Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in this story. I'll tell you if I add any new ones.
I know that this chapter has like no conversation but I promise there is plenty coming up I just kinda had to set the scene. I hope you guys like it because it's my first ever Life with Derek Fanfic.
Casey stared at the diamond ring on her finger. She looked at how it twinkled in the light from the street lamp outside and then her eyes wondered to the sleeping man beside her. Her boyfriend. Her fiance. Her Sam. That was really the only way to describe him.
She watched as his face crinkled up like he was thinking about something bad. She reached over and softly pushed the stray hair behind his ear and instantly his face turned to one of total and utter contentment. She smiled and rememberd when he told her that just a small touch from her could make everything bad in his life go away.
He really was the sweetest man she had ever known. Not that he was perfect by a long shot but perfection didn't really matter to her anymore. She knew that would be hard for some people to understand but it was true she had learned that life just couldn't always be controlled and therefore you had to hold on to what you had in the moment.
Casey looked around the room that had once been her sanctuary in the McDonald/Venturi house. She had spent so much time in this room mapping out her life and dreaming about how things would magically fall in place.
That girl had sense faded away but then she thought about her life now and she couldn't help but smile.She had a man that loved her.A good job as a junior copy writer and she knew she would get that promotion soon she could just feel it. And her and Sam were finally moving back to London from Toronto.
She had thought that moving back to Toronto after high school and seeing all her old friends, her old hang outs would be this amazing thing that just completed her life somehow like she had come home again or something. She had soon learned that people changed and life went on without her. More importantly she had changed. She wasn't that girl who had left Toronto she was a completely new Casey who honestly would much rather be near her family and her new hang outs.
She had to live in Toronto to finish school and by her junior year of university her and Sam had decided that they would give a relationship another shot and from there they became completely attached. He was studying to be an Architect and so when school ended for her after her four years and she was offered two jobs one in Toronto and one in London. There seemed like there was only one choice. She and Sam found there own place and she gave up going home for a few more years.
But here they were staying in her old house while they waited for their new Apartment to be painted and the new hardwood to be installed. They could have stayed in Toronto for a few more weeks but her Mom and George were having a big 10th anniversary party and she wanted to be there to help anyway she could.
Thoughts of the anniversary of the joining of the McDonalds and Venturis brought thoughts of Derek to her mind. She hadn't seen him in 7 years and she hadn't talked to him at all in 5. She knew he was a big time photographer now that travelled around the world taking pictures of exciting and exotic things.
She wondered every now and then what he was doing at that moment, what he was thinking about, basically she wondered about him. The last time she say him he was giving her the silent treatment for who knows what and the only words she had heard from him in the two years after high school were Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday and they stopped after that. She hated to think that she actually missed him after all the misery he caused her but she had become resigned to admit it was true.
Sam's hand reached out and lay on her stomach and she looked over at him. Sudden feelings of guilt washed through her that she couldn't quite explain but all she knew was that it didn't feel right to think about Derek or any other guy even in the most random sense when her fiance was laying next to her.
Casey pushed all her wandering thoughts aside and turned away from Sam but moved a little closer. She felt him pull her up against him and his arm wrap around her waist as she snuggled in.
"Love you, Case." Came Sams sleepy voice.
"Love you, too." She softly replied
And sleep finally overtook her.
Ok this is the part were I beg you to review and to read what is coming next. I promise it will get interesting.
