"Casey, do you love me?" Cappie asked, "And don't just say no because I am engaged, because if you don't want me to get married, I won't."
"Cappie, I have been in love with you for the past seven years."
"Casey..."
"Casey, we're back." Cappie said, nudging her shoulder. Casey woke up and sank back down in the seat; she asked herself, 'Why couldn't that have been real?'
"Casey, do you want me to carry you into the house?" Cappie asked when Casey closed her eyes again.
"No, I got this. Ash, help me." She said, trying to open the door.
"Ashleigh already went inside; I told her I'd bring you in."
"Okay then, bye Cappie." She stepped out of the car, and collapsed. Cappie jumped out of the car on the other side and ran over to aid Casey. He put her arm over his shoulder and scooped her up.
"Ah!" Casey was in the habit of squealing this evening. She had to be really tired to be falling asleep while she was being carried up fifteen steps. After all, she hadn't slept in three days, too much thinking about Cappie. Now that she had one day with him, she was good enough to sleep.
Cappie walked into her room, which was a total mess. He tried to lay her down on the bed, but he ended up falling over and on top of her. She was in too deep of a sleep to notice. He slowly stood up, he pulled the covers over her, and he headed for the door. He looked up at her bulletin board. 'Just like a ZBZ,' he though. He saw a picture of him and her from freshman year. He smiled and looked toward Casey again. He stepped slowly over to her bedside. He kissed her forehead, stood up, and walked out, closing the door to make as little noise as possible.
"Goodnight Cappie," Ashleigh stepped out of her room to stop Cappie at the top of the stairs.
"'Night Ash, bring her to work tomorrow." Cappie said, before he walked on. Ashleigh smiled and walked into her own room and went to bed.
ooooooooooooooooooooooooo
"Cappie, these are some new designs for the spring line." Casey walked into his glass box.
"Casey, hey," Cappie said, she was wearing one of her regular work outfits, and not sweatpants.
"Hi Cappie." Casey said.
"You know, I miss talking to you," Cappie said.
"We talk everyday." Casey reminded him.
"I mean when we used to go out on our lunch breaks, and forget about Caspie, and just talk." Cappie said, looking down at the ground.
"Well, we've been busy, you with Alexandra and me with the company." Casey said, Cappie didn't respond so Casey brought up a new business topic. "Okay, so Ash and I have been putting together a new idea for the company, maybe a magazine."
"Okay, show me." Casey pulled out a folder filled with papers.
"Okay, so each issue will have, like, the new designs of the season, and we thought it would be cool to have someone do an advice column, and people can send in personal moments, you know like a normal magazine, but with fashion aspects." Casey looked up at Cappie who was leaning over her shoulder.
"Sounds good." He said, she could feel his warm breath on her cheek.
"We were thinking, maybe you could do the advice column, since you did the whole psychology thing in college."
"Yeah, that would be nice." Cappie said smiling and pulling away and sitting back down in his oversized rolly chair. "When do we have the first launch?"
"Well, we have to advertise it and get some people to send in letters so we can get some things to put in." Casey said. "I guess I'll start some ads, and then move from there."
"I'll help." Cappie said, after a few seconds of silence he spoke again, "I have a question Casey."
"Shoot." Casey looked up at him, while gathering her papers.
"Lexi wants you to design her wedding dress." She stopped and swallowed hard. "She saw the dresses in the mall and really wants you to make one special for her. I told her I could design one for her, but she wanted you to do it."
Casey inhaled deeply and said, "Yeah, anything for my best friend." She started to walk out after putting her numerous folders in her arms.
"Casey," Cappie stopped her, "Do you wanna get some lunch?"
"Cappie…"
"Casey, all you can say now is 'no', do you have a phobia of me, you hardly talk to me anymore, and you are always buried in your work, and don't say you can't get out of it because you freaking own this company, you decide what work you have."
"Are you done?" Casey looked at him.
"No, I feel like I am losing my best friend, and I don't like that. Now I'm done."
"If you had let me finish, I was saying, Cappie…I would like to go to lunch." She smiled, nodding at Cappie's drama queen-ishness.
"Oh, well I'll come by your office at one." He said looking at him watch, only 11:23am.
Casey walked out feeling content.
"Casey, what did Cappie say about the magazine?" Ashleigh asked.
"He said it was a good idea, so lets get working on the advertisements." Casey said, pulling out her keyboard.
"You seem happy, what else did he say?" Ashleigh came around the corner of the desk.
"WE are going out to lunch today." She said blankly and smiled, Ashleigh didn't ask any further questions and they started work on ads.
oooooooooooooooo
"Case, you ready to go?" Cappie knocked on the open door of her glass box. "Hey Ash."
"Hey Cap," She looked up from the computer. "Case, I'll keep working, have fun." Casey gave Ashleigh the evil eye before leaving with Cappie.
"Okay, so there is this pie place over on fifth I think we should go there." Cappie said.
"Have pie for lunch?" Casey looked at him smiling.
"Oh, c'mon, it'll be like a trip down memory lane, do you remember how much pie we ate in freshman year?"
"Yeah, blueberry, pecan….." They went on and named their pies.
"What would you like to start?" The waitress asked them.
"One large apple pie, please." Cappie said and Casey smiled; apple was "their" pie.
"First bite to old times." Cappie said, digging into the center of the pie and pulling out an apple.
Flashback
"This is school it's not suppose to be fun?"
"Says who," Cappie said, "Anything can be fun, everything should be fun, we had crazy fun all the time when we were going out. Sex, drinking, sex, eating pie in bed."
"You…bought an apple pie." Casey saw when he opened the pink box.
"Don't you remember the hell raisers and heart breakers party?" Cappie asked.
"That was lemon meringue." Casey corrected.
"Or the pumpkin pecan."
"Halloween." Casey laughed.
"We were dressed up as Ecoy and Elvis, you were the horses butt. Or…Or that weekend when we got arrested for protesting protests."
"Blueberry cream…" Cappie remembered.
"Cappie…" She said softly.
"Coconut custard." He took another guess, "It wasn't that bad, was it? I mean not all of it"
"It was never bad, just was what it was, and…and then it was time we grew up or at least for one of us." She smirked.
"Too bad that one of us had to go and give up on all that fun," Cappie held out a fork with an apple, "Wanna bite."
"We should write the paper." She said, looking down.
"Just a nibble." Cappie urged her.
"If I do then can we focus on the paper?" Casey begged.
"What's the harm in taking one little bite of an apple?"
End Flashback
Casey took the bite from the fork Cappie was holding before her. Cappie stuck the fork back into the pie and ate some on his own. Casey kept smiling.
"I'll be right back." Casey said, standing up to go to the bathroom.
She walked towards the bathroom and saw a half of a familiar face. She gasped when she realized who it was.
A/N: Drama is coming up. That pie flashback is one of my favorite Cappie/Casey moments. Okay, five more reviews. Okay, five guesses for what Casey sees at the table.
1. Travis and Alexandra (wow!)
2. Travis and Ashleigh (uh-oh not again)
3. Rusty and Jen K. (about time)
4. Rusty and Alexandra
5. Calvin and Ashleigh
