As Casey and Derek walked out of the kitchen, the doorbell rang

As Casey and Derek walked out of the kitchen, the doorbell rang.

"I'll get it, it's probably Sam," said Derek as he went to answer the door.

"Hey, you ready to go play some hockey?" asked Sam.

"Yeah," answered Derek.

"Sweet."

"Casey, tell Nora I'll be back in time for dinner," Derek said as he headed out the door.

"Edwin, don't you have home work you should be doing? And Marti how long have you been watching TV? You were watching TV when I came home," said Casey.

"Since when did you become your mom?" asked Edwin.

"Yeah, who made you the boss?" said Marti.

"Fine, you guys can do whatever. I'm headed upstairs. Edwin when my mom gets home, which should be in a few minutes, could you tell her to come up to Lizzie's room?"

"Yeah, sure, whatever."

"Thanks."

Casey knocked on Lizzie's door. "Hey Liz, it's just me again."

"Come in."

Casey walked into Lizzie's room. Lizzie was still sitting on her bed where she had been earlier, but her eyes didn't really look red or puffy.

"Hey Liz, I talked to Derek."

"I'm sure that went real well," said Lizzie sarcastically.

"It definitely could've gone better, but in some ways it went better than I thought. He said he's sorry if he embarrassed you or hurt your feelings and he promised he wouldn't tell anyone."

"Yeah, I'm sure," Lizzie said as she rolled her eyes.

"Actually Liz, I think he meant it."

"Uh huh."

"Anyways, how are you are feeling? Do you have any cramps or anything?"

Just then there was a knock at the door. "Liz, it's just me," said Nora.

"Come in," answered Lizzie.

"Hey Liz," Nora said as she walked in the room. "Casey, I didn't expect you to be in here too. What's going on? Edwin said to come up here."

Casey looked at Lizzie but she didn't say anything. "Lizzie got her period this afternoon."

"Congratulations, honey! You're a woman now."

"Yeah, yeah," Lizzie said with no excitement whatsoever.

"But-"Casey was interrupted by Lizzie.

"It was horrible Mom! Derek and Marti were the only people home so I had to tell Derek because I needed a pad. So I asked him to get me a pad out of Casey room's and at first he told me to get it myself and then I started crying so he finally said he'd get me one if I would stop crying. Mom it was SO embarrassing!!" Lizzie said crying yet again.

"Honey I'm sure it was embarrassing. Casey, I can take over from here then. Thanks for your help though. I'll call you when dinner's ready."

"Ok, sounds good. Liz, you know my room's always open if you need to talk," Casey said as she walked out the door.

"Yeah, I know. Thanks," said Lizzie.