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Cell Phones, Facebook & Stickers

"Der-ek!" Casey yelled up the stairs, hands balled up in fists by her side. I'm going to really kill him this time. She thought.

Derek smirked upstairs. Right on schedule, he thought looking at the clock as he passed into the hallway.

"Derek get down here right-" Casey stopped mid yell as Derek appeared at the landing, confused look in place.

"What's your problem now?" He asked leaning against the banister, just out of her reach.

"You're always my problem." Casey gritted her teeth and took a step up the first stair to the landing.

Derek snickered at that.

"I don't have time for your childish games right now, where is my cell phone?" She took one more step towards him, glaring directly into his eyes. Don't mess with me Derek.

Derek shrugged and carelessly looked around the empty living room. "I don't know. Why do you need it anyways? It's not like anymore important ever calls you."

She poked a finger hard at his chest, backing him to the wall. "What did you do with it?"

Derek grabbed her shoulders and turned her around on the post. "Maybe you should open your eyes before going around falsely accusing innocent people."

Sure enough sitting on dead center on the coffee table was Casey's cell phone. She spun and stared him down. "That wasn't there a minute ago."

Before she could argue any further the doorbell rang, cueing her date was there. With one final warning glance to him she ran and grabbed the phone off the table. "If you did anything to my phone-"

"Relax, I have much better things to be doing on a Saturday night than to be playing with your cell phone." His smirk told otherwise, but she had already missed that.

Let the games begin. Derek thought as the door closed and he headed back up to his room to meet up with Edwin and continue their plans for the night.

…

Casey was nervously fidgeting with her purse as she waited for Brandon to park the car. She had never had a guy bring her to a fancy restaurant on a first date before, let alone a guy she liked this much.

Brandon walked up to the entrance and gave Casey a confident smile; she did her best to reciprocate. "You ready beautiful?"

Casey's felt her face flush at his easy compliment. "Absolutely."

"Great, than shall we?" He held open the door and with a flourish motioned her in.

She couldn't help but giggle as she thought to herself; I guess chivalry isn't dead after all.

…

"Say Derek, not that I'm not always up for a good prank, but I thought you liked Brandon." Edwin said cautiously looking up at Derek from his place on the bed.

"That's just it. I like him, so I'm saving him from dating Casey." And there is no way I'm letting Casey date him.

"Uh-huh." Edwin still was staring at him in a way that made Derek uncomfortable, so Derek grabbed the phone out of his younger brother's hand and shoved him backwards flat onto the bed.

"Ed, enough with the small talk. Why don't you watch and learn." With that he picked up the first phone of the desk in front of him and began dialing.

…

Casey and her date had sat down in the quiet dimly lit dinning room. Brandon had ordered for Casey, and to her surprise without her consent. She was in the middle of contemplating whether flattered or upset by the gesture when a loud ringtone began. Everyone within hearing of the song began to chuckle.

"When I get that feeling, I need sexual healing. Sexual healing…"

Casey and Brandon shared an awkward smile as they like everyone else looked around to who the tone belonged to. Then to Casey's horror she realized it was coming from the bag behind her chair, right about the same time her date did.

"Do you, uh, wanna get that?" He said trying to hold back his laughter.

Casey was burning red and seething as she answered. "No it can go to voicemail."

Derek is so dead when I get home. She thought.

And a moment later the call went to voicemail and things went back to normal at the tables around them. At Casey and Brandon's table though he was staring at her waiting and to her absolute horror before she could reply the song started back up again. Casey grabbed for the phone as soon as she could to silence it, and just shut it off.

But nothing happened. Frantically she looked at the id and decided to answer it. She smiled sheepishly at Brandon as she flipped open the phone, and turned away from the table. "Der-ek!" She hissed into the phone. "What do you want?!"

A light laughter came from the other end. "Wow Casey that ringback tone is really inappropriate, you should change it before Nora hears it."

She froze. "What ringback? I don't have a ringback… Derek what did you do?"

"I did nothing, but seriously what if Lizzie or Marti were to hear a song about that what would they think?" Casey could see the smirk in her head, and wished she was in range to smack it off.

"Listen Derek, whatever little prank you and probably Edwin are playing, knock it off. Or else!" She slammed the phone shut, furious.

When she turned back to the table Brandon looked amused. "Everything okay?"

"Yeah, sorry about that. I'm shutting it off, so we won't have any more rude interruptions." She said hitting the off button. Again though like with the silence button nothing happened, only this time she noticed the screen prompting her for a password. Derek had put a lock on her phone.

"You've got to be kidding me." Casey mumbled, and flipped the phone over to just pull out the battery. Unfortunately Derek had thought of that too. On top of the battery was a small note informing her that the battery was super glued in, not to even bother. "Oh come on!"

"It can't be that bad." Brandon offered across the table.

"Derek changed my ringtones, password and super glued the battery so I couldn't remove it… and you're saying it's not that bad?" Casey couldn't help but glare at the man laughing at her across the table. Figures Brandon would choose his teammate's side. She was finding him less charming by the minute.

…

Back at the Venturi house Derek was widely smirking at how seamlessly his plan was going. "Alright Ed, time for phase two. House phone please."

He held his hand out and Edwin jumped handing him the phone beside him.

This time Casey answered the first time he called. Derek wondered what her face looked like when "Peaches and Cream" started playing. He knew she found that particular song especially explicit.

"You have no idea what you are getting yourself into. I am going to-"

"Yeah, sure I'm scared Case. Listen Nora wanted to know if you could get some milk on your way home. Great, thanks." He threw the words out of his mouth as fast as he could and hit the end button.

Edwin grinned at him and took the house phone from his hand. "Well?"

"She sounds like she wants to skin me alive." Derek said proudly.

"So things are right on track then?" Edwin asked with raised eyebrows.

"Exactly." Derek leaned back in his chair, folding his hands behind his head.

…

Two hours, and three more outrageously inappropriate ringtones later Derek was innocently sitting at his desk when he heard the front door slam closed.

He counted to five before he heard the scream. "DER-EK!!!!"

She didn't wait for him though. This time she was up the stairs and barging into his room before he had time to get up. He glanced up at her.

Casey threw her cell directly at him, hitting him hard in the chest. "Hey!"

"Fix it right now!" She said crossing her arms. "And maybe, just maybe if when I get back its back to normal and you give me the money for all those disgusting things you downloaded I won't tell Mom and George what you did."

He rolled his eyes at her. "Huh?"

Casey was beyond playing his games though as she walked over to him and leaned over till her face was inches from his.

God, why does she always have to smell so good? Derek wondered briefly while rolling backwards away from her.

"You ruined what could have been the best date I've ever had with your stupid immature prank." Her eyes were lit up with fire, and Derek had a hard time not laughing at the statement. He figured now might be a good time for the enlightenment portion of the evening.

"Actually I think you should be thanking me."

Casey glared. "Oh I'll thank you…"

Derek readjusted himself back in front of the computer, pushing Casey to the side. "And maybe apologizing to his girlfriend."

That stopped her in her tracks. "What are you talking about? Brandon doesn't have a girlfriend."

Derek nodded his head to the screen which was displaying Brandon's Facebook page. "See for yourself."

Sure enough Brandon's status displayed he was in a relationship with one Libby Peterson. Casey just stared at the screen.

"Maybe next time you should do your research." Derek was smug now seeing her shocked face. He had worn a similar one a few hours ago.

Derek had been friends with Brandon on Facebook for a while, as he was with all his teammates, but never bothered looking at his page until earlier that day when Casey announced she was going out with him. Then when he saw that Brandon was in a relationship with a girl from a different school he knew he had to take action. It was like Scott the scummy soccer coach all over again, but the last thing he needed to do was to alert Edwin that he was looking out for Casey again. So instead he stole Casey's phone while she was getting ready and planned out a prank strategy to end the date as quickly as possible. And much to his satisfaction it had worked.

He watched as the shock in her face turned to anger. "That jerk!"

"How could you let me go out with him knowing that?" She said turning her anger on Derek. His mouth dropped open in confusion and before he could retort she had stormed out of his room.

…

Five minutes later Derek knocked on Casey's door and walked in before she had answered. She was in her pj's on her computer, with her back to him.

"Hey."

She slowly looked over her shoulder and saw him holding up her phone. She cautiously turned in the chair. "Is it back to normal?"

"Yup." He placed the phone on her bed and looked at the floor.

"Hey Derek… thank you for telling me." Her voice was subdued and almost a mumble.

"Sure." His was the same, and when he looked up they shared one of their rare genuine smiles before he turned and left.

…

The next day Casey confronted Brandon at lunch and poured his chocolate pudding down his shirt.

Derek laughed harder than anyone else in the cafeteria.

In fact he couldn't wipe the smile off his face for the rest of the day thinking about the scene and the look on Brandon's face.

That was until later that night after dinner when he realized his phone was missing. When he yelled into the hall to Casey that he wanted his phone back, it wasn't Casey who responded, but Marti.

With a smile and bounce in her step she skipped from her room to Derek's with his phone in her hand. "Here you go Smerek. Casey said you wished your phone was prettier so I shared decorated it for you. Do you like it?"

Derek looked down to his phone and saw it was covered in glittery princess stickers. Casey!