Author's Note To make up for the two kisses, I have pissed them both off. Prepare for fights. Hot fights. Not so hot fights. Painful fights. Resolving fights. But prepare for fights in general. They have to. It's Casey and Derek. .

Disclaimer Dye-my-hands-yellow just informed me that if I don't own Life with Derek, then I am pathetic. I informed her skank-ass that she didn't own it either. She walked away, pouting. Silly girl. -

Derek did his best to try and sleep, but all he could do was toss and turn. Before he knew it dawn was breaking, and the sun was blaring in his eyes. A sleepless night would prove hard to help him focus. At least he would be too tired to try to deal with Casey. He still didn't know how to deal with it. All he wanted to do was screw her till she screamed his name, but he knew it might not happen. What he needed to do was find a girl to shack up with and take all his sexual frustration that Casey was causing out on some girl.

He ran names of girls through his head. Kendra…Maybe. Anne…No. Ashley probably has an STD because she sleeps with anyone. Definitely not Danielle. That would only get me more problems with Casey.

Derek looked at the clock. It was five AM. He decided to do his math homework that he didn't do last night. It was tedious work, but he finished it just in time for his alarm clock to go off at seven-fifteen. It took me over two hours to do forty advanced algebra problems? He was a bit disappointed in himself, but he got what he wanted to be done, done, and today he would actually have work to turn in.

He walked down the stairs after he got his stuff together and changed his clothes, and entered the kitchen. Casey and Lizzie were already in there eating a bowl of cereal. Edwin walked in a few minutes later.

"Hey Ed, make me cereal." Derek stated, looking intently at Casey. He was getting a little angry, because she refused to look at him. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Lizzie looking back and forth at them. A bowl of cereal was placed before Derek by Edwin and a spoon was placed in his hand seconds later. Derek's eyes never left Casey's averted eyes.

"Casey, how'd you sleep?" She spoke without looking up at him.

"Fine. Why do you care?"

"Maybe I started caring?"

"Well I don't need you to know how well or bad I slept."

"What if I wanted to know how it might be?" Derek wasn't sure if they were talking about how she slept anymore. Her eyes looked at his. Lizzie and Edwin had long since silently left the room.

"It doesn't matter because I'll never let you know."

"Why?"

"Because. I don't need to explain myself to you. Get over it."

"No!" He slammed the fist that was holding his spoon onto the island counter. Their eyes were locked on one another. Why am I trying so hard? Is it worth it? Nora walked into the room.

"Did anyone see my keys in here?" She looked over at the two eldest. Their eyes were heated in their own prospective ways of glaring. "I'll just ask Lizzie." Nora learned a while back to only interfere with them when they were trying to hurt each other. Again they were left alone in the kitchen.

"Get over it." Casey whispered harshly as she left after her mom, holding the keys in her clenched hand. Derek felt himself get hot with anger. He grabbed his things after a few minutes of trying to calm down and got into his car. After starting it, he sped out of the driveway, glad that Casey wasn't in the car with him. A voice sounded behind his ear, and he groaned. "About time. What were you doing? I've been waiting in the car for nearly fifteen minutes. I'm late to meeting up with Sam." Derek slammed the breaks hard at the stop sign.

"What?" He asked angrily.

"I'm. Late. To. Meet. Sam." She said slowly, as though he were retarded. He could hear the happiness in her voice.

"Why are you meeting up with Sam?"

"I just want to. It's none of your business." They still hadn't moved from the stop sign. "You might want to press on the gas." Derek complied by pressed on the gas with the full force of his foot. He felt Casey's hands grip at the seat. Derek didn't turn into school though, he kept going.

When they finally stopped, they were at a park that not many people went to anymore. He turned around after he parked it and stared at her hard.

"Let me tell you something Casey…I have been going crazy these last two months. I don't know why. All I know is that for some reason when I kissed you, all of my frustration seemed to go away.

"If I were ever to be with you it would only be about the sex wouldn't it? Well I won't lose it to you." For some reason, knowing that she was still a virgin made him feel better. Derek contemplated on what would happen if they ever got together. At this point he didn't love her…That's not the way real relationships worked anyway.

"You'll have to find out." He got out of the car and went to the back seat on her other side and closed the door behind him.

"No, I won't find out. I won't let it happen."

"Why aren't you freaking out? We aren't at school, and you're focused on me. Do you know why? Because you want me.'

"I'm trying to deal with the problem at hand, and just because I want you doesn't mean I am going to act on it." Casey's face turned to a bit of worry. Derek smirked. She does want to act on it. Why does she put on a front?

"Yeah you will."

"You don't know what I will and will not do."

"Your face gave it away."

"What? How does your face give it away?"

"You didn't know your face could give it away? No wonder you suck at lying." Casey pouted angrily at him; her face was getting redder and her breath was getting heavier.

"Take me to school. We'll finish this later."

"Is that a threat?" He smirked again.

"Yeah, if you want it to be. Take me to school NOW." Derek patted her cheek and got out, and circled around to the driver seat. He felt that in some way he won, because he found in her eyes that she wanted him, and that's exactly what he wanted.

He dropped her off at the front and went to go park it. Derek didn't want to resolve it till they got home, just like she threatened. Does the mild fear turn me on? Shrugging it off, he grabbed his things and headed up to the school, feeling great, even though he hadn't gotten any sleep.