Disclaimer: I do not own Life With Derek. As much as I would like to right now I don't.

Summery: A movie brought them together, but was it just a one day thing? Or do they really care about each other. Sequel to "it's gonna be love"

Let me know what you think

XOXOXOXOXOX

Edwin took a deep breath. He was beyond nervous, but this is part of the plan. Talking to Casey will help her and Derek stop denying their feelings about each other. He took another deep breath before he softly knocked on her bedroom door.

A second later a smiling Casey opened her door. She looked carefree and happy. Wait this can't be right, according to Lizzie, Casey was crying her eyes out not even an hour ago, what happened?

"Hey Edwin, what's up?" Casey asks moving out of her way so he could enter her room. He walks in and sits on her computer chair.

"Um I wanted to talk to you about something. Normally I would ask Derek or Lizzie but Derek is packing for California and Lizzie has to finish her homework." He lies hoping he's being believable

"Well I feel loved being a last resort." Casey laughs sarcastically

"Sorry." He mumbles

"It's okay just tell me what's wrong." She says as she sits on her bed to face him better.

She had to do something to get Derek out of her mind and helping his younger brother might not be the first thing she had in mind; but it was a start.

"Well I like this girl named Cathy but I don't want to." He starts

"Cathy? I didn't know you had a Cathy in your class." She says trying to think of Lizzie mentioning her.

"Oh she's new." Edwin covers and she seemed to accept it

"Okay so why don't you want to like her?" She asks thinking of how she doesn't want to love Derek, but of course the cosmic world likes to fuck with her mind.

"Well because we are always fighting, we never got along until..."

"Until what?" Wow this is a lot like her and Derek what a weird world.

"Until this one day she was upset and since I was the only one that saw I went to talk to her and we really...connected." He said after thinking a while for the right word.

Casey smiles sadly. She wishes she could have someone to talk to about this.Maybe she could, just not say his name. "Wait what am I talking about, I'm getting over him! I'm so pathetic I can't even admit I'm not getting over him anytime soon."

"Trust me Edwin I know what you mean. Actually my situation is very similar to yours. I really like this guy but I wish more then anything I didn't.I think what we both need to do is talk to the people we like and either confess our feelings...or ignore them."

She takes a deep breath, it's taking all her strength not to cry just thinking of keeping this to herself until it finally goes away. It already hurts like hell, imagine if I feel this way for years. She winced at the thought. Now she will just have to distract herself, just because she wont follow her own advice, Edwin could.

Edwin almost smirked. "Gotcha Case." He thinks to himself. That was almost too easy. But something tells him Derek isn't being as easy for Lizzie as Casey was.

"Thanks Casey, that really helped." He says and she just smiles back.

XOXOXOXOX

Lizzie knocked on Derek's door confidently, this was it; show time. She already knows Derek is in love with Casey all she has to do is admit it in a indirect way. She also knew it would be tricky to get this information from Derek without being obvious.

"Come in." She heard him say and she walked right it.

"Hey Liz, what's up?" Derek asks surprised at her visit. Not that he minded. He like Lizzie, she was smart, not as smart as Case but who is? She's athletic too, which is something he really likes about her.

"Hey I just wanted to talk to you about something." She says trying to act embarrassed which wasn't that hard. She was a little considering the fact she has a tape recorder in her pocket and trying to act as normal as possible.

"Sure, sit." He says and she takes a seat on the foot of his bed. This was something new for Derek, Lizzie and him get along, yeah but they don't have touchy moments where he gives her wise advice.

"Well okay before I say anything you promise not to make fun of me." She says pointing at him, that's all she needed having him laugh at her when everything she's about to say is fake.

"Promise." He says confused at her weird behavior. Lizzie seemed really nervous and embarrassed about coming to him and it made him very interested about what's on her mind. And since he finally knows what he's going to do about the whole Casey thing he had her complete attention which is a first.

"Okay well IhaveacrushonthisguyandIdon'twanttobewhatshouldIdo?" Lizzie said really fast and his eyes's widen trying to figure out what the heck she said.

"Lizzie I don't think I can help you if you don't talk slower all I got out of what you just said was what should I do." He says and She laughs nervously. Yes! She was a good actress! He completely thought she was nervous and she was playing him good, he wont even see what's coming next.

"I have a crush on this guy and I don't want to be, what should I do?" She says slower and he nods in understanding. He thinks for a minute before saying.

"Okay well this isn't that uncommon I mean most girls get crushes." He says thinking about all the girls that flaunt over him. He used to love it. He use to take a girl out almost everyday,but that slowly stopped when Casey moved in.

She made him want to stay home, whether to bug her or just to be around her, dates didn't seem as fun, even if he did end up making out with her.

"He is like the most popular guy in my school and everyone loves him." She says

" Is that bad?" He asked thinking of what if this was Casey talking to him, he'd be overjoyed at this second because everyone knew he was the most popular guy in his school.

"YES! He is a total jerk to me! I never did anything to him and you know, he just always had a way of making me feel like crap." She admitted

"Who is this guy?" He couldn't help but ask. Why would a guy be mean to Lizzie? She is a sweetheart! Then again why is he such a jerk to Casey? Why does he LOVE to torment her and make her feel like she's not as smart as she thinks? Maybe because he knew he had to hide the fact he fell for her.

He had to hide his love for her.

"Dave." She mutters looking on the floor. Dave, Derek what's the difference?

"Oh." He muttered. Yeah so he's not a friend of Edwin's so he couldn't talk to him directly. Damn who was this guy? Who did he think he was? Damn why did this guy have to make him think about how mean he's been to Casey. He looks at Lizzie and notices she's starting to cry a little.

"Hey, don't cry." He whispers softly, wrapping his arms around her in a warm embrace. She hugs him back but inside she was happy. She knew tears would work.

"Sorry, I was just thinking of something he said to me." She whispered releasing the embrace.

"What did he say?" He was almost afraid to know. He knows what people say in middle school and this guy seems to be like him so...

"It was a day when he was really upset and ya know, even know I was afraid he would be a jerk to me again, I sat down with him and asked him what's wrong he actually talked to me and he told me that I must really be someone great to come over to him when he's a total ass to me." She said and thinks that's about right since that's almost what happened between him and Casey.

Wow this is so freaky. It is almost exactly what's happening between him and Case, except

Casey doesn't like him. It almost hurt him to say it but it was the truth she didn't like him like he likes her, he loves her and it kills him that she doesn't feel the same.

"You know I'm sort of in a situation your in, except I'm Dave." He admits

"Really?" She asks sounding surprised. "Gotcha Der." She thinks to herself

"Yeah and I think Dave cares about you like I care about Ca- this girl and truthfully I think she doesn't like me but I'm going to show her how much I care about her soon." He says and she smiles happily.

"What are you going to do?" She had to ask.

"Well I'll let you know how it plays out when I get back from my trip okay?" He says cursing himself for almost saying Casey's name.

"Promise?" She says hopefully sticking out her pinky finger.

He laughs and he links his pinky finger with her's.

"Promise." She laughs and he gives her a hug.

"Thanks Derek, you were a big help." She says.

"Anytime." He smiles

She turns to leave but is stopped when he asks her to wait.

"Promise to tell me how it goes with Dave?" He smirks

She nods "Promise." And with that she walks out of the room.

She takes a deep breath. That was easier then she thought. Worked out good too, she got what she needed. Then she took out the tape recorder and she pressed stop. Now she really wanted to hear what Casey said. This should be fun.

XOXOXOXOXOX

Casey sits on her computer thinking about what Edwin just told her. It seemed really bizarre that Edwin's situation is so similar to her own that if she just changed the names to Derek and Casey it would almost be identical.

She hopes she helped Edwin at least a little. She may not take her advice and actually try to get him out of her mind but maybe he would feel better if he talked to Cathy.

She sighs in frustration. She's never going to accomplish her goal if she keeps thinking about him nonstop! She wont even get one guy to look at her if she keeps looking so sad and depressed.

"This ends now!" she says aloud before going to her stereo she looks through her CD's looking for the right one. Just picking one she turns it on to be engulfed by Moroon 5's Harder to Breathe

She loves this song. It's so intense and seductive. She moves her hips to the beat and closes her eyes, wishing she could feel Derek's around wrap his around her waist like a snack, feeling his hard body sway her to the music. His hot lips on her neck teasing her.

Her eyes shoot open as she stops the song and changes it to She's the Blade by Sugarcult

She really needs to stop this. It's just making her more miserable because she knows nothing could ever happen. It's killing her, but she has to ignore the pain, because she can't let one moment make her mind go haywire.

She sits on her computer and sees who's on. She clicked on Trevor's screen name and typed in.

PreppyPollyPants865: Hey Trevor what's up

MickJones169: Hey Space Case, I'm good you

PreppyPollyPants865: Bored out of my mind! Hey do you want to go and see a movie, as friends of course. LoL.

MickJones169: LoL Sure I'll meet you there, and then we'll figure out what we're seeing.

PreppyPollyPants865: Okay See soon.

MickJones169: Okay

MickJones169 has signed off

Casey smiles to herself. Trevor was a good friend and right now she needs; a good friend. She got up and slipped out of her pajama pants and put on a pair of dark jeans and got out of her big tee shirt on put on a small deep red tee.

After putting on some black eye liner and brushing her long locks she smiled to herself as she went down stairs.

"Hey mom, can I go see a movie with Trevor, I'll be back before 11." She asks nicely

"Sure sweetie have fun." Nora says. She knows Trevor is a good guy and will make sure Casey is safe. She also knows they are good friends so she doesn't have to worry about them "getting together".

"Thanks mom." She went over to her mom and kissed her on the check before she almost ran into Derek.

"Watch it." Casey muttered before moving out of his way and walking out of the house.

"Where's she going?" Derek asks slightly annoyed

"Oh she's going to go to see a movie with Trevor." She says looking at her paper work.

"Really that's funny because I was just about to ask you if I could go to the movies with Sam, we're going to see the new horror movie." Derek said. He didn't want to go to the movies but he wanted to keep an eye on Trevor and Casey.

"Okay have fun, and look out for Casey." Nora said and Derek flashed her a smirk

"Don't worry I will." He promised before grabbing his leather coat and running out the door so he could call Sam.

What they didn't see was Edwin and Lizzie looking at each other smirking but also with wide eyes. They were just about to look at their research and listen to the tapes.This research was getting good, sucks they wont be able to see what happens at the movies.

TBC