Derek drove us to school. All he did was fidget and not keep still. "Derek. If you don't calm down you are going to drive us into a ditch," I said trying to calm him down. He just glared at me before turning towards the road. "Jeez. Just telling you. Ya know that you have been a nervous wreck since breakfast. If you didn't want to tell them then you didn't have to," I said staring at Derek. "Casey, baby, I am so sorry for my behavior it's just I don't know what to expect when we get home," he said. "Okay. I forgive you," I said with a smile plastered on my face. He leaned over and kissed me.
When we got to school Sam and Emily came over. They were going out but no one seemed to notice. "Hey Emily. Hey Sam. What's going on?" I asked. They looked at each other nervously. "What," Derek said. No one but Emily, Sam, and our family knew about them so after checking if anyone else was out Derek wrapped his arm around my waist. "Kendra went to your house and heard something," Emily said. "What did she hear?" both Derek and I said at the same time with the same look on our faces. "Something that she spread that made everyone pissed," Sam said putting his head down. "No. It's not what I'm thinking is it?" I said with fear sounding in my voice. Emily and Sam nodded there heads and looked away. Derek looked at my face and squeezed his arm around me tighter. I looked at him and knew everything would be okay.
I walked to my locker and got some dark stares from some of Derek's exes. "So Casey. You just couldn't stay away from him that long could you?" said a voice behind me. I turned around to see it was Kari-Anne, the one to date Derek before his relationship with Kendra. "What are you talking about?" I said. "What am I talking about? Everyone knows about you and Mr. Star of the Hockey Team. Too bad his first real relationship is with Klutzilla. Oh, here comes Mr. Lucky now," she said with anger bubbling inside of her. I was resisting punching her in the eye when Derek spun me around towards him. He went to kiss me but I pushed him away. "I'm sorry but I have to get to class," I said leaving behind a very surprised Derek and a girl that was lucky she didn't get a black eye.
After school I decided to avoid Derek like I have been all day and walked home. When I got home I started to go upstairs but a voice stopped me. "Why have you avoiding me?" Derek asked standing up from the couch and walking to the stairs. "Why did you choose me?" I asked. "What?" he said clearly puzzled. "Why me instead of one the other girls at school? I'm just a clumsy nerd when there are girls who would do whatever you want so why me?" I said tears brimming in my eyes. "I love you because you're you. All those girls pretend to be something they're not and that is why I didn't choose them," Derek said. "I need to lay down," I said and ran up the stairs and locked my door. I laid down and cried myself to sleep.