Author's Note: I do not own Teen Wolf or its characters. This is set in an alternate universe.

Raspberry Swirl Cupcake

There were four more weeks of school left, and it couldn't be over soon enough for Derek. He was so sick of it all, and Mr. Harris was being a dick again. Derek had never liked the chemistry teacher, but this year he seemed to have really taken his hostility towards his students to a new level. And the worst part was Derek actually liked chemistry. He found the subject fun and interest. His teacher just made the class miserable.

Derek did his best to keep his head down and his mouth shut in class. It was really the only way to survive Harris. There were very few students that he would actually leave alone if they irked him in some way or another. Derek was just waiting for the day that Harris chose the wrong student to pick on and ended up being reamed out by a furious parent. It hadn't happened yet, but Derek lived in hope. At least next year he was taking physics, and that class had a different teacher.

The bell rang, and they were finally free for the weekend. Derek was definitely ready to be out of there. He had work after school today, so he headed straight for the library. He was more than happy to be able to put his headphones on and spend the next few hours shelving books. He could definitely feel summer in the air now. That was both good and bad. This would be the summer before his senior year, and his parents were pushing him to look at colleges. It wasn't that Derek didn't want to go to college, he was looking forward to it actually, it was just that he didn't know what he wanted to study or where he might really want to go.

He didn't really want to stick around in Beacon Hills, though he could always go to the college here. The biggest problem was that when Derek thought about his future, there was no particular profession that immediately sprang to mind or that he saw himself doing. The subjects that he liked best in school were English and history, but he couldn't really see himself teaching. He didn't really know where that left him.

By the time that Derek got home that evening, he was exhausted. And while there might only be a few more weeks of school left, his teachers were still giving him homework to get done. Derek liked to get that out of the way as soon as possible. He wasn't expecting to find both Cora and Erica at the kitchen table doing their own homework. Cora looked up from her schoolwork with a grin.

"Make cupcakes for us? Please?"

Erica smirked. "Come on, Derek."

He sighed and set his backpack. "All right. Give me a minute."

Friday nights were scrounge. Everyone was responsible for their own dinner. And it sounded like Erica and Cora had decided on cupcakes for dinner. After washing his hands, Derek set to work making up the batter. The latest recipe he was trying was a vanilla and raspberry cupcake with the two batters swirled together. He was still struggling to get the proportions of vanilla batter and raspberry batter correct for flavor and the look of the cupcakes, but they did taste good. They did take a little bit longer to make since he had to do two batters instead of just one.

He let the background noise of Erica and Cora discussing the Earth science project they were working on sooth him along with the actual act of baking. Once the batter was in the oven cooking, Derek settled at the table too, pulling out his trig homework. The three of them worked companionably until Derek's timer went off and he got up to pull the cupcakes out of the oven to check them. The centers weren't quite done yet, so he popped them back in for a few more minutes.

"So, Scott McCall got his ass handed to him today for calling you a complete jackass by both his best friend and his girlfriend. Stiles typically defends you when Scott gets on his high horse, but I've never seen Allison do that before," Erica commented with a sly smirk. "So what gives?"

Derek shrugged. He hadn't mentioned anything about the afternoon with Allison except to his parents. "Who knows? What did I do to piss Scott off this time?"

Cora snorted. "Who knows? He's hated you ever since you refused to tell Allison where the library was her first week at school. If I remember correctly, you told her no and practically ran out of the room. Then you had a panic attack in the locker room and Nana had to come and pick you up. Not exactly your finest moment."

He just sighed. "Give me a break. It was only a month after Kate, and no one told me there was going to be an Argent at school."

Erica just shook her head. "What I don't get is why he hasn't gotten over it yet? I mean it's clear that Allison doesn't care."

"He certainly can hold a grudge," Cora said.

Derek busied himself with pulling the cupcakes out of the oven again to avoid the conversation. He had no idea why Scott continued to hold his grudge. He seemed nice enough other than that, and he was completely besotted with Allison. And it wasn't like Derek could explain the whole story behind why Allison made him uncomfortable. With the cupcakes out of the oven, Derek turned his attention to the frostings; like with the batter, he needed to make two.

Icing a cupcake with two pastry bags at once was a little tricky, but Derek managed it without screwing up too much. He set the plate of cupcakes down on the table when he was done and got back to his homework.