Authors Note: Thank you to those of you who have reviewed, I'm truly writing this out or sheer boredom, I never thought of myself as a writer, but after getting tired of reading, I got inspired and decided to write : I hope you are all enjoying my work.
Derek came into the living room after he heard Emily leave. He had an ice pack on the area around his mouth.
"Hey, did Emily leave?" Derek said as he lifted up her feet and sat down on the couch next to her.
"Yeah she did," Casey replied and looked curiously at the ice pack.
"I thought she'd stay longer gabbing about what happened." Derek replied eyeing her carefully.
"Its late, so I summarized, what's with the ice pack?" Casey asked.
"Well a big headed girl woke up like a pop tart and smacked me in the mouth." Derek teased.
Casey touched the back of her head where she felt a slight pain. "I do not have a big head but is that what that pain is from? I thought it was just a bad headache coming along. Sorry"
"Nope your big head hit my perfectly perfect mouth. Want an ice pack for your head so it doesn't leave a bump?" Derek asked.
Casey eyed him curiously, he had NEVER been this nice to her before, she didn't understand, did he just feel sorry for her because of the break up and tomorrow it will be back to the Derek and Casey smack down show? She hoped not. She finally replied after she saw the strange look on Derek's face.
"No I'll live." Casey laughed. "I'm not a big baby."
"Do you know how hard you hit my mouth? I'm surprises you didn't knock out my teeth!" He replied over dramatically.
"Well I apologized, so want to watch another movie?" Casey asked.
"Why so you can fall asleep on me again?" Derek smirked.
"Well I am wide awake now, wont fall asleep on you Der." Casey laughed and grabbed a movie off the table Pursuit of Happyness. Showed it to Derek who nodded in agreement.
Derek stood up and put the DVD in and looked back at Casey "Want more ice cream?" he asked her.
She shook her head no and Derek sat down.
Casey watched him for a second.
"What?" Derek asked.
"I don't want ice cream, but I'd love some Milk and Cookies" She said with a hungry yet devilish smile on her face.
"You waited until I sat down before you told me that. Why?" Derek said laughing.
"Well you only asked me if I wanted ice cream you said nothing about milk and cookies." Casey began to pout.
"Well no, that will not work this time," Derek stated poking her side.
Casey let out a laugh "Stop."
"What is little Casey ticklish?" Derek asked behind his infamous smirk.
"No." Casey lied. Derek poked her again and she laughed.
"I think you are" he said with another poke.
"Stop I'm not ticklish." Casey said between pokes and laughs.
Finally Derek just couldn't help torturing her with his pokes and grabs that made her cry out with laughter.
Until finally she broke away calmed herself down and said "Stop, and get me some milk and cookies!"
At the sound of her voice they both cracked up laughing and Derek tickled her a bit more until they rolled of the couch and Derek was now on top of Casey, it got a bit awkward as their faces were inches apart, flashes of this morning came tumbling through both of their minds. Then this time Derek stood and went to get her milk and cookies, when he came back she was sitting on the couch reading the back of the DVD. He handed her the milk and cookies and took his seat next to her.
"This is my second favorite movie!" Casey exclaimed in the silent room.
"Yeah, that's cool, I liked I-robot so hopefully this will be another good Will Smith movie. And why is Happiness spelt like that?" Derek stated.
"Well you'll understand in the end, and its nothing like I-robot, but Will Smith movies are all usually good." Casey said through a mouthful of cookie.
Derek mocked her mouthful and pressed play.
As they watched the movie there was silence except the various questions from Derek about what was going on in different scenes and why.
Towards the end of the movie he leaned over to ask another question and Casey just told him to "shut up and watch the movie!" Derek smirked and turned his attention back to the screen.
The credits rolled and Casey looked over at Derek who was crying.
"Umm Derek are you crying?" Casey asked holding back laughter.
"No, I just have something…yes I'm crying, how are you not, your heartless I knew it!" Derek stated at an attempt to switch the attention away from his tears.
Casey couldn't help herself but laugh at the attempt, after she calmed down she looked at him, wiped away the tears on his cheek and said "It's okay that you're crying, I cried the first time I saw it too, and I'm not crying because I'm sick of crying."
"Oh okay I don't feel so stupid now." Derek stated as he brushed the tears away himself and calmly collected himself.
"But if you tell anyone I cried, I'll kill you." He laughed and then stopped. "Seriously."
Casey laughed and he joined.
They were laughing hysterically when their family came walking through the front door, in utter shock they watched as the two eldest children who usually fought constantly were now getting along, it was so strange.
Nora was the first to speak up.
"Hi kids." She said nervously.
Casey barely noticed the nervousness in her mother's voice.
"Hey family" Casey said with a smile.
"Your feeling better aren't you Casey." Lizzie said confused.
"I'm feeling a lot better, had a good nap and I'm ready for what's coming my way." Casey said as she stood confidently.
"Well that's good sweetheart!" Nora replied a bit confused.
"Well I'm going to bed now it's late and I'm having a girl's day with Em tomorrow." She said as she hugged her mom, George and her siblings goodnight.
She walked back to the couch grabbed her blanket, and looked at Derek.
"Thank you Derek for everything tonight." Casey said and smiled down at him.
"You're welcome, anytime." Derek smiled and started to clean up the mess before heading up to bed as well.
Casey walked upstairs and into her room and for the first night in a long time she fell asleep within minutes. In the past twenty-four hours her life had changed so much and she was ready for the changes headed her way.