Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Wolf

A/N: I forgot to mention in the last chapter that this story is AU and as such might be a bit different then what you were expecting.

Stiles winced as he sat down next to Issac who looked him over with his eyes the same way that Stiles looked him over. They were the only ones who knew and who cared, everyone else either bought the lame excuses they made or didn't care.

"What happened?" Issac asked.

"Nothing." Stiles lied, it was an automatic impulse that he had whenever anyone asked him about any wound. Issac however just gave him a look and Stiles shrugged.

"Belt." it was all he had to say, Issac knew what had happened, he nodded, instead of saying something vague or empty he just grasped Stiles hand firmly. Stiles smiled thankfully at him, he had no idea what he would do without a friend like Issac, a friend who went through exactly the same thing as him.

"You?" he asked, Issac shook his head, Stiles smiled at least his friend had escaped unscathed last night. He watched as someone came into the cafeteria and he immediately made his face go blank. Sometimes he hated seeing him around, other times he missed him. The him in question was Scott McCall, before his mom died and everything changed he and Scott used to be best friends.

Everything seemed to be before or after. It had been so long though and he had been so young he sometimes wondered if he had made up how good it had been before or if it really did happen. What he thought of as before was that his Dad used to be police man and good man, his mother had been nice and she had loved him very much. He and Scott used to hang out all the time, they used to be best friends.

Everything had changed though after her death. His Dad hit the bottle and had after a long period lost his job as a police officer. After that he drifted from job to job barely making enough money for the crappy apartment they lived in. Well actually they usually had plenty of money for the apartment, it was the alcohol his father drank is what kept their cupboards bare. Which was why school lunch was his favorite time of the day, it was the only time he knew he was going to get a good meal.

His eyes tracked Scott as he made his way into this field of vision again. It wasn't Scott's fault that they stopped being friends, if it was anyone's fault it was his. Once they moved it was too long for them to walk to each other houses anymore. For awhile Scott's mom would drive Scott to his place until she actually went inside it and from the look on her face he knew that she suspected what was going on. She had even tried to get him alone but he avoided her, he loved his Dad even though he hurt him and he didn't want to be taken away from him. Besides, his Dad couldn't take care of himself very well and without him he could die. So Stiles had stopped calling Scott back and when Scott had asked him why, he had said some mean hurtful things he didn't mean, but he couldn't let anyone separate them.

That had been 3 years ago and he wondered sometimes if maybe he should tell someone but he couldn't. Besides he had Issac and that's all he needed.

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A/N: Sorry if it wasn't what you were expecting, I might make something more like you seem to have been expecting from the reviews if I get inspired.