Chapter 12:
As they made their way down the stairs, Casey noticed Derek sitting on his bed, reading? She really was changing him.
Before they had even made it down to the bottom step, Vicky had already pasted a flirtatious smile on her face. Casey wanted to slap it off.
"Hey Derek! We haven't, uh, talked, since the wedding, and I really enjoyed talking to you!"
By now Derek had looked up and awkwardly smiled at Casey.
"She knows about our little, uh, rendezvous. But trust me it's not happening again."
"Too bad, I guess you and Casey are too busy…"
"What, Casey and me…"
"Derek, she knows."
"We kept it from the rest of our family for a week! Five minutes and she already knows!" he looked at Vicky. "What did you do to get it out of her?"
"I said I was going to make a move on you."
Wow, Casey was being protective of him already! This is awesome!
Casey looked like she was about to cry, this girl needs to stop with the crying, so Derek got up and put his arm around her.
"Vicky, are you going to tell our parents?" Derek asked.
"Nah, I'll keep it for blackmail." Casey and Derek's eyes went wide. "I'm kidding! Just don't make it hard for me to resist. I've got to unpack. I'll leave you to whatever you guys actually do down here."
As Vicky made her way up the stairs both Casey and Derek let out a breath.
"Vicky knows"
"Yep"
"How much longer do you think we have?"
"Hours"
"Unless…" they looked at each other.
"Lizzie! Edwin!"
"You rang!" they said, running downstairs.
"Guys, we need some help from our favorite little spies!"
"That's degrading! We're 14!"
"Whatever! Do you want to here what we have to say or what?"
"Sure, why not."
"Ed, you know how I said I liked Casey?"
"Yeah…"
"And Lizzie, you know how I told you I liked Derek?"
"Uh, sure…"
"Well that's good, because now we're going out."
"What!" Both screamed in a series of high-pitched squeals.
"Yep!" Derek said putting his arm around Casey's shoulder protectively.
"How long?" Edwin asked.
"A week"
"We really have to work on our spy skills"
"You'll have your chance, 'cause we have a mission for you."
"What kind of mission?"
"Follow Vicky, she knows and…" she looked at her younger sister "…we know she won't pass up on gossiping on something like this"
The younger kids went into a huddle and were back up in seconds.
"The Venturi-McDonald Spy Agency will take your mission."
"You guys are such geeks"
"Ahem!"
"But you're our geeks!" Casey said taking them both into a hug.
"My turn?" Derek said pouting.
They hugged and then Derek pecked her on the lips.
"Awwww…"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, enough from the peanut gallery…"
Then he kissed her passionately.
"Alright, we've had enough!" The younger two ran upstairs. "EEEEWWWW!"
dancinglicia -- shh! just wait...
the rest of you, to forewarn you, the next chapter is going to be a total Lizwin.
