I Love Him But I Can't (Scallison)

All Friends Argue; So Do Families

Scott met me on the front steps of the school and I was greeted with a quick kiss.

"Hey," I said with a soft smile. "How was your weekend with your dad?"

Scott wraps his arms around my waist and sighs. "It was...interesting...to say the least."

"Wanna talk about it?"

He shakes his head and says "I'm, I'm just not in the mood to talk about him yet."

"Alright, well how about I take your mind off it?" I wrap my arms around his neck and kiss him gently. I pull away a few seconds later. He had a goofy smile on his face and his eyes were closed. "Better?"

Scott opens his eyes slowly and nods. "Absolutely. I love you."

"I love you too. Ready for class?"

"Can't we skip for the day? You and I can head to the woods and have a picnic by the cliff. We can watch the town and I can hold you in my arms."

"Tempting, but I can't. My parents would kill me if they found out and they like you so I don't want to do anything that would change that. How about you and I spend this weekend together? It can be the two of us and I'll make pancakes."

Scott kisses my cheek and says "If you're trying to get me to agree, you had me at "this weekend" so you don't have to try and convince me. I don't need an excuse to spend time with you. I love every second with you."

I laugh and he gets a confused look. "You sound like you came out of a chick flick."

"Is that a bad thing?"

"Not at all."

Stiles jogged over and says "Hey you two. Oh Scott, Lydia's waiting for you in the library."

Scott nods and kisses me quickly. "I'll see you at lunch." He jogs away into the school.

Stiles then says "So, you and Lydia still aren't talking?"

"Stiles, don't make me mad at you."

He puts his hands up in surrender and says "You should've seen Lydia this weekend. She was completing freaking out about Scott." He looks at the school and frowns. "How do you, how do you not get jealous?"

I shake my head and say "Who said I'm not? Lydia and him have history but I love Scott and he loves me so I trust him when he says they're just friends. You get jealous often?"

Stiles sits on the front steps and I sit beside him. "I try not to think about it. I mean, she's dating me even though she could've had any other guy in town so she must care about me as much as she says she does. It's just, this weekend, every time I stopped by her house, she was on the phone with Scott. She was just talking about his dad with him. She said something about wanting every detail about his weekend after he gets back. She'd hang up as soon as she saw me or her mom walk into the room. It was almost like it was this whole secret about their talks. When I asked about it, she just said that it was complicated."

"Scott...didn't want to talk about his weekend."

Stiles then says "Parents, touchy subject for most people. How did meeting Scott's mom go?"

"She loves me. She's amazing. She's such a great person and she's so sweet. How did meeting Lydia's parents go?"

"Her mother doesn't seem to like me that much. She kept mentioning Scott, but Lydia told her to stop." He gets a slight grin. "It was totally sexy."

I laugh and shove him gently. I look down at my vibrating phone.

To Allison

From Scott