Monsters | Stiles Stilinski

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟒

   I NEEDED A FILM TO WATCH. I had to pull my mind away from trying to figure out who had started the fire somehow. I needed a distraction because I hadn't been to sleep in two days. Hell, I shouldn't even be driving in my state of deprivation but I was past the point of exhaustion now. I closed my car door with a sigh after I'd parked up outside the video store and I looked around the dark parking lot.

The bright luminescent letters above the store that labelled 'VIDEO 2C' with a star yellow in the middle of the 2 and the 'c' shone in a dull red colour. It caused my eyes to sting and the artificial light inside the store spilled through the windows to create a glow on the sidewalk. The parking lot was empty and for a Wednesday night I didn't know what to expect but it seemed like I would be the only one inside besides the store clerk.

I dropped my keys into my jacket pocket and walked in, pushing the metal bar on the door and letting go once I was inside. There was no music playing in the background creating a dead silence through the store. For a minute I wondered if it was even open because I couldn't spot a worker around.

I took slow steps, taking my time putting one foot in front of the other as I walked around to find a film. I had no idea what I was looking for but I knew I wasn't in the mood for anything in the romcom genre. I wasn't in a mood to cry myself to sleep tonight and wake up with swollen eyes tomorrow.

I dipped into the aisle, looking around curiously. The walls of the store were painted red and blue, a striking combination. The blue shade, while deep, helped to put me at ease somewhat and calm me down but when I saw the red painted on to the wall next it I felt my calm state disappearing — it was really throwing me off.

A trashy horror movie played from a television screen somewhere within the store, at it's final sequence before the main character either escaped the murderer or was killed by them and I blocked the audio out. As I walked through the aisles for a dvd my eyes caught the store clerk up on a pair of step ladders in between the aisles over from the one I was in. He was fixing one of the lights as it flickered on and off.

I didn't even think he knew I was in here so I decided I'd leave him to his attempt at trying to fix the light as I continued to wander around looking for a film. The thing that was annoying me the most though was that the movies I was looking at weren't sorted into category they were sorted as to which year they came out in. So I was standing with Grown Ups in one hand and All Good Things in the other — both of which had come out last year but on opposite ends of the genre scale.

Grown Ups was a lighthearted comedy that I probably needed right now. It seemed like the easer option in terms of not having to concentrate to follow the movie. All Good Things was a thriller though and I did like thrillers — after all my life was starting to develop into one — it stared Ryan Gosling but it was almost two hours long and I didn't have the patience for that.

I was pretty torn, it was quite a close call so when I heard the door to the video store open and close again I didn't look up to see who had walked in. I kept the two movies in my hand and crossed the aisle that was labelled as 'classics' and saw Micheal J. Fox's Teen Wolf on the top shelf. I picked the casing up and chuckled to myself while shaking my head and putting it back down.

If only Scott was in control enough to be able to stay as his transitioned self and not kill anyone like Micheal J. Fox.

I carried on walking slowly through the store until the person who had walked in called for help, "Can someone help me find The Notebook?"

I recognised that voice easily and I pursed my lips deciding not to reply. I knew exactly where the notebook was, I'd rented it last week but was I hell going to tell Jackson Whittemore where to find it. Oh, no, he was going to look for it himself.