Lydia's POV

In all fairness Lydia Martin held her end of the bargain and did exactly what Derek ask her to do. Maybe she felt a little guilty that she knew Stiles was planning to propose as well and was freaking out on how to do it. But she also knew that deep inside Stiles wanted to be swept off his feet by a grand romantic gesture so in the end it was better this way. So yes, she was going to help Derek and just like that the guilt was gone and she became a woman on a mission.

Stiles' POV

Sometimes Stiles feels like the world is against him. Like there's a conspiracy where Stiles' life is movie and the universe keeps pausing it adding scenes last minute. Seriously, his life would be great if the universe would stop interrupting it.

Exhibit A :
Stiles is about to start sophomore year and join The Beacon Hills lacrosse team with his best friend* Pause *
Universe Enters: said best friend Scott McCall gets bitten by a werewolf and Stiles has to try and help him control his werewolf powers so he doesn't kill anyone ( Stiles included ) and the world falls apart.

Exhibit B :
Stiles is juggling High School academics, lacrosse, and helping his best friend control his werewolf powers so he doesn't kill anyone ( Stiles included ) * Pause *
Universe Enters: Hunters try to kill Scott and Scott is dating the daughter of the man who wants to kill him, plus people are dying and the world falls apart... Again.

Yeah there's definitely a pattern and Stiles thinks that the universe needs to butt out sometimes. Right now would be one of those times.

He's supposed to be at home getting ready for tonight but instead he's stuck in five o'clock traffic jam. He would've been good to go by now but he was otherwise distracted. First Lydia called saying that her assistant called in sick and and asked him to deliver some paperwork to a another firm two towns over to which Stiles vigorously protested because 'It's my anniversary Lydia you know that' he emphasized. Then Lydia argued that she loves him and would do anything for him and mentioned that she would buy food for him whenever he wanted. Stiles couldn't say no to that last part.

Long story short, doing this favor for Lydia took a lot longer than he longer, she apologized with lunch, and here he was stuck traffic. After two hours he finally gets home around seven and he rushes. He takes the white Christmas lights from the attic and strings them up so that they look like stars. He brought the new plates, silverware, place mats, and napkins (all gifts from Lydia) and set the table. Then he started dinner (Chicken Alfredo) which was what they ordered together on their first date ( yeah he remembers those types of things). Once dinner was finished he went upstairs to shower and change. When he came back down he decided everything was good to go the only thing missing was Derek...