The Stranger in the Woods

Chapter 18

"All right, give me the phone." Jackson started to go for Stiles so I stepped in front of him and grabbed his arm trying to stop him but that did nothing as he pushed me off of him and I fell to the ground. Lydia came to my side to see if I was okay and when I looked up and around her I saw Stiles punching Jackson in the face really hard that Jackson stumbled to the ground and almost on top of me.

"Jackson!" I heard Allison call out to him. "Are you okay? Hey, are you okay?" she said as she ran to his side. She looked him over and then back up at Scott and Stiles, I looked over at them as well and saw that Stiles was pulling out his phone and making a call. Lydia helped me up and stood close to me watching Allison and Jackson.

"Dad, hey, it's me, and its's your voicemail. Look, I need you to call me back now, like right now." Just then here was a loud banging on the doors behind me and Lydia making the both of us jump and turn around, Lydia ran to Jackson as I just slowly walked backwards towards the group that is now behind me. "We're at the school, okay? We're at the School." The banging got more vicious and louder, and it looked as if the doors were about to break. "The kitchen, the door out of the kitchen leads to the stairwell." Stiles told us as he kept his eyes on the doors in front of us.

"Which only goes up." Scott yelled at Stiles.

"Up is better than here." Stiles told him as the door was still being busted down.

"Up I choose going up." I say as I grab onto Stiles hand as the door got looser, Stiles took that as a sign and pushed Scott to go and we all started for the door to get out of here.

Once we were out of the room I could hear a loud bang sound and some crashing, Stiles let go of my hand and got to the front of the group. As the boys got to the door that lead to the stairs I stayed in the back of the group to make sure that everyone got to safety, Lydia was the last one and she grabbed my hand pulling me with her up the stairs. We got up the stairs and into the second floor of the School, Lydia and I ran over to a door and opened it getting inside quickly as everyone else followed. Once everyone was inside Scott took a stool and put it under the door handle and then looked at us, we were all panting out of breath. We were all trying to be quiet Scott looked at the door and then he shut his eyes and leaned closer to the door as if he was trying to listen to the other side, Stiles grabbed onto him and held him back so that he stayed away from the window, that's when I heard the growling. I looked over at the door and just then I saw a shadow slowly walk by the door I tried to hold my breath so that I wouldn't scream.

"Jackson, how many people can fit in your car?" Scott whispered after a few moments.

"Five, if someone squeezes on someone's lap." Jackson to him whispering as well.

"Five, I barely fit in the back." Allison whispered towards Jackson.

"Plus there's six of us." I whispered.

"It doesn't matter, there's no getting out without drawing attention." Stiles told everyone.

"What about this?" Scott said as he looked over at a door that was in the classroom and started to walk towards it, everyone following. "This leads to the roof, we can go down the fire escape to the parking lot in, like, seconds." Scott told Stiles as the group stayed some feet away from the boys I walked closer to them.

"That's a deadbolt." Stiles said as I stood next to him, Scott shook his head and looked down but then he had a look of realization.

"The janitor has a key." Scott said looked at Stiles.

"You mean his body has it." Stiles told him, Scott looked around a little bit thinking of a way to get the keys.

"I can get it; I can find him by scent, by blood." Scott whispered as he leaned closer into Stiles and me.