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It's a dark night on the West Coast -she's a lady; Forever the sickest Kids.
then a soft breeze as the sun rose,
then the phone rang like a gunshot
like a siren on the beach rock.
there's a message at the river,
a certain package here to deliver
when the day breaks after nightfall,
I will be there, you know I will.
our time is running farther and farther away.
soon it will be gone,
and that alone won't push me to gather up the nerve
and put my feelings into words for you.
I just don't understand why my thoughts won't just pour themselves
out to you, for you to consume and understand
that you're really & truly what I want right now.
that I like you so much that i'm so intimidated that I can't bring myself to tell you.
she was a woman of such grace and style and even
when she was being ridiculous, there was always
this intelligence behind it.
may you grow up to be righteous, may you grow up to be true.
may you always know the truth and see the lights surrounding you.
may you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong.
may you stay forever young
We'll drive in the fast lane out on the freeway
Tell us to slow down starts a car chase.
As long as we've got each other we've
Got it made
"Take off your shoes, come in the room
And baby, let's try not to argue.
Turn out the lights, turn on the radio
And how can we fight when I'm too busy loving you?"
The more you get to know a person,
the more attractive they become to you.
Because everything beautiful you see on
the inside of them, suddenly you're able
to see on the outside of them too.
Short Fluff-filled DASEY one shot for you guys :].
Sucking on the cancer stick in my hand, I looked at my step-sister of eleven years and smiled when I saw the look on her face. I dragged the smoke slowly out of my pursed lips and licked them.
“They’re called cancer sticks for a reason, derek.” she commented with a roll of her gorgeous blue eyes, looking away.
I took another deep suck on my cigarette and blew it into her face. Her arms flailed haphazardly around her face, coughing up something bad. “Derek! What do you think you are doing, jackass? Haven't you ever heard that passive smokers die faster than the smoker himself?”
“Tsk, tsk. Casey Mcdonald, was that a curse word i heard?”
I laughed loudly before resetting myself beside her on the bench. “Those things will kill you, Derek.” Her tone was a bit softer this time and I knew she was serious. It wasn’t that I didn’t know about the consequences but come on, we’re all gonna die anyway sooner or later, right?
“Whats your problem with it? You’re not allergic to it so what…” before I could continue, she cut in with a deep frown on her slightly freckled face. A face I often dream about at night only to have her running away from me when i awoke.
“I just gave you what…the MAIN reason why I have a problem with it and you’re still asking that retarded question?”
“We’re all gonna die anyway—”
“Yeah, well excuse me for wanting my step brother to live long enough so that I can" she paused, hesitant "you know what? Forget it. I’m leaving.” She grabbed her books and shoved them into her bag as she stood up to leave. There was a catch in her voice I couldn’t help but overhear and I didn’t want her to leave before explaining it.
“So that you can what, case?” I grabbed her hand to stop her from walking away.
“Let me go, Derek.” She struggled against my hold, and despite her recent atheletic training, I was still stronger than her.
“Not until you tell me what you wanted to say.”
“Why do you want to know so much, huh? .” There was that catch in her voice again.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” I frowned, loosening my grip...just a little.
I sensed her weakening her strong front as she faced me. Her blue eyes seemed to have lost there sparkle and she suddenly looked really tired.
“You want to know what I was going to say?” her voice was surprisingly harder than ever, despite her appearance. Without waiting for my nod, she barrelled on. “So that I can do this.” She swooped down and placed her lips on mine. Surprise didn’t cover what I was feeling as the cigarette fell from my fingers. I clumsily stood up pushing her away from me.
“Hey…” an almost shy expression clouded her perpetual frown. Her lips were slightly parted, lilting at the edges.
My hand made its way to her neck as I pulled her towards me, our lips crushing against each other once again.
Holy mother of…I’m kissing my step-sister. Casey McDonald whom i bag on constantly and fight with on a daily basis. Casey Mcdonald who gave me a frog for my eighteenth birthday after she found out that I had a slightly embarissing phobia of amphibians. Casey... who at this instant had her very incredible lips on mine and her hands buried in my hair, pulling me even closer, leaving no gaps between us. Holy mother…
How can a kiss be gentle and demanding at the same time?
This time, she was the one who pulled away. I put my forehead against her cooler one and noted that both of us were breathless. “I want to be able to do that without the taste of nicotine in my mouth.” She whisphered between intakes of breath.
“That can be arranged.” I said before giving her a gentle kiss.
Cold turkey or not, smoking is in my past now.









Writers note: This is my first try at a Dasey "story", So bear with me. To avoid confusion, It takes place when Derek and Casey are both in there early twenties, in there last years of college.
“This was a bad idea” I mutter to myself as I shove my hands deeper into my down-filled jacket in an attempt to stay warm.
Snowflakes swirl between the buildings and dust the frozen, muddied ground. Standing in the parking lot of Kemptville College, my school of choice, leaning against my car, I check my watch for the sixth time. He's fifteen minutes late and he wasn’t answering his cell. He wasn’t coming.
I smile awkwardly at a group of students walking by that I recognize from high school. One makes a joke about being on her turf. I laugh as if her sarcastic barb is actually funny. Right now I’d give anything to be back on my own turf, in the safety of my own home, his home, too, pretending everything is under control. Nothing is under control; it’s all a tangled mess.
I jump as the phone in my hand rings. I look at the caller ID. It’s him. I could ignore it. I could leave and he wouldn’t know I had come. We could stand each other up. I force myself to answer it. He’s in Hudson Hall and he’ll come find me. I hang up. And wait.
Waiting seemed to be a theme with us. He had waited for me to figure things out last year when we decided we needed a break from the drama, the secrecy, the lie our lifes had become. And I had waited for him to come home for Christmas between semesters at The University of New Brunswick, 10,000 miles away. and Now here I was, standing in the January snow, waiting. For what? Answers? Forgiveness? I don’t know what possessed me to agree to this.
Would he be different? He sounded different on the phone. Grown-up, assertive, maybe even...for the first time in his life..sure of something. But why did he have to go all the way across the country to find all that? Ofcourse, the idiocracy that was derek was still there. It had surfaced last night when he was re-telling his latest tale of drunken stupidity, interlaced with a shockingly new-found scholarly vocabulary. Damn, I had missed him.
I hear my name, spoken like a question and slightly hesitant, from somewhere behind me.
“Casey.”
I push back the hood of my jacket, feeling the wind attack my hair. Turning around, I look up and take in the hazel eyes and the sun streaked hair of Derek Venturi. My Step brother.
The facial hair was new, but the sarcastic smirk that now covered his face was not. My heart pounds as I recognize the red shirt he's wearing as one I had bought for him.
I wait as his gaze lingers on my wind tossed hair , my jacket, my suede lace up boots, my new glasses. Then, It stops on the puzzle ring on my right hand, which I am now nervously running through my hair. I was different too, but would he see that? Would he realize that he had broken through my walls at last, from thousands of miles away? He finally looks me in the eye.
“Hey.”
Then everything comes back. All the fun, the fights... all the pain. I remember the night he carried me home from a party - one of my first, after i had niavely took a cup of tequila from a guy who seemed nice enough, and the night he had stayed up all night with me watching re-runs of Sex and the City when lizzie wouldn't- but only because he was unaware that anyone, even fictional, could have more shoes than the ones in my closet.
A vision flashes in my mind of that afternoon, it had been two weeks before December exams and we sat on a bench in the park. He knew what was coming. I felt pressured and caged and restless and he knew I would never tell him that. I didn’t tell him anything; I left him with no explanation. I look away and will myself not to cry. I didn’t cry when I broke up with him, and I won’t do it now. He puts a finger under my chin and tips my head up to look at him. He makes a joke about how short I am, but thats only because he's gotten so tall. I laugh like I did all those months ago when everything was almost-perfect.
Another group of people walk by, glancing at the two of us. So much for privacy. To anyone who didn’t know, we look like any normal couple. But we’re not, we are so far from ‘normal’ and ‘couple’, its ridiculous.
“I leave tomorrow”, he says, not breaking eye contact. He’s waiting to see if I can work my thoughts around the answer that’s not really an answer, rather a statement of the obvious. He’s giving me an out.
“And then?” I don’t walk away.
“We go back to our lives, case.” He says it like a death sentence. Final. Cold. "the way they were, before, i mean"
“So this changes nothing?” Is he saying what I think he’s saying? Did he just wake up yesterday and decide that his last day in town would be best spent breaking my heart?
“I can’t do this again. You can’t do this again.” God, if I were in prison this is where the guards would slam the barred door shut.
“Then what do you want? Why do this at all?” I gestured around us.
He knew this was hard. I was laying my pride and dignity and common sense on the line. This was cruel.
“I wanted to give you closure. You wanted forgiveness. I forgive you. But, case, we can’t do this again. We tore each other apart last time.” He reaches out and rubs my cheek. I hadn’t realized I was crying.
“I didn’t want to hurt you.” I wrap my arms around myself and look away. There’s a frozen puddle just behind him.
“I know” he says matter a factly.
“This was a bad idea” I tell him. I have no idea how I am even capable of forming full sentences at the moment. I hope he slips on that puddle.
“Maybe” he says, watching me. I can’t help but swipe angrily at my eyes.
I don’t have anything left to say. Every thought I had rehearsed on my way here seems useless now. My heart is cracking and he’s rambling on about going back to "being brother and sister", or something equally stupid and illogical but I can’t listen. I can’t be near him right now.
“I have to go” I blurt out, interrupting him.
“Oh. Yeah. Sure.” He answers and his voice pitches an octave higher than normal. I look up and see what can't be tears in his eyes.
“Have a good flight” I tell him, fumbling in my pockets, looking for my car keys. I need to get away. I can’t deal with people right now. People suck.
“I’ll call you later.” Is he serious? I stare at him incredulously.
“No, don’t. I can’t do this again.” And I can’t. He can’t give me pieces without the whole thing.
“I understand” he says softly, catching me off guard in a brotherly hug.
"i'll see you at easter" he whisphers
and i nod, unable to control my voice any longer. He walks away once I climb in my car. I wait until I know he won’t come back before gripping the steering wheel and breaking down.
“I understand”, he had said.
“No, you don’t” I say out loud, feeling the echo in the emptiness of my car.

Okay. That's it for T'Day folks.
Do with em' what you want.
No need to credit me.

So, Stay tuned - because maybe, just maybe you won't be dissapointed.
Peace and love,
'T'.