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Summary: One week left. Will have updates every day, until Thursday 27th, not sure if I will continue after that. Derek goes to his hometown to help his old best friend. Four months later, he is getting homesick and a little nervous about going back to Seattle, considering he hasn't talked to anyone there in… well… 4 months.
"One week, two tops, I have a life here. I know hard to believe. He hates me, what makes you think I can get him to even talk to me? Much less fix him. I haven't talked to him in 20 years."
"Derek, you will always be his best friend."
"Derek?" the same voice he heard in his day dream, snapped him out of it. "I can't even remember her smell, yesterday I could still smell her conditioner. Today all I smell is fish and tourist."
"You sound like you are smoking something… You aren't smoking something, are you?"
"I haven't worked in 4 months, Lauryn."
"Well Derek when someone lived in a trailer and had an income of 2 million, they tend to have some extra."
"That was supposed to be for me and Mer's dream house."
"Mer being the invisible girlfriend you haven't talked to in 4 months?"
"That would be her."
"He is coming back tomorrow Derek."
"I know, are you scared?" the seriousness returning to his voice.
"Nervous."
"Me, too."
"What if he doesn't come back Ight Hammy?"
"What do you mean?" Derek questioned.
"What if he is this boring Dwight Hamilton guy?"
"Who is this Mr. Hamilton you speak of? You might have to introduce me sometime."
"Serious, Shep. Rehab and everything he has been through change people. Look at his dad."
" 'Ryn, Ight isn't anything like his father, and he will never be, either you have never heard the truth about Mr. Hams or you don't know Ight. You have no clue what you are talking about so just screw off."
"I am just worried Dee."
"When's Lane going to get here, I am starving."
"Where's Lane? Why can't Lane ever be on time? Geez Lane, what took so long? Lane has three kids and a wife who was extremely cranky today and a real job." A male voice came from behind Derek's chair in the diner. Derek's head wiped around to see a man with hair bright red and a smile plastered on his face that reached his bright green eyes.
"What is up with Share a lot Sherrie?" Derek joked the man about the nickname his wife had gotten in high school for sharing a lot of things with a lot of guys.
"One, that nickname was banned from use on our wedding day, and its Keith's birthday next month and she wants to do the big party thing." Lane Davis was always the one to get in trouble in high school, but after marrying Sherrie he changed completely. His most interesting moment in the last 3 years probably was something like Kyrsten winning conference in basketball. Having an 11 year old, 14 year old, and 16 year old took a lot of a guy. Lane Davis was, of course, the 4th out of the four guys that almost made it all the way. Those last few inches didn't make any difference to Derek or Mark, even Lane, but it would have changed one's life.