AN: Sorry for not updating sooner but I was really stuck with where I wanted this to go. This is probably the last chapter but i may do one more set a few months into the future, i don't know so tell me what you think:) Thank you to everyone who has reviewed or subscribed to the story you literally make my day when you review. :)

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Stiles walked in the door behind Scott and kept his head down, he could tell that the others were focused on him and were waiting for him to say something but he just stood there silent. Scott was the first to speak.

"Hey come for a walk with me."

"No I want to stay here and hear what Stiles has to say." Erica replied angry that Stiles had kept a secret from her.

Derek was the one to reply to her. "Go Erica and I don't want to be able to hear you outside either."
"Fine!" Erica yelled as she stormed out of the house the rest of the pack following apart from Derek and Stiles. Stiles spoke first as he wanted to get everything off his chest.

"I am so sorry that I ran out and didn't even stop to think about your feelings as I had just told our only secret but they don't get it. They think that we have to tell them everything because we are like a big family now and its suffocating I just wanted to have one secret that they didn't know one secret that we could have decided to reveal but I went and blew that and I am really sorry. I shouldn't have run, I should have stayed and faced the others but I was a coward and I understand if you can't forgive me."

"Stiles there is nothing to forgive I understand why you ran and I am sorry that you felt that you had to run away you shouldn't ever have to feel uncomfortable and the guys shouldn't have made you feel uncomfortable. They need to understand that while we are practically one big family we are still allowed to have secrets and we don't have to tell each other everything and they need to learn that just because we have secrets doesn't mean we are betraying them and might choose to keep a secret once in a while."

"But you saw Erica it was like we had murdered someone and framed her."
"Stiles stop worrying about what everybody else thinks and think about yourself for once. Erica is just to nosy for her own good and she doesn't know how far she has gone until she has pushed someone away. It's unfortunate but she is going to have to learn the hard way because we are not going to be there every time she screws up and she needs to know that but you need to stop worrying."

"How can I stop worrying when I see them every day knowing that my decisions effect them as well not just me. How will I ever stop worrying if someone is going to walk through the door any time we are alone. I can't. That's all I do Derek. Worry. Worry about my dad, the pack, you, what everyone thinks. It's in my nature to worry.

"All I am saying is put yourself first for a change you're always putting others before you and you never have time to worry about yourself."

"I will try I promise."
"No because you won't so from now on I will look after the pack and that includes you and don't argue with me Stiles because I will win.

"Fine you win you look after the pack but that won't stop me from worrying about my dad or you."
"Stiles you need to stop worrying about me, I can take care of my self and I know I cant stop you from worrying about your dad but he is a grown man he can look after himself you don't have to worry about him constantly."
"I know but ever since my mom died he has been depressed and I can not help but worry about if he is going to go out and do something stupid or if he is going to get hurt at work and not come home."

"I know Stiles but you need to focus on you or you are going to completely neglect your self and your going to become ill."

"I'm sorry I will try not to worry about you or the pack and I will try to worry less about my dad."

"Promise?"
"Promise."
"Okay, now about the pack what do you want to do?"
"I don't know and honestly Derek I'm scared."

"You don't have to be"
"I know but I can't help it."
"We'll do this together you won't be on your own"
"Okay"

Derek smiled and pulled Stiles into a hug. He pulled his phone out and messaged Scott telling him he could bring the others back.

When the others got back they found Derek curled up on the sofa with a sleeping Stiles. Erica stormed in but upon seeing the look on Derek's face she quietened but her temper rose when she saw Stiles fast asleep next to Derek. She received a death glare off Derek and swiftly made her way upstairs to her room. The others filled the various seats around where Stiles and Derek were and they began a conversation about what Stiles had said when they were alone. By the time Stiles had woken up the everyone except from Erica understood why Stiles had reacted the way he had and why he wanted to keep it a secret from everyone as long as he could. After an hour and a half of ignoring Stiles and the rest of the pack Erica walked down the stairs to see that Derek and Stiles were asleep with Stiles leaning on Derek and the rest of the pack watching television.

"Oh my god really?" she whisper yelled.

"What?" Allison sighed.

"You are sitting there like nothing happened and that you have forgiven him for everything!"
"That is because there was nothing to forgive."
"But he betrayed us and kept a really important secret."

"No he didn't betray us Erica it's just you that sees it that way and people are allowed to keep secrets just because you didn't really have a family before the pack doesn't mean that everyone has to tell you everything because you finally have a family. People are allowed to keep secrets its was Stiles' choice to keep it a secret and good for him because knew Stiles at all you would know how much of a big deal this is for him and you wouldn't think that he has betrayed you because yes Stiles can be hyper and talk at a mile a minute but he is a private person and doesn't like everyone to know everything about him and and his personal life so you need to stop and rethink about what you are saying because you could loose a really good friend if you don't and if you loose Stiles as a friend I don't think you're going to get him back anytime soon."

Erica stood staring at Allison with a shocked expression on her face. She slowly turned around and went back upstairs to think through what she was going to say to Stiles when she finally confronted him. About an hour later she walked back down the stairs already knowing what she was going to say and try and make things better. When she reached the bottom of the stairs she noticed Stiles and Derek were awake and everyone was looking at her.

"Can I talk to you outside please?" she asked looking shamefully at Stiles. He stood up and walked outside just far enough so the others inside the house couldn't hear what was being said between the two. Erica slowly and nervously followed Stiles outside and began the speech she had prepared in her mind.

"I'm really sorry Stiles I shouldn't have had a go at you earlier and Allison made me realise that I was wrong with my reasoning and I know you don't want to hear a sob story but I have never had anything that resembles a family before so I didn't know what being a family meant and my idea was that everyone told each other everything and now I realise that, that was wrong and people are allowed to have secrets and keep things to themselves and not tell anyone if they don't want to and I am sorry can you please forgive me?"

Stiles stood looking at Erica in shock.

"Yeah of course I can forgive you Erica and I know why you didn't trust me but it hurt and you know I would never keep a secret from you that would intentionally hurt you but you need to understand that I needed time. I needed time to figure things out and make sure it was what I wanted and it may be selfish but I wanted time to enjoy it with out anyone else knowing. I needed to make sure that I wasn't dreaming, I needed time to get used to it."
"It wasn't selfish Stiles if anyone was selfish it was me I shouldn't have presumed anything and

certainly shouldn't have been angry at you, you were just scared and worried and I truly am sorry. I'm sorry for this and I'm sorry for everything that I have done to you or said about you in the past. You are a completely different person to the one one everyone sees and I am glad I got the chance to get to know the real you.

"I understand why you did what you did but if this is going to happen every time I don't tell you something then we can't be friends anymore Erica because I can't go through this again.

"I promise it won't happen again Allison really got though to me this time and I am going to change I can't go through life like this."

"Okay lets go back inside then."
"Thank you Stiles for forgiving me."

"It's okay come on."

Stiles walks back into the house with Erica trailing behind him. She went straight back up stairs and they continued as nothing had happened. Over the next few days everyone made sure that they gave Stiles the space he needed. The following week the pack decided to make a group trip to the cinema, they decided to let Lydia choose what movie they would go and see and she chose the host. The whole pack except Erica met at the cinema. The pack went in and watched the movie while Erica was at Derek's house redecorating the living room and dining room, she felt really bad and decided this was how she would make it up to them. She hired a removal truck and went and bought two new sofas for the living room, she then went and picked up an LCD tv and a stand. When she got back to the house she grabbed the paint and started painting the living room an earthly green. With her enhanced werewolf abilities it only took her half and hour so she moved onto the dining room and painted it a deep red. After she had finished the painting in the dining room the living room was dry so she moved the television stand with the television and the sofas into the sitting room. Erica then got in the van and went to get a new dining room table and a book shelf for all of Stiles' books. She also bought a desk for Stiles to sit and work at in the dining room. After the furniture and other things she had bought were in the newly decorated rooms Erica picked her camera up and went to the shop to get pictures of the pack printed to put in the frames she had bought to go on the walls. Back at the cinema the pack were just leaving and decided to go and look around the shops for a little while. Erica was just hanging the last picture on the wall when she heard the cars pull up into the drive, she ran upstairs to hide in her room to surprise the rest of the pack, she put her earphones in just as the pack walked through the door. Derek and Stiles were the first ones through the door and Stiles stopped in shock, had he been carrying anything he would have dropped it. The rest of the pack pushed through the door to see what the matter was and stopped dead when they saw the new living room. They looked around in awe at the newly transformed front room and then looked at each other and said "Erica!" all at the same time. Erica smirked to herself as she listened to the pack running up the stairs to see her. She smiled at them as they burst through the door.

"What did you do to the living room?"

"Do you like it? I also done the dining room."
"You didn't have to do that you know." Stiles said quietly.

"I know but I wanted to show you how sorry I am"
"You still didn't have to do that we believed you when you said you were sorry"
"I know but lasts longer than an apology and I wanted to show you that my apology will last and I will keep my word."

"It's amazing, Erica thank you." said Stiles.

Erica and Stiles joined the rest of the pack in the kitchen and they all sat around the new dining room table to eat as a family.