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Casey's eyes flickered open, she looked beside her expecting Derek to be there, but he was gone. She sat up, rubbed her eyes and questioned if last night ever happened. Did he mean what he said? Suddenly the door burst open and in ran her two children; they jumped on the bed and cuddled with their mom.

"I saw dad leave, is everything okay, mom?" Anya asked more concerned if anything.

"Everything's fine," Casey smiled reassuringly at her daughter.

Anya stared at her mom for moment before asking, "Are you and dad getting back together?"

It broke Casey's heart to hear those words come from Anya's mouth. "No, sweetie, we're not getting back together. You're father and I are a closed book," she stated firmly.

Just then Felicia walked into the room, "Good-morning, everyone." She has a cheerful smile on her face.

Anya and Blake hugged their great-grandma, then ran off to the kitchen to eat breakfast.

"Casey, honey, I saw Derek leave from here this morning, is everything okay?" Felicia sat next to her grand-daughter.

"Why does everyone keep asking me that? Everything's fine, he was just having a little fight with Brooke and he needed a place to stay," Casey replied. Okay that sounded a lot better in her head.

"Casey, you can't keep doing this," Felicia said carefully. "You can't keep being there for him when he runs."

"Grandma, I'm not always there for him," the young woman said in denial.

The elder woman gave her grand-daughter a severe look. "Oh really?" she continued, "Casey, you haven't even tried dating again."

"I have two kids, I don't have time for dating, grans," was her response.

"Oh, please, don't give me that excuse, you have time, you just have to make the time," Felicia said sternly. "Like tonight for example," a sly grin graced her features. "I've arranged a date for you tonight for the social."

"A blind date, are you serious?" Casey detested it apparently.

"It's hardly a blind date, Case, I'm sure you'll remember him," and in saying that, the meddling grand-mother left.

Casey fell forcefully face first into her pillow, letting out a frustrated groan. Okay, so her grandma noticed that she was avoiding the whole dating scene, but it wasn't intentional. She really was busy taking care of the kids and… answering Derek's every beckoning call… Oh my god, I am making myself too available for him.

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Derek decided to pick some flowers for his fiancée maybe that would melt her heart a bit. He approached the cabin and began to have second thoughts; maybe marrying her is a big mistake. He knocked on the screen door, he saw Brooke approach and open the door with a stern expression gracing her countenance.

"I picked these for you," he gave her the pink flowers with a smirk on his face.

She smiled and melted into his arms.

She's too easy, he thought.

As soon as they were done kissing and making up, Brooke brought up the summer social that was going to be held in the mess hall.

"I didn't bring anything formal, Derek," Brooke said as she rummaged through her suitcase. She stopped abruptly and advanced toward her fiancé seductively. "Is it okay if I make a stop in town to look for a dress?"

"Uh, sure," he replied completely mesmerized as she ran a finger up his abdomen.

"Could I have some money?" she asked as she kissed his neck ever so gently, giving him chills up and down his spine.

He took his wallet out of his pocket and gave her his credit card.

"Thanks sweetie, you're the best," she snatched the plastic from his hand and quickly made her way into the bathroom to get ready for her shopping adventure.

Sighing, he looked down at the lump which was pulsing underneath his sweats. "Oh come on," he said completely dissatisfied.

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The summer social was a dance where the whole community came together to get to know each other better and just have fun. It had been a while since Casey had gone to one, so she was quite excited about it. However, she wasn't excited about the fact that her grand-mother had set her up with a date. Casey made her way up to the mess hall, she could hear big-band music, shadows of people dancing through the curtain covered windows and people sitting out on the patio. This was for adults only, so she had dropped Anya and Blake off at Kara's cabin.

Casey straightened out her grey pencil-skirt that she wore with classy fitted baby blue quarter sleeve blouse and black comfortable pumps. Lizzie walked up to her sister stopping her in her tracks, "Case, you're not at work, you know." She was wearing a beautiful blue and white summer dress with white sandals.

"Hey," the older sister said resentfully.

"Come here," Lizzie stood in front of her sister. First she rolled up Casey's sleeve's which made it look a bit more casual, undid the first three buttons of her shirt showing off a bit of cleavage, then she pulled her hair out of the bun, letting her hair flow freely in its natural wavy splendor. "There, that's more like it," Lizzie smiled. "Now let's go meet your date," she winked at her.

"Ugh, not you too," Casey said as she followed her sister in.

The hall wasn't too crowded, but it was still difficult for Casey and Lizzie to maneuver their way to their table. They both spotted Nora and George dancing to the up-beat music the DJ was playing.

"They look so cute," Casey said to her sister.

Just then Edwin walked up to Lizzie and asked, "Would you like to dance?"

Hesitantly, Lizzie took his hand and walked out onto the dance floor with him, leaving Casey alone at the dinner table.

"Casey," Felicia walked up to her grand-daughter with a familiar young man following behind her.

"You remember, Jesse, don't you?" Felicia placed her arm around the young man with a smile on her face.

Standing, Casey nodded, "Of course, we danced together that one year you were going to lose your lodge." She was a bit surprised.

"It's so good to see you again, Casey," Jesse said kissing her hand. "You haven't changed a bit."

Casey smiled a bit flattered. Jesse's hair had grown out and was styled in subtle spikes; he was wearing jeans, a white button up shirt and sneakers.

"Would you like to dance?" Jesse asked as he held his hand out for her to grab.

She nodded and took hold of his hand. He pulled her onto the dance floor.

"You're welcome," Felicia smiled.

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"Come on Brooke, we're already late," Derek said as he straightened out his 'rolling stones' t-shirt, under a black blazer, dark blue jeans and sneakers.

She yelled from behind the bathroom door, "I'm almost done."

"This isn't a ball, you know," Derek said a bit annoyed.

Ten more minutes passed and Brooke walked out in a short red fitted dress and black pumps, with red lip stick. "You're going like that?"

He rolled his eyes, "Can we go now?"

She sighed and walked out saying, "You didn't even say anything about my dress."

"It's nice," he followed her and they made their way to the mess hall.

"That's it? That's all you have to say, Derek?"

"It's very nice?" He said, not really sure of what he should say.

She groaned. "Forget it."

It seemed like a long walk, but they finally made it to the hall. Derek's eyes wandered around. He saw Nora and George dancing, Lizzie and Edwin sitting at a table next to each other talking amongst others, Casey talking to another man… He had to do a double-take; yep Casey was sure speaking with another man.

"Oh look, Casey's made a friend," Brooke said with a smile on her face.

All Derek wanted to know was, who the hell is that? He didn't at all like the feeling he was experiencing at that moment. Was it, dare he say, jealousy? He waltzed up to Casey and her new guy friend and asked, "Hey, Casey, who's this?"

"Derek, this is Jesse, you remember him right? He helped us at the save-the-marsh show a long time ago," Casey said with a smile on her face.

"Ah, yes, how could I forget," Derek said shaking the man's hand.

"Nice to see you again, Derek," Jesse said with a friendly gleam on his features.

Derek couldn't help but be smug as he muttered, "Likewise."

"Come, Casey, let's dance," Jesse pulled the beautiful young woman out onto the dance floor once more.

Derek shot Jesse a narrow-eyed glare, then he walked over to Brooke and pulled her out onto the dance floor. Okay, so when he was a teenager he didn't know how to dance at all and Casey always gave him a hard time about it, so he decided later in life to take dance lessons. Now he was a pretty decent dancer if he did say so himself.

Surprisingly enough Brooke and Derek were able to keep up with Casey and Jesse. He glanced at his ex-wife with a smirk on his handsome features. She looked back at him as if she were warning him to stop. Of course he continued.

"Derek, I'm tired can we stop?" Brooke said after they danced for ten minutes, keeping up with Jesse and Casey. She was oblivious to the competition that was going on between Derek and Jesse.

"Yeah, fine," Derek let go of her, she walked outside to get some air and he took a seat at the table Lizzie was sitting at. Even she knew what was going on.

"Derek, no offense, but you're an idiot," Lizzie said, she then stood up and walked outside.

Edwin took a seat next to his brother and pat him on the back comfortingly. "It'll be okay, man."

Derek frowned at Edwin and said, "Shut up."

Edwin sighed and leaned back into his seat.

Derek was there for an hour more, then he couldn't stomach seeing Casey being all flirty with another man and had to leave. He made his way out with Brooke by his side, wondering why he was irritated.

As they walked into their cabin, Brooke asked, "What's wrong Derek?"

He went straight to the kitchen to make a sandwich. "Nothing," he replied as he roughly spread the mayonnaise on the bread and slapped turkey meat onto it.

"It sure doesn't seem like nothing's wrong," Brooke stated crossing her arms.

"Could you please, just be quiet and not nag me for like two seconds?" He said as he slammed the other half of bread which completed his sandwich.

"Derek, ever since we've arrived to this god-forsaken lodge, you've been so different," she said, obviously exasperated.

His back was facing her as he leaned against the counter, sighing. "I've been doing a lot of thinking, Brooke," he began. "Maybe it's not such a good idea that we get married," he turned to face her.

She placed her hand on her chest and her eyes began to get glossy. "What are you implying here, Derek? Are you breaking up with me?"

He stared at her for a moment, he really didn't want it to end like this, but this was really tearing him up inside. "Brooke, it's over," he said walking away into the other room with his sandwich.

"No," she exclaimed angrily. "You can't just break up with me like that."

"Oh come on, Brooke, we both know this wasn't working out," Derek replied calmly.

With her hands firmly place on her hips, Brooke gradually walked up to Derek, stared straight into his eyes and said, "Derek, I'm pregnant."


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