Chapter 6:
Casey walked to her locker with her head down trying to avoid Max or Derek but she wasn't good enough to avoid Emily.
"Casey!" said Emily causing Casey to jump up in panic. "What are you doing? You look like your hiding from someone."
"I'm not hiding, why would I hide from someone? Do I look to obvious or something? Should I maybe duck down a little more?" babbled Casey
"Casey! Stop babbling and tell me what's wrong."
"Who said something's wrong? Who's spreading lies about me? Is it that new girl Sarah? She never did like me because I didn't have an extra pencil she could borrow. What's her deal?-"
"CASEY!" yelled Emily.
"Ok fine." Casey looked around making sure no one could over hear them talk. "I finished my dream."
"Oh that's great! Who was it?"
"Not the person I wanted it to be." Emily looked at Casey confused "It was Max"
"Max? AW…"
"No not aw…this sucks!" Casey hit her head against the locker in frustration. "What should I do?"
"Well, you wanted it to be some other guy but what if fate is trying to tell you if you do date this other guy then all it will be is one mistake. Maybe fate wants you to give Max one more chance."
"But Em he hurt me."
"Everyone makes mistakes Casey so maybe you should forgive him on this one."
Casey nodded in agreement "You're right"
Emily smiled then looked up and saw Max heading their way "Max alert" Casey turned around and saw Max walking towards her. "I'll see you later Casey." then Emily turned and went to class.
"Casey" said Max "Hey I tried to call you last night."
"Yeah sorry, I was pretty tied down."
Max smiled that irresistible smile he always threw at Casey to soften her up. "So, I wanted to talk to you last night about our whole 'breakup.'"
"Max we don't have to do this-"
"Yes we do" interrupted Max. "Casey I made a mistake, I shouldn't have broke up with you for someone else. I want you back."
Casey was in shock, it's like her dream was becoming a reality but this time she couldn't wake up to run away from it. She was stuck, either go with fate or take a chance for once in her life on someone she fell for all in one day. Casey looked at Max and thought, what would she be giving up if she came back to Max?
(Meanwhile):
"Hey Derek" said Kendra greeting Derek with a kiss afterwards. "Where were you last night?"
"Uh, I was a little preoccupied so I'm sorry I missed your calls."
"That's ok; anyways what do you want to do after school?"
"Uh Kendra can I talk to you?" asked Derek
Kendra nodded and sat down on a bench and Derek did too. "What is it?"
Derek didn't want to do this, but it was the only way he could get what he wanted and what he wanted was Casey. "Theirs no easy way to say this-"
"It's over isn't it?" asked Kendra fully aware of what he was going to say
"I hope you don't hate me to much."
"I don't, really its ok. You're not a relationship guy and I'm not a relationship girl so might as well quit while we're ahead right?"
Derek nodded and smiled "Right" Derek stood up and so did Kendra "So we're good?" asked Derek.
"We're good" Kendra smiled and kissed him on the cheek "Bye Derek" and she walked to her class.
The halls were basically empty and Derek was about to head to class too until he saw Casey. He walked up to her and smiled
"Hey Casey" he kissed her and smiled
Casey didn't smile back she just looked at him in sorrow. Derek was going to ask her what was wrong until he saw something shiny on her wrist which looked like a new bracelet.
"Where'd you get that?-"
Just as Casey was about to answer Max came up behind her, wrapped his arms around her waist, and kissed her cheek. "See you after school babe."
"See ya" said Casey in a low mellow voice. Max walked to class and Casey looked at Derek.
Derek looked at her with pain in his eyes, the same eyes Casey had when Max broke up with her the first time. "He gave you that bracelet didn't he?" Casey slowly nodded "He's your dream guy isn't he?" Derek asked.
"Derek this has nothing to do with you ok? It's not anything you did to me-"
"Right, it was that stupid dream huh Casey? I thought you were going to make your own decisions on who you should be with not listen to what the universe has to say." said Derek angrily.
"Emily also said I should give him one more chance."
"A chance at what Casey? Breaking your heart?"
"Derek, please your not making this easy-"
"Oh I'm sorry things aren't going according to plan for Miss MacDonald!"
Casey started to walk away but Derek got in front of her stopping her from entering her class. "Derek let me through!"
"Honesty Game"
"What now?"
"I passed on my question so now you have to answer it to win."
Casey rolled her eyes and looked at Derek "This is dumb-"
"Is Max the one that you want?" interrupted Derek. Casey got quiet and looked at Derek in sorrow. She didn't say a thing. "Is Max the one that you want?" repeated Derek.
Casey held her gaze on Derek still trying to think of what to say until finally she said her version of the truth "Yes" Derek looked at her, she had just broken his heart. Derek moved aside letting Casey pass through to class. Casey began to walk pass Derek but stopped and turned to face the side of his face. "I'm sorry" she said truly meaning it. Then she turned the corner and went to class leaving Derek in the shape Casey was in when Max and ripped apart her heart.