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Title: L.O.V.E (This title is definitely subject to change)
Rating: T
Summary:
Dislcaimer: I do not claim to own anything.
Chapter 4: Getting Over Tyler
It was breakfast time at the McDonald-Venturi residence - 9:30am.
Everyone was in his or her seat except for Derek and Casey.
Casey was in her room, trying to get over her heartbreaking pain caused by Tyler, by attempting to sleep the whole day.
Derek was just coming down the stairs, his hands on his head.
"Nice of you to join us, Derek," George greeted.
Derek greeted with a sarcastic grin, as he pulled out his seat and sat down.
"What's with you, bro?" Edwin asked, placing a few pieces of bacon on his plate.
"Nothing, just a headache," He mumbled in pain before pouring some milk into his glass.
Before stabbing her sausage with her fork, Marti looked over at Derek, "You have a headache every Saturday morning,"
"Marti," He whispered fiercely.
"A headache? …Or a hangover?" Lizzie asked wisely.
"So you've been drinking, Derek, at these parties that you tell us have 'chaperones'. Are these chaperones doing shots with you?" George asked sarcastically, "I will give you credit though, you hid it for quite a while without getting caught,"
"George," Nora started, "I don't think we should be encouraging drinking, I think Derek should be grounded for at least a month,"
"What?" Derek replied shocked.
"C'mon Nora… that's a bit extreme. How about no dates and he can't go anywhere with out Marti, Edwin, Lizzie, or Casey for 2 weeks,"
"What?!" Derek replied, annoyed again.
George shot him a look telling him to agree.
"Okay…okay…" Derek replied, defeated, "I'll take what I can get,"
"Alright," Nora agreed, "By the way… where is Casey?" Nora asked, sounding slightly concerned.
"She's in her room; she refuses to come out," Lizzie answered.
That's when Derek cracked a smirk, despite his pain, "Yeah… Tyler dumped her yesterday,"
"What!?" The whole table looked at him in shock.
"But he seemed like such a nice, polite, caring boy," Nora said, surprised.
Derek rolled his eyes, "Am I the only one that could see right through him? He was only using her for -" he looked at everyone's eager faces, "money," he finished, making it up.
"He didn't seem that way," George replied.
"Trust me, I hang out with the guy, he always gets with girls that he thinks will give him… money… and when they don't, he breaks up with them," Derek fought back the laughter that was about to let loose, "Hey, isn't it your turn to do the dishes, Ed?"
Edwin groaned, "Yes," and started to collect everyone's dishes as they got up from the table.
George heard the jingle of the keys, and stepped out into the living room to see Derek leaving the house, "Hold it," He called.
Derek spun around, "What?"
"Where are you going?" His dad asked as he dried his hands on a dishtowel.
"The mall to hang with some friends; later," Derek said in another attempt to leave.
"Ah!" George cut him off from leaving, "Grab a sibling,"
"Nevermind, I'm going to the library,"
"Doesn't matter where you're going, grab a sibling," George scolded.
Derek rolled his eyes, and took a step towards the staircase, "Ed!" He called.
"He's at Tai Kwon Do with Lizzie, and Marti is at Dimi's," Casey said, as she came down the stairs in a pair of jeans and a baggy sweatshirt, her hair in a ponytail.
She sat down on the couch, flicking on the TV, trying to decide between General Hospital, and Young and The Restless.
"Can you come with me?" Derek mumbled.
Casey craned her head around to face her step-brother at the front door, "What?"
"New rule, I can't leave the house by myself, and everyone else is gone. …Besides… don't you think you'll get over Tyler faster if you do something? Like go out and rent a movie or something?" Derek asked, trying to persuade her.
Casey was silent; thinking for a while, "…Okay," She turned off the TV, slipped on her running shoes, and grabbed her purse off the hook, "Let's go," She said quietly as she opened the door, and exited before Derek.
"You look…" Derek stopped himself from saying 'cute', "Stupid…" he finished as they got in the car.
Casey gave him a weird look as they pulled out of the driveway, and headed for the nearest Blockbuster.
They got back 40 minutes later. The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and She's All That in her hand, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Cabin Fever in his hand.
"I call TV first!" Casey called slightly eager.
"What? I am not watching any of your girly movies. I wanna watch this," He said holding up one of his DVDs.
Casey shrugged, sitting in the recliner, "Watch it on your computer,"
"1, The screen is like 15"s, and 2, Get out of my seat," Derek said seriously, "And I don't care how sad or heartbroken you are, okay? So don't pull that crap on me,"
And that reminded Casey of Tyler all over again, which made her chin start to quiver and her eyes start to sting.
"Whoa… stop. You scare me when you do that," Derek said, taking a step back.
This caused Casey to smile, "You're still afraid of girls crying? You're such a wimp," She said throwing a round cushion at his head, which actually hit him.
Derek blinked, "You're dead," He muttered.
Casey laughed and grabbed another cushion before standing behind the sofa, "Bring it on,"
After cushions flying everywhere, and smacking people in the head, as soon as Derek fell on his stomach, on to the couch, Casey jumped on his back, straddling him. She brought the cushion high in the air, and continued to smack the back of his head with it.
"Okay, surrender, mercy, whatever," Derek replied, with light laughter.
She continued to hit him with the cushion, until he moved onto his side, causing them both to roll off the couch.
And that's when Casey realized just how close they were. Their faces were an inch or two apart, and the intensity of the moment, caused Casey's heart to start racing at the speed of light.
"Hey… what's going on in there?" George said, coming up the stairs from his room in the basement.
Derek and Casey jumped up, and moved away from each other, "Nothing, just a pillow fight… sorry,"
George paused, looking at each of their faces and shrugged, "Well at least you're getting along," and he headed back downstairs.
Her heart wasn't racing because she liked Derek… it was racing just because it reminded her of how Tyler… made her feel. Week in the knees, and all that jazz… if she kept telling herself that, it was bound to be true.
"I'm gonna go to my room… I have this project thing," She said awkwardly before jogging up the stairs.
"That was weird…" Derek muttered to himself, flipping on the TV to the Women's Beach Volleyball Competition.