"Did she say why she needed our help?" Eli asked as him and Malia went around the corner, being met with Lydia stared at her desk.

"Oh, god." Malia sighed. "That kind of help."

"What's wrong, Lydia?" Eli rubbed her back.

"Something terrible is going to happen." she admitted honestly.

"Okay." Malia sighed as she sat on the desk. "What is it?"

"I don't know. That's why I need your help." Lydia looked up, meeting her eye before looking to Eli. "Both of you."

"Well, we're available. I cancelled my photography class and everything." Eli exhaled with a nod. "Let's just hope my mom can pick out flower colors on her own.

Lydia explained what was going on to the two, Eli's eyebrows were frowning more and more by the minute. Malia nodded. "When did you first have the premonition?"

"Aw, Malia." Eli smiled as he rubbed her back. "That's such a big word. I'm so proud of you."

She gave him a smile before they focused on Lydia.

She took a second to think. "I was with Stiles. We realized it was the wild hunt, the riders, the horses, souls getting swept up."

Eli looked over her shoulder when she flipped the book open. "Those who see the wild hunt beware, for you are already lost."

Eli winced as he looked at the picture. "Creepy. I-I um...sorry. I-"

"Eli?" Malia grabbed his shoulder. "Are you okay?"

"I'm not-" he rubbed his head. "Something isn't r- I don't-"

"He saw them. He saw the wild hunt." Lydia got to her feet immediately. "Where's Stiles?"

Eli took his hand from his head, looking at her with a blink. "Who's Stiles, Lydia?"

"Okay, mama." Eli hurried down the hallway. "I gotta get out of here, study group is literally waiting for me and last time I was late, Mason nearly strung me up."

"Okay, do you still want to do dinner tonight?" she asked, getting her badge. "I-"

"Good morning, family." Jamie came around the corner with a grin. "Dinner tonight, you said?"

"Ugh, actually Malia and I have a date." Eli shook his head, grabbing his skateboard. "I'll see you later on."

"Eli-" Jamie started to his son, only Eli was out of the door and skating down the road quickly.

It didn't take long to get to school, dodging the ones around him as he skated toward the entrance. Pulling his bag on his shoulder more, Eli stopped immediately when he almost ran into Malia. "Babe! I told you you can't run out infront of me."

"I was gonna catch you." she said back, pulling him in for a kiss. "Aren't you gonna be late?"

"No, Masons holding down fort for me right now." he kicked his skateboard up. "Study group is all good in the hood."

"I mean lacrosse." Malia corrected with an odd look.

Eli's face fell. "I forgot that's today!"

Malia grabbed his bag for him as they ran, Eli trying to yank his sweater off in the process of sprinting. "If my mom calls you, we have a date tonight!"

"What!" Malia called, throwing him his workout clothes as Eli yanked it over his head, trying to run backwards.

"My dad wants to have dinner so I said we had a date." he tripped when yanking his shoes off, catching himself.

"Still not use to him being back?" Malia tossed the basketball shorts his way.

"It's only been two months." he defended himself, unbuttoning his jeans. "What's the time?"

"One minute!" she called.

Eli tripped, doing a backwards roll on the ground in the process of loosing his jeans. Thankfully, falling over caused him to loose them quickly and yank the basketball shorts on.

"Eli!" Malia yelled out, throwing his shoes. "Good luck!"

"Thank you!" he sprinted. "Wanna actually go on a date tonight?"

"Yeah!" she called.

Eli ran onto the field. "Coach! Coach! I'm here! I'm-"

He fell over, flipping twice on the ground. Coach blew his whistle. "You're later then Liam was. Definitely, definitely not captain material."

Liam yanked Eli off the ground as coach blew his whistle again. "Listen up. Thanks to McCalls selfish desire to focus on his grades and his graduation, we are leaderless. You wanna be a champion? You wanna be a hero? Now's your shot."

The boys spread out on the field again, Eli tacking off with a confident look toward Scott. "All right, all you wanna be captains. I wanna see you guys tear each other apart!"

"Not literally!" Scott called to Eli with a knowing look. "Most definitely not literally."

The whistle blew, the Foxx boy ran forward, hitting Liam as he flipped over his shoulder. "Oh, shit."

"Oh god." Scott squeezed the bridge of his nose.

"Definitely not captain material, Dumbar." Coach mocked him.

"Dunbar." Liam corrected in anger

"Yeah, that's what I said." Coach shot back as Liam rolled over.

"You said Dumbar." he stared up at him.

"And your mouth just bought you equipment duty." Coach leaned down on his level. "Foxx! Why are you ramming into you teammates!"

"I didn't to." Eli helped Liam up. "I was just running."

"No, shit." Coach agreed. "The bench looks a little cold without you."

"Hi." Eli kissed Malias head as he walked into class, seeing her highlighting her entire page. "Coloring again?"

"I can't believe you decided to take a senior class." she looked at him in disbelief. "Now you're just gonna watch everything I do."

"You're the one that said I need to get as many classes finished my junior year so I can spend my senior year with you in Paris." Eli defended himself, flipping the page. "Also, speaking of-"

He pulled out his phone, showing the money in his Paypal. "That new photo of your wolf form near our stream? Sold almost immediately."

Malia smiled, Lydia walking between the two to take her seat.

"I'm impressed with most of you." their teacher spoke as she walked from behind her desk after the bell rung. "It really speaks to your study habits and your commitment to your own education."

Eli ginned at his B+ that she gave him. "Everyone else, see me for extra help."

He looked over and saw the D- on Malias paper. Her claws came out, tightening on her desk. Eli eyed the teacher slightly, reaching over and grasping one of them. "Hey."

She met his eye in anger. Eli smiled. "We'll work on it together at our stream tonight. I'll even let you get a deer first."

Malia took a breath, her claws disappearing as she met Eli's eye. Lydia panicked at the bring green shade he was projecting. "Ugh, Ms.Fleming-"

"Eyes." Malia looked at Eli quickly. "Fix your eyes."

"I already told you, Lydia. I don't give out extra credit for alternate equations based on your own theoretical findings." Ms.Fleming said in rerun, giving Eli the time to blink away his green shades and fall back to their natural dark brown. He looked back at Lydia with a boysish grin and two thumbs up.

Eli woke up with a gasp of air in the middle of the night. His chest was hurting, gripping it tightly. It wasn't common he'd developed anxiety in the middle of the night, especially since his transition. But, it was hitting now. He threw his legs out of the bed, grabbing his bottle next to his bed as well as the glass of water. Tossing a pill into his mouth and swallowing it, he pealed his shirt off for some form of air.

There was something he needed to do, something he'd forgot and it was weighing onto him.

"What? What?" Eli whispered under his breath, holding his head as he rubbed his chest for answers. His eyes fell onto the bouquets of flowers in the corner of his room. Three different ones, all different shades. Why did he have flowers in his room? Specifically fancy and elegant ones like these?

Eli walked over, picking them up with an odd look. His phone buzzed from his nightstand, looking over quickly.

"You're here." Scott sighed in relief when Eli skated to the side of the road that night, the girls with him.

"Why do you have flowers?" Malia looked oddly.

"I don't know." Eli held one bouquet out to her, then to Lydia, then Scott. "It's yalls now."

"I went to bed at home and I woke up in the woods." Scott explained why they were all here. "About a mile out. I think there's a reason why this has happened. I've been out here before."

Lydia held the flashlight as Malia and Eli held hands, following Scott into the woods. "It was the beginning of sophomore year, and I wanted to try out for first line. I remember because it was all that I could think about."

"What were you doing?" Malia spoke up.

"I was looking for a dead body." Scott said in return.

"Why would you need to look for a dead body?" Eli gapped in disbelief.

"Exactly. So what was I doing out here all alone?" Scott spoke oddly and in confusion.

"I wish I could help you, but I didn't know you then." Lydia shook her head.

"Me neither. I only knew Lydia when I was a freshman." Eli shook his head. "After she waved at me and I went and talked to her in the hallway. Even then, it wasn't long before Liam and I went to the hospital and I figured everything out."

"I was still a coyote so I might have tried to eat it." Malia suggested with a shrug.

"Deaton said that my subconscious is trying to tell me something." Scott spoke up again. "I need you guys to help me figure out what it's saying."

"Maybe you were just a curious teenager when you heard there was a body." Lydia suggested.

"But, how? I never watched the news and I didn't have a police scanner." Scott shook his head.

"Your mom works at the hospital. Maybe she got called in and you were wondering about the murder." Malia added in.

Scott stopped and turned around. "My mom wasn't home that night. I live five miles away from here. How did I get here?"

"You drove." Eli nodded. "Your motorcycle."

"I didn't have it then. Or a car." he shook his head.

"You ran." Malia suggested.

"I couldn't have. I had asthma." Scott explained again. "I was hiding, but they knew I was here."

"Maybe you made a ton of noise with the asthmatic breathing." Malia pointed out as they'd started walking again.

"Aw, Malia. That's a big word, i'm so proud of you." Eli smiled as he rubbed her back, getting her head on his shoulder for half a second as a thank you.

"How would they know that it was me?" Scott asked once again, looking back at the trio. "Why would the sheriff even think I would be out here?"

"Because like most deaths in this town, it was related to the supernatural." Lydia tilted her head knowingly.

"I wasn't supernatural." Scott shook his head with a deep breath. "This was the night that I was bitten. I wasn't a werewolf yet. And I wasn't out here alone."

"How?" Eli gave an odd look.

"I know this sounds crazy, but I think I had a best friend." Scott explained with a hesitant and confused look in his eye. "And I think he was out here with me that night."

"That doesn't sound crazy." Malia shook her head. "I know that someone chained me up and I think they wanted me to stay human."

"That's what Eli did, didn't he?" Scott looked confused.

"No, this was before Eli. Once I met him, I didn't need to be chained." Malia shook her head.

"I woke up having anxiety because I remember I needed to do something but didn't. Someone was suppose to tell me to do something but I couldn't. And lacrosse this morning? How would I forget that? I know that someone was suppose to wake me up and drag me to the field. But, it didn't happen." Eli shook his head as he looked around. "Those flowers? They're wedding venue flowers, not cheap. Why would I randomly have them?

"I came to school this morning and I was sure I was suppose to meet someone." Lydia cut in with her own frightened look. "But I don't remember who it was suppose to be. And if Eli and I were such good friend during my sophomore year, why didn't he know about any of the supernatural until junior year? Why was everyone involved except him if we were that close?"

"That's what I was thinking. I didn't know any of it until Liam got hurt and I went to the hospital with him. Almost a full year after you knew." Eli shook his head as he looked at her.

"I have been looking for someone all day. Whoever it is...I think I loved him." Lydia explained with an odd look.

Scott looked around. "What if we're all missing the same person?"

Scott pulled the photo from his pocket. "Remember when you took this picture the other day, Eli?"

"Of course, right after the rest of the retakes." Eli nodded his head.

"I think he was in this picture." Scott shined the light down onto it.

Lydia pointed to the empty space next to her and Scott, "He was sitting right there."

"He had to have been. I would have made Scott scoot in closer to you or have Malia sit there." Eli nodded his head. "Every time I take a picture of a group, I make them get close together because it's easier to focus."

They all shared a look.

•

kylie speaks

I THOUGHT I WAS READY
BUT I WAS NOT PREPARED
FOR ELI TO FORGET HIS
BROTHER