Life With Derek Fanfiction-

Something New

By Emily Wells

Chapter 1

"8…17…35…Damn it! Why the hell won't my locker freaking open? Maybe it just goes with the territory of being a new girl…." a female voice muttered angrily to herself. She sighed, and rolled her eyes at herself. No point in whining. It's not like I'm getting any help anytime soon, she thought to herself, hitting her locker.

Amazingly, her locker flew open. She raised an eyebrow, since the sight was familiar to her, since her locker at her last school was exactly the same way. All she had to do to open the locker was hit it. Though she'd always pretend she'd have to add her combination and do other things to get it open, so no one would try to break in.

She shrugged, and shoved her backpack in the locker. She noticed how empty it seemed. She had a feeling that it'd look a heck of a lot less empty within a week, since she was definitely not as organized as she led people to believe.

Who was this girl? Eve was her name. Eve Midnight, to be exact. Whenever people found out her last name, they'd usually question it. It wasn't her fault that she had that last name, though. She really didn't care what people thought of it, though. She didn't really ever usually care what anyone had to say about her. She felt their opinion on her didn't matter as much as her own opinion of herself mattered.

She tucked a strand of her long, black hair behind her right ear, and reached into her backpack, which she had forgotten to zip up, to pull out a mirror that would stick to her locker. That was the only thing she would usually put up in her locker, since she didn't think it was necessary to go all out in decorating a locker you'd only have for a year.

She looked into the mirror, and checked her icy blue eyes. She had put on some eyeliner that morning, and had thought she had done a pretty bad job, since she was in a rush. But when she looked in the mirror that time, it looked a lot better than it did before. She shrugged, not finding it all that important. She then took the books she needed for the day out of her locker, and shut it.

She spun around and stepped forward, and ended up bumping into someone, sending the both of them crashing to the ground. Apparently she had gotten into the person's way.

She quickly sat up, gathered her things, and helped the other person get their things. The two stood, and faced who they had bumped into.

In front of Eve, was a girl with brown hair and brown eyes. She was about Eve's height. "I'm sorry I bumped into you. It was my bad," Eve said quickly.

"No, it was my bad, I'm sorry," the girl said. "I'm Casey, by the way."

"We should probably just say that it was both our faults and get it over with," Eve said. "And I'm Eve."

"Well, it's nice to meet you. I mean, I didn't enjoy falling, and I'm sure you didn't either, but, I think you get my point, right?" Casey asked with a laugh.

Eve nodded and laughed a little as well. "Yeah, I know what you mean," she said, brushing off her pants.

"So, are you new here?" Casey asked. "Because I haven't seen you around here before. And I see you barely have any books or anything."

"Yeah, I'm new. It really sucks that I am, since I always seem to be unlucky in certain places when I'm the new girl," Eve said.

Casey nodded. She understood Eve's problem. She had faced it once herself, when she was new here.

"So, do you think you could help me around with finding my classes and stuff? Because when it comes to finding things like classes, I'm so not observant," Eve said with a laugh.

Casey laughed as well, and nodded. "Yeah, I can help you with that. Let me see your schedule."

Eve nodded, and showed Casey her schedule.

Casey looked over it, and said, "Well, you're in luck. We have the first three periods together. And most of your classes are all near each other. Apparently, you don't have as bad of luck as you claim you do."
Eve shrugged, and said, "Well, alrighty then." She took her schedule back from Casey, and the two headed for their first period.

On the way there, they soon ran into Emily, one of Casey's friends.

"Hey Casey," Emily said in a cheery voice with a bright smile.

"Hey Em. You seem a little unusually happy today," Casey said with a smile, but a raised eyebrow.

"Oh, it's just because…Whose this?" Emily said, stopping in mid-sentence to look at Eve.

"Oh, I'm Eve," Eve said, introducing herself.

"Eve and I accidentally bumped into each other in the hall, and we got to talking and stuff," Casey said.

"Oh, well, I'm Emily. It's nice to meet you," Emily said, still holding her bright smile.

Eve nodded, and said, "It's nice to meet you, too."

"So, Em, you were going to tell me why you were so unusually happy, right?" Casey asked.

"Oh, yeah. It's because I passed by Derek in the hall today, and he smiled at me. Or, at least, I think he smiled at me. He might've been smiling at some girl that was behind me or something, but it really doesn't matter, since he was smiling in my general direction anyway, and you know how giddy I get when he does that, especially if he talks to me or just says hi in my general direction or whatever. Oh, and he also laughed about something, and you know how I love his laugh. It made me smile. I don't know what he was laughing at, but…" Emily chattered away, but was interrupted by Eve.

"Um, who's Derek?" Eve asked. Casey hadn't told her about Derek yet, so she had no clue who Emily was babbling about.

"Oh, Casey didn't tell you? Derek Venturi's her step brother, and he's the most popular guy in school," Emily said. "He's a total hottie," she added.

"But he's a total jerk, so, trust me when I tell you not to go after him. He's not worth it," Casey said.

"Well, I'll just have to see for myself," Eve said. She liked to get her own opinions on people before she officially started to believe other people's opinions.

Casey sighed, but nodded. Then the three of them headed for their first period, which Eve had found out that Emily also shared with her and Casey.

On the way, though, Eve accidentally tripped herself with her jean bottoms, and fell to the ground with a loud slam with her books hitting the floor.

She groaned, and sighed, starting to grab her things, then once she had everything, standing up.

"Oh, great, we have yet another Klutzilla we have to watch out for," a male voice called out, causing laughter to erupt in the hallway.

Eve turned to her left, to stare at the face of the one who had said that. She ended up being face to face with the infamous Derek. She didn't realize who he was at the moment, though, so she retorted to his comment, "At least I have the guts to trip in front of people and not be embarrassed. Oh, and at least I don't go making fun of people while hiding my own insecurities."

Derek raised an eyebrow, and said, "You don't even realize who you're talking to you, are you?"

Eve thought for a moment. She then realized that it was probably Derek. Especially since Emily was whispering loudly behind her, "I can't believe she just said that to Derek!"

"Let me take a wild guess here. Derek Venturi?" Eve asked, staring straight into his brown eyes, locking in a glare.

"Wow, you're a lot smarter than you look," Derek said, a smirk appearing on his face.

"And you're a lot dumber than you appear," Eve said, giving him a smirk right back in his face.

Derek merely rolled his eyes, and said, "Remotely good comeback, for an amateur. Just wait, you'll learn what you're up against, coming to this school and facing me." He then leaned to her ear, and said, "I'd suggest you giving up any chance trying not to give in to me."

She rolled her eyes, and leaned to his ear and whispered, "Not a chance, you ass."

They merely backed away from each other, and smirked, both turning around and walking in opposite directions.

Apparently, I'm now at war with Derek Venturi, Eve thought, smiling to herself. This year was definitely going to be more interesting than she thought it would be.