"Casey what's goin-" Derek confused, suddenly interrupted as Casey held up a pregnancy test. "Case…no? No way…I mean" his face turned pale white.
Casey still choking on her tears looked at him, feeling sick again. Quickly enough the test was done and they waited side by side. Casey picked up both tests and froze. "Positive…..and….Positive" she felt her heart sink.
Derek sighed and rubbed his eyes, "It'll…be okay". At least I think?
Casey cried, "What are we going to do? I can't raise a baby!" she felt dizzy.
She started to fall back with Derek catching her and slowly sitting down against the tub with her lying on his chest with her eyes closed. "We'll do it together…"
Casey beginning to bawl looked up towards him, "We're 17. Damnit I do something bad once, and this is what happens. It's not like there aren't other people our age having sex, but no this had to happen to me" she threw the test's box at the wall.
Derek held her tight, he didn't know what to do but he also felt sick but didn't want to show it in front of Casey because after all it was mainly his fault.
They layed there for a half hour crying in each others arm's. Derek suddenly pulled back her hair from her face, "Hey…it's going to be okay I promise."
Casey rolled her eyes, "Oh yeah cause my mom and your dad are going to take this oh so well". She mimicked what she would say, "Mom, George, I'm pregnant by my Step- Brother". Thinking of that, they both began to laugh a bit, and Casey spoke again, "Yeah cause that would work out oh so well"
Derek smiled at her, "When the time is right, we'll tell my dad and your mom, alright?" he kissed her forehead.
Casey shrugged, "I guess that's all we can do…" she sighed in a bit of relief.
Derek looked in her eyes; "Did you know that I love you and that we three are going to be the happiest family…ever" he smiled.
"Three?" Casey looked at him.
"You, Me and the baby" he smiled towards her.
Casey unexpectedly smiled, "I love you too" and she slowly got up. "Hey can you put these in my trash and take it out please?" she handed him the tests and their boxes.
Derek got up after her, "Yeah of course" he took the boxes, and headed to her room and got the trash can. He headed downstairs carrying the trash can while walking into the kitchen when he almost slipped, making the one test boxes fall onto the floor. He picked it up quickly when he heard a voice, "Derek what was that, that just fell?". He froze and turned around slowly.
Gabriella put the CD into the player, and got into position. The curtain and opened and there she stand. She slowly rose up and felt the beat of the music while doing all the moves she practiced so that she would win this competition. "When I Grow Up" by the Pussycat Dolls played in the background. She felt the bright lights on her, and the adrenaline running through her veins as she danced across stage. Four minutes later she finished, breathing heavily but feeling excitement knowing she did a amazing job. She slowly looked up and into the audience, seeing a girl in a Juicy Couture in the front row, with a luis vuitton purse by her side. Gabriella flashback an image of Sharpay when she first moved there, having the perfect hair, makeup and outfit. Her flashback ended as she heard the audience clap and bowed. She ran backstage taking a drink of water and getting a "congrats" from all the other students who she began to make friends with. As she headed back to her dressing room, she took a sip of water and grabbed the key from her pocket and opened her dressing room, she closed the door and sat down on the couch. She grabbed her phone off the coffee table next to the couch and looked at it , no new messages. Finally no more drama… she sighed and tilted her head back on the couch, and closed her eyes. She seemed to have fell asleep for a short second when she heard a knock on the door. She slowly got up and looked in the mirror, Damn girl you got it going on! She giggled to herself and opened the door. She took a few steps back, to realize that the blonde girl standing in front of her, was her old best friend Sharpay. Sharpay smiled shyly, "Hey…I just wanted to say great job tonight, you're for sure to win" she looked down feeling awkward talking to Gabriella.
Gabriella feeling awkward also smiled a tad, "Thanks…"
They stood there for a few seconds staring down at the floor, not knowing what to say to each other, Gabriella finally spoke up, "So…." She didn't wanna be obvious that she didn't feel like talking to Sharpay after what happened.
Sharpay looked up and shrugged, "So…I'm sorry" she bounced up on her heels than back down, taking her hands out from in her sweatshirt, still staring down to the floor.
Gabriella sighed, "Oh…well what's been done has been done".
Sharpay looked at her, "What are you talking about?"
Giving her a weird look Gabriella bit her lip, "Miley told me Shar, there's nothing more to talk about."
Sharpay shot a dirty glance at her, "Told you what?" Miley wouldn't dare.
Gabriella sneered in disgust, "Uh that Troy and you kissed!"
Sharpay felt anger begin to evaporate from inside her, "You're kidding…"
Gabriella smirked as if payback was occurring, "Not one bit, mind taking the knife from my back cause it was stabbed"
Feeling tears and anger at the same time, Sharpay replied "First of all, I've known him longer than you; second it meant nothing you left both of us! We needed some kind of remorse for you just taking off!"
Gabriella knew this was going the wrong way, "Shar how could you do that to me? You know I fell in deep love with Troy and you both even said I changed the whole school even you…ice queen" Gabriella looked at her sadly.
"Didn't you ever get that Troy and I once were Gabriella, Way back freshman year him and I made out, and from there on had a feeling for each other but all his friends thought I was the ice queen and it would be wrong for the basketball player to be with miss ice queen!" Sharpay felt relief screaming that secret out to her.
"You guys were something…?" Gabriella stared at her.
"Yes! Long ago and that kiss was like a goodbye for something that was but will never be again! It wasn't to hurt you…you're my best friend and I'd never do that to you…ever!" Sharpay started crying at that moment.
Gabriella sighed and felt a few tears trickle out, "I get it now…. I know you wouldn't it's just the fact that I was gone and now all this happens." She smiled towards Sharpay.
Sharpay smiled back, feeling a bit better, "I'm sorry. I love you Gab , Friend?"
Gabriella shook her head, "Uh no?" and went to close the door.
Sharpay shockly stopped the door "What? Gabriella?"
Gabriella smiled and giggled, "Kidding. Sister" and opened the door all the way as they both hugged each other.
Sharpay let go and smiled, "Well I better get back to the airport, good luck you better win girl!" she hugged Gabriella again, and quickly went down the hall smirking to herself; Nice cover Sharpay Evans. Classic bitch. She got a cab and left the dance academy, and entered into the airport. She took out her phone as she handed her ticket to the flight manager. She looked in her phone contact list and dialed Troy, he answered. "Hey Troy it's me"
"Hey how'd it go?" he sounded worried.
"Perfect as planned" she smiled devilishly and rolled her carryon luggage onto the plane and hung up.
Derek slowly felt afraid, Nora and George stood there starring at him, "Derek what was that you just dropped?"
He hid the box behind him, "OH just some tampon boxes that's all!" he headed through the kitchen.
George shouted suddenly, "Derek gets back here now!"
Derek walked slowly back to them, "Yes dad?"
George walked up to him, pulling Derek's arm down revealing the pregnancy test box.
Nora sneered, "Derek, anything you like to tell us?"
Derek shrugged, "Nah just using them for a project that's all"
Suddenly they heard someone coming down the stairs, "Der did you take out my trash yet…" Casey stopped as she saw her mom and George standing there with Derek who was holding the pregnancy test box. Derek sighed, Way to blow it Case.
Nora looked at Casey in disgust, "Casey that's your trash…with a pregnancy test in it? Really?"
Casey bit her lip, looking at Derek, she hated lying to her mother but this time she was going to have to, "No?"
George looked at the both of them, "Someone tell the truth now or you will be grounded for a year."
Derek sighed, as did Casey. Derek looked at the ground, "I got Casey pregnant…."
George and Nora shockingly looked at each other, "That's Impossible Casey would never, and you with her just no!" they laughed, thinking it was a joke.
Casey chimed in to help Derek, "He's telling the truth Mom…George. We had sex, and now 4 weeks later…I'm pregnant"
Nora's face became white, "Casey Macdonald…you wouldn't! You're 17!"
Casey shrugged, "Yeah mom that's what I thought until Derek and I had sex and than started dating."
George looked at Derek. "Damnit Derek you are such an idiot! How could you do this?!"
Derek looked up slowly, "It happened beyond our control dad!"
Nora replied back, "Oh yeah okay I bet you pressured my baby into having sex with you!"
Casey gave her mother a dirty look, "Mom it takes two, and quite frankly your baby was the second person involved"
George was getting angrier by the minute, "That's it. If you are really pregnant you two will have to get jobs and get a apartment!"
Derek was now getting irritated, "What! DAD!"
Casey began to cry, "You can't kick us out! I'm pregnant!"
Nora fought back, "Well you should of thought about that before having sex at all and even with your step brother for freaking sake!"
Derek getting mad also, "Hence the word step!"
Casey came down the stairs near them all, "You can't kick two 17 year olds out! We're about to have another life come!"
George continued, "Both of you are grounded and you must find jobs and an apartment, we won't have this shit going on in our house!" he walked out of the living room and up the stairs to make sure none of the kids heard anything.
Derek stood there starring up at his father, "Oh cool dad way to be fucking supporter for us..." he looked at Nora, "Yeah and you too! It's your damn daughter, she scared shitless and you don't even care. It's my fault she's pregnant so don't get mad at her Nora . Think about how scared she is. She's been nothing but good her whole entire life, And we will find an apartment. We'll move far away from you and my dad Nora because quite frankly you can't deal with mistakes and support your kids" Derek stormed up the stairs, grabbing Casey who was now bawling again with him.