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CHAPTER TWO
WOLF MOON
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MIA TURNED UP THE RADIO in the Jeep as her twin started talking about lacrosse, which she genuinely didn't care about at the moment. She hadn't had the best morning, which meant that Stiles got to deal with a very grumpy Mia that morning. It started when she hit her head when he woke her up, not in a normal way, but by pushing her off the bed.

She proceeded to curse him out before cradling her head in her hands because it had hit the floor, and she let out a small laugh when she saw his head was hurting too. Mia told him to screw off before tossing a pillow at his head, successfully ridding herself of her older brother.

"We can still turn around and go home," Mia suggested as Stiles pulled into the school's parking lot. "It's not too late."

The older Stilinski parked the Jeep in one of the available spots and laughed as his sister groaned.

"Come on Sti, we don't have to go in today," Mia gave her best puppy dog eyes, yet her brother still shook his head no. "We can ditch! Come on, dad will never know!"

"Last time you said that I got grounded for a week because you blamed me," Stiles glared at Mia, who simply rolled her eyes at the older boy. "And we have to go see Scott."

"I hate you Mieczysław," Mia hopped out of the car, knowing what her brother's reaction to his full name would be.

"Mieczysław? Really?" Stiles closed his door with an agitated look on his face. "We're playing the full name game now? Alright, Mirosława."

"At least my name isn't impossible to pronounce Mischief," Mia stuck her tongue out at her twin, grateful that she had been given the easier to pronounce name by their parents.

The two continued arguing and insulting each other until they saw their best friend get off his bike, their argument fading into the past as if it hadn't happened. They instantly rushed over to him, ignoring the fact that Jackson Whittemore had been there moments before they had arrived.

"Okay, let's see this thing." Stiles bounced on the balls of his feet as Scott pulled up his shirt, revealing a large gauze pad with some bloodstains on the center of it.

Stiles attempted to touch it, and Scott pulled away from him, which made Mia laugh.

"Are you okay Scooter?" Mia's eyes were focused on the bloody part of the gauze pad. "What bit you?"

"It was too dark to see much, but I'm pretty sure it was a wolf." Scott picked up his bag from where it had been on the floor before starting to walk toward the school building, the twins on his left.

"A wolf bit you?" Stiles asked with a tone of disbelief. "No, not a chance."

"I heard a wolf howling," Scott explained as he looked to the twins, who rolled their eyes at the shaggy-haired boy.

"No you didn't," Stiles shook his head before wrapping his arm around Mia's shoulders.

"What do you mean no I didn't?" Scott asked, only to see Mia fixing her ponytail. "How do you know what I heard?"

"Because California doesn't have wolves, okay?" Stiles stopped walking and turned to face Scott and Mia, who had ducked out of his grasp. "Not in like sixty years."

"What my idiotic brother means is that there aren't wolves in Beacon Hills Scooter." Mia nudged Scott's side with her shoulder, a small smile appearing on her face when her brother realized she called him idiotic.

"Really?"

"Duh Scott, if there were wolves, I would've left Stiles to them a long time ago." Mia laughed to herself, appreciating her own humor as her brother started to talk about how there are no wolves in California.

"Alright," Scott shrugged his shoulders, "well if you don't believe me about the wolf, then you're definitely not gonna believe me when I tell you I found the body."

Stiles and Mia looked like two kids who were told that Christmas had come early. Scott had found the body.

"No way," Mia's eyes were wide with excitement.

"Are you kidding me?" Stiles reached toward his twin's shoulder, an excited look on his face.

"No, I wish," Scott said with a small smile. "I'm gonna have nightmares for a month."

"That is awesome." Mia bounced on the balls of her feet before Scott placed his arm over her shoulders, stopping her movement.

"Oh, god, that is freaking awesome." The smile on Stiles' face made his twin's grow. "I mean, this is seriously gonna be the best thing that's happened to this town since the birth of Lydia Martin."

Stiles turned as he called out to Lydia, only to be ignored by the strawberry blonde girl, who gave a short wave to Mia.

"Why did she wave at you?" Stiles groaned as he reached behind him to push his sister's shoulder.

"Because she and I have a few classes together, and I'm not a hormonal teenage boy," Mia shook her head at her brother, who was still looking at the Martin girl's retreating figure.

"You're the cause of this, you know," Stiles faced his best friend and sister, who both rolled their eyes. The duo simply responded with an uh-huh before the hyperactive boy continued. "Dragging me down to your nerd depths. I'm a nerd by association."

Scott and Mia started to walk ahead, only to be followed by Stiles.

"Scooter, if we run now, we can escape him," Mia whispered as she pushed her shoulder into his side. "He can only chase one of us."

"I've been scarlet nerded by you."

"Come on Scotty," Mia pleaded, "we can still make it."

"No," the McCall boy rolled his eyes at her pleas as Stiles caught up to them.

The trio walked to their lockers and grabbed the books they would need for the first few classes of the day, starting with English. Mia slammed her locker shut, wondering why she didn't pretend to be sick that morning. The brunette knew that if anyone would call her bluff on being sick, it would be Stiles since the duo only ever got sick at the same time.

"Do we have to go to English?" Mia whined as the two boys grabbed her shoulders and guided her toward the classroom. "Come on, we can still ditch."

"No," the boys responded in unison as they ushered the brunette into their first-period class, much to her dismay.

"Please Sti?" Mia pleaded, giving her best innocent expression. "I'll even tell dad last night was my idea so we can sneak out again."

The Stilinski boy looked tempted but immediately snapped out of the temptation when Scott hit his shoulder, reminding him about what happened last time they listened to Mia's idea about cutting class. They had decided to not go to their biology class, and of course, that was the day of a pop quiz, so the three had wound up in detention. Mia only had to go to one period of detention since she blamed the boys, who had to go to a week's worth of detention for missing that one period.

The boys led Mia to her seat in the back of the room before sitting in their own seats. Stiles sat behind his sister while Scott sat on Mia's right. They pulled out their notebooks and looked to the front of the room, where their teacher had started to write on the board.

"As you all know, there indeed was a body found in the woods last night." As their teacher spoke, Scott turned to look at the twins, who simultaneously winked at him before chuckling to themselves. Mia held her hand below her twin's desk and received a quick high five before drawing on the corners of her notebook. "And I am sure your eager little minds are coming up with various macabre scenarios as to what happened. But I am here to tell you that the police have a suspect in custody."

Scott turned to Mia and Stiles, who had matching looks of confusion on their faces.

"Which means you can give your undivided attention to the syllabus which is on your desk outlining this semester." Mia groaned as she let her head hit her desk, a small pain shooting through her head, and she could hear Stiles groaning in pain.

The brunette looked to her right and saw Scott flinch at some noise, although there was nothing ringing in their classroom. He looked around the room, obviously a bit on edge, which worried Mia.

"Scott, you okay?" Mia reached across the aisle and placed her hand on his arm, only for the boy to look past her and out the window, his gaze transfixed on something far away. "Okay then, just ignore your best friend. I'll be here, plotting your demise instead."

Mia drew a small picture of Scott in the corner of her notebook before drawing Darth Vader holding a lightsaber and the Sith Lord was choking the boy with the force. Her attention was taken from her drawing when their teacher introduced a girl, who made her way to the seat behind Scott.

Scott turned around and handed the girl a pen with a small smile on his face as the teacher asked the class to open their books to page one hundred and thirty-three, and Mia groaned once again. She opened her book and began to zone out, only to be brought back to reality when Stiles snapped his fingers in front of her face.

"Dude!" Mia jumped in her seat, a bit startled by her brother.

"You weren't answering me," Stiles rolled his eyes at his twin, who clearly wasn't in the mood to be anywhere near the school. He walked with her to their geometry class, where they listened to a boring lecture about the wonders of quadrilaterals.

The next few periods went the same way, Stiles tried to pay attention while Mia zoned out and Scott actually paid attention. It was already the end of their last class of the day, which happened to be history, and Mia had not noticed the bell ring, which led to Stiles waking her up from her mini nap.

The hyperactive boy helped his sister pack up her things before leading her to Scott's locker, where the duo saw him looking at the new girl.

"Can someone tell me how new girl is here all of five minutes, and she's already hanging out with Lydia's clique?" A girl in their grade asked as she approached the trio.

Mia rolled her eyes at the girl, who was obviously agitated that Lydia had gone for the new girl.

"Because she's probably not a petty bitch," Mia mumbled under her breath before Scott covered her mouth with his hand.

"Because she's hot," Stiles answered, oblivious to his twin's glare. "And beautiful people herd together."

"She hasn't had her coffee yet," Scott explained with a small smile. "She doesn't know what she's saying."

The girl rolled her eyes before glaring at Mia and walking away from the trio. Mia pulled Scott's hand off her face, an agitated look in her eyes as she started telling him off.

"Coffee? I don't even drink that," Mia started rambling. "If I did, I would be more hyperactive than Sti, and that would be obnoxious."

Her words fell upon deaf ears as Scott listened to the conversation happening on the other side of the hallway. He didn't notice Stiles hit Mia's shoulder, and unfortunately didn't see Mia hit the taller boy with her notebook. Stiles let out a small shout before starting to argue with his twin over the fact that she hit him with a book.

"You started it!" Mia glared at her twin as she walked away from him.

"You did!" Stiles shot back before following her to their lockers and leaving Scott behind so he could get his books.

"You have practice today, don't you?" Mia asked with a groan as she saw her brother's lacrosse stick in his hand.

Stiles nodded in response before wandering to the locker room, leaving Mia alone for the first time that day. She put the books she didn't need for homework back in her locker and grabbed her jacket so she could go outside and watch her brother and best friend practice, and probably fail, at lacrosse.

Mia wasted no time walking out to the field as she knew that both boys had wanted her to be at practice today, especially because Scott was determined to make first-line this season. She almost instantly regretted telling Scott she would go when her hand touched the cold metal of the bleachers.

Mia was looking at a book in her lap when the seats in front of her were taken by Lydia Martin and the new girl. She gave them a small wave when she saw Coach Finstock toss the goalie stick and helmet at Scott, who looked like a confused puppy.

"He's playing goal," Mia whispered to herself as she watched her best friend pull on the helmet. "He's gonna die."

"Hi Mia," Lydia smiled at the brunette as she turned around, the new girl following the strawberry blonde's lead. "Why are you watching practice?"

"My brother and best friend are on the team," Mia gave Lydia her friendliest smile before turning to the new girl. "I'm Mia, Mia Stilinski."

The new girl gave Mia a small smile before introducing herself.

"Allison Argent."

Allison turned back to the field and her gaze went straight to Scott, who looked a bit lost as he stood in the goal.

"Who is that?"

"Him?" Lydia asked as she looked toward Scott. "I'm not sure who he is. Why?"

Mia cleared her throat, causing Lydia's eyes to widen a bit at the noise.

"Isn't he one of your friends?"

"Yeah, that's Scott," Mia explained as she looked at the two girls who were sitting in front of her. "We're all in the same English class."

The three girls stopped talking when Coach blew the whistle, telling his team to start the drill, and of course, Scott was in goal.

Mia's knee bounced as she watched the boy get hit in the head with one of the lacrosse balls, which knocked him to the floor. The majority of the team laughed at the boy while Mia and Stiles cringed, knowing that this couldn't be good.

"Hey, way to catch with your face, McCall!" One of the players called out, which led to Mia standing up.

"Screw off!" Mia shouted at the player before turning to Scott. "Come on Scott!"

Their eyes met for a split second, but Scott knew what her gaze meant. Show them why Scott McCall should be on first line. Her words lit a fire in him, and as he got up, he knew what he had to do.

Mia watched as Scott caught the ball being thrown at him with ease and jumped up in excitement.

"That's my best friend!" She shouted with an excited smile on her face. It was the look that Scott loved to see on the younger Stilinski's face, one of pride and joy. "You've got this!"

Mia watched as he caught every ball thrown at him, and she cheered each time one landed in his stick's net along with her twin, who was on the bench.

"He seems like he's pretty good," Allison's eyes were fixed on Scott, and Mia smiled that someone else saw how good her best friend was.

"Yeah," Lydia breathed, "very good."

As the trio of girls watched Scott play, Jackson Whittemore pushed his way to the front of the line. Mia prayed that he wouldn't hurt Scott, especially because she wasn't in the mood to go home with bruised knuckles that day.

Mia had made it her job in life to protect Stiles and Scott. Stiles was her twin and a bit of an oddball, so of course, people made fun of him, and Mia refused to let that slide. Scott was a severe asthmatic who never really stood up for himself when they were younger, so whenever someone would make fun of him, Mia would fight them, no matter how much bigger they were. The boys were protective of her, so she had to learn how to fight early because they weren't fighters, but thankfully, Mia was a fighter.

If Jackson Whittemore dared to hurt her best friend, she would show the boy no mercy, because no one messes with Scott and Stiles.

"Lydia, if he hurts Scott, I'm going to break him," Mia glared down at Jackson, who was about to throw the ball as Lydia turned to her, a horrified expression on her face.

Mia jumped up when Scott caught the ball, Lydia and Allison by her sides, her threat forgotten as they cheered for Scott. Mia didn't notice the look Jackson sent Lydia as she was too busy cheering for her best friend, who was actually succeeding in a sport for once.

"GO SCOTT!" Mia shouted as Scott tossed the ball over his shoulder and to another person on the field. Once she calmed down, she sat in between Lydia and Allison, and the trio continued talking for the rest of practice until the boys finished and got off the field.

Mia waved goodbye to the girls as she walked off the bleachers and toward her brother and Scott, who were sitting in their Jeep.

"So boys, where to next?"

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Author's Note

Did I really update this within twenty four hours of the last update?  So yeah, I'm having a lot of fun writing about Mia, Stiles and Scott, so we might get some more of them this week!!  I hope you all liked the chapter!  Please vote and comment because those always inspire me to write!! Love you all lots!!

- Daniella

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PUBLISHED: April 27, 2020

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