This is my first Drake & Josh fanfiction I ever wrote. It's posted on my site, but I thought I'd put it here as well. This story is completely written but not completely posted. In fact, I've already written up a sequel, which I will post when I finish posting this.

I don't own any of the Drake & Josh characters. I did create some characters for this fanfiction though. The song "Insensitive" is sung by Jann Arden and written by Anne Loree. No copyright infringements are intended.

Drake stared at his ceiling, still trying to figure out the what had gone wrong that afternoon. Josh came into the room and glanced at Drake. He walked over to Drake's bed and looked at the ceiling too.

"What're we lookin' at?" asked Josh.

Drake groaned and sat up. He really wasn't in the mood for Josh's jokes. He had been lying there thinking about everything Cassandra had told him. She seemed very reluctant to tell her story, so why open up to him? Drake was sure by now she had heard he wasn't a one woman man. Why did she trust him, and why had she kissed him back and run off? He couldn't make sense of any of it.

"C'mon Josh," Drake said.

"Okay," Josh said. Drake's tone surprised him. He wasn't really upset. More like he was confused and not sure what to do. "Is something wrong?" Josh asked.

"I don't know," replied Drake. "I wish I did. Then things would be less confusing."

"Does this have anything to do with Cassandra running out the door?"

"Yeah," said Drake. "I can't figure it out."

"Wanna talk about it?"

"I don't think so," said Drake. "It's kinda personal." To Drake, it felt like Cassandra had told him about her brother in confidence, and he didn't want to do anything to upset her more than she was.

"Well," said Josh. "I don't really know what went wrong, but maybe you could call her or something?"

"No," Drake began. "I need to talk to her face to face."

"This is that important?" Josh asked.

"Yeah," said Drake. "It is."

Cassandra slammed the door of her parent's house.

"Is that you sweetie?" called Mrs. Blane from the other room.

"Yeah," Cassandra called, fighting back tears. She ran up to her room and shut the door. Why had she told him? Did he really care? Why had he kissed her? Why had she kissed him back?

Cassandra pulled her guitar out and played a few notes. The guitar had always helped her feel better before, and for that reason she was glad she kept playing it. She played a few more notes. Music had always made her feel better. It helped her think things through. She pulled out some paper and wrote down the notes she had been playing.

"Cassandra, dinner!" her mother called from downstairs. Cassandra put her guitar away. She thought a moment. She realized she was upset more because she had never told anyone the story of her brother's death before, and it was hard to do it, because it meant he really was gone. Drake must have cared about her enough to listen. She still didn't know why he kissed her. Did he really like her? Nobody had ever kissed her like that before. Oh well, she'd see him tomorrow, and perhaps then she'd find out.

At school the next morning, Drake headed toward Cassandra's locker, with Josh close behind.

"You know, whatever happened can't be that horrible," said Josh.

"You're right, it wasn't horrible at all, not really," replied Drake. He knew Josh was trying to be helpful, trying to make him think that Cassandra running off wasn't his fault. The truth was, he didn't know why she left. "Look Josh, I gotta talk to her alone. Okay? I'll see you later." Josh nodded and headed off to find Mindy. Cassandra was busy at her locker when Drake approached her. "Hey Cassandra."

"Oh, hi Drake," she said, not really looking at him as she felt her face turn red.

"Look," he began. "About what happened yesterday..."

"Drake, I didn't mean to leave so quickly. I just..."

"No, it's okay. I just wondered if I did something wrong."

"No Drake. I haven't ever told anyone about Matt before, and I just haven't really dated seriously since my brother died. Of course I went out, but not often and never with the same guy. I don't think I've even kissed any guy in that time. That's why I took off so fast. I'm sorry."

"Oh," said Drake. "That's okay, really. I can try to understand, but I can't fully."

"I know." Cassandra sighed and sat down on a bench. "I just never felt like getting close to anyone. I don't think Matt would want me to give up being a normal girl though, just because he's gone."

Drake sat down next to her on the bench and started to squirm.

"Um, Cassandra," Drake started to ask, though he was very scared to hear her reply. "If you don't want to, I'd understand, but after yesterday, I have to ask. Would you like to go out with me?"

Cassandra stared at him for a moment. She considered his offer and smiled.

"Okay Drake."

Drake and Cassandra were laughing as they left the movie. Drake was so happy that he finally got to ask Cassandra out. Now he was stuck though. He didn't know what to do. He normally dated someone no longer than a week. He really liked Cassandra though and didn't want to hurt her. He hadn't really done the steady girlfriend thing since he dated Tori, who he no longer saw, big surprise for him. He liked Cassandra a lot. He didn't know what to do.

"Drake?" Cassandra asked. "You okay?"

"Oh yeah, sorry what did you say?"

"I asked if you remembered in the middle of the movie when..."

"Oh yeah," said Drake. "Yeah, that was great." Drake stared off again. He knew what he had to do.

"Hey Josh," Drake said to his step-brother.

"Yeah?" replied Josh, barely glancing up from his english paper.

"Can we talk?" Drake wasn't so sure about asking Josh for girl help, but Josh was pretty smart and, unlike Drake, had a steady girlfriend. Granted Drake couldn't stand her, but maybe Josh could help a little.

"Sure," said Josh. "About what?"

"Well, it's about a girl..." Drake began as he sat down on the couch.

"Wait a minute," said Josh. "Drake Parker asking me, his uncool brother, for help with girls?"

"Um, kinda. Let me explain. See, I went out with Cassandra and..."

"Drake, you are not breaking up with her are you? She ran from our house the other day and you went out with her? If you dump her that would be the lowest of the low..."

"I know," said Drake. "I don't want to break up with her. I want to keep seeing her. I just don't do the stick-to-one-girl thing often. I don't want to screw it up."

"You must like this girl," said Josh. "Well, all I can say is do not date or flirt with any other girls and try to be thoughtful. That's what seems to work for me."

"Okay," said Drake. "Thanks." He still couldn't believe he'd asked Josh for help. His advice could be helpful though.

"So," said Josh. "This one going to last a while? Should I alert the papers?"

"Hey Josh," Drake said. "Come here."

Josh walked over to Drake. Drake picked up a pillow off the couch and whacked Josh in the back of the head with it.