A Week Later,
Stepping out of the class, Maria arranged her locker and plugged her earbuds into her ears. Listening to her new favorite song, 'Single Ladies' by Beyonce, before locking it.
It focused Maria on the music when someone suddenly pulled her from behind, covering her nostrils with a handkerchief filled with glue. She tried struggling, but suddenly went weak. Her phone smashed against the ground as they dragged her in. Dropping her down like a sack of waste, down to the tiled ground. The two strange guys locked the door, while other students walked past the room in a straight line. Unaware of what had just happened.
After school hours, Adrian felt worried. He could feel Maria's presence around, but where was she? He met some of her classmates but they said they hadn't seen her since the last class.
"Maria is missing. I do not know where she is right now!" Adrian brought up. Looking around with curious eyes.
"How? People don't just get missing like that." John replied. "Have you dialed her contact? What if she's gone home?"
"She's not home yet, Johnny. I can feel her around. I can sense her in danger." Adrian retorted, placing a hand on his hair in confusion.
"Oh... I see. What about her class?" John raised. "Have you searched her class?"
"She's not there but-" Adrian placed a comforting hand on John's shoulder. "You can go without me. I'll definitely find her.
"Okay, then." John gave a small smile. "Chat me up whenever you find her. See you tomorrow. Bye buddy!"
"Bye." Adrian said and watched him leave among the crowd of students. An exasperated sigh escaped his lips as he went back into her class to check. She wasn't there.
"Hello, Kylie." Adrian stopped a short girl with plaited hair."Have you seen Maria?"
"Not since Mr Maxwell left the class. She must have gone home." Kylie suggested, rolling her eyes as she walked away, disgusted.
Most girls didn't like Maria because she was always around Adrian. He glowered at the thought. Maria never left home without him. She was around. He could feel her whistling breath.
Adrian checked all the classes and then went to the restroom. Looking at the wide mirror on the wall, Adrian closed his eyes.
He opened it, staring at his vision over the mirror next to him. His black, delicate pupils stared still. Connecting to the silence of the building. The flowery scent of her wolf lingered in his nostrils.
"Mate..." Maria's thick breath heaved into reality and he heard it. "Help me."
Looking back, Adrian's gaze met Jason standing at akimbo, by the door. He frowned, wondering why how long he was been watching. A malicious smirk spread across Jason's angular jaws as he gave a fulfilling smile.
"You again?" Adrian started.
"I told you I would get back on you? I got everything ready this time." Jason brought out an injection from his pocket, touching the top of the needle.
"What do you want, Jay-Jay? I thought we were over with this!"
"I know what you did you Ashley! I know you have super powers and I'm going to make you pay!" Jason assured.
Adrian shook his head in disbelief. "Where is Maria? Tell me where she is right now, else?!"
Jason gave no reply. Instead, a disdainful smirk graced his lips.
"I don't want to hurt to you, Jay-Jay. I tried so hard to accept you, but you keep making things difficult."
"It's obvious? You're not in charge here, Adrian. I know your secret."
"What? What do you mean, secret?" Adrian frowned.
"I know you are werewolves. Slave to the moon." He hissed cynically.
"How do you know?" Adrian raised an eyebrow.
"Come on... You think I wouldn't? Isn't it obvious that after your trip to Austria, you changed into a whole new person? You became a superman overnight? Well, I brought with me the truth teller." Jason muttered, raising the injection at him while Adrian swallowed on his clenched jaws.
"What's that?"
"Wolfsbane. I've loaded it into Maria, so forget escaping death. Yours will be slow and painful, just like hers. What an ideal fairy-tale, right?-"
In a blink of an eye, Adrian hit him hard from under the jaw. Jason dropped to the ground and the injection rolled away. Far from his reach.
Adrian grabbed him by the chest, slamming his body against the walled mirror. It shattered into pieces at once. Adrian watched Jason's body on the floor. He seemed weak, but Jason raised his gaze at him with a more promising look. With burning hate and anger.
'Tsk!!!' Jason gave a tongue clicking sound as he busted into an annoying laugh.
"You can't stop me!" Jason adjusted his inky-black hair, wiping off the blood lingering at the corner of his bursted lips. "You couldn't love Ashley yet. You didn't let me have her. And you're the reason she avoided me and now you killed her? I will kill you myself!"
Annoyed, Adrian pushed the restroom door, but it was locked.
"Where are the keys?" He turned his back to Jason with anger boiling down his chest.
Jason deepened his hungers for the side pocket of his jeans, showing him the key. As it is, the school authorities usually leaves the keys at the door and Jason locked it.
Coming closer, Jason dropped it into the closet.
"Grrr!" Adrian gritted his teeth in fury. His fist folded in a clench and kicked the door. It broke by its side. Adrian kicked it again and the door broke down.
Agitated, he hurried out of the restroom to find Maria. He knew she was in there somewhere. Inside one of the locked rooms. Walking out, Jason grabbed the injection and placed his back into his pocket.
Then he brought out a small gun, loading it with silver bullets. Jason's blue eyes searched round as he claimed upstairs. Trying to follow the steps which Adrian had taken. He loaded more bullets, hearing grunts coming from upstairs. Jason halted, listening to the raspy breathing hovering in his ears. A single drop of sweat fell into his ear and Jason wiped it off with the side if his shoulder.
He swallowed the swelling lump in his dried throat and concentrated his gaze on the staircase. There was an awkward silence for a while.
Just then, he faced Adrian's wolf. His thick, black fur stood up aggressively. Jason's jaws dropped, shocked at what was standing before him.
"Is... Is that you, Adrian?" He chewed on the word as the gun dropped off his trembling hand.
"Grrr!" Adrian grunted. His golden yellow eyes glowered at him.
"Who the hell are you?!" Jason squat, and quickly picked the gun, pointing it at him.
"Grrrrr!!!"
"Stay away from me, please!" He begged and suddenly pulled the trigger.
"Oww.... Grrrrrr!!!" a noisy whimper escaped his mouth as he growled closely. As if the bullet had no effect on him.
Adrian jumbled swiftly over the stairs and faced Jason from behind.
'Pooh! Pooooh!! Pooooohhh!!!'
He shot at him again and again. The wolf frowned. His face was more disturbed than before.
"No, don't do this to me!" Jason cried, placing his back on the stair handle. "Please, who's down there? Somebody should help me-!!" He yelled out his lungs for help but no one answered.
"Grrrrrhhh!" Adrian grunted at him, and he flinched.
"Ahhhhhhh!!!!!"
Jason tumbled downstairs, hosting his neck on the ground. His body crackled and creaked. Everywhere went silent.
Hearing the noise, the school's security guard whom was still around rushed into the building. It was an elderly man with rusty copper-red hair and black eyes. Looking down, he saw Jason's body brutally smashed against the ground. Looking at the twitched head, He realised that his body was already dysfunction.
'Bang! Bang!! Bang!!!'
Listening to the silence, there was someone banging on the door. He rushed into the lady's dressing room, breaking it down. He saw Maria, tied up with chains. She looked too weak to move. Immediately, the security guard dialed 911 and in no time, the ambulance arrived. They rushed Adrian and Maria to the hospital. Luckily, they survived no serious injuries. Jason, however, lost his life.
Adrian and Maria confessed about being attacked by Jason, the bully. But it was obvious, the poor guy commited suicide.
Two days later, Adrian and Maria got discharged. Maria was strong enough to resist wolfsbane, and the doctors removed the silver two bullets from Adrian's arm. Of course, no one realized them being wolf-bloods till they got discharged.
The next Monday, in school, Maria was walking past the school vixens when someone called her attention.
"Scatter, Whittier vixens!" The cheerleader captain hissed at the other girls to get Maria's attention. "Hello Maria... Can we have a word?"
It was Denise, Ashley's best friend. She must be hungry for vengeance, too. Maria hissed at the thought.
"Yes, Denise. What's it?" She replied with a serious face.
"I know we've not agreed because of Ashley, but it's going to be bad of me if you don't join my squad?" Denise explained.
"What do you mean?" Maria raised a slim eyebrow at her words.
"I need you on my team, Maria. You have a burning fire in you."
Unable to control the joy in her, Maria walked towards Denise, holding her in a soft hug. Denise wrapped her hands over Maria's shoulders, too. And both girls became friends. Maria joined the Whittier vixens and Fabian as well became friends with Adrian.
During prom night, Adrian and Maria were crowned as king and queen of the year. Life in highschool was fun until Adrian graduated and got an admission to study in Harvard. In which Maria later joined him. Harry and Jessica got married while Ashley's house became haunted ever since her unfortunate disappearance.