Life with Derek
Once again, I own nothing.
Coming Home
Chapter 5
Sitting on her old bed, in her old bedroom trying to forget her new life, Casey was lost in her thoughts. It was something that had been happening a lot lately.
If anyone told her that this is where she would be in this stage of her life, she would have laughed in their face. She was Casey McDonald, she studied harder then anyone she knew, she worked as hard as she could at everything she did, and she certainly didn't think she deserved this.
She was almost done with College; she shouldn't be sitting in her old house, in her old room, wondering what was going to happen to her engagement, and the baby that she might be carrying.
The Baby! Casey knew that she needed to find out for sure. And she knew she needed to talk to Alex about it, because even if she did hate him right now, he had a right to know that he was going to be a Dad.
Casey had always pictured what having a baby would be like, but she never imagined it this way. She thought that her and her amazing husband would be waiting in their amazing bathroom, those long 3 minutes for the timer to go off, and when it said positive they would hug, and kiss, and talk about baby names, and what color they would paint the nursery. She didn't think she would be cuddled up in her old bed crying about her broken engagement, not knowing what to do with her life.
"Hey Case." Derek said from her doorway. "Have you been crying?" He asked as he walked closer to her bed, concerned.
"Oh, Hey Derek." Casey said avoiding his question as she got put of bed and started to make it.
"Case? Are you okay?" He asked while he placed his hand on her arm to make her pay attention to him, and not to making her bed perfect.
Casey looked him right in the eyes; she knew that he could see through all of her lies. "No, Derek, I'm not okay." She said with tears swelling in her eyes. "My life has just gotten so screwed up in the last week, and I don't know what to do about it." She said trying to take a deep breathe, but instead taking a bunch of short breathes, with more tears escaping through her closed eyes.
Derek's heart was breaking; he didn't know what to do to help her. Personally he thought Alex cheating was the best thing that ever happened to her, because it made her see him as he truly was. A lying cheat and that was putting it nicely. Derek knew that sitting there, on the side of Casey's old bed, watching her cry as he thought about how even though it's killing her now, she would be better off in the long run because she won't have to spend her whole life with that jerk, was not helping her. Pulling her close to him, he held her, and just let her cry.