"Hello."

"Are you stalking me?" asked Stiles.

He was doing his weekly grocery shop and Derek was there again.

"No, not really," replied Derek already blushing.

Stiles laughed and repeated, "Not really?"

"Scott may have told me you do your grocery shopping here at the same time every week but I didn't come just to see you, I needed to come anyway and I knew you'd be here now so I thought I might come and do my shopping at the same time as you, it's not stalking." Derek was rambling, which was weird, because that was Stiles' thing, not his. He was the cool and calm one, Stiles was the dorky, babbler.

Stiles grinned, "So you wanted to see me?"

Derek was blushing even harder than before. Stiles thought it was pretty cute, which was also unusual. Cute wasn't how he typically described Derek. It was usually hot or sexy or terrifying in an incredibly attractive way. But today he thought Derek was adorable.

"Maybe," answered Derek.

The two guys ended up staring at each other and smiling in a cute but slightly awkward way.

Eventually Derek asked, "Do you have a lot of shopping left to do? We could go grab a coffee when you finish."

"Not a tea?" Stiles was shocked, Derek loved tea.

"Well you don't like tea," replied Derek, "And if we went to where I work, my co-workers would probably make it really awkward."

Stiles was very confused about whether Derek was asking him on a date or not. It sounded like a date, but it could also have been just coffee. He was confused and didn't feel like asking him to clarify.

Derek helped him finish his shopping which was incredibly cute and oddly domestic. They could have been one of those couples that had recently moved in together and we're trying to get used to being homely.

He helped him load his jeep with his groceries and then they agreed on a place to meet for coffee.

Derek got there first and waited in the parking lot for Stiles so they could walk in together. He let Stiles choose a table and asked him what he wanted, then bought the coffee for the two of them. It really did seem like a date.

The only problem was that Stiles was still having trouble getting his head around the idea that a beautiful, 22 year old, college graduate would be interested in a 17 year old, high school senior.

No one would put the two of them together, but he felt at ease when it was just the two of them, he felt happy when he was with Derek and he still got butterflies every time he saw him.

"Did you enjoy the halloweentown marathon yesterday?" asked Derek.

"I did," exclaimed Stiles excitedly, "I love those movies, old Disney channel movie are the best."

Derek echoed, "Yeah, they are the best, Cora and Laura used to make me watch them all the time, but I never used to admit that I actually enjoyed them."

"You were too masculine," guessed Stiles, "Had to keep up the manly reputation."

Derek confided, "Well I tried, my sisters are probably more stereotypically masculine than me, they always teased me for being so sensitive."

"Really?"

Wondering whether he had said too much and embarrassed himself, Derek nodded and blushed again.

He was being adorable today and it made Stiles want to jump across the table and kiss him.

But that would be weird so he just continued the conversation. "Are you close to your sisters?"

"Yeah," answered Derek, "We're quite a close family. Are you close with your family?"

"Um." Stiles paused, trying to decide whether to tell the story. "I only really have my dad, my mum died and I was very close to her but now it's just me and dad."

Derek said, "I'm sorry, I had no idea."

"I didn't think you would, it happened a while ago," replied Stiles, "I'm sorry for being so depressing."

"No, don't apologise, I'm glad you told me."

They smiled at each other across the table for a moment, Derek didn't know what to do so he kicked him under the table. Stiles grinned and kicked him back.

After that they avoided emotional topics, Stiles told him about school, which was weird because it reminded him of the strange age difference between them and rekindled his doubts about Derek's feelings for him. He also told him about Scott and how much he loved Scott, in a completely platonic, best friend way of course.

Derek told him a little about his book, but he wasn't giving much away. Mostly he talked about the tea shop. He really enjoyed working there and it was where he became best friends with Kira.

"I guess it's kind of strange being best friends with a 17 year old girl when you're 22," frowned Derek.

Stiles responded, "I don't think that's that strange, you like each other, you get along well, you make each other happy, why shouldn't you be friends?"

Both of them were unsure if he was talking about his friendship with Kira still.

They stayed for a while, long after the coffee had been finished. Stiles decided that there was a likely chance it was a date but he still wasn't sure.

"See you tomorrow."

"Yeah, see you."