I Don't Own Life With Derek

"I got accepted!" Derek yelled throughout the house, as he ran down the steps. By the way he sounded, pounding on them, you would think he was 500 pounds.

"Huh?" Casey asked from the couch. "I got in to NYU!" Derek yelled. His eyes were big and his heart was pumping so fast that Casey could almost see it. "No way." She whispered as she read over the paper in his hand.

"How did you get in!?" She yelled, obvious anger filling her voice. "I've been trying to get in there forever!" Her face was turning red, and Derek could tell she was furious, it only made him even more happy.

"My grades picked up, plus, late night hockey practices." Derek raised his eye brow and flashed a proud smile. "There's no way." She took the paper from his hands and read it over.

"Dear Mr. Venturi,
We are pleased to accept you into New York University."

That's all she needed to read before she shoved the paper back into his face and stormed out of the room.

"I'm stuck in Canada while hes going to the states!?" She screamed to herself in the kitchen. Derek did feel a little guilty, Casey had been trying to get in there since she first got to high school. He was almost sure she would get in before they even thought about him.

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Dinner time at the McDonald/Venturi home was not only awkward, but annoying. Derek kept trying to get Casey to look him in the eyes, but Casey refused to look anywhere other than her plate of food, that she wasn't eating. "Casey, honey, your not hungry?" Nora asked from the end of the table. "You know, I think I'm just going to go to bed." Casey said, pushing her plate out in front of her, and pushing the table so that her chair slid back.

"Its 7 'o clock?" Nora said, but Casey was already walking up the steps.

Nora let her head fall in her hands and the kids just sat silently. George looking down at the table, but none were expecting what was next. "I'll go talk to her." Derek said, surprising everybody.

"No, that will only make things worse." George said sternly.

"No it wont." Derek said, pushing his chair out. He didn't care what his father said or thought, he was going to talk to her no matter how mad, or how much she hated him right now, and probably will for the rest of her life.

He slowly walked up the steps, and knocked on her bed room door. "Case?" He whispered. He could hear her sniffling. "Go away!" She yelled, but Derek just opened the door, and walked in. She was hugging her pillow, and had her face buried into it.

"I wont go." He whispered, looking down at his feet. "No, dont be stupid..." Casey whispered into the pillow. She slowly looked up and wiped the tears from her eyes. "Dont let me hold you back." She said.

"No, its not just that." Derek ran his fingers through his hair and tried to breathe. He tried to think about what he was going to say next, but there was no time. If he was going to say it, he might as well say it now. Casey looked at him as if he was stupid. "What is it than?" She assumed that he was going to say something cocky and mean, but what he said next, was probably the highlight of her life.

"I'm afraid of change. I've built my life around you."

Casey didn't bother to turn her head and hide her blushing cheeks, she just looked at him in amazement. "What?" She whispered.

"I wake up, yell at you for eating my cereal, then I make a rude comment about your hair. Then I go to school and think about an amazing prank that you would never think I would do. Then when we get home, we fight over the remote, then when we go to bed... I sit up late at night, and listen to you talk on the phone to Emily."

Casey's heart skipped a beat, and Derek could tell, but he kept going.

"I listen to you telling her how much you love me, and how stupid I am." Derek looked down at the floor, and shoved his hands in his pockets. "Then I go to sleep and dream about you all night. Then wake up and do it all over again. What am I supposed to do if I go to NYU?"

Sorry its short, but i needed to stop it there. This story isnt going to be too long, i already know how i want to end it. There was only be a few more chapters, but I promise they will be good (: