Disclaimer: Juliana is just a fan character. The rest of the Degrassi characters are from the show

Take on Me: New Version

Seven Degrassi students gathered on a Saturday morning to their school. They were assigned to the class in which they were supposed to stay in for about 7 hours and think about what they did. You ask why they must come to school on a Saturday…one word: Detention. Most likely answer, but it's still the reason why the students must be at school on a weekend; each for their own reason.

The first to enter the classroom was Craig and a new girl named Juliana. Next came Paige, Alex, and Ellie; and following them were Sean and Jay. There were six rows in the class; Juliana sat in the 5th row third seat, Ellie sat in the 4th row second seat, Paige sat in the 3rd row fourth seat, while Alex sat in front of Paige. Craig decided to sit in the 5th row second seat, Sean came in and planted his ass on the second seat of the 3rd row, and Jay sat in the 4th row third seat.

Once everyone was seated Mr. Raditch came into the class and distributed 3 sheets of loose leaf paper and a pencil to each student. Everyone had a confused look on their face when the loose leaf paper was given out; they thought all they needed to do was sit and do nothing.

"Mr. Raditch, um sir, why are we getting paper and a pencil?" Paige asked.

"Well, I'm starting something new, instead of just sitting around thinking about what you did, you are going to write an essay about what you did and why it was wrong, no less then 1000 words."

Every groaned when they heard about their assignments. It was bad enough that they all had to come to a Saturday's detention, but now they have to write an essay! Mr. Raditch stepped out of the classroom and the silent classroom became the chatting circle.

"I can't believe he's making us write an essay!" Alex exclaimed. "It's like he's doing this to torture us."

"Well that's what you get for smoking joints in school." Jay butted in.

"Did I ask for your opinion?" Alex sassed back.

Jay stayed shut and listened to the conversation between Ellie and Sean. It was mostly just Ellie talking and Sean ignoring her, but it was still a conversation worth listening too. Craig was twiddling his thumbs hearing his name through out the whole "Ellie-talking-Sean-not-listening" conversation. Juliana was just sitting still, looking down at her folded hands.

Five minutes have passed and nobody has written anything on their paper so far. Paige and Alex were talking about yesterday. Sean was ignoring Ellie…still. Ellie was now talking to both Sean and Craig, Juliana was now beginning to tremble and still sitting still, and Jay was playing around with his cap and sunglasses.

After playing around with his head gear, Jay began scrunching up his loose leaf papers into paper balls and throwing them across the classroom. Then, Jay pushed back his chair and rested his feet on the desk.

"You're going to get into trouble" Ellie said, referring to Jay who had his feet in front of Ellie's face.

Jay ignored her and called Sean's name out. "Hey Sean, afterwards there's going to be a huge party at the ravine."

"I don't know, man. The Algebra test is tomorrow and I…" Sean began but was interrupted.

"You're always studying, you gotta have some fun." Jay grinned.

"We'll see" Sean said.

Paige and Alex began to laugh at what they were talking about. Then 10 seconds later, Paige spoke up, "Hey Jay, I'll go with you to the party." Alex cracked up. Jay looked at Paige with a perplexed look; he knew what she was going to say next. "Yeah, I'll go with you….when hell freezes over." Paige said. Then Paige and Alex exploded with laughter.

"What's going on in here?" Mr. Raditch yelled as he ran into the classroom when he heard the laughter.

"Nothing" Everyone said in unison.

"Everyone better be working on their essays." Then the principal walked out of the classroom and back into his office.

Jay sighed loudly and began to hum to a song. Then something disrupted his humming. A pencil fell to the ground in account that Juliana was trembling so much that it rolled off her desk. Jay watched the pencil roll next to his desk, then his eyes went from the pencil to Juliana.

She was a transferred student from New York. She had black wavy hair that reached to the middle of her back. She was dressed casually in a pair of jeans and in a black tank top. Jay leaned down and picked up the pencil, then he stretched out his arm to hand it to the quiet girl. Juliana didn't look up from her desk, so she didn't notice that Jay was giving her back the fallen pencil.

"Hey" Jay said trying to get the girl's attention. Craig was switching his eyes from Jay to Juliana. "Umm he's talking to you…" Craig told Juliana; she didn't move from her position, her eyes were still staring at the paper on her desk.

Jay's arm was now hanging from his desk, "Hey mute child, I have your pencil" Jay said louder. She perked up her head and turned to Jay. Slowly she reached for the pencil and then she swiftly turned back to face forward. Jay cocked an eyebrow and then faced up front.

"I don't know about all of you guys, but I'm not going to stay in here." Jay said getting up from his desk and walking out the classroom. "I'm with him, I'm out of here." Alex said leaving the classroom, then shortly Paige followed. Sean didn't hesitate; he took a glance at Ellie and then got up from his seat and left the class. Ellie soon left the classroom following Sean close behind. Craig sighed and got up, "You coming along too?" he asked Juliana. She shrugged and got up from her seat as well.

Juliana followed Craig out the door. "So why are you in detention today?" He asked. Juliana didn't say a word, then in a few seconds she faced him. "Why are you here?" She asked him.

"I was mistaken for something I really didn't do and I took action which ended me up here." Craig said. Juliana had a confusing expression on her face; you need to think hard on what Craig was really trying to say.

There was a loud bang coming from the cafeteria which attracted Craig and Juliana to enter. They opened the door and saw Jay and Sean moving the tables to the side.

"What are you guys doing?" Craig asked walking up to the others.

"We are going to play some soccer." Sean said while pushing a table.

"Any of you have a soccer ball?" Ellie asked, sort of ruining the excitement.

"There are some in the gym. I'll go get some." Alex said walking out the door.

"I'll come along with you." Paige said running to catch up with Alex.

After Sean, Jay, and Craig moved all the lunch tables to the side, Alex and Paige came in with a bag full of soccer balls.

"We asked for one, not all of them." Jay said.

"We couldn't get one out. It's pretty hard opening the bag with just your hands." Paige said showing her nails to everyone; trying to tell them that she just got a manicure.

"We don't want to break the bag, do we?" Craig asked trying to open the bag with his hands.

"It doesn't matter." Jay said grabbing the bag away from Craig.

"Here, I'll open it." Juliana said flicking out a blade from her pocket. There were a few gasps when she took out the blade.

"So you do talk, mute girl" Jay said smirking. Juliana didn't give eye contact with him; she just walked up to the bag, and made a quick slash across the bag so it made a small hole. Then Jay placed the bag on the floor, made the hole a bit bigger, and took out a soccer ball.

"Let's play some soccer!" Craig cheered enthusiastically.