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Chapter 2:
Addison entered her biology class with Naomi and immediately saw Derek laughing with Mark on the far corner of the class. As lucky as she was, the only available spots were right in front of them so they had to sit there. Addison make as if she hadn't seen him, knowing full well that he had seen her.
During the class, Addison could feel Derek's eyes burning holes into her back. A few minutes later, she could feel a little tap on her shoulder.
Addison turned around. "What do you want?" She whispered harshly.
Derek smirked. "I don't really like your attitude."
"It's not like I care." She rolled her eyes. "What do you want? Do you have a sudden need to embarrass me anymore than you already have?"
"I want to see you again." He admitted smiling at her.
Addison smiled back but quickly got back to her senses. He didn't want to date her, he either wanted to sleep with her or go out with her to make people laugh. "Yeah, right."
Derek frowned. "I swear…"
"Look, if you want go out with a loser to make all your oh so nice friends laugh, you can find another one."
"You're not a loser."
Addison rolled her eyes. "I'm not going to go out with you."
"Even if I say please?" he smiled sweetly.
"I sure you got a lot of girls like that, but I'm really not in the mood."
"I told you Derek." Mark interrupted them. "Virgins are hard to get."
"Mark." Derek hissed.
"What?" Mark looked at him confused. "Oh right, she's not a virgin anymore."
Addison looked at Derek, her eyes filling up with tears that seemed too proud to make their way down, and turned around. He was just like all the others.
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After all his classes were done, Derek got to his apartment where Mark was already watching TV.
"Why'd you have to do that Mark?" Derek asked angrily, referring to earlier in their biology class.
"I was just teasing you." Mark defended himself. "It's not my fault she took it wrong."
"I shouldn't have told you." Derek replied, regretting his choice already.
Mark rolled his eyes. "It's no big deal; there are plenty of other girls out there."
"She's the one I want!" Derek exclaimed.
"What do you like about her? She's shy and she looks like she studies on Friday nights."
Derek shrugged. "I don't know really, there's something special about her."
Mark frowned. "You're the only one that has seen her naked in this world?"
"Would you just stop talking about that?" Derek warned him. "I like her, I really do."
"Come on, you slept with her once and now you want to marry her?"
"I didn't say that." Derek defended himself. "It's just…she's hiding something…"
"Ask her out and try to find out then." Mark shrugged. He didn't see what his friend could see in her, she was beautiful for sure, but she looked so shy!
"She won't do that, thanks to you." Derek sighed.
"I saw this movie the other day." Mark paused, trying to remember everything. "This guy was sending this girl he liked letters and she didn't know it was him. So she fell in love and then he revealed his identity."
"What happened then?" Derek asked curiously.
"I don't know I fell asleep" Mark shrugged. "But I don't know, you could try to find her email address and contact her."
Derek bit on his lower lip. "Yeah but how could I get her email?"
"Does she have any friends?"
"A few yes, why?"
"You could just ask one of them, I'm sure they would give it to you." Mark explained.
"I doubt it; she probably turned all her friends against me."
"Tell that friends your true feelings and maybe she'll agree? Trying can't hurt Derek.
"Yeah, I guess I could try…" Derek said unconvinced. He knew he would get turned down.
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That night, Derek decided to go to Starbucks around the corner to get coffee. He had a feeling that he would be studying all night. When he got in, he saw one of Addison's friends, Callie, sitting there alone. He couldn't find a better moment to ask her friend her email address so he walked over there.
"Hi." Derek nodded at Callie.
"Hi." Callie smiled but frowned. "Do I know you?"
"You probably do, I'm Derek."
"Oh," Callie shook her head, "what do you want from me?"
"Addison's email address" Derek replied truthfully.
Callie furrowed her brows. "Why would I give you that? She hates you, you know."
"I know." Derek replied sadly. "But I don't hate her, I want to know her. You probably think I'm an ass, but that night we spent together…I'll remember it forever. I have feelings for her, true feelings. I don't want to hurt her; I just want to get to know her."
Callie studied him for a moment. He didn't seem honest. "So…if I give it to you, what are you going to do with it?"
"I want to talk to her…without having her know who I am."
"That sounds complicated."
Derek shook his head. "It's not." He gave her a piece of paper. "There, that's the one I made up; you could tell her that we met and that you think we should talk?"
Callie shrugged. "I guess it can't hurt, but if it does, then remember that I can hurt you." Callie threatened him.
"I won't." Derek smiled. "I swear I won't."
"Okay." She took a paper and a pen from her purse and wrote something down. "There, that's hers."
"Thank you so, so much!" Derek thanked her happily.
"Sure." Callie nodded. "Just tell her that…I think you would be a great therapy for her.
"Sounds good" Derek agreed.
"Just…be careful with her. She's been trough a lot, and I mean it when I say that I will hurt you if you do anything wrong."
"I won't, I promise."
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That night, when Derek got home, he added her into his contacts and waited for her to come online while he was studying. About an hour later, she did.
CupCakeLover: Hi…
TrustMe: Hi!
CupCakeLover: So…you met Callie.
TrustMe: I did…She said that we could be a good therapy for each other.
CupCakeLover: Yeah, she told me the same thing.
TrustMe: Why does she think you need therapy?
CupCakeLover: I don't know, a lot of things have happened to me recently.
TrustMe: I'm a good listener.
CupCakeLover: It's kind of…personal stuff.
TrustMe: I understand that, but it's not like we know each other.
CupCakeLover: I guess…well I met this guy over the summer.
Derek smiled at the screen, exactly what he wanted.
TrustMe: Did you? And what happened?
CupCakeLover: I gave him this part of me, and he broke my heart.
Derek looked at the screen sadly. Things were going to be harder than he thought they would be. Just reading that part made him feel like an idiot, he shouldn't have acted the way he did. He should have taken things the mature way and called her the morning after they had sex.
TrustMe: I'm sorry he did that.
CupCakeLover: Yeah, I'm sorry he did that too. What about you? How could I be a good therapy to you?
TrustMe:
I lost my chance with a girl, and that breaks my heart.
CupCakeLover: Oh. That suck. How'd you lose that chance?
TrustMe: I'm trying to figure that out…she doesn't seem very open about dating overall, and letting people in.
CupCakeLover: Yeah well, I can understand her right now, because I feel the same way.
TrustMe: But maybe she'd realize that I'm not the guy she thinks I am if she'd let me in a little.
CupCakeLover: True, but it can be hard.
TrustMe: I never wanted to hurt her. I swear.
CupCakeLover: Give her time, give her space.
TrustMe: But why?
CupCakeLover: Because I feel the exact same way as she does, and right now I just want him to leave me alone.
Derek sighed; leaving her alone would be hard. At least he could talk to her freely here.
TrustMe: I think we could be good for each other ; )
CupCakeLover: I think so too : )
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