a/n: This chapter really took over me. I didn't know what to write at first but i finally got it. I hope you guys enjoy i have a nice juicy chapter for ya!

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Chapter 7: Best Friends...hopefully not forever

Nora wondered why Derek and Casey stared at each other like that.

"Did I say something wrong?" Nora asked.

Derek got up from his seat and dragged Casey upstairs in his room and slammed the door.

"So it was you, you were the one that was rapped and you didn't tell me? Derek said, Casey could see the fire rage in his eyes.

"Derek I can explain I was just scared I never told anybody," Casey said terrified. Derek saw her looked in her eyes, she was just scared. There was no reason to get mad at her. What did she do?

"I'm sorry Case, I just thought that since I shared you a little something bout Sam, that it would be okay to tell me something about you. I thought we were bonding just like you wanted us to. I'm giving you what you wanted. You begged and pleaded for the real me, the one that nobody knows just so you can lie to me? This is exactly why know one knows Derek Venturi. I don't like to get hurt Casey, I don't like lies. Of Corse I lie, but that doesn't mean that I like it back!" he shouted

She sat on his bed and hung her head down in shame. Derek came and sat down beside her.

"Now, will you be Casey McDonald, the real Casey McDonald. Not the one that keeps everything to herself and acts like nothings wrong. I can see right through that. From the first day that I met you I knew that you kept the biggest secret in the world, but you hid it. It made me go crazy because I was trying to unlock the 'code'. Trust me Case…I won't hurt you.

Casey looked up at him and saw the brother she's been waiting for. She always wanted a brother someone that could help her. She was pissed that it was Derek, someone that looked like he didn't give a damn about anything only himself and she despised him. Now she's beginning to accept him not as a person, but as a family member.

"Tommy and I met at our church. His mom had just died and he needed somebody to talk to. Even though I was only 14 I was very well known throughout our church as an adult. I didn't play around like the other kids did. He was around 17 at the time. We first met after first service in the garden at the back of the church and he told me all his problems. I felt bad for him and I tried to get him through it. As the months went on our conversations got better. We had everything in common. I was beginning to fall in love with this guy and nobody ever in my life made me happy like he did. (Derek shifted a little when Casey said that) So my mom met him and his dad and sister and it was some huge happy family. He was the star of his hockey team and I would go to go watch him. I really liked hockey and we would watch the games together. Till that one day when we were in his basement and nobody was home. We were watching a game and he started to kiss me. I was alright with that because he kissed a lot anyways. Then I had told him to stop, he as getting a little too into it." Casey stopped and a tear went down her cheek. Derek wiped it away from her eyes.

"I can't Derek I'm sorry, it just hurts thinking about it," Casey cried.

"Casey its okay, you have to think about it you have to let this go. You can't keep things inside. Even though I already want to kill this kid I want you to continue." Derek said trying to get her to calm down.

"So he pushed me back on his couch and he was on top of me still kissing me, and I got really uncomfortable. I wanted him to stop and I kept shouting to him that's enough. I didn't think it would go that far until, he called me his mother's name, Jane. That's when I knew that he had to stop. I knew he was capable of being violent people have told me before but I thought I changed him when I talked to him. He ripped my clothes, ripped off my jewelry the jewelry that my father gave me. He took off his clothes too and had his way with me. He didn't even have the audacity to use a condom. He just kept going and going screaming Jane. It wasn't my name; I kept thinking in my head my name is Casey…Casey. The pain was excruciating. It wasn't the way I wanted to loose my virginity… And Derek?

Derek sat there shocked he couldn't believe that someone would want to do this to her. What type of sick fuck? What type of monster? He heard her calling him, he knew that she had something else to say, but was afraid of what it might have been.

"Yes," he answered.

"That wasn't the first time he rapped me. That bastard RAPED ME 3 TIMES. THREE FUCKING TIMES DEREK..." She broke down.

"Derek just held her in his arms. Man, if he knew saw Tommy he would kill him. I can't believe this. This might be the reason why she hates Hockey so much. Because that bastard ruined it for her. I wish that there was something I could do to make her pain go away. I wish I was there for her when I wasn't, when I didn't even care. I wish I could turn back time and as soon and she stepped though the door I should have hugged her. Maybe things would have been different. Derek why can't you get things right, why can't you do more for people? Why do you always have to be lazy? You know why, because you're a fake. The reason why you punched Sam that day is because he was right. You are selfish.

Casey looked up in his eyes again. She leaned in for a kiss.

This is it! Derek thought this is the moment when she forgives you like know one else has, and she kisses you.

When her lips finally reached their destination he froze. She landed her lips right on his cheek.

"Derek, you are the greatest friend in the whole world, my best friend. No, you're my brother. You are the brother I always wanted and I'm so happy it's you. You watched out for me even when it seemed like you hated me. You knew what Sam had done and that's why you didn't want us to date. You were looking out for me," She said tears still in her eyes.

Derek was shocked, shocked more now, than he was 5 minutes ago when she told him the story.

He gulped, "no problem Casey anytime," he said.

Casey looked at the digital clock on his night table next to his bed. It read 8:30.

"Crap!" She yelled shooting for the door.

"What?" He asked wondering what on earth was wrong with her. They had just had a really deep conversation, probably the deepest they've ever had and she probably has to remember to do some book report or take out the garbage,

"I have my dance recital in a half and hour. I got to get there now!" She yelled. Derek shot up too and pushed her out his room all the way to the bathroom.

"Here, you take a shower, I'll get your stuff and I'll leave them for you on the toilet seat and I'm going to get ready," he said.

She smiled and quickly gave him a kiss on the forehead before closing the bathroom door. He then heard the shower turn on shortly after. He turned around to see a shocked Edwin. Edwin dropped all his books on the ground. He was happily on his way up the stairs because he forgot his book bag for school and saw Casey give Derek a kiss in the forehead.

"Hey Ed!" Derek said awkwardly.

'No!" Edwin shouted. "You are not going to date her, I'm with Lizzie you can't do this to me bro. There can't be two couples!" Edwin yelled.

"Listen it's not like that. Casey loves me as a brother. We are brother and sister nothing more. You should actually follow in the foot steps of moa and leave your sister the hell alone. Derek listened to what he had just said and kind of wished that it was the other way around. He kinda wished that Casey had feelings for him. Ha-ha I don't 'really' like Casey, wow I need to stop. I'm not going to be another Edwin. We're meant to be good friends. He then remembered what his mission was when he heard the shower turn off. He ran past Edwin into Casey's room and saw her dance outfit lying on her chair. When he came back into the hallway, Edwin was gone. He ran straight into the bathroom and ran into Casey and they fell on the floor.

"ow!" She cried. He finally realized that he was lying on top of Casey…naked. He looked at her and smelled her scent, and then he slowly got off her and pulled her up.

"You know we really have to stop doing the whole bathroom routine," She said smiling.

Derek was just too turned on to make a joke out of it. He had to get out of there. He just threw her clothes at her and ran out the bathroom. He went in his room, grabbed his dark jeans, his red T and threw on his leather jacket. Derek then ran downstairs grabbed a bag and put in it, an apple, two muffins and a bottle of water. He then ran into the car, turning it on. Soon after, he saw Casey running out and getting in the passenger seat.

"Okay," she said. "Speed like there's no tomorrow."

"Aye aye Captain Casey, he said pulling out of the drive way and speeding down the street.

They reached the dance Hall and they ran inside. She looked around the room.

"Great I'm not late," she said. She then looked down at the bag that Derek was carrying. :"What's that Der?" She asked.

"His eyes followed where her eyes were looking and forgot about the bag he was holding.

"Oh sorry this is for you. I put an apple and two muffins and a water bottle." He said casually like he did nothing special. He really thought he didn't.

Casey threw her arms around him.

"Oh, thanks Derek! That's what my dad used to do for me." She squealed.

Just then over Derek's shoulder Casey saw these two girls from her class coming over.

"uh oh," she whispered in his ear.

"What?" he whispered in her ear.

'There are these girls coming over, I know them, they are total bitches. The one thinks she's better than me. She's the really short one and the other one has this really annoying thing where she clears her throat after every sentence." The girls came in ear shot and Casey stopped talking and let go of Derek. Derek then put on his million dollar fake smile and whirled around to them.

"Casey, hey how's it going, you missed last nights practice. You know if you really want to win lead role in the play, you're going to have to start showing that you're worth it to Madame B, or else she's gonna pick me, which is probably going to happen." The extremely short girl raved. The other girl just sort of stood there and cleared her throat. The short girl then glanced at Derek and fluttered her eyes.

"Well, well who do we have here, much too handsome to be hanging out with Casey.

"You can forget about it Brenda, he's my Br...

"Umm, boyfriend! I'm her boyfriend Derek," he said. Casey glanced at him.

"Yeah he's my boyfriend my boyfriend." She licked his ear rather sexily and kissed his neck. Man, Casey if you only knew what you were doing. I really need to get somewhere alone. My sleeping friend is awake.

"Yeah whatever Casey, he's not that good looking anyway," she other girl said then cleared her throat.

"Yea, like I care what miss leprechaun and her stupid ass friend has to say about me. And that's nice coming from me, I could have said something a lot worse and Casey knows, right Casey?" he asked

"Oh, yeah," she said. The two girls ran off upset. Derek and Casey busted out in laughter.

"Thanks bro, that was classic. Now go sit over there on the bench, I'm starting in a bit." She said rushing him. She then ran away. Derek made sure he got a good seat. So he could see the view. He saw her right in between the two girls. They were all in some sort of line and the music started. Some kids were talking next to them and he gave them a death glare and they stopped. The dancers started to dance. And one by one they all seemed to disappear. Casey was the only one left. He loved her movements she was so graceful and flowed. She looked at him a bunch of times, but he couldn't take his eyes off of her. She was truly beauty. Then it got to him. I like Casey, I mean not as in brotherly but I really like her. And I thought that I didn't'. I mean I thought I did and I just came back to it, the thought of me liking her was lingering in my head. Now seeing her move so beautifully, I really want to punch that Tommy kid. I don't care if his mom died, you don't treat someone like that, especially if they're Casey. Shit, she's starring at me what do I do? I can't control this. Derek didn't know if what was in the air, the tempo of the music, the heat in the room, but he just wanted to show Casey a better time than that Tommy kid did. He would scream her name a million times. He quickly got up and ran out of the room and followed the signs to the bathroom.

About 15 minutes later Derek showed up in the room again and Casey was sitting on the bench eating the muffin and talking to one of her friends. He rushed over to her and gave her a peck on her forehead.

"That was amazing Casey," he said.

"Oh my god Derek are you okay? You rushed out of here I thought there was something wrong with you." She said sounding worried.

"Uh…I. err just let myself out… and I played? Around a little bit?" he said.embarrased he didn't want to lie to her and he also didn't want to tell her what he did.

"Yeah, it was a little hot in here, come on lets go." she said grabbing the bag and pulling on his arm.

They got in the car and drove back home. They opened up the door and silence filled the air. Derek sat on the couch and turned on the TV. Casey decided to go get her ipod that she left in the closet. She was trying to hide it form Marti. She walked up the steps and into the closet and stopped. There she saw Lizzie with her top off. She was in her bra and her jeans. Edwin was kissing her passionately. Casey let out a scream. Derek shot into instinct and shot up from off the couch and ran upstairs to see what happened then saw what Lizzie and Edwin were doing.

"Ed, didn't I tell you guys to do that somewhere else get out the closet!" He demanded, he was happy though, he thought something happened to Casey.

"What, what? What is going on! Derek you know about this and nobody told me?" she asked.

Lizzie was putting her shirt back on. "Casey calm down I told Derek not to tell you because I didn't want you to freak out and accidentally slip it out on mom. So, don't blame anything on him, he was being a good brother as to keeping this all a secret." Lizzie said.

"You know what Derek, I don't care I like Lizzie a lot so get over it. The more you tell us to get out the closet, the more we're going to be in the closet.' Edwin said folding his arms feeling proud of himself.

"This probably would have been okay if you guys didn't skip school, so I suggest you get your little horny asses back to school before I tell Mom that you guys are skipping!" Casey said. Lizzie and Edwin then leaped out the closet and ran out the house closing the door.

Casey let out a sigh and hugged Derek for support. "Thank you for being so good to Lizzie, Casey said.

"You're welcome," he said. They walked back downstairs and sat on the couch. Derek soon fell asleep on Casey's shoulder.

Derek and Casey woke up to the slamming of the front door. They looked to see George's face shocked. He saw Derek sleeping on Casey's shoulder. Casey had her head resting on a pillow.

"Oh my god…oh my god! I got to call Nora. It worked it worked! You guys actually like each other now, now we can all be a happy family. This is the best day of my life. I come home and after two days my children are acting like brother and sister." George shouted.

Derek got up and shook his head at his dad. George was so weird. "Hey Case I'm on my way to the kitchen you want anything?" Derek said casually.

"Nah that's okay thanks." Derek nodded and was on his way to the kitchen. George dropped down on both knees and rose up his hands to god thanking him. Casey starting laughing and then in came Lizzie and Edwin from school.

"Alright Derek, Casey, Edwin, Lizzie you guys are going out to the movies tonight. Its' on me." The delusional middle aged man reached into his pocket and pulled out a pocket full of money and gave 10 dollars to each kid.

"Dad, why are you…"Edwin started to say.

"Edwin don't ask just take. The sooner you receive the money, the sooner we can be out of here." Derek said.

A couple hours passed and the four were all showered up right in front of the movie theater looking at what to watch. Casey was wearing a mini jean skirt and a baby blue halter top. Derek couldn't help but admire her. Lizzie was wearing a short pink skirt and a pink tank top. God Edwin loved her in pink.

"This is going to be terrible," Derek whispered.

"Why would you say that? Casey asked.

'Well, we're basically chaperones tonight. To Lizzie and Edwin, this is a date. Derek added.

"Oh crap!"Casey said. She looked at her younger siblings and saw them holding hands already building up for a kiss. This night was going to be interesting. She and Derek are going to have to be watching them like guard dogs.

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