Derek knew Casey was right… he did have to talk to Lizzie, before she humiliated herself even more.
Derek made his way upstairs and knocked on the door to Lizzie's room. "Leave me alone!!!" Lizzie said from inside her room. Derek ignored what Lizzie said and walked to into her room.
Lizzie lay on her bed reading a book. "You listen real well." Lizzie said sarcastically without even looking up from her book.
"Well, since when have I ever listened, so I figure why start now."
"What do you want?" Lizzie said still not looking up from her book.
"We need to talk …about what happened this afternoon."
"I'd rather not."
"Lizzie, can you at least put your book down and look at me? Just listen to me, please!"
"Fine."
Derek walked over towards Lizzie's bed and got down on her level, looked her straight in the eye. "Lizzie, look I'm really sorry if I embarrassed you this afternoon."
"How can you say that? You told me to stop crying and I practically had to beg you to get me a pad! You didn't even want to deal with the situation!"
"Yeah, I know it's just the situation was really awkward for me and I figured the best thing would be to ignore it and let you deal with on your own until your mom or Casey got home."
"Did you even think about how I felt? I mean, it was awkward and extremely embarrassing for me too! Do you have any idea how hard it was for me to tell you…but I didn't have a choice! I mean I couldn't just ignore the fact I got my period, believe if I could've avoided telling you I would've."
"Lizzie, the truth is since I've obviously had no experience with…this issue, I had no idea what to do. So I thought the best thing would be to act like I normally would…which would mean ignoring the issue. I realize know that wasn't really smart. I'm really, really sorry if I embarrassed you even more. I would never try to embarrass you."
"Were you going to tell everyone at dinner tonight?"
"No, the only person I told was Casey, and that was because I had to."
"Great, so I overreacted and humiliated myself for no reason! Everyone must know now!"
"Well, everyone pretty much knows that something's up with you, they just don't know what."
"Does Edwin know?"
"He hasn't said anything to me about it, but he's not stupid so he definitely knows something is up. To be honest, he probably figured it out though"
"Great! Can this get any worse? Practically everyone knows I started my period and it's all my fault because I was trying to make sure no one found out!"
"Look, if you go down there and act like everything is fine and nothing happened, everyone will probably forget about it by tomorrow."
"Alright."
"So are we are cool now?"
"Yeah, were cool."
Derek then got up and turned to leave.
"Derek?"
"Yeah."
"Thanks."
"No prob."
As Derek walked out of Lizzie's room, the first thing he saw was Casey standing practically right outside the doorway, right out of view from Lizzie's bedroom.
"How long have you been standing there?"asked Derek.
"Long enough. Who knew? Derek Venturi actually has a heart and was caring for someone other than himself for once."
"Yeah, well don't tell anyone," Derek said jokingly.
"No, I'm serious. What you said to Liz was really sweet. I knew that deep down you were actually a sensitive guy. You're a really good guy, Derek."
"Thanks, I guess. Anyways, I'm pretty sure Lizzie will be ok now, so I guess in a way you were right, she needed to hear it from me that I really was sorry."
"What's this? You're actually admitting I'm right? Wow, that must be a first!!! Seriously, though, what you said to Liz was really sweet and I know it meant a lot to her. You really are a great guy."
"Like I said, don't tell anybody."
Casey just smiled at Derek and they both just kind of looked at each other.
