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A/N: So, from the review(s), some of you may think this story is progressing a little too fast, maybe it is, but let's look at it this way. Okay, before the Contest, a year has past since the families merged, and so over that period of time, there were bound to be more and more "Dasey-like"moments, lol, maybe even some more intimate moments. And Derek in this story has had feelings for Casey since the beginning, and the Kiss, that was the straw that broke the camel's back. And also, the Kiss released the flood gates of emotions, so to speak. But if you guys think otherwise, I'll slow down, well, if that's even possible now. Tell me what you think.
Chapter 7: Our Spies
Still Monday 3:00-4:00PM Venturi-MacDonald Residence
George pulls in to the driveway. He notices that Casey's car is not home.
"Casey's not here, so that means Derek probably isn't either," he gathers, "But I'm sure they'll be back soon." He says, turning to his right to face Edwin.
"We'll be okay by ourselves, nothings going to happen," Edwin replies, "We're old enough to stay home by ourselves now." He shakes his head.
George ponders for a second, "Hmm. I guess you two are old enough, and Casey and Derek should be back anytime."
Edwin shakes his head again in agreement.
"Alright then, I will be right back after my meeting with Marti's teacher. Let's hope this meeting will be shorter than the others." George sighs.
Edwin and Lizzie exit the car and wave good bye to George as he pulls out. They enter the house and scope out the living room and kitchen. Edwin walks up the stairs to check the bedrooms, he comes right back down after finding no trace of Casey and Derek.
He walks up to Lizzie in the kitchen, "Derek's not here."
"Good."
"Yes. Good."
Edwin runs up to his room to get the video camera, and comes back down. Lizzie looks at him in bafflement.
"What do you plan on doing? Our own version of Punk'd" She asks.
"I know, I know, this wasn't in our plan, but this is the perfect opportunity to set up a hidden camera while they are not here," He explains.
"Hmm. I guess it is." She replies. "So, where are you going to put it?"
Edwin spins around looking for a place to set up the camera. "Ah, how about over here on the bookshelf in the living room, here we'll be able to record both the living room and kitchen." Edwin places the video camera on the corner shelf in the living room. "Okay, now we—," Edwin looks out the window, seeing that Casey and Derek are home, "Oh crap, they're home, let's go hide in the laundry room." Edwin quickly presses the record button on the camera.
The front door opens.
Derek and Casey walk up the stairs. They come back down soon after going up.
"No one's home," Derek inquires, jumping in to his chair.
"It appears that way," Casey replies, falling down on to the couch.
Casey grabs the remote but hesitates to turn on the TV.
She looks over to Derek, "What are we going to do tomorrow? Are we going to deny it or what?"
Derek turns his head, "I already know how to take care of that, so don't worry. When we go to school tomorrow, just pretend you never even heard the rumors."
Casey squints at him, "Explain."
Derek sighs, "I know who the person is that spread the rumors, and I plan to have a talk with him to clear up the misunderstanding."
Casey looks at him perplexed, "So that's it. You think having a talk is really going to work?"
Derek looks at Casey as if she just transformed into The Hulk, "Do you not know who I am? I'm Derek Venturi. There isn't anything I can't do."
Casey stares at him blankly, "But what if on the off chance, your little talk fails to convince the other party."
"Casey, listen. My talks don't fail. Plus, I've got enough dirt on this guy to wish he spread these types of rumors about himself instead of us."
Casey raises her eyebrow, "So who is this person."
"You wouldn't know him, he's a sophomore."
Casey waits for Derek to continue, "His name?"
"Like I said before, why not just pretend the rumors never happened starting now. Its better you don't know his name, plausible deniability." Derek replies.
"Huh? That doesn't even make sense," She says, "Now come on, tell me his name."
"Hey, whether it makes sense or not, I'm still not telling you," Derek affirms.
Casey concedes, "Fine, Fine, but I still have little hope in your abilities."
"Little hope?" Derek copies. "What a strong bond we share huh," He says sarcastically.
Casey looks at him apologetically, "I didn't mean it that way, it's just that this is an important matter and I don't know if the great Derek Venturi can solve it."
Derek gets out of his chair and moves to the couch right beside Casey.
"Casey, I know what I'm doing, I'm not totally oblivious to my surroundings," he replies, placing his hand in hers, "trust me."
Edwin and Lizzie are listening intently to the conversation in the living room.
Edwin whispers to Lizzie, "They stopped talking. Why'd they stop, it was getting so good."
Lizzie motions to Edwin to be quiet.
Lizzie whispers to Edwin, "Do you think they found the camera?"
Edwin shrugs his shoulders.
Casey gets up off the couch and walks to the stairs.
"Is nature calling?" Derek says, turning on the TV.
"It's none of your business," she says, running up the stairs.
Derek flips through the channels, landing on CNN oddly. What catches his interest is a special feature on increased U.F.O. sightings all over the world in the past two months, with thousands of onlookers witnessing the same U.F.O. sightings.
Derek quickly changes the channel to ESPN, hearing Casey walking down the stairs. No one can know he watches CNN, not even Casey.
Casey sits back down on the spot she was originally sitting on the couch, "I wonder why Edwin and Lizzie aren't home yet."
Derek keeps staring at the TV, "Hmm."
Casey sighs.
Back in the laundry room, "Wow, he doesn't seem very interested in our whereabouts." Lizzie whispers.
"He does, he's just not the type to show it, deep, deep, deep down inside he cares," Edwin replies.
Lizzie rolls her eyes.
"I wonder if they'll start talking about what they we're talking about earlier," Edwin says.
"I think that was the most we we're going to get out of that," Lizzie replies.
Ding, Dong, Ding
This doorbell rings.
Derek gets up and walks toward the door, opening it.
Derek's eyes widen, "S-Sally."
Right as the name Sally rolls off Derek's lips, Casey jumps up at attention.
"Uh-oh," Edwin mumbles, but not quiet enough to avoid Lizzie's ears.
Lizzie nudges Edwin with her shoulder, "What?"
Edwin scoots closer to her, "I think. I think I heard Derek say Sally's name."
"So Sally is the one at the front door?"
Edwin shakes his head, "It would explain, the him saying her name part."
Lizzie looks back at Edwin, "Uh-oh indeed."
A sinister grin coats Edwin's face, "A bad uh-oh for them, good uh-oh for us."
Lizzie smirks. "You're just having loads of fun, aren't you?"
"Of course, it's not every day I get a chance like this, to witness and record something that might be the biggest life changing event since…well…since ever," Edwin replies.
"Life changing? How will this be life changing?" Lizzie asks.
"It could be, if my suspicions are correct," Edwin replies. Lizzie looks stumped.
"Suspicions? What kind of—,"
Edwin covers her mouth, before she could finish, "Shh. They're talking again."
"Hey, why didn't you call me back," Sally asks, still waiting outside the front door.
Derek stammers as he replies, "Y-yeah, I-I was just about to call you, but now you've saved me some minutes," Derek manages to spit out.
Sally looks at him as if waiting for another response, "Well, are you suddenly allergic to women or are you going to let me in?
Derek snaps out of his dazed and confused state, "Oh-oh, y-yeah, come on in." Derek closes the door after Sally enters.
"Casey's home, right?" Sally asks, before stepping in to view of Casey in the living room, "She is."
"Hey Sally." Casey greets her nervously.
"Hey Casey."
Derek jumps in between them, "So Sally, you probably have a lot of questions to ask."
"Yes, I do."
"Well first off, let me just say this…it was all a big misunderstanding," Derek says, trying to avoid Casey's shocked looked.
"What?" Casey and Sally reply in unison, directing their attention at Derek.
Ah shit, I better talk fast, Derek thinks, realizing Casey's not going to like where he's going with this.
Derek's eyes wander to Casey then swiftly return back to Sally, "You see, what you might have heard, is most likely exaggerated and far from the truth."
Sally walks to the couch and sits down by Casey, who is still standing.
Sally looks away from the TV, up at Derek, "Okay. Then what's the truth."
Derek inhales, "While we we're at the party, one of my ex-girlfriends happened to be there, you know, the one that was beyond infatuated with me…"
Sally nods her head.
"…well, like I said, she was there, and she spotted me. By the time I hear someone call out my name, she's coming my way, and I can't deal with that, especially her, so I asked Casey to put on a show with me to hopefully repel her. Casey, quickly objected, but as little miss crazy was getting closer; I needed to do something quick and fast. Therefore, I somewhat pulled Casey closer to me to make it look like we were doing... stuff."
Sally averts her attention to Casey then back to Derek. Casey has now entered a conscious version of a comatose state, keeping her eyes on Derek.
"Nothing happened, it was just for show," Derek finishes.
"What about Noel, why did he suddenly tackle you," Sally asks.
Derek starts laughing nervously, "I guess he was fooled too."
Sally shakes her head, "Derek."
"Sorry. But yeah, when I did that, the ex went berserk on Casey, and I didn't notice till Casey screamed." Derek nods in the direction of Casey, "So I went over to them, to stop the fight and then we left soon after that. So, that's what really happened, nothing more." Derek says.
Sally sits there for a second taking in all that she just heard. She looks up at Casey, then her facial expression transforms from stern to compassionate, "Oh Casey, are you okay." Sally says, softly grabbing Casey's hand. Casey breaks from her concentration on Derek.
"Huh? Uh, yeah…" Casey replies, half-heartedly. She takes a glance at Derek who's giving her the signal to please keep up the charade. She looks back down at Sally, and shines a fake smile, "…I'm okay. I was just a little shocked when she attacked me."
"Of course, if that would've been me instead of you, I probably would've slapped her to next Tuesday," Sally replies.
Derek laughs apprehensively, "That's for sure, for Casey to do something like that is unfathomable."
Casey reverts back to her regular self, "Unfathomable? Did you get that from you Word-Of-The-Day calendar or are you finally reading books?" She scoffs, folding her arms. Derek frowns.
Sally sighs and stands up, "Whew, and I was anxious in coming here, it seems I have nothing to worry about." Derek and Casey turn their heads toward Sally, "Huh?" They both reply.
Sally chuckles. "Hey Derek, I'm meeting Jill in an hour can come with me, so you can explain and also to apologize I guess." She says.
"Oh, uhh yeah, I should do that, huh," he grins. Sally and Derek walk toward the front door. Derek grabs his jacket and waits for Sally cross the threshold, and turns back to Casey, mouthing the phrase, I'll explain when I get home.
"I'll be back later tonight, bye." He says, saying I love you in sign language before closing the door.
Casey smiles slightly at the hand gestures thinking to herself, what was that, why not just tell her, ugh. Casey walks up the stairs to her room.
"I think the coast is clear now," Edwin guesses.
Edwin and Lizzie open the laundry room door.
"Wow"
"Wow"
Edwin puts his hands on hips, "Who would've thought it was going to be this good."
"It's good, but I don't think it's of any use to us. As you know, it was a misunderstanding," Lizzie replies.
Edwin leans in toward her, "Or so they say." Edwin gives an evil laugh.
Lizzie frowns, "You won't give up will you?"
"Nope."
"Well, I'm out." Lizzie replies walking out of the laundry room.
"You sure. Alright." Edwin says. "I'd better go retrieve the camera, and review the footage."
Mwa ha-ha ha-ha
A/N: Hmm, I don't think Derek and Casey's new found love will be an easy ride. Oh, I was late in updating this chapter, 'cause my mind was swarming with plots and ideas for the sequel, so it kind of distracted me from writing this chapter.
Enjoy, lates.