THE GAME

Disclaimer: I don't own life with Derek or any of its characters

Blue eyes stared defiantly back at brown eyes. Steady as a sparrow and burning with the desire of war.

"Give it up, Case"

"Never, Der"

Derek opened his eyes wider and took two daring steps towards Casey.

"Give in to the burning sensations of your eyes, Casey. Close them, you know you wanna"

"I wanna do something alright," she said between gritted teeth "But it's not admitting defeat to you, not in this century or the next."

Before Derek could answer though, the distinct sound of his ring tone blared through the hallway.

"It could be Kendra" Casey challenged in a sing song voice.

Both Casey and Derek knew very well how Kendra could get when Derek ignored her calls.

"Is he willing to risk it?" thought casey

Derek held a pained expression on his face and began shaking his right feet as though willing himself to stay and finish the staring competition with Casey, but at the same time trying to get to his room in order to talk to his girlfriend.

The persistent ringing of his phone finally got to him and Derek ran into his room at top speed.

Casey was in an absolute state of shock, Derek had never let her win anything especially something that involved the winner getting first dibs on the bathroom for a whole week , Kendra really was a good influence on Derek after all.

"yeah?" Derek was really irritated he couldn't even express how irritated he was at this moment. Casey's boisterous laughter bugged him to no end and the way she triumphantly shut the bathroom door made him want to pull his hair out.

" Hey der bear ,where are you?"

" Hold on Kendra"

Derek absently threw his phone on the bed and walked into the hallway screaming at the top of his voice

"IT'S ON KLUTZILLA"

"EAT MY DUST DEREKA" Despite the fact that Casey's voice sounded a little muffled through the bathroom door her voice still raged of pure venom.

"YOU WISH SPACEY" Derek gave his final retort accompanied by the slamming of his bedroom door, and not be outdone Casey with toothbrush in hand quietly reopened the bathroom door and slammed it back with all her might.

Derek let out a frustrated groan but decided to let it go. Picking up the phone again he tried to continue a normal conversation with Kendra, but no such luck there. She was pissed. He had completely forgotten that he was supposed to meet her for breakfast with her parents at the cat scratch. Actually he hadn't really forgotten, in truth the whole point of fighting for bathroom time with Casey today was not only to annoy her , but to also reach in time for the breakfast thing . Fighting with Casey always seemed to have that affect on him; he somehow always managed to forget everything that he was going to do or in some cases he sometimes is oblivious to everyone around him when he and Casey are in their fighting mode.

"Ten minutes Derek, if you're not here in ten minutes don't even bother to come."

He was not even given a chance to respond before Kendra hung up on him.

"You are so whipped" the sudden laughter of casey made him insanely mad and it took most of his willpower to ignore her and concentrate on his current situation.