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Chapter 11: Can I Forgive You?

That night they didn't really do anything. After Derek realized that the kid that he had a heart to heart conversation was dead, he became numb. He really related to Brian. Brian reminded Derek of himself when he was young, when the kids at school called him Dereka. Derek's hero was always Fonzy from Happy Days. He decided to invest in something and bought the leather jacket just like his hero. It worked. It gave him power and confidence. I guess people liked his new found confidence and everything changed. But, the jacket did change him not only for the better, but for the worse. He stopped treating Sam like a good friend, and he wasn't that great to girls. Either way, he loved that jacket. After seeing that kid sitting there depressed, he thought that Brian had to have it. Who knew that it would kill him?

When Derek woke up that morning he looked to his left and saw Casey fast asleep next to him. It was so weird, yet comforting. Then he remembered. Casey in bed, bed in my room, my room in the house, parents in house. Not to mention little baby Marti. He looked at her again, he really didn't want to wake her up she looked so peaceful even beautiful than she does when she's awake. There you go again Derek, acting like a girl. You and Casey could have had sex with Casey, but you were just too worried about a kid that you just met. Then again, it would be kind of wrong if I didn't care about him. Maybe…it wasn't meant to happen.

"Casey…wake up, we fell asleep." Derek said nudging Casey a little. She opened her eyes and started freaking out.

"Oh.my.god. How could I be so stupid?"

"Case, relax it'll be just fine, we'll just sneak downstairs and just pretend that nothing happened." Derek said.

"Yeah but I left my shirt and pants downstairs Derek! How the hell do I explain that?" Casey whispered.

"Alright, I'll go downstairs and get your stuff. Mean time you go in your room and put something else on." Derek whispered. Casey nodded and got up from under the covers. She was in her hot pink bra and matching panties. Derek loved it. He wished she had stayed in those a little more.

"You know I wished that you stayed in that a little more Casey." He walked over to her and picked her up she had her legs wrapped around his waist.

"Come on Derek I really don't want to get in trouble." He put her down and lightly kissed her on the cheek before running down the stairs. Casey was almost in her room when she heard Derek call her name.

"What Derek!" Casey harshly whispered.

"You don't have to change nobody's here, in fact I think you could get away with wearing that for about a week." Derek yelled.

Casey walked downstairs cautiously. When she got downstairs she stood next to Derek and looked out side. While they were talking the whole night a blizzard snuck up on them.

"So I guess the rest of them didn't get a chance to get home?" Casey asked, Casey ran upstairs into her room to get dressed.

"Casey! Class is in session!" Derek shouted. Derek ran upstairs without knocking on Casey's door and walked in. "You know Case…holy shit-"

"Derek! Oh.My.God you are so not in here right now." Casey yelled.

"Okay I'm sorry. But, you know, its not the first time I've…seen you nn-"

"Derek get out!"

"Okay." He left and closed his door. He was in the hallway. "Uh, Casey, you wanna take a shower with me?" He asked.

"What!" Casey asked.

"Come on I promise not to try anything terrible. You know, maybe it was for the best that we didn't you know...Uh do it last night." Casey came out of her room with a towel on.

"Fine, whatever" she said. She walked into the bathroom turning the shower on. Then she slowly dropped the towel turning around watching him suffer. God, she's so hot. Derek followed after her and got in. They avoided eye contact until Derek put shampoo in her face. She turned around whipping her hair in his face. They both laughed. He put some soap on his chest and shaped them to make it look like he had boobs.

"Oh look at me, I'm Casey McDonald. "Derek laughed. The boobs were really small.

"Oh yeah!" Casey smirked. She turned around and got some soap and turned back around to Derek. He looked down and Casey had a make believe formation of a penis made out of soap. Just like the boobs, it was really small. "Look at me I'm Derek Venturi, look." Casey laughed.

"Oh that is not fair that is way too small." Derek laughed. "Look." He said grabbing her hand down toward his letting her know that her idea of his was not correct.

"Derek, what are you doing?" Casey asked. She was getting a little uncomfortable.

He let go of her hand, "Sorry I'm really sorry I thought that we were. You know it's my fault. I hope that you're not weirded out. I don't want to be anything that that stupid ass Tommy. When you're uncomfortable just let me know."

"Don't worry Derek, you'll be nothing like Tommy not ever. There's a difference between you two. I lov-" Derek put his finger up to her lips.

"Casey, I want you to know that I love you. And you know that I'm not the poetic type. I really don't know anything. So if there was anything deep I'd say it. All I can say is that I'm happy that I realized that you're the one for me. I'm glad that Kendra did what she did and that Sam did too. This suspension has brought up closer. And I do believe that all of this was for a reason. I mean we've got from hatred to love in a week. It was meant to happen. Therefore…Casey, I want you to be my girlfriend." Derek said.

"Okay Derek Venturi, I'll be you're… girlfriend." She said.

Derek was so happy that he picked her up on his waist and started kissing her.

"Derek, your hands are here right near my waist. What is that poking me on my inner thigh?" Casey asked.

"Umm, wow I'm sorry" He put her down and smiled before she turned around continuing washing herself. Casey was thinking about Derek, although it was a little uncomfortable it wasn't that bad as it was when she was dating Sam or Tommy. Derek made her happy and made her feel sexy. She really did love him. He did it, Derek fixed her problem. She doesn't have to be scared about anything. It was all okay. She didn't have to hide in her books at all because she could talk to somebody. And just because Tommy raped her during a Hockey game doesn't mean that she has to hate Hockey. She was finally going to forgive what he did. She was going to stop holding the grudge.

"You did it Derek, I'm done holding the grudge I'm not scared anymore!" She exclaimed. She wrapped her arms around his neck. They got done with their shower and they both changed in Derek's room. They went downstairs and Derek asked what she wanted to eat. He got some cereal put it in a bowl and set it out on the table. He walked over to her and hit the voicemail on the phone on speaker.

"1 new message: "Hey Casey its mom, I was calling because we went out to go look for Derek, then stopped for pizza bout an hour away. Then the blizzard came and the nearest hotel was about another hour. So we're all here. And I have a huge surprise for you. Go ahead say hi." Then a familiar voice got on the phone. "Hey Casey, its Tommy. Good news. After this blizzard is over, Nora said it was okay to see you, can't wait. Here Nora the phone. Okay Casey we gotta go, call us please."

Casey just stared at the phone. She couldn't believe what just happened. Neither did Derek. Was she going to be able to follow up on what she said? Was she going of be able to forgive Tommy? The guy that came and took advantage of her, the guy that raped her.

A/N: You know guys i'm really upset that i only have like 40 reviews for 11 chapters, and i know that this story doesn't suck. There are people that isn't reviewing. Just do it please, its not hard. But for those of you that have been reviewing every time i update, i love you...you know who you are. One more thing. What do you guys think i should do for the next chapter? Tell me what you think.