Dear Juliet | S. Stilinski (editing)

The Benefactor

Dear Juliet, I guess Scott turned Liam into his beta! Yay!?

I was coming home from doing the groceries and I was having trouble. I yelled out Scotts name from the drive way and I guess he didn't hear me. So, I didn't want to make a second trip, I carried all bags. I almost made it to the door, and I was knocked over by Liam, who ran out of the house.

"HEY ASSHOLE!" I yelled out. I looked up to see Stiles and Scott getting tangled and they looked out the window.

"Your plan sucked, too." Scott said to Stiles.

"Why was Liam here?" I stood up and the boys looked at me.

"Scott bit Liam!" Stiles blurred out. "He's now a beta!" Scott shyly smiles and I charged at him,

"He's a 15 year old kid!"

"I'll explain why!"

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I was in AP history with Lydia and I sat next to her. I was taking my notes and I glanced at her.

"These are your math notes?" I grabbed her notebook. There was so many random numbers and letters on it. "No wonder Malia's failing."

"Um, some of them are my notes. The rest I think might actually be a code." I gave her notebook back.

"But you don't remember writing it?" I questioned her.

"Not in the slightest. But considering my drawing of a tree led us to the Nemeton, I should probably figure out what it means before it tries to kill us."

"Maybe it's like the Enigma Code the Allies used. Remember Kira's dad was a World War II buff? And her mom was, well... In it."

"I think it's a variation on something called the Vigènere Cipher."

"Do you know how to crack it?"

"With a key." Then a key appears in front of our faces. Lydia's mom smiled at her.

"Remember the rules. No more than six people allowed in the lake house. Stay out of the wine. And if anything gets broken, it's getting added to your credit card debt."

"Fine." Lydia smiled back and grabs the key from her mom.

"And lock up the basement. From all the scratch marks I found on the walls, it looked like a pack of wild animals got down there." My eyes widen and we both looked at each other. Those claw marks were Malias. We were having a pack meeting behind the bus, Demetri and Isaiah made it.

"I'm not sharing my basement." Malia rose her hand up.

"Actually, it's my basement. And my mom noticed how you tore it up last time."

"All right, she's still learning." Isaiah told Lydia.

"But, we're going to use the boathouse for Liam. It's got support beams. We can chain him to one of them." Scott told Lydia.

"But how do we get him out to the lake house if he doesn't trust us?" Kira asked him.

"I say if it keeps him from murdering someone we chloroform the little bastard and throw him in the lake." Stiles said.

"I'm in." Malia nodded. Isaiah shook his head.

"We're not killing or kidnapping him." I told her.

"Then let's be smarter. We tell him there's a party and invite him." Lydia said.