Too Long

Chapter 5: Punching

After their free period trip, which included a drugged Lydia getting way too close to Stiles and a terrifying picture found on her phone, Ramie and Stiles headed to the Stilinski's to try and get a hold of Scott and tell him what they found on Lydia's phone.

"That has to be the alpha," Stiles told Ramie, slamming the door to his room behind the two of them.

"Obviously," Ramie replied, dropping her backpack on the ground. "20 bucks Scott is with Allison. It's her birthday."

"I don't care who he's with, he just needs to answer the phone," Stiles said, his phone up to his ear as he paced back and forth across his room. 

"Hey, it's me again," He said to Scott's voicemail. "Look Raim and I found something and we don't know what to do, just please call back. Or else, I'll kill you."

"Stiles," Ramie sighed. Stiles gave her a death glare and she rolled her eyes back at him, laying back onto his bed. Stiles sat down on his desk chair, laying his head on the back of it. A knock on his door made them both jump as Stiles' dad entered the room.

"Ramie, hi," Noah said, giving her a smile. "Didn't know you were here. Where's Scott?"

"Long story," Stiles huffed. "What's up?"

"Please tell me I'm going to hear good news at this parent teacher conference tonight," Noah sighed. Ramie scoffed.

"Depends on how you define good news," Stiles said.

"I define that as you getting straight A's with no behavioral issues," Noah said, glancing at Ramie who now had her hand over her mouth.

"You might want to rethink that definition," Stiles said, pulling a face as his Dad sighed again. Noah looked between Ramie, who was trying to hold back a laugh, and his son.

"Enough said," Noah nodded, leaving the room. He went to close the door behind him but then glanced between Stiles and Ramie, and opened it all the way. Stiles didn't notice this at all, but Ramie did. Did Noah really think something was going to happen between her and Stiles? The boy caught her attention, pushing away her thoughts as he checked his phone again, groaning.

"Stiles I should go," Ramie got up off the bed.

"What? Why?"

"My Mom's home tonight because of conferences and I told her I'd be home for dinner," Ramie told him as she grabbed her backpack. "I'll call you if I hear from Scott, okay?" 

Stiles grunted and Ramie walked over to him, giving him a small pat on the shoulder before leaving his room and heading home.

...

Stiles and Ramie were already in class when Scott showed up the next morning. Stiles was blaming Scott for his Dad getting hurt the night before, and had offered to bring Ramie to school, but not Scott. Ramie glanced behind her at Stiles when Scott entered the room. Stiles saw Scott and rolled his eyes, blowing a sharp breath of air out of his mouth.

"Play nice," Ramie raised her eyebrows at Stiles, who ignored her. Ramie heard the two boys bickering throughout class about Stiles' dad and Derek, but kept her head towards the front of the room. However, at the end of the day when Ramie was waiting for Stiles to drive her home after the detention he and Scott had earned themselves, the two seemed back to normal. Over the course of the day, Stiles and Scott had figured out that Allison actually helped control Scott's ability to hold back a shift, not make it worse as they previously thought. It's like she held him down, kept him grounded.

Stiles and Scott took off after dropping Ramie at home, who decided she was going to stay out of whatever they were getting themselves into that night and do homework. However, when she got a text from Stiles at 10 that night saying he needed to see her at the school, Ramie of course went, against her better judgement. She told herself she was going in case something serious was going on, but she knew deep down she was in so deep with him, like Danny had said.