"Morning Cap." Rusty said.
"Spitter?" Cappie groggily replied. When Cappie came to, he noticed he was sleeping a little too closely to someone other than his girlfriend, or well whatever Rebecca was to him now.
"Dale!" Cappie whisper yelled, soon falling out of bed.
"Good morning to you too." Dale replied.
"What time is it?" Cappie asked.
"9:30." Rusty replied cheerfully.
"I still got to pack." Cappie said, getting off the floor.
"Didn't the Omega Chi's steal your stuff? Sounds like easy packing." Dale said.
"Calvin snuck it back to them piece by piece when he found out." Rusty replied to Dale. He threw Cappie his sandals. "We need to get you back to KT so you can pack. Casey wants to leave by 11."
"I know, your sister told me last night." Cappie replied, putting his sandals on.
"So I'll see you next year Dale." Cappie said.
"Bye Cap. Have a good summer." Dale replied.
"I'll try." Cappie answered, knowing it was going to be very difficult to find anything good about this summer.
Cappie waited for Rusty and Dale to say their goodbyes before the two headed back to the Kappa Tau house.
"So what does one pack when spending the summer at the Cartwright home?" Cappie asked. He started throwing random clothes into his duffle bag.
"A bullet proof vest wouldn't be a bad idea." Casey said.
"Case, I think I can handle anything that gets thrown my way. Nothing will compare to last night." Cappie sighed. Casey could easily tell something was wrong.
"Want to talk about it?" Casey asked, finishing packing her own belongings.
"I think Rebecca and I are over." Cappie said.
"Because of me?" Casey asked.
"More or less. It was probably going to end anyway. She's got too much family drama going on." Cappie explained.
"Well maybe it's not as bad as you think. Did either of you actually say it's over?" Casey continued.
"No." Cappie replied. "You think we still got a shot?"
"Rebecca likes drama. We both know that. This was probably her way of just making sure she was the center of it all." Casey tried cheering up her friend.
"Yeah you're probably right." Cappie tried to sound hopeful. He threw a few last things into his bag. "All set."
"Me too." Casey replied. She had triple the amount of stuff.
"Got enough stuff there?" Cappie joked.
"Probably won't be able to wear most of it by the time we get back." Casey sighed.
"So you buy some new stuff while we're there." It was Cappie's turn to cheer up Casey. "Try not to worry about it too much. Just focus on what you're going to tell your parents."
"One obstacle at a time, thanks Cap." Casey replied.
"Are you two done yet? It's almost 11!" They heard Rusty say from downstairs.
"Hold on a second! We're coming!" Casey yelled back. Her brother's timeliness was something that always bugged her.
Cappie grabbed his own bag and then helped Casey with hers.
"You're going to have to get the last one." Cappie said, nodding towards the backpack sitting on the bed. His hands were completely full with all the other bags.
"Fine. The pregnant girl will get the last bag." Casey giggled. The one small bag was nothing compared to what Cappie was carrying.
When they got downstairs, they saw Rusty sitting on the couch doing something with his phone.
"My stuff's already in the car. I just talked to mom and dad and said we were on our way." Rusty said.
"You talked to mom and dad. Did you tell them about you know what?" Casey asked, really hoping her brother wasn't that dumb.
"No I didn't tell them. I didn't tell them Cappie was coming either. That's your thing to explain, not mine." Rusty replied.
"Thanks Rus." Casey hugged her brother while Cappie put the last of the stuff in Casey's car.
"Ready to go home." Rusty asked, hopping into the backseat of her car while Cappie rode shotgun.
"As I'll ever be." Casey replied, getting into the driver's seat and starting the car. "Only 10 more hours until mom and dad find out about the baby."
The car ride started off quiet at first, but soon the silence was broken by the chime on Cappie's phone going off.
"Hey Case, you know how I said I only thought Rebecca and I were over." Cappie said.
"Yeah." Casey replied.
"Well now I know it's over." Cappie sighed.
"How?" Casey asked.
"This." Cappie said showing Casey the text.
"I'm so sorry Cap." Casey said, reading we're done off the phone screen. "Are you going to be ok?"
"I guess so. Maybe the summer apart will do us some good." Cappie seemed relatively calm for a man who just lost his girlfriend.
"For her yes." Rusty piped in. "For you, not so much. You think Rebecca's scary when she's mad; you haven't met our parents' angry side."
"You have to keep freaking me out like that Spitter." Cappie replied.
"He's just speaking the truth. You're lucky our dad doesn't have any guns." Casey added.
"They're going to hate me no matter what I tell them aren't they?" Cappie asked.
"Pretty much." Casey said.
"Well then I better just tell them the truth. If it can sort of work for you and Bex, than maybe it'll work for me too." Cappie said.
"And what exactly did you plan on telling them?" Rusty asked both Cappie and Casey.
They both looked at each other. This car ride was where they were supposed to figure that out.
"Well we can't just blurt it out as soon as we walk in the door." Casey said.
"I think not." Cappie said. "But they are going to want to know why I'm there."
"True. That's probably going the first thing out of their mouth." Casey said.
"I say we use the band-aid approach. Sit them down and just tell them." Cappie said.
"Do you want my parents to have a heart attack?" Casey complained.
"Well we can't just not tell them." Cappie argued.
"I know we have to tell them, but I don't want them freaking out." Casey said. "I've already had enough bad reactions to it. I don't need more."
"That's why I'm going to be there. If they go all ballistic on you, I'll break out my super defensive ninja moves." Cappie laughed, karate chopping the air.
"Thanks Cap." Casey giggled. "Hopefully they take things better than everyone else did."
"I'm sure they will. It's not like you're sixteen. You're in college and are a lot more mature than most people your age." Cappie said.
"So I guess this means you're just going to tell them?" Rusty asked.
Once again, Cappie and Casey stared at each other.
"I guess so." They said in unison.