He had known the Erica before the bite. The overweight girl with acne who had seizures. The social pariah. She'd had a soul then, she thought. She wasn't nice so much as she was quiet. The fear of getting picked out of crowd by the wrong people could do that to a person. Especially a person like her.
But she tried to be nice. All it had ever really gotten her was a video put on youtube of her pissing herself during a seizure.
But she'd worked so damn hard at everything she could. The smallest things were mountains to her because of her Epilepsy. So when Derek had offered her a way out, she'd jumped at the chance and she'd started getting her revenge. Revenge just happened to come with a side of doling out pain to Scott McCall's pack.
"Yeah, well... I don't want to be that girl, either," she stated, reaching up to wipe at her eyes again. It seemed Stiles Stilinski, while he hadn't noticed her enough to notice her crush — always focused on Lydia who didn't notice him either — did seem to notice that she was there.
That was more than anyone else had done unless she was making a spectacle of herself.
Still, she had a reputation to protect. She could not — would not — cry in front of Stiles Stilinski, damn it.