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4.Just For The Weekend

No one's point of view

Casey had been gone for almost a week and Derek could tell that the family was still upset. Nora didn't really care what anybody did anymore and just kind of did small chores around the house. His dad was either working or trying to get Nora in a better mood. Marti kept crying at night about how she missed Casey. Edwin was always trying to lighten the mood and cheer up Lizzie. Lizzie…well she hated Derek not that he could blame her. She was just depressed all the time except for when Casey called. Derek hadn't talked to Casey yet. He just didn't think she would want to talk to him. Every time he thought about Casey leaving he felt a huge pain. She was the one girl that didn't fall for him and she always made things interesting. And now she was gone.

Then Lizzie handed him the phone. He was in the living room watching TV and had no idea who was on the phone so he thought it must've been some girl.

"Hello, Derek Venturi here and who might this be?" Derek said trying to turn on his charm.

"Hi Derek." Derek was shocked. It was Casey and on the sound of her voice he almost dropped the phone.

"Oh hi Case."

"Hi. So I was wondering if you knew how Emily was doing." Of coarse she called about Emily. Did you really think she wanted to talk to you! Stupid stupid Derek!

"Oh well she looks kind of upset but she's been hanging out with Sam a lot lately." Derek had wondered about that.

"Oh well I figured they would I just wanted to…"

"Wait are they…"

"Yeah they're together." Derek could hear in Casey's voice that she wasn't happy about it.

"Is that why you two had that fight?"

"Well yeah I mean it's not that I still like Sam its just" Derek felt a relief when she said that You cannot be falling for your step sister!, "well… Emily and him had been going out for over month before I found out! I mean that meant that they were together before me and Sam ended! She was supposed to be my best friend and at the time he was my boyfriend and they decided to totally just screw me over!"

" Wow Case I'm sorry if I knew Sam had done that I would have…"

"No. Derek don't do anything Ok. Look I'm over both of them so I should just let them be happy."

Trying to change the subject Derek said, " So are you happy at your school. I mean Lizzie told us about how…well your reputation there. Of coarse I don't believe it but…"

" Well believe Venturi cause Queen Casey is back! And yeah I'm really happy. My best friends totally kept my position of limits while I was gone so everything is back to normal."

"Oh so I guess this means…" Derek didn't want to sound hurt but he was hurt that Casey could be so happy when he wasn't around.

"Well I do miss everyone a lot. I mean don't get me wrong I'm not saying I'm going back for good but I was hoping I could go back for the weekend with a friend,"

"Yeah well everyone will be really glad even if it is only for the weekend."

"Ok then I guess I'll….Oh hey Jason! No I'm almost off. Let me just get my purse and we can go. Oh hold on …Derek sorry about that a ah… friend just got here so I have to go but I'll see you tomorrow!" Jason? Who the hell is Jason and why did she say friend like that? Wait did Casey say a friend was coming with her?

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Ding… Ding…Derek knew it was Casey so he rushed to open the door but when he opened it he saw an average height, slender, tanned girl with silky black hair and a pair of sunglasses on. Normally Derek would have been all over her but the only girl he wanted to see was Casey.

"Hi… uh… can I help you?'

"Yeah I'm Jasmin" She looked Derek up and down before continuing, "and you must be Casey's step brother Derek."

"Oh you're Casey's friend Jasmin."

"Yeah so can I come in." She was talking to Derek like he was a moron and it was getting really annoying till he saw Casey.

"Hey Derek. So I see you've met Jazz so can you let us inside." Derek then realized that he was standing in the doorway blocking the girls from going inside the house. As they walked inside he noticed that Casey had gotten highlights and her cloths were new. She was wearing a baby blue off the shoulder shirt and a light green skirt that swished from side to side as she walked. She was also wearing sunglasses like her friend and that when he noticed that Jazmin was wearing the same thing except for her top was a dark purple and her skirt was pink. They both looked good and then he noticed Casey was wearing heels. In all the time that they had been living together he never seen her wear heels. Most of her cloths also looked expensive, Derek new that Casey's dad had money but he didn't think that he was rich either. She was always a more dress for comfort, but know she looked like a girl from Malibu.

"So Casey what's with the preppy Malibu look? I mean you were never much of a dress to look good type of person."

"If you must know this is how people with class dress but I guess from looking at you you wouldn't know would you?"Jazmin replied coldly, obviously offended that Derek tried to offend Casey. Either way she was getting on Derek's nerve.

"Ok ok you guys calm down. Seriously Derek I've been here for what five seconds and you're already insulting me."

"What can I say force of habit." Derek smirked at Casey who simply rolled her eyes. Then the rest of the family went into the living room to find Casey.

"Casey what are you doing here?"Lizzie said happily as she ran to hug her sister.

"Derek! You didn't tell them I was coming!"

"Well when you told I thought you had already told them!"

"Derek you are such a …"

Nora interrupted, "It doesn't matter. Casey we're just glad you're here. Oh my look at you! You look great honey."

"Thanks mom."

"Oh Liz when me and the girls went shopping we picked you up some stuff."

Jazmin then added, "Yeah Lizzie hope you like them. When Casey told us you weren't with her we all decided we would spoil our baby sis even more."

" You guys are the greatest!" Lizzie pulled out a small jean skirt and smiled. Then Derek noticed that Edwin winked at her and Lizzie blushed. And with that all three girls were hugging and laughing.

It wasn't till Casey and Jazmin returned from the car with all their stuff that Venturis noticed how different Casey was. When Casey and Jazmin returned they were carrying at least five shopping bags each and they were all designer! On top of that they brought two carrying bags each and again they were designer.

" I see your dad's been letting you borrow his credit card." Nora said with a slightly upset tone.

"Mrs. McDonald don't sweat it, tons of these bags are from the other girls for Lizzie. Since we missed her birthday and Christmas we felt like making it up."Jazmin quickly added.

As Derek stared at Casey he couldn't help but wonder exactly how different was the old Casey. At first he thought that maybe her school was just weird and that maybe she was more confident there. Now he saw a totally different Casey standing in front of him.