A New Beginning

By: Lexxie Sparrow

Summery: Picks up during 'Secrets and Lies'. While supporting their friends' has they hide their secret relationship two unlikely people start spending more time together. Watch as two people grow closer as they fight to stay together and overcome life's obstacals through the years.

Disclaimer: I do not own Degrassi. I do own the series this story spawned from. Everything else belongs to it rightful owners.

A/N: Morning all! Okay so I wanted to get this up before I do more work on 'Faith and Love' because there will be a few elements in here that are going to show up over there. Anyways I hope you all enjoy.

Chapter 1

He was sitting at the table in the caf that he and his friends always sat at during lunch when they came to school. He was listening to his best friend tell him about what had happened with his ex-girlfriend. They had hooked up in the ravine the night before, unknown to his current girlfriend, and he had decided he wanted her back.

"She turned you down? You really rocked her world." he said laughing at his friend.

He noticed the other boy glaring at him. "It's not funny. She turned me down because I'm still with Ellie."

He stopped his laughing and sighed before taking off his black baseball cap and scratching his brunette hair. "Well make her think you're not with Ellie. I do it down in the ravine." he said as his attention was slowly dragged away from the conversation as two girls entered the cafeteria.

The raven haired beauty standing next to his friend's ex-girlfriend had caught his eye the first day he had stepped into the school after moving to Toronto. She was a year younger than him but that didn't mean anything.

There were only two things that kept him from making his move on her. One was his own girlfriend and the other was of all the rumors he had heard about her and the emo-kid his friend's girlfriend hung out with. Lately though they weren't the highlights in the Degrassi rumor mill so maybe this was his chance.

He noticed the girls looking around for a table to sit at and waved them over. "Hey Greenpiece, Santos!" he called to them.

The two girls in question looked over and saw the two guys. Both of their hearts started pounding in their chests but for different reasons. One because of what had taken place about twelve hours before and the other because the person they thought to be unattainable was now wanting her to come sit with him and his friend without his girlfriend around.

She saw the other boy shaking his head and whispering something to him. She looked over at the blonde beside her and saw her wide eyes before shrugging and walked over to the table with the two boys.

"What do you want Jay?" Emma asked sitting down next to Sean as Manny took the chair next to Jay.

Jay shrugged turning his eyes away from Manny. "Thought you two ladies would like some company." he said as Sean glared at him slightly once again.

"Thanks Jay." Manny said making Jay smile slightly. They all sat around the table slowly making conversation with each other.

Jay grinned mentally when Manny laughed at one of his jokes and he wrapped an arm around the back of her chair. "So ladies there's a party tonight in Bennett Park. You guys want to come?" he asked hoping at least the girl beside him would say yes.

Manny looked over at Emma with a raised eyebrow wondering what was going on. Normally Jay never spoke to either of them and here he was inviting them to hang out. "Sure I guess. What time do you want us there?" she asked missing her best friend frantically shaking her head no.

Jay smirked at her. "Come around ten. That's when it starts getting good."

Manny smiled shyly at him as she heard Emma say something about needing help with something and furrowed her brow. "Yea that thing. Let's go." she said standing up. "Bye guys!" she called as they walked away from the table.

Jay smirked at Sean happily as he stole a fry from his plate as he was once again on the receiving end of his best friend's glare.

"Okay what was that about?" Manny asked dragging Emma into the girl's washroom. "Why is Jason Hogart inviting us to a party? Better yet why is Jay even talking to us?" Not that she minded but it was weird. She saw her friend look down guiltily.

Manny's heart stopped for a second. "You didn't do anything with Jay did you?" she asked worried and hoped she said no.

"Not Jay." Manny breathed a small sigh of relief at that.

"Then who..." she said before her eyes widened as she realized who it was. "Sean?! Sean Cameron?! Em! He has a girlfriend. One that he loves and lives with. You know what happened when I got involved with Craig." Manny yelled praying her friend hadn't done anything that stupid.

She had seen first hand what happened when you got involved with a guy that already had a girlfriend and she didn't ever want to see it happen to her best friend.

"He's messed up right now Manny. Worse than I was." At that Manny felt sorry for Sean and even Ellie as she remembered what her and Emma's parents had gone through to bring her out of her depression. "We were talking and it just happened."

Manny sighed shaking her head. "Well you're not going to keep seeing him are you?" she asked.

"Of course not." Manny knew she was lying and prayed Emma knew what she was getting herself into. She'd sit back and watch. If she got to spend more time with Jay though through all of this, she thought, it wouldn't be too bad.

TBC...