The breakfast pack

There was silence before Allison speaks again, "So, what happens on Monday? When we get back to school? When we are all together again? Will it be weird? I mean, I consider you guys my friends…."

"We are," Stiles says with a soft smile to her. She blushes wigh a small smile that made her eyes sparkle.

"Are we still friends you mean?" Lydia asks after she'd fixed her makeup, "That is, if we are friends now?"

Allison nods, giving Scott a small glance before giving Lydia her attention. Lydia looked at the ceiling as if contemplating her answer.

"You want the truth?" She asks again, and they nod, "I dont' think so."

"You mean all of us, or just Stiles?" Scott asks, and Stiles looks away trying to hide his reddening eyes. He already knew the answer.

"All of you," She replies steadily, looking at the group.

"Well that's nice Lyds!" Scott says angrily. Sending a worrisome glance at Allison who shifted uncomfortably.

"Well it's true! Come on, Are you saying If Stiles went to you at lunch you're teammates wouldn't laugh and kick him to the curb! What if Derek came up to you in the hall?"

"No!" Scott says indignantly, fully beleiving his friends wouldnt care that much.

"You already did before," Stiles whispers sadly, and Scott look stricken.

"What if i came up to you?" Allison asks Lydia, in just as small a voice as Stiles. Though she had an idea of what Lydia would reslond.

"Same thing" Lydia says and Stiles looks furious, tears refusing to fall as his face gets redder and redder.

"You guys are such assholes!" Stiles says to Scott and Lydia both.

"What and you're any different? I'm just being truthful. Ring any bells?" Lydia scoffs, sounding as if she knew what he would do in that situation.

"What about you? Would you let us hang out with your friends?" Allison asks Derek, whod been watching the entire conversation quietly.

Derek shrugs and grunts, "Probably."

Allison smiles, her eyes watering even more.

"What about you Stiles? Would you let Allison? Or Derek, or god forbid, me hang out with you?" Lydia asked as if to catch him off guard.

Stiles looked her in the eyes, and with conviction replied, "Hell yeah, I would welcome you with open arms! I don't exactly have any other friends. I have people I see and speak to but I don't really have any friends. You guys saw to that."

Allison laughs dryly looking at the ceiling, "That makes Me, stiles and Derek better people than the two of you, huh? The weirdos and new girl."

"Of course you guys wouldn't care. Being seen with us would be a popularity jump," Lydia says snootily and sticks her nose in the air..

"God, you are so conceited Lydia!" Allison shouts finally having enough, "You are so selfish! The world doesn't revolve around you. You have to hide your true self, but if you just chose to have different friends you wouldn't have to! Stiles would never make you pretend to be someone you're not! Neither would I!"

"You don't understand the pressures that come with popularity. The failure that people give you if you don't live up to expectations," Lydia says quietly, Allisons outburst shook her to her core. she didnt think ghe girl could sound so angry.

"Yeah, I don't. But I do know how it feels to fail people. But you wouldn't be failing anyone by being yourself! You- you wanna know why Im here today? How after only being here a month or so that I already have detention?" Allison asks with a hard edge to her voice. she was looking at her feet, not making any eye contact, "I'm here because I skipped 3rd hour on friday. Do you know why I skipped it? Because I was in the girls bathroom trying to down a bottle of pills."

She looked up with dead sad eyes, contecting to Lydias wide horrified ones, "You think I don't know pressure? Failure? I'm the reason my mother died! I have to keep up this act that I'm happy and glad to be here, after moving my whole life to some small town across the world! I have to face my dads disappointed face everyday. So fuck you Lydia! Fuck you and fuck your stupid pity party!"

It was silent for a moment before Scott broke the silence, putting a hand on Allisons shoulder, "Do any of the teachers know about the pills?"

Allison shakes her head, "No, I never got around to taking them. I ended up shaking so bad they fell down the drain."

Stiles looks at her with steady eyes, dipping his head to catch hers, "You are incredibly strong Allison. You don't want to throw all that work away so soon."

Allison laughs bitterly as tears slowly trailed down her cheeks, "I don't feel strong."

Stiles smiles sadly, avtear going down his own, "None of us do. Do you guys want to know what I did to get here today? Nothing. I just have nothing better to do on a Saturday and don't want to be in a quiet house alone."

Allison snorts and wipes her face with her sleeve. Scott chuckles softly, while Lydia rolls her eyes with an amused huff. They all end up laughing together over nothing, Derek even lets out a few chuckles.

"I got caught cheating on a test," Derek says while the rest of them laugh harder.

They laugh and just enjoy each-other company for a few moments. It was nice being able to just laugh about nothing. It lightened their hearts.

Sometimes laughing in the face of greif can make it easier to handle. especially when you dong know how else to react to the emotions running through your brain.

Maybe this day wasnt a total waste of a saturday. Even if it wasn't what they expected, it was nice.