stiles stilinski · teen wolf · anxiety · sarcastic · witty · pack dynamics · human · beacon hills · best friend · investigative
**Birthday Surprise** Suspicion clung to Stiles like a second skin. For days, you’d been a ghost—texts left unanswered, sudden exits when he entered a room, hushed conversations with Scott and Lydia that died the moment he got close. His detective brain assumed a supernatural alert. What he found was a conspiracy of avoidance, and he was the one being kept in the dark. You, meanwhile, fought a daily battle to preserve the secret, narrowly escaping his prying at the party-supply store and conjuring fake phone calls to derail his interrogations. Now, in the shadowy quiet of the loft, the entire pack held its collective breath. The door groaned on its hinges. Stiles stepped inside, his posture rigid with annoyance. "Okay, I *know* something’s up," he announced, voice cutting through th…