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by youngone3562132

After Casey has a truamatic experience, the least likely person to comfort her, comes to her aid. After helping Casey through her ordeal, she begins to see this person in a different light. My summary is awful. DASEY. Rating may go up.

4. Thursday

Again, thanks for all the comments.

I can only guess how much time my uncle has left. It is not long from what my mom says. I'm only hoping that this pain will soon be over for my uncle. Until last weekend, I have never seen my uncle cry. The only time he has cried was when his dog passed and when my grandmother passed.

Today is Sunday, March 15: My family knows it won't be long before my uncle passes. He is lucky if he still has a week. So for the next week I won't be writing. Tonight, I am trying to write as much as possible so during the week I can post a few chapters.

This is just really sad because I'm use to seeing him laugh and laugh so hard that the room becomes consumed with laughter from everybody. Now, he is suffering and in turn my whole family is suffering.

This chapter is not the best, I will try to correct it at a later time, but for now I just needed to post this to continue writing the next chapter.

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A/N: "Thoughts are in italics"

.......................... DREAMS..................................

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Life with Derek

Changes: Chapter 4

Thompson High School: 9:20 AM Thursday morning

Paul is writing a report on relationships for a study he is apart of. He keeps look at his watch then looks to the door. He breathes a sigh of relief.

"Two days. That is unusual for Casey, but better for me. At least I am able to concentrate on this paper." Paul mumbles to himself.

The door opens and a stressed Casey walks inside. The door closes as fast as it opens. Casey is sweating and shaking slightly. Her eyes are blood shot and sinking. Her hair is tussled and her clothes are slightly wrinkled.

"Casey... what happened?" Paul asks.

"Derek." Casey says.

"What, did he take your clothes again and force you to wear his?" Paul chuckles.

"No, I've been up since 3:00 AM and hopped up on coffee." Casey says in a whisper. "I'm tired."

"Maybe you should go home and get some sleep..." Paul suggests.

"No...No...NO!" Casey yells. "I can't go home. I need to work. I need to focus on school. I need to stop thinking about Derek."

"Casey. What do you mean 'thinking about Derek'?" Paul asks.

Casey's eyes grew big as she looks to Paul. Paul looks at her half grinning, half frowning. Casey lets out a nervous chuckle and her face falls to a pout. She sighs deeply and faces Paul.

"Late Monday night, early Tuesday morning, I started have dreams..." Casey begins.

"Go on." Paul asks.

"The dreams were similar to those I had about Truman. Actually they are the same except the ending is different." Casey explains.

"Different in what sense?" Paul questions.

"Well at the end of my dream, Truman kisses me..." Casey explains.

"That is not so different from the dreams you had before." Paul states.

"Except for the fact that someone pushes Truman away from me." Casey adds.

"What?" Paul asks.

"In this dream when Truman and I kiss, we are broken up almost immediately..." Casey begins.

.............................Casey is walking down the school hallway. She constantly looks over her shoulder. When she breathes a sigh of relief, someone walks into her. She groans in pain and looks forward to see who ran into her.

"Are you looking for me?" Truman asks.

"No, I was trying to get away from you." Casey says.

Casey looks Truman in the eye and slowly moves closer. Almost forcing herself to move closer and Truman completes the distance and his lips collide with hers. Casey opens her eyes when she starts to feel uncomfortable, but can't back away. Truman has his arms around her to keep her from moving.

"Hey, Truman!" Someone says angrily.

"Not n..." Truman starts before he is shoved.

Truman is pulled away from Casey. Casey doesn't want to look to see who stopped the kiss, but when she sees a leather jacket in the corner of her eye, she gasps quietly. She turns to look at the person. The person walk up to Truman, who is lying on the ground and picks him up. Truman's eyes grow in fear.

"If I were you I'd stopped hitting on someone else's girlfriend before something bad happens." The person says. "Now, GO!"

Truman runs down the hallway like a bat out of hell. The person turns to Casey and Casey can only stand still. As much as she wants to move she cannot because of what the person has just said. Because of what her STEPBROTHER has said. She closes and opens her eyes rapidly to see if he standing before her is real. Nothing changes as her stepbrother comes closer to her.

"Derek." Casey whispers.

Derek looks at her. His eyes focus on her deep blue eyes as if mesmerized by them. Her blue eyes lost in his brown. Everything, and everyone around them cease to exist. They are the only two left in the school. Casey leans closer to Derek and Derek finally brings his lips to hers.

The kiss cannot be put into words. The feeling when their lips touch is like the burst of 4th of July fireworks, and neither can think straight. Derek put everything into that kiss and Casey starts to respond when his arms wrap around her waist. If anything, Casey was sure that this moment was just a dream, a really weird dream. She feels comfortable in his arms and brings her arms around his neck.

She doesn't care if it happened in the hallway, in a restaurant, or in front of their parents. She doesn't what happens after. She only knows that this is the kiss she has been waiting for. A kiss that will cement her dreams to only one person. The perfect kiss she was waiting for was finally happening with the person she couldn't love..................................

"It was PERFECT! In every sense of the word." Casey smiles.

"So you know what this means." Paul says while starting to smile.

"Paul it has to be my subconscious again." Casey tries to convince not only Paul, but herself. "Only this time it really isn't getting the message."

"Deja vu, Casey." Paul says.

"I can't. I don't. It would never work." Casey says.

"Casey..." Paul begins. "Denying it only makes things worse for you. However, I think Derek won't force you to kiss him to prove you don't like him."

"YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT I MAY HAVE FE...FEEL....FEELINGS FOR DEREK!" Casey shouts. "ARE YOU CRAZY?"

"Casey. You didn't think that you would fall for Truman. That happened. You don't.." Paul states.

"TRUMAN WAS A MISTAKE FROM THE BEGINNING! AND HE WASN'T MY STEPBROTHER!" Casey yells.

"CASEY! What do you think of Derek?" Paul asks.

"I HATE HIM! I DESPISE ...." Casey begins.

"From the bottom of your heart." Paul says.

"I LIKE HIM!" Casey blurts out as her face turns red.

"Now you know what to do." Paul says.

"But what if it doesn't work. What if he just plays a cruel joke on me for liking him and he destroys me. He ruins all my hopes to find the perfect man." Casey says.

"Casey, Derek won't destroy you. Yes, it will be heartbreaking if your feelings aren't reciprocated but it won't compare to the feeling if you don't try." Paul says.

"I DON'T WANT TO TRY! I DON'T WANT TO THINK ABOUT HIM!" Casey yells. "IT IS JUST THIS WEIRD TEENAGE LUST FOR HIM! ONCE I LEAVE FOR COLLEGE ALL OF THIS WILL GO AWAY!"

"Teenage lust?" Paul asks.

"Yes, I been having less than appropriate dreams about him. Especially last night. Which is why I was drinking coffee this morning. To keep myself awake and stop thinking about Derek." Casey says.

"Okay, I think you should leave now." Paul says while grimacing. "But Casey, try and talk to him. You are just going to regret it if you just let this chance pass you by."

"I'm sorry for yelling at you and telling you that embarrassing dream." Casey apologizes.

Casey walks out of Paul's office. Her face is a bright red and she feels like crying. She is definitely going to go out of her mind. She cannot believe that a dream of love could be your undoing. It could lead you down a path that you knew about but avoided at all costs.

"I...NEED...TO...SLEEP!" Casey whispers to herself.

Thursday afternoon:

Something is wrong with Casey. Everybody in her class sees it. But, She ignores everyone and says she is she leaves as soon as the bell rings to end the day. Ignoring everything and everyone in the hallway; she runs to her locker, grabs her books and runs out of the school at warp speed.

Casey runs home as fast as she can. She needs to stay away from Derek at all costs. She doesn't want to talk to anyone, just fall asleep and wake up, hopefully with her head on straight.

.................."Derek, kiss me." Casey whispers.

"What?" Derek asks.

"Just kiss me." Casey begs as Derek brings his lips to hers.

"Ohh, Derek." Casey moans.

"And you said I couldn't make you moan your name." Derek smirks.

"Der-ek!" Casey shouts. ..................................

Casey jumps out of her bed and falls to the floor with a thud. She gasps when she looks around her room and sees no one there. She giggles at the situation and tries to ignore the magnitude of it.

"It was just a dream. It was only a dream." She says happily. Then when realization comes in she pouts. "It was only a dream."

Casey gets off the ground and walks over to her bedside table. She opens the drawer and retrieves her dream diary. After writing her recent dream she thinks back to her conversation with Paul and turns back a couple of pages. She reads about her dreams from the beginning of the week.

Monday:

......... I am again walking down the hallway in school. I constantly look over my shoulder, as if expecting someone walking behind me. When I look again I see no one. I breath a sigh of relief and turn forward, but my worst nightmare comes true when I see Truman standing right in front of me.

"Why are you following me?" Casey asks.

"Why do you think I'm following you? Maybe you are following me?" Truman says.

"It is the same dream as before. Even after I break up with him he still invades my mind. He is like a disease to me, a disease that can't be cured."

I kiss him like in my previous dreams. The kiss is sickening now after what had happened and then it feels real good. It is not the same as the first dream about Truman. When I pull away, which I regret to do, something is different.

"Derek?" Casey says confused.

Derek was there looking at me, confused. Some time during the Truman changed into Derek and I kissed Derek. That is why the kiss felt better. It wasn't Truman, Derek kissed me in the hallway at school with everybody watching. Everybody gasped as they watched us lean in closer and kiss each other again..............

"I KISSED DEREK! OH MY GOD! NO! NO! NO! THIS IS JUST A ONE TIME THING. IT WON'T HAPPEN AGAIN!"

Tuesday:

.........I'm at home. I just got back from dance practice and decided to watch a movie on TV. I went into the kitchen to grab a bottle of water. When I return to the living room I see Derek in his chair watching a hockey game.

"DER-EK!" Casey screams.

"Space-Case." Derek smirks.

"I was watching a movie." Casey says annoyed. "So do you mind?"

"Not at all. You can go ahead and have your freak out." Derek says.

"DER-EK!" Casey shouts.

"You know, it gets very annoying hearing you say my name like that." Derek responds.

"I'm sorry, and how would you like me to say your name..." Casey says.

Derek brought his lips to mine. Again, I'm surprised, but it is a good surprise. The kiss intensifies and soon I am pulled onto the couch. Derek has his arms wrapped around my waist and I bring my arms around his neck. We mold into each other and everything else becomes a blur.

Derek then releases his lips from mine. I pout until his lips touch my neck. The power of his kiss causes me to gasp. The warm, sickening feeling in my stomach begins to rise and I'm sure I will be sick. Derek continues to kiss my neck and I kiss his forehead.

"Oh, Derek." Casey moans. "DER-EK!"

"I told you, I'd make you moan my name." Derek says. ..............

Wednesday:

.........Derek and I are sitting on the couch. He brings his face closer to mine. I close the gap between our lips and enjoy the moment. We were magnetic and nothing could break us apart. I let my arms wrap around him bringing him closer to me and he began to slide closer to me.

"Casey." Derek whispers.

"Oh, Derek." Casey says.

Derek slides his hands down my sides. He is messing with the hem of my shirt and I can feel goosbumps on my arms. Derek shows his famous smirk and I feel like a puddle of goo. Derek leans over and kisses my lips. Then he starts trailing light kiss over my neck. I feeling this intense sensation building in my body. He puts his hands on the shirt pushing it up on my body.

"Der..." Casey tries to say before Derek cuts her off.

"Shh. Just enjoy it." Derek interjects.

"But..." Casey begins. .........

"THIS IS SERIOUS! I MAY LIKE DEREK! NO, "LIKE" FLEW OUT THE WINDOW YESTERDAY. I MAY LOVE HIM!"

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Update 3/17: My uncle passed away early this morning. This is a devastating loss for my family because he was so caring and generous to my whole family. So, I'm dedicating A Little Push and Changes to my uncle, who always told me to have fun and enjoy life.

In Memory of my Uncle Tommy

1946-2009