So this gives you some background about Derek and Mark. You have to have Mark in a story. Come on...it's Mark. (:

Anyway...I hope you enjoy!

Chapter One: If Anyone Cared

"So who was that babe I saw through the window?"

Derek lit his cigarette and kept driving, trying to ignore his best friend, Mark. He always seemed to have something to say about every girl that he saw, or walked by.

"Hello?"

"I don't know. She works at the gas station. It was obvious she had a thing for me. I just played it off cool. Why do you care?" He groaned.

"Geez Man, I just wanted to know what her name was..."

"Again, she works there. I'm not going to sit around and wait for her to tell me her name. I got what we needed and got out."

"You could atleast..."

"Mark. She was hot. There. Satisfied?"

"Thank you."

Derek never admitted outloud what he really felt. He put up a wall to everyone, even Mark. Mark had been his bestfriend sense he was 5, and he still wouldn't tell him how he felt any day of the week. Derek really was attracted to the girl in the gas station. The way her long curls set perfectly, and how her persing green eyes saw right through him. Chances of him seeing her again would be slim. He continued speeding by as Mark sat in the passengers seat, playing on his phone.

"What are you doing?" Derek asked.

"You know that chick?"

"You're going to have to be a little more specific...There's been many."

"Lexie...Green. No, Greg. No wait...Gre...Grey! Lexie Grey!"

"Yeah...Didn't you meet her at a party or something?"

"Yeah.. she was there with her cousin or...sister. She was there with her sister."

"Sister. Mhh..."

"Don't get any ideas. I actually really like this girl." Derek started laughing.

"What?"

"You can't be serious?" Derek said as he lit another cigarette.

"Yep. I am. Something about her. It drives me crazy. Oh, and we're going to that party tonight."

"Let me guess...she'll be there?"

"You got it." Mark grinned.

Mark turned back to his phone and Derek kept his eyes on the road. They were fresh out of high school, and had nothing planned for themselves. Mark's parents never gave a rat's ass about him, and Derek's was the same way. They never cared what they did or how much trouble they got into. College was an option, but they thought they could atleast live a little before going.

Mark and Derek were never relationship guys. They didn't do relationships period. You could basically call them manwhores. They slept around 24/7; Smoke and Drank. Besides their jobs at the local grocery store, that's all they did. They weren't proud of it, but it kept them sane. They had there parent's to blame for it. If they hadn't of acted like they were their mid-life crisis, their live's would've been different. Mark being interested in a girl, and not just for sex, was a shock. Derek only had one long-term relationship, and it didn't work out so well. Maybe it was that he never found the right girl. Or never had that spark with someone. He brushed it off and started to think about something else. Things like that didn't exsist to him. Good things don't happen to guys like him.

Or so he thought...

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