When We Were Young : Part 3

Chapter 18

I am going to be so tired in the morning. It's now five in the morning and I still haven't been able to go to bed. I look over to my right and see Derek still sleeping soundly. Oh how I wish I could sleep like that. My mind is my enemy when it comes to my sleep. It's like it doesn't stop. I think of the most random and irrelevant things. There was the memory of Derek and I's first time making love, all the happy memories with my family that vacation. Now my mind is wondering to when things weren't so happy for me. Back to the first time Laura visited me about two years after the fire, when I was at my worst. 

*******Flashback************

Laura's POV

"Then they lived happily ever after" I said after reading the kids their favorite bedtime story. No not my kids, the kids I babysit for a friend. Although I would like to have children of my own one day. Things would need to get better first. It's been two years after the fire that killed my family. Derek and I have been living together since. The fire killed my family but something died inside of him too. My brother isn't the same. I rarely see his face and he isn't in control of his shifts like he was. Part of it may be the fire but another part is Haley. My best friend. 

I will never forgive myself for leaving her in Beacon Hills. No body knows her family also died in the fire other than Derek and I, a couple people at the hospital and her therapist. I also don't understand why they all of a sudden hate each other, I would think they would be closer but when Haley woke up after the fire she wanted nothing to do with him. Every time I ask her what happened she shrugs it off. Last time I saw Haley I told her I was leaving. 'Please don't leave me here alone' she told me. Those are the words that echo through my head every time I think of her, which is why I am going to visit her. We've texted back and forth a couple times and talked on the phone, but it's not the same as in person, not to mention shes been MIA, she hasn't answered her phone all this month. I worry about her. 

Once Amy got home I decided to head back to Derek and I's apartment. I wasn't surprised when I saw a girl that could be Haley's twin leaving. I always had to do double takes to check and see if it wasn't really her, but no body could be as pretty as Haley. I've always envied her for her extreme beauty. 

"Oh Hi, who are you?" The girl asked bitchy, like the other two. 

"I'm his sister, get out before I kick you out" I said and when she didn't move I used my alpha voice "NOW!" That got her. When I walked into the kitchen I was met with the image of my shirtless brother drinking juice out of the carton. 

"Really Derek?" I asked him. He set the jug down and looked at me with raised eyebrows. His resting dick face on. 

"What?" He asked bluntly. 

"You know they say that there are at lease 7 people in the world who look just like you. You've found three of Haley's look a likes, keep it up and you'll find all seven" I said to him. I'll pretend I didn't see him flinch at the sound of her name. 

"She didn't look like her" Derek said, these two years he hasn't even been able to say her name. 

"Derek they all look like her, the last one left crying and when I asked her what happened, she said you called her Haley, multiple times!" I said. 

"So what!" He said getting angry. I took a step closer getting angry myself. 

"Do something about it! How about instead of burying your dick in people that look like her, why don't you talk to her. Apologize for what ever the hell you did to her, and make each other happy. I'm getting tired of your shit!" I said. "You. Are. Being. Pathetic"