Wicked Game

Chapter 7

Over the next few days, I started getting used to the routines and the lessons that the others taught me. Training with Derek became more fluent, exercising my abilities became easier. Scott would even show me little things and gave me tips during gym class, showing me fighting stances and how to use them. Scott mostly showed me how to defend myself. I slowly incorporated it into my lessons with Derek.

Tonight was the night. I could feel that something was off with myself, and I already knew what it had to be. Tonight would be my first full moon, and I can already feel the strings wanting to pull me into my other monstrous self.

"Kasey, you okay?" Allison asks me, snapping me out of my daydream and bringing me back to the bustling cafeteria.

"Yeah," I say and slowly close the book in front of me. Staring blankly at a page wasn't doing me any good. None of this was doing me any good today. The layered voices of the cafeteria floods my ears, only making me more irritable. The scent of the awful food the lunch ladies served filled my nostrils, making my stomach curdle. I couldn't focus whatsoever. Only half the day was over, and I had more work to do than ever. Staring at the desktops was beginning to make my head hurt.

"I'm going to get out of here," I take the chance to say it before someone started telling a story again. I sling my back pack over my shoulder, and stand to step out from the table.

"Okay, Stiles and I will come get you before we go meet Derek," Scott says to me.

"Alright, let me write my address down for you," I tell him. I grab his pen and scribble it down on the notebook he already had flipped open. As soon as I was done I was already walking away, "See you guys later!"

I successfully sneak out of the building without any staff seeing me. I had to get out, and now before I lost my mind in that place.

Instead of walking home, I go a different direction. Towards the woods. Going for a hike would clear my mind, especially since I had my music with me. I remember it and dig the mp3 player from my pockets.

The air was crisp from the last rainfall, and leaves squished in the mud under my boots. I climb up large tree roots to get ahead on the trails, carefully pulling myself up and through. I could probably use the werewolf strengths to my abilities right now, but I choose not to. I took my time, pretending I was only human. At the back of my mind though, the facts shined through.

I can feel my phone vibrating in my back pocket, and I knew it had been enough time to guess that it had to be Louie. I ignore my phone, and keep on through the trees.

Even through my headphones, I could hear someone else's footsteps. I pause, and spy on my surroundings. The footsteps went quiet, and nothing appeared out of the ordinary. I resume my hike, spying through the trees.

Up ahead was a clearing, and something else right in the middle of it. An old worn house stood only partially. Part of it had collapsed, but most of it had been burned. The way it was wrecked almost made it look haunted. And then I noticed the black car parked not far from it. I've seen that car somewhere...

"What are you doing here?" A voice demanded, and I immediately recognized it.

"Me?" I flip around to face Derek, arms folded over his chest and lips pursed, waiting for am explanation. I pull my headphones out of my ears, "I was on a hike. I didn't really plan out where I was going."

"Aren't you supposed to be in school?" He walks up beside me, observing the house himself.

"I couldn't stand it today," I say, and then allow myself to blurt out what I had been wondering, "What is this place?"