Prom:

Casey's POV:

I walked down the hallway towards Derek's room. During our last year of high school Derek and I have gotten pretty close, that means no more fighting. We have this unspoken rule between us where only each other can enter the others room without knocking. So I walked into Derek's room not caring that he was in the middle of changing.

"Derek." I said sitting on his bed

Derek looked up and said "What?"

I said "I need your help."

"Okay." Derek buttoned up his pants and sat next to me on the bed, shirtless. Derek said "What's up."

I closed my eyes and the tears started to leak out. I looked into his eyes and said "We're through. I found him in bed with Emily. There were in her bed doing…doing…oh god they were having sex with each other."

Derek said "Who? Sam?"

"Yeah." was all I got out before I started crying harder.

"Hey." Derek said to me. He pulled me into his arms and stroked my hair. He said "It's okay. Shh…your gonna be okay. I promise you that."

I shook my head. I said "No it's not. My prom is ruined because of that…that asshole. I'll be going to my senior prom dateless."

"I'll go with you." Derek said. He must have seen the look on my face because he said "Come on…it will be fun. We could go together and shock the whole school. Plus it would be an awesome way to hurt Sam for what he did."

I nodded and said "Okay. Thank you so much Derek." I hugged him and he hugged me back. Then there was a cough behind us.

It was my mom. Nora said "Dinner's ready." Now it wasn't weird anymore for me to be in Derek's room or vise versa.

As my mom left Derek wiped my tears away. "Thanks." I mumbled to him

I smiled at him while I pulled him up with me. We walked down stairs together and sat in our normal seats across from each other. Marti started to chat happily about what she did in school. I started to eat and about half way through I started to feel eyes on me. So when I looked up I saw Derek staring at me, but then he wasn't staring at me, only through me. I frowned at that since Derek never ignored food like he was doing now.

"Derek…Derek?" I said snapping my fingers in front of his face

Derek snapped his focus on me and said "Yeah?"

I said "You okay?"

Derek nodded and said "Fine." He turned to George, his dad, and said "Dad…can I go to my room. I'm not that hungry anymore."

George nodded and said "Sure Derek."

I watched as Derek got up from the table. It seemed to me that I was the only one who noticed Derek didn't go up stairs but out the front door. The whole time I finished eating my dinner I tried to think of places that Derek would go and why he turned down food. Just as I was done it hit me like a ton a bricks. Derek always told me that if Sam hurt me in any way that he would protect me. Derek even offered a few times to beat Sam up. I got up from the table and raced towards the front door, grabbing my coat on the way out. I raced over to my now ex-best friend's house and knocked on the door. Emily opened up the door.

Emily said "Oh Casey…"

I cut her off by saying "Where's Sam? I need to find him quickly."

"I don't know. He went back to his house. Casey what's going on?" Emily asked

"Nothing you need to worry about." I said before racing down the street. A few months ago Sam moved down the street from us. As I was coming closer I saw Derek and Sam in his front yard yelling at each other. I pushed Sam out of my way and grabbed Derek's arms. "Derek…this isn't the way. Please let's just go home." I tried pulling on him

Derek said "You're defending him?"

"NO!" I said making sure the point was across. "He can rot in hell for all I care. I don't want to see you get in trouble because of me."

Derek whispered into my ear "You're worth it."

Sam said "Casey please…Emily and me…"

I turned towards Sam and said "Were what…a roll in the hay?" I walked up to him Derek right behind me. I said "I never want to see you again." To get the point across I slapped him in the face before I said "Come near me again and I will let Derek kick your ass."

"Derek doesn't scare me and neither do you." Sam said. He started pulling his hand back.

I got scared and cowered into Derek's chest. Derek caught Sam's hand as it was flying in to hit me and Derek said "Lay a finger on her and I will personally choke the life out of you." Derek let go of Sam's hand and turned to me. He said "Are you okay."

I nodded and said "Can we just go home now?"

As Derek nodded we heard Sam say "So now you two are screwing. Derek my man she's a bad lay."

Derek's hand shot out and hit Sam square in the jaw. "Don't you ever…ever talk about Casey like that again?" Then Derek and I went home. When we got there he went straight to his room. Marti was walking down the steps.

Marti said "Hey Casey what's wrong with Smerek?"

"Nothing Smarti. I'm gonna go talk to him right now." I said heading up the steps to Derek's room. I knocked on Derek's door. For the 1st time it was locked to me. I said "DEREK! Please open the door for me." There was no answer and the door didn't open. I said "Fine. I am going to sit out here until you open the damn door." I sat down leaning against the wall. I figured that he would come right out but he didn't. So I feel asleep and then little more then an hour later it felt like I was floating and I struggled.

"Shh…it's me. I got you, go back to sleep." I heard Derek say. So I did, waking up the next morning around 11:30 with Derek looking at me. He said "Good morning."

"Morning." I said

Derek said "Sorry about yesterday. I didn't mean to shut you out. I just needed to get everything right in my head. I really didn't think that you would really sit out there."

I said "Told you." I looked around and said "Wait…not that I'm complaining 'cause you bed is really comfy, but why am I in your room and not mine?"

"Because I thought that you were gonna wake up so I played on the computer. By the time I was done I didn't feel like moving you." Derek said moving a piece of hair from my eyes.

I smiled at him and said "Wait…it's to quiet in the house for a Saturday?"

Derek shrugged and said "Let's go find out."

We both climbed out of Derek's bed. Derek threw on a pair of pants over his boxer that I failed to notice he was sleeping in. I laughed quietly to myself before we walked down the hallway to check in the rooms and they were all empty. I was silently hoping that they were all gone and it was just me and Derek. The both of us headed down stairs and walked into the kitchen. There was a note on the fridge explaining to us that my mom and George took all of the kids out for the day and they wouldn't be back till tonight. They also said there was to be no parties.

I turned to Derek and said "So what do we do? We got the whole house to ourselves."

Derek said "I don't know about you but there is a hockey game calling my name."

"Fine. I'll sure I'll find something to do." I said laughing

Derek walked out of the kitchen and into the living room to sit in his chair. If you haven't guessed already Derek has really cleaned up his act. He is still very popular but has stopped dating everything that would let him have access to her funny parts and being the wild child. Derek had grown up and matured and I'm so proud of him. I found there was nothing to do so I walked into the living room. I saw that Derek was sitting in his chair watching the game. I decided to crawl into Derek's lap, which has become my favorite place to rest now days. I turned my head so that I to could see what was going on in the game. I felt Derek press a kiss to the top of my head. Derek was slowly running his hands up and down my back. An hour later there was a knock on the door.

"Don't wanna move." I said as I buried my head into his chest

Derek laughed and said "I don't want to move either but I have to get that."

So Derek stood with me still in his lap. He placed his arms under my butt to keep me up on his chest and I wrapped my legs around his waist and arms around his neck. I squealed and said "DEREK!"

"What. You said you didn't want to move." Was all he said before opening the door. Since I was facing away from the door I didn't see who it was and then Derek put me down.

I said "Derek. Why did you…" And I turned to see Sam and Emily standing there. Derek placed himself partially in front of me where I could still see but I was protected.

Derek said "What the hell do you to want?"

Emily said "We want to apologize for…"

"For what…screwing my boyfriend behind my back. You WERE my best friend." I said

"I still am." Emily tried to say to me

I shook my head and said "No… that stopped the moment I found you and Sam in your bed fucking each other."

Sam said "Casey." and took a step towards me.

Derek stood more in front of me and said "Back off." I slowly rubbed Derek's back trying to get him to calm down.

Emily said "Casey…can you call off the dog. We just want to work everything out."

I said "This conversation is over." with that I slammed the door. Both Derek and I sat back in his chair cuddled together.

Derek said "You know. I really wanted to hit him."

I nodded and said "I know but all we have is one more week. Prom's Friday and graduation's Saturday."

Derek nodded and said "One week."

"One week and then it's just you and I headed to the University of Toronto." I said with a smile

Derek looked straight in my eyes and said "If he say one…one bad thing about you…I'm gonna him hit."

"Okay. I think I can handle that as long as you try to stay calm around him." I said

"Okay." Derek said before kissing my forehead. He said "I'm hungry, want to go out and get something to eat?"

I said "Okay. Let's go to the mall. I kinda still need to pick out a prom dress."

"Perfect. I still need to get a tux for prom too." Derek said

Derek nodded and took me by the hand. We got in his car and drove to the mall with only the radio playing one of Derek's rock stations. When we got to the mall both of us ate first before we went in the formal wear shops. I talked Derek into helping me pick out a dress and left him sitting on the couch right outside the changing rooms. For the next hour I tried on prom dress after prom dress and all Derek would say was that it is pretty or that's nice. I was looking for the dress that rendered Derek speechless for the first time in a long time. That was why I was now trying on this dress I had with me that I didn't let Derek see. The dress was cornflower or pale blue, v-cut neckline, it hit the floor, there was no back to it, and it clung great to all my curves. There was major cleavage action going on and the no back was so low you could almost see my butt crack. I took a finally breath before going out to Derek. He had his back to me and I cleared my throat. When he turned around he was speechless and I knew I found the dress I wanted.

"So…what do think?" I said twirling around for him

Derek recovered from his shock and said "Wow. That dress looks amazing on you.

I said "Good. This is the one I'm getting. I'll be right back I have to take this off." I went back into the dressing rooms. When I came out Derek had his tuxes and he even paid for everything. When we left I hugged him and said "Thank you so much Derek. You really didn't have to do that."

"No. problem I wanted to." Derek said sitting us down on a bench. He said "Casey…I don't want to go to prom as step-brother and sister. I want us to go as friends."

I nodded and said "I do too."

Derek smiled at me and said "Good." We both stood and he said "Now…we have one more stop to make before we head home. Okay?"

"Okay." I said following Derek through the mall. We stopped outside of a DVD store. I said "Derek what are we doing here?" Derek took me into the store and over to the romantic comedy section

Derek said "Pick a movie for us to watch tonight."

"Did I ever tell you you're the best?" I said

"I know. Now pick a movie." He said so I did. I decided I was going to 'notebook' him when I picked the movie 'The Notebook' for us to watch. He made no complaints and paid for the movie. Then we went home and when we got there Derek jumped in his chair and I fell on the couch, trying on dress is very hard work. Derek said "When we watching the movie?"

"Later I'm tired. Dress shopping tired me out. We'll watch the movie during dinner." I said

I saw Derek nod to me before Derek said "What we getting?"

"Pizza." Was my only response.

Derek said "Okay. Take your nap."

So I closed my eyes getting some much needed sleep. Only to wake up around 4:30 to hear Derek and somebody yelling. I got up from the couch and headed towards the door. Derek was standing there by the open door, Sam was standing just outside the door and they were yelling at each other. I came up behind Derek and grabbed his hand behind his back. Derek turned to me and that showed me to Sam.

Before Derek could say anything Sam said "CASEY! Call him off, we need to talk."

Derek ignored him and said "What are you doing up."

I said "I heard yelling and it woke me up. What's going on Derek?"

"Sam wants to talk to you." Derek said

"Okay." I said before turning to Sam and said "Go. To. Hell."

Sam said "Case…"

I said "I don't want to see your face again. Why don't you go to Emily and fuck her brains out. I'm sure she'll be more then happy to spread her legs for you."

For the second time that day I slammed the door in his face. Derek and me sat on the couch and ordered dinner. We had a nice night, watching the movie, and soon we were both asleep on the couch together. I couldn't wait for this Friday. Prom, the best night of me life, and I saw going to spend the night with the most amazing friend I could ever ask for. Before I knew it, the week flew by and it was Friday. All of the seniors would be able to get out of school at 11:30 to go get ready for Prom. Derek pulled up at school as he shut off his car, he looked at me

He said "You ready for your last day as a high school student?"

"Yeah. I'm ready." I said smiling at him before getting out of the car. We walked over to the locker that me and Derek have shared for the last year. Everything was cleared out of it and all it held was memories of the year.

As the bell rang Derek said "I'll meet you out by the car after school."

"Okay." I said before we both headed off to our assigned classroom for a last minute graduation run through. I glanced at the clock and muttered "Come on 11:30. I want to get out of here." I know, weird Casey is talking to herself, but I really wanted to get out of here. All day long I was bouncing on my feet and at 11:30 I ran out of the room to the parking lot. Derek was standing there leaning on his car.

Derek tossed me the keys and said "Go do what you women do. I'm gonna catch a ride with some friends."

I hugged Derek and said "Thank you." I climbed in the car and said "Bye Derek." before pulling out of the parking lot.

I was gone all day long. I had to stop home first to get changed into a pair of sweatpants and the matching zipper jacket so when I got changed I didn't mess up my hair. I ate lunch at home before I grabbed Derek's keys, money, my cell phone, and my IPod and left the house. Around 6:30, 7 hours after school had let out I finally arrived back home. My hair was done in ringlet curls framing my face. My fingernails and toenails matched the color of my dress perfectly. I had gone to MAC to get my make-up done and it look flawless. I went straight up to my room and found Marti and Lizzie on my bed.

"You look pretty Casey." Marti said

I said "Thank you Smarti."

My mom entered my room and said "Oh Casey. You look beautiful and you don't even have your dress on yet." I thanked her and she said "Dinner will be ready shortly so go wash up. Come on girls." And all three of them left.

As I was putting everything away I saw a note on my mirror. I read the note out loud "Dear Casey, I know you look beautiful, but your beautiful already. I'm at a friends house and that's where I'll be getting ready. I will pick you up at 8:45 be ready by then. Love, Derek."

I read the note over and over again in my mind. Thoughts like 'Did Derek just say he loved me?' went through my mind. I walked down stairs to the dinning room thinking about the possibility's. I mean maybe he just put that by accident. All through dinner my mom or George didn't seem to notice anything different about me and for that I was grateful. After I headed up stairs to get ready for tonight. I glanced at my clock and it said 7:15. I sighed to myself I had an hour and a half before Derek would be here to pick me up. I shut and locked my bedroom door before I undressed and placed on a pair of pale blue lace bra and panties. I carefully pulled out my dressed and slipped in up my body. Once I got everything in place I zipped the dress up. I made sure everything was prefect and in the right order before I moved over to my dresser and sprayed some light perfume on. I carefully sat on my bed and put on my 3 inch silver heels. I freshened up my make up before looking at the clock again and to my surprise it was 8:30 on the dot. I glanced in the mirror one more time and smiled at my reflection. I took my blue wrap and wrapped it around my shoulders before grabbing my clutch. I headed down the steps to the living room where my mother was standing with the camera.

"Can I take a few pictures?" Nora asked me with a smile and I nodded. After a few pictures the doorbell rang and I opened the door and there was Derek all dressed up.

I said "Wow. You sure do clean up nicely."

Derek stepped into the house and said "Thank you."

"I want pictures." Nora said and we posed for a few pictures before we headed off.

I passed Derek's keys to him as we walked out of the house to his car. Derek opened the passengers side door for me to get in. When we got to the hotel were Prom was being held Derek helped me out of the car and took me in. I was amazed at the beauty of the room, there was balloons filling the ceiling of black, blue, light blue, and white. The concept was 'The Year of Amazing Dreams' and the prom committee did a wonderful job. Derek took us over to the camera were we would get out picture taken for us to take as memories. Derek stood behind me with his arms wrapped around my waist and we were both smiling. After the picture Derek took my hand and preceded to the table. At the table there was some of the best people I have ever met, some of Derek's hockey buddies. They really accepted me into their little group and treated me like a little sister. There was Andy, Kyle, Rick, Dan, and John and I started to drift off thinking about the time when Derek was home sick and they were my bodyguards.

FLASHBACK: (No One's POV:)

Casey was walking down the hallway to the locker that her and Derek share. She waved to the guys as she passed them. As she shut her locker, she jumped seeing Dillon, a guy from her math class, standing there leaning against the other locker. He was just staring at her.

"Can I help you?" Casey asked

Dillon said "Yeah…you can go out with me tonight."

Casey said "Sorry I already have a boyfriend."

"Yeah but this is me your talking too." Dillon said

"Sorry." Casey was going to move and Dillon stopped her

He said "Listen I…"

"Is there a problem here." Andy said walking up to them.

Casey said "Andy." Then she saw the rest of the guys coming up with Andy. "Kyle, Rick, Dan, John. How are you."
They all replied "Good. You?" Casey nodded

Dan said "This guy bothering you?"

"A little." Casey said moving closer to the group of big hockey players. John picked her up and placed her in the middle of all the guys.

Rick said to Dillon "You know she's with us. You mess with her it's like messing with us."

"And we don't like to be messed with. Kyle said

John said "Imagine what Derek will do when he finds out about this."

"I didn't know." Dillon said stuttering out his words

Andy said "Then I would apologize before he beat your ass."

Dillon turned to Casey and said "Sorry." before running off. The 6 friends laughed at Dillon.

"Thanks guys." Casey said

Rick said "Don't worry about it. Your D's friends so that means you have 5 other brothers to look out for you."

END OF FLASHBACK:

So he never bothered me again. My 5 other 'brothers' were always there to help when it need it. I walked around that table and gave each one of them a hug. All there dates shook hands with me and the guys introduced me as their little sister. After chatting for awhile Derek stood and extended his hand to me.

"Would you like to dance?" Derek said

I nodded and said "Sure." I noticed all of the guys got up and left. I turned to Derek and said "Where are they going?"

Derek shrugged and said "I don't know." In the last year Derek had gotten bigger muscles and taller. So even in heels he was still taller then me. Then I heard them and I turned to look

All of the guys stood but the DJ booth. Rick said "Ok people. We are gonna slow this down."

"For the next song is a very special one." Dan said passing the microphone to John

John said "For a friend and his special someone."

Andy took the microphone next and said "So D, my man…"

"This one." Kyle said

"Is for you." They all said together.

I looked up at Derek and said "What's going on?"

"Just listen to the song." Derek said I nodded and noticed it was 'Everytime We Touch (Slow)' by Cascada. Derek said "Casey I wanted to come here as more then just friend. I…I love you Casey and I have a long time. I know you might not feel the same way but I need to tell you that."

I said "I love you too."

"Really?" Derek said and I nodded.

Derek pulled me to him and kiss me senseless. It was the best kiss of my life, better then anything that Sam every did. Soon all the clapping around us was lowering as I continued to kiss Derek. The only reason we pulled apart is because of the lack of oxygen. When we did pull apart I stared deep into Derek's brown eyes. By that time the song had ended by me and him were still swaying to the slow melody that song had been sung to. By the end of the night we were both tired so we headed up the steps to the hotel rooms. Once Derek shut the door and I pulled the jacket off of his shoulders. Derek kissed the side of my neck so I threw my head back to give him more access. Derek started to work on the straps to my dress but stopped and pulled back. He looked into my eyes asking a silent questions and all I did was put his hands on the zipper of the dress. So Derek and I continued well on into the night, only stopped for a few minutes to catch our breath. My senior prom is one I'll never forget because I got my dream guy, my dream night, and tomorrow I'll be a high school graduate. I smiled drifting off to sleep, wrapped in the arms of my lover, boyfriend, and best friend.

Thanks for reading. Please review n I hoped u liked it.

---SexyPunk54---