This is the last chapter-- I hope everybody likes it!!
I DO NOT OWN LIFE WITH DEREK!
"My mom has a point." Casey said as she sat on the edge of Derek's bed, neatly folding the corner of the sheets.
She heard Derek heavily sigh as he typed something into his computer, then look over to her. "Look Casey, I've waited around long enough. You don't know what you want, and its driving me insane. One minute you hate me, then you like me. First you like Kendra, then you don't. First your mom is wrong—Now she's right?" Derek stood up and folded his arms. "What do you want Casey? Do you want to be with me or not?"
This was it. This game was over. There was no more skipping back and forth from Derek to Kendra. Casey had to make up her mind right now.
"Well?"
She could tell how impatient he was, and she didn't blame him one bit. It was wrong of her to keep him waiting for so long, just to let him down so many times.
"Case, I love you." He whispered. He shook his head and plopped down next to her. "Forget it. You don't have to pick right now. I'll wait forever. I'll do what ever you want me to do, I'll say what ever you want me to say, and I'll be here when ever you need me." He said, looking into her big blue eyes.
And then she knew. She knew that Derek was serious. She knew that everything she had been looking for, and everything that she was waiting for was sitting right next to her, ready to give his heart out for the first time.
"You don't have to wait forever…" Casey said as she felt tears come to her eyes. "You don't have to wait at all, not anymore." She took a deep breath and wiped away the tear that fell from her eye, and slid down her cheek.
"I want you, Derek. I don't want anybody else. I don't care how much my mom hates us being together, and I don't care what people think…"
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And that was as far as I got before Derek cut me off with the most amazing kiss I've ever had in my entire life.
That was the day I realized that everything I wanted, was right next to me for years and I was just too blind to see it.
I realized that Kendra was just a friendship gone way too far. It hurt more than any thing that I've ever had to do, but Derek helped me. He dried my tears when I sat up late at night, crying until five AM and he held my hair back when it hurt so much that I got physically sick… But once it was all over—I realized that I did the right thing. And I was happy with the choice I made. Kendra wasn't my Prince Charming. In fact, she wasn't a Prince at all. She was nothing I was looking for, in not only a guy, but anybody.
October 29, 2008 was the day my life changed. It was the day I found who I really was, and it was the day that I stopped worrying about what other people thought—and just thought about me and Derek, and where we are going to go in life.
Honestly, I cant tell you if my mother was right or wrong, maybe one day we will break up, and screw the whole freaking family up, or me might not ever break up, and we might spend forever together. I don't know what the future holds, none of us do.
In fact, I found out that I know a lot less than I thought I did. I still have a lot to learn, and a long way to go, but there is one thing, that I am completely sure of, Derek is everything I want.