"Hey Em."

The blonde, hearing her name, looked up from reading her book and chewed the rest of the apple in her mouth. Emma Nelson was a very pretty girl, a tall body with just the right curves with long blonde hair and an adorable smile.

She looked up from her lunch table to see Mia Jones, one of her friends, sit down next to her. This was their, their as in she, Mia, JT, Liberty, Anya & Sav. Not the most popular crew, but not a hated one either. Specailly when Mia was so pretty, JT a class clow, Liberty so smart, Anya so sweet and Sav so athletic.

... this made Emma wonder where she fit in? Was she just the 'blonde' girl?

"Oh hey Mia," she grinned, "What's up?"

Unfortunately Mia, for some odd reason, doesn't hear her and seems to intently have both eyes fixed on a certain area across the lunchroom. Emma decided to follow her gaze to see what has her so lost in thought and starts to shake her head. Every day Mia did this, she was so hung over a boy named Lucas Vaughn.

Lucas Vaughn, school bad ass... just like the rest of his crew, yup... there was more of him. The nicest one out of them would maybe be Spinner, and his girl friend Jane... the two had this punk look to them, and liked their piercings. Next was Sean Cameron, the buff guy with ripped arms and a hot bod. Then there was Jay Hogart... and as Emma laid her eyes on him, she saw him already watching her as well.

Jay Hogart. he wasn't 16, like her, he was a senior and almost 18. God, he was gourgous, with a smart mouth ofcourse. No matter how many times he got away with being an asshole, girls still lined up to be with him...knowing what they know. He's the resident bad boy and no one will stop him from partying. He was the King of Degrassi.

Emma quickly looked away and over by the other table, Jay frowned and turned back to his friends who were making fun of another.

"Um, Mia?" Emma teased, lightly nudging her dark brown-haired friend in the shoulder. "Earth to Mia!" the girl finally snapped out of it and went red as the bell rang.

"Sorry. I was just...thinking." she said and Emma giggled a bit getting up and picking her books up. Everyone was leaving as the gang past the two girls and Mia went cold when Lucas walked right by her and she muttered to Emma, "He doesn't even see me."

But when Jay went by, he definatly saw Emma. "The treehouse, huh Nelson?" he taunted teasingly, passing by with a sexy smirk "I should start calling you Greenpeace." he walked off.

Damn him.

Emma rolled her eyes tucking her book into her binder. What? She liked nature, okay?!

"Geek." she heard and looked over to a group passing.

If you've ever seen mean girls, here they were in her school. The 'plastics'. First, is Manny Santos. You might not reconize it yet, but she and Jay were siblings...yeah, brother and sister, bad boy & cheerleader. Hogart and Santos may confuse you, let's just say Jay's mom is a bit...promiscous. They have different dad's but live under the same roof, since Jay's dad decided to take off. Everyone knew the story, his dad was a criminal, Manny's dad was rich.

Manny had long dark brown hair and a curvy hot body that made the boys drool. No wonder she's a cheerleader. She had the dimples as well, and her big brown eyes always had some secret in them that kept you wanting more. The girl breathed fire though, and that's the only thing Jay & Manny had in common... they knew how to fight. Talking about fighting, her sidekicks were Darcy Edwards and Holly J.

Darcy may pull off the holy girl act, but she could be a gossip girl, and she could start a lot of cat fights... she wasn't that bright though, no, you left that part for Holly J, she had all the secrets and scandles.

The three laughed at Emma and Mia as they passed and Mia rolled her eyes. "God, I hate them." she muttered and Emma just nodded, following her to the next class.

At the end of the day, Emma made a stop at her locker and noticed her friend JT stuttering to Paige Michealchuk, a senior Manny.

Emma didn't mean to, but she had to nudge JT just a little bit to open her locker and JT stumbled forward and put his hands out, to grope Paige Michealchuck. God! BEFORE that STUPID move he actually made her laugh.

Paige shrieked loudly and gasped as JT's mouth dropped, Emma cringed. Woops. "You perv!" Paige stormed off, laughs around the hallway was heard as well.

"JT, I'm sorry." Emma apologized quickly as he turned to her, a horrid look on his face.

"Emma! I was this close!" he pinched his fingers together with a yell.

Emma looked to the right to see Sean Cameron, Lucas Vaughn and Jane Vaughn laughing hysterically. Ugh, Jay's friend's were such jerks.

"I'm sure she'll still give you a chance." Emma said with doubt in her voice.

"That was just pity talk, I'm sure." Jane insists to them, nodding the way Paige went and added, "Girls like that, don't talk to guys like you." she told JT who groaned, slamming his head on his locker.

"Don't listen to them." Emma sadly said...though, Jane may of been right. She put a hand on JT's shoulder.

"Look at it this way." Lucas Vaughn told JT who turned back around to them, "You can try Mr Armstrongs CPR doll, I hear it's single." the friends laughed harder.

JT angered and snapped, "I'd rather the doll then the drugged up girls you take back home with you, Lukie."

Emma's eyes went wide when Lucas clenched his jaw and started walking over, Jt stepped back but was against the lockers, then pushed against them. The loud noise from the locker made Emma jump back...into something hard.

She turned her head to look behind her and looked up to see pierced grey eyes...they were hynotizing...they were Jay's. He softly put his hands on her arms and moved her behind him and went between Lucas and JT.

"Back it up Rocky" Jay taunted Lucas who exhaled, calming down. JT let out the breath he was holding and quickly ran to Emma's side.

"That's it Yorke." taunts the voice of Manny Santos who walked by with her Jock boyfriend Jimmy Brookes, "Hide behind the girl." she snickered.

Jay exhaled annoyingly, "Your voice will always haunt me." he muttered, his buddy Sean chuckled after that.

Emma actually took a shot as well, she was sick of Manny's insults. "It's hardly fair with a 5'11 guy up against someone whose 6 foot tall." Emma snapped.

Manny had her hands on her hips now, and Jimmy crossed his arms over his chest behind her.

Jay hid his grin with a killable smirk, his eyes almost sparkling as he watched between Emma and Manny. No one really had the balls to stand up to Manny, she was the 'it' girl. The cheerleader, the hottie, the resident bad boys sister, she had it all.

But Emma was sick of it.

"Then again, guess it's hard for a girl with such air in her head like you, to notice a simple measurement like that." Emma added on.

If Manny were a cartoon, smoke would be coming out of her ears and Jay's eyes would be buldged out of his head. Everyone was laughing except for Manny who kept her deadly glare on Emma, and JT who was begging Emma to leave with him.

"Bad move, blondie." Manny barked, watching JT pull Emma's hand to drag her away.

Jay and his friends started leaving and Jay smirked, putting his black hat on backwards and insisted, "I think that was the best move she's ever made." he taunted his little sister and left as well, glancing the way Emma left.

That girl was the sweetest thing.