Derek stomps to the kitchen, grumbling and gets her an Ice-Pak, and shoves her foot on a few pillows gruffly. He sighs dramatically and flops down on the couch next her. He says, "Keener, why do you annoy me so much? Lately its gotten even worse, I can't stop thinking about you and dreaming up ways to annoy you." Casey sits up a little, surprised, "Really? I catch myself annoying you on purpose, imagine that."

Derek scoffs, "Seriously? Could you knock it off, just a little?"

Casey laughs, "Eh, maybe….."

They sit in the silence for awhile, neither knowing how to say what they both know is true. Finally, Derek shifts uncomfortably and says, "Come here Casey." Casey sits up with his help next to him and he cautiously slings his arm across the back of the couch.

"If things were different, then…." He trails off.

"I know, same here," Casey says sympathetically. Very slowly, very cautiously, he leans in, giving her time to change her mind, and kisses her.

His lips on hers were very soft almost as if he was scared, waiting to see if she responded. The thought went through her head "Is this really happening?" but then she just gave herself over to the feeling. As soon as he felt her let go he deepened the kiss.

This was their first kiss, it was innocent, gentle but the hint of more to come was still there.

After that Casey falls asleep eventually and the next morning, their friends are back and seem triumphant to not hear yelling and crashing and screaming inside the house, and instead see Casey and Derek cuddled up on the couch.

Derek offers to drive Casey home in Prince and their friends happily oblige, pleased to have stopped the bickering and finally had them work out their differences. On the way, the two pairs talked happily, Derek and Casey talking about if things were different and lightly teasing each other, and Emily and Sam marveling at how well they got along and saying they should do this to all their friends. Emily laughingly said, "We could have a business. People's friends come to us about their friends arguing and bickering because they like each other, and we could, like, set them up, it'd be great, plus, we'd make a fortune!"

THE END!