Cross Your Mind , Stiles Stilinski ¹ ✓

[ prologue ! ]

PROLOGUE

"one of the hardest things
in life is watching the person you love, love someone else."

"Yes, Stiles, I'll be back in Beacon Hills before you know it." Aspen said into her phone, just as she was getting off of the plane.

Aspen Carter had spent the entire summer of freshman year abroad with her parents, leaving her best friends, Scott McCall and Stiles Stilinski, alone without her. The three of them have been inseparable ever since the first day of kindergarten, they had never spent any more than a week without seeing each other, now Aspen had gone away for two months, it would be safe to say they were missing her.

However, Stiles didn't miss her the way she missed him. Aspen Carter has been hopelessly in love with her hyperactive buzzcut best friend for as long as she can remember, but he only had eyes for one girl, and it wasn't her.

Stiles Stilinski has been head over heels for the strawberry-blonde it-girl, Lydia Martin for as long as Aspen Carter has been in love with him, leaving the brunette to be forced to sit back and watch him pine for someone who didn't even know his name. The way he looks at Aspen Carter will never compare to the way he looks at Lydia Martin.

Nevertheless, he still missed his best friend.

"Scott and I will be waiting outside your house, Carter! I don't care if it takes all night, we got nothing but time." said the voice from the other end of the line, and Aspen couldn't help but get a fluttery feeling in her stomach whenever she even heard his voice.

"Actually I sort of wanted a good night sleep before school tomorr-" said the familiar voice of her other best friend, Scott McCall, before being cut off.

"Scott not now, the adults are talking." said the sarcastic hazel-eyed boy, causing a chuckle to come from Aspen's end.

She thought that over the summer, spending time away from the boy she was so desperately in love with, would've helped. She hoped that maybe she would've met some dreamy Spanish boy that swept her off her feet, or maybe a charming British guy that could help her get over Stiles.

But she didn't, if anything, spending the summer away from him had only made things worse. She was falling deeper and deeper while he had little to no clue.

"I'll see you soon, Stiles." she replied, hesitant on whether or not to end the call with the three words she usually does, only now they mean even more. "I love you."

"I love you too." he replied, but his tone wasn't the same. The way he says it is the way you'd imagine a brother telling a sister, which is sort of how the Stilinski boy meant it. He sees Aspen Carter as a sister.

So not only was Aspen in the friend zone, she was in the sister zone.

The brunette ended the call abruptly, trying to shake off the feeling of disappointment. She knew Stiles only had eyes for Lydia Martin, but it never got any easier.

sorry the prologue is so short!
hope you all enjoy this new series to come,
-elle