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"Derek, I know things are rough right now but you can't stay here anymore. It's not that we don't want you here it's just we are expecting our baby any day now and your kinda sleeping in the baby's room"
Running a hand though his hair Derek nodded and started picking up his stuff and shoving it in his bag.
Andrew felt bad for kicking his friend out but knew it was the only way to truly help him get back on his own feet, or at least that's what his wife kept telling him.
Derek thought that getting kicked out of the last place he could stay was the worst thing to happen to him but the moment he got to school things went from bad to worse.
Stepping out of his car about to head to class Derek was met by his coach.
"Hey Vanturi you have a minute" the coach yelled as he headed toward him.
"Ya what's up coach?"
"Well Vanturi I have a question for you and depending on your answer this might be a great chat or it could be a nasty one. Do you have a place to stay cause rumor has it that you have been crashing at team mates places for the last few months."
"Why?" was the only thing Derek could think of at that moment?
"You know that the college frowns at people that don't do their class assignments and you have failed to put in four different papers. You were the top of your classes and now you are almost failing two of them. You used the excuse that you were at a friend's house so you lost one then you used the same excuse but a different friend for a different class. Now the team mates were talking about you going from couch to couch and being distracted on trying to find a place and over some stripper. Did you blow your rent cheque on some whore that takes off her clothes for a living?"
Derek lost it then. "Casey is not a whore, what she does for work has nothing to do with any of you and if I catch anyone calling her down again they will be sorry" All the blood was rushing to Derek's head. The anger he felt the moment his coach put Casey and whore in the same sentence made him see red and it took everything he had not to punch him right where he stood.
"So the boys had it right, you are spending time at some strip club over doing your class work, Vanturi I am going to say this once and please listen. They might treat you like they love you but believe me they are just doing it for tips, those girls will never be truthful or faithful or anything a fine man like you deserve in a partner"
That's when Derek lost the last bit of control he had. Hockey taught him a lot when it came to fighting. So just like on the ice he faked left so the jerk insulting the woman he loved would block just to have Derek's right fist connect so hard with his coach's face it broke three teeth out and cracked his jaw.
It took three teammates and two professors to pull Derek off his coach. Rage still burning inside Derek was yelling at him "She has never nor will ever be anyone's whore; she is the most amazing woman anyone will ever know. You're a fucking dead man if you so even think one more thought about her. If you ever mention her name and the words whore or slut again I swear I will kill you where you stand. They will need more than just a dental record to find out who you were."
The team mates holding him back were having the hardest time keeping him pinned down. Derek broke their grasps twice just to land a few more solid punches anywhere he could.
"You ever show your face on this campus again and I will have your ass in jail so fucking fast it would even make a pope ask what the fuck." The coach yelled back to a now very squished Derek while all the men were either sitting or lying over top of him.
"That dumb ass move just cost you everything, you are kicked off the hockey team and out of this school forever. No whore is worth that, not even this Casey one that you love. "
The moment the coaches words hit Derek's ears he stopped fighting to be let up.
"What the hell did I just do?"
Derek couldn't tell who was talking when a soft voice answered his question, but that voice sounded familiar.
"Well Hun it seems that you have tossed away your education and your chance to be a hockey player just to defend the name of a girl you love. All because you couldn't hold your temper"
The voice was almost to his ear this time; Derek could feel the warm breath on his cheek while he was still pinned to the ground.
"This Casey girl must be very special for the great Derek to give up everything; don't you think she should know this too?"
The mystery lady then stood up and stepped over Derek's head and walked away. Derek tried his best to figure out who the lady was but it was hard to watch someone walk away while you can't move. She has a pair of red heals on, a well formed fitted pair of jeans, a flowing white shirt with a red belt around her waist line. Her dark brown hear looked long and straightened.
The guys finally let Derek stand up a few minutes later and the two professors walked him off campus.
"You can have a friend collect the stuff you have at the school, you will not have another warning, if you step foot on this campus for the next year the police will be called."
Standing outside looking at the collage he watched as people passed him on their way to classes. Watched how the sun cast new shadows over the bench he had sat to study. Watched as his dreams darkened and slowly died.
Other side of the campus
"Hey Casey slow down"
Casey turned to see Emily running as fast as she could toward her.
"You don't know how hard it is to run in these things" Emily said as she held on Casey's shoulder as she took off one of her heals.
"What is it you wanted Em, I thought you were going back home?"
Putting her shoe back on after a quick foot rub Emily linked arms with Casey and started walking toward the nearest place to sit down.
"Well after our tour of your amazing school and our heartfelt goodbye I was heading to the parking lot and I saw the craziest thing, you would never guess what it was."
Making it to a spot where a large tree was Emily pulled Casey down to sit with her.
"You saw the hottest guy you have ever seen in your life" Casey guessed.
"Now I guess your right cause you have some pretty hot men at this school but other than that I saw this crazy guy yelling at some old dude and you know I want to be a journalist so I took out my phone and recorded it, all of it. Do you want to watch it?" Emily asked as she started loading her phone to show the video.
"Em I have class in half an hour, couldn't you just forward it to me when you get home" Watching her best friends face fall with sadness Casey grabbed the phone and watched the video.
Emily sat there beside Casey watching her face go from shock to a smile so large she might crack her face, back to anger then tears were streaming down her face.
Ripping a piece of paper out of her textbook Casey quickly wrote down something.
"Em I need you to go to this class and tell Mr. Kempin that I will not be making it to class due to a family emergency and I am sorry."
Emily nodded and smiled while she grabbed the paper then ran to flag down a cute guy to show her the way to the room.
Casey took off running for the hockey rink. Making it there in record time, Casey found her way down to the locker room.
Opening the door slightly and yelling "Girl coming in men so cover up anything you don't want seen"
Some of the guys didn't bother covering up and most of the ones who did just dropped their towels as they saw Casey walk by them. Finally finding the locker with his name and pulling it open Casey finds more than just stinky hockey gear. Derek's locker door was filled with pictures.
Marty and Casey playing princess, lizzy and Casey playing soccer, Nora and Casey were baking something both of them with floor everywhere while they laughed.
Taking that picture down "when did he get this?" Casey asked herself but forgetting she was in the locker room filled with guys.
In unison about 10 guys all spoke at the same time "The lady is like a mom to me I have the picture cause of that. the other girl means nothing"
Casey was shocked back into reality. Grabbing the next picture it was of the class play back in high school, Casey was singing in the picture and Derek was in the back making the goofiest face. Turning to the guys "and this one?"
The same group answered "The chick has a good voice ya but can you see my face⦠epic snap shot hey" they all sang out in a Derek type tone.
Giggling a little she took down a few more and held them out.
The first was the one of her and Marty in dresses twirling in the back yard.
The guys yelled out "That little princess is my sister and the big one is just her sitter, look how she smiles"
Looking down at the picture she noticed her face was smiling but Marty was turned around spinning. Smiling she holds up the next one. It was a picture of Emily's pool. A duck was swimming in it and you could tell the picture was based around the bird but in the corner she saw her and Emily reading under a tree.
"And this one" she asked again
"This is why I'm stronger then all you pussy's I did 200 laps every day"
The next one was of prom, the same picture she had on her own wall. Emily and Derek were holding hands and Derek was looking at her and beside them was Casey and Truman, both looking at the camera and smiling. This time Casey followed Derek's eyes and he wasn't looking at Emily he was looking at her. Holding up the picture only one voice answered this time.
"That one is his fav babe. He said it was because he has a super hot lady with him and it was sad that it had to be beside her best friend but I know the difference"
All the voices in the locker room spoke for the last time "WE ALL DO" they yelled
"You are Casey, it's a pleasure to meet you in person, and I am Andrew. I'm guessing you came to get all of Derek's stuff"
Casey only nodded as she shook the stranger's hand. Turning back to the locker Casey started pulling down all the pictures.
A hand reached around her and took down the family photo before Casey could grab it.
"Do you realize one thing about all the pictures?"
Casey looked at them all and flash backs of every picture popped into her head. Why did she remember every picture moment? Going through the pictures again Casey noticed herself in every one of the pictures.
"He has to have 30 pictures here" Casey said quietly as she flips through them all again.
"And you are in every single one of them."
Tears fell from her eyes as Casey turned around to look at Andrew, "Why" was all she asked
Smiling he grabbed all the stinky gear out of the locker and tossed it over one shoulder. Then held out the other hand for Casey to take. Already holding all the pictures Casey took the offered hand and followed Andrew out of the locker room.
"SO I'm guessing that you know what happened between Derek and the coach"
Casey nodded so Andrew just continued. "Well Mrs. Smarty"
Casey smiled and the Smarty comment not sure if Andrew knew that Derek called his sister that.
"Do you know how he feels about you?"
The smile left Casey's face as she shook her head no.
"You have lived with that guy for many years so you know better than anyone that he does not express his feelings out loud for anyone but his princess"
"His princess?" Casey asked with shock.
Putting down the gear Andrew grabbed the pictures from Casey's hand and went thought them till he found the picture he wanted and turned it for her to see. A lot like the other pictures it was of Casey, Marty and Derek. It was Marty's birthday, Derek was dressed as a prince and Casey was a princess the same as every little girl at the party. Marty and Edwin were dancing in front of the picture but behind them Derek and she were dancing together.
Thinking back to that day, Max had just told her that they would never be together again. She was sitting on the step crying when Derek asked her to dance. He told her it was because Nora asked him to do it so all the kids didn't see her cry but when asked about it the next day her mom didn't remember.
Andrew saw the tears forming again so he picked up the gear and started walking again.
"You know Casey, Derek is not a very complicated guy when you want to figure him out it is really easy"
Jogging to catch up
" Ya and now that I know a little more than I did last week I think my plan to get him to open up is going to work out much better then I thought."
"What plan?"
Casey smiled and went on explaining everything her and Emily planned out.
A/N please please review. I hope you all enjoyed the chapter.
