Chapter Two:

The doorbell rang and Casey opened the door to reveal Sam. "Oh, hey Sam." She said letting him in. "Derek's in his room." She said nodding towards the stairs.

"Thanks." Sam said as he headed upstairs.

Before Casey could close the door, Emily appeared. "Hey!" Emily said smiling.

"Hey. What's up?" Casey asked as she let Emily come in.

"I heard that Derek was shown-up at Hockey practice yesterday." Emily said.

"What?" Casey said. "He didn't mention anything about it."

"Why would he? He was shown-up by Kelsy Nyk." Emily told Casey.

"What?! You mean the girl from Alberta?" Casey asked, "The one that lives accross the street from us?"

"Yes, that girl." Emily said, "And did you also hear that Sam and her are dating?"

"What?!" Casey said shocked. "But... I thought she liked Derek."

"I guess not." Emily said, "But from what I heard, Derek doesn't like Sam and Kelsy together, and that Kelsy and Derek are rivals now for the hockey team."

"Aww... poor Derek." Casey said, "Oh well, it's his life." She said shugging it off. "Do you want to go upstairs?"

"Sure." Emily said as they left to go upstairs.

The doorbell rang and Edwin answered it. "Hello?" He said, not recognizing the girl.

"Hi, I was wondering if Derek was home..." Kelsy asked Edwin.

"Uh... are you his girlfriend?" Edwin asked her.

"No! I'm your neighbor." She said, "Kelsy Nyk." She introduced.

"Edwin Venturi." Edwin said shaking her hand. "Yeah, Derek's upstairs."

"Thanks." She said going upstairs and looking for a door that looks like it would be his. She spotted an open door and saw Casey and Emily in it. She walked over to it and knocked before the two girls saw her.

"Kelsy! What are you doing here?" Casey asked standing up.

"Oh, I was looking for Derek, but I'm not sure which room is his." She told Casey.

"Why are you looking for Derek? Aren't you dating Sam? Why would you be looking for your boyfriends best friend? What are you up too?" Casey questioned quickly.

"Yes, I am dating Sam, and I don't think I'm up to anything, other than to apologize." She said looking at Casey like she was crazy.

"Oh..." Casey said, "Well, that's his room there. Sam's in there too."

"Oh..." She said, "I'll come back some other time, then."

"Why don't you come and hang out with Emily and I?" Casey said, "I believe we got off on the wrong foot."

"Yeah, sorry. I'm really bad at befriending girls." Kelsy laughed a bit. "I don't mean to be, I just have a hard time with it."

"Well, come on in." Casey said letting Kelsy come inside her room. "You remember Emily."

"Hey." Kelsy said waving a bit.

"Sorry about yesterday." Emily said, "We were only looking out for you on the whole Derek thing."

"It's okay. I should be saying sorry too." Kelsy said smiling a bit nervous. "I didn't mean to blow up on you guys."

"So I heard your dating Sam." Casey said as they sat on her bed.

"Yeah." Kelsy said, "He's a sweet guy."

The door opened and Derek was there, "Casey..." He stopped as his eyes darted to Kelsy. "What's she doing here?" Derek asked, his eyes not leaving Kelsy.

"She came over because we are friends." Casey said standing from her bed. "So why shouldn't she be able to be here?"

"Yeah Derek. Is there a problem that I'm here?" Kelsy said challengingly. "Scared I'll beat you at something at home too?"

"I was just having an off day yesterday. You can never beat me." Derek said accepting the challenge.

"I'd like to see you try." She said as Derek turned and left, slamming the door shut.

"Competitive much?" Emily said.

"It's fun." Kelsy said, "I love competitiveness."

"Why?" Casey asked.

"It's a chellenge, and gives me something to do in my free time." Kelsy said grinning. "Don't you have that one person you always argue with?"

"Yeah, Derek." Casey said, "But that's because he's annoying, immature and ignorant."

"What would you do if you two didn't argue?" Kelsy asked her, "Wouldn't you miss it?"

"No." Casey said, "I would never miss Derek. If Derek was gone, then, well, life would be a lot better."

"Sure..." Kelsy said looking away.

"At first, we thought you liked Derek." Emily said, "And that's why we tried warning you."

"Oh, I did, but..." She thought about it, "Sam asked me out, Sam's a really cool guy, so I thought I'd see how it would work."

"So you didn't like Sam when he asked you out?" Casey asked her.

"Well, now I do." She said, "It's just at first, I didn't see him that way."

"And you saw Derek that way?" Casey said sounding disgusted.

"Sort of..." She said blushing a bit.

Casey's door opened again and the three girls looked over, "Casey, Nora says we're going out to eat tonight." Edwin said, "And she said Emily and Kelsy could some along."

"Oh. Okay." Casey said as Edwin left closing the door.

"I can't go tonight. My family's going out to dinner too." Emily said sadly. "If it wasn't for that, you know I would totally go."

"As far as I know, I don't have anything planned." Kelsy said, "I can run accross the street and find out if you would like."

"Sure." Casey said.

Kelsy nodded, standing up, "I'll be right back." She left the room, and back towards her house. She passed Derek, who was coming back up the stairs from letting Sam out of the house.

"Seems like your going home." Derek said as he stopped a couple of steps below her on his way back up.

"Just to see if I can come out with you guys to dinner tonight." She smirked.

"You really like to do this to me, don't you?" He asked taking another step.

"Doing what?" She asked him.

"Being everywhere that I'm at, and what, at dinner, are you going to show me up there too?" He asked taking another step up the stairs, so he was the step below her. They were at eye level with eachother now.

"Why would you think that?" She asked taking back a step. He took a step towards her and she took another one up the stairs.

"Because I feel like I know your game all ready." He said taking another step, making her go back another. She reached the top of the stairs with him only one step away each time.

"Competition is a good thing Derek." She said as she took another step back. She felt her back to the wall and knew she couldn't go any further. He hovered infront of her, looking into her green eyes. "You have to admit, you strived more in hockey yesterday and today durring practice." She said softly, feelling cornered more.

"You really do talk a lot..." He said leaning down towards her.

She started to close her eyes, but then she opened them and pushed him away before they kissed. "No." She said walking around him. "Derek- I'm dating Sam, not you." She said as she walked down the stairs. He turned from where he was standing and watched her walk down the stairs. He turned and walked to his room, closing the door.

About a half hour later, the doorbell rang. Derek opened the door and saw it was Kelsy. "Hey!" He said trying to lighten the glare she was shooting at him. She ducked under his arm and went upstairs to Casey's room. "Do you want to come in?" He said to the door as he closed it. "Yes, Derek! Thank you so much!" He said mimicing her voice.

"Casey, my mom said yeah, I could go." She said as she sat in the swival chair in Casey's room.

"Awesome!" Casey said, "Mom and the family's going to love you! Well, from those you haven't met yet."

"That's great." Kelsy said, "I can't wait to meet everyone."

At dinner time, Kelsy came back over in a pair of purple skinny jeans with a white t-shirt with a purple guitar on it that was faded and it said Rock and Roll never dies... if it's to loud, you're to old. on the front. She wore a white jacket over it that was unzipped and a pair of purple and white converse. Edwin got the door and she entered.

"Mom, George, this is Kelsy Nyk." Casey introduced, "Kelsy, this is George, Nora, Edwin, as you know, Lizzy, Marty, and of course, Derek."

"It's nice to finally meet you, Kelsy," George said shaking her hand.

"It's nice to meet you all too." She said smiling sweetly. They all got ready to leave, Nora, Casey, Lizzy, and Kelsy in one car, while Derek, George, Marty and Edwin went in the other car. When they arrived at the restraunt, they got a large table and they all sat around it.

George started conversation, "I hear you're into hockey, Kelsy." He said starting off.

"Yeah, it's my favorite sport." She said smiling, "I've been playing since I was three."

"Wow, that's quite a long time." Nora said, "Are you going to be trying out for the team at school?"

"Oh, I'm all ready on it. I went to the practice on Monday and I played with the boys. I didn't play to my fullest since it's been a while since I last played, but the coach thought I was good, and asked me to join." Kelsy explained. "I was thinking of going for another sport originally, but hockey is good too."

"You play other sports too?" George said.

"Yeah, I also play basketball and soccer are my other two main ones other than hockey. Then I did cross country, vollyball and baseball too. I love sports." Kelsy told George. "I guess maybe because I'm a bit competitive."

"A bit?" Derek shot.

"Derek!" George shot at his son.

"Derek's right though. I'm pretty competitive." Kelsy said, "But enough about me!"

"Mom, Nora, I heard that Kelsy had given the team tips on how to play better, because she was better than everyone on the team." Casey brought up, looking over to Derek who sneered towards Casey.

"Is that true, Kelsy?" George asked.

"It's not because I'm better than everyone. It's just I know a different style of playing and technics is all." Kelsy said modestly. "I heard from Casey that you use to be in a band George." She said changing the topic.

"Yeah!" George said, "We rocked all out." He said playing air guitar, making Kelsy laugh. "I think it's rubbed off on Derek too."

"Derek?" Kelsy asked looking over towards Derek. "How so?"

"Oh- it's nothing." Derek said not wanting Kelsy to know more about him.

"He's in a band, him, Sam and-"

"It's okay. I would have been sure Sam would have mentioned it to you." Derek said cutting George off.

"I haven't been able to talk to Sam a lot about a lot of stuff yet." Kelsy said to Derek.

"You're friends with Sam too?" Nora asked her.

"Yeah, Sam and I are dating." She directed towards Derek but made it seem like she wasn't. "Escuse me, I need to take care of something."

"Yeah, me too." Derek said as the two got up and left the table.

"Is there something going on that we don't know about?" George asked the group after Derek and Kelsy left.

"I think it has to do with more than her competitiveness." Edwin said nodding. "There's something more..."

"Do they like eachother?" Lizzy asked, looking to Nora and George for an answer.

"I'm not sure." George said looking to Nora.

"If they do, they have a strange way of showing it." Nora commented.

"What are you trying to do, Derek?" Kelsy said grabbing Derek's arm and pushing him towards the wall as they turned a corner.

"What are you talking about?" He said acting clueless.

"You know what I'm talking about, and you better quit it." She said, her eyes narrowing on Derek.

"Break up with Sam." He said and she took a step back, shocked.

"What?" She said, knowing exactly what he said.

"You know exactly what I said." He said.

"Why would I do a thing like that. It's only been two days."

"Because we both know you like me." He said looking down at her with a smirk.

"You're a real jerk, you know that?" She pointed out to him. "Just because your best friend asked me out before you did doesn't mean that I don't like Sam. Not everyone likes you Derek."

"And? All I know is that you like me, and you only said yes to Sam because he asked you." She narrowed her eyes more at him. "How do I know this? Well, let's just say that the walls have ears."

"I can't believe you..." She said in disbelief. "You're low, Derek." She said turning and walking away. "Don't talk to me again." She walked over to the table. "I'm sorry, my mom called, and I need to leave." Kelsy said grabbing her coat. "I'll see you at school tomorrow, Casey."

"Is she coming to pick you up?" Nora asked her.

"No, I'm taking a cab home." Kelsy said, "I'm terribly sorry." She waved bye as she left the restraunt.

Derek came back a minute later and sat down like nothing happened. Their food arrived and they started to eat. When they got home that night, Casey went into Derek's room.

"Knock please?" He said sounding annoyed.

"No! I want ot know what you said to Kelsy to why she won't even answer her phone?" Casey demanded from Derek.

"Why do you assume it's me, Casey?" Derek asked her.

"Because of what happened before dinner gives me a big clue it has something to do with you." Casey said, "And also, she seemed to hurry up and leave because her mother called. But then I realized, she doesn't own a cell phone, so how is it possible for her mother to call?"

"Casey, get out of my room now!" Derek said annoyed, standing up.

"Derek, just because she plays hockey doesn't mean she's a boy! She's a girl, and she has feellings too!" Casey said as Derek started to push her out of the room. "Whatever your doing Derek, you're going to regret it!" She yelled at the closed door. "Derek!"

"Go away, Casey!" He said as he walked over to his sterio and turned it up to drown everything else out.

Casey walked across the street over to Kelsy's house. Her mother answered the door and let her inside, saying Kelsy was in the basement. Casey walked over to the stairs to go into the basement and walked down, hearing a heavy bass music. She looked over the stair railing to see Kelsy in a white tank top and a pair of black shorts that went to her knees, and some hard tennis shoes. She had on a pair of bright green boxing gloves as she punched a hanging black kick boxing dummy hanging from the ceiling. Her hair was tied back and she wore a headband to hold back her bangs from getting in her eyes.

"Nice way to release anger..." Casey said as the song ended. Kelsy jumped and looked over, losing her balance, she fell onto the ground. "Oh my gosh, are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine... but what are you doing here?" Kelsy asked her.

"I wanted to know what happened when you and Derek left the table." She said sitting on the ground next to Kelsy.

"Nothing that is important. Derek is an arrogant, selfish, and low person." Kelsy said taking off her gloves. "I don't ever want to talk to him, about him, or see him again."

"What happened? After tonight, you don't have to do anything about him any more." Casey said. "I just want to know what happened, so that I can whatever I can to help you through it."

"Thanks Casey." Kelsy said, "Earlier, when I went to leave to ask my parents if I could have dinner with you guys, Derek and I almost kissed."

"What?! But aren't you with Sam?"

"That's what I told him. And then when we were away from the table, he told me to break up with Sam." Kelsy explained. "And he said he knew that I liked him, because the walls had ears." She told Casey.

"I can't believe him! Casey said annoyed. "That is so low! He should not be saying that! Have you told Sam?"

"No! Sam can't find out." Kelsy said, "If he does, then I can see this all being bad."

"I don't know... I hope everything works out though." Casey said worried.

"So do I..." Kelsy said standing up. "You want to see my room? You've never been over here before."

"Yeah, sounds like a plan." Casey said as they walked upstairs.

I realize there isn't that many DerekOC stories, but my friend and I both agree, Micheal Seater(Derek) is pretty cute. :D so yeah. You want to review and let me know what you think? Derek's kind of a jerk in the story, isn't he? Is everyone still in character? Do you have any questions? Well, chapter three is in the works still, so enjoy chapter 2 while it's all you have! Peace. Love. Green.

-TheComdemmedPadfoot