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Eli looked at Malia asleep in Stiles arms.
"You know this is where it all started." Stiles spoke up, making Eli break his eyes away from the sleeping pair. "117 million in bearer bonds."
Kira looked at the shelves. "How do you even change bearer bonds into cash?"
"The banks, I guess." Stiles answered her. "They just let it sit here the whole time collecting dust."
Eli picked at the lint on his sweater vest, back against the wall with one leg pulled upwards to lean on his knee.
"You know bearer bonds are basically extinct?" Stiles asked them, arm across Malia.
"Why does it matter?" Kira shook her head curiously.
"You know how many problems that money could solve?" Stiles shrugged his shoulders.
"98% of them." Eli said honestly, Scott looking over at him curiously. "What?"
"98?" he asked curiously.
"Money takes stress off your shoulders, meaning no more anxiety, no more therapy, no more hating your stupid job. Also pays for expensive skin care products and food, so, goodbye insecure bodies. Stressed about school? Don't be. You can just pay to get you into an expensive school and they'll take you as long as you give them cash each month." Eli listed on in his head as he bounced his legs slightly, leaning on it better so his cheek pressed against it. "That just leaves world issues and people actually liking you for the last two percent."
Scott had to agree after a second. "Yeah, you're right about that one."
"Medical bills." Stiles added into Eli's list, eyes turning his way. "The Eichen House and MRI bills are crushing my dad."
"Do you guys have insurance?" Eli asked him, his voice echoed slightly.
"Not a very good one." Stiles answered.
Scott rubbed the back of his neck. "Mom does this. She writes down all the items in our budget and how much they cost. Then she adds them all up and figured out how long we have until we'd loose the house."
Eli reached over and patted his knee.
"Eli." Kira spoke up as her, him, and Malia sat together. Stiles and Scott went to the wall, Scott listening in on the other side. "What you said earlier, do you feel that way?"
"What'd he say?" Malia asked, being ignored.
Eli have a shrug. "Sometimes, not always."
Kira gave a half grin. "We like you, you know?"
Eli gave a grin. "Yeah, I know."
"Not Stiles." Malia pointed out. Eli laughed as he nodded his head.
"Definitely not Stiles." Eli agreed before he recalled a memory. "Last year, when I was still a freshman, Lydia smiled at me in the hallway. Obviously , I went kinda crazy and didn't shut up about it. A few days later I went to talk to her but Stiles was with her. I guess he saw me because he sent me two middle fingers and I ran. Hasn't liked me much ever since."
