Disclaimer: I don't own Life With Derek.
THIS IS STILL IN THE FLASH BACK!
The day after was probably the worst day of Derek's life. As he carried himself up the hard and cold wooden steps, he counted everything he did wrong last night. Before he opened the door and walked into the kitchen, he looked back once more at the sleeping 13-year-old. She looked drained and tired, but still beautiful.
He rested his hand on the blue, chipped paint laying over the door, and pushed it open. He didn't even get two steps into the kitchen before the young child at the table screamed "DADDY!" and jumped into his arms.
"Damnit, Jamie!" Lina yelled, cleaning up the spilled apple juice at the table. "Oh, come on Lee. Don't cry over spilled apple juice." Derek joked, but judging by the look that Lina sent him, she didn't find it funny.
"Sorry, mommy." Jamie said in a small and sad voice.
Derek set her down, and pointed to the living room, then watched her skip away.
"Lina!? Shes 4 years old!" Derek yelled. "Shes gonna spill her drinks. Its called a sippie cup!" Derek yelled, throwing a pink sippie cup at Lina.
"It's dirty, asshole!" Lina yelled, throwing it in the sink, next to Derek.
"So maybe you should get a job, and get money so you can pay for new ones!?" Derek yelled, as if Lina was stupid.
"You should be one to talk!?" Lina's blond hair was thrown up in a messy bun, and pieces were falling into her face, and laying over her deep green, un-made up eyes. "You have no fucking life! All you do is sit around, do your coke, and mope about how your family bailed out on you!" Lina yelled, purposely trying to make Derek mad.
"And all you do is sit around, yell at Jamie, and do yourcoke." Derek said, followed by the dirtiest face he ever made to anyone.
This is what their relationship was like. They only liked each other when they were high, any other time they just couldn't stand each other. All they wanted to do was fight and throw stuff at each other.
And just when Derek thought his morning couldn't get worse, Sadie walked out of the basement door.
Lina paused and starred at her, trying to put things together. "What the fuck, Sadie!? Did you sleep down there?" Lina looked confused... extremely confused.
"No," Sadie lied. "I was just doing laundry." She said, leaning against the wall. Derek was impressed that she could make up a lie that quick.
"There's nothing in the washer?" Lina said after listening for the annoying noise their broken washer makes.
Sadie looked over quickly to Derek, and they both realized that they were dead.
"Oh my God!" Lina's words were loud and angry as she finally realized what happened. "You pig!?... And you slut!" She screamed.
"Lina!" Sadie yelled back, hurt by her sister's words. "You slept with the father of my child! You're such a whore!" Lina's voice was so hurtful, Sadie felt as if a knife was going through her heart, when she looked up at Derek, begging him to save her, he didnt say a word.
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"And then she was gone." Sadie said quietly, sitting in the car next to Derek. "Hey, I don't want to talk about it." Derek warned. "And you're lucky that I went back to pick you up." He said.
"I just don't understand why she O.D.ed... On propose." Sadie whispered, ignoring Derek.
"Because we hurt her." Derek said, looking back and fourth from her to the road. "She hurt us everyday." Sadie said, but Derek just sent her a confused look. "She was always so mean to everybody around her, especially us." Sadie said.
"I feel like its my fault." Derek confessed, for the first time in eleven years.
"Me too." Sadie whispered with tears filling her eyes.
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"I'm not pregnant!!" Jamie yelled in joy as her and Casey shared a hug.
"Oh, thank God." Casey said in a tired voice. "No more sex!" Casey said, pointing her finger into Jamie's face. "And if you must, please, please, use condoms." Casey said, causing Jamie to feel a little uncomfortable.
"Okay, mom." Jamie said through a small chuckle.
Their attention turned to Payton as he walked through the door beside Samantha, the girl Jamie babysits. "Hey Samantha, how are you, sweetheart?" Casey asked with a small smile, while pushing the hand that Jamie held the test in down.
"I'm good." She said. She had dark brown hair and amazingly bright blue eyes. She had a pink ribbon tied into her hair, and her curls fell over her shoulders. She was wearing a soft pink dress, that matched, and white sneakers.
"Samantha is my new girlfriend." Payton said, wrapping an arm around her shoulders.
"No, I'm not." She said, pushing it back off, and causing Jamie to burst out in laughter.
"God, you're just like your father." Casey whispered to him before walking into the kitchen.
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"You know, we didn't always have bad times." Sadie said, trying to lighten him up.
"Yea." He whispered, he didn't seem to care, but she kept going on.
"Like when you got made and punched the basement door." Sadie said, and they both started to laugh. "It flew down the steps." Derek finished.
"Your mom yelled at me for a week straight." Derek said as they conutined laughing.
"Or that time that you came home with a puppy." Derek said, causing Sadie to laugh at the memory.
"'Get that damn thing out of here!'" They both yelled at the same time, imitating Sadie's mother.
They both laughed for a little longer, and once it got quiet, Sadie looked over to Derek. "Things really changed." She said.
"For the better, though." Derek didn't want to be sad again, he wanted to keep looking on the bright side of things.
"I know. Look at you." Sadie said with a smile. "You have it all now, you're no longer the coke head in my basement." Sadie joked.
