He definitely considers Stiles a friend, which brings his running total up to three. He mainly has ‘acquaintances’ around the city, people that he seems to cross paths with once or twice and then never meets again. The rest of the teenagers from back home might as well be included into that category; Derek rarely sees them these days. Save for Scott. The less said about those interactions, the better though.

The werewolf takes a moment to consider the question, to really analyse how he’s feeling at the current moment. Eventually he shakes his head. Everything seems fine to him, nothing feels out of the ordinary and he’s going to assume that nothing looks strange. Nothing happened the last time around either, as far as he could tell at any rate. There’s a clearly confused and slightly suspicious look on Derek’s face as he poses his own question, “Should I feel weird?”