Casey was still defeated and kneeling in her room half naked staring at the shattered frames spread across her floor just thinking about the past few days, wondering why Max had decided to cheat on her, she thought they had the perfect relationship, he was the quarterback, and she was the cheerleader. They talked everyday and went out on dates at least once a week, enjoyed the same kind of music, studied together, and were accepted to the same college, she thought it could only get better.
But then she remembered three days ago on their date, they had ended up back at her house to watch a movie, they were snuggled close on the couch when Max turned to Casey and kissed her passionately.
After they parted for oxygen, he nervously asked, "So Case we have been dating for over a year and I love the time we've spent together but I feel like we should take it to the next level."
"Max I know what your talking about, and I now we've never had this conversation but I want to wait until marriage, I promised myself that a long time ago." Casey said to a disappointed Max.
Max looked at her and smiled weakly, " I understand, but listen I have to go home its getting kind of late."
" Are you mad at me?" Casey said innocently.
Max rolled his eyes, " No, of course not Casey." He said with a slight sarcasm in his voice "Bye." And with that Max turned and walked out her front door leaving Casey on the couch knees on her chest.
The next two days he barely answered her phone calls and when she saw him at school, he always had an excuse of why he couldn't talk. She didn't get it then, she truly just thought he was really busy, it being the end of the third quarter.
Casey wondered how long it had been going on, how long had he been with the blonde bimbo, was it just recent, or a one night stand, or had he been with her since the beginning? Did he ever truly love her? Did he just want to be with her for sex? And when he found out he wouldn't get any, he stopped caring for her.
She was snapped out of her thoughts by the sound of the door slamming and Derek's engine turning over.
She got dressed and laid down on the bed and stared back at the glow in the dark stars and closed her eyes. After a few minutes she slowly sat up and started to pick up the broken pieces of the frames and walked out of her room and down stairs into the kitchen and threw away the broken pieces. At the same time Derek entered the house and looked at Casey and simply stated, "It's taken care of." He ran up the stairs to his bedroom.
A curious Casey followed close behind and entered his room before he could close the door on her.
"What are you talking about?" She stated nervously.
"Max." Simply he stated again.
"What do you mean Max?" anger building in her voice.
"He got what was coming to him a good punch in the face." Derek said behind a smirk and laughed. "You should have seen his face."
"No, it's not funny! Derek, this is my business," Anger rising more and more. "He did this to me, it has nothing to do with…" Casey began but was cut off.
" Has nothing to do with me? You're my STEP-sister! Do you not understand that nobody can hurt you?" He said his voice rising with anger, but sincerity hiding in his eyes, as he slowly walked towards her.
"I can handle myself, you didn't need to do that." She said in a low voice as she stared up at him.
"Well its too late now." he said just as low as he stared down at her, "can't take it back and I wouldn't if I could." His famous Venturi smirk plastered on his face.
After staring at each other for a second Derek began to lean forward inching closer and closer and before anything could happen Casey turned away and left his room but after closing the door opened it again and with a smile playing on her lips for the first time all day she said "Thank you." and closed the door again and left for her room.
She paced her room back and forth
"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, O-M-G, was he…did he… were we just about to…no it couldn't be, but wait was I going to let him, do I like him, no I couldn't like him I mean he's my brother, err STEP-brother and I've never thought of him as my brother, not like with Edwin. He was just the guy who lived in the same house as me who just happened to know exactly what to say to push my buttons. Do I… could I, have feelings for my step-brother?"
She fell back on her bed and let out an annoyed sigh, " UGGGH what a long day and its only 10 o'clock in the morning!"
After trying to finish some homework but failing, she decided she should try eating something after the tiring and confusing morning she had just endured.
Derek was also pacing his room thinking about the events that just occurred, he sat on the edge of his bed and ran his hands through his hair.
"Get it together Venturi, she is your SISTER, well STEP-sister, but it still is wrong you've pushed these feelings out of your mind for so long, dated anything in a short skirt, you can keep it up, and you've dealt with this for the past 3 years!"
He laid down and screamed into his pillow. "I need a distraction, maybe I'll call Sally, we haven't talked in weeks, but I know she'll at least want to hang. Ill definitely have to call her but its only 10 in the morning, so I'll just text her to see if she'd want to hang tonight."
After sending the text he laid back down and tried to fall asleep, but failed miserably so headed downstairs to watch some TV .