Laura enters his house without saying a word. He closes the door behind her and follows her into the living room. They sit in silence for a while, Laura looking at the TV screen and Stiles looking at Laura. She doesn't look good. Bags under her eyes make it clear that she hasn't slept last night and the sadness in her eyes indicates that something is really wrong.
He walks into the kitchen to grab her some water and when he returns and puts it on the coffee table Laura falls into tears.

It's always hard to understand Laura when she's talking while crying, but what she's saying at the moment is loud and clear to Stiles. She's leaving. Not the temporary kind of leaving, the leaving – leaving kind of leaving.
"Why?" he asks after she has calmed down a little bit to be understandable again.
"Something is wrong, something is seriously wrong Stiles. I don't know what it is, but I have to find out. Peter is coming with me. Derek wanted to come too, but I asked him to stay here and look out for you." – Stiles wants to interrupt her after that but she continues talking – "And don't say that you don't need help or protection Stiles, you're practically tripping over your own feet twice a day."
It's true, he's clumsy and awkward and all kinds of other stuff, but that doesn't mean that he needs a babysitter.
"I don't need a babysitter Laura, I can take great care of myself."
"Don't lie Stiles, even I know you get awfully lonely out here by yourself, your dad is barely around and you don't have any one to come over except me."
It's quiet after that – again – because Stiles is still shocked that Laura is going away, she's going to leave him… And for what? A bad feeling about something? It's just not right.
"How long will you be gone?" he asks, unsure about what to do with his life when Laura's gone. He is interrupted by the doorbell and remembers ordering a pizza. He pays for the pizza and joins Laura back in the living room.
"I don't know Stiles," answers Laura to his interrupted question,
"I'm going away tonight and when Peter and I find out what's going on and why we all have this bad feeling in our werewolf-gut we'll make sure to eliminate the problem and come back." Laura sounds sad and for once Stiles just wants it all to be over. He doesn't need more people leaving him. His mom left him, his dad is barely home and now his best friend is going to leave him too.
"I'm going to come back Stiles, I promise." And then he starts crying too. They cry on each others shoulders for a while and then it's time for Laura to leave and they say goodbye.

When Laura's gone, the pizza is cold and forgotten. He eats it anyway, he feels miserable. After eating himself sick – because he doesn't like cold pizza at all – he goes up to his room and tries to sleep. But just like last night, he can't. He keeps thinking about what he must do with his life now.
He hears his dad coming home and after that everything turns black because he is finally falling asleep.

He wakes up early in the morning and catches his dad before he has to go to work.
"Dad, can we go look for a car for me this week?" He asks. Honestly the idea has been on his mind for a while; he kind of knew that Laura wouldn't be driving him around forever.
"Sure kid, but I have to go to work now." He gets a pat on his head and then his dad is leaving.
After breakfast and some scrolling through the internet, Stiles knows for sure which car he wants. He sends a link to his dad's work email and hopes he'll get it soon so they can go and buy it. Before he knows it, it's time for school and he hears the engine of a car before his house.
It still takes some getting used to, seeing Derek standing outside his house with his expensive – and awesome because that will never escape Stiles' mind – car. He gets in and it's quiet again.
When they pull up at school Derek starts talking though.
"I know you don't like this just as much as I don't like this. But I promised Laura that I would look after you, so I'm going to try." He tells him.
"Why weren't you allowed to go with them?" he asks in return. Derek grumbles something inaudible.
"Because she doesn't think I'm ready for such a trip into the unknown." He eventually says clear. And wow, the guy really does sound pissed.
"You should go to your class Stiles, the lesson is about to start and you wouldn't want detention again, would you?" and Stiles is stepping out of the car. "Thanks for the ride, Derek" and running off towards his lesson.

He – the extreme dork that he is – totally forgets about not having a ride back which escalates in him walking all the way back home. After a long day it even starts to rain which makes Stiles' mood even more pissed. When he arrives at home he finds the house empty, dark and cold. He's sad, so sad that he just sits down in his wet clothes and doesn't move for an hour.

The days go by faster – luckily – after that and Stiles finds himself in a steady rhythm each day. He eats breakfast – and maybe when he's up early enough he gets to see his dad before he goes off to work where he stays until late – gets picked up by Derek, has classes, has lunch alone, has classes, gets picked up by Derek again, makes his homework, eats dinner – if he's hungry – and most of the time he goes to bed early.

In the weekend he and his dad buy him a car – a really awesome Jeep – and Stiles calls Derek to let him know that he doesn't need a ride to school anymore. He's riding with his dad when his dad has to run an errand for the police station and he decides to tag along. They have to go to the vet's to pick up a healed police dog. When they enter he meets Scott, a guy his age who's helping the vet out, and they get to know each other.
He finds out that he goes to the same school as Scott and suddenly the lunch breaks aren't so lonely anymore. He sits with Scott during lunch and in the few classes they've got together.
Scott comes over to his house a few times in the weeks after that, and they play on the Xbox together. They're both game-freaks so they get along really well – although it's always Stiles who wins and sometimes Scott is getting sick of that – and they meet up more.

He gets into another steady rhythm now. Breakfast, driving to school, hanging out with Scott before classes, having classes together with Scott, having lunch with Scott and some other people, having other classes, driving home – sometimes with Scott tagging along so they can play on the Xbox – eating dinner – he is trying to learn how to cook so he can maybe make dinner time more tasty for himself - making homework and sometimes watching movies or playing video games until late at night – when it's way past his bedtime.

School is more fun now, he and Scott are friends and they get along really well. Because of Scott he gets to know Lydia, Allison, Jackson – that's not so great – and Danny. They all sit together during lunch breaks and he almost forgets about the pain that his best friend left behind.

Almost.