Red Ribbon ✦ 1

Chapter 15

She opened open of the drawers of her dresser and looked at her bras and underwear. She giggled remembering when Allison, Lydia and Kira took her shopping. They told her it was an important to go shopping and even though they told her it was a girl thing Stiles came along as well. He was the guy holding all the bags but she knew he had come for her. It was ridiculous but fun.

Malia changed into some pajamas since she had no plans to leave the house for the rest of the day. She grabbed her laptop off her desk and sat down on her bed. Stiles told her to study and she was but she just wanted to browse the internet for bit. See what else she could learn about the world.

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The next day at school Malia found Stiles waiting for her outside the class room. She was so happy to see him she ran up to him and hugged him. Nearly knocking him over by the way.

"How was your English test?" he asks,

"Good, I'm pretty sure I passed."

"See what studying does."

"Yea I know."

Stiles wraps his arm around her waist and they walk over to their lockers together. She still struggled with opening the lock so Stiles had fallen into the habit of opening it for her. Whenever he's not around she tries but Stiles almost always finds her struggling.

"Can we skip the studying today?" she asks,

She had her things and the final bell had just rung.

"Maybe." he smirks,

They walk out the door hand in hand out to the parking lot. Stiles always drives her to and from school but it was Friday so instead of going to his house they went to Derek's loft. It had been Scott's idea to turn the loft in a gym for the pack. It still had the basics like a punching bag, weight lifting and other stuff.

Malia and Stiles were using one of the punching bags at the moment. He stood behind it as Malia punched using this opportunity to get rid of some anger. Stiles had still kept to his promise of randomly pissing her off for his own good. Well if you count throwing paint at her in art class. Which by the way ended up with both of them getting a detention and needing a change of clothes. That had actually been more fun but it still served its purpose. Her hair had red streaks for a few days.

"Who wrote the Gettysburg Address?" asks Stiles,

"President Lincoln." she says,

"Which president was he?"

"Abraham Lincoln sixteenth president of America." she recited,

"Okay how about some trivia."

"You're supposed to be teaching me about the president."

"The trivia will be about them. Alright so which president confiscated and used Al Capone's car."

"Um..."

Malia had to really think about this. She found the history of the mafia interesting and she knew Al Capone was the greatest of them all down in Chicago. He was top boss and was arrested for taxes. Could get away with murder but not taxes, kind of funny.

"President Theodore Roosevelt."

"Correct. Who was out forty-first president?"

"Bush."

"Which one? Remember there was two."

"George H. W. Bush. The forty-third president was George W. Bush."

"Alright, now for a really hard one. Who was the first female president?"

"Trick question, we haven't had a female president."

Stiles let go of the punching bag and stepped to the side. Malia's punch was strong that it knocked the punching bag over and she nearly fell on top of it but Stiles caught her arm. He lifted her and turned her to face him.

"Not exactly a trick question. In 1919 president..." he was saying but waited for Malia to name the president,

"Woodrow Wilson."

"...got sick and was partly paralyzed. So his wife Edith Wilson took over presidency for about a year and a half. It's an unofficial thing and some don't see it that way."

"But if the president can do his job isn't that what the vice president if for?" says Malia sounding a bit confused,

"Yea but she thought she should be president."

"Cool. And you said we weren't gonna be studying today." she whines,

"I said maybe and you still need it."

"Fine."