Thunder (Derek Hale/ Teen wolf)

Chapter 4: Dress-up

"So how are we going to do this? " I asked him.

"Do what?" he asked looking up from the book I gave him.

"Well, do you want to sleep in my bed and I'll sleep on the couch?" I responded.

"No, I'll just sleep on the couch you can have the bed." he said with the cutest smile I've ever seen. "I've already made you share your room, I won't take your bed as well."

"Okay, then we'll just do it that way." I said smiling back at him and walked into my bathroom and started getting ready for bed, until I heard a knock on my door.

"Yes?" I asked through the door.

"Melody?" I heard Madison say "Do you want to play dress-up?" 

"Hold on." I said and walked over to Derek.

"I have to tell her that you're here." I said to him.

"What? No! Why?" he said panicking.

"Because she's my little sister and she is literally always in my room. She'll notice if I wont allow her in my room for a couple of weeks." I responded.

He thought about it for a while but eventually agreed. So I opened my door and saw Madison stand there in her little princess dress. 

"Hey Maddie, I kinda have to tell you a secret." I said as I let her in my room and closed the door.

"Okay what is it?" she asked.

"Well, this man is going to hide in my room a while. But you can't tell anyone okay?" I said and gave her hand to Derek's so that she could feel that he was actually there.

"Is he your boyfriend?"she asked getting all excited.

"No Maddie. I don't have a boyfriend." I answered.

"Then who is he?" she asked looking very confused.

"He's just a friend who needs some help. But you have to promise me that you'll keep this a secret okay?"

"I promise." she said and she smiled at Derek "What's your name?"

"Derek Hale." he replied.

"My name is Madison Lockheart." she said proudly.

"Well nice to meet you Madison." he said. 

"But," I said "we can't play dress-up this late... We both have school tomorrow." I said and walked Madison to her room "Goodnight." I said and walked back to my room.

"She's adorable." Derek said as soon as I walked in.

"She knows how to act like an angel" I replied.

"Well anyway, I'll let you sleep since you have school tomorrow." he said teasing me.

"Laugh all you want, it's true." I said and turned off the light.

I walked over to my bed and crawled in it. 

Falling asleep has always been an issue for me. I'm not that person that'll be asleep within 10 minutes. It will most likely take me at least half an hour to get sleepy and then after 15 minutes I'll most likely be asleep. So, as usual, I was tossing and turning but for some reason I couldn't fall asleep tonight.

After about an hour and a half I realized why I couldn't sleep. I could hear thunder in the distance.

And I can say I HATE thunder. 

I can honestly admit that I'm terrified of it. So I knew that sleeping tonight wasn't gonna happen.

Every time I heard the thunder, I just made myself smaller. It felt safer that way.

"Scared of thunder?" Derek asked me.

How can he even see that? It's pitch black in here.

"Yeah..." I said.

I heard him standing up and walking towards me.

"How can you even see where you're walking?" I asked him.

"I... eh... have great eye-sight." he said and I felt someone sitting next to me. 

I saw some lightning and Immediately made myself smaller.

"There's nothing to be scared of." he said and his hand grabbed mine. I could feel butterflies in my stomach and it took a lot of restraint not to make a very high-pitched noise.

Contain yourself Melody! You're not gonna fall for the first guy you see, okay?

"Well you should sleep since you have school tomorrow." he said quickly releasing my hand.

"It's not like I can fall asleep during a thunder storm." I said "I never can." 

"... I know a method that will guarantee that you'll fall asleep" he said. 

"Well, since I haven't been acting like myself all day... I'm up for it." I said.

"Okay." he said and walked back over to me "move over." 

I sat on the right side of my bed and I felt that he layed down on the left side.

What the hell is he doing?

"Come here." he said.

"What?" I asked him confused.

"Just lay down here. I promise it will relax you." he said and grabbed my hand again.

Live a little...

"Okay..." I said and slowly started to get closer to him. I felt and arm around my shoulder pulling me closer to him until I actually layed next to him, with my head resting on his chest.

"So are you gonna tell me how you got this fear?" he asked.

"I don't know, I just have it for as long as I can remember." I answered.

It went quiet after that for a while. He was right; it was relaxing. I could hear his heartbeat and by focusing on that the thunder didn't really seemed to matter. It felt like it was just me and him and nothing else anymore.

Stop it. You sound like that slut from twilight. Bella or something.

"Derek?" I asked. 

"Yeah?" 

"Why do the police think you killed those people?" 

"Um well..." he said "Probably because they were murdered in my old house, they just want someone to blame so that people aren't that scared anymore." 

"Sounds logical." I said.

"You're tired aren't you?" 

"Yeah..." 

"Then just fall asleep." he whispered and the last thing I remember before falling asleep is looking into bright blue eyes...

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Happy birthday LeRoy

(sorry I just had to do this) 

xKeulicorn