Blood Moon | A Teen Wolf Fanfiction

Chapter 68

Drake left. 

He left me alone, scared and embarrassed in front of Ava and Reid. Drake must have felt the same. Scared, alone, and embarrassed.

From the corner of my eye, I watched as Ava and Reid stood stunned at the door as they watched Drake disappear into the hallway.

It was quiet. The awkward silence ate at me and I shook horrendously. All I wanted was to cry. To cry and be held by someone who I could trust. Drake was that person. He was my everything and he broke my heart, all the way to the core.  

What does this make me now? Alone.

Suddenly I felt a warm breeze flow towards me as I cupped away my eyes. I felt like I was going to cry. I did not want them to see me like this. Weak.

Their palm cupped my own and lifted them from my face. My face rosed up into a scarlet rose. They could see me now in my most vulnerable state. 

It was Ava and she looked sadder than what I was. 

With my head hanging down and my hair falling over my face, I looked up at her. She gave me a smile as her eyes began to water. This was the moment. I could stay strong and push her away and tell her 'everything is okay'. But I would be lying to myself. Our town was falling apart and I was at a crossroads with myself. I could feel myself battling with my subconscious. 

It said 'Go to her', 'Embrace her'. Should I? 

Thinking about this I could see my tears begin to fall down my face. I needed this. I needed closure.

I let go.

"Oh, Alli..." Ava said with a sadness in her eyes. 

I cried. And I cried hard. I cried and cried and cried. Ava answered my call and embraced me. I dug my face into her blouse and wept on her shoulders.

"Alli... It's all right, " she patted on my quaking back, "everything's alright."

I pondered on her words as my lips shivered, trying to think of something anything. The silence was killing me as I blushed at the scene that I was making. I thought of Reid and what he might have thought of me now. Probably weak. Useless. 

Suddenly, I felt a warm hand grab my waist and embrace me over Ava who held strong.

It was Reid.

"We are here for you Allison." He paused hoping that I wouldn't pull away from him. I didn't so he held harder. "Till the end."

My lips managed to quake out, "T-thank you."

The room became quiet as we all embraced one another. Through everything that we have been through, these two were the ones who stuck their necks for me, would die for me. 

But when the time came would I do the same? Would I be willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for them? For my parents?

I could feel myself ponder on these thoughts.

Suddenly we all broke free as we heard a crash coming from outside. Sprinting towards the door, Reid swung it open to see the hallway in chaos. He called over a small, skinny freshman.

The freshman seemed challenged talking to Reid because he was tall and had a muscular build. He was the ASB president and lacrosse captain.

"Hey, you... freshman?" Reid called out to him through the crowd of screaming students. 

"Y-yes?" the shaken freshman responded. 

"What's going on?"

"Y-y'didn't hear?"

Reid shook his head 'no'.

"They found a dead body at the front door. B-bloody and gutted it out."

The freshman before Reid could respond. Glancing back at us, he shrugged in confusion.

I wasted no time to grab Ava's hand and drag her outside to get a better look at what caused our once quiet school havoc. 

We all struggled but stayed together in our best efforts to get through the chaotic crowds of screaming students. You see we were fighting to go towards the danger as everyone ran away. There was no way we were going to get through crowds in time before someone might mess with eh evidence of the dead body. This could have something to do with the absence of the Nemeton. And with the Nemeton's absence, we could not risk Ava using her supernatural strength to get through the crowd and possibly go out of control. She was learning to keep her supernatural side in check. And I could burn someone.

"Reid! Into the shadows!!" I yelled out to him.

Reid nods to these orders and presses himself against the nearest locker and then dissipates inside the shadow it creates. I watched as black smoke coursed through the shadow towards the dead body.

Reid's powers somehow weren't affected by the absence of the Nemeton. This reason gives me the belief that his father has something to do with its absence, I believe this without a doubt.

"C'mon Ava! Let's keep moving!"

She nod as we continue through the crowd.

Time passes as the crowd begins to die down until the last line of people that we push through. At the end of the hall, we see Reid standing over the body, frozen.

"Reid!" I call out.

He flinches toward us quickly and hides the body from our gaze. His face is shaken, something was wrong. 

As Ava and I get close we begin to recognize the body. The glare from the sun hides the glance that Reid gives us.

No. It can't be...

"Oh no no no..." Ava cries out.

Laying before is someone we know all too well. It can't be. The body was torn apart. Its face gashed and scarlet blood dripping out of its pores. This was a horrible end. The black hair coated in crusting blood and lips split open. Its vivid image shook me to the core. I could not explain it. The words burned in my brain.

The body laying before us was... 

Noah Hale