Casey POV

There I sat at my computer deleting everything he wrote me. How could he? We had been so in love! Or so I thought. My phone rang and I rushed to get it. The caller id read Sam.

"Hello?" I said into the phone.

"Casey, hey, are you okay."

"Yeah, um I'm fine."

"You don't sound fine, you want to come over and talk about it?"

"Yeah, I'd like that, be over in a sec."

We hung up.

I grabbed my keys and left.

With in ten minutes I was knocking on Sam's door.

"Hey," he said welcoming me in, "let sit."

"Thanks, I need to vent."

"So what exactly happened?"

"Where do I start? Derek and I have been together since our senior year in high school, 5 years and last yesterday I left him only for 5 minutes to use the washroom and I come back to him and Kendra making out."

"He loved you, are you sure it was his fault?"

I nodded

"I can't believe it."

Sam put his hand in hands.

I broke done right there on Sam's couch. He put his arms around me and held me close. I cried into his shirt.
"I want him back, but it hurts so badly!"

"Casey, he did something that is awful and unacceptable, but is it unforgivable?"

I nodded.

I sat in his apartment that night, all we did was talk and I cried.

It was 8 o'clock was the doorbell rang. Sam got off the couch and answered the door. Emily brushed past him to the couch. "Casey, hey, it's okay." She said hugging me. Sam looked confused. "I can explain, when you called I had been talking to Emily on MSN and forgot to tell her I was leaving." I explained. "I figured she was over here." Emily replied. Sam nodded understandingly as his cell rang, "Its Derek." "Put it on speaker." I said with an evil grin. He pressed the speaker phone button.
"Derek, hey"

"Hey Sam"

"What's up?"

"I messed up, big time."

"I know"
"How?"

"Emily told me."

"Oh"

There was a long pause

"Well I better go."

The line went dead.

I had to leave for work at 10. When I arrived I put on my lab coat and grabbed my clip board. "Dr. McDonald, paging Dr. McDonald, your needed in the Emergency Ward." said the loud speaker. I headed down towards the Emergency Ward. An ambulance zoomed to the entrance. I got a glimpse of the first person coming on a stretcher down the hall. It was someone from the hockey team.

A year later I sit at my desk with my head resting on my arms. "Dr. McDonald there's someone here to see you, should I send him in?" The receptionist, Diane, asks. "Go a head." I say standing up. "Hey baby." Sam says coming up to me. "Hey," I say kissing him. Sam is my boyfriend of 6 months. "So you want to go to lunch?" he asks. "Sure," I say slipping off my lab coat and letting down my hair. As we walk out the door I yell back at Diane, "I'll be back at 1!" That gives me an hour to eat.

Sam pulled up to Nicky's around 12:05. Nicky's is a diner that was down a dirt road. He comes around and opens my door from me, we walk hand in hand up to the door, which he opens for me, "Ladies first." He says. I laugh and walk in. "Casey! Sam!" Nicky says walking up to us. "Hey Nicky" I say giving him a hug. "You just missed Marti." Nicky says, over the years he has become like part of the family. Sam and I sit in our normal booth and Nicky brings us over regular food. As we eat Sam keeps staring at me, it's really getting on my nerves. "What are you staring at?" I ask. "You." He says making me smile. Why doesn't he just stop! Derek never stared at me like this! Sure there were a few quick glances or I'd catch him staring for a moment and he would look back down at his food. I mean this is seriously bugging me! I think. "Sam, would you stop?" I ask. He shakes his head 'no'. "No? Derek never stared at me and I liked it that why but I mean you just keep watching me!" I snap. Sam halts in mid bite, "What do Derek have to do with this?" he asks. "Look, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have brought him up, but come on this is really bugging me!" I say. "So I bug you and Derek didn't?" Sam asks getting angry.

The door to the diner bursts opened. "Hey Derek thanks for bringing me back I can't believe I left my purse." Marti says. "No problem." Derek says. I feel the back of my neck getting hot; it's rising to my face. "Hey Derek" Sam says with the same anger in his voice. "Hey Sam, what's up?" Derek asks nearing the table. "Oh well my girl friend is just comparing me to you." Sam says getting up and walking off. I can feel Derek coming closer, knowing him he is trying to think of who I am. Then Emily walks through the door. "Jenny, there you are!" She says pushing past Derek and grabbing my wrist. She takes me outside. "Thank you so much Em!" I say. "Hop in I'll take you back to work." She says knowing that Sam brought me here and I didn't have a ride back. "See you later Em." I say getting out of the car and heading back into the hospital.

The day seemed to drag on and on, but I can't remember much that happened after lunch. I'm just glad to be home. I log in to my yahoo account. One new e-mail, I click my inbox and there I see an e-mail address I know like my own. What to do, I wonder. I open the e-mail.

Dear Casey,

I'm sorry about causing whatever problem I caused between you and Sam. Yeah, I know it was you at the diner. You're the reason I came into the diner. I saw you and Sam talking, then he seemed to get mad and I know how bad it can get when he gets mad. Were you really comparing me to Sam? Well, anyway I was hoping maybe we could go someplace and talk. I really want to hear from you soon.

Derek Venturi

Here I sit again at the computer on the verge of tears. I pick up the phone. "Lizzie I need to talk to you." I say when she answers. I tell her everything. "E-mail him back, say you'll go to dinner with him to talk, answer hit questions. Now I have to go." She says hanging up. I sit back down at the computer.

Dear Derek,

It wasn't your fault Sam and I got into a fight. I had been tell him that you never stared at me all through a meal and I liked it that way, but he always stars at me, every single move I make! Yes, he did get mad, but he'll have to deal.

Casey McDonald

I slowly hit the send button.