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Chapter Nine: The truth.

Casey was on the floor sobbing as Derek ran towards her and dropped to the ground next to her. Sam looked out if Jacob was coming back, while Emily looked through the front door to check if Nora noticed anything happening. Apparently she didn't, since she didn't come out with the accusations.

Derek wrapped his arms around Casey as she cried harder. "Case, everything's fine, you're going to be safe," he assured her.

But Casey wasn't listening to anything of the soothing words that Derek was saying. As much as she wanted to believe it, everything was coming back. The aggressions, the threats, and in a matter of time, everything from her past will come back, and be much worse than before. And she didn't know if she could take it this time. She tried to move away from Derek's grasp, but he wouldn't budge. She continued to try and move away, but Derek was too strong.

"Casey, stop fighting, we're not going to let you get hurt. He's not coming anywhere close near you." Derek promised as he looked he began to carry her.

"Derek, put me down," she insisted, but he wouldn't.

Derek turned towards Sam, "Sam, go to Nora and tell her that Casey will be coming over for a while, since us four have a project to work on. Emily call your parents and say the same, as well as you Sam. We're going to figure out what exactly to do." He said and with that carried Casey across the lawn towards his house. His dad was still at work, so he carried Casey up the stairs. She just continued to cry in his shirt.

He set her down on his bed as he continued to rub her back, while he waited for Sam and Emily to come into the room. After a couple minutes of waiting, Casey calmed down a little bit, and looked up into Derek's brown sorrow eyes. She knew he wouldn't let anything happen to her, thought she knew exactly what Jacob was capable of, and didn't want anything to happen to Derek.

Derek saw a broken Casey in her blue teary eyes. He swiped away all the tears, and leaned down and kissed her lips softly. I'll keep you safe. He won't be coming near you anytime soon. He caressed her cheek, as she wrapped her arms around his neck. He couldn't believe someone so sweet, so beautiful, could fall in love with a player like himself. And he couldn't believe that he, of all people, finally feels settled and in love with a girl. She felt like she could be in his arms for so long. They felt like they were in paradise when they held each other. Derek licked her bottom lip, asking for entrance, and Casey eagerly opened her mouth as his tongue invaded her mouth, and her tongue doing the same.

After a few minutes, they began to lose oxygen and felt light headed, that they had to move away from each other's lips and put their foreheads together.

"Casey," Derek breathed out.

"Yeah," she said trying to breathe.

"I love you. Never doubt that."

"I love you too. Never forget it." Casey said with her eyes still closed. Derek kissed both her eye lids and then her lips.

"You know you're the only one I said I love." Derek admitted entwining their hands together.

"Jacob told me he loved me when we were dating, and I knew it felt wrong to say I love you without feeling the same way. That's also the reason why the beating all happened, because I didn't love him," Casey admitted. "And I'm glad that I didn't love him, because you're the only one I said I love, and never forget it."

Derek felt his body melt. He kissed her forehead as she put her head on his chest. "Everything's going to be okay." He said as Sam and Emily came into the room. Sam shut the door and looked, and then walked towards Emily and sat down on the seat, while Emily sat on his lap.

"Okay so Emily and I told our parents we were working on a project and will be for a while so don't wait up." Sam said and Derek nodded.

"I'm going to kill this guy. What the hell did he think he was doing when he attacked Casey, in front of her own house. Seriously, how stupid can you be?" Sam said balling his fists. Derek nodded and agreed.

"I want him alone after, and make him feel what he's done to Casey." Derek said letting his anger take over. Casey rubbed his arm with her free hand and kissed his cheek to calm him down.

"Look, I know you guys want to kill Jacob, but there's stuff you need to know. His dad is basically a rich guy. He gets whatever he wants, and gets away with whatever he does. His dad would side with him if he went to the cops about you trying anything on him." Casey explained and got cut off from Derek.

"What a pussy. Who goes to the cops just because of a fight. Didn't you go to the cops when he tried anything back then?" Derek asked turning towards Casey.

"Yeah, but he still got out of it cause his dad is rich," Casey said. Everyone fell in silence as they tried to make a plan to help Casey out.

"I… think, that maybe you should tell your mom," Emily suggested.

Casey instantly shook her head.

"No."

"Case," Derek tried to reason, but Casey cut him off instantly.

"No, okay? She's been through enough!" She yelled trying to get out of Derek's grasped, but Derek was just too strong.

"Casey, why won't you just tell your mom? She'll understand," Derek asked obviously confused.

"Come on Case, you know if you tell her, she'll be able to help," Sam put in.

"Yeah Casey, I know it's scary, but you need to tell her," Emily said also siding with her boyfriend and her boyfriend's best friend.

Casey just sat in Derek's arms and just snapped she moved from Derek's grasp.

"Look I don't want to be a disappointment to her. I've done real stupid things in my past, and if I come to her again for this, it'll crush her. Just like everything I've done," Casey explained sadly.

"Case, do you want your mom to lose you?" Derek asked, and Casey shook her head without any hesitation and Derek nodded. "Then you got to tell her everything that's happened. I know you don't want to, but you need to understand. If you keep putting up with this guy, he won't ever stop. He'll do anything even if it means death. He doesn't care about hurting anyone anyways, and you really should tell your mom. Think about her, and how she'd feel about this."

Casey thought about this, and then shook her head. "No, I can't. I just… can't."

"Come on Casey, do you like to lie to your mom?" Casey shook her head sniffling. Derek kissed her temples. "Well telling her you're okay everyday just gets to you, right? Telling her nothing is wrong gets to you, right?"

Casey sadly nodded to Derek's tactics. "Please, do this for me. If not for me, then for your mom and baby sister's sake, to tell her, everything. It'll help on the long run."

"Casey stared into Derek's pleading eyes, and then at Sam and Emily. These were the ones who truly cared about her. They were there to protect and save her from Jacob. She knew then and there, she wasn't alone in this mess.

She finally nodded, "Alright."

All of them sighed in relief. "Sam, Em, go to Casey's house now. We're going to tell her now. And no excuses Case," Derek said sternly and Casey nodded.

Sam and Emily left the room, and as Casey was trying to leave, Derek closed the door and pushed her against the door and smashed his lips against hers.

He parted and looked into her eyes, "I love you."

"I love you too," Casey said and kissed his lips softly and walked out his room and into her house to find Nora sitting on the sofa with Sam and Emily.

"M-mom," Casey stuttered looked at Derek. He wrapped his arm around her shoulder and squeezed her arm. "W-we need to talk."

"Honey, what's wrong…" Nora asked, instantly knowing that there was something wasn't right, from her red eyes and puffy nose.

As Casey told her story, Nora couldn't believe Jacob could do such a thing.

"I can't believe I let him come into our home," Nora said tearing up as she went to her daughter and hugged her.

"Mom, it wasn't your fault, you didn't know." Casey explained as she hugged her mom tightly. After a moment, Nora let go.

"How come you didn't tell me?"

Casey sighed, "Because I didn't want to disappoint you anymore. I've done a lot of stupid this in Toronto and if I told you about this, I thought you'd think I'm more of a screw up than I was there." Casey said looking down at her lap.

"You were never a disappointment. You may have chosen to make wrong decisions, but you were never a bad daughter. Even if you were bad in Toronto, you've grown and developed into a young woman. And don't ever hesitate to come to me with news like these. That's why I'm here. To protect you and help you through the bad times." Nora explained as she wiped away Casey's tears.

She turned towards Casey's friends. "Thank you three so much. You don't know how much I'm grateful for Casey to have protective friends like you."

The three teenagers smiled and nodded. "We're not going to let anything bad happened to Casey Ms. McDonald." Sam said, with Emily and Derek nodding in agreement.

"Thanks. Well I'm going to call the police tomorrow and your father." Nora said, and Casey looked up with wide eyes, "He needs to know. He'll do well also since he's a great lawyer."

Casey sighed and nodded. Nora kissed her head and began to walk away, but stopped and looked at her daughter. "Don't worry honey. He's not going to hurt you. Any of you at that matter," she swore and walked away.

It was past midnight by now and Casey was exhausted.

"You guys can crash here since it's late. Just tell your mom Em that you're staying at my place, and Sam, you're staying at Derek's. We don't' have class tomorrow anyways, so it should be fine." Casey suggested and all three heads nodded.

So now, the gang was in the living room watching movies. Casey and Derek were snuggled up on the couch, while Emily and Sam were the doing the same on the floor in front of them.

Casey thought about everything that happened that day.

She woke up to find her ex-boyfriend at her home. She went to school like a mess and Derek still thought she was beautiful. Derek and she finally confessed that they love each other. And then coming home for dinner and being attacked afterwards. And then crying in Derek's arms and finally telling Nora everything about Jacob. Even though she basically went through hell that day, she still felt happy, because of Derek. He keeps her going, and it felt good to feel loved from someone other than family after what she's gone through.

Derek looked down at her and whispered in her ear. "Penny for your thoughts?" he joked making Casey smile.

"You're the only one I could think who can make me smile at a time like this."

"Don't sweat it. Don't worry about it, it makes you look paranoid and I don't like it." Derek complained entwining their hands together.

"And how exactly do you want me to look like?" Casey asked looking at him with a eyebrow raised.

"I like seeing you relaxed. I like seeing you smile. I miss your real smile," Derek commented kissing her blushing cheek. "Are you going to be fine?"

Casey thought about it, sighed and looked down, "Eventually. Once I know he can't come near me, and then yes, I'll be fine."

"I'll make sure he won't come near," Derek mumbled and kissed her temples as she drifted off to sleep.

No one knew someone was watching them from the window.

A/N: Three A.M work. Hopefully it's good. Me tired and I'm sleeping now xD

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