Illaria and Stiles

New Friends

When I woke up the next morning Lydia was already gone but she had come into my room while I was sleeping to pick out an outfit for me to wear to school, probably her first step in her plan for me to woo Stiles. I just rolled my eyes at the dress and heels she had laid out for me and went over to my closet, Stiles hadn't noticed me for six years a dress and killer heels was not going to change his perspective on his love for my sister. My jaw about hit the floor when I opened my closet though because everything I owned was gone, not even one shoe was left in my closet. Well at least I could be happy with the knowledge that Lydia knew me well enough to know that I wouldn't go to school in that dress unless I had some major motivation and she had found it, I was not going to school naked. As I pulled on the dress that showed way too much cleavage but at least went down to my knees instead of at the bottom of my butt like Lydia's other dresses I saw a note stuck to the back of my bedroom door. It was from Lydia telling me that I wasn't going to find my clothes until she gave them back to me at some unforeseen future date and that I had to drive my car to school today because she had some errands to run. I was so shocked that she told me to drive my own car that I wasn't even mad about the clothes anymore. Lydia hated my car said it didn't fit the Martin name, like I care about some bs story like that, I love my car and Lydia can suck it for all I care. Another reason why it's shocking is because she said it looks horrible when girls wearing dresses get out of a truck, that it looks tacky or indelicate which I think is just stupid. Whatever I just shrugged off my sister's behavior tossing the note away before putting on the three inch heels and heading downstairs to grab some breakfast. I ended up just making myself a bowl of cheerios before grabbing my backpack and car keys and leaving the house. I smiled giving my beautiful black Chevy 4x4 an admiring pat.
"Looks like it's just you and me today Jessie."I tossed my backpack into the passenger seat before hopping up into the driver's seat and starting the engine, man I loved to hear her roar. Part of the reason I named her a girl was because of Lydia though, she never liked the idea of a girl being anything but pretty and elegant like her stupid bug so when I got this huge truck I just had to call her a girl to get on Lydia's nerves. After a while though I couldn't imagine her ever being anything but a girl so I decided to stick with it and give her a name which I got from a song because it's just so darn catchy.
Before I knew it I was pulling into a spot near the entrance to the high school, huh usually these spots are already taken. Hopefully this means it will be easier for me to find Scott to let him know about my current situation. As I was getting out of my truck I heard someone wolf whistle me and it turned out to be Matt so I flipped him off, I never liked him he always gave off a weird vibe. A couple of the guys from the Lacrosse team laughed while shouting burn while the rest of the ones around just snickered. Matt looked about ready to murder and I was seriously considering buying a gun, some serial killers start young.
"Hey Illaria!" I heard someone shout out my name as I was headed to the front doors of the school, when I turned around I was confronted with the new girl running at me. She stopped right in front of me with this huge megawatt smile practically jumping up and down in excitement.
"Yes?" I hadn't talked to her yesterday so I have no clue how she even knew my name or seemed this comfortable talking to me, weren't the new kids supposed to be shy?
"Hi I'm Allison we weren't able to talk yesterday but your sister filled me in on the situation and I would love to help and hey maybe if we both date friends we could be really good friends too." That made a lot of sense actually, this plan was pretty smart. If the new girl asked questions about people it was just seen as wanting to get to know who would make a good friend but if Lydia asked she would be seen as having an interest in someone that wasn't her boyfriend which would be scary.
"So you like Scott, this is actually a really good idea maybe I don't have to worry about Lydia ruining my chance of ever going to school again. I know you already know my name but i'm Illaria and I hope we can get along." I told her holding out my hand; if she was going to help me get close to Stiles then I already halfway loved her. She laughed while taking my hand to shake flashing me her nice dimples.
"I hope we can too. I was thinking that maybe we could get to know each other a little before ambushing those two at around lunch time."I hope she meant ambush in a nice way because I am so not telling Stiles my feelings until I have a sign that he likes me back.
"That sounds good what's your schedule? And not an ambush a friendly encounter, Lydia may be confident I can win him over but i'm not. I also think it would be easier if it was just you there when you ask Scott and Stiles what kind of girl he likes, he will probably go off on a spiel about Lydia's hair or eyes or something like that so you'll have to cut him off and ask for personality traits."I told her taking her schedule in my hands to see if we had any classes together. "This looks promising, we have periods 3, 4 and 7 together. Do you still want to sit with me at lunch or do you think it would be better for you to ask them by yourself?" I asked her while handing her back her schedule. She gave me this shy look as she was putting the paper back in her pocket before replying to my question.
"I would rather do it together if that's not too bad, i'm still new and it would feel a little weird for me to sit with two guys alone and ask them their preference in girls." She started fidgeting with her jacket but I didn't think it was a horrible request so I just nodded.
"No that makes sense I wouldn't want to do that by myself either I just have to think up characteristics that I like in a guy if by the off chance I am asked as well, I don't want my answers to so obviously point towards Stiles that would be mortifying." I told her as I gestured for her to follow me through the hallway. "I could narrow my reasons for liking Stiles into broad points so that it could apply to anybody, would you mind helping me with that?" I asked Allison trying to find something to talk about with her so that we could get to know each other better. "We still have about twenty minutes till class starts." I wasn't horrible at making friends but I wasn't really good at starting conversations unless I had known the person for a while.
"Sure that sounds like a great idea, should we hang out in the library before class?" Allison asked pointing with her thumb in a general direction.
"Yea sure that seems like a safe enough place, follow me." I told her leading her down the next hallway in the opposite direction than she had pointed to. There wasn't that many people in the library when we got there so we just picked out a secluded corner with our backs to the wall so we could see if anybody approached.
"So Lydia told you everything already?" I asked Allison not wanting to jump right into how horribly in love with Stiles I am just yet.
"Well she told me that she wanted my help in making Stiles fall in love with you, in which I told her I wasn't into anyone making people fall in love if it was for a dare or an amusement thing for the school but she told me that wasn't the case and that you had liked him for a little while. That is what's happening right?" Allison asked getting stern for a minute and I just had to giggle, she wasn't very terrifying.
"Sorry, sorry I just couldn't stop myself from laughing at the whole little while part, she really didn't tell you the half of it. Okay the whole story is that I fell in love with Stiles in the fourth grade and have loved him ever since but the best part of my little love story is that Stiles has been in love with Lydia since the third grade. He's my first and only crush and he's completely head over heels for my sister, just my luck. Lydia found out last night and she wanted me to move on but after she asked why I liked him to see if she could find anyone else for me she deemed me hopeless and decided she was going to help me 'seduce' Stiles." I laughed again at the look on Allison's face, she was so shocked she looked like her eyes were about to pop out.
"Okay wow that is so not what I expected, now I really want to help you as well as hit Scott's friend over the head with a pole or something. I mean Lydia's awesome she's been really nice to me but she doesn't seem like the type of person who would be a good match for Stiles, no offense but you on the other hand have loved him for so long and you seem really nice too I just want to hit him." I chuckled again at her expression.
"It's cool even I know that Lydia's not the type of person looking for a romantic type of boyfriend, she's more about power couples and popularity maybe when she's in college she'll be able to appreciate guys like Stiles. Aren't you just a sweetheart trying to defend my honor." I said the last part while batting my eyelashes at the smiling brunette.
"Oh yeah I can so see you and Stiles being a cute couple." Allison said while giggling at my eyelash flutter.
"You can not bring that topic up so casually gosh you'll give me heart palpitations."I told her while clutching the part of my dress right above my heart like I was having a heart attack or something. I even threw in a pained expression to add to my mime but it didn't last long, one look at Allison and we were dissolving into hysterics.
"Okay okay we need to get on topic if we want to get to any of the characteristics you like of Stiles that we can change into broader categories." She said making calming hand motions to stop laughing.
"Well I think I have one that works. I've always loved his whiskey colored eyes so I could just say I like guys with pretty eyes? Or should I just say brown eyes? If i said pretty he would never think of himself but if I say brown he definitely will and I can't just wax poetic about his eyes right in front of him. Oh my god just thinking about his eyes kills me how hard is it going to be to look into them and tell him brown when the actual amazingly beautiful color is right in front of me? I might blurt out all my secrets because of his eyes. They can see into your soul, you know that right? Never lie in front of him he will know." It was getting harder and harder for me to breath as I went on, how was I going to be able to talk to him face to face?
"Calm down, breathe, just breathe Ari i'm right here." I heard Allison say a little calmly which was kind of disproportionate to how hard she was shaking my shoulders. I shook my head to try and clear my mind of all the thoughts that were killing my entire nervous system and gave Allison an appraising look.
"You're a lot stronger than you look." I told her and she quickly let go of my shoulders and gave me a half smile.
"Yea maybe we should try avoiding a situation where you have to tell Stiles what you like in a guy, we could always change the subject or you could say you've never thought about it before. That can't be a total lie right? You've only ever liked Stiles so you've never thought about what you might like in another guy, right?" Even Allison seemed to be freaking out a little so I nodded my head.
"Yea half truths work just fine he may see that i'm lying but he won't know about what, I could always try to imagine i'm talking to Lydia and feign nonchalance." I started nodding along with my own reasoning, that has to work right.
"Okay and if you have to say more we can just think of stereotypical things like height and smarts, maybe even bodybuild." Allison said trying to come up with things that wouldn't be too hard for me to say in front of Stiles.
"I agree on the first two but I can not talk about Stiles' body unless you want me turning redder than a fire truck digressing into useless ramblings which due to the topic might very well turn into a very long not thought out love confession." Allison started giggling again but this time I had no clue why. After about three minutes of trying to calm Allison down I was finally able to get her to stop laughing long enough for me to ask her what was so funny.
"I'm sorry but the idea of you going on a rant about how amazing you think Stiles is right to his face was a little funny especially when considering what his face would look like as well as the face you were giving just talking about what would happen if you mentioned Stiles' body, which I think you took more sexual than I meant. You really do have it bad for Stiles don't you? Why don't we forget about the idea of you having to talk about your interests to Stiles can you just tell me what you like in Stiles? I'm not an expert in dating but maybe I could help?" I would never actually tell anyone what I feel about Stiles outside of Lydia but I got a really good feeling about Allison, she actually seems sincere. I bit my lip to contemplate the idea more but I figured that I would really like a girl friend, one that I could be completely honest with and this would be the first step in achieving one.