Chapter three: New girl in school.

Note: Basically couple of days past, nothing has been happening with Casey and Derek other than talking and flirting. Okay? Okay. Here you go…

It was the first day of school for Casey, and Casey wasn't ready to go. She didn't want to meet any new people, or present herself.

"Come on Casey! Mom is already calling you!" Lizzie yelled from the outside of her older sister's door. Casey groaned and turned towards her door.

"No! I can't find anything to wear. And I don't want to go anyways so I'll just stay here." She said opening her door to find her sister looking really annoyed.

"Okay, I know you don't want to go to the new school, but you have to get dressed and go downstairs. Because if you don't, then you won't get to visit Toronto next month." Lizzie warned walking out of her room and downstairs to eat breakfast.

Casey stood in the middle of her room thinking, and thought fine. She went to her closet and took out a denim mini skirt since it was hot outside. She also took out a black and red top, and then reached on the floor for her matching shoes. The shirt hugged her body, and the skirt showed off her tanned legs. She put half of her hair up and the rest down. She picked up her bag and looked in the mirror to check if her make up was messed up. Here we go.

When she walked down the stairs her mom looked at her and smiled. "Honey, you look pretty." Casey looked at her and then down at herself and shrugged.

"I guess…" Casey said sitting down in her seat and getting a little bit to eat before going off to school.

At the Venturi's house, George was yelling at Derek to wake up.

"Come on Derek! Get ready for school!" George yelled again. Derek just groaned and turned away from his dad and continued to sleep.

"I know a way to wake him up." Edwin said walking into the room, while George walked out. Edwin went to the side of the bed and looked down at his big brother.

"You know… the sooner you're out of the bed and out of this house, the sooner you'll see Ms. Casey MacDonald." Derek immediately stood up out of his bed.

"I'm up." Edwin just laughed.

"You're sprung."

"You're crazy." Derek replied shoving his little brother. "Go get ready for Lizzie."

"Go get ready for Casey." Edwin mimicked, making Derek advance towards him. Edwin ran out of his room laughing and shaking his head.

Derek walked out of his room, and he went into the bathroom and took a shower. After he was done, he came into his room and looked for something to wear for school today. He put on dark baggy jeans, and then a green button up dress shirt, matching shoes, and matching cap.

It's been a couple of weeks since Derek met Casey, and having her tell him she was his challenge. Casey, Derek thought to himself. He didn't want to admit it but he knew she had an affect on him. Her smell, the ways she's there for her little sister Lizzie. He knew both him and Edwin liked the MacDonald girls.

Derek shook his head and went downstairs to the kitchen.

"Ah, finally you're up and ready. Hurry up, I told Nora that you would meet up with Casey and show her around school. Same with you Edwin." Once George said this, Edwin's face lit up and Derek smirked.

"Great." They both said as they walked out the door.

When Derek got to school, he walked up to his locker where Sam, his best friend ever since he was a little toddler, was leaning against his locker looking at his phone.

"Hey man." Derek said opening his locker and pulling out his books for his classes.

"Wassup. Aye did you hear? There's a new girl coming. And I heard she's real cute." Sam said. Derek just smirked and closed his locker.

"Casey MacDonald. She's real cute, and in our class."

"How-"

"She's my next door neighbor." Derek interfered before Sam could finish his sentence, walking to the front office.

"Nice, she really cute? So that means you got your eyes on her?" Sam asked looking at a few girls walking past them.

"Aren't you with Emily? What if I told Em about you checking the new girl? And yes, I do have my eyes on her. But she isn't like the ladies here who grope on me. I guess you could say… she's my challenge." Derek said. "I like the challenge I guess." Derek grinned and Sam raised his eyebrow then shook his head.

When Casey got her new school, she looked at it and thought I miss my old school.

"Casey, honey, don't worry. Everything will be fine. Have a great day." Nora said patting Casey's hair as Casey got out of the car and watched her mother leave.

"Here we go…" Casey mumbled as she began to walk into the school. She got many stares from the teenagers near their lockers. Most of the stares came from the guys, grinning and gawking at her. At least they have some decent guys in this school… she thought to herself.

She went to the front office, where she got her locker number, and classes. She found out she was going to be sharing her locker with some girl, since they were low on lockers. She was fine with that though. At least she'd get to know someone other than Derek Venturi. Derek… the guy who thought he could have her easily. She smiled to herself. She thought he was good-looking, and really nice, but she wasn't going to give in easily. He thought he could easily claim her… boy was she wrong.

When she was done speaking to the principle, she walked out of his office and went to her locker where a curly haired African American teenage girl was at putting her books in the locker that was also now Casey's locker.

"Hello there, my name is Casey MacDonald. I guess I'm you're new locker buddy." Casey said kindly.

"Hey there, I'm Emily Davis. It's nice to meet you. So how do you like the school and the city?"

"It looks just like my old school in Toronto. It's nice here, and people around here seem cool. I just miss Toronto." Casey said reminiscing about her friends.

"Well if you need help around school and the city I'll be glad to help." Emily said and she leaned onto the locker next to hers.

"Thanks." Casey said as she put her things in her locker.

"Oh look, there's Sam and Derek Venturi is coming this way. He is such a cutie." Emily said dazzled. "Derek is the most pop—"

"ular guy in school… I know." Casey said smiling and a guy who was walking next to him. Both boys were staring at her and her body.

"How did you know?" Emily asked.

"I'm his new next door neighbor. And who's Sam?" She replied casually.

"You're lucky to live next to that hottie. And Sam's my boyfriend. They are the best of friends ever since like ever." Emily said smiling at Sam.

"If you're dating Sam, why are you talking about Derek?" Casey questioned.

"I use to have the maddest crush on him. But Sam is just as hot as Derek." Emily explained and Casey just laughed as Derek and Sam came walking up to the two ladies.

"Hey Emily. Casey." Derek said leaning against the locker next to Casey. "Casey this is Sam, Emily's boyfriend."

Casey looked at Sam, who was wearing a toque on his head, and a matching blue and black collar top and black pants. He waved at her and walked next to Emily and gave her a peck on the cheek. "Hi Sam." She said as she closed her locker and looked at Sam.

"Hey Casey it's nice to meet you." Sam said shaking her hand. She smiled then looked at Derek.

Derek and her stared at each other for a couple of minutes with Sam and Emily talking about them.

"So Casey, how do you like the new school?" Derek asked as he walked close to her. Casey was aware of what he was doing and breathed in evenly. He had that effect on her, but she wasn't about to let him see that.

"It's nice here. Looks a lot like my old school." she replied.

"What's your first class?" He asked putting his head close to hers and smiled.

"Uhh…" Casey said looking through her book. She took out her paper and skimmed for her first class. "English."

Derek grinned and looked at her. "Funny, so do I." Inside of him, he was screaming yes! What he didn't know was Casey was feeling the same. Derek looked at her other classes and found out he had most her classes except for one. "Well I guess we'll be seeing a lot of each other since we both have classes with each other except for dance."

"Well this will be interesting." Casey said. The bell rang and Emily took her arm.

"Come on Case, let's go to class."

All four of them walked to English class. Emily and Casey were in front of them and Derek and Sam were behind them, talking quietly to each other, that way the guys and the ladies wouldn't be able to hear them.

Emily was telling Casey more about Derek. "So basically, Derek is the ladies man here. What Derek wants, Derek gets." Emily whispered while Casey looked behind them towards Derek and smiled at him and turned back around.

"I don't think he'll get everything…" Casey replied, for now…

"So she's a game to you?" Sam mumbled to Derek as they walked to their class.

"She's not a game. She's something different from the other girls. And I'm determined to get to her." Derek promised and Sam just shook his head.

The four of them walked into their class and Casey walked to the teacher showing her slip. Emily saved a seat next to her while Derek and Sam took their seats behind her.

The teacher told the class to settle down and began speaking.

"Class, this is Casey MacDonald. She's a new student in school, and I'm sure you'll treat her nice." Casey just smiled then walked to her seat.

"Was good ma?" One of the guys from across the room said. Casey turned to him and smiled then sat. Derek glared at the guy who said it and the guy immediately stopped talking.

English class went well. Besides Derek and flirting with Casey and Emily and Sam whispering to each other. Casey's day went better then she expected. She hung out a lot with Emily, Sam, and Derek. She was surprise how she became close to Emily very quickly. Sam was a lot like Derek, other than being a ladies man.

During the day, Casey got many numbers from guys, many stares from the girls, and many friends. Though she was new, she was glad everything was going fine, though she was still homesick.

When the first day for Casey ended, she walked with Sam, and Derek. Derek and Sam were staring at Emily and Casey, while the spoke about Casey's history.

"So you danced, a singer, played basketball, was a cheerleader, and a straight A student?" Emily asked amazed.

Casey just smiled sheepishly, "What can I say? I can multitask real well."

"You need to teach me how to do that!" Emily jokes and Casey just laughed.

Derek was too busy admiring Casey while Sam stared at his best friend and laughed. Sam shoved his friend a little, and received a glare.

"Stop gawking and talk to her."

"That's the thing Sam… I don't know how with this girl. She's like an anti Derek's girl." Derek whispered back watching Casey flip her long brunette hair. They stopped at the park where Emily told the guys she and Casey wanted to go.

"Stay here for a minute I need to speak to Casey alone for a few minutes." Emily explained and gave her things to Sam and pulled Casey to the swings.

"What do you think they're talking about?" Sam asked.

"Beats me." Derek said as the two friends took seats at the picnic tables.

Meanwhile with Emily and Casey at the swings, Casey sat on the swing and began swaying waiting for Emily to start talking.

"So what's happening with you and Derek?" Emily asked as she sat down on the swing next to her.

"Nothing's happening. Why do you think something's happening?"

"Because Derek hasn't left you alone all day. I mean he goes for every girl, but I've never seen him go to the extent of this." Emily said.

"Really?" Casey said, trying to make it seem like she was interested. Emily just nodded. "Well too bad… he's not getting me that easily."

Emily looked at her. "Casey, Derek gets anyone he wants, when he wants them."

"I'm not just anyone. I'm not like most girls where I give in easily. He can squirm first." Casey said smiling triumphantly. Emily just smiled.

"You're my new hero. But seriously, aren't you attracted to him?"

"Yes, but that doesn't mean I'm going to let him in easily. I've gotten hurt before, and I'm not about to get hurt again." Casey replied looking at down to the ground. Emily just nodded.

"Come on, I think they've waited long enough." Emily said looking at the two boys.

Casey nodded and stared at Derek. He was attractive, he was nice, but she was scared. She'd never admit it, but she was frightened to get hurt again. She never wanted to feel what she felt with her last relationship. She shook her head and held back her tears. All four of them walked home, with Derek and Casey walking together getting to know each other much more. Casey had to admit that Derek wasn't boring. He was very interesting and his stories made her smile.

Derek had to admit, Casey wasn't like other girls. He thought he'd easily have her, but she wouldn't budge. He just wanted to have her, but now, she made him want to know her. He liked her laugh, her smile, and especially her personality.

When they got to their block, Emily and Sam said goodbye and went into Emily's house, leaving Derek and Casey.

He walked her to her house and stopped at her front door.

"So I guess I'll see you tomorrow?" He asked as she took out her keys from her bag.

"Yup I guess so." Casey said as she opened her door.

"Wait. I know you've been playing hard to get, and I'm quite all right with that. But would you like to go to the movies Friday? I know you may say no but-"

"If you really think I'm that easy-"

"I don't think you're easy. Come on. We don't have to call it a date. We'll just be two friends, going to the movies together." Derek explained, hoping she'd say yes.

"I don't know Derek." Casey said. His smile turned into a frown and he looked down onto the ground and nodded. She sympathized him. No guy has ever gone all out for her like this and she felt bad playing him around like a puppy. So she gave in.

"All right. Once, but if you think about doing anything Friday night, it's over." Casey warned. She liked the way his frown turned quickly into a smile.

"Okay. I'll pick you up Friday night." Derek said and Casey nodded walking into the house. When she closed the door, she leaned against it and sighed loudly. What did I just do?!

Well I know this chapter isn't that great. I'll do better on the next one. R&R yoo!