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20 Years Later…..2026

This is set in the future when the gang is all about thirty-eight and they have children of their own in different grades at Degrassi. I'm only going to mention some characters.

Jay and Alex ended up getting married and have three kids together. They have a twelve year old daughter Kara, a thirteen year old daughter Rachael, and a fifteen year old son Cody. What Jay doesn't know is that Alex is pregnant again.

Emma and Sean ended up tying the knot shortly after high school and have twins, a boy and a girl. Thirteen year old Courtney and Noah are in 8th grade. Courtney is following in her mother's footsteps and is starting to show signs of anorexia nervosa.

Manny and Craig ended up resolving their conflicts and now have two kids together and another on the way. There's twelve year old Claire and fifteen year old Miles. Craig cheats on Manny with his old love, Ellie, what's going to happen? Will Claire and Ellie's daughter Madison stay friends throughout all of this drama?

Spinner and Paige ended up meeting up during college and Paige got pregnant. They ended up getting married and have a sixteen year old son, Jake and a fifteen year old daughter Cadence. Cadence is dating Jay and Alex's son Cody. Cadence has something that she has to tell her parents and especially Cody.

Jimmy and Ashley got married right out of high school and have three children. There's fourteen year old Evan, thirteen year old Grant, and their twelve year old daughter Jordyn. What will happen to the family when they find out that Jordyn is sick?

Marco and Dylan ended up getting married in college and adopted two kids and are in the process of adopting another. They have a fifteen year old son Caleb, and a thirteen year old daughter Teresa.

Ellie and Jesse ended up getting married when Ellie was a sophomore in college and nine months later their daughter was born, Samantha, who is now thirteen. Just a year after, surprise! Madison was born! Ellie and Jesse are in the middle of getting a divorce and they don't realize the major stress it's putting on their daughters, especially Samantha, who's going through something that she would rather forget.

Chapter One

First Day of School

Kara was running around the house trying to find her light pink flip-flops. She had to look perfect for the first day of 7th grade. It was the first day of school, which also meant the first day of 8th grade for Rachael and the first day of high school for Cody.

"Bye kids, good luck today! Bye sweetie, I have to go or I'll be late for work." Alex said kissing Jay goodbye.

"Are you sure you're ok Alex, you look sick." Jay said concerned.

"Yes I'm fine." Alex said darting off.

"Come on kids, I'll bring you to school on the way to work!" Jay announced. Jay worked at Cameron's Cars with Sean, who owned it. His oldest daughter Rachael happened to be best friends with his daughter Courtney. Jay finally got them off to school and went to work.

The bell rang after homeroom assembling everyone into their first class. Grant and Courtney happened to be in the same English class and were assigned to sit next to one another. Courtney had had a crush on Grant since sixth grade.

"Hey Courtney, what's up?" Grant asked the young girl. Courtney looked very much like her mother, same blond hair, big brown eyes, and her tall and lean body. Courtney also was alike her mother in a different way-she was starting to develop an eating disorder. She skipped breakfast and lunch but no one had noticed, not even her twin brother or her parents.

"Not much." Courtney replied holding her aching head in her hands. She hadn't eaten that morning, which resulted in a headache.

At lunch time Courtney, Samantha, Grant, Teresa, Rachel, Claire, Madison, and Jordyn sat down at lunch. Noah happened to sit there with them today and noticed Courtney wasn't hungry.

"Aren't you hungry Court?" Noah questioned using his nickname for her.

She shook her head no. Noah was worried about her; he was trying to be the big brother, the big brother by five minutes, by addressing his concerns. Sean and Emma had no idea what was up with their youngest child.

Cadence came home and kicked off her shoes. She laid down on the couch and put her hand to her stomach. She couldn't believe she was pregnant, with Cody's baby. She loved him and he loved her, but it was all too hard to handle. They weren't even planning on having sex, it just happened, they were safe, but something obviously had happened. She had taken three tests at home, all positive, and went to the free clinic for confirmation. It had been four days since she had found out, but she didn't know how to approach Cody, and especially her parents. Her mother was always at the office and her father was always off with his friends. It's not that they aren't good parents, they're just never home.

Cadence was supposed to go home to Cody's house today, but she didn't want to have to spend time with him. She could tell that he could sense something was up, she was always distant around him, it's just she didn't know what to say. Cadence decided to text him.

Cody, we need to talk-it's important.

Fourteen year old Samantha sat down at the dinner table annoyed. Her mother wasn't home as usual, just her father was. He served her and Madison dinner and sat down.

"Where's mom?" Madison questioned speaking of Ellie.

"She had to stay at work late, finish up her story." Jesse said. Ellie spent most of her time working at the office "working" on her stories. Samantha knew it was just an excuse, that she and her dad were in the middle of a divorce and her mom had yet to find an apartment, and was out of the house every chance she got.

"Yeah right." Samantha replied rolling her eyes. Samantha looked somewhat like Ellie. She mostly had Jesse's features, his dark brown hair and his eyes, but her skin tone was Ellie's, pale. Madison looked just like Samantha, and could practically be her twin despite her being a year younger.

"I don't appreciate that attitude from you Sam." Jesse said angrily.

"Well how am I supposed to act? All happy, you and mom are getting a divorce and I have worse things going on in my life that I can't tell you about!" Samantha said getting up from the table. Jesse looked at his daughter with concern and worry in his eyes.

"Like what?" He asked more quietly now. "Lately you've seen very upset."

"You think!?" Samantha said yelling stomping up the stairs. Madison just looked down at her food and left the table to go talk to her sister.

Alex got home late, she had gone to her doctor's to confirm what she knew was true; she was pregnant, two months along actually. She didn't know how to break the news to Jay. They already had their hands full with Kara, Rachael, and Cody. She was so busy being a medical technician, she didn't know how she was going to have time to be pregnant and raise their child.

After dinner Alex went upstairs and sat on their bed, waiting for Jay to come upstairs. Jay looked at Alex from the doorway, knowing something was up. His wife hadn't been the same for a while; he wanted to know what was going on.

"Lexi? Are you ok?" He asked sitting down next to her. Tears started welling up in Alex's brown eyes and Jay saw them start to roll down her cheeks. He pulled her into him close stroking her hair.

"What's wrong?" He asked softly.

"Jay, I'm pregnant." Alex stated. Jay looked at her for a minute and started to smile.

"That's great babe!" Jay exclaimed embracing his wife.

"I found out that I'm two months along." Alex replied now happier that Jay was excited. Alex put her hands on her stomach and looked up at Jay.

"We're going to have a baby." He said smiling. Alex just smiled back, overjoyed.

After dinner Sean and Emma sat down and watched some tv to relax.

"Have you noticed anything different with Courtney?" Sean asked.

"Yeah, she seems to be a little bit off. I think it's just the stress of a new school year, nothing big." Emma replied. Sean just nodded. The two had no idea that there daughter was doing a dangerous thing to herself, and it was just going to get worse.

AN: I hope you liked it! Please review if you did! In the next chapter I'll continue everything that happened in this chapter plus I'll mention the other characters.