The game had finally finished and Casey had seen that Max and Emily had been put together, but they were totally grossed out by each other. Max looked over at Casey and Casey smiled. Max just wanted to forget about her and Derek's kiss going over one minute but he just couldn't. He shook his head and started up the staircase.

"Max, wait!" Casey moved right past Derek and the rest of the crowd to try and catch up with Max, who kept moving quickly.

"Max please if you would just listen to me and…!" Casey finally had caught up to Max and grabbed his arm. He quickly turned around.

"And what? And listen to how you made out with your step brother for thirty-seconds over what you had to do. To tell me your moan was not enjoyment but disgust…or to tell me that you…."

"Would you please just listen to me for a second?"

"No, I won't. Just tell me this…Were you thinking about me or Derek during that kiss?" Casey was completely speechless. She knew that she had enjoy the taste of Dereks kiss, and the way he touched her waist and chin.

"Please….Max…I'm sorry" Derek was standing not far away listening to this. He felt so bad for Casey going through all of this. He knew how much Casey had really liked Max…but after bringing all of this into his head, he couldn't help not regretting Caseys kiss. He enjoyed it so much, he couldn't help but want more.

"I don't want to hear it…you know what…everyone was right about you…" Casey was almost in tears and Derek couldn't stand it.

"The rumors I've always shrugged off…but you know what? Your nothing but a skimpy looking slu………."

"Okay, you back off right there. You have no right to talk to my stepsister in that way. Casey is not skimpy…and she is definitely not a slut. As a matter of fact, Casey actually had real feelings for you, as much as you have hurt her in the past, she has never stopped caring for you. So, next time you want to talk to her in a way like that again, you go through me."

Derek took his right fist and punched Max, causing Max to fall…his right eye already swelling. Max got up ready to take a swing back…Sam and some other guy were holding him back. Derek didn't move he just stood there.

"Oh, well, just remember come back anytime for your left eye to be blackened."

Max shrugged off the people holding him back and grabbed his jacket off the floor. Casey was now standing next to Derek. Max was just headed out the door when he turned around and said "Oh, and in case you didn't know…you and me are done. Finished"

Casey tried to hold the tears back until Max left, but just as Max turned away she felt a trickle rolling down her cheek. She turned towards the stairs and went up into Kendra's room and threw herself down onto the bed crying miserably. It seemed as though an hour had passed until she heard a knock at the door.

"Go away" Kendra had opened the door. "Sorry hun, but not in my house." Casey had gotten up so that she was just sitting on the bed.

"Look, the game I planned…well, I didn't think that that would happen…I didn't think anything bad would happen at all…I should of listened to you and Derek when you guys said no…I'm so sorry."

No, please don't say sorry Kendra…maybe this was meant to be. Max has been treating me terrible for the past three months…maybe this was a wake up call. So don't be sorry…or feel sorry in any way."

"Alrighty…well…I'm gonna go downstairs to see if the house has been completely destroyed by the rest of the hockey team but feel better and you have a visitor waiting to come in so I won't keep him waiting."

"him?"

Kendra left and Casey wipe the tears from her eyes. Derek had slowly walked into the room and shut the door. He sat down on the bed next to Casey and put him hand lightly on her knee.

"Case…."

"Derek…please….I know what your going to say…sorry…that's what everyone is saying…you don't need to."

"Yea…but has anyone of them actually meant it. Casey…I'm Derek Venturi…name one time when I've ever said sorry and meant it…name one time where I've actually said 'I'm sorry'."

Casey couldn't help but let out a small laugh. It was true, she had never heard him say sorry…at least since shes known him these three and a half years.

"Well, that's true. Der…about the kiss."

"Yes… about that kiss, so we went over a minute…big deal"

"Oh really, and what about the secret ass grabbing and hands in the pocket deal? Are you gonna say that was nothing?"

Derek knew that it was not nothing…but it was something… he just didn't want to admit it.

"How about we talk about it on the way home…it's getting late."

"Well, alright…but we will talk about it."

Casey and Derek made their way down the stairs. The party was still going on and the house was a wreck. Making their way through the crowd, Derek told Sam that he was taking Casey home and he'd see him at hockey practice on Sunday.

The drive home was long and quiet. Kendras house was way on the outer side of Toronto and they weren't even halfway home. Derek had the rest of his Three Days Grace CD. It was now playing Riot and Casey was starting to get aggravated. She turned the radio down and Derek went to fight for it back when he stopped, shook his head, and kept driving.

"Derek, you said we would talk about it."

"Okay, than what do you want to talk about?"

"Don't play your childish games with me…you know exactly what I want us to talk about." Derek gave a soft, trying to be unnoticeable smirk but not succeeding look that Casey caught on his face. "All I want to know is one thing….Did you feel anything?"

Derek kept staring out onto the highway as if he didn't hear a word she had just said.

"Derek?!?"

"Alright, Case….there's no doubt that both of us definitely felt something, come on look at our secret touching afterwards." At this point Derek was at a stop sign and no one was around. He took Caseys hand and looked into her soft smile. She was so beautiful and beyond perfect for him, and he didn't feel as though he ever would deserve her.

He leaned into Casey and kissed her. Just as he was about to pull away, Casey pulled him back and deepened the kiss.

HONK HONK!!!!

Casey and Derek pulled apart quickly. Derek put the car into drive and drove home. When they arrived in the driveway at home, Derek gave Casey a quick kiss. She was just about to get out when….

"Oh…and Casey…just because all of this happened….don't think your special or anything like that."

Casey just smirked and went back into the house leaving Derek outside with his own self-satisfaction.