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Derek Peterson

"It's so simple. How don't you know it?"

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a character in “Pines Academy for the Naturally Gifted”, originally authored by tigerz, as played by RolePlayGateway

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Full Name|| Derek Peterson Nicknames(s)|Einstein, Peter, and Der |Age(given) | 17| Birthday | May 16| Sexuality: Pansexual
Derek has dark brown hair with matching brown eyes. He's fairly tall standing at 6'1 with a medium build. Derek is always wearing glasses(even though he doesn't really need them that much) and a brown jacket with whatever he's got on.



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Likes
- Math
- Coffee
- The rain, especially walking in it.
- Anything intellectual
- Learning something new that's related to math

Dislikes
- People who don't understand math
- Fakes
- Bullies
- His step sister
- Irrational things

Fears
- Public speaking
- Heights
- Frogs(Don't ask)

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History

17 years ago James and Emma Peterson brought Derek into their lives. They had no idea he'd turn out to be a mathematical genius. At the age of 5 he started doing problems that were way above his grade level. Derek was then taking Calculus level math at the age of 11. Derek's parents had him home schooled with a private teacher to teach him math. His parents hoped that he could get scholarship in the future since his parents couldn't afford to send him anywhere good enough for him.


At age 13 things took a turn for the worse, like being diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome was bad enough. Derek's parents split after 20 years of marriage. They didn't really tell Derek why because they feared it would set him off or something. After that Derek's dad remarried and his mom left him. For some time Derek blamed himself for the divorce because they payed to get him a private teacher. He tried asking his father but never got an answer.

Derek hated his step sister, she was always trying to take pictures and videos of him and tease him and call him a nerd. Worst of James gave her more attention than Derek. That was what he hated the most. Eventually math became a way fro Derek to escape the world and his family. Numbers became his friends. Then Derek had been offered a scholarship to Pines Academy and accepted. Derek is happy to get away from his family and do what he loves... Well not all his family it seems...


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Personality

Thanks to his Asperger's Syndrome Derek has a hard time in social situations. He has trouble interacting with people and understanding different facial expressions and gestures. Derek mostly has difficulties maintaining conversations and making friends. He's very awkward and shy but the few people who befriend him say he's a sweetheart. Derek does however have repetitive habits and rituals. One of them being he has to wake up at exactly 6:56 AM everyday. another is that during conversations he will twist the ring on his finger or tap his thigh with his hand or fingers. Derek also can't hold eye contact very well and tends to be looking around the room a lot when speaking to someone. He is also obsessed with math. To him it's easy and he gets worked up and irritated when someone else doesn't understand. Sometimes he'll try to teach it to them not really caring if they're in the middle of something important. Another factor is that he's very OCD about his things. Everything he owns needs to be in a certain spot or he will be completely thrown off his ritual and make have a meltdown.


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So begins...

Derek Peterson's Story

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Alex sat in the back of her step-father's car next to Derek. Derek was staring out the window. Alex wondered what was on his mind right now. What kind of things did he think about? Alex fixes the headphones in her ear as her iPhone played a different song. Her small pale hand went through her messenger bag for the fourteenth time. Alex only knew that because Derek would always announce it every time she did so.

"Fourteen." Derek said without having to look at her. 'Right on time.' Alex thought to herself as her hand went over her fathers old camera, her camera, and her video camera. As well as flash for her camera in case she needed it. Alex couldn't contain her excitement so she took out her video camera and taped her family in the car. Derek made an effort to cover his face and her mother made weird faces causing Alex, and her step-father, to laugh. Alex put the video camera away and her mother motioned for her to take her earphones out. Alex proceeded to do so as her mother turned around to speak to both Alex and Derek.

"Now Derek, I need you to help Alex around the school. She doesn't know it as well as you do an it'd be of great help." Her mother said with a kind smile.

"Whatever." Derek responded still lookin out the window.

"He doesn't have to. I'm sure I can find someone nice enough to help out." Alex said and looked at Derek. He refused to look at her for a bit. When he final did, the look on his face was like he didn't want her there at all. This hurt Alex a bit but she didn't let it bother her. After all, they were family.

The car came to a stop in front of the entrance of the school. Derek and Alex got out of the car and grabbed her bags. Their parents didn't come and neither of them cared. They went to see what rooms they'd be in and who would be their roommates. Alex read the name of her roommate out loud. "Erin Springs. Who's that?"

"She's the music prodigy." Derek grunted before leaving to his room. Alex rolled her eyes and went to her room as well. She placed her bags on her bed and left. She had her camera in her hands as she went to where she came in and took pictures of the different students. Alex would run up to someone and snap the picture. Sometimes she's skip and giggle while doing. She didn't care if people thought it was weird. It's just how Alex was. Alex saw a girl with beautiful blue eyes and fumbled for her camera and quickly took a picture before she left.

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Derek picked a bed and started to unpack his things. His roommate hasn't arrived yet which was good for Derek. He didn't want any distractions while he was organizing his things. Derek unpacked his few clothes he brought with him. One outit for each day of the week to wear with his brown jacket. Derek puts his clothes in a draw of the dresser then proceeded to the other items he brought with him. It wasn't much but it was fine for Derek. He placed his things exactly where he had to have them and set his alarm to go off at 6:56 am everyday.

Derek took out his notebook, pencil, and calculator and began workin on a problem he wrote last year. He did this every year. Derek would write various math equations at the end of the year so he had something to work on the next. It was away for him to challenge his own thinking and become better. The one he had been working on was completed in a matter of minutes. It was much easier than the others he had written. Derek set his notebook and pencil neatly on his nightstand and his calculator under his pillow. He did this for good luck. A weird habit Derek had developed.

He walked down stairs to see if he could find a classroom that was opened. Derek wanted a board to write on. As he reached the end of the steps he saw more students walking in. Derek lowered his head and played his hands in his jacket pocket. He looked up for a brief moment and caught Alex taking pictures of the students. She even managed to get a pictures of him. Derek scowled at her but her attention had been diverted to someone else. Derek watched as she nervously fumbled with her camera, something she rarely ever did. Then she snapped a pictures of someone and smiled as she looked at the result. Derek didn't feel like seeing who it was and turned to storm off down a random hallway. He didn't care if he got lost as long as he was away from that blue streaked freak of a step sister.

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Felix had taken something of a lengthy walk around the dormitories, letting memories of years past flood back to him. He knew the place well after so many years, but each new year, each new room, gave him something of a sense of disorientation. After gathering his bearings for a while, he slipped into the stairwell, footsteps light after a refreshing walk through the air-conditioned parts of the building. His room this year was close to the old fire escape; he'd heard it was a coveted location for those notorious for sneaking out. Perhaps, on a Friday night, he'd give it a shot. Though he didn't usually stay up too late for fear of getting shadows under his eyes in the morning, he could spare to sleep in on a Saturday. Cut off some of his practice.

He'd promised himself he'd take it easy this summer, cut down his practice hours, but it'd never really happened. He'd told himself he'd get out more, maybe meet someone nice after he and Jasmine had broken up in February. He'd ended up spending more time in the studio than ever before. But what could he say? His technique had kinks that needed ironing-out, and he'd thought he wasn't flexible enough during the Spring Soloist Festival. One thing led to another, and he was spending most of his free time dancing. Not that he minded. But even Felix was beginning to think he could take a break. How many pairs of shoes had he gone through in the last three months? Speaking of which, he needed to go buy a new pair today.

That's terrible thinking, Felix mused to himself as he slipped the key into the lock. It was already open. He pulled out and walked, a smile on his face in all his bright green glory. He wasn't sure what to say, so he grinned at the guy on the bed, took off his hat, and greeted him. "Evan, is it? I'm Felix. Nice to meet you." He didn't extend a hand, instead kicking off his shoes and lining up in a neat pair in front of his own bed. "Sorry. I'm a bit iffy on names right now. It's kind of been a long summer. What's your muse?" He sat down and dug around in the drawer, searching for his wallet. "I dance, by the way."





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Arden felt twice as comfortable in this new place now that she had her internet connection up and running. She'd scrawled the passwords down on a loose piece of scrap paper, and almost not finding it had practically given her a heart attack. When she'd finally found it, sandwiched between two massive tupperware containers in her larger suitcase, she could feel the relief washing through her body. Now that that was over and done with, she could get to learning names and introducing herself. She wasn't exactly looking forward to it, but from what she'd read, it was a necessity. Surely, her sister hadn't changed her life by sitting around in her room all day with her computer? Well, Ffion could hardly copy and paste from one document to another, so it was unlikely.

Step full of relish, Arden stood up. She wasn't exactly sure where she was going just yet, but she stood up anyway. The people in the lobby had left ages ago. She stowed her laptop in her purse-turned-laptop bag— admittedly, a hideous thing her mother had tried to sew for her that she couldn't leave behind for fear of making the woman cry even more than she already had— and set off for the stairs.

Well, she didn't know where the stairs were. That was probably going to be an issue. She'd been offered a map earlier, but she was too busy convincing her mother she'd arrived safely and had, much to her current dismay, completely ignored the poor woman who offered it to her. She really did need to go back to try to apologize by the end of the day. And maybe snag a map. Still searching for the stairway, Arden set off down the most inviting hall. She really wasn't any good at navigating, having only ever left her hometown twice in her life. As she walked, she fumbled through her things before producing yet another tupperware. This one was filled to the brim with various cookies and brownies. If she couldn't draw and she couldn't sing and she couldn't dance for shit, the one thing Arden could do was cook. Her mother had made sure of it even though she herself burnt water. With Ffion gone and cooking classed a 'woman's job,' Arden had taken over the kitchen.

Vaguely, she wondered how her parents were doing. The thought, however, was lost when Arden's eyes locked onto a person. A man. Someone she could introduce herself to. Excited for her first introduction, Arden called out to him and rushed up to proffer the box of sweets. Loudly, too-excited but all earnestness, she declared, "I'm Arden. Hi. Do you want some cookies?" It wasn't exactly the smoothest of introductions, but it worked. Sort of. She didn't know— she hadn't gotten many chances to talk to people. Suddenly doubting her introduction, she added, "Nice to meet you."


OOC: That's Derek she happened upon, by the way. Time for her to be socially awkward :p and don't get her started talking about computers.

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Derek nearly jumped as she spoke. "I'm Arden. Hi. Do you want some cookies?" She said this very loud. Derek could tell she was excited. He didn't get why though. "Derek." He said in response quietly as he looked around the room. He could never hold eye contact with people. He began to twist the silver ring on his left ring finger. It was a gift from his father but it didn't mean much, just something to fidget with.

"Nice to meet you." Derek was snapped back into reality. He looked at her confused. "It's not nice. I don't know you." With that he walked away from her not bothering to take one of her cookies. He wasn't allowed to have sweets anyways. It was a rule Derek's parents had.

Derek continued looking for an open classroom. He checked doors to see if they were locked. He found one that was unlocked and it had a chalk board. Derek loved that. Something about them was just appealing. Like how he would get chalk all over him and sometimes in his hair when he finished a problem. Derek pulled out his phone and copied the math equation he had written. He took a moment to think about it before he started to try and solve it.

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"Damn, you talk a lot." Alex said, causing Erin to shrug apologetically. "Sorry. I don't get out nearly enough." Once Erin had the okay to call her roommate Alex instead of Alexandra and Alex and commented about wanting to video Hope sometime, Erin nodded. "She's really good at what she does. Well, I guess we all are. We wouldn't have been scouted if we weren't" she was careful to not say 'we wouldn't be here if we weren't' because that statement would be very untrue. Money could do anything.

"I'd also be very okay with your friend staying over here." Alex said as she did, but her voice had a joking tone to it. "Well, if you ever need me to leave the room, just say so. I'm sure Hope wouldn't object," Erin said teasingly as she looked over to Hope and giggled as she said the last sentence. Hope snorted, causing Erin to laugh even more.


"So that hot blonde with the lip stick is the queen bitch? I've seen worse than her" Alex said and Erin shrugged yet again. "Then maybe you can be friends with her or something, I don't know. Your choice. She just doesn't like me, or Hope. Don't really know why though, but she's hell bent on making us feel like the lesser" Erin said as she stood up again, looking down and placing her brush back away in it's proper place. Hope launched into a lecture about who was who around the school, and Erin would nod at parts, and jump in at others, with "He's really colorful" at Felix and "Wouldn't they test him for drugs, what with him being a sports star?" at Evan. When Hope followed it up with the announcement she would be leaving to practice, Erin smiled and waved to her as she left.

"She's always practicing. Wants to be the best at what she does, I guess. We grew up together" she said to Alex brightly before she reached for her tote and threw it over her shoulder. "Well, I need to be off too. I'm going to go see about fixing up the middle of my new music composition and I need something sweet to drink before I even think of that." Before Alex even had time to respond, Erin was off, walking out of the room and into the hallway.

She only walked a few steps before realizing Hope was the one that knew where to even get to the coffee shop. Was it in the lobby or upper floors, or outside? She had absolutely no idea. She did remember it being close, so she chose to walk around idly, just following the path in front of her, only ever turning when she had to. After all, she had walked to the place almost every day before class last year, so her feet should know the path, right? It wasn't long before a scratching filled her ears, and she did a full rotation in an attempt to find it, then finally realizing one of the classroom's lights was on. Already figuring she knew who it was, she rolled her eyes and peered into the room, realizing it was exactly who she figured- Derek.

"Class doesn't start until tomorrow. Just a friendly reminder. Also, could you point me in the direction of the nearest coffee shop? I figured my feet would just take me, even though it's been a whole year. I mean, I did go there a lot. Sadly, it appears that is not to ever be, and my feet are only made for pressing piano peddles. I remember seeing you around there a few times, so I figured you might know?" she said lightly, looking at him while she stepped into the room and leaned against the wall. Slowly, her head turned to the board he was so intently scratching on. "What are you working on there? Must be math, what with your talents, but from what I can see, it would take me an entire night and three erasers to figure out how to even start on it" she said as she looked over what appeared to be mostly scribbles with some things she understood in between. "Though, I guess I should leave that to the professionals. So, making a full rotation back to the reason I stopped in when I saw the door open, creme frappachinos and my desperate need to locate a place to buy them. Help a damsel in distress?" she said as she did the appropriate movements, twirling her finger around at 'rotation' and clutching her heart at 'desperate'.

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Derek ignored her until he finished his problem. At this pint he'd gotten used to how much she talked. It made sense she was always in the music room, kinda like how he was always in a math classroom. Derek set his chalk down and took a step bag. He looked the equation over and when he was satisfied with the answer, he clapped his hands to get the chalk off. Derek turned to Erin and there was still some chalk in his hair and at the end of the sleeves of his jacket.

[b]"Could you point me in the direction of the nearest coffee shop?" Derek nodded at her. He'd been there many times and knew his way well. She kept on talking after that. Derek smiled a bit at the damsel part.

"I can take you there." He said while looking around the room. His left hand was tapping on his thigh and he decided what to say next. Derek looked at her for a brief moment then looked away. He proceeded to walk out the door and past Erin. He accidentally hit her with his shoulder and managed to mutter sorry but it came out as a stutter. Once they were in the hallway Derek nodded in the direction they'd be walking.


"Follow me." He grunted as he started walking. His sneakers made a clicking sound as he walked. Derek had his head down an his hands in his pockets again. He didn't bother to adjust his glasses. It's not like it'd matter if they broke. In his head, Derek was going over the steps of the problem he just did. He didn't realize though that he was saying it out loud. It was quiet but still loud enough for Erin to be able to over hear him.

Derek stopped for a moment and looked behind him. He wanted to make sure she was still there. As soon as he confirmed that she still was, Derek continued walking. His shoes clicking again with each step he took. They turned down another hallway and at the end was the coffee shop. When he walked in he stopped dead in his tracks. Standing in line was the last person he wanted to see. Alex.

Alex turned around and saw Derek and Erin. 'Why does she have to be here?' Derek thought as glared at Alex. Her hazel eyes met his then drifted to Erin. A mean looking smirk formed on her face then quickly changed to a cheerful grin. "I see you met my step brother, Derek." Derek clenched his teeth as she said this. They weren't family and he wil never consider them to be.

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Evan sorted through his clothes, not having anything else to do. He was bored.
"Evan. I need to use your phone. Now." Evan looked up to see Abe standing in the doorway.
"Yes Ma'am," He handed her his phone. It was a few years old, but it was still a phone. He sat back down on his bed and waited for her to be done with his phone.

Hope walked through the hallway to the dance room. She figured that she would check to see if Felix was in his room. She noticed that Evan and Abe were in there.
"So much for pitying myself, I pity you Felix. Sharing a room with Evan is terrible, and now Abe's in here! I feel so bad for you!" Hope smirked. She grinned at Felix.
"Either way, nice to see you again Felix," She added.
"Don't be so rude Ariel!"
"Shut up, or I will put scorpions in your bed!" Hope growled as she walked off. She reached the music room and put the CD in the stereo. She hit the start button and started to dance.

She started to spin on her toes, then she leaped into the air, spun around and landed on the very tips of her toes, still spinning. Hope then leaped again and gave a small pose before landed on her feet. She stretched her arms out and got on her very tip-toes. She then spun around again. Hope continued to practice ballet before she looked at the time. It had been about thirty minutes. She sat down and pulled a skirt over her leotard. She then walked to where the coffee shop was to see if Erin had found it yet. She peeked inside and searched for them.

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Derek seemed to be taking his time on the question, but Erin waited none the less. She would get no where without help and she hadn't seen anyone else on the way to ask. Though it didn't take him long to complete the problem on the board and turn to her. He had chalk in his hair, causing Erin to giggle. He nodded to her when she asked if he could show her the way to the music room, and she clapped her hands excitedly.

"I can take you there." Derek said as he walked about the room, tapping on his thigh. He looked at her for a second, but looked away just after that. She smiled when he met her eyes, if only to seem friendly. When he walked past her, bumping into her and stuttered out an apology, she waved it off. "Don't sweat it, it's not like you purposefully did that, and I deal with people who would do much worse on purpose."

"Follow me." Derek said as he began to walk, Erin following close after him. He began to ramble about the problem- or a problem - and she tilted her head to the side and tried to follow, but found it completely useless. A few moments later, Derek turned to make sure she was still there, or at least Erin figured because once he saw her he turned back around. "Why wouldn't I still be here? I mean, I asked you a question, and you went the extra mile to take me to the place I asked about. It'd be awful rude to not be following after you. At least, that's the way I see it" she said as she skipped up next to him.

It didn't take long and they reached the coffee shop. Alex was in there, and Erin looked at her for a second. "Well, if I knew you were headed here, I would have just gone with you. Wouldn't have gotten lost, at least. Though, Derek helped me find the place, so I suppose it all worked out in the end" she said, but just then Alex turned and smiled at them mischievously, but then it turned into a Cheshire-cat grin.

"I see you met my step brother, Derek." Alex said, and Erin took note of the way Derek seemed to clench up at the words. She creased her brow for a second before looking back at Alex. "You two are siblings? I never would have thought. I mean, sure, step-siblings, but you two are so different. Well, live and learn I guess. It's a pretty small world." she shrugged and skipped to her place in line, thrumming her fingers over the display case of various pastries and humming a tune that had been stuck in her head. It wasn't good enough for her to want to lock herself up and write until she crashed out, but it was a good base. "Derek, since I would have been horribly lost without you showing me the way over, the least I can do is buy you a coffee." she said, trying to be friendly. He didn't seem like he had any friends and while Erin had always figured he would be very clinical, and while he didn't talk nearly enough for her to have a really good idea, a truly clinical person wouldn't have gone through the trouble of taking her to the shop.

Just then, Hope popped her head in, and Erin smiled brightly. "Well, we all just sort of moved from my room to here, I guess. Well, adding in Derek, of course. You'd have to add him in because obviously he wasn't there when we were talking earlier" she laughed lightly as she said the words. "Unless, of course, you have some weird invisibility powers and for some reason enjoy stalking me, or maybe Hope... I trust it wouldn't be your sister though that you were stalking, that would be weird."

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Alex snorted at the way he clenched his fist. He didn't understand why she hated him but she was in no mood to question it. All she wanted was something to drink before she started editin her footage. Alex knew she had orientation but it didn't matter to her. She could just ask Erin about it later.

"You two are siblings? I never would have thought. I mean, sure, step-siblings, but you two are so different. Well, live and learn I guess. It's a pretty small world." Alex shook her head an laughed as she stood in line. Derek was about to speak but Alwx cut him off before he had the chance.

"I wouldn't say we're that different." This was followed by a glare from Derek and she just smirked at him. It wasn't like she was wrong. The two of them are passionate about something. That's what they had in common. Alex listened to the tune Erin was humming. Alex smiled as she seemed to be returning to her usual cheerful mood.

"Is that the piece you write earlier for that ballerina girl?"

"Hope." Derek stated in a monotone voice. Alex said thank you to Derek for correcting her and then turned her attention back to Erin. Erin said she would pay for Derek's coffe and Alex cleared we throat.

"It's on me guys." Alex had spent all summer babysit, doing photo shoots, music videos, and applying to film festivals as well as directing a summe play. She managed to make a lot of money as a result from it. "It's not trouble at all." Just then hope walked in.
Alex smiled at her. Alex was about to make a funny comment when Erin spoke.

"Well, we all just sort of moved from my room to here, I guess. Well, adding in Derek, of course. You'd have to add him in because obviously he wasn't there when we were talking earlier" she laughed lightly as she said the words. "Unless, of course, you have some weird invisibility powers and for some reason enjoy stalking me, or maybe Hope... I trust it wouldn't be your sister though that you were stalking, that would be weird."

"She's not my sister." Derek said angrily. Alex took out a couple crisp bills to pay for everyone's drinks. She put it in Erin's hand.

"It's not like I'd want to be anyway you asshole!" Alex stormed off back to her room.

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"I wouldn't say we're that different." Alex said, and Erin looked at her and back to Derek, who seemed to be angered about the comment. She wondered why briefly before Alex mentioned her humming by asking if it was the peice she wrote for 'the ballerina girl', but Derek quickly corrected it to Hope. "Oh, no. It's just the start of a song that came to mind. Maybe a fun new project. Back to school and all that. It's going to be a bit faster than the pieces I write for Hope. Just something to ease my mind" she said politely and took her hands off the case, having already ordered her drink. She was searching into her bag for her wallet when Alex said she would pay.

"That's very kind of you, Alex" she smiled, never one to decline an offer. Sure, she had quite a bit more money because of her selling her music over the internet under a pseudonym so her mom didn't know, but not many people wanted to listen to straight piano music, so most only bought it if they were a fan of her style. Still, she would have to get a part-time job if she wanted to really support herself without her mom or dad this year, unlike she did last year, and that was a running bet. She made a mental note to find out if the coffee shop was hiring. She hoped she would be able to still practice her music with a job though, but she supposed she would have to deal.

When Erin had mistakenly called Alex Derek's sister instead of step-sister, they seemed to respond very harshly, with Derek getting riled up about it and Alex completely storming out of the shop after throwing a few bills at her to pay for the drinks. "I... I'm sorry if anything I said... I'm sorry" Erin looked down and reached into her own bag, pulling out her wallet and paying for the drinks. She couldn't allow someone to pay for a drink when they weren't even present, especially after she said something that angered them. She walked over to Hope and held out the money, handing it to her and nodding at the door. "Can you go give this back to her? I don't want to risk angering her further with my blabbering mouth. I'll take my chances with Derek- if worst comes to worse I don't have to live with him" she mumbled and hugged Hope tightly. "I'll owe you" she said before walking back over to Derek. "I am sorry if I said something that offended you in any way. I didn't mean it, if I did. I say things without thinking sometimes, sadly" she sighed and turned on her heels, walking over to the drink delivery area.