The answer, he wasn't. Derek Hale was as straight as a ruler. He did however, have very strong feelings for the young boy. He used to be really loving before the fire. . . but being left alone to fend for himself he needed to show he was a bad-ass. He somehow guessed the bubbly boy took him back to visit his old-self; and that was it. Nothing more, nothing less.
He made his way back to his residence in the morning when a certain familiar smell stroke his nose. He was getting aroused to that smell he couldn't quite put a name on. It smelled like a fresh Autumn morning combined with a hinge of blood; and he was taken back to when he was a kid.

It was an early Autumn morning, before he moved to Beacon Hills. It had surprisingly rained the night before, he was at a park with his main family. His dad was telling him to go and play with the other kids in the play house centered on the park; he obeyed. When he got there he found a young white boy with the most beautiful brown eyes he had seen; he hadn't thought of them that way before, only now that he remembered. The beautiful boy's bottom lip was bleeding, and to his side there was a big fat annoying-looking kid who was bullying him. He, being a pure breed werewolf had the strength no kid his age, nor about a decade older, had. The 'hippo'(as he had decided to name him)'s parents were watching and did nothing about it; so he decided to take the matter into his own hands. He grabbed the kid's right arm and twisted to his back as he dragged the kid to the floor; he then grabbed the kid by his hair and smashed his head against the sand ordering at the same time for the kid to beg the bleeding kid for forgiveness. The other boy was shaking in fear and only shook his head when he heard the fat kid asking to be forgiven; at this same time the father of the kid currently being held to the ground came and picked Derek up from his arm and was about to punch the boy out of anger when a guy in a police uniform ordered him to stop. Derek never once blinked or took his gaze from the mad parent; he wasn't scared at all. The officer came along and screamed infuriated for the parent to pick his son up and get the fuck out of his sight. He knew that wasn't the right thing to do, but he gave the dark haired boy the reason to have beaten the fat kid the way he had. He had been reassigned to be the sheriff of a town on the other side of the state and was moving that day; he just wanted to give his son one more play at his hometown's park and he obviously had not expect for it to go that way. The officer's wife then came along with two ice-creams on hand and dropped them at the sight of her son bleeding; she had missed the whole scene. The man explained everything to her and they both thanked the young Derek for what he had done; and they let their stiles to play with the boy before departing that same day. As they played the younger kid thanked the the other boy for saving him, and told him he would've liked to be friends with him for longer time, he then explained him and his parents were moving to a town called Beacon Hills. As the day went on both boys went to their respective families. Derek also remembered that that day him and his family had been followed as they had been for some days. It was that same night that his family of werewolves decided to move somewhere else but they didn't know where to; they didn't wanna leave the state nor move to far, but they followed the suggestion of the young boy had screamed out when he heard them, regardless of the distance they decided to go to that place. He never forgot about his little friend and kept him in mind regardless of never running into him in such a small town. That was of course until the Hale house fire where he lost most of his childhood memories.

But now, because of that combination of smells he was able to remember everything, that was the reason why he was so fond of Stiles. It all fit into place; but what was this smell right now?
He entered his house and went up the stairs to his room to find a teenage boy laying on his bed with blood on his knuckles. He froze in place, he didn't want to see Stiles, at least not right now. . . . he had to get his thoughts straight out first; but he had no time. . . stiles had spoken.

"hey there grumpy"
"what do you want?" replied he, dryly.
"whoa! You're extra grumpy today huh? Anyway, can we uh, can we talk?" asked the young boy dropping all happiness from his face.
"no." he replied but he saw Stiles' face grow even sadder and knew he probably wouldn't say anything so he decided to go on. "what happened to your hands?"
and it seemed to work, for stiles replied with tears forming in the corners of his eyes.
"I've been a bit down."

"humph, so you decided to go around punching walls?" he joked coldly.
"yeah, pretty much. . Anyway, since we can't talk I guess I should get going" said the younger boy getting up from the bed and heading towards the door.
"wait" Derek called out grabbing stiles arm to turn him around. "its not that I don't wanna talk, but I know you have school and I don't want to be responsible for you missing it."
"yeah I getya" replied stiles turning around once again to head out "but I should let you know that in this state I won't pay much attention, not that I do when am ok but yeah"
"ok, ok. Fine. Stay. I have some questions for you anyway."

ok so i decided to add a footer instead so for those of you who ignore it can ignore it and it wont distract you from the reading.
i apologize for the sketchy ch. . . i decided to find m'self a beta reader but i had to upload something, hope you guys like it. . next one will be a long ch :)
next ch in 6 days after the first review. BTW. that thing is so that i know at least one person will read it and i can keep it going, otherwise i'll just cut it short. and if you've noticed update dates will keep getting shorter. . .
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2.d note. . i was planning on updating earlier, but my dear neighbor decided to cut my internet cable in half. . . RUDE!
but just some minutes ago i remembered i can give Wifi from my phone! YES! so there :)