Bait // Thiam

Chapter 61

Last night was a challenge to keep my mouth shut. I wanted to tell everyone, especially Theo, but I promised Scott I wouldn't. Theo and I made a deal to tell each other everything, so not telling him this was just stressful more than anything. It also caused me to stay up half the night, which is the reason as to why I'm so tired.

Every time he looked at me with his puppy dog eyes and his eye cute, dorky smile I wanted to tell him. It almost felt like I was going to explode if I didn't, but I kept it to myself. It's gonna be the last time I ever do something like that again, but I managed to do it.

"Ready to go?" Theo came up behind me, wrapping his arms around me. "It's nearly 6:30 and we were suppose to leave by 5:30."

"I'm ready." I whispered, turning around and smiling. "Lets get going!" I cheerfully laughed.

"Who's driving first?" Allison came over to us, holding the keys out in front of us.

I looked at Theo and my raised my eyebrows, stepping away from the keys. He rolled his eyes and took the keys, thanking Allison as he walked over to the car. During the car ride, the only thing I'm doing is sleeping. And besides, I can barely drive, so it's safer if one of them drive us home.

I jumped in the car and put my seatbelt on, waiting for everyone else to get in. Scott told me not to tell them because he knew what they would do, get in the car and go straight back home. So, since we're already doing that, I think it's best to get it off my chest. Lighten up my mood and hopefully make me feel better.

"Hey, are you ok?" Theo looked in the mirror, furrowing his eyebrows.

"Yeah?" I answered him, sounding more like a question then an answer.

"It's just that you haven't really seemed yourself today. When you woke up you seemed more angry and tired then you usually do. And then during the day you were quiet and barely ate or did anything." He told me, a concern look on his face.

"I'll explain in a minute." I told him, watching as the girls walked over to the car.

I don't know how I'm suppose to tell them what Scott told me. They'll question as to why I didn't tell straight away and they'll probably also get pissed at me for keeping it from them. I could tell them it was to keep them safe and so we could enjoy our last night there, but I know what Malia and Allison are like.

They're both very similar to each other in certain ways. Both scary and low tempered, but all they care about is protecting their friends. A lot of people would be more terrified of Malia, because she's a were-coyote and could rip your throat out in seconds, but people don't know what Allison's like in a fight. She's fast and has a good technique. She's strong as well and just physically. Mentally as well.

That's what makes her a bigger threat than what most people think she is. She also never misses a target and she's pretty good with daggers. As they got in the car I tried to avoid eye contact with any of them, because I'm still not sure how I'm going to do this. Do I just tell them straight up? Do I work my way into it? Do I just leave it and tell them when we get back?

"Ready?" Allison asked Theo, plugging her phone into the aux chord.

"No." He answered, turning around and looking at me. I knew what was coming next, I just wasn't sure how to explain it all. "Tell me what's going on now, I'm worried."

"I need to tell you all, but I don't know how." I told him, running my hand through my hair as I tried to think of how to explain this. "Last night when I was on the phone, it wasn't to my mom... it was to Scott. Nolan found something about the hunters and he also told me before he hung up that things were gonna get bad again."