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Derek held her for what felt like forever. It was the best feeling—nothing could bother her. She was able to just let her be held and feel safe.
She sighed as she pulled out of his arms.
"How did you know I was here?" she asked, even though she was pretty sure she already knew the answer to that.
"When I got to the house, I had gone to get myself a drink and your mom came in and mentioned that you went for a walk and she was a little worried about you. I decided to come and look for you. I knew that you would end up here."
She gave him a smile.
He studied her. She looked so beautiful but so vulnerable. He hated to see her so miserable.
"Why are you going to do it?" he asked her.
"Why what?"
"Why did you agree to marry him?"
She felt a tear slip down her cheek. "Because I didn't have you and I didn't want to end up alone."
He saw the tear and felt like a wreck. He could never deal with tears. He pulled her close again, not wanting to let her go.
She let him hold her again, taking his warmth.
He looked back at her. "How can you still love me?"
She laughed. "I don't know. I just know I still do. I probably never stopped even when I thought I had. I was so far away in New York with my dad and Max. After I left McGill I didn't think that I could bear it to see you with someone else."
"I didn't really date her—she wasn't you."
She gave him a small smile. "But as far as I could tell, we had both moved on. So when Max and I ran into each other—it was just convenient. I went into it thinking we could just be friends and I would have someone from home in New York with me. The next thing I knew, we were dating and suddenly a year and a half passed and he proposed. I was just so shocked and at the time excited and said yes."
Derek just listened to her, his heart aching as he listened to her.
"I just always had you in the back of my mind, somehow nothing could ever compare to you. I just didn't know that I was doing it. But for this past while I haven't felt right about getting married to Max. I knew though that when I was leaving New York with Lizzie that I was scared about this. I knew that something was wrong."
"When you announced last Christmas that you were getting married I thought my heart broke all over again," Derek said quietly.
She sighed. "I don't know how I didn't know I was still in love with you. Being home just brought it all out. I've been overwhelmed with thoughts and memories of you and I just knew that if I truly loved Max you wouldn't be on my mind."
Derek took her hand and held it up. "Is that why you're wearing this again?"
She glanced down at the promise ring.
"My chain broke," she said softly.
He frowned.
"I've never taken it off—at least not really. I wore it for the first while on my finger then I bought a chain. The chain broke this morning and I couldn't find another one, so I put it on."
He smiled as he fiddled with it. Then a thought struck him.
"Casey, would it have made a difference if I had tried harder?"
She sighed. "Derek," she said softly.
"No, I'm asking you if it would have made a difference if I had tried or fought harder for you."
She felt the trickle of a rogue tear slip down her cheek. "I don't know Derek. There's no way that I can know that. I mean had you come to me the next day would I have taken you back, probably not, in fact I didn't. It was two weeks later when the two of us ran out wind that we probably should have tried but we were both too stubborn. There is no way to know how we could have fixed it Derek."
Derek heard her words and felt the heartbreak in them.
"All I know Derek," she said, looking into his eyes. "Is that I never ever stopped loving you. We agreed to forever and a day right."
Next thing they knew, they were kissing.
He pulled her onto his lap and kissed her with all his might.
Casey felt like she was melting as Derek kissed her with all the passion that seemed to be lacking from her life.
He ran his tongue along her lip and she opened to let him enter and invade her soul allover again. She ran her hands through his hair.
He ran his hands through her hair, down her back, all over, feeling her.
All she knew was that she needed him. She wanted to feel him.
He kissed her down her neck while his hands slipped under her layers to her skin to fondle her.
She moaned his name as she felt him, physically and emotionally.
He scooped her up in his arms, her legs around his waist. He laid them on the ground on his jacket that he had dropped onto the cold ground just seconds before.
It was a hot make out session with intense groping.
Casey moaned then caused him to moan when she nipped his neck.
"You drive me crazy," he said in between hot kisses.
They held each other in their passionate embrace, close to the edge of lost control.
She was wearing her skirt still, so he slipped his hands under. He opened his pants.
She wondered about the morals of the situation but she wasn't sure if they warranted real consideration. She had a tiny feeling of guilt but it was overridden with the heat of the moment and how right it felt.
They joined together right there in the park, in hot flurry of passion. It was a moment of reconnection. Hot passion heated through them and they came together, nearly shouting each other's names right there in the park, into the night. Instead they whispered it to each other, looking at each other with all the love that they had never escaped.
Afterwards they lay there on the ground. Derek pulled her up, straightening them up. He smiled as he held her close.
"That was amazing," he said quietly.
She smiled.
He pulled her to him, her back to his chest as he held there, protecting her from the cold, the world, reality. He rested his chin on her shoulder, his arms wrapped around her, tight.
"Run away with me," he whispered.
She turned to crane her neck and look up at him.
"What?" she said, her eyes wide.
"Come away with me. Let's leave tonight. We'll just leave here and go away. I have a break since I hurt my ribs in that last fight. They have told me to take it easy. I can take a week with you then we'll hide out in my hotel while we hit the road while the finals near. You need some time off."
"I don't know Derek. This is so sudden."
His eyes widened. "Are you serious?"
She took a deep breath. "Okay, but you know what I mean."
He shook his head. "You can't go through with this wedding. You can't possibly leave me here after we shared this great night together and go and marry him."
Derek's voice cracked. He felt like he might lose her all over again. He wasn't sure he could bear it again. He barely survived the first time.
Casey's heart almost broke when she heard the vulnerability in his voice. To hear the desperation, the heart ache, it was almost a surreal feeling.
She pulled his arms around her tightly.
"I love you," he whispered in her ear. "Forever and a day… so let's run away."
I know, I know, duck. So I'm ducking right now and dodging. I think that there is going to be some major digital wreckage heading my way, lol. So give me reviews and you can find out what Casey decides to do.
