Author's Note: Hehe, thanks for all the reviews guys:-) So we all agree on "Dacey"? lol I think its cute. Alright, here's the next chapter, enjoy:-)
I spent the whole day fooling around with Casey in the parking lot of the amusement park. I should thank my Dad for dragging us out there.
Nobody had seemed to notice that Casey and I never made it to the actual park. We met them at the gate when we saw them coming, all of their arms full with stuffed animals and leftover popcorn.
"Smerek, did you see me hit that balloon?" Marti jumped on me, a stuffed pelican now thrust in my face.
I smirked over at Casey. No, I had been a bit to preoccupied. "Sorry, Smarti, I must have missed it."
"I'm hungry," Edwin looked over at Dad as everyone piled in to the car. Marti ran to go sit with me and Casey in the back. I sighed as she wiggled in between us.
"Shall we go out to eat?" Dad looked at all of us.
"Yeah," everyone replied, except for Marti who let out a bird call instead.
"I'm a bird like Peter Pelican," she told me, once again thrusting the stuffed animal in my face.
Casey laughed as I spat out Peter Pelican fur. "Very nice," I said to Marti. I gave Casey a Look and she just smiled back innocently.
We drove into some seafood restaurant, which Casey didn't look very pleased about. Marti ran in ahead of us all and immediately tried to order bird seed. I sat down next to Casey at the table. She still looked disgusted.
"Not up for seafood today, Case?" I asked, handing her a menu as they got passed around.
She wrinkled her nose. "I hate fish."
"I hate fish, too!" Marti yelled, and pretty much every person in the restaurant stopped and looked over at our table.
Nora turned red. "Marti, sweetie, pelicans eat fish," she told her calmly.
"No they don't they eat bird seed!" Marti exclaimed.
"Smarti, pelicans do eat fish," I told her. "Why don't you get some fish sticks? You used to like those."
"Okay, Smerek," Marti grinned and set up a plate for Peter.
Casey raised an eyebrow at me. I had impressed her once again. I gave her a self-righteous grin and she rolled her eyes.
"Hey, Derek," I heard a voice and I turned around to see Leah, that blonde from the beach.
"Oh, uh, hey," I said, glancing over at Casey uncomfortably. She did not look amused.
"A bunch of us are having a party tonight," she said flirtatiously. Her hand slipped down and rested on my arm. "You should come. It'll be fun."
I hesitated. And my Dad thought it was because of a very different reason…
"Go ahead, Derek," Dad said, and I looked over at him. He nodded. "Go have fun. You've been spending a lot of time with the family. You deserve the night off."
Ha, if he only knew.
But wait a minute, this was a dilemma. Yes, this was definitely a problem. I looked back at Casey, who was giving Leah a filthy look. Leah was oblivious to it, and was just fluttering her eyelashes at me. I just sat there blinking.
"Uh…" If I said no, then Dad and Nora might get suspicious. And Casey and I did say that we would act like everything was normal. I put on my best Derek smirk. "Sure."
"Great," Leah grinned. She shuffled through her bright pink purse and took out a piece of little notebook paper. She jotted down something and then handed it to me, smiling. "Here's the address. It starts at 8."
"I'll be there," I told her and she trotted away.
I stared down at the address, written in pink glittery ink. Of course. And there was a heart around it. I sighed and shoved the note into my pocket. I turned to Casey. She scowled at me and looked away.
Oh boy…