A/N: This fic starts off with Craig telling Spinner to get out of the car when he was drunk. So, I hope you all like it and don't forget to R&R.

Broken

Chapter 1: Just the Beginning of the End

Spinner

"Spinner get out of the car!" shouted Craig out as peered into the red convertible at drunken Spinner. Paige, Hazel, Jimmy, and Marco watched on, each wearing a fearful expression on their face. Spinner just looked dead on in front him. To lost in his thoughts, he ignored his ex best friend's command and started up his car.

Spinner drove off, the others watching him go sadly. He sped off, above the speed limit getting closer and closer to the intersection. He could hear Craig shouting, "Manny!", but before he could react, the only thing he could hear was the scream exiting from Manny's mouth.

He watched as Manny hit the ground hard, her eyes starring into his. He watched as her body fell limp, he looked on as she died in front of him. He stared, frozen in place, a lone tear dropping from his eye as he saw the hurt in her eyes, pain as if she had been betrayed. And she had, by him, something he promised he wouldn't do. He promised her he wouldn't be Craig, be he was worse. Way worse.

Manny

Just around corner, Manny was jogging, listening to her CD player. Because of her crazy, confusing, and stressful life, she needed to jog every once in awhile to clear her head. Today she was especially stressed out, her mind running in overdrive with thoughts of Spinner.

What he did was beyond wrong and now, as if it wasn't enough to be shunned by those closest to him, he was being shunned by the entire school. But, wasn't Manny at one point in time being ignored and gossiped about by her fellow peers at one point? So, why was she too shunning Spinner?

Slowing down, she came to an intersection. She looked both ways, only checking for on coming cars, not really noticing the commotion going on to her left. She jogged across the street at a some what slow place, but before she could cross the street safely, she heard someone calling out to her.

When she turned in their direction, all she saw was a red car speeding her way. Frozen in place, all she could do was scream. The car hit her full force, knocking her to the ground hard. She lay sprawled out on the asphalt of the street, moaning in pain. She looked up, peering into the windshield of car and saw the shocked face of Spinner. She looked at him, her eyes filled with tears and then, she let out her last breath and her head and body loosened, all life gone from it.

No specific person

Craig and the others ran to the front of the car and stopped immediately when they saw Manny lying lifeless, he eyes open and 'Everytime' flowing from the headphones that flew off of Manny's head during collision.

"C-call 911." stuttered Craig as he looked at Manny, tears forming in his eyes. Paige pulled out her cell phone from her purse lost in shock. Her hands shook as she dialed the three digit number. She brought the phone to her ear and heard the operator say, "911, what is your situation?"

Paige replied, "T-there was a c-car accident. S-someone was hit." The operator asked, "What is your location?" Paige answered, "The intersection of D-Degrassi Street and Spencers Drive. I think she's d-dead. Y-you need to hurry." Paige's face paled and she looked as if she could faint, but she stayed strong…for now. "Okay, sweetie, I need you to stay on the line until the ambulance and the police get there." replied the operator. Paige breathed into the phone, "Okay."

The ambulance and the police rounded the corner, coming to a stop fifty feet behind the car. The police rushed to the front of the car and took notes of the scene. "They're here." said Paige into the phone before she hung it up abruptly, not letting the operator say anything.

"Can you guys tell me what happened?" asked a male cop as he approached the shock stricken teens. Hazel replied, "She was hit by that car. The boy driving, he was drunk. We tried to stop him from getting in the car, but he wouldn't listen."

The officer asked, "The driver is a teenager?" Jimmy answered, "Yes. He's seventeen. His n-name is Gavin Mason." The officer then asked, "Can you tell me the name of the victim?"

Craig

Craig watched as the officers outlined the scene with yellow tape so that the people who had come out of their house to see what all the commotion was couldn't disturb it. He watched as officers took notes of the scene, but his eyes stayed at one spot longer than the rest.

He watched a female officer take note of the damage that was done to Manny. She took down notes of the broken bones, to the huge cut at the back of her head. While she was doing that, Paramedics were getting the gernie ready for Manny and a photographer took pictures of the scene and lingered on Manny to get pictures from every angle.

He had not heard a thing the officer or anyone else was saying until the officer asked, "Can anyone tell me the victims name?" Craig felt anger boil through his body, Manny wasn't a victim, she was a person. A person who had to die cause some idiot got drunk.

"Her name is Manny. Manny Santos. She's a person not just some victim you officers just pick up everyday. Manny, its short for Manuela. She loves fluffy animals and her favorite color is fuchsia, but if you ask her she'll say pink. She's a cheerleader at Degrassi Community School. She…she jogs when she's stressed. She dresses inappropriate because she feels the need for attention, but she's so beautiful without it. She has a great personality, but she hides it from people who don't really know it. Her smile, I love her smile. She has the most adorable dimples." he said, smiling slighly as he pictured her before the accident, before everything got so confusing.

The officer apologized for being so uncaring towards his feeling, but he was too dazed to hear. He fixed his gaze on Spinner who was being arrested and pulled off to a police car. Rage pulsed threw his body and then he broke down, tears cascading down his face. He fell to the sidewalk and just started sobbing.

No specific person

Paige bent down and brought Craig into her arms and held him as he cried, his tears soaking her shirt. Marco looked at the two, tears soon threatening to fall from his eyes. Manny was his friend, sure they weren't really close, but they were close enough.

Jimmy sat in his wheelchair and watched Craig as he cried. "I've never seen Craig cry before." said Jimmy to himself. Matter of fact, Jimmy didn't think Craig had ever cried. Hazel came over and bent down to hug Jimmy.

The officer explained to the group that they were keeping Manny's body here a little while longer so that her parents could confirm that she was indeed Manny do to her lack of id. He also said that whoever doesn't live on this street should call their parents so that they could be picked up.

Behind the police cars

"Listen, my son isn't home and his friends that were with him aren't there either, I just need to know if they…if he is hurt. Please." begged Joey to a police officer who was blocking everyone's entrance to the scene.

"Sir, I can only tell you that the victim was a female hit by a male drunk driver. Other than that, you have to wait for the captain." replied the officer. Joey was about to say something else when his cell phone ranged.

He picked up the phone and said, "Craig, please tell me this is you and that you're at the dot." The person replied, sounding as if he was crying, "Joey, its m-me Craig." Joey asked, backing away from the yellow tape, "Craig, what's wrong, where are you?"

"I'm at the intersection down the street from our house. Joey, Manny s-she's -" Craig started crying harder before he could finish his sentence. "Mr. Jeremiah? Its me, Paige." said Paige solemnly who had taken the phone from Craig.

"Paige, I need you to go to an officer and tell them to let me through. I need to talk to Craig okay? I'm already here just get an officer." said Joey into the phone. Paige answered, "Okay." He hung up the phone and went back over to the officer he was speaking to earlier who was conversing with another officer.

"Show me your id so I can let you through sir." said the officer who had been talking to the officer Joey had originally talked to. Joey pulled out his wallet and showed it to the officer. The officer looked at the id and let Joey, leading him over to Craig and the others.

He ran up to Craig who was still on the ground crying. Placing his arm around Craig supportively, Joey said to the others, "One of you, any of you, tell me what happened." They all looked back and forth at each other, not sure who was going to talk first. Joey said more demandingly, "One of you just tell me what happened."

Hazel answered, "Spinner had came over drunk and when we wouldn't talk to him, he stormed out of here and got in his car. Craig tried to get him to get out, but he drove off anyway. Next thing we all knew was that Manny was jogging across the street when Spinner hit her. She screamed and that was it. Paige called the police, they asked us questions and then told us to call our parents."

Joey took his other hand and ran it over his head and asked, "Manny, how is she?" Jimmy looked over to the ambulance and replied, "She's in the ambulance…but she didn't make it. She d-died before the paramedics got here."

Paige said, "Mr. Jeremiah, we really did try to stop him. I swear." Joey looked at the ground sadly, "I know Paige. Its not your fault. None of you guys are responsible for what happened. It was Spinner's bad judgment that caused all of this. Don't blame yourselves."

Marco said, "Her p-parents are here. The police called them so that they could clarify that Manny was who we said she was because she didn't have any id on her." Joey said, "I'm going to go talk to her parents, You guys take Craig home and stay there. Watch Angie, but don't tell her what happened…she liked Manny a lot. Maybe one of you could call Mr. Simpson and he can notify the school. Save Manny's parents some more heartache having to explain why Manny won't be coming to school anymore."

They all nodded and walked down the pavement to Craig's house with Craig leaning onto Paige for support while Joey walked over to the Santos' who looked grief stricken. They must have identified her already.

Craig's House

They walked in the house and everyone just plopped right down on the couch, each thinking of how much they'll miss Manny and how much they may have been affected by her when she was alive.

"Craig, why does everyone look so sad?" asked Angie who had came in from the kitchen. Paige answered for Craig, "Sweetie, why don't we go to your room and maybe watch some cartoons or a movie." Angie figured something was wrong and concluded that her dad would probably tell her later.

Angie replied, "Can we watch Cinderella?" Paige took Angie's hand and said, "Sure hun. Umm, Hazel why don't you call Mr. Simpson while I'm upstairs with Angie." Hazel answered, "Okay."

The two girls went up to Angie's room and Hazel picked up the house phone book to get Mr. Simpson's number. After finding the number, she dialed it into the phone and waited for him to answer. Emma picked it up. "Hello, Nelson-Simpson residence, how can I help you?"

Hazel replied, "Emma, can you put Mr. Simpson on the phone, its important." Emma was shocked that Hazel was calling, but answered, "Umm, okay. DAD, telephone!" Hazel waited for him to pick up and for Emma to hang up, when she heard him say hello, she told him everything that had happened.

Nelson-Simpson residence

Mr. Simpson hung up the phone after saying goodbye to Hazel. He couldn't believe it, Manny Santos was dead. He had first thought that Paige had gotten Hazel to call him so that Manny would come to school and everyone would look at her oddly because of what had happened between them after Spinner had been eyeing Manny while still dating Paige, but when he had heard Craig crying in the background he knew it was true.

Emma noticed the grim look on Snake's face and asked, "Dad, what's wrong?" Snake looked at Emma and his face dropped even lower. He knew Emma and Manny were still trying to fix their relationship, but they were always close and this would tear her apart. "Emma, honey why don't you sit down." said Snake as he led Emma to the couch.

Sitting down, Emma said, "I don't like the way this is going. Just tell me what's going on. Why did Hazel call here for?" Emma looked at Snake trying to figure what it was he had to tell her, but couldn't figure it out and it buggged her because she could tell it was serious.

Snake answered, "Sweetie, Manny was in a car accident. Someone was driving the car under the influence of alcohol and hit her when she was crossing the street." Emma asked, her voice emotionless, "Is, is she alright? Can we go see her?"

Mr. Simpson's eyes filled up with tears and Emma knew the answer right away, but she refused to believe it. "No." she cried out. Snake said, "Emma, Manny didn't make it. She was d-dead seconds after she got hit. I'm so sorry Emma." Snake watched as she broke down in tears before him. That's how Spike found them.

"What's going on?" asked Spike, Emma's mom. Snake answered, tears still falling down his face, "Manny's dead. She was hit with a car by Spinner." Emma's head shot up when she heard Spinner's name.

"Spinner? Spinner killed Manny?" she asked hysterically. She shouted, "I HATE HIM! He had to get Rick killed, Jimmy paralyzed, Sean almost killed, and now he had to take my best friend. I HATE HIM, I HATE GAVIN MASON!" She ran down to her room and fell on her bed, crying and screaming into her pillow. She stopped screaming a few seconds later, but her tears couldn't stop, they refused to stop.

Craig wasn't talking to anyone, Emma couldn't stop crying, and everyone else was too lost in their own grief to really be able to comfort them. Manny Santos was dead and her ex-boyfriend was the one who killed her, taking her from all of the people who loved her or just cared for her strongly.

Craig, Jimmy, Emma, Paige, Marco, and Hazel will never be the same again. Spinner would always remember the day he killed the only person who was willing to give him a second chance and if he thought people hated him before, he thought wrong. People who didn't even know Manny, yet were some how affected be her being around would hate him and they would retaliate. Craig, he has one goal to complete before schools out and that is to make Spinner Mason's life a living hell.

A/N: Well there was chapter one. I hope you all liked it and I hope you all leave me a lot of reviews to let me know what you think and let me know if I should change anything. The last chapter was kind of foreshadowing what's to come in future chapters, so don't forget it cause it'll come into play later.

I don't own anything or anyone from or in Degrassi. Everytime belongs to Britney Spears.