Odds

Chapter 7

Last Chapter:

"Casey." he said sighing. "It's not the fact that I kissed you that's bothering me." he said.

She looked at him confused.

"It's…the fact that it killed me to stop." he raised his head and looked at her before getting up and walking back to the house.

XOXO

After Derek's one and only confession, he went back to being a jerk the next day. Casey came walking into the kitchen and saw Derek chowing down a bowl of Fruit Loops. He was the only one there.

"Morning Derek." she said happily. He just looked at her and back down at his annihilated food.

"Is there any cereal left?" she asked him.

"Check yourself!" he said snapingly.

"Okay chill." she said walking over to the box. He got up and took his bowl to the sink.

"De-rek! It's empty!" she shook the box and it was hallow. He turned around and looked at her sympathetically.

"Awe…is widdle Casey gonna cwy?" he said baby toned. "Boo hoo hoo." he pretended to cry. 3 seconds later he looked up at her and smirked malevolently before walking out of the kitchen. When he was out of earshot Casey looked down.

"Yep, I knew it was too good to be true." then she grabbed a pop-tart out of the box instead but wasn't even hungry anymore.

But Derek wasn't out of earshot. No! No! He was out of eyeshot and looked down ashamed when Casey said this.

XOXO

Later that Day

Casey went up to Derek's room and knocked on the door. He opened it a second later.

"Oh! I thought they picked up the garbage already." he smirked.

She looked up thinking and tapped her head.

"Hmmm, that's weird. Then shouldn't you have been long gone by now?" she smirked back now and his stayed in play.

"Well, can I help you with something?" he asked.

"Actually, I thought me helping you out worked better." she looked down at his pants and his smirk instantly disappeared and he backed up a little bit feeling self-conscious. "I actually came by to pick up Max's cd that you stole months ago." she welcomed herself in.

"Um, excuse me Princess."

"Shhh, who uses words anymore." she turned and looked at him. "Right Derek?" She started going through his things.

"So…so why do you care all of a sudden what happened to Max's cd?" asked Derek seriously.

"Because he's my friend and wants it back." she replied.

"Friend friend or…boyfriend?" he asked curiously trying to sound inconspicuous.

She stopped and looked at him.

"Friend!" she turned back around and started looking under his papers on his desk.

"Casey no!" All of a sudden a piece of paper fell on the floor. She stopped and picked it up. Derek kept quiet as she looked at it intently. Here eyes were plastered to the thing. She looked up at him and showed him what she was holding.

"Derek. Why do you have my picture in your room?" he didn't say anything and looked away.

She walked straight up to him.

"Derek, why do you have this?" she asked waving it around.

He didn't know what to say. So he lied.

"When I point and laugh at it, I'm filled with joy." he said with a hint of uneasiness in his voice.

"Derek…" she looked at his still open door and walked around him and closed it.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"We need to talk!"

As soon as she closed the door, Derek was barely 4 inches away from her.

"You wanna talk? Let's talk! I hate the way you think your better than me, I hate the way you think you're a 1st priority, I hate the way you are a teachers pet, and the way you ruin everything for me! She kept backing up slowly. "I absolutely hate the way you walk around this house with your nose up in the air and act like your smarter than me when clearly you don't see what's standing right in front of you!"

"Yeah and what's that?" she asked irritated.

"Me, Casey!" he gestured himself. "Me! I've been here the whole time! It's been nothing but me from the beginning Casey and I will be here till the end and I want you to want me to always be there through every stupid argument and every shitty fight that we have!" he then pushed her fully back against the door and crushed his lips onto hers. He kissed her deep. Deep, defensively, and careful.

"AHHH!" Derek yelled as he launched himself up in bed. He breathed hard and looked around scared. His clock read 4:15am.

"It was a dream? It was a dream." he sighed out feeling himself sweat. "Thank God!" He turned on his bedside lamp and got out of bed. He walked over to his desk and moved over a stack of papers. He held up what he was looking for.

"What is happening to me?" he asked himself as he stared at Casey's picture. He put a hand on the back of his neck and sighed frustrated.

XOXO

Casey had been up since Derek had confessed in the woods. Her mind kept wondering what if? What if she had let Derek kiss her a lot longer than intended. What if he didn't stop and neither could part? What if things had gone to a whole higher level of sexual and intimacy. Casey got light-headed just thinking about it. Things were so screwed up now. She also couldn't stop Derek's words "It killed me to stop." to keep replaying in her brain over and over and over again.

What could he have meant by that? That he really did enjoy kissing her?" Or the fact that he didn't continue because it was wrong? A light bulb maybe? Regret? Disgust? Hate?

She got up and started pacing in her room looking at the dim light and clock right below it. 4:15am. She sighed angrily and walked over to her desk. She opened a drawer and pulled out a book A yearbook from junior year because the senior yearbooks came out right before summer vacation. She went through the book till she got to the junior section skimming the pages until she found the V part.

"Valley, Vast, Velvet, Vency…Venturi." she said to herself. Damn there were a lot of V's. Casey eyed Derek's photo. His hair was tussled in the usual mess it was always in but gave him that bad ass edge. His brown eyes looked dark in the picture, like dark orbs you could get lost in and his lips were in a smile/smirk that showed his bright white teeth.

Casey felt her legs wobble the longer that she looked at him. If Derek wasn't her step-brother would it be a different story? "No!" she thought. "Derek is a mean, take advantage of the situation, make you feel worthless and stupid jerk!" but she softed. "But he's soft and dare I say she gulped good kisser. He's the the most perfect older brother to Marti and can be…nice…when he wants to be. Like the Smelly Nelly's incident and Prom night." She sighed yet again.

Sighing was all she seemed to now. Sigh after sigh. It was so annoying.

"I bet Derek's not losing his mind over all this!"

XOXO

"Damnit! I'm losing my mind over all this!" He went and sat down on his bed and looked at the floor thinking again, "Will things be weird now?" he said. "Next time I see her will I think about her naked? Next time I see her will I think about her and me naked? Oh god!" he shielded his eyes.

"Ok man relax! You are Derek Venturi. You're a tough and you will not let a girl affect you, okay?" he gave himself a pep talk he then turned off his light and laid back in b ed heading into another hour of restlessness.

XOXO

5:15am

Casey gave up on sleeping in her room and headed out her door and crashed into firmness and wobbled. She looked into the eyes of the one and only.

"Oh! Derek you look so tired."

"Yeah, same with you."

"Oh, yeah." she looked down. " Long night."

"Yeah, I remember."

"Right."

"Going downstairs?" he asked.

"Yeah." she said awkwardly looking anywhere but his eyes.

"Then I better stay up here." he backed up a step.

"Derek, don't I'll stay, unless we can just…"

"Just?"

"Keep our distance." she backed up too.

"Alright." he took the 1st step in going downstairs.

When they were down there Derek sat in his chair and turned on the TV. Casey sat on the way other side of the couch. He flipped through channels and eventually found a station that was playing Date Movie. He left it on and Casey watched it. Emily and her rented the movie one night and found it surprisingly funny. So right after the bum fighting scene Casey and Derek were taken off guard as the two characters burst through the a door making out.

They both froze as they watched the two characters and Derek regained composure and turned the channel. When Derek turned onto another channel, surprisingly 13 Going on 30 was playing and whoops who knew? The kissing in the park scene was happening. They both froze again but Derek flipped as fast as he could and of course the scene in Mean Girls where Regina George is making out with her boyfriend Shane Oman on the bed at her house was going on. Derek just turned the TV off.

"What are the odds?" asked Casey confused.

"Whoa." he said.

"Yeah."

"That was…"

"Yeah."

"Do you wanna?" he looked at her

"Yeah." she replied breathlessly.

AN hmmm, now what on earth are the possibly gonna do now? "Do you wanna?" "Yeah" MWAHAHAHAHA!