Alright, I thought this chapter was kind of funny at certain parts. This is where they put their plan to test! Hope everyone enjoys! And I want to thank everyone for the amazing reviews!! I think I have an idea on how this story will end. ( I know I have said this before but I think I really know for sure this time!)
At 6:00 AM, my alarm started to go off. I felt Derek's arms around me and I knew that he had to go soon before we got caught. I reached out and turned the alarm off and faced Derek.
"Hey, you have to get up."
"Mmm five more minutes, please."
"We might get caught if you stay. Derek please you have to go."
He began to smile and finally complied. He got out of bed and pulled his pajama pants back on. When did he take those off? I watched him as he leaned back down and kissed my cheek before he opened the door and started to walk out.
"See you at breakfast Case." He whispered before fully closing the door. I fell back down into my bed and wrapped myself in the sheets; the sheets that smelled like him. I finally fell back asleep, only to be woke up to the smell of bacon. I got out of bed and grabbed my clothes for the day and made my way to the shower. Once I was showered and dressed I went to Derek's room to see if he was awake yet. Of course he wasn't but I took it upon myself to wake him up.
"Morning handsome."
"Oh Casey, come on I'll be down in a minute."
"Alright then we can set our plan to work." I leaned down and moved his hair out of his face and kissed his forehead. "See you soon."
After breakfast I sent Derek a text to distract the kids while I went to find Lizzie's tape recorder. He looked up and nodded yes as a go ahead for me to go and look for it. It only took me about ten minutes to find it. She had it in a box in her closet and once I found it, I ran as fast as I could to get out of her room.
I made my way downstairs and nodded to Derek to let him know I found it. He motioned for me to go to the kitchen so a few seconds after he went in there, I followed.
"Where is it at?" He asked.
"Underneath my bed, are you ready to go set everything up?"
"Yeah, is the camera under your bed too?"
"Yes, just try to be quick about it, we can't get caught."
"I will, I already know the perfect place to put the camera and the recorder can go under his bed. How long does the tape recorder, record for?"
"Maybe three hours…?" I answered unsure.
"Alright, well if I need to get out of there just give me a signal, okay?"
"Yes, now hurry."
I went back to the living room where Lizzie was watching TV. I sat down next to her on the couch, and thought of what I could say to her.
"So… Liz…what'cha watching?"
"Just some movie, nothing too spectacular. You can change it if you want."
"No, that's okay Liz…"
"Okay…you're acting strange Casey."
"Why? Can't I hang with my favorite little sister?"
"HEY!!" Marti yelled from the dinning room table.
"Oh you know what I mean Marti."
I got up and walked over to the table where Marti and Edwin were at.
"What are you reading Ed?"
"Just a magazine, but it is kind of boring. I think I might go upstairs."
"What? No… you can't!"
"Why not? I want to play on my computer."
"Yeah, I think I am going to go take a shower, since nothing is on the TV right now." Lizzie said as she got off the couch.
"Wait, guys no you can't. Lets just sit here and talk for awhile."
"Casey you're acting strange again." Lizzie said.
"Yeah Casey, are you feeling okay?"
"Umm… I am fine…" I said as they made their way to the staircase.
"Umm… Uhh… CAW! CAW!!! CAAAAW!!" I immediately turned red as I did this. I felt like a complete idiot.
"Did you just caw? Like--"
"Like a bird?" Edwin finished Lizzie's sentence.
"No, I didn't caw like a bird. You both must be hearing things." I said as I walked passed them and ran up the stairs.
"CAW! CAW!! CAAAAW!"
I stood up from finally placing the camera in place when I heard this god awful sound. Shit the signal! I ran out of Edwin's room and made it to the bathroom before I saw Casey frantically running towards me. She grabbed me and pulled me into the bathroom and closed the door.
"All you could come up with is cawing like a bird? Casey that is so noticeable!"
"You didn't tell me what kind of signal you wanted. I did the first thing that came to my mind."
"Did anyone notice?"
"Well… I mean… yeah, they did."
"Wait, I hear something." I said. It was muffled and kind of hard to decipher.
"…you…really…shower? …come…my room…finished."
I looked at Casey and the same thought crossed our minds. Lizzie is about to come in here. I reached out and turned the lock right before she tried to open it.
"Hello? I need in there."
Casey looked at me as if she was trying to tell me to do something about it. I took a deep breath and finally spoke.
"Oh Liz, I will be a minute. I just got in here an--"
"OUCH! Crap that hurt!" Casey said from behind me with a thud. I turned around and saw her on the floor. It appeared as she had fallen down somehow. I whispered 'shh' to her so Lizzie wouldn't know we were both in the bathroom.
"Uh, Derek, is Casey in there with you?"
"No…why do you ask?" I said.
"I just thought I heard her in there."
"No, no you didn't. Now can I have some privacy please?" I asked.
"Uh, sure Derek; I'll come back in a little bit."
I turned towards Casey and she was rubbing her ankle.
"Man that was close huh? Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I am fine I just tripped over the rug somehow." She responded.
"Well come on, lets get out of here before we get caught, again."
I opened the door and peeked down the hallway each way before I thought the coast was clear. I walked out and went to my room where Casey went downstairs to get some ice for her ankle. After a few minutes I heard a knock on my door.
"Come in." I said as I looked up from my computer to see who it was.
"Hey Case, how is your ankle?" I asked.
"Oh it's fine. Thanks for asking. But I was hoping that we could talk… you know…about us."
"Sure, sit and we will talk."
"Well I was thinking, since the party and all, and everything that has been going on…"
"Yeah?" I asked.
"How would you feel about us… being--"
"Being together?" I finished.
"Uh, yeah… I mean if you think it's a good idea."
"Casey MacDonald wants to be my girlfriend!" I said picking on her.
"Well jeez Derek, you don't have to make fun of me, I just thought that with everything that has happened, maybe you would want to. I guess I was very wrong."
"No, you were very right. Sorry I didn't mean to make you feel bad."
"It's okay. So this is for real? You want to be my boyfriend?"
"Yes, I do."
She giggled a little bit, kissed my lips and then got up to leave. Once she reached the door she turned around and stopped.
"I have never had a secret relationship before. How does this work?"
"Go call Emily, but no one else can know, at least until we leave after the summer for college."
"Sounds great." She said with her smile growing back on her face.
That night we slept in the same bed again, only this time it was mine. When I woke up she was gone. I got out of bed and went to the bathroom to get ready for the day. It wasn't even 11:00 AM yet. I went downstairs and saw Casey making some breakfast.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"Morning Der, I thought I would make you some breakfast. I already ate with the rest of the family."
"Are we all alone?" I asked.
"Why yes we are. Who knew being in grade 12 could be so great! Everyone else still has school for two more days and here we are, getting to sleep in and do nothing."
"Well that doesn't sound like something you would say. It sounds like something I would say."
"Yeah, your right."
"At least were home alone though…" I said hinting towards something.
"You know what that means right?" She asked with a grin. I knew I was about to get lucky.
"I sure do know what that means. Come here." I said as I grabbed her waist and pulled her to me.
"We get to look at the evidence."
"Oh. Right. I almost forgot."
We went up to Edwin's room and I pulled the tape recorder from his bed and Derek took the video camera out from its hiding spot. We then ran back to my room to go over what we had found. I sat down Indian style on my bed and he followed suit and sat down next to me. I began to test out the tape recorder, while he still had the video camera. I pushed the play button and it was silent. I fast-forward a little bit and pushed play. There was still nothing. I made it all the way to the end of the tape and there was no sound at all on it.
"DEREK!"
"What Case?"
"You did push record, didn't you?"
"Oh shit. Maybe, maybe not."
"What the hell Der? That was all part of the plan!"
"Well maybe if you weren't downstairs 'cawing' like a bird, I wouldn't have been so distracted and could have gotten it done right!"
"Oh don't you dare try to blame this on me! Your task was simple. PLANT. THE. STUFF. And then get out of there."
"Is this our first fight as a couple?"
"Derek, don't change the subject. And yes it is."
"Sweet, we didn't even make a full day. This is great."
"Great? Damnit Derek. You are so cruel."
"Come here Case, I am sorry. I don't want to fight. Let's just see what we got on the video. Okay?"
I glared at him before I finally agreed. I scooted really close to him and he kissed me on my cheek before he pushed play on the camera. He fast-forwarded till we saw action in the room. Edwin was on the screen and seemed to be looking for something. Then Lizzie came in and Edwin immediately stopped and embraced her. He pushed the fast-forward button again once the room was empty. Once again they came back on the screen and kissed for a little bit and then left again. Finally Edwin had crawled into bed, and it was kind of hard to see what was going on. It was very obvious when Lizzie had made her way into his room and crawled in bed with him. Derek paused and looked over at me and we both had the same shocked plastered on our faces.
"Turn the volume up all the way." I said. He turned the camera to the side and slide the volume knob all the way up, then pushed play again.
We could barley hear what was being said by Edwin, but Lizzie's voice was very clear.
"Ed, come on. Please? Just one time."
All we could hear from Edwin was groans and grunts and then what we saw shocked us even more. We saw Edwin crawl from underneath the covers and get on top of Lizzie.
"Derek, we shouldn't watch this." I said to him, but when our eyes connected, his face was red with anger.
"How could he do this Casey? They are too young!"
He fast-forwarded past the intimacy between our two younger siblings only glancing to see if they were finished yet. Once they were done and clothed he pushed play again.
"Thanks Ed."
"For what?"
"For tonight, I love you."
"I love you too Liz, good night."
The tape ended about thirty minutes after the whole ordeal. I looked up at Derek and I could tell he was still fuming.
"What do we do?" I asked.
"We show them and tell them that they can't keep doing that. I mean shit Casey, we don't even do that."
"Alright, after dinner let's confront them." I said a little unsure of how this would go later.
Okay, so what did everyone think of how Casey and Derek's plan went?
