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Derek is sprawled out recklessly on his bed half-in and out of his sheets. He rolls around struggling to get up. He glances over at his clock and sees that its 7:05 A.M.
"...I bet I can sleep a little bit longer... yeah I bet...", he says as he slaps his clock like he could magically reprogram it.
"DEREK! GET UP!", George shouts from down the hall as soon as Derek closes his eyes again...
Derek looks up to the heavens with a typical forsaken look and tosses his sheets off him. "Yeah... yeah I'm up..." he grumbles and stumbles his way out of bed when he remembers what he dreamed about the night before.
He hears light foot steps coming towards his door.
"Morning Derek, you up? Your dad sent me to check.", Nora playfully peeks in his room.
"Ah... Uh... Hold... Shii... Yea... I'm up, uhm thanks.", He nervously muttered out.
"...Nora", he said unwillingly, realizing that he called out to her, his face clammed up with terror.
"?, Yes Derek?", Nora curiously responded.
"Oh...Nothing, sorry", He felt like an idiot because he couldn't get over this fear of Nora, his step-mom who he's seen everyday for over a year now after one naughty dream.
Nora still stands outside of his room barely peeking in she made a puzzled gesture. "Well, your dad just wanted to make sure you were up... Everything alright?"
"...Yeah...", Not knowing how to approach her he comes off as sort of cold and feels like even more of an idiot.
Nora doesn't dwell on it to much but she definitely felt jilted. "Well Alright, I gotta get ready for work." She walks off and Derek scrambles to get ready for school.
Sometime later in Casey's Car...
They sit their silent and awkward. Derek is visibly bothered and Casey feels uncomfortable being around him while he is like this.
"...uhm... So whats wrong with mr. Suave today?" Casey says trying to establish a comfortable level of conversation.
"Well..." he tries to gather his thoughts and ease the atmosphere with a corny laugh, "As I was saying, Nothing at all princess, just tired is all. Trying to find a way to exploit your greatest adversary? I think not" He nervously laughs again but Casey can still tell somethings up, but the awkwardness dissolves thankfully.
Casey fidgets around and musters up enough nerve to say what she has to say... "I don't like it when your like this... Although you say nothings wrong, you haven't said a word since we left until I asked you what was wrong. Normally, you'd be flaunting this and that and being... I don't know, Normal Zany Derek... Just cheer up okay!" she exhales like a huge burden has been relieved and then she looks to Derek and smiles cheerfully
Derek looks at her sort of shocked... and then laughs. "Thanks, i'll keep it in mind, I'm just thinking about somethings but I'll be better. Your not too bad Case, keep on like this and I may just find use for you yet", he says obviously back in the swing of things.
They finally arrive at school
"welp... here we made it here safely once more", Casey says.
"Indeed. Have a good day milady, I must be on my way" Derek signals with a strong thumbs up and a cheesy wink.
Casey laughs again as they part ways, but as Derek walks further away from her, he starts to revert back to how he was this morning. He can't get Nora or that dream off of his mind, He starts thinking about her face and gentle smile, her soft touch, her aromatic smell. He is flustered and detached from his surroundings. Like a robot he serves out his entire day, while his mind stays focused on Nora. He puts up walls and fronts but he is truly shaken and unable to cope. He can't get her off his mind no matter how he tries.
A couple weeks later at the Venturi-MacDonald residence...
George has took Lizzie, Edwin and Marti to a birthday party. Casey is upstairs studying and Nora is at the table going over some work that she brought home with her. Derek sits on the couch flipping through the channels trying to get his mind off Nora.
"hmmm... FLIP!" Derek bursts out as he flips the channel..
"boring, boring, boring aannnddd Change." he says still unamused by anything that hes perused.
He continues his impatient conversation with the television trying to find something, when Nora comes in.
Derek doesn't hear the door open.
"What'cha up to kiddo?" Nora playfully says as she makes her way to the couch and sits down beside Derek.
Derek quickly snaps out of it and realizes that Nora is right beside him. He stumbles on his words but he mutters out "...nothing, bored, T.V.", trying to end the conversation before it progressed.
Nora realizes that something is bothering him and she recalls how he was that morning as well. She makes a concerned frown, puts her hand on his arm and looks at him and asks, "Whats wrong Derek, You can talk to me?"
Derek is obviously content by the affection Nora is displaying towards him and feeling a bit more at ease despite the situation he says, "nothing... well thats not the truth, I... Eh... girl problems...".
Nora looks over at him and smiles a bit. "That it?" She laughs lightly trying to be comforting, "Your a cute guy, don't worry about that just focus on school for now, okay?" shes brushes her hand through his hair trying to comfort him.
Derek is almost euphoric at the moment, he can't fight his feelings. He is falling for her and hard. Its torturous yet pleasurable at the same time having her right by him.
"...thanks, I appreciate it, but its nothing really I'll be fine." he says casually with a classic burdened smile.
Nora looks at him and smiles trying to be supportive. She picks up the remote that Derek had sat down and begins to flip through the channels and she lays her head down on Derek's shoulder.
By now Derek is aroused mentally and physically. His heart is racing and his breathing has become heavy. Time speeds up and the world around him fades in and out blurring quickly as he tries to center himself. Nora places her hand on his. He can't stand it anymore.
"...Nora..." He calmly says.
She looks up curiously and is quickly caught off guard as Derek quickly leans down towards her and kisses her soft petal-like lips. Shock quickly turns to pleasure. She closes her eyes as Derek embraces her and then she realizes what is happening and pushes him away.
They are both flushed, cheeks red and breathing heavy. Nora looks a little scared, but before she can speak. Derek mumbles out three simple words.
"I love you."
Chapter Notes: Welp, It happened I didn't know exactly just how far I wanted to go on this one. I was listening to some really chill music and things just took off so if its a bit fast i'm sorry but I have no intentions of it being a really long story. There are 3 Chapters left if all goes according to plan, but I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for the views. I was really glad to just see that it has been viewed so. Keep checking back please :
