"Until the next time I see you and I've broken something else," the teen complains, huffing.

Stiles completely stills at the question, then thinks back to what he said and realizes he did just call Derek his boyfriend. They haven't even gone on a date yet!

He feels flustered all of a sudden, his face pinking as he looks away, not daring to look at Derek's face. It's not like they talked about it at length or anything, so really right now they weren't anything other than friends who are pretty interested in each other.

"I- it's- it was just a slip of the tongue, I promise. That's all. So you can just... pretend I didn't say that?"