Title: The World At large
Author: Psyc0gurl0
Disclamier: none of it is mine! Tear.
Summary: It is Emma's senior year and everything seems to be changing for her. She is becoming closer with her boyfriend, Peter, until someone spectacular comes along. Ellie is in love with someone, and Manny is trying to be friends with her again. Her parents are on the rocks and she is trying to get over her eating disorder. What is her senior year going to be like?
History: So, just to catch you all up! After the last chapter in Mr and Mrs Brightside; Alex and Paige hooked up, like in the show. Jay is never found out, and Spinner is welcomed back. Ellie joins Craigs band, and they start getting closer, until he leaves. Emma dates Peter, like in the show. But she never sees Snake with the Principal...yet. Manny and Emma are sort of friends now. JT never got Liberty pregnant. It had been 2 years since the shooting, and talking to Jay. Ellie is still living with her, she is a writer, she isn't dating anyone and hasn't talked to Sean since he's been at school. Jay graduated from Degrassi last year, no one has really heard from him since. Alex and Paige went to the local college. I think that is all.
Couples: Jay/Emma (obviously) Ellie/Sean. Ellie/Craig Alex/Paige
Authors' Note: So I still have to watch the season premire! I thought what better day to post it on then the day Sean comes back. I say a little of it so far, but I'm going to catch it in an hour so...watching the part I saw I got an engenius idea! and it totally made the story I was going to write more interesting, cause I only had an outline. Anyway! Thank you to all 100 of you who reviewd my last story and I hope this one is as popular as the last. If you haven't read the first it is called Mr and Mrs Brightside. This story is named after the Modest Mouse song, which I love! Ok I think that is all I have to say...so far.
Chapter 1: Long Time No See
"I love Winter Break!" Emma said with a smile as she walked into her house, to find it housing a lazy Ellie.
"I do too! Then we can finally do something!" Ellie said turning the tv off and looking at Emma.
"Senior year is almost over!" Emma said smiling and sitting next to Ellie on the couch.
"Then we will move! And then we will be in college in the states or somewhere equally cool!" Ellie said with a smile.
"Yep! Now let me start my homework then we can go out tonight, it the parentals will let us, that is."
"Don't worry, they went to visit some friend with Jack." Ellie said watching as Emma went to the kitchen table and take her homework out.
"Oh." Emma muttered starting her homework.
They were quiet for an hour until Emma announced she was done and they headed to the Dot.
"So, what should we do tonight?" Ellie asked looking at the menu.
"I'm not sure." Emma wondered picking at her nail polish.
"Emma, you know what the doctor said, you have to eat with someone at every meal." Ellie muttered as she saw Spinner come over to them to take their orders.
"Hey Ellie, Emma, what do you guys want?" Spinner asked tapping his pencil against his pad.
Emma sighed heavily and muttered her order, hating when she knew Ellie was right. So far the only person to actually care about, and watch what Emma was eating was Ellie.
"So, how was school?" Ellie asked watching Spinner wait on tables.
"Fine, I guess. Nothing really big happened." Emma said with a laugh.
"But it was really funny when Peter passed me a note in English!" Emma said with a happy sigh.
Ellie resisted rolling her eyes at her best friend. Peter and Emma had been going out for a couple months, and that was usually Emma ever talked about. Ellie was happy her friend found someone to like again, but sometimes she worried Emma was pushing it. She felt sometimes her friend had to push herself to like Peter. Ellie liked Peter just fine, he was nice and sweet, but Ellie couldn't help but miss Jay. Just like she couldn't help and miss Sean, it was impossible to NOT miss them, they were such big parts of their lives, just like Alex was too.
"So, maybe we should see a movie." Emma shrugged and picked at her french fries and salad.
"What movie?" Emma muttered.
Ellie shrugged and was quiet for a minute. "Well we could see...The Illusionist. I heard that was really good."
Emma took a french fry and nodded. "Ok, I'll see that, but can we invite Peter?"
Ellie sighed. "If you must."
"You know, we could double date, Peter has a really nice friend named Joey, you might like him." Emma said with a hopeful smile.
Ellie grimaced and turned her attention to the door, which had opened. "Craig!" Ellie screeched causing most of the restaurant to go quiet.
Craig smiled at her and pulled a chair up to their table. "Hey Ellie, Emma. What's up?" Craig said smiling at them.
"Nothing, just discussing what we should be doing." Emma said with a shrug.
"When did you get back?" Ellie asked trying to control her voice.
Craig smiled at her, "I got back yesterday, I decided to stay with Joey for Christmas. I wanted to take a break from work." Craig said glancing at Emma but turning his attention back to Ellie.
Emma smirked at her friend, already knowing what was coming.
"That's so cool! We'll probably see you then!" Ellie said flipping her hair.
"Yeah, probably. What are you guys doing today?" Craig asked.
"Thinking about seeing a movie." Emma muttered.
"What are you going to go see?"
"The Illusionist. You should come, it could be like a group hang. Emma is inviting Peter." Ellie said trying to act nonchalant.
Craig raised an eyebrow, "really? Who's Peter?"
"My boyfriend." Emma said with a smile, "we've been going out for—"
"Oh, so you and Jay didn't get back together?" Craig asked interrupting.
Emma turned a shade of two paler. "N-N-No. Why w-would we?" Emma stuttered, at the thought of her ex.
"Well, I just thought, I mean, you guys were so hung up on each other. Then, when I heard he got his act together, and works at that Auto Repair shop, I thought, you guys would get back together." Craig said with a shrug. "But, this Peter guy sounds fine. It's ok if I go with you to the movies, right?"
"Yes! Of course! Emma has Peter, I'll need someone to talk to while they make out." Ellie said with a laugh.
"Yeah." Emma muttered, still thinking about what Craig said. She picked at her food, just so Ellie wouldn't say anything and called Peter, who was happy to come see a movie with them.
At 8:30 pm they heard a knock on the door and went to open it.
"Hey Peter." Emma said kissing him then taking him into the living room where Ellie and Craig were playing cards.
"This is Craig, and you know Ellie." Emma said with a smile as she introduced them.
"Hi." Craig said looking up from his cards.
"Hey. So what times the movie at?"
"Oh in 10 minutes." Ellie said looking at the clock.
"I guess, we should go then." Peter said heading towards the door as the others followed.
"You know, if you wanted to double date Joey wasn't busy tonight." Peter said as they got into the car.
"Oh! No! We aren't—"
"No! We aren't"
Ellie and Craig said at the same time babbling.
"Really?" Peter asked with a laugh. "How do you guys, know each other?" Peter asked.
"We were in a band together, I went away to work on my career, and we just ran into each other tonight." Craig said.
"Oh." Peter said as they pulled into the movie theater.
They got out of the car and went to stand in line for a ticket. "So." Ellie said trying to make conversation. She had a distant memory of going out with Jay and Sean and how easily conversation flowed through them. But this time when they went out with Peter and Craig it was a little tense.
They got their tickets and headed into the movie theater as Ellie and Emma got popcorn.
"Is it a little...tense or is it just me?" Emma muttered as they waited for popcorn.
"Um, I noticed it too, maybe we should have went by ourselves." Ellie muttered.
"You know, we'll do something the whole 2 weeks off by ourselves. Have you heard from Alex lately?" Emma asked as the walked into the theater.
Ellie nodded, "we had lunch today."
Emma nodded and they went to find the boys. "We should have lunch tomorrow."
"Yeah, I asked her that, she said she and Paige did lunch on Saturdays, but we could join." Ellie said with a shrug as they sat down in their seats.
"That's fine." Emma muttered as the previews came on.
"Em, pass the popcorn." Peter said.
The movie began and four teens ate their popcorn in peace. No one talked and no one made out, it was a very tense atmosphere.
"So I liked the movie." Ellie said as they walked out of the theater around 10:45.
"Me too! Edward Norton is really cool."
"And Jessica Biel is hott." Craig said with a laugh as they got back into the car.
"So, should we do something else?" Peter asked as the drove around for a little while.
"I don't know, I wanna do something else, I mean, it's only 10:45 and it's my first day of freedom." Emma said with a smile.
"What do you wanna do?" Peter asked looking at her for too long and hitting a piece of ice.
"Sh–" Peter yelled as the slid in a circle and ran off the road into a tree.
"Shit!" Peter yelled as they hurried to get out of the car.
"Oh my god!" Emma said as the looked at the damage.
"What are we going to do?" Ellie said rubbing her hands together to try and stay warm. She thought back to the boys of their past, and realized they could have fixed this with no problem, they were after all obsessed with cars.
"Well, I don't know, maybe, call the repair shop." Craig said sarcastically.
"No!" Emma yelled causing everyone to look at her.
"Emma, honey, my car is jammed into a tree." Peter said looking at her.
"We HAVE to call the repair shop."
"Yeah, Emma, what are you afraid of?" Ellie asked with a smirk.
Emma balled up a piece of snow and threw it at her.
"Ah! Emma!" Ellie said laughing. "It's cold! And now I'm wet! We really need to call the repair shop!"
"I doubt they're open!" Emma said desperately looking for a reason to not call the shop.
"Emma Nelson! What the hell is your problem! We need to call the damn shop! So get off your high horse and call them!" Peter yelled making everyone jump at Peter's seriousness.
Emma took a deep breath and dialed the operator for the repair shop. As she did this no one talked, they all looked at her, as she made the seemingly simple call. "They'll be here in half an hour." Emma muttered as she hung up the phone.
Peter sighed in relief and leaned against the car.
Craig and Ellie just looked at each other wondering what to do. Finally after 30 minutes of silence they saw headlights in the distance and a pick up truck slow down beside them. A dark figure got out of the car and headed towards them.
"So, what happened?" A deep voice yelled out to them.
Emma braced herself to see Jay and hoped Peter wouldn't ask too many questions.
"We slid on a piece of ice." Peter muttered as the guy walked towards them.
Ellie gasped when she saw who it was and nearly fainted. "Oh my god." She muttered.
"Oh my god is right!" Emma yelled when she saw who it was.
"Sean!" they yelled together as Sean smirked at them then looked at the two guys.
"Hey, Craig." Sean said waving at Craig who nodded back, then he looked at Peter.
"This, your car?" Sean asked smirking.
"Yeah." Peter muttered taking in a deep breath. "Who are you?"
"Sean Cameron, a friend of Emma and Ellie." Sean said holding out a hand to shake.
"Peter, Emma's boyfriend."
"Emma's boyfriend, isn't that interesting." a voice said behind them, making all 5 of them turn towards it.
Emma winced at the voice and nearly died of panic right then. She thought when she saw Sean that he was alone. Obviously not when she heard THAT voice. A voice she would never forget as hard as she tried. She turned around to face her past, her present and her future.
"Hey, GreenPeace. Long time no see." He said with a smirk.
She tried to smile back, but she couldn't her insides where all over the place and she couldn't think straight. This feeling hadn't happened to her in so long.
"Hey Jay." She muttered back, taking a deep breath, and trying to calm her jumping nerves.
(A/n: I hope it was a good comeback! I am now working on 5 stories jeez. So I don't know anything about cars or eating disorders so please bare with me. Also, how was it? Good bad should I continue my sequel?)