Chapter Nine
Chocolate Pie Kisses
Rolling her eyes Casey got on the bus followed by Derek. After they'd finished talking to the police and Casey explained that she hadn't been serious, they went and purchased two bus tickets. Even though it was two hours later, she was still beyond annoyed at him. She'd been keeping track of how much money they'd been putting on the card and they only had room for fifty dollars more and then they'd hit the limit. Sitting as far away from Derek as she could, she pulled out her ipod and stuck her earphones in zoning everything and everyone else out.
Derek felt so guilty, he couldn't believe that the car had been stolen and with their stuff. Everything expect Casey's purse, the crutches, his wallet, the camera, and the clothes on their back had been taken. Looking up he looked over at Casey and sighed as he watched her neck slowly bend back and her eyes close as she let the music consume her. He watched the sunlight, coming in through the window caress her skin. He'd never wanted to be the sun until this moment. Hell, he'd never wanted Casey until just recently.
These thoughts and feelings couldn't be right! Could they? Could it be morally ok to put his lips to her skin and make a trail of kisses down her neck? Could it? Or was it wrong on more levels than even he knew? Had she been brought into his life only to be his torment? Tempting him with looks she didn't even know she was giving?
Making sure she wasn't looking Derek pulled out the stupid notepad he'd been carrying around in his pocket and wrote down these questions. He could have laughed at himself. If anyone knew his secrets they'd faint from the shock of them. He was in to his Stepsis and he was writing because of her.
As much as he tried to deny it and make himself look like the opposite he couldn't, the truth was that if he applied himself he'd most defiantly make straight A's. But for some reason everything had to be on his own terms.
"The car was stolen!?" Nora screamed at him as she began to pace around the hotel room.
"Uh-huh."
"And there now on a bus!?"
"Uh-huh." George replied preparing himself for Nora's angry speech on how he'd been stupid to allow them to get a rental car.
"Forty minute break," the bus driver said startling Casey awake, "Go get some grub, folks. But if you're not back in time I'm leaving ya."
"Casey, you coming?" Derek called reminding her why she was on a bus in the first place.
"I'm not talking to you." She commented as she stood up and got off the bus.
Derek realized she was really serious, when dessert was brought around and Casey still hadn't said a word to him.
"One apple pie and one chocolate pie." Deb the waitress said, smiling as she set down there plates and left them to there food.
Derek watched as Casey picked up her fork and took a bite that looked so sensual to him. She ran her tongue across her lower lip, licking away a drop of chocolate and making Derek want to jump across the table.
"Derek?" Casey questioned finally speaking when she noticed the strange look that had overcome Derek's face, "Derek?"
"Casey, Casey," Derek said shaking his head and doing what he'd wanted to do days ago, hey maybe he'd been wanting to do this since the wedding.
"Derek, what are you doing?" Casey asked when he flew up and walked around to her booth and slid on in.
"Derek?"
"Casey." He answered grabbing her by the chin and startling her to complete silence. He leaned forward so close that she could feel his hot breath against her closed trembling lips.
"Casey." He said closing the distance. The kiss started out gentle and then turned more passionate when she let him in. She found herself being drawn in deeper and deeper until she heard someone say, "Get a room!"
Those words startled Casey and pulled her back to the present. Apalled at herself, she pushed Derek out of the way and flew to the bathroom. Turning on the sink she splashed water in her face. She'd kissed Derek, Derek, her stepbrother. And she'd liked it. No, loved it.
Author's Note:
Hey,
I thought it made more since to make Derek smart (even though it's secretly) considering both of his parents have jobs that require being fit in the brain. So tell me what you think.
-Caroline
