Ohhh I'm baaack! Lol. So here's chapter 3. It may not be good, but I thought I would put it up anyways. Enjoy!
Derek, Ralph and Saw, all shot up from the floor and raced to the top of the stairs. They saw a silhouette of Casey through the small window.
"You two, get the hell outta here." Derek demanded.
"Go where? She's at the front door," Sam said to him.
"I don't care, go out the back door."
Sam and Ralph hurried through the kitchen and out the back door and the bell rang again. Derek ran a hand through his hair and he opened the door. She had on a tank top now and sun glasses.
"Hey,"
She looked at him and removed her sun glasses.
"Was Sam here?" She asked.
"Why?"
"Because I could have sworn he was in a window looking at me through a camera," she said as she let herself in.
"Uh, no…well, yeah he was here but I don't know what you're talking about." He lied.
Casey looked at him but let it go. She looked around his new house and nodded.
"So, how is it living with your mom?" She asked.
"It's good," he said, nodding his head slowly. "How's your life now?"
"My mom is dating a lot."
Derek said nothing.
"So is that why you ignored me for a year?" Derek asked and Casey said nothing, "Why did you act like I was nothing?"
"Derek, I-"
"Forget it," he snapped at her, "you can let yourself out."
He went to his room and she flinched when he slammed the door. She huffed and marched up to his room and without knocking she started opening doors.
"Derek!"
She finally got to his door and pushed it open and saw him lying on his bed.
"God, get out!" He stressed out.
"No," she snapped, "you don't get to tell me what to do."
"Yeah, and you don't get to cut me out of your life without an explanation."
"I have no explanation." She said to him. "I have no excuse for cutting you off like that." Derek rolled his eyes, "All I can say is that I'm sorry." Derek said nothing.
She rolled her eyes and looked around his room. She saw his camera set up before the window and she walked over to it.
"What are you spying on the neighbors now?"
He still said nothing. He just watched her leave his room. And after a few seconds, he grabbed his camera and looked through it. She wasn't anywhere to be found. He continued to look around and caught a glimpse of his neighbor walking out his driveway. Sure enough he saw a Chevy truck and his brows furrowed together. Sure he saw it a few nights ago but now, since it was broad day light, he had a funny feeling in his stomach.
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He was down in the basement developing his film. It was late and his mom was at a dinner meeting type thing so he was to fend for himself. He was fine though.
As he started to push around the plain white sheet in the developer, the picture started to fade in. It was a picture of his neighbor's house. There was something about that older guy that made Derek's skin crawl. It could've been because he was always alone, or it could have been because he was just plain creepy.
He pinned it up along with all the other ones. He found out nothing more than what he already found out from his spying on his neighbors. But every time he took a picture of creepy neighbor, it was like Derek was fitting together a puzzle. Every time he thought he was getting somewhere, creep would throw him a curve ball. Derek knew something was weird about him too.
And then he had pictures of Casey. He had to admit, he did feel a little stalker about having photos of Casey, but he couldn't help it. He missed her. He missed her laugh, the way she pouted when something didn't go her way, and he especially missed the way she felt in his arms when he gave her a hug. And since they had a somewhat fight, they hadn't spoken to each other.
So really, he had no one to talk to about random stuff. No one to talk about girls with because Sam was leaving for a month. He could always talk to Ralph but with his attention span, Derek knew he wouldn't get very far with it. And Casey was out of the question so…
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He was thrown from his slumber by the doorbell. And for some unknown reason, it was really loud. He groaned and got out of bed. When he opened the door, Casey let herself in, again.
"Look, I know you may be pissed at me but I'm sorry," she said to him.
Derek was just looking at Casey, still half asleep.
"I'm sorry, you saying all of that this early in the morning, too much."
"Derek, its noon,"
"Whatever," he said before he turned to the kitchen.
Casey shut the front door and followed him, trying not to check him out. Hey, she hadn't seen him in a year in his current state of dress; sue her for thinking he was hot.
"Derek,"
"What, Casey?" He asked, tiredly.
"Aren't you gonna say anything to me?"
"I didn't do anything," he scoffed and she rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, you did. Or you didn't."
"The hell are you talking about?" He asked.
"You didn't try to ask why I was ignoring you in the first place." She snapped.
"Okay, why did you ignore me?"
"That's the thing, I have no idea."
"Casey, why are you here?"
She said nothing. She simply sighed and slumped against the counter, pouting. He smirked a little bit and she sighed.
"Can you blame me for missing you?" She said out loud.
He moved closer to her and he pulled her into a hug. She hugged him back just as much and he felt better.
"I'm sorry,"
"Forgotten," he whispered to her.
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"Your room is a mess." She stated when she stood at the door.
"Don't start with my room."
She rolled her eyes and looked around. She spotted the cameras again and she sighed.
"You really are spying on the neighbors, aren't you?" She asked him.
"I'm not spying." He defended. "I'm observing."
"Observing what?" She asked.
"The neighborhood," she looked at him, waiting for him to continue and he rolled his eyes, "see the house across the street?" She nodded, "Well, both the husband and wife are cheating on each other."
"No way,"
"Way," he said, "and the husband is most likely sleeping with the girl in the house."
"Step daughter," Casey told him and he nodded.
"And those rats, I will get them back too, those kids need to get laid." He got a 'Der-ek' from that and it made his day.
He smirked and watched her go to his other window.
"What about that guy?" She asked him. He walked up behind her and looked.
"I don't really know." Derek said to her. "He stays in his house, tends to his garden, that kindof stuff. And he also has the same kind of truck as that missing girl but that could be nothing."
She looked at him, realizing how close he was and she moved away a little bit. She smiled a little bit and he smirked. She jumped when the doorbell rang and he chuckled. They laughed more when they heard Ralph singing badly as he walked up the stairs.
"Casey, hey,"
"Hey Ralph."
She blushed when she saw Ralph's eyes wander along her body.
"Ralph, you might wanna watch where you look or you won't have your eyes anymore." Derek threatened.
Casey looked away from Ralph and sat on Derek's bed.
"So, I brought the coffee and doughnuts," Ralph said.
"For what?" Casey asked.
"Me and Derek and on a stake out," Ralph said as Derek glared at him.
"You are spying," Casey gasped, "that's terrible."
"You are so not my new best friend anymore, Ralph." Derek snapped.
Casey giggled and rolled her eyes.
"I'm in." She said smirking.
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Casey was on Derek's lap top while Ralph was asleep on a chair and Derek was looking though his camera. She heard the occasional click signaling that he had taken a picture and she continued to play on his lap top. She clicked on a news link and the story of the missing girl came up. They still hadn't found her yet and her truck was still missing as well. Her brows furrowed together and she looked at Derek.
"You said your neighbor has the same truck as that girl?"
"Yeah, uh, I think it was a sixty-seven." Derek said looking at her.
"Well, either it's a huge coincidence, or your neighbor is up to something. And I know it's a stretch to think that but you said he was a creep."
"Yeah, he is a creep."
Casey looked back to the screen and continued to read.
"When did you see the truck in the first place?" She asked him.
"After I heard the story on the news."
"It says here that there was a broken head light that was out of the frame, did you see that?"
"It was too dark to tell,"
Suddenly, Ralph jerked awake for only a moment and fell back to sleep. Both Derek and Casey stiffle a laugh and Derek saw head lights and he looked out his window. Casey moved next to Derek, looking as well.
"Another car, someone's getting lucky." She said.
"Not a mental image I need Case," Derek chuckled.
She grabbed his other camera and looked through.
She saw his older neighbor open the door to the other car. She saw a slim girl get out and she heard Derek whistle and she scoffed.
"Perv," she muttered, "and you told me chivalry was dead."
"You're the one who believed me,"
They continued to watch as his neighbor walked into his house. His neighbor led the girl to the living room and the girl started swaying her hips. Derek and Casey laugh and she looked at him.
"I have an idea," she said before she grabbed his lap top. She started clicking on random songs from his play list letting them play for only a few seconds.
She landed on a song and stopped.
"I think we have a winner," Derek smirked while Casey moved back next to him.
They continued to watch, waiting to see what would unfold and the neighbor's lights went off.
"I guess we're done for the night." Casey said softly. She jumped when she heard a snort, a thud then a groan.
They both looked and saw Ralph on the floor. They laughed and Ralph glared.
"Rise and shine sleepy head," Derek said.
"What time is it?" He asked, pulling out his phone. "Whoa, I gotta go, "
Ralph did that man pound it thing and waved to Casey. She smiled softly and he left. She looked at Derek and he smirked.
"Walk me out?"
"Sure,"
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She walked with Derek to the end of his driveway and she crossed the line. She turned to look at him and smiled a little.
"I had fun," she said to him.
"Me too,"
"Tomorrow?" She asked him with raised brows in question.
"Tomorrow,"
She stepped back over the line and wrapped her arms around his neck. He ran his hands over her sides down to her lower back and he hugged her back. She pulled back and walked back over the line.
"See ya," she said before she walked to her house.
Derek watched her until she walked into her house before he walked into his. He sighed happily and went to his room. He grabbed his camera and looked to Casey's room and her blinds were closed. He chuckled to himself and looked to his neighbor. The lights were still out and he sighed.
He thought that something would have happened next door. He had a feeling that creepy neighbor was up to something. Maybe he was just thinking un reasonably, but her knew what he saw. Derek decided not to get caught up on it of he would be up all night with it running through his head. Hell, if he didn't have that stupid ankle bracelet on his leg, he would go over there and be a pest to find out what creep was up to. He had an itchy feeling about him.
Suddenly, hands landed on his shoulders and he jumped, screaming a little bit. He turned and saw his mom with a hand over her chest.
"Shit, mom," he said, catching his breath.
"I'm sorry; I just wanted to tell you that I was home." She said, lightly smiling.
"It's cool."
"Okay, what are you doing anyways?" She asked.
"Just looking, night photography,"
"Don't stay up too late."
"Alright,"
Abby gave him a hug and he kissed her cheek.
"Night mom,"
After she left, he looked out the window once more and still, saw nothing.
And honestly, I cannot remeber how the movie went for the life of me. And I'm trying to prolong the small about of Dasey that's going to happen. And I'm trying to mix and add scenes.
