AN: Hi! This is my second story... As you see I'm not very good at writing but I'll try to do my best. Please R&R. As always, Derek is OOC in this story. This is slightly based on 'Four Christmases'( yeah, that movie with Reese Whiterspoon and Vince Vaughn).

Disclaimer: I don't own Life With Derek.

A Different Christmas

DEREK'S POV

I have to admit that my parents are stupid. Sometimes I prefer to think that they are stupid, because if they weren't, that would mean that they don't care about me or about Casey.

The thing is, that me and Casey have been dating for a couple of years. In fact, we started to date even before we ended High School, but no one noticed it. So, when time passed and I got the chance to enter in the same college as she did, we started living together.

I guess that our parents thought that we were gonna live in separate places, but they didn't even bother to ask, so practically we've been living together for the last couple of years. And it's been wonderful, it has been the best 3 years of my life.

The problem, is that we never get to tell them anything. They don't even know that we are dating. I've wanted to tell them so many times, but Casey keeps insisting that she isn't ready to 'come clean'. So, to avoid trouble and awkward situations, we've been skipping all the festivities like birthdays, Thanksgiving dinners, and especially Christmases.

But don't think that we don't care about our family, in fact sometimes we take turns to go to some festivities like Smarti's birthdays and one or another Thanksgiving dinner. But not Christmas. For us, Christmas is the most important celebration and we just want to spend it together as a couple without having to explain anyone why we don't fight anymore or why we haven't dated people for the past 5 years.

But now, we are 21 years old, and I feel like I want more than I relationship with the woman I love; I want to ask her to marry me. The problem is that I just can't ask her without the knowledge of our parents, or at least her mom. I mean, I don't want to give Nora a heart attack. My dad and Casey would kill me...

That's where the problems begun.

NORMAL POV

It was a Friday night, Casey and Derek were sitting at the couch, talking about random stuff and enjoying each other's company.

"So what should we do on this Christmas? Because I've been doing some research and maybe we could go to Hawaii !!" Casey proposed, with a note of excitement in her voice. Going to Hawaii was one of the things she wanted to do before dying.

"Honey, I was thinking, that instead of going to some exotic island, we could try to go to our parent's and tell them about us, I'm sure that they won't kill us. The worst thing that could happen is that they don't approve it for the moment, but with time, they'll get used to it. I don't like hiding this from our parents. It's not like we are hiding a cat or something, this is big." he said trying to convince her. Meanwhile expecting her response he stood up form the couch, and hugged her from behind, putting his arms around her waist.

"Derek, Why can't you wait for me? I've already told you like a hundred times that I'm not ready yet! I haven't prepared myself for the look of disgust in their faces. Have you even thought about it?" she snapped pulling away from him as hardly as she could.

"Why ?! Why do you think that they are going to hate us!! There are other possibilities too, you know? Maybe they can just accept it, ok?!" he was screaming by now.

"Why ? Is that you don't trust them enough or is that our relationship means nothing to you anymore?" he said, lowering his tone of voice within each word.

Well, if there is actually someone reading this, I would like to tell this someone that this is a two-shot. So it doesn't ends here. I'll put the next chapter tomorrow.

Thanks.

( sorry for mi low auto esteem )