Ep 10
Before school the next day Derek was walking down the hallway. He spotted Noel talking to somebody he didn't recognize. "Showtime." Derek smiled and walked up to them. "Hey Noel." Noel was confused at why Derek was talking to him. They were barely friends during the musical, and were even less of friends when it ended. "Hi Derek." Derek let out a small laugh at Noel's confusion. "Walk with me talk with me."
They began walking down the hallway. Noel's face was still overcome with confusion. "Why haven't you made a move on Casey yet?" Noel's face slowly returned to normal before answering. "She's going out with Truman. That makes her unavailable." Derek smirked but also looked disappointed. 'I knew that jerk Truman was no good. I wish I never convinced him to keep tying for Casey. Why did she stop turning him away?' Derek was lost in his thoughts (now you know that Derek CAN think, so Casey was wrong) "Come on Noel, you're a man. And man gets what man wants." Noel grimaced at Derek. 'What is Derek saying, you gotta respect women.' Noel kept looking at Derek. "But only if man works for what he wants. And even then you can't always get what you want Derek." Derek laughed.
"Noel, you should learn something…I ALWAYS get what I want." Casey was at the lunch door talking to Truman. Derek winked at her and walked inside. Noel walked up to Casey and Truman. Truman looked confused. "What were you talking to Derek about?" Noel wanted to give a brief explanation. "He told me that even though you're going out with Casey I should make a move on her." Truman looked surprised. "That doesn't sound like Derek. But I don't know him that well." Noel nodded his head in understanding. "I don't know him that well either." They both looked at Casey as though she could answer their problems.
"It sounds like advice he would give himself, not somebody else. He has been acting weird lately though. Weird for Derek that is." She giggled a little. Noel smiled, her laughter always put him in a good mood. "Well let's go eat lunch, you can join us Noel." They walked into the caf and sat down at the table where Emily already was. Casey sat across from her because she still hadn't completely recovered from that day in her room.
"Hey guys. Derek wants to talk to you Casey." Casey grew a frown on her face. Truman grabbed her hand to comfort her. Noel showed no reaction because he knew that somebody would pick it up. Casey rolled her eyes. "I don't care what he has to say. I'll talk to him later." The gang shrugged and ate lunch in peace. But Derek was sitting a few tables away keeping an eye on Casey. He knew a plan had to be formulated if he was going to get his woman.
He got up and went to his locker. Inside his unused science book was beautiful picture of Casey. He stared at it intently. A teacher was walking down the hall so he flipped to a random page. There was a piece of notebook paper in it with the phone numbers of some girls named Alyssa, and Lauren. When the teacher left he went back to Casey. "You will be mine darling. We'll be together soon." He shut the book and went back to lunch.