Casey's POV
There's only two days left until we start college, and I can't wait. The only thing I have to worry about is keeping my grades up. I have a full scholarship because of my grades in high school, and as long as I keep them up, I don't have to pay for anything. Derek got pretty lucky too, he got a full scholarship for playing hockey, I guess he wasn't lying when he said he was a hockey god.
Mom and George got each of us a dorm in a co-ed residence. I wasn't ecstatic or anything, unlike Derek. He was that it was co-ed. Now he has a whole new playing field of girls. That kind of bothered me, how can someone change girls like they change their underwear. He had a new girl every month, if they lasted that long. Well at least in high school; he hasn't dated any girls all summer which is pretty unusual for Derek. Something else unusual has happened….Me and Derek have kind of started to get along, sure we still bicker now and then, but all in all we've become pretty close since Sam's party. I consider him more as a friend then step-brother.
Mom and George pulled onto campus and helped us move all our things in, they were decent size rooms, and of course they had to be, seeing as each of us had a roommate. It wasn't too bad though; we called the school and asked if we could choose our roommates and they allowed us to. Emily was my roommate and Sam was Derek's. It was perfect each of us were living with our best friend what more could we ask for.
Derek's POV
"Finally! Were on our own Sammy boy!" I said a little too excitedly.
"Derek, I can't believe this, we actually have our own place. We could do what we want when we want. Have girls over anytime." Sam was clearly happy with the last statement. But I had some ground rules; I didn't want to be hearing Sam having sex. God, we have to have a system or something.
"Sam, listen, we gotta set something straight. When one of has a girl over, the other has to find a place to crash for the night. I don't want this getting all uncomfortable."
"Alright D. sounds good to me, it would be kind of weird hearing you have sex in the room next to me. The walls her are pretty thin." He sounded almost disgusted.
"Alright, besides that everything's pretty awesome right now. I wonder if we should go help Case and Em?" I asked Sam.
"Yeah man, we probably should." He added.
As we headed down the corridor to their room, a few chicks stopped us and asked us if we were doing anything, I told them we were going to help our friends move in. They kind of looked disappointed, they had wanted us to join them down at the hot tub, normally I would never pass up an opportunity like this, but I just wasn't feeling it right now.
When we got to Casey's room, the girls were trying to organize everything. Clearly they had brough to much stuff for this little dorm room. All me and Sam had were the necessities, a fridge, microwave, toaster oven, a small table and our beds. The dorm had a common room with couches and tv's. Casey and Emily had clearly forgotten about that, they had everything they needed, plus a small chair a bean bag and a book shelf. Somehow Casey figured out a way to fit everything.
Sam spoke "Hey ladies, you need any help?"
"Nope, we're all done here." She said proudly. "Want to go check out the campus?"
"Sure, let's see how great this place is. First stop, the arena!" I said
As we walked out of their room, we saw the girls from before, "Oh so that's why you didn't want to come swimming with us, you're girlfriends must have you pretty whipped eh?" The blond one said.
"Oh these are just our friends; we all went to high school together." I replied.
"Oh then why don't all of you join us, it would be pretty fun, I'm Brook, and this," She pointed at her friend who had long brown hair, she kind of reminded me of Casey, "that's Amber."
"Nice meeting you guys, we're just going to check out the campus and stuff, but we can meet you at the pool in like, an hour if you want?" Casey said nicely.
"Awesome, see you all then, it was really nice meeting all of you, were new here too so we don't really know anyone." Amber said softly. These girls weren't like the ones in high school who drooled all over me; maybe this was going to be a good thing.
"Well since your new here to why don't you girls join us?" Casey said smiling at them.
"Really, that would be great, most of the girls we try to talk to are bimbos, all they care about is themselves. I'm happy we met you guys."
Casey, Emily, Amber and Brook seemed to really hit it off, they were giggling as we walked as they talked. When we got to the arena, I was stunned it was huge! It was one of the nicest rinks I've ever seen, besides the NHL rinks that is. I couldn't wait to start playing hockey, our first practice was next week and me and Sam were so pumped. This was definitely going to be the best years of my life.
I've never seen anyone as happy to see a library as Casey until I met Brook and Amber; they were in awe when they saw how big it was. I was happy that Casey found some girls that were into the same stuff she was. Both Amber and Brook danced together back in North Bay. I was just happy that these girls were smoking hot and they were smart, it's crazy how much they have in common with Casey.
Casey's POV
We finished our tour of the school and now we were just getting our bathing suits on. Before I left home my mom brought me shopping to by some new stuff so I got this really hot bathing suit. It's a purple and black one piece. Don't jump to any conclusions this bathing suit is hot! My entire back is exposed, and there's a opening from just above my torso all the way up, and it ties around my neck. I absolutely love it! Once we were all done changing, we headed towards the pool. I looked around for Derek but couldn't see him so I went around the side of the building and there he was in all his gloriousness, smoking.
"Hey Der, can I have one?" I asked
"Yeah sure here Case." And he handed me a cigarette. I know, I know, we said we only smoked when we drank but it slowly developed into a full fledge habit for the both of us. We weren't proud of it, but hey, we could be smoking a lot worse stuff. As we finished our smokes, we walked back over to the gang, now Ralph and Amanda had joined us. During the last week of summer vacation me and Amanda had grown pretty close, she was actually a really cool girl, I just figured since she was dating Ralph, she must have been dumb as a brick, but she was actually really smart and really sweet.
Ralph spoke up "So Derek Casey, are you up for another round of water wars, im taking you down this time D."
"Let's do it Der, I promise to try and get her this time." I said laughing.
"You're on Ralphy boy, get up here Macdonald." He said picking me up and putting me on his shoulders before even getting in the water.
"Amanda I love you, but you're going down, have any last words?" I asked and then burst out laughing.
"Actually I do, Ralph I love you, now let's take these guys out!" And with that Amanda started pushing me, but this time I got the last shove and made her tumble off of Ralph's shoulders. Now it was the guys turns, this was the hardest part for me, Derek was far from fat, but he was pretty muscular these day so it was hard to keep my balance with him up there. Once again, we won!
"I must say Venturi we make quite the team." I said giving him a high five. But before he said anything he threw me over his shoulder and then cannon balled back into the water. I couldn't help but laugh hysterically.
Derek's POV
I was having a blast, I loved getting along with Casey, she kind of mellowed out over the summer and she was actually fun now, when she finally recovered from being thrown back into the water, she jumped onto my back.
"Oh no Macdonald, you asked for it this time!" I said deviously.
"Oh yeah Derek what are you going to do about it?" She mimicked me, so I flipped her over so she was in front of me and I started tickling her, she was laughing so hard I could feel her shaking. She was so ticklish it was ridiculous. Behind us Amber and Brook were talking to Emily, Sam, Ralph and Amanda.
"Look at them their so cute together, as if they aren't dating, they obviously have feelings for each other I don't know why they just don't come out and say it." Amber said
"I've known them forever, and they never used to get along until recently actually. But I've know n they liked each other from the day they met, they just refuse to believe it." Emily responded.
"Yeah D. has this no PDA rule, but if I didn't know any better I would definitely consider this PDA. He's never acted this was around any other girl that he's liked. Well come to think of the only girls he's ever really liked were Kendra and Sally, and even then he didn't act like this." Sam added.
"Hey did you forget that me and Derek dated for awhile after prom!" Emily said aggravated.
"Seriously Em, you guys dated for like 2 weeks that hardly counts. " Sam laughed
"Yeah I guess you're right." Then she laughed too.
"Well, I hope they realize it soon enough, cause I don't know if I could keep their cuteness to myself, their just so adorable together." Brook said giggling.
"Der-ek! Tie my bathing suit top back up right now! So help me god if anyone seen parts of me they shouldn't have I will kill you!" She yelled at me trying not to laugh, but she didn't succeed.
"Chill Case I tied it back up!"I reassured her. It's nothing new though I've practically seen her naked when she pranced around her room trying to find something to wear and didn't realize I was home. She didn't bother closing her door.
"Thank you Der." She laughed.
We got out of the pool and dried off. And then the girls decided to sun bath, and we decided to go play some tennis. It was a pretty heated match between me and Sam we were both sweating buckets and the next point would determine who won the game, before I could serve we heard a bunch of girls cheering some for me and some for Sam. We both looked back and it was Casey, Emily, Brook, Amanda and Amber. I tried to refocus on the game but I couldn't stop thinking about Casey in that oh so sexy bathing suit of hers. It was now or never, I served, and apparently Sam was just as distracted as I was apparently, because he completely missed the ball. The girls now swarmed us, Emily jumped into Sam's arms and told him he played great. If I didn't know any better I would think Emily had a thing for Sam. Oh my god she did, she totally liked Sam! That's great it's as if a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I always felt bad for breaking up with her, the truth was, I just didn't feel that connection with her, and when she wanted to have sex, that was the tip of the iceberg for me. I had to end things. But now that she was obviously falling for Sam, I didn't have to feel so bad anymore. Before I could even say anything, Casey gave me a huge hug, god why did she still have to be in that damn bathing suit I couldn't think straight looking at her.
"Der! That was awesome; I didn't even know you could play tennis. Maybe you should forget about hockey and think of being a professional tennis player. "She joked.
"Ha very funny Casey, and maybe you should try playing football." I said sarcastically. Emily, Sam and Ralph burst out laughing.
"Yeah, yeah, very funny. Laugh it up guys."Casey said a little less enthused.
After our little match we all headed back to our dorms, me and Sam took quick showers, before meeting every one for supper. We all had some pizza, except of course Casey she had some tofu.
"So you said you all went to high school together, I'm guessing you were all pretty tight." Brook asked us.
"Actually ran in two different crowds, me and Derek actually didn't get along up until this summer. You see four three years ago my…." I cut her off.
"Yeah Casey was kind of a grad grubbing super keener klutzilla." I laughed.
"Really I never would have guessed, but then again so was I, so don't feel bad Casey." Amber told us. I asked Casey to join me to get some more juice.
"Look Case, here, you're not my step-sister okay? We're just friends. Okay?" I asked sincerely.
"Okay, I guess so." She replied.
"Kay thanks Case." I was relieved she agreed. I just didn't want to deal with everyone asking me shit about Casey because she was my sister, and maybe because I didn't want anyone to think she was just so they would think she was my girlfriend. Maybe that would keep the guys off of her. Then we walked back over to the table.
"Casey you were saying something about three years ago?" Brook questioned.
"Oh yeah, well three years ago, my mom married a guy in London so that's when I met everybody, Emily and Derek are my neighbors. I automatically got along with Em, but Derek, was a skirt chasing cad, and he was really egotistical. Thank god he changed since then." Wow I think that was the best lie Casey has ever told, even I believed her.
"Who's to say I'm not still a skirt chasing cad? Look at me I'm sexy, I'd be stupid to let these good looks go to waste." I joked
"And there's the old…" I took my pizza slice and put it in her face, everyone started to laugh, except Casey.
"Der-ek! You better run, because I going to kill you." She was pissed and I could tell.
"Um Casey I'd go wash your face before you give any death threats." Me and Casey along with everyone else burst out into laughter.
Casey's POV
It was later that night, and me and Em finally made to our dorm for the night. We both changed into our pajamas and decided to watch a movie. We decided on A Walk to Remember, I forgot how sad this movie was, I don't what I would do if I would lose the one person I cared the most about. I was crying, but Emily was completely loosing it, she was sobbing. I looked at her and asked her,
"Em it was just a movie! Are you okay?"
"It's just that it makes me want to tell Sam how I feel before it's too late Casey. I just don't know how to tell him. What if he doesn't feel the same way, then he won't want to be friends with me!"She said between sobs.
"Listen Em, you're over thinking this, just tell him, I know Sam and im pretty sure he feels the same way. He gives you that look that he used to give me, when we were dating."I reassured her. It was true for the past few weeks I've noticed that Sam was being really nice to Emily, he always wanted to hang out with her, and the way he looked at her, what I wouldn't give for someone to look at me that way. Truman never looked at me like that, I guess deep down inside I knew that me and Truman would never work out; I just figured that everyone deserves a second chance, but boy did he blow that one! He's tried calling me a few times, but I never answer the phone or return his calls. I don't want to hear his sob story about how bad he feels, because I feel for that the first time, but not again!
"You're right Case, I'm going to tell him tomorrow. Goodnight Case." She said softly
"Goodnight Em." Before I knew it we were both fast asleep, we didn't even realize that we feel asleep in one bed.