one's Derek accidently left on him. For a brief second they glow with a purple tint, Brooke caught the look of fear rush through the alpha's crimson eyes. Surprisingly, the alpha ran off, bashing through the big glass window and past Lydia's car. They definitely had her attention now.

Brooke sat up on the edge of the ambulance, her feet dangling, like the nurse instructed her to. The nurse grinned while bringing the wet cloth to Brooke's forehead, the woman dabbed over the small patch of dried blood from a cut Brooke got when the shelf collapsed on top of her. She'd been asked about the bandage on her right hand. Brooke lied, saying that she punched a wall. The nurse didn't seem to buy it, but she didn't push and re-wrapped it for her.