Crystal Reed’s “Teen Wolf” character Allison Argent doesn’t know it yet, but her teenager-in-love story is about to take a very creepy supernatural twist.

Reed co-stars on MTV’s new scripted series, which debuted June 5 with 2.2 million viewers. Tyler Posey is Scott McCall, the teenaged boy whose life gets a little hairy after he’s attacked by a werewolf.

While there are some similarities to the 1985 feature film that starred Michael J. Fox, the 2011 small-screen reboot is a much darker interpretation filled with genuine scares, sexy young stars and a brewing “Romeo and Juliet”-style feud between Allison’s werewolf-hunting family and the beastly bunch Scott is quickly learning about.

Reed says she can’t give away any “Teen Wolf” secrets, but Allison’s world is about to get very complicated.

“She has no clue that the guy she falls in love with is a werewolf and that her family aren’t selling weapons to the government like her father says, but that they’re actually werewolf hunters,” she said.

“As the season goes on she’s stuck in the middle of all these lies and she starts to realize things aren’t adding up. Plus, she’s really confused as she’s dealing with all the usual teenage problems of fitting in, growing up, being in love. And then, toward the end, she starts to figure things out and has to make some really tough choices involving her family, love and honor.”

The June 27 episode, the fifth of the season, scored about 1.7 million viewers during its 10 p.m. debut time slot, after landing 1.8 million the previous week. With the first season hitting its halfway point, both Reed and the series received nominations two weeks ago in the 2011 Teen Choice Awards.

“Teen Wolf” creator Jeff Davis says that MTV will likely reveal in the next couple weeks whether the show will get a second season.

“Crystal’s work in the series and what Tyler has done, we’re all very proud,” he said. “And we’re having a tricky time gauging the viewer ratings because it’s on like 20 times a week, but we’re catching on, and if viewers continue to stick around they’ll see some epic action and phenomenal work in episodes 10, 11, 12.”

‘Teen Wolf’

When: 10 p.m. Mondays (with repeats throughout the week)

Where: MTV