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To the rest of the household breakfast that morning was the same as any other. Mom and George rushed to get to work on time, Marti complained that she didn't want to go to school, Lizzie was rolling her eyes at Edwin's new plan to make millions, reminding him to look at the research, and Casey and I bantered. But there was something missing between us when we fought, bitterness perhaps? Whatever it was, I was relieved it was missing.
"Derek pass me the corn puffs." Casey commanded, I could see she just wanted to know if I would actually do it, everyone knew the corn puff were my cereal. I took the bowl she had in front of her and grabbed the box of corn puffs.
"Hey!" she squawked leaning over the counter to grab the bowl. She folded her arms as she watch fill the bowl halfway. I set the box down and picked up the carton of milk still sitting on the counter. I flicked the cap off and laughed when I saw Edwin race across the kitchen to catch it before it hit the floor.
I filled the bowl and set it back down in front of Casey, she gave me an annoyed look.
"I could've done that myself."
I smirked at her. "No one touches my cereal, not even you." Lizzie and Edwin gave each other confused, and slightly amused looks.
Casey took two spoonfuls of cereal and emptied her bowl into the garbage. I walked over to the door and grabbed my leather jacket.
"You ready?" I asked. She walk towards me happily then stopped, remembering something. She sunk a little and sighed.
"Yeah, lets go."
"What're you going to tell Kendra?" Casey asked, while we pulled into the school parking lot.
"I'll tell her I knew all along, and that she was foolish to try and fool me on April's fools day."
Casey rolled her eyes. "You can't just tell her 'You got me' and make her feel better about herself?"
I smirked, "Nope."
I got out of the car and saw Max waiting outside the doors for Casey.
"You ready too make my day?" I teased. She stuck her tongue out at me and I pretended to catch it and press it too my heart. She rolled her eyes and started walking towards the school.
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Oh this is going to be so awkward. I force a smile when I walk up to Max. He misses the forcefulness of it and smiles back.
"Hey Max." I start.
"Morning babe." I rolled my eyes. I really hated when he did that.
"Look. I don't think this is going to work." Max looked confused, and then realization dawned on him.
"There's someone else isn't there?" well at least he finally guessed something right. I cast my eyes down.
"Yes." I mumbled.
"It's Derek isn't it?" I looked up at him in surprise. He was on a roll this morning, but this seemed a little too insightful for Max. He noticed my surprise.
"I heard you talking to the guidance counselor yesterday." I rolled my eyes, I didn't know how many times I talked about Paul but you'd think he'd bother to learn his name.
"You listened to my session with Paul?" I snapped, my anger rising. He looked down.
"Yeah." he grumbled. "But I won't tell anyone." I glared at him, made an angry noise and stormed off. Derek was waiting for me inside.
"How'd it go?" she grinned. I shot a glare at him making his glare disappear.
"That bad huh?"
"He listened to my session with Paul yesterday."
"So?"
"So! He knew! He knew I liked you and he asked me out anyway!"
"Want me to beat the crap out of him?"
I sighed, "No". Derek looked a little disappointed and I laughed.
"Want me to go with you at lunch today, Kendra wants to throw a big 'I fooled Derek party'."
"It's your lunch period anyway."
Walking though the halls with Derek was not as humiliating as I thought it would be. No one seemed unsurprised, but it's not like we were holding hand or anything, just walking unusually close.
I saw Emily standing with Sheldon and waved.
"No!" Derek hissed but it was too late, Sheldon ran over to Derek in an attempt to tackle him. Sheldon jumped and Derek dunked, sending poor Sheldon flying over Derek and landing on his back.
"Der-ek!" I glared.
"What was I suppose to do? Let him kill me?" I rolled my eyes, and went to help Sheldon up.
"Are you alright?" I asked. He rubbed his back. "Yeah. I'm fine." He groaned. He walked back over to Derek and slapped him on the back.
"Just some uhm Male bonding? Right Derek." Derek rolled his eyes.
"I know about the prank." He said taking a step away from Sheldon. He looked sad, and then quickly rearranged his face.
"What prank?" he asked. Derek rolled his eyes again.
"Casey told me everything last night." He continued hoping Sheldon would catch on. He did, he shot a glare towards me.
"She did? Even the part where-"
"Morning Casey!" Emily cheered, cutting Sheldon off. She looked over her shoulder and gave him a look.
"Even the part when what?" Derek asked looking at me with confusion, I looked back just as perplexed as he was.
"There was no other part." Emily said creepily. I opened my mouth too question her further when Sam walked up.
"Morning guys." He smiled nodding his head at everyone. I looked at him guiltily.
"I told Derek everything." I mumbled. Sam sighed.
"I figured this would happen. I tried to Warn Kendra that you always find out, but noooo. You going to kill me now?"
Derek slapped a hand on his back smiling. "No. This week wasn't all the bad." He looked over in my direction realizing what he was talking about, a sly smile spreading across his face.
"That's great man, really great. Want to walk to Class?" Derek waved goodbye and walked off with Sam towards his locker. I looked over at Emily, who was still all smiles and Sheldon who was glaring at me,
"I'm sorry." I said. Emily shook her hand back and forth in dismissal.
"Don't worry about it! It's just a silly prank right?" she laughed. She took my arm, and nodded too Sheldon letting him know it was time to leave.
"So tell what happened last night after the intervention."
It took me two whole periods to explain the whole of last night, between her squealing and the teacher yelling at us to shut up. After I finished explaining she wouldn't stop talking about it during 3rd period. I was so relieved when the bell for lunch rang.
"I know Derek knows about the prank thing but could you please please please keep him from going into the cafeteria until after the late bell rings?" Emily babbled as we walked towards the direction of Derek's locker.
"Thanks!" she yelled and ran off. I sighed.
"What's she up too?" I heard Derek ask behind me.
"She's overly excited." I sighed again. He laughed.
"About what."
"About us, and the prank." He laughed again, and held out his arm.
"Shall we?" I rolled my eyes but took it anyway.
I noticed as we made our way to the cafeteria, that the hallways were completely deserted. It was insanely quiet. I had no idea high school kids could be quiet for so long. I heard the late bell ring when we were standing next to the closed Cafeteria doors. There where faint 'shhh's' coming from the inside.
"Ready?" I asked Derek. He laughed.
"Casey it's me we're talking about." He pushed the Cafeteria doors open.
"APRIL FOOL'S!!" screamed probably the entire student body, when we opened the doors. I glanced around the room examining their decorations. I noticed immediately that there was a banner hanging over the stage. There was a picture of Derek and me from mom's wedding in the middle of it. I glanced around at my fellow students, some of them were holding signs say things like 'Just kiss and make up.' Or 'You two belong together.'
"What's going on?" I asked confused as Kendra bounced up to me. Derek looked over at me.
"Did you know about this?" I shook my head.
Okay! Well me and Sam had this idea, we noticed you guys were obviously like, in love with each other, and that you would never realize on your own." Kendra took a breath before going on, "So me and Sam organized this whole prank thing to make Casey 'pretend', "she made air quotes, "to like you! So you two could realize how much you actually loved each other!"
"But, you told me-."
Kendra rolled her eyes, "We couldn't just tell you all this could we? That would ruin the whole point of April Fool's day!" she laughed.
"Huh." Derek said, grabbing my waist and pulling me close to him. "You're a little late."
Kendra's face dropped a little in frustration.
"Figures." She huffed and walked away towards the crowd.
"KISS!" someone yelled from the far corner of the room, someone who sounded oddly like Emily. I turned to look at Derek.
"Should I tell them about your PDA rule?" I whispered. He rolled his eyes.
"I don't think so." He laughed and bent down to kiss me.
And they all lived happily every after!! lol. Not to get to cheesy or whatever but I'd like to thank everyone that reviewed and read this story. I know I'm not that great of a writer. Sorry if this last chapter was a little ehhh. I'm meant to get them together definitely in this chapter but accidentally did it last chapter lol.
Thanks for reading!