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Only In The Movies

Scene Nine

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Casey was applying Lily's eye make-up while trying to make conversation. Trying, but failing... miserably.

"So... are you excited!?" Casey asked.

"Uh, yeah I guess." She replied blankly.

"Don't move your head!" Casey snapped.

"Then stop asking me questions!" Lily reasoned, "You'd think that with your brains you'd know that talking requires a slight movement of the head." She teased.

Casey glared at her pointedly.

"Alright, alright; enough with the evil eye." Lily started, "And enough with the make-up, too! Look, thank you for all of this help, but honestly, I can get ready myself. I definitely don't need you to help me get dressed."

Casey pouted.

"Come on, Casey. I really appreciate what you're doing for me, but you've already picked out my perfect outfit, so I think I can handle it from here."

"Fine." She finally agreed, pout still apparent on her face, "But you better call me with the details later. Although I have no doubts that Sam will be the perfect gentleman. He always was on our dates." Casey explained.

"Whoa, whoa. Hold it right there." Lily shot up from her place on Casey's bed. "You two dated?" She asked, thoroughly surprised.

Casey chuckled nervously, "Yeah... but it was a long time ago and we're just friends now. Its so much better that way between us." She said.

"That's not the point! I can't go out with him! That's a total violation of the best friend code." Lily responded frantically.

"Oh please, like there's a best fr- wait. 'best friend'?" Casey questioned, smiling softly.

Lily hesitated, "Well... yeah. I mean, we hang out all the time, and even though we only met this week... well, this is going to sound lame... but I've never connected with someone this quickly. And I don't mean that in a creepy, stalker sort of way, or romantically, either." She confessed. Casey was speechless, but in a good way. She was grinning like crazy but no words escaped her lips. The lack of response gave Lily time to process what she just told Casey. Coming to a realization, she began again, "Actually, there is one other person I connected to just as fast as I did with you." Casey gave her a puzzled look.

"Derek." She continued, smirking.

Casey's face fell instantly, "Hm?!"

Sam knocked on Casey's dorm room door. Lily had told him to come there due to her distaste for her own room mate. When there was no answer, he started to worry. He took out his cell phone and called Lily.

"Hello?" She answered. Something was off about her voice. She sounded exasperated.

"Something wrong?" He asked.

"Not exactly. Just kind of caught Casey off guard and she started hyperventilating. The usual." She said calmly.

"Uh, right. Well... do you need any help? Because I am right outside the door."

"Oh! I'm sorry I-" She opened the door, "Didn't hear you knock." She smiled seeing him standing in the doorway. He returned the smitten look back to her as they closed their cell phones. They continued to stare for another few seconds before Sam noticed the outfit she was wearing.

"Wow; you look... great." He said, genuinely. She smiled looking at her clothes. That smile quickly faded, however, as she noticed that she hadn't changed yet in Casey's planned outfit.

"Uh, really? I uh... haven't even changed yet." She confessed.

"Oh... Well don't. I like this one." He requested.

"Lily Marie Bennet! Get your tokhes(that's Yiddish for boot-ay) in here, right now!" Casey called from inside.

"Come on in." She prompted to Sam. They made it inside where Casey was sitting on her bed, with an ice pack to her forehead.

"Explain yourself, Missy." She ordered, gesturing for Lily to take a seat in the vanity chair across from her.

Following Casey's ordered, she sat down.

"I thought we were in the same boat here, you know... despising Derek and all." Casey said.

"Well yes, he is arrogant, but I believe all of us are to a certain extent. Anyways, there was something about him that intrigued me, so I got to know him better. He's actually a pretty decent guy. You'd probably find that out if you'd just get closer to him." Lily explained.

"Closer? I've lived with him for four long years... I don't think I could be any closer than that."

"That's because you aren't thinking at all. You are so oblivious to what's right in front of you, but its okay, because as long as you are in your little comfort zone, nothing's going to go wrong. Well if you weren't so blind, you'd see that there are people there for you when things do go wrong..." She paused, taking a deep breath, "You know what? No. Never mind. Let's go Sam. I'll talk to Casey more about this later." She said, taking Sam's hand while shooting a meaningful glare at Casey.

Casey nodded solemnly before Sam led Lily out of the room. Just before the door shut, Lily poked her head in to say, "Just mull this thought over until I get back: Have you ever really thought of Derek as family?" She said, and left without hesitation.

What?

Lily had suggested Applebee's considering it always tastes the same no matter which branch you go to. They had just ordered their food and were in that 'waiting for your food but you know it won't be here for quite some time' stage, when Sam popped the question. No, not that question.

"So what was that whole thing with Casey about?" He asked, trying not to seem eager.

Lily groaned, letting her head fall into her hands. "Its not really my place to tell you." She said, glancing back up at him.

"Well whose place is it to tell me?" He pried as politely as one could be while prying.

At this point, Lily grabbed her glass of water and chugged it. Once it was all gone, she held up her index finger as she swallowed. Without moving her finger, she said, "Hold that thought, I gotta pee. You know what water does to ya!" She laughed nervously ans ran to the bathroom. Once inside, she pulled out her cell phone.

"Yellow?" Derek answered.

"No, purple." She smiled.

"What?" He asked. Went right over his head... she thought.

"Never mind!, its not funny once I explain it." She paused, "I'm in crisis mode."

"You? YOU?! I'm the one who's in trouble!" He responded. She noticed, he was kind of whisper-yelling.

"What do you mean you're in trouble?" Lily asked, getting more frustrated by the second.

Flush.

"Are you going to the Bathroom? Gross." Derek said, disgusted.

"Okay... First of all, no. I'm not going to the bathroom. I'm in the bathroom, but I'm not using it. Second of all, don't act like you don't do that." Lily said knowingly.

Flush. Hey, no one else is in the-

"You caught me." He spoke, and she could hear his smirk forming.

"Ew." She replied.

"Relax, I'm not using the bathroom either. I had to run into the bathroom to answer my phone because there's a crazy drama queen in my room!"

"Casey's in your room? What does she want?"

"I honestly don't know. What did you say to her? She isn't making any sense." He said, trying to hide the worry in his voice.

"I-I just told her to think about if she every really saw you as family... you know, nothing big." She said with fear.

...

Derek?

...

"Nothing big?! Your definition of big is way different from hers. We're talking about a girl who freaked out about being late for one assignment in her whole lifetime. An ant is huge to her." Derek was fuming. "And you said you were such a 'great judge of character'. Yeah, well how come you didn't see this coming?"

"Derek, I-" She started, but he interrupted her.

"No, you know what. I'm sorry I ever trusted you with this. This whole plan to get Casey and I together? Its off, just like our so-called friendship. I didn't need you before and I sure as heck don't need you now. Bye Lily." He said before hanging up.

She couldn't help it. She was a girl after all. The tears came, and seemed like they'd never stop.

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