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THE FIVE PEOPLE WAITED IN the room for the appearance of their new werewolf friend, who was stuck in her maths lesson. While Scott rolled his shoulders backwards, whilst one very fed up Stiles walked up to Derek, "What is up with her? What is it about you Hales and trust?" He crossed his arms lightly over his chest, ready to fall at any given second.
Derek turned to him, when before he was looking at the door, hoping for her to enter. "She's been through a lot worst than me, Stiles." Sliding in next to his best friend, Scott stopped him from saying anything that may annoy him any more. His eyes widened at his friend, almost as if to say that he didn't need protecting. Soon he realised he wasn't there to protect him.
Giving a look that begged the Hale to elaborate, he asked, "What happened to her?" Allison lifted herself from the table, beginning to find an interest in what they were talking about. Running his tongue around the roof of his mouth, he thought about how much his cousin may hate him for doing this, but it's Scott.
"Valentina's side of the family went back for thousands of years," He began as he sat himself down on the nearest table to him, everyone else doing the same. "They were so traditional that by the age that she is now, she would have been married. Born Alphas are rare, they run in her side of the family and they made it that they would never stop, but would always be Hales."
Stiles looked carefully around the room at everyones' emotions. Scott and Allison were shocked, Lydia was intrigued with a hint of sympathy, while Stiles was way past any of those emotions and had no idea how he would react to seeing her if she walked through the door. "My mother may have hated them but she didn't hate Val. She made me hang around with her when she was six just to make sure she was okay. That she was surviving."
He took a deep breath before continuing, "You can't imagine what that girl has been through, she thought that she was meeting her Prince Charming when her parents told her vaguely about it. But when she ran, she learnt more about who they really were and so that's why she never talks about them. That's why she's closed off, because that girl has been through hell and back."
The room was left speechless, which caused Derek to shift uncomfortably where he stood. He began to instantly regret what he had done, as he heard a heartbeat waiting around the door. Valentina had been listening in, but from the look on Scott's face, he hadn't figured it out. "Hey, sorry I'm late."
The small werewolf told them as she slammed her bag down onto a desk, which meant that Stiles was forced to face what he had previously dreading. "Miss Berry thought she'd give us the honour of telling us why to use ABC instead of BCA." Looking around the room to see everyone's nervous faces, she then added, "Continue from where you were."
A small part of her wanted to scream at Derek for telling people about what she may have considered her darkest secret, but she knew it was likely they were going to find out anyway. The Hale knew what she was there to do, and her cousin telling people about her past wasn't going to stop her.
