A/N: Please R&R this is my first fan fic. Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 1- The Cabin by the Lake

"Come on Derek!" Dad pleaded

"Dad, no!" I replied as I shovelled another spoonful of cereal into my mouth. I had been generous by agreeing to a family dinner, but this? No way!

"This is going to be the last proper summer holiday we're going to spend together. We've got to do something!" Dad tried desperately to convince me "Just like the good old days..."

I stared blankly at my-getting more embarrassing with everyday-dad. I was severely disturbed by how excited he was about this, considering how stubborn I was being!

"I remember when I took you and Ed fishing. We'd catch tads and-"

I interrupted him "Tads? How old were these days exactly?" I asked baffled.

"Tads. As in Tadpoles" Casey said as she came into the kitchen. I turned my head towards Casey, opening my mouth to make a snide remark but stopping myself remembering that Dad and Nora had forced us to make a truce on the night of our graduation. We still fought, just not in front of our parents.

Casey must have been able to hear what I was thinking because she smiled evilly as she stood behind George. Opening her mouth laughing silently. Mocking me, as she poured herself a glass of juice. I smirked looking down towards my cereal as I prepared another spoonful.

"What's all this talk about Tadpoles for anyways?" Casey asked as she opened the cupboard and stretched to reach her cereal on the top shelf. As she stretched her top raised up revealing the small of her back. I know this part of anyone's body isn't a part that is usually gazed upon, but it was a part I hadn't seen before, so for some strange reason I was interested. I didn't realise I was staring until I heard dad calling me.

"Huh?" I asked. I must have been staring for a long time because now Lizzie, Edwin, Nora and Marty were in the room.

"Help, Casey get the cereal down please"

I sighed and got up and walked over to where Casey was. This was beginning to become apart of my daily routine:

7:00-get up

7:05-have shower

7:30 go downstairs for breakfast

7:30 help Casey get down her cereal

...not that I minded that much, but still that's not the point.

"If Marty can gets it I don't see why you can't: under grown people put their cereal on the bottom shelf!" I emphasised the last two words and pointed to the bottom shelf to make it annoyingly clear what I was saying. Casey looked at me and smiled cynically.

"I'm not under grown! I'm what?..." Casey said put her hand where the top of her head was and following it in a straight line to where it reached on my body. "…An inch shorter than you? And besides you might have graduated yesterday, but trust me, the only thing you're good for is getting my cereal!"

"For that" I started, looking over to Dad to make sure he wasn't watching "You can get it yourself!"

"Fine!" Casey said stubbornly, person she is, "I didn't need you're help anyway!"

I scoffed "And you said you couldn't lie!" I mumbled sarcastically

I leaned against the counter and watched as Casey struggled to reach the box. For some twisted reason I liked the feeling of her being dependent on me for something, I knew it was just cereal; but without food you'll die right? I smirked at my own simple mindedness. I was snapped out of daze when I heard Casey murmuring gleefully

"I nearly got it…yes!" She shouted as she grasped the box. Casey ecstatically jumped up and down holding the cereal box above her head victoriously. I laughed at her childish behaviour reminiscing on her other childish moments I had witnessed.

I was snapped out of my daze when I heard some unwanted words spout from my dad's mouth.

"How about the cabin by the lake?!" George said excitedly

Casey looked up at me with a blank expression on her face. I gazed at her thinking exactly what she was. How the hell were we going to get out of this one?

The last time we were at the cabin by the lake, Casey and I invited Sam and Emily and Ralph along- we just went for fun really. But while we were there we…well, let's just say some stuff happened-we all swore we'd keep what happened between the five of us-and after that we hadn't been back since. Dad and Nora always suggested going on several different occasions. But Casey and I had always got out of it with some excuses, which Dad and Nora always seemed to fall for.

Like that one time…

I threw a bunch of random things from the fridge into the blender and waited until it was smooth. We were going to the cabin in a couple of days so we had to get sick before then.

"Case, you can open your eyes now." I said hitting her gently on her leg.

Casey had been sitting on the counter whilst I created this vile substance in the blender. She said she'd rather not see what was going into this foul concoction she was going to digest. I divided the mixture equally into the two cups.

"And...Why couldn't we just have relied on our brilliant deceiving skills to get us out of going?" Casey asked eyeing the cup uneasily. She could have sworn it bubbled

"Because I've seen you pretending to be sick and judging from what I saw, you must have to do a lotof grubbing in drama! And besides it's got to seem real, and this should do it" I said in a know-it-all tone. Oh my god! I was turning into Casey!

"Yeah it will do it, right before it kills us!" Casey said sniffing it cautiously

"That's a risk I'm willing to take!" I said then picked up my cup. And hit against Casey's. I pinched my nose. "Bottoms up!"

To cut a long story short we didn't go to the cabin by the lake that summer holiday. In fact, we didn't go anywhere. The furthest I had ventured from the house that summer was the doctor's surgery!

But this time, I was fresh out of ideas. Casey looked clueless also.

"So I guess we're going to the cabin by the lake this summer" Casey said looking sad.

"Not if I can help it!" I said starting to chuck stuff form the fridge into the blender.

A/N: Hmmm…what happened at the cabin by the lake? if anyone's got any ideas, please tell!