Stiles woke up at 7 to get ready for school, he got up to only find that Ethan was already in there. Stiles knows that Ethan will take forever so he decided to go have breakfast. He walks down stairs and makes himself a bowl of cereal, he sits in front of the TV and watches cartoons when he hears the door open and in comes Lydia. "Ahh why am I not surprised Stiles"

"What, Ethan takes forever in the shower, I'll be lucky of there's any hot water left.

"Have you learnt nothing Stiles" She says heading for the tap in the kitchen, Stiles already know what she's going to do and making no move to stop her even though it could end in bloodshed because Ethan can be real teste when it comes to his morning showers. Lydia turns on the tap switching it to max heat for a few seconds and than switching it to max cold.

"SON OF A BITC-" They hear Ethan yell and a massive crash

"Lydia, I swear if he broke anything you're paying for it"

"Chill Stiles" Lydia says acting innocent as Ethan barrels down the stairs wrapped in nothing but a towel and sweet Jesus does he look hot when he's flustered. Stiles can't help but stare but than Ethan opens his mouth,

"Who did that?" he growls showing his teeth

"Her"

"I did" Lydia says calmly

Ethan closes in on her, "Why. On. Earth. Would. You. Do. That"

Stiles uses the fight as a distraction and heads up to take a shower. I will not jerk off thinking about Ethan Stiles repeats in his head but its not long before he's at half-mast, "fuck" Stiles is contemplating if he should bat it out and get it over with or if he should just hope it goes down on its own when suddenly the water turns ice cold. "FUCK" Stiles yells as he jumps out of the shower, he turns it of muttering, "Fucking dicks" under his breath, he brushes his teeth before leaving the bathroom.

"Put this on" Lydia says as soon as Stiles walks into the room, she picked a plain black t-shirt covered with a dark grey long-sleeved button-up matched with really light brown pants. "Don't button up but roll up the sleeves" Lydia interjects as he dresses, "now put these on" Lydia says handing him one of the watches she but him as well as some cologne "now stand still and let me do your hair".

"I miss my plaid and my cool t-shirts"

"Hate to break it to you Stiles but those t-shirts were the opposite of cool" Lydia says as Stiles pouts. "C'mon we're gonna be late" she says when Stiles is finally ready.

"Lydia are you sure about this?"

"Trust me Stiles, you look hot. I would totally sleep with you if my boyfriend wasn't recently deceased and you hadn't had your gay epiphany"

"Wow, I think that's the nicest thing you've ever said to me"

"Shut up"

"Guys hurry up" Ethan yells up the stairs, not understanding what's taking to long, how long does it take to get dressed Ethan thinks exasperatedly. When he hears footsteps coming down the stairs he turns his eyes and is blown away. "Wow, Stiles. Wow"

"Eloquent" Lydia quips and the tips of Ethan's ears turn red.

"Thank you Ethan" Stiles says. They all climb into Stiles' jeep leaving Lydia's car in the drive, she plans on coming over after school and picking it up. The closer they get to the school the more nervous Stiles gets, Ethan picks up on it and rests a reassuring hand on his shoulder from the back seat, which seems to calm Stiles down.

They're about to enter the high school and Stiles is really nervous, "Relax Stiles, you look great" Ethan compliments him and he smiles.

"Okay lets do this" He offers his arm to Lydia, "Your Majesty" he quips. Lydia just slaps him on the arm, muttering idiot under her breath. They enter the school dramatically the doors opening with more forced than necessary and people are staring girls are staring at him and a few guys too and not in the "gross" way more like the "DAYUM" way and Stiles is man enough to admit he likes it. He gets winks and one guy even gives him his number, wow is this real it takes a while for Stiles brain to catch up but he and Lydia have been practicing he accepts the number with an air of indifference. The guy leans in close and gently whispers,

"Call me" into his ear. Stiles thinks he hears a growl but doesn't think anything of it.

"Sure whatever" Stiles says and Lydia has never been so proud aww look at him all grown up she thinks with a smirk. They start walking of in the direction of their lockers when someone grabs Stiles' and Lydia's hands. Ethan immediately throws the person into lockers as Stiles and Lydia turn around to see who the person was, "Ethan calm down" Stiles says and Ethan looks slightly bashful.

"Jackson?" Lydia and Stiles say in unison

"You know this guy?" Ethan asks curiously

"Yeah and on seconds thought go ahead you can kill him" Stiles says with a sneer

"Haha Stilinski very funny" Jackson says, "So whose the asshole" Ethan growls "Oh another wolf that's great, Derek go on a biting spree again?"

"Derek's not an alpha anymore" Lydia says with a tone that suggests that Jackson isn't even worth her time. "We'll catch-up later okay" she says with so much sarcasm Jackson actually flinches, Stiles is kinda feeling sorry for the guy but he kind of deserves it for abandoning Lydia after she saved him with her love and all that crap. The least he could do was stay in touch but nope, Lydia the biggest badass out there struggled to keep it together after being abandoned like that but just like everything else she didn't let it get her down.

"Hey Stilinski, what the hells going on" Jackson asks with much less douchbaggery than usual and Stiles thinks that there is a slight, miniscule chance that Jackson may be less of a douchebag so Stiles sighs,

"Meet me at my place after school. I'll catch you up" Stiles turns to leave as he hears Jacksons reply,

"Thanks, I'll see you then" Stiles turns back around open mouthed and Jackson stares at him curiously, "Whtat?"

"You… You said thank you"

"Yeah..?"

"You're less of a douchebag!" Stiles cheers, "Do me a favour though don't talk to anyone until we catch up okay? A lot of shit has happened, if you want you can talk to Danny, he knows and he can fill you in on the basics"

"Wait like he knows, he knows?"

"Yeah he's really smart and he kind of caught on, you should probably talk to him it's a good thing he's such a nice guy I don't think he'll be mad at you"