Chapter 2:

Casey walked into Nelly's and looked around for Max. Sure enough, he was sitting at a table looking like he was waiting for someone.

Casey smiled; she knew Derek was just being ridiculous. She walked over to Max and kissed him on the cheek. "Hey Max." she sat across from him and smiled sweetly.

Max looked at her extremely confused "Do I know you?"

Casey giggled "Ha ha very funny."

Max continued to look at her the same way which told her he wasn't joking. "Max, it's me Casey. Your girlfriend?"

Max chuckled a little "I'm sorry I already have a girlfriend."

Casey looked surprised "What are you talking about?"

Before Max could answer someone came up behind Casey and cleared their voice in a "Excuse me" manner. Casey turned around and her surprised face turned to utter shock. "Um, sorry but that's my seat."

Casey tried to get her words out, but they seemed to be stuck but she finally got them out. "Kendra?" Casey turned back and looked at Max "This is your girlfriend?"

Max smiled at Kendra "Yup, my one and only." then he got up and kissed Kendra right in front of Casey.

Casey's jaw dropped and she nearly cried but she held her tears back and said to herself "What if Derek was right?" Casey got up and walked out of the restaurant. "I have to find Derek." then she ran as fast as she could to find Derek.

(Meanwhile):

Derek walked to the only other place that might make sense to him: Sam's house. Derek knocked on the door but there was no answer so he knocked again. Finally Sam's mom answered the door.

"Can I help you?" she asked politely

"Uh yeah, I'm looking for Sam."

Sam's mom's face soon turned from sweet to completely stricken with sadness. She looked like she wanted to cry. "You knew my son?" she asked

"Uh…yeah, he's my best fri…wait…knew?"

Sam's mom soon had tears running down her cheeks and her eyeliner was running as well. "He died last year. It was suicide."

Derek's heart sunk and he felt like crying too but he pulled himself together. "Died?"

Sam's mom continued crying but this time she was crying even harder "I'm sorry but I have a chicken in the oven so I better get back to that." then she shut the door still crying.

Derek couldn't believe this was happening. It was liked everything that mattered to him was nonexistent. It was too much for him so he cried, but with only a single tear streaming down his face.

"I have to find Casey so we can get out of here." then he also ran down the street in search of Casey.

(Meanwhile):

Casey was still looking for Derek. She didn't really know where to look so she decided to look in the obvious places. She started at the hockey rink. Casey looked around the ice rink watching all the guys play hockey. That's when she saw him skating on the ice rink playing hockey. "DEREK!" she shouted out. "DEREK!" but he didn't turn around. "DEREK VENTURI!" then he turned around and skated towards her. Casey smiled "There you are I've been-"

She wasn't able to finish her sentence because when he pulled off his hockey mask it wasn't Derek. "Edwin?"

Edwin smiled flirtatiously "Hey, Edwin Venturi." Casey looked so confused.

It was Edwin alright, but an older Edwin. A, in a really creepy way, hotter Edwin "You can't be Edwin." said Casey shaking her head. "I mean, how old are you anyways?"

"I'm 17, almost 18."

Casey thought, if this was in fact another universe where Casey and Derek don't exist then that means they were never born. And if they were never born then that means Edwin and Lizzie were the first born children.

"Edwin…you look…different."

Edwin smiled at her flirtingly again "And you look…" then he purred like a cat causing Casey to nearly throw up. Edwin was the new Derek but a grosser flirtier Derek.

"Um, I have to go."

"Ok." Edwin started skating back to the hockey team but not before shooting Casey a "call me" sign.

Casey was repulsed so she decided to search elsewhere for Derek, because "new Derek" was really cheesy. "Where are you Derek? Where are you?" she continued walking in search of Derek.