This is just something I had to get out of my head after seeing Allergy Season tonight. It's really, really bad, and it's really, really short. But I like Noel, and I feel kind of bad for him, so I wanted to get Allergy Season from his point of view. I'm NOT going to continue this, it's just meant to be a little bridge from AS to after AVDC, assuming Noel's not in the next two episodes.

I hope you enjoy it, even though it's really bad. (I said that already, didn't I? Seriously, be kind, I promise my next one will be better.)

--Brandi

Disclaimer: Not mine. Though Ted is. Imagine Ted looks like Tom Welling. So that way it's a really good thing that Ted is mine. But I don't own anyone or anything else.

Rumors

So Casey dumped Max. Or maybe it was the other way around. The rumors are flying around school today: they apparently had a fight or something after the big football game. I came home from the poetry reading and my friend Ted called me up with the news that Casey is now single. So how long exactly do I have to wait to ask her out?

A week? Two days?

I'm not sure. And it's driving me crazy. Ever since our kiss on stage I haven't been able to get her out of my head. Okay, it was before that that I started liking her. But that's beside the point.

I'm glad she's been talking to me this week. But at the same time it killed me to see her in a cheerleading uniform. That's not her.

Derek knows it too. Word is that he was at some party after the game, sitting in the corner talking Sam's ear off about how much Casey had changed and how he missed the old her. But who knows if that's true, and supposedly he wasn't even drinking that night. Derek spilling his feelings sober? I don't necessarily buy that.

Then again, there's that other thing with Derek—so what if he has a little crush on Casey? He thinks people don't see it, but he's kidding himself. It's not like that's going anywhere, though; he's her stepbrother for crying out loud.

But then again, rumors fly pretty hard and fast at Thompson, so I make it a point never to believe any of them. I'm just telling you what I heard.

I think I'm gonna ask her out after Christmas break. That'll give her enough time to mourn or whatever, right? I hope so. Because she needs a nice guy like me after that tool Max. He didn't know what a great girl he had.