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Chapter 10: Reputations and Confessions.

Sam started walking towards Casey.

"Sam, get away…" She said. At that moment, her cell rang. "Hello?" She answered.

"Casey, are you okay?" Derek said through his phone.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Where are you?"

"I'm in room 410 with Emily. What about you?"

"I'm just across the hall." She walked over to the window and saw Derek in the window across the way.

"Are you alone?"

"Not exactly."

Sam came up behind her and stood there, watching Derek.

"Casey, get the hell out of there!" He shouted at her.

She was getting close to tears. "Derek, I can't. I can't even step foot in the hallway." She lowered her voice. "I'm scared."

"It will be okay, Case. Just stay where I can see you."

"Please, don't hang up."

Sam grabbed her phone from her and closed it, ended the call.

"Sam, what the hell do you want?"

"My life back."

Derek was pacing wildly back and forth. "Holy shit…"

"Derek, chill out," Emily said, flipping through a magazine.

"I'm not going to chill out!"

"Wow, I've never seen you so uptight."

He pointed across the hall towards the other classroom. "Casey is in a classroom across the hall, alone with the guy who raped her. I think I have a reason to be uptight. She is in serious danger."

"You think I don't know that?" She replied. "I'm just trying to remain calm."

Derek looked out the window. His fear became worse as he saw that Casey and Sam were no longer in his sight. "Where are they? Where the hell are they?"

"I don't know, Derek. I'm sure Casey is fine."

"I just don't want anything to happen to her."

"Calm down."

"I'm not going to calm down! The girl I love is trapped in a room with the jackass who raped her!"

Sam backed Casey into a corner. "What the hell do you want?" She asked him.

"I told you," he replied. "I want my life back."

"Fine, you have it. Leave me alone." She tried to walk past him but he pushed her back against the wall.

"Wrong. I don't have it."

"What are you talking about?"

"Everyone is saying that I'm a rapist! I don't like slander like that going around the school! You trashed my reputation!"

She stood up tall, trying to fight back. "Your reputation may be trashed but you trashed way more than that for me. You trashed my reputation, my body, and my life! I will never be the same and it's all thanks to you!"

He pinned her to the wall and leaned towards her ear. "I didn't do anything to you. You did this to yourself."

"Last time I checked, it takes a guy to produce sperm."

"Don't mouth off to me, Casey!"

"Then you shouldn't have screwed up everything in my life that ever made sense to me!"

Emily had a smirk on her face.

"What?" Derek replied.

"I always kind of figured you had a thing for Casey."

He turned to her. "It's not just a thing! I'm in love with her!"

Emily walked over to him. "Would that even work? You're stepsiblings!"

"I don't care. I just want to take care of her." He started out the window into the other classroom. "But all that matters now is that she is trapped by herself with Sam."

"I'm sure the lockdown will be over soon."

The intercom came on again. "Thank you for your patience, students. We are now out of lockdown."

"I told you," Emily said matter-of-factly.

Derek nearly tore the door off the hinges, trying to leave. He burst into the room across the hall, completely panicked.

Sam still had Casey backed into a corner, holding her against a wall. She was standing tall with a ferocious look on her face.

"Sam, back off!"

Sam let her go, walking out of the room with a glare.

Derek ran over to her, wrapping her in his arms. "Are you okay? Did he hurt you at all, Casey?"

"I'm fine," she said.

He let her go and followed her out of the room, just glad that she was all right.

AN: Sorry that this took so long to update but my power cord for my laptop died on me. So I couldn't work on my story at all. But I got a new one and I finished this chapter. Anyways, please R&R!