As we pull up to this giant library on campus, I'm confused.

A) The library is closed. If this was Derek's favorite place on campus, wouldn't it make sense that he'd know the times it opens and closes?

B) Derek's favorite place on campus is a LIBRARY? That can't possibly be right. There's no way he changed that much in just one year.

"Derek, what are we doing here?" I ask while he's pulling something out of the trunk.

"Shh just wait Princess."

He's called me that a billion times before, but the tone of his voice makes it sound more like a term of endearment rather than mockery, but he must be trying to keep his volume low since there's a residential hall nearby.

He grabs my hand with his open one, the other one holding his camera, and starts to bring me to the back of the library.

"Derek if this is your way of trying to murder me so you can have the apartment to yourself, I'll let you know that I took some self defense classes in New York and-"

"Casey, would you just shut up for a minute?"

He brings me to a ladder at the back of the building and gestures for me to start climbing.

"There's no way I'm climbing before you. I'll probably get up there and you'll move the ladder and I'lll be stuck on the roof all night. Maybe that's why you've been so nice to me all night."

He's grinning, glad to see he finds my paranoia amusing.

"Okay fine, I'll climb first, just follow me okay?"

I nod uncertainly but do as he says.

As we reach the top, he closes my eyes with his hands. I'm startled by his cold hands on my face, or by the fact that he's touching me in general.

"Okay ready, don't open your eyes until I tell you to," he says while inching us closer to the side of the building.

"Derek, this building is up pretty high, if you push me off, I'll actually die, you know that right?"

"Casey how many times do I have to tell you that this isn't some giant plot for me to murder you. Just be quiet for once in our life woman."

I guess we've reached the edge of the building because he takes his hand off my eyes.

The building is the tallest building in the center of campus, and has a view of the entire city. It is breathtakingly beautiful and I understand why it's Derek's favorite place on campus.

I look over at him to see him taking pictures of me observing the view.

"What are you doing?" I ask in a gentler tone now that I know he's not trying to kill me.

"I wanted to get a picture of your face when you saw the view."

"Derek, this is really beautiful. How did you possibly discover this?"

He's sitting down on a blanket he has in the corner. I recognize it as one of the blankets that Lizzie had knitted for him that Christmas she got into knitting, I have a matching one in my room at home. I don't question why he already has a blanket up here, probably for the girls he brings up here.

"When I first got to campus, I was trying to find good places to take pictures so I was wandering around a lot discovering new places. I got lucky one day when I noticed a maintenance guy climbing down the ladder, so I was able to assume that the top didn't have any kind of lock at the top."

He's gesturing for me to come sit next to him now. He's sitting leaning back on his hands behind him, and I sit next to him. I'm half a foot away but since his arms are taking up the entire blanket, I can feel his arm lightly touching my back while I lean.

"So how many dates have you brought up here already?"

"You're actually the first person I've brought up here Case," he says, not looking at me while he speaks, but instead at the beautiful view in front of us.

"There is no way. This place is a total babe magnet."

"First of all, never use the words 'babe magnet' again, that was so creepy. Second of all, I like this place a lot. I wouldn't want it to be tainted with memories of girls I never spoke to again."

"Why haven't you brought any of your friends then?"

"I don't know I guess I wanted to make sure if I brought someone here, they're definitely somebody who's going to be in my life for a long time, since I don't want to ever stop coming here."

I smile softly at the fact that he thinks we're going to be in each other's lives for a long time. But then I remember our parents are married and we share a sibling so well- duh.

We sit quietly there for a while, looking out at the view, until we decide to go back to our apartment, sleep overcoming both of us.

Once we're back in the apartment, I bump into Derek walking back from the kitchen to my room. I was finishing up putting my things away while he was walking back to his room from the bathroom where he was brushing and getting ready for bed.

I can tell his eyes are fluttering and ready to crash any second.

I pull back his arm outside his bedroom door to ask him a question that had been bothering me all day.

"Derek- why were you so nice to me today? You introduced me to all your friends and showed me your favorite place on campus. Why couldn't we have ever been like this when we were in high school?"

"I don't know Case, I guess I feel like I don't need to keep up any show for our parents anymore. And just maybe, I sort of, kinda, maybe a little, missed you a bit for the past year. Okay well, good night!" he says awkwardly, gives me a quick peck on the cheek, before closing his bedroom door and leaving me there confused.

Show for our parents? What does that mean? And he missed me? There is no way he just admitted that. And the peck on the cheek? Maybe he just got touchy feely in the last year, I mean I saw him hug both Olivia and Jan bye.

Something still felt.. different.