The rest of the family had left for the day, Casey and Derek still in their separate rooms. Derek was now getting ready for his plans, while Casey was still lying on her bed still debating going to the movies with Derek.

She had just woken up and felt a bit refreshed. She sat up and walked over to her computer and turned it on, her wallpaper was a picture of her and Max at the park. She quickly changed the wallpaper to a picture of the family, shocked and proud of herself for the strength that she as showing. She opened her browser and signed into myspace. Her default was of her and Max at prom, and she quickly went and deleted all the pictures of them and changed her default to just a picture of herself, then continued to change her status to single. She then went and checked her new messages.

One was from Emily and another from Max. Casey decided she wasn't ready to read what Max had written and decided to read Emily's first, her message was just random inside jokes and some pictures from last weekends sleep over, Casey wrote back telling Emily about the events of the morning and reassured her that she was better now. She then cautiously opened Max's message. The subject was: Well at least you know. She clicked on it and waited for the page to load.

Casey,

Well now you know why I was acting the way I was. The truth is for the past 6 months I was dating you because of a bet. The bet was to see if I could make you think I loved you, and get you to sleep with me within 6 months. Becca the girl from this morning I've been seeing her for the past 3 months. The other day when I found out I wasn't going to get you in bed and knew I was going to lose I decided there was no point in staying with you any longer. I never loved you.

Oh and your step-brother made a mistake with that stunt he pulled this morning and I've informed him of this, but I think you should inform him that I am serious about my threat.

Casey began to break again, the strength she thought she had, left and she fell to the floor completely torn. She thought she had such good judge of character, but she was wrong about Max. She let out a long sob and suddenly heard her door open. Derek ran in and picked her up off the floor hugging her until she calmed down. He looked down at her, wondering what triggered this, he looked around and saw the open myspace message on her computer. Anger rising more and more within him, he let go of her and sat her down on her bed.

Looked her straight in the eye, told her "Its okay Casey, he's an asshole."

"Well yeah he's an asshole but I'm an idiot, how could I think that he loved me." Casey looked down.

"Well I'm not going to let you stay here and mope all night. You're coming with us to the movies." Derek said as he stood up.

"No. I don't feel up to it, I want to just stay home and watch movies and eat a gallon of ice cream." Casey said with a small laugh.

"Well you're not doing that alone then, I sure enjoy ice cream. I just need to make a call." Derek said with a laugh and began to walk out the door

"Why are you being so nice to me?" Casey asked as she wiped away her tears.

"I guess I just miss the old opinionated feisty Casey." Derek stated simply with a shrug and left.

Casey sighed and thought about this side of Derek she had never seen before. He was actually being nice to her. She stood up and grabbed her pajamas and her blanket, and left for the living room.

Derek was calling Sally.

Sally answered, "Derek I am on my way right now to pick you up!"

"Hey Sally, I'm going to stay home with Casey, she needs the company tonight, and she doesn't want to leave." Derek stated simply like it was completely normal for him to care.

"Derek that's so sweet but also so very out of character for you."

"Well I'm a bit offended Sally." Derek laughed.

"Don't be but go take care of your sister" Sally said with an understanding voice.

"STEP-sister" Derek Corrected.

"Whatever, same thing." Sally laughed

"No very different we aren't blood." Derek explained.

"Yeah whatever, have fun but don't cry too much." Sally Joked.

Derek Hung up and put on his pajamas and headed downstairs and headed for the living room.

"Hey movie buddy!" he said as he ran down the stairs.

Casey looked up amused and said, "Can you get the ice cream out of the kitchen and get some spoons, no need for dishes, it's now tub time."

"Why don't you get it?" Derek asked teasingly seeing if she'd have a come back.

"Because I'm all warm and cozy under my blanket and the idea of moving right now is too painful to think about." She said with a huge grin on her face.

Derek didn't say anything and he didn't move from his spot.

"Pleeeeeeaaaase Derek, movie buddy, best step brother everrrr" She said and began to pout.

He rolled his eyes and said, "Fine, Ill get the ice cream you pick the movie."

"Already done, you'll love it." Casey said with a devilish grin.

"Not the notebook, please" Derek begged as he returned with the gallon tub of ice cream and two spoons.

"No not the notebook, I don't want to think about love like that." She said and looked at the ice cream eagerly.

"Then what is it?" Derek said as he handed the tub to her and joined her on the couch.

"I am Sam! My favorite movie!" she said happily as she opened the tub of ice cream!

"I can handle that movie, it's not too bad." He laughed and dug his spoon into the tub.

"I know I actually thought of you while picking." She laughed and followed his action and dug her spoon in too.

"Can I have some blanket?" he asked and grabbed half of it.

Casey just laughed as she pressed play, "Here we go."

Through half the movie they finished a whole tub, and were now just watching the movie. It was pretty quiet and Derek felt uncomfortable and decided to break the silence.

"Man this movie is pretty depressing huh Case." He said and looked over at her for the first time in the past 20 minutes. She was fast asleep, sitting up and sleeping, she must have been really tired.

He laid her down on his lap so she was as comfortable as possible and fixed the blanket around her and continued to watch the movie. She slept through the rest and when it was over he looked down to a sleeping Casey, brushed a piece of hair that had fallen, out of her face and leaned down to kiss her forehead, but was interrupted when suddenly the door opened and Emily came running in the door screaming Casey's name.

Casey jumped popping Derek in the mouth with her head.

"What? What's happening?" Casey screamed, not knowing where she was or what woke her up.

"What's happening is Max cheated on you! Are you okay?" Emily screamed at Casey.

"I'll let you girls talk while I put ice on my mouth." Derek stated before getting up and leaving for the kitchen.

After he was out of the room Emily started again.

"So what happened?" Emily asked.

"It's late Em so would a quick recap work for right now and Ill explain it in detail later?" Casey asked groggily.

"Sure that's fine, go on." She said with no hesitation. She knew it had probably been a long day.

"Max cheated on me, I fell apart, Derek punched him in the face, we fought, Max never loved me it was all a bet and he just wanted to see if he could get me in bed." Casey stated and shrugged.

"What? This is a lot to take in for me, and your living it and your so calm about this, how are you this calm?"

"Well before you came in I was sleeping and I had a dream that after the whole day I was sitting on a cloud and crying when, suddenly an angel appeared and laid me down and brushed my head softly and told me everything would be okay and I would move on. Even though it was just a dream, it really did calm me down tremendously." She looked at Emily in the eye waiting for a response.

"Well whatever works for you. But Derek punching Max, Max must not be happy about it" Emily asked.

"Oh he's not you know they never liked each other, so Max has threatened Derek but I don't know what exactly it is." She simply stated again acting as if it's nothing.

"Well I should get going home, I just cannot believe how easy going you are being about this whole situation." Emily said.

"Well Emily this is my first heartbreak and all I can do is learn from it, instead of dwelling on it, we'll talk more about it tomorrow, want to go shopping and lunch tomorrow?" Casey asked

"Yeah sounds fun, a good girls day is exactly what we need! Go back to sleep, Ill call you tomorrow." And with that said Emily exited the Venturi-McDonald household.

Casey laid down on the couch and sighed thinking I'm so happy this day is over.