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"Dad, I'm going to a friend's house!" I yell, walking down the stairs.
"WHO!" He yells, walking into the same room as me.
"Don't quite know yet? Depends if I get to one house and they're not there, so I'll go to another's." I bat my eyes at him, and he rolls his.
"Be safe it's getting dark, love you." I nod my head walking to the door, "Oh, has your mother called you lately?" He asks so I turn around to open the door more.
"Not since last month. Bye Dad, love you!" I left deciding who I wanted to go see.
When I got to where I was going I saw that he wasn't there yet, so I decided to sit on the machine looking for music to listen to. "You know if my dad sees you here he will kill me right." I smile when I hear my favorite person.
"I don't think he would kill you. I know he would lock you up instead or hit you." I get down seeing a new black eye on Isaac's face. "What happened now?" I grab his face as he tries to move my hands.
"I didn't put up the dishes right after they were done washing." He takes my hands into his making me pout. I hated that one of my best friends went through this and I couldn't tell anyone to help him out. "School starts tomorrow." He changes the subject.
"I know, my dad keeps complaining about seeing everyone again. Especially Greenberg, which I feel so bad because he's done nothing wrong." I smile, making Isaac smile now too.
"Maybe it's because Greenberg made it known last year that he had a huge crush on you." I roll my eyes as he lets go of my hands to start working. "That doesn't give him the right to hate on him so much."
He looks at me as I cross my arms, "He still finds you cute so yeah, your dad can and I'm okay with it." He winked at me causing me to shake my head as my phone rang.
"What up dork?" I answered the phone.
"You home?" Stiles asks and it sounded like he was rushing.
"No, why?" I sit down on one of the unused headstones.
"Well, where are you? I'm going to get Scott right now because two joggers found a body in the woods." He says happily, which makes me shake my head.
"Why'd you call me then?"
He sighs on the other side, "Isabella, you know that I drag you into things too, so where are you so I can pick you up?"
I sigh, "I'm at the cemetery right now, and don't ask why. See you soon." I end the call to see Isaac stop working.
"Stiles?" He laughs as I nod my head annoyed.
"Yes, he wants to drag me into some trouble. He's coming to pick me up along with Scott soon." Isaac gets down giving me a hug.
"I'll see you tomorrow at school." He squeezes me in his arms and I give him a kiss on the cheek.
"Meet me in the morning and I'll cover that up for you." I point at his black eye, making him nod his head as I walk towards the street to get picked up.
"Ready to find the other half of a body?" Stiles asks, pulling up as I get in the backseat of his Jeep.
"I can't believe you are dragging me into this while I can be hanging out with someone normal." I lean back.
"Someone normal? Who are you hanging out with that's normal in a cemetery?" Stiles looks back at me while driving.
"They work there and that's the only place I can see them besides school." I punch the back of his seat.
"We're seriously doing this?" Scott asks as the three of us get out of the Jeep.
"You're the one that's always bitching that nothing ever happens in this town." Stiles pats his back walking ahead of us then they start to talk about sitting on the bench and then wanting to play.
"Just out of curiosity, which half of the body are we looking for?" I ask walking behind the boys.
"Huh, I didn't even think about that." Stiles lets out a breath laugh making me roll my eyes.
Once we got to where everyone was, Stiles ran, making me try to help Scott out. "Shit!" I whisper hiding with Scott as Stiles gets caught. My chest was pressed up against Scott's since the tree wasn't wide enough for the two of us. Noah and Stiles talk about who's out here causing him to call out for Scott. "I'll take the blame," I whisper to him before walking out.
"No, it's just Isabella." I walk out with my hands up making him sigh. "Since Scott wanted to get a good night's sleep, I told Stiles I'll come out here with him." I walk up to the two of them.
"I'm sorry for him," Noah said before grabbing Stiles and walking him back to his jeep. "Now take Isabella home and quit dragging her into things," Noah says as we get to his jeep.
"Sorry, Mr. Stilinski ." I apologize to him.
"It's okay, Bella, and remember you can call me Noah. Now both of you get home and get some rest because school is tomorrow." He gave me a hug goodbye as I got in with Stiles.
"I swear he likes you more than me at times and I'm his son." Stiles starts his Jeep driving off.
"And he calls me his daughter he wished he had." I stick my tongue out at him.
"I hate you, you know that right." He looks over at me.
"No, you don't because you love me." I sing, making him laugh.
"Sadly, that's true but you love me too." He sings too, making me laugh. When I got home, Dad was already in bed so I quickly got in bed too.
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In the morning, I get dressed for school then rush downstairs to beat dad since he said I'd be last. "Told you I'd wi-." He shuts up when he sees me on the couch.
"Beat ya." I smile jumping up off the couch as we head out to his car. I never really need to take the bus or drive because of my dad. I didn't have my own car because we couldn't afford one and supposedly my mother was going to get me one but hasn't yet.
When we get to the school I tell my dad I'll see him soon and rush to go wait for Isaac. As soon as I saw him I ran up to him, "Ready?" I shake my bag.
"Yes please." He smiles, grabbing my hand and I pull him away to one of our secret places where no one can see us.
I pull out my makeup to cover up his black eye. "It kills me to see you like this. I want to help you." I tell him as he kept his eyes shut.
"I know you do but there's nothing you can do to help."
I stop so he can look at me, "I can make up an excuse for you to stay with me."
He opens his eyes looking into mine, "He'd come looking for me." He closes his eyes again as I finish up.
"All done," I say putting everything up.
"Thank you, Izzy. You truly are the best friend ever." My heart slightly breaks.
"That's me, everyone's best friend." I don't even force a fake smile.
"We should get going. The bell is going to ring." Isaac grabs my hand holding me back. He was going to say something but he stopped himself as the bell rang. We walked side by side till we had to go our separate ways.
"Who was that?" Lydia asked, nodding towards Isaac.
"A friend of mine," I say as we walk into class together.
"You like him?" She smiles sitting next to me.
"Is it obvious or are you just asking?"
She smiles, "Well based on that first part I'm going to take that as a yes." I roll my eyes at her.
"He sees me as a friend," I say as class starts.
As soon as the bell rings Lydia spots a new girl, "Look, a new bestie for us." She says walking towards her and I follow listening to their conversation.
As soon as Jackson came up to us and it was my cue to leave and go find Isaac to hang out. "Oh, I'm sorry Erica." I apologize as I bump into her in the hall.
"It's okay, Isabella." She says looking down.
"How was your summer?" I ask, stopping to talk to her.
"Doctors visits as usual. Nice talking to you." She smiles at me.
"See you around. Hopefully, we have a class together." I smile leaving her to find Isaac and I finally do. "Hey, there pretty boy." I smile sitting across from him.
"Pretty boy?" He chuckles.
"What? You'd rather be an ugly boy?" I joke with him.
"Changing the topic, did you get in trouble last night?" He asks.
"Nope, Sheriff Stilinski likes me more than his son so he let me slide. It was actually boring because when we got to where we were going, like 10 minutes passed and we had to leave. I should have just stayed with you like I wanted to." I rest my chin in my hands looking at him.
"You actually like spending your time with me?" A big smile spreads across his face.
"Of course I do, Isaac. Why wouldn't I? You are the sweetest, funniest person I've ever met while in the 1st grade." I took his hands into mine and he was going to say something again but didn't.
Lacrosse practice was starting and I was walking with Lydia and Allison who was a really nice girl. I see Stiles so I was going to go sit next to him but my dad caught me first. "I wish you would try to join. We both know how good you are." He pats my back before calling Scott so I go sit next to Stiles.
"What did I miss this morning?" I ask, making him look at me.
"Scott swears he saw a wolf that bit him and that he found the other half."
A wolf? In California?
"I mean it's possible. Anything is." He looks at me funny.
After a little miss happens with the whistle Scott caught a ball making me slightly yell. "Oh my god!" I hit Stiles.
"Yeah!" He cheers and we both keep going as Scott gets more.
T hose are fast reflexes.
After school Scott wanted to take us to where he found the body, as they were talking about what happened Scott says what he felt at practice I think about it. I was slightly the nerd type when it came to the supernatural because I found it amusing and I believed it. I was in my own little world as they talked till I saw Derek Hale a couple of feet away from us. Once Stiles saw him he hit Scott and pushed me behind him. "What are you doing here? This is private property." He asks the three of us. Scott tells him we were looking for something and Derek tosses Scott his inhaler. Stiles goes to remind us who Derek is before we all leave.
When I got home dad wasn't back yet so I laid around the house till I saw someone outside. "What are you doing back?" I walk out looking at the person across the street.
"My sister. Laura was the body." Derek said walking over to me.
Nobody but my shitty mother knew I knew who the Hale's were. When I was younger and she wasn't with my dad anymore she was close with Derek's uncle Peter. "Did you bite Scott?" I ask him, making him shake his head no.
"No, an Alpha did. Before you ask no I don't know who it is." I roll my eyes at him.
"What are you doing here at my house though?"
He shrugs his shoulders, "Wanted to say hi since I saw you not too long ago, and to let you know why I was back." I punch his shoulder.
"Next time don't be so creepy in the woods and outside my house."
Dad finally showed up around seven o'clock and brought us dinner. "Oh yes, curly fries!" I take them out of the bag and shove my face with them.
"You're such a pig." My father laughed at me as the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it," I say with food in my mouth. When I open the door I see Isaac with two black eyes now, "No Isey. Come in." I open the door and my dad walks in.
"Lahey, what are you doing here?" He looks at him then at me.
"I sorta forgot I invited him over today after school." I lie to him.
"You lost a fight I see." He points at Isaac's eyes.
"Yeah, not a fighter. I should leave." Isaac says backing away but my dad stops him.
"You're already here so just stay for dinner." He leaves the room and I turn to Isaac.
"We will talk about this after we eat."
After eating I take Isaac to my room shutting my door so we can talk about his new black eye. "You can't help. I know you want to say that." He sits on my bed as I walk over to him.
"What do I do then? I feel so helpless when I see what he does to you. It sucks even more that I can't go over to your place, and get you out of the damn freezer he locks you up in." I kept my voice down so my dad doesn't hear me.
"I want you to ignore it because you can't stop it from happening."
I slap his chest, "Ignore it! Isaac, I can't ignore when something like this happens to someone I love and care about!" I yell at him with tears in my eyes but quickly shut myself up.
"Izzy," He stands up wrapping his arms around me. "I'm sorry I put you through this." He holds my head against his chest as I cry. "Isabella, I need to tell you something. Being with you makes me feel safe, wanted, and at home. I like you Izzy and I mean it, I have very strong feelings for you." He says making me look up at him.
"You like me more than a friend?" I ask him and he leans down catching my lips on his, the kiss was slow yet passionate. My hands moved up to his face and his hands moved down to my waist. "I'm happy the feeling is mutual," I whispered when we pulled away causing him to smile sweetly before returning his lips on mine, desperate for more slow kisses. "You should get going before he hurts you again." I back away from him.
"So what now?" He asks as I walk him to the door.
"I don't know. What do you want?" I bit my bottom lip.
"I'd like you to be my girlfriend. What do you want?" He takes one of my hands.
"I'd like you to be my boyfriend." I smile leaning forward, giving him a goodbye kiss.