LYDIA STARED DOWN at her phone, confused and oblivious to the reason why stiles would want to call her for the simplest thing.

She was snapped out of her thoughts when the device in her hand began to ring, receiving a call from Stiles🖤.

Lydia bit her lip, pressing the accept button and putting the phone up to her ear.

"Hello?"

"Hey."

Stiles breathed out. Lydia could hear his heavy breathing against the speaker of his phone.

"Okay...so-"

"Stiles," Lydia began. "Why did you call me for the simplest thing? You could have just continued to text me."

Lydia chuckled.

"I couldn't text you what I have to tell you. I-In fact I should be telling you this in person."

Stiles' slight stuttering over his words began to make Lydia a little worried. His voice did seem to be shaky and a little more anxious than usual. She furrowed her eyebrows and sat up from her spot on her bed.

"Stiles,"

Lydia said his name in the most delicate way she ever could, as if she could break him by saying it in the wrong manner. She began to understand what the boy meant, but she didn't want to believe it. She rested her hand on her sheets and leaned against it.

"What do you mean?"

On the other end Stiles took a deep breath of air into his lungs, preparing himself for the reaction he was going to get.

"Lydia,"

Stiles began.

"It's you. It's always been you."

Lydia froze and remained silent. His words shocked and surprised her, and gave her so many different emotions she couldn't understand. She wanted to say something, but she didn't know what. She had no words for him. The silence began to make the boy even more nervous.

"...What?"

Lydia finally spoke after a few seconds of thinking.

"I've liked— loved you since the third grade practically. You just never noticed anything."

Stiles began to calm down a little now that his secret was out, but he confused himself. He was sure that he was over Lydia. However, he was getting all of this anxiety and nervousness while telling her the truth, which could only mean one thing.

"And to be honest, I think I might still be in love with you."

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"PICK UP, PICK UP, PICK UP."

Lydia paced back and forth in her room with her phone next to her ear. The recent news that she was just told was a little too much for her to handle alone at the moment, so she needed her best friend to support her. The dial tone finally stopped ringing, and she heard the sound of wind and birds on the other end.

"Hey, Lydia."

Allison answered.

"Okay! I'm sort of freaking out right now and I need your help."

Lydia breathed out all at once.

"Lydia, what's wrong?"

Lydia could hear that her best friend stopped walking to wherever she was going, probably because she was beginning to worry. She could also hear a voice in the background, signaling she was with someone.

"Stiles...may or may not have just confessed that he loves me."

"Wait, what? Really?"

"Yes really! And I don't know what to do!"

"Lydia," Alison begins. "How do you feel?"

"Um, a little unsettled. Tired. Hungry—"

"I think she meant about Stiles."

A familiar male voice took over the phone, causing Lydia to furrow her eyebrows.

"Scott?"

Lydia questioned.

"Yeah, it's me. Now answer the question."

Lydia paused. She never took the time to think about how she felt about Stiles, she only worried about what she had to do.

She thought about Stiles. She thought about the times he walked her home or simply called to see if she was okay. She thought about the time they danced in their sophomore year. She thought about the time she kissed him when he was having a panic attack. She thought about all of the little things.

And suddenly, Stiles was the only thing she thought about.

"I...I think I love him."

"Did you tell him that?"

Scott asked her impatiently.

Lydia paused.

"No, I kinda hung up on him."

The couple scoffs as Allison takes the phone back from Scott.

"Lydia, go talk to him! You probably have him stressed out."

"But...what about Tori?"

Lydia didn't want to hurt her friend's feelings. She knew Tori did have a very good time with Stiles today.

"Tori will be fine, she just met Stiles! Lydia, go to him!"

The girl froze, thinking about what she doing. It didn't take a second longer before she hung up the call and left her house.

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will stiles pick lydia or tori?

and will tori pick stiles or isaac?

what a love triangle.

wait no,

love square.

yeah, definitely a love square.