3 - Beach

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Stiles/Stuart POV

After my last meeting of the day, I walk out of my office to be met with Yo-Yo and Neha blocking my exit.

"Yes?" I ask, tired of the long day of work and stress from the pack being here soon.

"You are coming with us to the beach tomorrow at 10 and that is final." Neha says, crossing her arms.

"What? But I've got work and-" I start.

"I said, that is final." Neha says again, smirking.

"Finnnneeee." I say, looking at the ground in defeat. "Now I really need to go." Neha and Yo-Yo move out of the way and we all walk out of the building before waving to each other and going our separate ways. 

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As I walk into my apartment, I see a two small photo frame on my desk. I walk over to it and pick up the photo's, smiling softly to myself.

 I walk over to it and pick up the photo's, smiling softly to myself

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The first photo is of Malia, Lydia, Scott and I. I've forgotten who took it or when but it is a nice reminder of when we were all together.

 I've forgotten who took it or when but it is a nice reminder of when we were all together

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The second was taken before the whole nogitsune fiasco. We all started to get along partly for a while and decided to take this photo when we were at one of those massive photo booths.

A stray tear leaves my eye at all the memories we have shared together, but it doesn't get far as I wipe it away and shield off my emotions once again. I better get some sleep if I'm going to be going to the beach tomorrow. I quickly eat some food before jumping into bed and lying down. At least now I don't have to worry about all the nightmares that come with being in the supernatural world. Sleep overcomes me and as I dream of what tomorrow will bring.

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I wake up at 8:30 am and start freaking out because I'm going to be late for work but immediately calm down once I realize that it is the weekend and I have a day off. Then I realize that I have to go to the beach today and start freaking out again because I'm going to be late and Neha will probably kill me. I jump in the shower and get dressed into some shorts I can swim in as well as a shirt. I then walk into the kitchen and pop two pieces of bread into my toaster while I get my phone out of my pocket and open my messenger app.

Neha

Me - Hey, where are we meeting?

Neha - Let's meet in front of the beach sign.

Me - Sure, see you in a few.

Neha - Alright. Don't be late.

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I check the time again and see that it is 9:18 am. Still got a bit of time, it takes around 20 minutes to get to the beach so I can relax a bit. My toast pops up, so I walk back over to it and grab them as I sit down to eat. Once I'm done, I slip on some thongs (or flip flops)

At the beach

I get out of my trusty jeep and see Neha, Yo-Yo, Lyle, Nick and Billy waving at me. I wave back as I walk over to them. "Hey." I say once I reach them.

"Hey Stewie, I didn't know you had a jeep. It looks a bit banged up." Nick says as he glancing behind me.

"Leave my jeep out of this." I joked. "Let's just get this over with." I say, walking past the group to the sand. I haven't been to the beach, any beach, in such a long time that the sand feels foreign to me. I keep walking until I reached a good spot to but our stuff down, where I set down a towel and laid down.

"Oh no no no." Neha says, standing above me.

"What's wrong?" I ask

"You're swimming." She says.

"Ugghhhh. Do I have to?" I ask, stupidly. She raises a eyebrow and I stand up, wiping some sand from my body. "Alright, I'll swim." She smiles and sets her stuff down so she can get some sunscreen on. Yo-Yo and Lyle are already racing off to the ocean and, Nick and Billy are about to go into the water. I'm about to go too when Neha stops me and asks if I'm going to wear that shirt in. I look down to my shirt and realized I grabbed the wrong one. This is actually one of my favorite shirts and will definitely be ruined. I sigh and say no. I take the shirt off and put it in my bag. I definitely got a lot fitter over the past few years, I can tell because a couple of people around me stopped for a moment to look at me before carrying on. 

"Wow Stewie, who knew." Nick jokes and I roll my eyes.

"Yeah, yeah" I say. 

"Race you there." Neha yells before half running half jogging to the ocean.

"Yeah right." I say, rolling my eyes again, but stop when I see a group of people a bit away from me talking. I focus more on them and my eyes set on the one and only Scott McCall. My eyes widen and I sprint to the water before they can see me.

"Wow." Neha gasps in surprise as I run past her, diving almost head first into the water.

"Aye Stewie, what brought on this new wave of energy?" Nick says when I swim over to them, making sure to keep my head/face hidden from my old friends. From what I can see everyone is here. Scott, Malia, Lydia, Liam, Mason, Kira, Isaac (He didn't leave) and even Derek

"Stuart?" I hear Neha ask and I snap out of my thoughts to look at her.

"Uh, yes?" I ask.

"Are you alright? You keep zoning out and it's worrying lyle." Lyle says, speaking in third person.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just saw some old friends." I answer.

"Old friends? Why don't we go say hi?" Billy asks, starting to walk a little back to shore. 

"No, no no no. That is not an option." I say as I look back to see my (ex)pack setting up their beach equipment near our towels.

"Why not?" Yo-Yo asks.

"It's, uh." I say, then whisper to myself. "How do I even start?"

"Just tell us what you feel comfortable telling, Stewie." Nick says, putting his hand on my shoulder. I smile slightly and look back over to the pack. They are getting ready to go into the water near us.

"I'll tell you later, I think I'm going to go to our towels for a bit. Get some rest, you know?" I say as I start walking out of the water, keeping my head down a bit just in case the pack sees me.

"Sure, come out whenever you want." Lyle says.

"Thanks." I say, waving as I finally get out of the water, sand sticking to my feet. "Ugh, great." I sigh and continue my walk over the burning ground. Just as I'm about to reach my towel I hear a gasp from behind me. I turn slightly and lock eyes with Lydia Martin. I turn fully and we just stare at each other for a couple of seconds before she runs straight to me and engulfs me in a hug. I hug back after a moment and look up again to see Scott.

"Stiles?"

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