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Hmm, this chapter is actually quite short, so I guess the chapters aren't getting longer, I knew I shouldn't of said that, lol, sorry.

Chapter 5: The Turmoil of the Unexpected

"Fight!"

"I knew it!," Noel says, as he tackles Derek. Derek's head hits the table behind him.

"What the hell do you think your doing?!," Derek's Ex screams, as she reaches for Casey's hair.

"It's not what you think!" Derek and Casey reply in unison.

Noel grabs the collar of Derek's shirt, preparing to strike him. Derek rubs the back of his head, his head throbbing with pain, and looks at his hand.

"Shit." Derek murmurs, seeing blood on his hand.

Noel swings at Derek, but Derek dodges. "Noel, I know your Casey's boyfriend and all, and maybe we could of talked this out, but now I just don't really care."

Noel swings a second time and misses Derek. Derek gets ready to hit Noel, until he hears screaming coming from Casey's location.

"Casey!" Derek yells, pushing Noel out of the way. He tries to position himself between Casey and his Ex. He gets clawed in the face by his Ex's nails. "This is definitely not what I expected," Derek mumbles, thinking of the many outcomes that could've happened.

Derek's Ex realizing she just hit Derek, calms down and stops attacking, "Oh Derek, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to—," she tries to explain.

Derek interrupts her, "Then what the hell did you mean to do, attack her?" Derek says holding Casey.

"Well I—,"

Derek interrupts again, "Do plan on assaulting every girl I'm with now, we broke up remember?" Casey looks up at Derek.

"I-I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me," The Ex says, looking at Casey.

Casey doesn't reply just stares at her.

Derek raises his head, noticing the music and talking have subsided, everyone at the party seems to be tuned in on them.

"What the hell's going here?" Jill says, making her way through crowd with Sally.

"That's what I'd like to know," Noel looks at Derek. Sally observes Derek cradling Casey, and he catches looking her but doesn't release Casey.

Casey speaks up, "This isn't really what it looks like, Derek was just trying to get out of talking with her, and I was against it, but—," Casey looks at Noel.

"But, it is what it looks like," Derek interrupts, looking at Noel. Everyone in the room gasps.

"Derek?" Sally says. Derek turns his head toward her.

He gives her an apologetic look, "We gotta go," Derek tells Sally. Sally just looks at him confused waiting for him to say something else. Derek and Casey make their way through the crowd; Casey doesn't even object to leaving with Derek, she's too much in shock to react. "Hey wait!" Noel yells, but Derek and Casey just keeping walking.

"Damn that was a short fight," Chad says, Jill's younger brother, he looks down at his leg, "What the—! There's blood on my leg! I've been hit!" One of his friends looks at his leg, "Dude, I don't think you've been hit, at least not the way you think, ha-ha." Chad looks at him, "What do you mean!? I'm bleeeeeeeeding!" His friend whispers in to his ear. Chad looks at him confused, "Are you calling me a transsexual?!" His friend just starts laughing and whispers to Chad again. This time Chad understands him, "Holy mother of Luke and Leia," Chad screams in disgust, running for his bedroom. Everyone in the room laughs.

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Derek and Casey are now a few blocks away from Jill's and still have yet to speak to each other since the very cliché movie-like incident at the party. Casey thinks to herself, how does this happen again, there is definitely something he is not telling me, and how can I explain this to Noel, ugh.

Casey glances at Derek as they keep walking, she notices the blood on Derek's neck.

"Derek!" She yells.

"Not so loud, I am right by you, your nagging will just make my headache worse," Derek replies, through his teeth.

"Your head is bleeding."

"Yes, I know that, I have your boyfriend to thank for that," Derek replies snidely. Casey checks his head to find the cut.

"Derek, you have pretty bug cut on your head, we should go to the hospital to get you stitches and check to see if you got a concussion," she tells him. "Hospital?! I hate hospitals." Derek wines.

"Yeah, well this is serious," Casey informs, "Look the bus is coming, let's go," she says, pulling Derek's arm. Derek concedes, "Alright, but no needles, is that understood." Casey laughs at his stupidity as they get on the bus, "Okay, okay, needles won't be involved at all in the stitching process."

"Good."

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London Regional Hospital 9:00-9:30 PM

Casey waits in the Hospital lobby as Derek gets treated. She begins to think over tonight's ordeal and the recent events that have transpired. This week has been one of the weirdest weeks I've ever had, and every weird moment has involved Derek, but these weird feelings I've been having seem comforting and relaxing, I don't think I've ever felt this way before. Could this all be because of Derek? I admit after the kiss at the mall, I now see Derek in a different light, but could I really have feelings for my step-brother? Plus, I have Noel, and I really like him, well I hope I still have him. How am I going to explain this to him, or does it even matter? Why do I feel so relaxed about this? I should be pulling out all of my hair right now, but the way Derek's been acting around me lately does seem very unlike him, profoundly unlike him. And at the party, he was like a totally different person. Could it be that he might— No no, that's impossible, well, it would explain a lot, but again this is Derek we're talking about, though he does end up doing the most spontaneous things. Why am I getting so excited about the what-ifs?

Ah crap.

I've fallen for my step-brother. Could this week get even weirder?

Derek walks up to Casey, "You look cute when you're in deep thought," he says, not caring how Casey might perceive it.

Casey head pops up and she jumps up to hug Derek, involuntarily. "Wow, If I knew that little sentence could do this, then I would—, ah never mind, it appears I don't have a concussion and I didn't even need stitches, just a real bad migraine." Casey releases Derek, "That's good, really good."

"Umm, Casey, let's sit down for awhile, I need to say some things," Derek tells her, taking a seat on one of the chairs. Casey sits down, oh no.

"Uhh, how do I put this so that you'll understand," Derek ponders. Casey starts to sweat, oh no.

After a long pause, Derek turns to face Casey completely and looks in to her eyes, "I'm in love with you…" Casey eyes widened. "…unexpectedly," Derek continues.

Whoa, so forward Casey's mouth opens.

"Ah, before you say anything, just listen first," Derek stops her from replying. She closes her mouth but stares intensively at Derek.

Derek thinks to himself, I'm going to need a drink after this, "…Since I first met you. Well, I don't think I was in love with you, but I did find you very attractive, and that didn't make it easy, since we were living in the same house, so I had to act exactly the opposite of the way I felt, though it was fun at times, but in the end it made me very anxious. It was even worse when you started dating my best friend Sam, but what could I do. And then when the others came, they were no help. I couldn't do anything, and if I did it would just cause trouble for the family, my friends, and your friends. So I manned up, hoping these feelings would go away, but after everything that's happened this week, they've all come rushing back, and now I could care less what our family and friends might think. That's it."

Derek turns around and leans back on his seat, "Wow, you don't know how good that felt." He sighs.

"Oh I know," Casey replies, leaning toward Derek, placing her lips on his. Derek's eyes open, and then slowly close as they wrap their arms around each other.

After a few seconds, they break apart and stare into each others eyes, "So, I'm guessing you feel the same, and you're not just toying with me, 'cause we men have feelings too," Derek tells her. Casey laughs, "I think our roles are switched, usually I would say something like that." Derek smiles.

"So where do we go from here?" Casey asks.

"Not sure, but for right now, let's keep this between us, and we need to talk to Sally and Noel," Derek replies.

"This is going to be hard," Casey sighs.

"It will, but we can do this, one day at a time," Derek assures her.

"One day at a time."

Welp, I hope you found the little fights and confessions satisfying. Hmm, I wonder what's in store for Dasey. Do not change the channel, stay tuned.