It's the second day in a row it's happened and Stiles is confused. His friends and Cora's friend are sat together, and not just on two adjacent tables like yesterday, today they are mixed.
Stiles sat in the corner, opposite Scott who is flirting with Kira. Danny was on the other side of Kira and Jackson sat next to him, but on the other table. He was arguing with Cora about something pointless. Lydia was sat next to Stiles, teasing him about his new boyfriend. Allison was sat next to her best friend, Lydia, but she was engrossed in a conversation with Isaac on the other table. He was sat with Erica and Boyd who, as always, were engrossed in each other.
"Is it me or does everyone seem to be pairing off?" wondered Lydia
Stiles agreed, "Yeah, well accept us two and Danny."
"Yeah but you have Derek and Danny met someone when we we're at jungle this weekend, he has a twin who would definitely be my type if…."
Stiles finished, "If you didn't have Jordan."
"I don't have Jordan," said Lydia.
"Not officially but you turn 18 this weekend and my dad is cool with it so there's no reason why he won't ask you out," reassured Stiles.
Lydia frowned, "Well accept for the fact that I'm so much younger than him and in high school and he should probably date girls his own age."
He wanted to encourage her but it was difficult when he felt the exact same way about him and Derek. She seemed to realise this and mumbled, "You probably know exactly how I feel."
"It's weird, liking an older guy," confirmed Stiles, "It's hard to understand why they would like you when they could find someone their own age but you're perfect Lydia and any guy would be lucky to have you and Jordan knows that, I was in love with you for almost 10 years so I would know better than most."
"You weren't in love with me, you were obsessed with me," she teased and then with a small smile, she added, "Thank you."
"Anytime," he replied.
Since he wasn't working today, Stiles knew he wouldn't get to see Derek until he picked Cora and Kira up from the lacrosse practise later.
He wanted to get to see him more and was hoping Derek would ask him out on a date soon, he still didn't know whether it would be their first date or not.
After practise Stiles went to the locker room and had a shower, he waited for Scott before headed out of the locker room, excited to hopefully bump into Derek. What he didn't expect was to actually, physically bump into Derek when leaving the room. Derek was lurking by the door.
"Sorry!" exclaimed Derek.
Stiles said, "It's okay, hi."
Scott paused, stared at Derek and then stared at Stiles. He told them, "I'm going to go see if I can find Kira."
Stiles barely even heard him; he was too busy staring at Derek, wondering if Derek had been waiting for him outside the locker room. "Did you come to find me?"
"Yeah," confirmed Derek, he was blushing, he was prone to blushing. Derek was holding a box in his hands; he took the lid off to reveal a box of Halloween themed cookies. It wasn't only ghost cookies, there were pumpkin and bat shaped cookies too. "I told you I'd make you cookies."
"These are amazing, thank you, you didn't have to, it must have taken you ages!" exclaimed Stiles.
"It took a while but I like making them," admitted Derek.
Stiles repeated, "Thanks."
"I better go take the girls home, see you tomorrow?"
"Bye, thanks again!"
Derek hurried away but Stiles really didn't want him to go.
