Casey McDonald looked up from the newspaper she was reading. There was not much new in there except catastrophes anyway. She took her cup of coffee and took a deep sip letting the liquid warm her from the inside and wake her up. She inhaled the scent letting it fill her nostrils and then she re-opened her eyes. Her life didn't seem like such a failure anymore.
At 25 she owned an apartment...which she'd only gotten thanks to her father, because he hadn't cared that she'd given up and dropped out of college to start a nursing job, which she quit soon after. She'd worked a lot of different jobs since then but none of them lasted for long. She let her hands move through her hair which really needed a wash. She let her eyes wander through the aparment which was anything but clean. It looked more like a dump than anything. There was no more Miss Prim-and-Proper. She'd dropped that persona when she'd dropped out of college.
Her smartphone sitting on the table infront of her beeped and showed a messege. Desinterested she checked it. „Have you found another job yet honey?" Her mom... Casey rolled her eyes turning the screen back off. She hated these questions and the expectations that came with these questions. She was expected to re-start college, or to start a job...to do something with her life. She couldn't take any of that crap anylonger. „Derek might have something for you...just give him a call..."
Casey almost let the cup fall from her hands. She hadn't seen Derek since her drop-out of college and that was a long time ago. He'd graduated from college and along to his Hockey-career he was a lawyer now and the last time she'd heard he was even married and a daughter. Casey had only ever seen her once in her life, back when she was born which was about a year ago. She was a beautiful girl. Derek had deceided that Casey was to be Lisa Ann Venturis God-mother.
Casey remembered how sourly Lily, Dereks wife had taken that news. The last Casey'd heard of Derek had been a few weeks, almost a month ago when he'd been in the middle of a nasty divorce from Lily who wanted about half of Derek's wealth. What Casey'd gathered from the whole story had been that Lily hadn't wanted any visiting rights for her daughter and had left her in Derek's care.
Derek...Casey remembered the last time she'd seen him. He was looking tired and worn out, because they'd been in the hospital Casey had worked at at that time and it was the delivery of his daughter. He'd been stalking the floor infront of the delivery room because his wife had thrown him out of there. Casey had still been in training back then and had only spoken a few quickly exchanged pleasentries with him. She'd steered clear after that.
Her mobile ringed then flashing the word „MOM" in big bright letters. Casey took a deep breath before picking up the phone. „Hey, mom." Was all she was able to say before her mom started iring shots at her. „Casey...Finally I've been trying to reach you for days...Listen Derek needs a baby-sitter and someone to take care of the house when he's not there. I was thinking you'd be happy to help." Her mom sounds like she's already made up her mind that Casey would take the job. „I told him how happy you'd be to help...seeing as you're out of work currently." „But mom..." Casey starts to protest but Nora doesn't even let her finish. „I had a call from you're father yesterday... He says that he needs the apartment back because he got complaints from your neighbours because of you." Casey glares at the wall angrily. It wasn't her fault her stupid neighbours had a baby who was screaming at the top of its lungs all day long so she had to put on music to drown its screams out. „...So I'll be telling him he can expect you tomorrow?" Casey hadn't been listening to a word her mother had been saying.
„What? Who and why?" She asks. „Have you been listening to me at all young lady? Derek is expecting you tomorrow. He's so happy that you deceided to help him out with little Lisa that he's even going to let you move in...so Dennis won't have any more troubles with you're neighbours." Nora sounds as if Casey doesn't have a choice. And after listening to her mother and reading the messages her father's left on her whatsapp that she hasn't been reading it seems like she seriously doesn't have a choice. He's throwing her out. She openes the letters, which have been sitting on her dresser for a while and reads the Notice. She has to have moved out within the next week...
Great...so she'll be having to face him, he'll be sure to be all smug and proud about having made it big in the profession she'd started studying back then, but which she gave up because it just wasn't for her...