After being held up at gun point, Emma reevaluates her life and begins to fall into Jay's crowd, be friends with Alex and Amy, and begin many things that lead her to self destruction.
Chapter 1:
"Watch it!" yelled Alex.
Emma had walked into her accidently causing Alex to drop all of her books. Jay walked up to Alex and put his arm around her.
"What?" he asked, "Is Greenpeace giving you trouble again?"
"She better watch it," said Alex, "Or I'm going to be the one giving her trouble."
Alex and Jay walked away as Emma stared at them and walked to her locker. Usually she never cared about Jay and Alex's torment they gave her. Jay had actually been nicer to her since they went to Wasaga Beach together with Sean and Ellie. But Alex would never be nice to Emma. They had been enemies ever since they got in a fist fight the year before.
Emma got to her locker and saw Manny standing there waiting for her. Emma didn't mind Manny. The two had made up last year even though Manny called Emma a prude princess and Emma called Manny the school slut. But latley, Manny had been hanging out with Liberty more since Emma was all mopey. Emma didn't mind Liberty but Liberty minded her.
"So what are your plans for the weekend?" asked Manny.
"I think I'm babysitting Jack or something," Emma lied.
"Ok stop lying," Manny demanded.
"I'm not lying," said Emma, "I really do have to babysit Jack."
"Right and that's why your mom asked me yesterday if she knew why you weren't having fun or hanging out with friends anymore," said Manny, "She wanted me to ask you to do something. You know, make you feel fun again. You're mom and Mr. Simpson are really worried about you. The shooting was almost 2 months ago. The whole school has pretty much gotten over it so why can't you?"
"Manny, the whole school didn't watch someone die," Emma said.
"Emma, I get that but..." Manny started to say.
"But nothing," said Emma, "I'm going to be late for class."
Emma walked to math class and sat down. JT tapped her on the shoulder for last night's homework to copy. Emma wouldn't give him it because she hadn't done it.
"Alright guys," Mr. Armstrong said when they were settled down, "Pop Quiz. If you did your homework last night you should have no problem."
"Great," Emma heard JT say. She was actually thinking the same thing to herself.
Mr. Armstrong handed out the quizzes and Emma did the best she could on her's. Well maybe not the best. She hadn't been caring about her homework at all since the shooting. She didn't care about anything anymore. After being held up at gunpoint you really begin to wonder the true meaning of life and if it's even worth living. At least Emma felt that way. It was like...
"Alright. Hand the quizzes in and we're going to start the day with some algebra problems," said Mr. Armstrong.
He then told the class he would give them some problems to work on while he graded their quizzes. At the end of the period Emma had completed 2 problems. Mr. Armstrong handed back the quizzes. Emma saw a big red 30 on her's. Great. She had only gotten 3 problems correct. Also on the paper was a message that said "See me after class." Emma sighed while walking up to Mr. Armstrong's desk.
"You wanted to see me?" Emma asked while the other students left the room.
"This grade is completley unacceptable, Emma," said Mr. Armstrong.
"Mr. Armstrong, I'm sorry. I guess I've just been preoccupied by other stuff going on," said Emma.
"Emma," Mr. Armstrong started to say, "I understand that you've been through a lot in the past 2 months and I've spoken with your step father and your mom about your performance in class and we agreed that you're not working up to your ability."
Emma really wanted to yell and say, "I DON'T CARE ABOUT MATH OR ANY OTHER SUBJECTS! I DON'T CARE ABOUT SCHOOL, I DON'T CARE ABOUT MY FAMILY, I DON'T CARE ABOUT MY FRIEND, AND I DON'T EVEN CARE ABOUT ME!!!!!" But she contained herself and said, "I'll try harder, Mr. Armstrong."
"Now that's the Emma I like to hear," he said, "Well you can go to your lunch period now."
Emma smiled at him and walked to her locker to drop off her books and get her lunch. She walked alone to the cafeteria and sat at an empty table. She wasn't in the mood to sit with Manny, JT, Toby, Danny, and Liberty. She wanted to be alone. She looked around the cafeteria to see where everyone else was sitting. Paige, Hazel, Marco, Ellie, Ashley, and Craig were sitting together. Jay, Alex, Amy, and Towerz were sitting together. Darcy, Chester, and Chris were sitting together. When did Chris start hanging out with Darcy and Chester, Emma thought to herself.
The shooting had caused a loss in the student body. Rick died with his own gun. Jimmy was shot by Rick and still in the hospital and Sean moved back to Wasaga Beach to live with his parents because of the shooting. Rick abused Terri last year so she transfered to a private school. Emma kept glancing around and saw Spinner sitting alone. She knew him and Manny were together and she wondered why they weren't sitting with eachother.
Emma ate her lunch and then decided to go to the M.I lab to work on their new project. She knocked on the door and Snake opened it.
"Hey Em," he said, "What brings you here?"
"I was hoping I could work on my MI project," said Emma.
"Take a seat," said Snake, "So I talked to Mr. Armstrong."
"Great," said Emma sarcastically.
"Actually it wasn't so great," Snake said, "You're perticipation grade is nowhere up to where your mother and I know it can be."
"What's with everyone and trying to get me on the right track or whatever. First Manny, then Mr. Armstrong, and now you! Why can't everyone just accept that I'm fine!" yelled Emma.
"Because no one believes that. You're not being yourself and that's that," said Snake.
"You know what," Emma said while getting up, "I'll get this done later and I'll see you at home."
Mr. Simpson looked after her as she left. He knew Emma wasn't acting like herself. She was being all mopey and depressed.
The Emma he and everyone else knew was always fighting causes and getting good grades and haveing high confidence. This Emma was different and no one seemed to like it.
Emma saw Jay walking down the hallway as she began to walk back to her locker.
"Hey Greenpeace," he said, "What brings you here."
"I was just in the M.I. lab," said Emma trying to avoid him.
"Oh I see. Talking to daddy dearest," said Jay in a teasing voice.
"Can you please shut up!?" Emma yelled and asked him.
"Jesus I was kidding," he said.
"I have to go to my locker and then get to class," said Emma, "You're kinda in my way."
Jay stepped a side and checked her out as she left without Emma noticing. Jay had always noticed Emma in some way or another. When he was in 8th Grade and she was in 7th he knew her as the girl with the gap in her teeth that was all about feminism and causes. The next year he realized she lightened up a bit and got kind of prettier. It wasn't until last year that Jay actually interacted with Emma. At first he hated her, but she hated him too. She though of him as the guy to bring Sean down.
Emma always tried to get him in trouble and he learned to like some of her causes. He began to find himself liking her but he shook it off. This year he went to Wasaga Beach with Emma and saw a different, more fun, side of her. Even though he was with Alex, he couldn't help liking her.
Emma continued to walk back to her locker. Things were getting hard and she didn't know what to do about it. 9th Grade had been hard for Emma as well but for some reason she was able to pull through that. Last year she fought with Manny and their friendship eventually ended until Manny got pregnant by Craig and came to Emma and her mom for support. She has a really bad breakup with Sean and he ended it by dissing her in front of all his friends. Snake got cancer which meant while Emma's mom was working Emma had to babysit Jack almost everyday since Snake rarley could since he was always tired and was not able to do much. JT and Toby kind of seperated from eachother as well so it made it hard for Emma to hang out with them.
Emma found herseld attracted to Chris so they went out but they broke up over the summer.
Emma didn't know what she was doing these days. Ever since that faitful day at school with Rick and the gun, Emma felt all messed up and she didn't know what to do about it.
No one knew what to do about it.
Ok well that's the first chapter. I promice it'll get much better. This chapter was pretty much to set everything up. So please Read & Review!!!!