Revelations

Chapter 24

Derek sat in his director styled chair, glaring across the set. Owen had come to visit Casey and as the two held intense conversation, Derek rolled his eyes repeatedly. Stupid Owen, all tall and muscular. All considerate and sensitive. How dare he be so ruggedly handsome and lovely!

Derek hated him. He hated him so much! He clenched his fists when he saw the both of them laughing together. He wanted to rip his head off. Owen didn't deserve to be in the

presence of someone like Casey; or so Derek thought.

He felt like being an ass. So, that's exactly what he was going to do.

"Casey." he said walking towards her with a smirk. "I think we need read our lines for scene 15."

Casey looked at him with surprise.

"I don't think that's a good idea."

"Why not?" he asked all knowingly.

"Because…" she said trying to give him a hint.

"We need to go over it. I'm sure Owen here won't mind. I mean after all, it's just a make out scene."

Cringe!

Owen looked at Casey; taken back by this new information.

"It's not like we need practice with our kissing or anything. I just thought it would be more "believable" if we tried a few more times to get it right."

Casey looked up at Owen, unsure of his reaction. He seemed only slightly bothered by this but enough to know that he was not okay with it. But, he still didn't want to come off at the overprotective boyfriend.

"Derek, I don't think so." Casey said.

"Come on." he said with an impish grin.

"Listen, if she doesn't want to do it, she doesn't have to." Owen said after deciding being overprotective wasn't a bad thing.

"I don't think it's any of your business." Derek said copping an attitude with Owen.

"She's my girlfriend. So yeah…it's kind of my business." he said eyes getting darker. He was becoming angry.

Derek didn't say anything. He smirked and looked behind Owen at Casey before shaking his head with an irritated laugh and walking away. He couldn't believe that she was with that scumbag!

"Listen, I'm gonna get going. I have a few calls to make." Owen said to Casey.

"Please don't leave on account of him." she begged.

"Besides him." he through Derek a glare. "I actually have a webcam meeting at three." he said. "But, I'll see you tonight." he said kissing her on the cheek.

"Okay." she said ready to strangle Derek.

Casey stomped to Derek's trailer where he was most likely laughing at his juvenile act.

She threw his door open and slammed it shut, flaming.

"You are so ridiculous! I thought we went over this!" she yelled. "Why do you have to be so childish? I feel like you're two different people all the time!" Derek just stood there emotionless as she went on her rant. "You're either completely considerate or you're a complete jerk!" she yelled angrily. "I don't know why I even wrote this stupid book! It was completely pointless! I can't believe I wasted so much ti-"

Derek; without hesitation, took Casey's head in his hands and kissed her passionately. He had no control over his body, it was instinct. He knew he had to kiss her. And when I say "kiss her", I mean really kiss her. He wasted no time as he kissed her hard and full of want. He felt sick to his stomach inside at the possibility that this girl might be taken away from him for good.

After a just a few short seconds of heart pounding actions and the electrifying scent of manly cologne Derek pulled away and looked at Casey frightened. She was unable to move because she too had fear on her face. Derek quickly dropped his hands from her face.

"Are you pregnant?" he asked frantically.

"What?" she asked shocked.

"Are you pregnant?" he repeated.

She looked at him, her jaw on the floor.

"Cause if you are, you don't need that douche of a boyfriend. Forget about him! Forget everybody. I'm still here like I've been the whole time and we can leave all of this behind and do what we need to do." he said. He turned around and picked up the book that was sitting on the eating area table. "I circled my favorite names but I think Derek Jr. is the best one yet. If it's a girl, Derricka! It'll be perfect!" he said holding the baby name book in his hands. "If you're worried about pollution in the city, I can move back to Canada or we can move somewhere new. You like Italy right? Or Paris. Let's leave the country! Or we go to Fiji or Honolulu. Let's go where…no one can find us. We can get married in the middle of the ocean or on a mountain somewhere." he said on a rampage. "Screw that, let's get married on the Eiffel Tower." he stopped and looked at her deeply. "Let's finally do what we never got the chance to do."

Casey shook her head out of confusion.

"Derek…I'm not pregnant." she said straightforwardly.

"Oh."

XOXO

Naomi was sitting at her suite desk, typing on her laptop while listening to music. All of a sudden, a small silver chain was hanging right in front of her. She smiled and turned around and looked up at Owen who was dangling it right in front of her.

"All fixed." he said with a smile.

Naomi took the necklace graciously before getting up quickly and hugging Owen.

"Thank you so much!" she said. "If I broke this necklace, my mother would have my head. It's been in the family for generations."

Owen could smell the wonderful scent of Naomi's perfume all over him. He closed his eyes to smell if better and felt a pang of guilt when he did so. Naomi pulled away and looked at the necklace she held and smiled.

"Thank you." she said sincerely; looking him in the eye.

"No problem." he said. "So, I guess you won't be needing that one anymore." he said pointing to her neck with a playful smile.

She looked down and touched the necklace smiling embarrassingly. \

"Maybe I could hold onto it for a little longer."

Owen laughed.

"So, when are you leaving for Ontario?"

"I have a flight in 2 days." he said a little bummed.

"Well, try and hurry back." she said with a smile.

XOXO

"This is really awkward." Derek said to Casey in his trailer.

"You think?" she asked feeling just as awkward; if not more, than Derek. "Why did you think I was pregnant?"

"Sally said you were."

"I'm not surprised." she said obviously. "I did drag her into every baby store we passed." she closed her eyes and put a hand between her eyes. "Look how the tables have turned." she said stressed. She opened her eyes and for the first time, actually realized what Derek had been saying to her.

He wanted to help her with the baby that she wasn't having. He wanted to help raise another man's baby and be with her.

Not only that, but she was still overwhelmed by that incredible kiss he just laid on her. It was the kiss she had always wanted to feel from him. One full of desperation and desire to live. He kissed her like he was taking his last breath of air.

"Were you telling the truth about everything you just said?"

He didn't talk right away. He cleared his throat and answered her.

"Every word."

Her eyes began to water and she cleared her own throat before asking another question.

"What about Sally?"

"I love Sally." he said. "But, I need to come to terms with what I know."

"And what do you know?" she asked.

"That I don't know anything." he confessed. "But, it doesn't matter what I know. It matters what I feel." he said.

"And what are you feeling right now?"

"I'll let you know when I do." he said opening his trailer door. She grabbed his arm.

"I'm not going to play this game of ring around the rosie with you anymore Derek." she said. "Tell me what happens now." she demanded. "You just promised to marry me, be the father to Owen's baby and take me anywhere in the world I wanted to go. Obviously, you're feeling something because I'm feeling a whirlwind of things."

"What do you want me to say?" he asked angrily. "I just said everything and put it all on the table and instead I made myself look like an ass." he said.

"Then why can't you finish what you started? Say exactly what you need to say because I'm listening and I won't be for very much longer!" she yelled. He slammed the trailer door shut. This was it. No going back!

"Fine!" he said confidently. "I'm in love with you Casey and you know it! Yet, you flaunt Owen right in front of me every chance you get. If you haven't gotten the hint that I'm completely in love with you, then here it is, clean cut and completely clear." he cleared his throat. "I'm leaving Sally for you."

XOXO

3 Weeks Later

Sally knocked urgently on her best friend's door.

"Hey, Sal. What are you doing here?" Crystal asked.

"I'm pregnant." she stated.

"What?" Crystal asked.

"I just got home from the doctor."

"But, you took a test a few weeks ago. It was negative."

"Crystal…do you know how pregnancy works?" she asked with a smile.

"The stork?" she asked sarcastically.

"Ovulation is 2 weeks after your period. One time is all it took."

"Oh my word! I can't believe this. Did you tell Derek yet?"

Sally looked down.

"He's been pretty distant lately."

"So, that's a no."

"I'm going to tell him soon."

"You better." Crystal said. "So, you're literally brand new pregnant."

Sally nodded slowly.

"Hey, are you okay?" Crystal asked knowing something was bothering her friend.

Sally nodded slowly. Something was obviously bothering her but she wasn't planning on spilling.

It had been a few weeks since Derek announced he was planning to leave Sally for Casey. That's not the way it went down though.

"You can't do that, Derek." Casey said.

"Why?" he was surprised by her response.

"Because I'm not worth it."

"You're kidding right?"

"Give her the ring you keep locked away." she said. "Give her the ring and marry her." Casey's eyes were watering and she was trying to hold back rolling tears. "Start a family with her and move her anywhere in the world that she wants to go." Too late. The tears had come and she fought to get her words out before her throat her to bad to talk. "She deserves the life you promised me more than I do. So, take full advantage of it and make it work. "Sally's a good person and she doesn't deserve what we're doing. The kisses need to stop and the feelings between us need to fade because there just memories."

She split as fast as she could and did her scenes with Derek platonically. Things didn't get much better when she got back to the hotel.

Naomi, Owen and Casey all had drinks at the hotel restaurant later that night. And for the first time, Casey accepted the attraction that Owen and Naomi had for each other. It was right in front of her and she wasn't hiding from it. She would no longer hold true love away from the two people it was meant for. So later that night she found the strength to set it right.

Casey stood out on her balcony enjoying the comforting breeze when Owen came walking out.

"Hey, you've been quiet all night."

"Just thinking."

"A lot of thoughts." he said.

"Yeah, but they've opened up my mind a lot." she said. "I saw the necklace you gave Naomi." she said. "It's beautiful."

Owen looked away.

"It's okay. I don't mind." she said sincerely. "I think it was a very thoughtful present. A person would really have to know Naomi to get her such a beautiful gift." she smiled. "So, how long?"

"How long what?" he asked confused.

"How long have you been in love with her?"

"What?" he laughed nervously.

"How long?" Casey laughed. "Owen, I see the way you look at her." she said "I'm not even a little jealous either. Isn't there something wrong with that?" she said truthfully. "Naomi deserves someone like you and you deserve someone like Naomi and it's not my right to stand in the way." Owen listened to every word she had to say. "You'll always be one of my best friends but…you need to go get her before another jerk does. She's had enough jerks. She needs a good guy."

Owen smiled at Casey and kissed her on her cheek.

"Thank you, Casey." he said.

Casey smiled at Owen in return.

"Well, here it goes." he said nervously. He walked back into the room and headed to Naomi's room. He walked through the open adjoining room door and walked right up to Naomi who was talking on her cell phone. When she saw him walk in determined, she stopped talking. He walked right up to her, took her cell phone and slapped it close and threw it on the bed before swiftly grabbing her by her waist and pulling her into a passionate kiss.

On the balcony, Casey took a deep breath of air and finally felt at ease. She now had the freedom to be herself. To be the new person that she was trying to be. This was it; her beginning.

And it was going well. Three weeks after that day and Casey felt empowered. She felt healthy and rejuvenated. Watching Owen and Naomi around each other made her happy. Things dealing with Derek had become slightly sour but that's only because the two weren't talking.

They saw each other everyday but didn't mumble a word that wasn't in the movie script. She hated the polluted air between them but she knew it was for the best. Sally was a good person and didn't deserve to have the boy she was in love with snatched away even if Casey was head over heels in love with the same man.

It was what it was and even though it hurt to say no to Derek, it was the right choice. If something was meant to happen, it would.

Plain and simple.

A/N-Things were pretty intense in this chapter if you didn't notice. Haha. But, all things come to an end eventually. So, I'm sort of steering this story on the route it's going to be on when it ends. Sad face. But, all good things come to an end right? But, don't worry. This is a Dasey after all and that's the way it's going to stay. If it doesn't end happily, then it's not the end.