This May Hurt (Teen Wolf)

Chapter 54

-Vanessa's P.O.V-

I'm sitting outside in the courtyard of the school at the beginning of lunch waiting on Lydia. She told me to meet her here to get a full scoop and Malia.

Even thought of her name makes me angry. The fact that I actually have a class with that girl and it's LACROSSE is mind blowing. Like the devil is playing some sick twisted game with me. I had to hold everything in me when she was late not to pin her down and question her on what she could have possibly done with my boyfriend and slap her in the face with my lacrosse stick. I don't like her. I can't STAND her even if I barely know her.

But it's not just the thought of her, the thought of Stiles equally makes me want to explode. He has no excuse to treat me this way; leaving me and than trying to talk to me like it's all ok. No. Fuck no. I will not be messed with like this. It just won't happen. The day it allow myself to be toyed with like this is the day I actually one hundred percent forgive my sister and God knows that probably will never happen.

"Got your thinking face on I see sis.", Lydia says as she slides next to me onto the bench I'm sitting on.

"Ya, I guess.", I shrug. Lydia puts a hand on the small of my back and rubs it softly, something she used to do every time I seemed so distraught. It would soothe me, take a bit of the weight off me like it's doing right now. I give her a small smile of appreciation and she returns it.

"Ok Lydia, tell me everything."

She tells me everything she knows about Malia. She tells me how Malia lost her mother and sister in some kind of car accident where apparently they had been eaten by wild coyotes in the woods, but she Malia was lost for years. But she wasn't actually lost, she had been hiding in the woods. The truth is Malia was actually the one that killed her mother and sister. Malia is a supernatural being just like the rest of them. The way Scott and all of them turn into werewolves, she turns into a coyote. She was the coyote that killed her family. They were driving during a full moon and it was the first time she every phased. She couldn't control her animal side and she ended up killing them. She never changed back into her human form or went back home because of the guilt, so she stayed in the woods. Now the way Stiles met her was through his dad in a way. The case for the missing Malia was closed for a long time until his dad decided to reopen it. Stiles' dad actually asked him and Scott to help find her and they did. They were able to get her to change back and come home to her father and the case was closed.

I'm almost speechless by the time she finishes. "You have to be lying.", I softly say.

"Vanessa, it's Beacon Hills. Literally anything can happen here."

So the girl has a past. An awful one at that. I almost feel horrible for instantly disliking her over something that is nothing. Almost.

"So than what happened with her and Stiles?", I ask her.

She looks down for a moment, sadness in her eyes before she answers. "Well, before you met him, Stiles went through something...major. I don't think he wants me to tell you, and I can understand that so I won't, but it was big. He was in...trouble with himself."

I look at her confusingly. What does that even mean? In trouble with himself?

"I know what you're thinking, but I honestly can't tell you anything. He has to. But he was in trouble with...himself and he checked himself into an....institution."

My eyes are about to bulge out of my head. "A mental institution?" Stiles was in a...mental hospital? I don't even think confused is the proper word to use for how I feel. So many thoughts are running through my mind and I don't even know what to think. I'm dating a mental person?