Just For Now

Charming 101

Chapter 1

"I am so glad I could get my old shift back." Casey said as she took off her coat and her Smelly Nelly's shirt became visible. She sighed. "But I am going to miss Sally."

"Yeah, you're talking and yet you're not working." Derek said rushing over to pick up a tray of food. "As junior manager, I could fire you." he said picking up the tray.

"I just got here, Derek. Besides my shift starts in 5 minutes."

"Time is money and when you waste money, you waste my time." he left and went and served the customer.

She rolled her eyes and put her apron on.

"Table 4." he said rushing back into the kitchen.

She took a deep breath and smiled.

"M-Kay, Casey. You can do this." she said walking over to the table. "Hello, Welcome to Smelly Nelly's, I'm Casey. Can I start you off with a drink?"

"Wrong." Derek said walking passed her.

She tried to brush him off as she wrote down their drink orders.

"Alright, I'll be right back with that." she turned around and headed for the kitchen.

"Casey, Smelly Nelly's changed their greeting." he said at the cash register.

"To what? it's the same what would you like, everywhere you go."

"Not at Smelly Nelly's." he said making fun of her. "Thank you sir, I hope you have swell, Smelly Nelly Day."

"Swell, Smelly Nelly day?" she asked laughing as the customer walked away.

"Yeah, and that would be the "Come again."

She shook her head.

"Okay, then how do you greet the customers?"

"Welcome to Smelly Nelly's. I'm Derek, can I offer you a Sweet Smelly Nelly Shake?"

"That's really…different."

"Casey, drinks."

"Oh, right."

"Just so you know, those three potential shakes are coming out of your paycheck." he said grabbing his notepad

"This is going to be a looooong night."

XOXO

"Hey, honey, how was your first night of work?" Nora asked looking up from the newspaper she was reading that night on the couch.

Casey sighed as she took her sweater off.

"Mom." she said tiredly as she went and sat on the couch. "It's such a drag."

"Awe, sweetie, it will get better. You just started."

"Mom, you said that the first time I got this job."

"Yeah…I did." she said thinking about it. "Well, Casey if you really need a job then why don't you pick something that you're very confident in? Like babysitting, or…dog walking?"

\Casey's head snapped up from it's place on the back of the couch.

"Dog walking?" she asked appalled. Nora shrugged. "You think I'm cut out to be a dog walker?"

"Casey."

"Excuse me, mother. I have to go now." she said getting off the couch and walking fast paced up the stairs.

"Melodramatic." Nora said quietly going back to her paper.

"Heard that!"

XOXO

"It was pretty crowded tonight." Casey said on the phone. "But it's always crowded Friday nights, so I'll have to get used to it." Casey was lightly blowing on her newly painted nails so they would dry. "But hey Em, I'm going to see if there's any more ice cream left. Wish me luck." she said laughing. "Haha, okay, Talk to you tomorrow."

Casey left her room and was heading down the hall. Derek's door was wide open and she decided to wander in. He was sitting at his desk, on the computer.

"Yeah, tours of my room are from 2 to 4." he said not even bothering to look up at her.

"Derek, I wanted to say I'm looking forward to working with you."

"Yeah…that makes one of us."

She rolled her eyes yet again at him.

"No, really. I'm trying to be professional even though I was thinking about cutting my tongue out as I said that."

He looked up anxiously.

"Could you? Nothing good's on."

"You know one of these days you're going to be asking for my help and I won't be around."

His amused smirk played on his face.

"Where will you be?"

"What?"

"If I need to find you, where will you be?"

She tilted her head and had a desperate expression on her face.

"Hopefully dead."

She turned around slowly and left his room sighing.

"Any ice cream left?" she asked Lizzie who was sitting on a barstool.

"Yeah, but I'd hurry, Edwin was talking about coming back for some soon."

Casey grabbed the carton of ice cream and a spoon and went and sat next to Lizzie. Since there was only one more serving left in the container, she was just going to finish it off.

"So, how was your day, Liz?" Casey asked taking a big spoonful of ice cream.

"Pretty boring. We had a quiz in Science."

"I bet you did good."

"Hope so. If I didn't, Edwin didn't either. He copied the whole thing off me." Lizzie started laughing.

"Alrighty, Liz. See you tomorrow." Casey said throwing away the carton and putting the spoon in the sink.

"Night."

XOXO

"Morning." Casey said as she walked into the kitchen the next morning.

"Morning, honey." Nora said. "Making pancakes." she said.

"Yeah, with Chocolate chips, since someone ate all the Chocolate Chip ice cream." Edwin said looking at Casey.

"Sorry, Ed." Casey said sitting down.

"Morning, Derek." Edwin said looking at Derek who was walking into the kitchen.

"Derek? You're up early. About 5 hours early. It's only 9."

"I've got a hot date." he said getting into the fridge before drinking out of the orange juice carton.

"Derek. That's not just yours!" Casey said abhorred.

"I've been drinking out of this carton for the past three days and you haven't noticed?" he asked wiping his mouth with the back of his hand.

"Ewe! I had some yesterday!" she said.

He smirked and shrugged as he put the carton back into the fridge.

"So you're going on a date?" Nora asked.

"Not just any date. I'm going out with the girl who works over at Sizzlers. She said she can get me a discount on the buffet."

"You're using a girl for free food?" Casey asked appalled.

"Not just the food. She also works at the movie theatre." he said lifting his eyebrows up and down.

"You are a pig and a half, Derek." Casey said.

"As long as I'm extra crispy." he said grabbing a piece of bacon that was sitting next to the stove. Then he headed out the back door.

"I swear the only person in the Venturi family that turned out half normal is Marti."

Marti came walking into the room dressed up in her old pumpkin costume from 2 Halloween's ago.

"I said half normal."

XOXO

"He is just so rude and he is such a pig, Em." Casey said sipping her smoothie. The two were at a café called Clay's.

"You know maybe Derek should go on that reality show "Charming 101."

"Em, that show is fake. I know that they hire those guys to go on be there normal jerk selves and act like they learned how to be a gentleman at the end of the episode."

"Who knows? It might work. I watched a few episodes and they took this rude arrogant guy like Derek and taught him how to be perfect. They went over dating rules, cheating, honesty, trust, and they made him see what it was like to get cheated on and played. He then ended up with his best friend Jennie, who he always trusted the most. It was a really good episode."

"Hmm…do they have a website?"

"Well, let's find out."

Emily whipped out her laptop.

"Wow, do you bring that thing everywhere?" Casey asked laughing as Emily set it up.

"You never know when you're going to need it." she said. A few minutes later, the website was fully loaded. "Oh look!" she said pointing to the screen. "Do you know someone who needs a lesson in Charming 101? Click to apply!"

"Oh! Click it." Casey said. When they did a screen came up:

Give us the Details!

Name:

Age:

Address:

Phone Number:

Player Scale:

The two looked at each other, smiled and then filled out the page.

"Player Scale, 1 out of 10." Casey said. "He's an 11."

Send!

Thank you for applying! Stay Tuned!

A/N-Okay, what do you think? The whole story is not about Derek's lesson but the true Dasey throughout. What he learns on his own with the help of Casey.