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Teirney ran over to wake Casey up. "Casey! WAKE UP!" Tierney was shaking her furiously.

Casey finally woke up. She rubbed the back of her head in pain. Teirney just grabbed her up crying. "O…. Thank God you're ok."

"What's going on? Where's Derek?"

All Tierney could do is cry more and point to the bodies on the ground.

Casey looked at where she was pointing and all she could do is hug her best friend back and cry a long with her.

Just then a body plopped on the floor. The girls looked up and there lied Josh with the knife sticking out of his stomach.

Derek stood up quickly. He started to shake a little. All he could do is stare at Josh's dead body for a while.

Tierney then got up and ran over to Derek and slammed into him with a hug, "I thought you were dead!"

Derek then wrapped Tierney in his arms and buried his face in her hair. Tierney heard a slight sniffle and she lifted her head a bit and looked at Derek. He was crying.

"Are you crying?" She asked.

Derek then just grabbed her under the chin and placed his lips on hers. Teirney was sort of caught off guard a little by this but she gave into the kiss. The kiss had a little force behind it but it was sweet and passionate. The kiss finally broke and Tierney put her fingers on her lips in shock.

"What was that for?"

"I saw my life flash before my eyes and I didn't want to miss my chance again." Derek said.

Tierney just smiled. And leaned in to kiss him again but Casey interrupted.

"Guys we gotta call the police. We can't just have a dead body lying in the middle of the floor." She said with some fear behind her voice.

"Do you want me to go to jail?" Derek asked with a little fear in his voice.

"Derek it was self defense. They can't do anything to you." Casey brought up.

Derek just walked backwards to the couch and sat down and put his head in his hands.

Tierney walked over and put her hand on his back. "Derek we will tell the police what happened. It will be ok." She said trying to reassure him.

Derek just looked up at her and stared into her eyes. He then nodded slightly and walked over to the phone and threw it at Casey.

Casey dialed 9-1-1 and spoke to the operator and told her that they had a man stabbed in their house.

The operator told her they'd have someone there in about 5 minutes and then Casey hung up.

"Someone's gonna be here in 5 minutes." Casey said and joined the others on the couch.

They just sat there and stared at the body.

Derek couldn't believe he did that. He had stabbed a guy. But Casey was right it was self defense. Josh was trying to kill him.

Just then there was a knock at the door. All three of them jumped a little bit.

Casey got up and answered the door.

There stood a policeman. "We got a call about a murdered man?"

"Yes officer he's in here." Casey led the policeman to the living room and showed him Josh on the ground.

The policeman looked him over and then asked what happened.

Teirney looked up and said, "He barged in the door and was coming after me. Derek…." She then pointed to Derek sitting next to her, "….. Was trying to keep him from getting to me and when they had thrown a few punches…. Josh….." Teirney then pointed to the dead body, "…. Then pulled a knife and in the struggle of trying to fight him off Derek stabbed him."

The policeman then turned to Derek. "Is this true?"

Derek just nodded.

"Alright…. It was self defense. I'll write a report up and get ya'll's statements."

The policeman then called for someone to come get the body and went to his car to get the papers.

It was 3 hours later when everyone finally left.

Casey then remembered the kids in the back room and ran to check on them. When she got back there all three were asleep on the bed so she just put a blanket over them and let them sleep.

She walked back into the living room and sat on the couch with the other two.

All three of them leaned back on the couch and sighed.