I had just laid down in bed when it all started, the creaking floor boards in the room next to mine followed by a THUD and muffled cursing.
My brother never really learned the art of sneaking out in my opinion, him and his best friend scott always seemed so surpirsed when they got caught.
I heard him creep slowly down the hall, just past my room before I decided to rain on his parade.
"Where do you think you're going slick?" I said trying my best not to sound like a dissipointed parent.
"Heeehey Sis, whats going on?" he figeted in place running his hand across his buzz-cut and down his neck.
"Stiles, every time dad gets a call you listen in hoping for dead body's or mob shoot-outs but you and I both know it's probably just Mr. Duncan calling again about the aliens abducting his cows or the 'Wolfman' that's living in the woods behind his house" I said sounding exasperated .
"This time it's something good tho, two joggers found a body in the woods...but here's the best part it's only HALF a body" the shit eating grin that broke across my brothers face was a bit unnerving but I couldn't say I wasn't intriguide. "I was just going over to grab scott and go out looking for the other half, you in?"
"Dad is going to kill us if he finds us out there Sti, that being said I know you're gonna go anyway so as your older sister I have a moral obligation." I replied. "Just let me grab a sweater..."
After picking up scott we headed out to the Beacon Hills Preserve, the supposed location of the dead body. Five minutes into this little escapade of my brothers and I was already irritated, maybe it had to do with the lack of action or how frickin' cold and wet I was or maybe it was the fact that my brother and his life partner were bickering like an old married couple, I chuckled aloud at my own joke.
"Whats funny?" I heard my brother ask.
"Nothing just you and Scotty, you sound like...nevermind" I was in my own little word when the sight of flashlights up ahead caught my attention, all three of us hit the ground stiles franticly trying to shut off his own flashlight. I only had a second to watch before my brother took off running towards the lights, I hear scott mutter 'Stiles!' before taking a hit from his inhaler and giving chase whispering 'wait up!'
Stiles must have finally realized just how far ahead he had gotten and slowed down to look back, with his attention momentarily on me and scott he didn't notice the officer who had gotten so close.
"Stay right there!" I heard him yell over the barking of the police k-9, my brother didn't even have time to come up with an excuse before the voice of our father broke through.
"Hold on, Hold on! This little deliquent belongs to me" I watched as Stiles regained his composure and stood up.
"Dad, how ya doing?" he muttered trying to act as unsuspecting as possible, my father sighed a look of irritation present on his features.
"So do you listen in on all my phone calls?"
"No" Stiles replied followed by a large pause "Well not the boring ones" I almost lost it and laughed but I really didnt want my dad to find out I came out here as well...I was supposed to be the 'good' kid.
"Now where is your usual partner in crime?" I heard my father ask.
"Who Scott? S-Scott's home, said he wanted to get a good nights sleep for his first day back at school tomorrow...just me,in the woods...alone" smooth but my dad wasn't that dumb, stiles out looking for a dead body alone?
"Scott you out there?" my dads flashlight shined around, almost landing on my hiding spot behind a fallen tree. "Scott?..." I heard him sigh "Well young man I'm gonna walk you back to your car and you and I are gonna have a conversation about something called invasion of privacy" My fathers voice trailed off the further they both got away from us.
As soon as my dad and the other officers were out of sight I emerged from my hiding spot, I looked around to make sure the coast was clear before making my way over to where scott was standing stiffly behind a tree. We exchanged sighs of relief at not getting caught but also looks of worry at the fact that my Brother was our ride...now we had to walk however far to get back to our respective homes.
"You alright to walk this far Scotty?" I asked the severe asthmatic who was still weezing even after taking that hit from his inhaler not 2 minutes ago, he nodded and we started the long trek back home.
We hadn't walked 10 steps when the sound of birds taking flight caused us both to slow down, up further the woods seemed to take on a eerie calm I hadn't noticed Scott had stopped until I ran right into his back.
"Whats up?" I whispered, he shook his inhaler just about to respond when out of no where a stampede of deer rained down on us, we both fell back Scott somewhat on top of me as we tried as best as we could to keep from being trampled.
Once they passed Scott got to his feet helping me to mine, while he started messing with his phone I tried brushing the wet leaves off myself.
"You drop something?" I asked still pulling a few stray leaves from my hair not really paying much attention to him.
"Yeah my inhaler" he replied, I looked up just in time to see the light from his phone sweep across the other half of the dead body we had come to find. Scott freaked out falling down from the small cliff he was standing near, I ran up trying to get a eye on him to make sure he hadn't cracked his skull open or anything only to see him sprawled out maybe 4 feet below me.
"Scotty are you ok?" I whispered still worried that we might attract unwanted attention, whether from my dad and his officers or anything else lurking in the wood with us.
"I think so..." just as he said that I heard a low growl and looked up just in time to see something lunge for scott which he fought trying to crawl away but it kept him pinned and then...it bit him.