"Yes, Sam?" He asked and turned around but saw no one. Derek looked the other way and still, he wasn't there. He shook his head to clear his mind before walking off to his classroom. The hallways were merely empty, maybe because he was early. All that was on his mind was sleep. Walking down the hallway he only saw a couple people going off to class or their lockers. Derek brushed his hair out of his eyes.
"Cannabis sativa" Derek whipped around this time quickly but no one was there. 'This can't be happening.' He reassured himself and rubbed his eyes. He opened them and saw Casey infront of him.
"You're never here this-" He stopped seeing that she was see-through. "Get out of my head, get the fuck out of there." Derek spoke to himself and opened his eyes again to see a couple people looking at him. The word fuck went through his head as he ran down the hallway to his classroom. When he was in there, he sat down in a seat with his head down in his arms; which was crossed. He prayed to god that it shouldn't effect him this soon. Closing his eyes, still thinking about it. It was going to be on his mind till the day was over. And he knew that.. until he fell asleep.
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A book slammed on his desk as hard as possible. He put his head up so fast he fell off of his chair. "Derek." A concerned voice sliced through his mind. A couple of people laughed but stopped after the teacher dashed a look towards them. Derek sighed and rubbed his head, opening his bloodshot eyes. "I'm sending you to the nurses office." The teacher told him, helping Derek up.
"No, no. I'm okay. I'm fine, you see. That didn't hurt. Do you think i'm a girl or something? I'm perfectly fine.." Derek talked quickly as the teacher raised an eyebrow.
"You're right. You're worst, you talk more than them. Now come on. Casey will bring you there." Casey darted her head over after hearing her name.
"He said he was all right! Why do I always have to do it?!" Casey complained. She stopped seeing Derek though, as his expression was blank. It wasn't like him at all. His eyes were bloodshot, and they never were. Something was going on..
"Casey, just do it." The teacher yelled. The complaining was getting on his nerves already, but Casey got up and walked over to Derek. "There. It isn't that bad. So now, class. While their gone let's read chapter 5... quietly by ourselves." He reassured. The class groaned as Derek and Casey walked out.
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Sitting at the nurses office and waiting for Derek, Casey sat there patiently. A notebook was on her lap and a pen was in her hand. She needed to find out what was going on. Was he over-tired, sick, or.. Casey didn't want to think about it. No, of course not. Derek wasn't on drugs. He would never touch those things. He had better sence than that. Well, not as much as she did. But it was in there somewhere. The doodles on the page made her eyes twitch. Bloodshot eyes, sleepiness, concentration, coordination. That's what she saw today in class. He never used to fall asleep in there anyways. He was always making plans, talking to a girl, or making fun of the teacher. He used to fall asleep before, but that was a few years ago. Something that George has told her. If it wasn't something serious though, the teacher wouldn't have yelled. So there was something big, and Casey was going to find out.
"Casey. We're going to call the hospital. Your step-brother is having troubles with his name. This is serious, so I would like you to go with him." The nurse explained to her. Casey closed the book and hoped up.
"So, where is he?!" Casey quickly spat out. Her face had PANIC written all over it. The nurse pointed over towards a door, that stood among four. Casey would have thought her feet had a mind of it's own if she wasn't thinking about the dangers. He was laying in a bed though, on his side. His face was still blank but other than that he looked normal. "Derek? Are you okay? The nurse is going to call the hospital. I think she told you that already but you never know..." She continued on only to see he wasn't looking at her. This made her nerves worst. Then he closed his eyes. "Derek?" She asked going over to him and touching him. There wasn't an answer, and that's when she blew her top.