The Original Alpha

The Painful Bus Ride

It's been a few days since Scott and I kissed, I didn't tell anyone about it because I was afraid of Allison finding out.

"Nikki?" Malia asked causing me to snap back into reality.

"Yeah?" I asked flicking my head from the bus window to face her.

"What is wrong with you? You have been thinking real hard the whole time we have been on this bus." She asked confused.

"I was just thinking about Derek." I said, and that was the truth.

I can't believe he is dead.

Derek...dead.

"You and Scott both." Malia said and that was when I finally remembered where we were.

We were spending our school day on a bus, with the boys, heading to a cross-country meet.

I looked in front of us, over the seat, to see the boys.

"Scott?" Stiles said but Scott didn't respond.

"Scott?" I said catching his attention.

"You okay?" I asked sincerely with my hand on his shoulder.

"Yeah, sorry. What's the next word?" Scott asked switching his glance from me to Stiles.

"Anachronism." Stiles said as he looked at the vocab sheet in his hands.

"Something that exists out of its normal time." Scott immediately answered.

"Nice. Okay, next word...incongruous." Stiles said.

"Can you use it in a sentence?" Scott asked.

"Yes, yes I can. It's completely incongruous that we're sitting on a bus right now, on our way to some stupid cross-country meet after what just happened...incongruous." Stiles said making Malia and I chuckle a bit.

"Out of place, ridiculous, absurd." Scott answered.

"Perfect. Okay, next word. Um...Darach. It's a noun." Stiles said causing me to smack him in the back of the head.

"Ow...we have to talk about it at some point." Stiles said as he rubbed his head.

"He's right, and what better time than now? We will be stuck in this tin box for another five hours if the traffic stays this way." Malia said as I looked at the ground.

The bus jolted to a stop causing me to ram into the boys' seat before falling to the floor.

I heard Scott wince in pain as Malia helped me back up.

"Buddy, are you okay?...We shouldn't have come. I knew it." Stiles said frantically.

"We had too. There are safety in numbers." Scott said as he held his side.

"There is also safety anywhere with Nikki." Stiles said as Malia nodded in agreement.

"I can't be around you guys all the time if we went to school so this is our only option." I said sternly, backing Scott up.

The bus quickly stopped again causing Scott to groan.

"All right Scott I'm telling Coach that-" Stiles said while standing up but Scott grabbed him pulling him back down to the seat.