CH. 1: Return of Degrassi's favorite Bad Boy

It's been a year now, since I left the only place I felt I belong in search of the real me. Now I'm finally ready to retrace my steps and see those I once cared so much about. Now as a licensed driver of Canada my slick black car sped down the street. At a stop sign I saw a flyer hanging on a wall. It was decorated pretty with different colors all over. "Concert in the park, Downtown Sasquatch featuring Paige Michalchuk," I, Sean Cameron read aloud as a grin spread out acrossmy face. Maybe this thing would be interesting andI had a lot of time to spare anyways.

Pulling the gray beanie off the top of my head I ran my fingers through my brown slightly blonde hair that naturally stuck up. Sighing, it was now or never. I could hear screaming fans once I began to walk towards the humongous stage set up in the center of the park. Buryingmy hands inthe pocketsof my jeansI watched from afar.

"Welcome and thank you for the applause," the familiar voice of Craig Manning boomed over gigantic speakers. He looked stronger and slightly more muscular than that Frodo look alike I once knew when we were younger. "Next Saturday we, Downtown Sasquatch and the beautiful Paige Michalchuk will be playing our last performance of the summer. Once school starts we won't be able to play every weekend like usual. But we will continue to throw mini concerts once every couple months. I hope you enjoy it and rock on!" The fans screamed even louder as Craig began to strum his guitar and the band began to play.

Then Paige came running onto the stage with a microphone in hand. She looked amazingly stunning, even prettier than I remembered. Her long shinny blond hair reached a little pass her shoulders and the tight blue jeans she wore showed off her curves nicely. Craig would sing the first verse, Paige would sing the second and the chorus would be sung by both of them. They didn't sound half bad either. It had a hard core rock rift with meaningful lyrics and two sweet voices. The two singers didn't look half bad standing together either. The way she smiled at him and he smirked at her they had such chemistry. It'd be sad if they weren't dating.

After the band played three songs, two with rocking beats and one about heartache, the band took a break as another band came on to play. I took this opportunity to sneak behind stage and see those old schoolmates of mine. It wasn't very big. From the back door there was a small corridor of about ten rooms which were probably dressing rooms for the performers. I successfully found the door with a piece of paper taped to it with 'Downtown Sasquatch' printed on it. Knocking I yelled "Room service" to get their attention.

"It's about ti-" Craig froze seeing me standing there. A grin spread across his face as we engaged in a manly hug. "Hey Cameron, long time no see! I thought I saw you in the crowd, but I didn't actually think….Oh man, it's good to see you!" As I entered the room I saw Marco and Jimmy also sitting there.

"Yeah right, you're too busy scamming on Paige. Are you two together?" Craig looked taken aback by the question before bursting out in laughter as did the rest of the guys in the room. I just stood there confused. What was wrong with a simple question?

"Not if Ash can help it," Marco announced as the group laughed. Craig just scratched the back of his head thinking about the questioned his old buddy asked.

"Are you kidding? No, man, Paige and me are just….no. I felt bad for her after Spinner was cheating on her and asked if she wanted to write a song with me. It turns out she's an amazing writer," Craig said sure of himself.

"Yeah, but if you try to date or even flirt with Paige Craig turns into a mad man," Jimmy laughed as I nodded towards him, our own special way of saying hello without even talking. "He's got a thing for her alright. Paige keeps saying she's holding us back and wants to quit, but lover boy won't let her!" Marco added. Yup, they sure have changed in a year.

"Nu-uh, I just want to make sure she doesn't end up with some jerk. I'd do the same with you guys…maybe. Plus when we perform without her we totally suck." Everyone was just rolling over in laugher as I watched the friends continue to playfully banter.

"What's so funny…Hey Sean!" Paige made her spectacular entrance carrying a box of pizza. "Hey you guys, this was delivered to my dressing room." The boys almost tackled her to the ground at the mention of pizza. "Hey Sean, it might just be your lucky day. Ash is on the phone with Ellie right now. She's going to be down here any minute now."

My heart started beating faster at the mention of her name. For those that don't know about my past, Ellie Nash is the only girl in my whole entire life that I said those three little words to. I love you. We even lived together for a while, the best moments of my life. She was a pretty red-head with her own bag of problems, yet I did and always will love her. Slowly after I went back to Wasaga Beach we lost touch and drifted away. Not even three months into living there I lost touch with my past love completely.

"Sean," The sound of Marco's voice snapping me out my daze-like stat I had unknowingly slipped into thinking about Ellie. "There's something you should know…about Ellie…."

"Spit it out, Del Rossi," I said, proving to everyone in the room that I was still the impatient bad boy they all once knew and loved. Marco looked nervous and avoided eye contact. From his facial expression you could already tell there was something I wasn't going to like.

"It's Ellie. A little while after you left Ellie got into a bad relationship…With this guy named Dave…one ofthose guysthat think he's"all that" and goes toBardell." Inoticed Paige shutter at the name of Degrassi's long time rival school.

"It was worse than bad," Ashley Kerwin entered the room with a slight wave at me. I remember kissing her while she was drugged up in the eighth grade and now look at her. She was beautiful. If Paige and Ashley have bloomed into beautiful young woman (though I'd never tell them out loud) I wonder what Ellie looks like. "It was an abusive relationship. He'd hit her, Sean, and she didn't even care anymore."

"Where can I find her?"

"I told her I'd meet her in the front of the park in five minutes. You go," she commanded as I nodded and ran out of there. I ran towards that big statue I knew all too well. Jay would tease about beheading the old man, but he never carried out a plan of his. I wanted to kill Jay at this moment. When I decided to stay in Wasega I make Jay promise to take came of Ellie and Emma for me. How could he do that to her? How could he watch her date some abusive loser, knowing I loved her? What a jerk.

Then I saw her standing there with her hands at her back. She was spectacularly beautiful. Of all the girls in Degrassi, Roscoe, and even the whole of Canada she was the most beautiful creature to walk the Earth. I wanted to scoop her up in my arms and never let go. As I approached her my heart was beating faster and faster with each passing second.

Author's note: Wow, I haven't used this account in a long time...Anyways, this was a fic I posted on a different site. I just thought I'd give it a try here.

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