Chapter One: Are They Together?

Manny walked into Degrassi Community School with a huge smile on her face. It was the first day of her senior year. The best part about it was that no one was staring at her. Practically everyone knew what happened to her the year before and knew who the father turned out to be. And they were all happy for her. The weird thing was, Chris wasn't anywhere in sight.

"Hey Emma!" she yelled as she saw her best friend standing at her locker.

"Is your locker near mine?" Emma asked her as she walked up.

"No! Mine's upstairs," she groaned.

"Maybe whoever's locker this is will trade with you," Emma said, pointing to the one next to hers. The minute she said this, JT walked up.

"Not a chance babe," he told Manny. "I have to be next to my girl," he said and put his arm around Emma.

"Your girl?" Manny questioned.

"Oh yeah. I forgot to mention that. I haven't really talked to you since your birthday party. It's been almost a month…" Emma started to say.

"Emma came over my house that night actually. And, well, things happened and here we are," JT explained.

"Things happened?" Manny eyed JT suspiciously. "What kind of things?"

"Don't worry about that babe. We gotta get to class Em," he said to her.

"But class doesn't start for another fifteen minutes," Emma pointed out.

"Well, we have to get to that place and uh…you know," he said, nudging her.

"I'll see you later Manny!" Emma yelled as she quickly grabbed JT's hand and ran off with him. Manny shook her head and smiled, then made her way upstairs to her locker. While she was putting her bag away, she was surprised by who was making his way towards her.

"Jimmy? What are you doing here? Didn't you graduate?" she asked him.

"Yeah, I'm only here to see you," he joked. "Actually, I spent so much time in the hospital last year that I couldn't graduate. Stupid isn't it?"

"That does suck, but I'm glad to see you walking again, that's the important thing," Manny told him. "I mean, you were paralyzed for eleventh and twelfth grade and now you're walking like it never happened. It's a miracle," she said.

"It's more like two years of intense physical therapy," he said, laughing. "But you're right, at least I can walk."

"What classes do you have?" Manny asked him. Jimmy handed his schedule to her and she studied it. "We have Media Immersions, English, Science, and Math together. The first two before lunch and the other two after," she told him.

"I have History now. What do you have?" he asked.

"This special parenting class that I signed up for at the end of last year. I thought it might help me a little. Although now I realized that I really need to learn best from experience."

"Wow I almost forgot that you had a baby," he told her. "You look great."

"Thanks, but I had two. Lily Adila and Lucas Wade," she told him.

"Are you serious? That's crazy. How are you handling that?"

"It's not that bad. They're a little over a month old and they only wake up once during the night now. When they were first born, they woke up about three times, at different times. Now they usually wake up together, which makes it easier," Manny explained.

"Where are they now?" Jimmy asked, interested.

"Emma's mom is watching them until I get home. As soon as the bell rings at two, I'll hurry to her house, pick them up, go home, feed them and change them, and get dressed for work, which I have to be at for three. Emma's been watching them until Heather gets home, but now she has some club after school, so she can't do it. Today I have the day off, so I'll get to see if I can make it to the mall in time for work. I just don't have anyone to watch them. I'll have to find someone by tomorrow. If I can't find anyone, I guess I'll have to ask Spike to watch them again for two hours," she finally finished telling him.

"Why don't I watch them for you? I don't have anything to do," he offered.

"Are you sure? Do you have any experience with babies?"

"Not really, but I can learn," he said, giving her a smile she couldn't refuse.

"Why don't you come home with me today then? I can show you the basics. But you'll only have one day to learn..." Manny said, a little skeptically.

"Sounds great." They both heard the bell ring, and Manny looked at her watch. "Well then I'll see you in Media Immersions second period," Jimmy said as he walked away.

The day passed quickly. In Media Immersions, Jimmy's seat was right next to Manny's. In Science, they chose each other as lab partners. Jimmy even sat with Manny and her friends at lunch. When the day ended, Manny and Jimmy picked the twins up and went back to Manny's house.

After one day at school, they were getting pretty close. It was the first day of Manny's junior year all over again. Only this time, she wasn't getting to know Chris.

A/N: Sorry that it's short. I just wanted to have an overall summary of Manny's first day.