Title: Stolen Glances.
Summary: After losing a bet against Casey, Derek has to clean her room and do her laundry for a week. When Derek finds Casey's diary he discovered a startling secret.
Disclaimer: I don't own Life With Derek, it's characters or anything. Wish I owned Derek.. but you didn't need to know that.
"Yes! I finally won!" Casey cheered as she looked at her step-brother who had a bewildered look on his face. "You, Derek Venturi have to clean my room and do my laundry for a week!"
Derek sighed. He was frustrated, Edwin had told him that the odds were in his favour. Obviously trusting his little brother had been a bad idea. Resigned to his fate he replied with a simple, "I know."
"You can start tomorrow," Casey told him, as she ran up the stairs with a huge smile on her face.
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The next day, after school, Casey showed Derek to her room. She had not bothered to clean up anything since the past night. Doing so had been a hard task for her, keeping things organized, neat and clean was one of her specialties.
"Okay Derek, do your stuff," she told him as she walked away laughing.
"Great." Derek mumbled. "Now, where to start?"
After a few minutes Derek's eyes fell upon a book. It was bound in purple leather, and hiding under a few books and papers.
Now what could this be? Derek asked himself. Perhaps, a diary?
Derek carefully pried the book from under the assorted items.
"Oh crap, there's a lock," Derek mumbled. Glancing around he spotted Casey's keyring. When he grabbed it, sure enough, there was a tiny key that looked perfect for the diary. Derek turned the key in the lock carefully and it opened. He then pocketed the book, there would not be time now to read it. He'd replace it tomorrow, when he had to clean Casey's room again.
Derek set about cleaning Casey's room as fast as he could. There was something he desperately wanted to look for in the diary.
He wanted to know if she felt the same way.