Disclaimer: Why do you have to do these things? Of course we don't own LWD that's why we write fan fiction. Anyways….don't own it.

A/N: Thanks for the reviews! I agree their relationship banter would be totally cute! It will happen…soon. hehe.

Chapter 7

Casey's POV

Okay so tonight Derek has to come over so we can practice for Romeo and Juliet. I cannot believe this! I can't understand why Mrs. Greene would choose two polar opposites to play two of the most romantic characters in fictional history! I mean we don't even find each other attractive! Okay…I'm lying, Derek is really, really cute, but still…

The scene she gave us isn't the death scene, nope, because that would've been fairly easy. She gave us the balcony scene; there is a kissing scene in it, a passionate kissing scene! I think I'm going to faint. Not from happiness either!

I got ready about 7:45; Derek's coming over at 8. I am not devoting an hour of my time to get ready for him. The doorbell rang and I ran downstairs to open it. I looked in the foyer mirror and smoothed my hair down and straightened my shirt…what am I doing? This is Derek. I opened the door. Okay maybe he looks better than any teenage boy should, but so what?

"Make yourself comfortable." I motioned towards the living room couch. He sat down and I took a seat in the recliner across the room and eyed him warily.

"Well?" he asked. He shifted to get more comfortable.

"I suppose we should practice our lines." I grabbed my book off the coffee table and opened it to the page that we were doing. It was wrinkled by now and there were little black smudges on the ink where the kissing scene is. I was nervous okay? Maybe I crushed the booklet a little too much.

I looked up. He was still sitting there. "Didn't you bring your book?"

"Nope, guess we're going to have to share." He grinned.

This is not going well.

I went and sat down next to him on the couch. Just close enough that he could see the book too. He scooted closer. He smells really good. Okay that's disturbing. I scooted away and hit the armrest. I never get a break with this furniture and in my own home too.

"Okay your line is first." I handed him the book. He started to read.

"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun."

He looked up and laughed. "Are you kidding me? I don't even know what I just said."

"Okay well, after class, Mrs. Greene called me over and told me that we could make it our own. She wants us to keep true to some of the lines, but she wants a contemporized version of it." I explained.

"Why didn't she tell that to the class?" Derek asked.

"I don't know, but she was calling other students to her desk after me, so maybe she just had second thoughts and decided to have us do that instead." I told him.

Were Derek and I actually having a civil conversation?

"Okay- so what do you want to do?" He asked again.

We were! "Umm…well what lines do you feel comfortable saying?"

"How about…none of them." He smirked after he had looked over the scene.

He always has to ruin everything. "Well choose at least one line!" I exclaimed.

"We have to do this tomorrow morning in class!"

"We do?" Derek looked at me in confusion.

"Yes! Don't you listen in class?" I rolled my eyes. Stupid question.

"Uhh…no. Stupid question." He shook his head.

We're thinking alike, this is scary.

Derek finally chose a line and we went through our little scene. When we got to the kissing scene, we both stopped and looked at each other. "Umm you know we don't really have to do this, if we are allowed to make our own version of it." I said.

"I thought about that, but this kiss is what makes the scene." Derek told me, not too happily.

"Alright." I sighed."Say your line that's before the kiss again."

Derek's POV

"Sin from my lips? O, trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again." I read, feeling somewhat cheesy. Did this guy Shakespeare think that this was romantic? I looked up at Casey, her blue eyes were glowing. Apparently she did.

I cleared my throat and leaned forward.

"Wait!" She leaned back. "You can't clear your throat! This is supposed to be romantic!"

"Sorry." I apologized, albeit sarcastically.

"Say your line again." She demanded.

I rolled my eyes and started to protest. "Derek, please, can we just get this over with?" she pleaded.

"Sin from my lips? O, trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again." I quoted, without looking at the book. She looked at me nervously twisting her hands. I put my hand over both of hers and she stopped and shifted closer. Leaning forward slowly, I cupped her cheek with my free hand and leaned over and kissed her softly.

I expected to just kiss and be done with it. What I didn't expect was for Casey to return it. Then she seemingly realized what was happening and broke the kiss.

"I, umm, that was good." She took a deep breath. "What time is it? It's 9:30. Maybe you should go." She babbled nervously.

"Yeah I probably should." I stood up.

She looked relieved. "Wait, we should probably go over it one more time before school tomorrow? Don't you think?"

"Uhh, sure." I nodded. "See ya then."

Casey's POV

After he left, I sat on the couch wondering what the heck had just happened.

First I had kissed Derek back and then I asked him if we could practice it one more time tomorrow morning! What was wrong with me?

This little school project was going to cause a lot of problems.

I should not have enjoyed that kiss! I have a boyfriend!

Okay this is a sad thing to admit, but Max's kiss did not make me feel the way Derek's kisses do.