-1Somebody to Love

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Chapter Seven: In The Jealous Sea

"'Only the beginning?'" Edwin asked, "Huh. What do you mean by that?"

Derek had a growing smile on the right corner of his mouth, "Let's just say, Ed. That there's more coming to Casey than she thinks…"

Casey woke up to the noise of herself screaming in her dreams. What the? Casey thought.

"That was strange," She said on her way to the bathroom until she noticed that again for the third day in a row the door was locked. "You've got to be kidding me. Der-ek!" She said pounding on the door.

"What do you want?" A grumpy Derek said as he walked out of his room.

"I need you to get out of the-"

"Hey Ed, don't use up all the hot water!" He ordered his little brother.

"What?"

"Fine," a disappointed Edwin replied.

"What is Edwin doing up so early, Derek?"

"I don't know. Ask him."

And of course with that, Derek walked away with an accomplished smirk on his face.

As school started things seemed to have been going back to normal for Casey, until…

"Hey Case. I'm sorry for last night," said an unusually happy Adrienne Berwits, "I didn't really expect him to come that early."

Case? Since when did she start calling me that? Casey thought for a quick second.

"Umm. It's alright," was all she could pull out of her mouth right at the moment.

"Hey Adrienne," said another unusually happy person.

"Derek!" Adrienne recited happily as she wrapped her arms around his neck, "How are you doing this morning, hun?"

Casey made a face as she stood in the middle of the hall flabbergasted, staring at the two lovebirds 'baby-talking' with one another.

"Okay, now that's disturbing," She mumbled under her breath, as she walked away.

Derek and Adrienne sat with one another during lunch that day.

"I can't believe she's actually buying this," She said to him.

"You can't believe she's buying this? Adrienne, Casey is the most gullible person in the universe. Of course she believes it."

"So, are you going to tell her?"

"Tell her what?"

"The thing," She replied sharply.

"Oh. Ha ha. Don't worry, Adrienne. I'll tell her soon…when she's lucky."

"Look at them," Casey began.

"Look at who?" Emily asked, suddenly intrigued, "A new 'it' couple to go in my journal?"

"Yeah. Right over there," She said pointing at the table with Adrienne and Derek.

"Adrienne and Derek? Ha. No way, Case."

"Yes way, Em. She called him 'hun.'"

"So? Kendra used to call everybody 'hun.'"

"Yeah. But Kendra didn't wear black pants with chains all over them," She said in a 'matter-of-factly' tone.

"Oh," Emily started to laugh, "Right."

After school Emily came over to Casey's to discuss things.

"So does this mean Derek won?"

"Of course he did! And to top it off, he even got to keep the girl."

"Well, this was your idea, Case."

"Please don't remind me."

"Why is this bet getting to you so much?"

"I don't know! I wish I could explain what I'm feeling inside of me. But I can't, I mean, every time I see her I want to strangle her," Casey said with a disgusted face.

"Who?"

"Huh?"

"You said, 'Every time I see her' who's the her?"

"Adrienne! I don't know why, but I have the strongest disliking for that little-"

Casey was caught off with Emily's loud gasp.

"..What, Em?"

"You're in love with Derek Venturi."

"WHAT?! N-no, Em. You've got it all wrong. You're in love with that immature little runt, remember?"

"Well, that's the only logical reason of why you're jealous of Adrienne."

Casey faked a laugh. "Who says I'm jealous of her?"

"Ugh, you. 'Every time I see her I want to strangle her.' Sounds like jealousy to me, Case."

And with that, Casey realized something…

"Huh. I'm in love with Derek Venturi," she mumbled.