Chapter 12

I'm so sorry

I really wanted to kick it up a notch so I added the details you didn't know about! It's great anyway and there's deffinatley more to come! ENJOY!

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Immediately before he went backstage to change, he met up with his family down in the audience. Nora ran to him and surprised him with a hug but he readily accepted it and hugged back. Much to his embarrassment, George hugged him too with congratulations but it didn't embarrass him that badly. Even Casey commented onhis performance. The shock only allowed him to mutter a, "Thanks."

"Derek, where's Anna?" asked Nora, "She did great too and I wanted to see her before we meet up at home."

Derek peered around but she was nowhere in sight. "Oh, I'm sure she's still backstage changing. Don't worry, we'll just meet you guys at home alright?"

With that they headed home and Derek went and hurriedly changed his clothes and grabbed his things before heading out to meet Anna behind the school. Sure enough, he found her leaning against the wall in her jacket.

Seeing Derek, she straightened as he walked towards her. Before either could say anything, he leaned in closing the space between them to gently kiss her once more. He pulled away to look at a teary and slightly shaken Anna.

"Why did you do that?" she asked, refusing to look into his eyes.

"I guess I couldn't help it," he began, "When I saw you tonight and when I saw you tonight, when I kissed you, I realized that all I wanted to do was kiss you. To be with you. To hold you. I sear I've never felt this way before. And when you feel this way, you realize you can't be 'just friends'. And, you know, I'm scared too. But you make me so happy, and I can't help but be myself with you. You made me better than what I thought I was and all I know is that…"

He paused slightly as Anna lifted her head and he gazed into her soft blue eyes now steadily streaming with tears. He readied himself to say something he couldn't be surer of.

"I love you."

She cried more leaning into him as he wrapped his arms around her and stroked her hair.

"Oh my God, Derek, this wasn't supposed to happen. This can't happen. I am just so sorry."

He pulled her away as a sense of confusion overcame him. She spoke more softly to him.

"I need you to know something."

She wiped away a stray tear with her finger, preparing how exactly she was going to tell him. Derek stood with his hands in his pockets patiently waiting.

"Months before I came here, I was drugged and raped at a party by some guy but I could barely remember his face."

She struggled to continue as Derek was taken aback but stayed determined to hear the rest of it. Yet, all he wanted to do was hold her in his arms till she stopped crying.

"It was hard, especially for my parents. They couldn't handle the fact that I had been "de-flowered" before I was married. But they took me to the ER anyways and that's where I f-found I had Aids."

The words hit Derek like a 16 wheeler truck. His whole world began to spin as her behaviors made more sense to him. And without knowing, Derek himself was crying too. Anna mustered up all the energy she had to continue.

"My parents sent me here so I could be away from all those people who knew what happened and start over again. They also were struggling knowing that I had aids. It hurt them too much."

Derek did his best to collect himself before asking.

"Um, h-how long d-do you have?" He prepared himself for an answer he already knew.

"My immune system isn't so strong to begin with and so I don't have as long as I normally would have, but I still don't know."

He didn't know what else to do as he wrapped his arms around her tightly as she sobbed into his jacket shoulder.

"Derek I am so sorry! I never wanted to hurt you!"

He shook his head and hugged her tighter, "No you didn't hurt me, you didn't do anything wrong and you don't deserve this sickness."

He was crying steadily now as well as there wrapped in each other's arms.

This feeling was new to Derek. He'd never really lost anyone close before and he'd never delt with this type of situation. He had no idea what to do. And for the first time in his life, he felt completely and utterly lost.

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