It is him, it's actually him. How? It's impossible. And suddenly Stiles remembered where he had seen the pool before. He was in shock. How is this possible?
'Stiles? Stiles!' Scott shouted as he waved his hand in front of Stiles eyes. 'Huh, what?' And Stiles got sucked right back into the real world. 'Are you alright?' 'Yeah, yeah, sure.' Stiles looked back at the place where he had last seen the boy, he was gone. Maybe it was just a hallucination of his own fucked up mind. 'Uhm, okay. But dude, what the fuck?! Why'd you push me in the water?! Scott said. 'Yeah, sorry about that man. But you were gone for like 3 hours or maybe even more, I don't know! And you forgot your fucking phone!' Stiles answered while he gave Scott his phone back. There was an awkward silence. 'So, you gonna introduce me or what?' 'Yeah, guys, this is Stiles. Stiles this are Boyd, Erica and Laura.' It was weird, Laura didn't seem to fit into this picture, she's at least 3 years older than Erica and Boyd. 'They're here with Laura's uncle, Peter, and her younger brother, Derek. Boyd and Erica are good friends with him, but he didn't feel like coming today.' 'Oh please.' Laura said. 'I don't think he's ever going to leave his room if I let him. My little brother isn't really into the whole doing fun stuff and making new friends thing.' 'We all think it's because his girlfriend, Kate, betrayed him with another guy when Laura and Derek's house burned down and Peter was the only one who survived.' Boyd said. 'Guess she just wanted him because he had a big house.' Erica finished. 'My uncle has been taking care of us ever since.' Laura said to Stiles. 'Oh my God, I love this song! ' Erica screamed as she started to dance.
It was one 'o clock when Stiles and Scott left the party. It had been an awesome night. Stiles hadn't thought about the boy once and he had made 3 new friends. Life was good.
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The next day Stiles, Erica, Boyd and Laura decided to get into town, Scott was feeling a little sick after last night. Erica and Laura really wanted to go shopping and Stiles and Boyd definitely needed some new video games.
At 12:30 they all got together, except Laura, she texted them she was running late. Something about her brother.
Only 10 minutes later they saw Laura walking towards them with a dark haired boy behind her. 'That's Derek, he younger brother.' Boyd said to Stiles. But Stiles didn't answer. He'd recognise the dark brown hair everywhere. It was him. Derek, the boy from his dream, from last night. Derek was Laura's younger brother. Stiles was in love with one of his friends' little brother…
'Hey guys.' He heard Laura say. 'Stile, this is Derek. My brother, the one I told you about, remember?' 'Hey man, cool you're here.' Boyd said. 'Yeah, sure.' Derek answered a little irritated. He really didn't want to come, but since Laura practically dragged him out of bed, he didn't really have much of a choice to begin with. 'Stiles? You still there?' Laura asked him. He got out of his trance, he wouldn't let anybody know he was in love with Derek. 'Hi, sorry, just tired I guess.' He said to Derek, trying to shake his hand. 'I'm Stiles.' 'Derek.' So he wasn't really a talker, Stiles was okay with that, or maybe he didn't know what to say. Stiles would do most of the talking anyway. 'So, now that we're all here, let's go.'
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They had no idea where they went, but they would find their way into town. It was a miracle that they had to ask only a few people. Stiles, Laura and Derek walked up front with Boyd and Erica behind them. But suddenly Laura started walking with Boyd and Erica. Derek and Stiles were left alone. Well, this is awkward, Stiles thought. 'So, uhm, what do you like to do for fun?' he asked Derek. 'Unlike you, I don't go to parties a lot, I like to work out.' 'So that's how he got all these muscles.' 'Uuhm, yeah. That's how.' Oh my god, Stiles thought. 'Did I really just say that out loud?' he says. This was going to be a long walk. Luckily Laura jumped in front of them. Like, really jump. 'So?' she asked. 'What, so?' Derek and Stiles said at the same time. 'Well, how do you guys like each other?' 'Laura..' Derek said. 'No, seriously. I wanna know. So, Stiles, has my brother been nice to you?' Stiles got red. 'Yeah, he's nice. I guess.' 'Anyway, I think you look cute together.' And with that she started walking beside them. Stiles though about what she had said. I think you look cute together. What did she mean with that? Did she mean it as friends? Maybe she meant as brothers. Or was it something more? He hoped so. What if Derek felt the same way. Laura never would've mentioned it if Derek didn't like guys to, would she? Was Derek thinking about these things now too? There were so many questions going through his head right now. When he looked up at Laura and Derek he saw them talking about something. He didn't really follow the conversation. And then suddenly he was looking right into Derek's eyes. They both looked away as quickly as they could. Stiles saw Derek turn red and he was sure he had seen him too. He was never this shy. How could he be like this all the sudden. Stiles was always outgoing, didn't care what people thought. Even in front of Lydia he wasn't ashamed of anything he did. Okay, maybe that one time when…. No, he wasn't going to bring that up. Sure, one day he'll laugh about the public humiliation of peeing his pants in front of the girl he very much loves. But this was different. This wasn't humiliation what made him shy. It was Derek.