"My eyes change color," Derek tells her, though it is true that he doesn't just ask anyone to look at his eyes. He was really trying to look nice, and yeah, maybe sort of because of Bitty, but it doesn't matter.

"You're reading too much into things," Derek tells her, because that's just what he did after that night in the other Darrow. "He's going on a date, and he seems pretty excited about it."

Derek laughs a little, and the sound is only slightly bitter. "Someday I'll get to know what that's like, maybe."