Disclaimer: Obviously I do not own Degrassi because if I did both Emma and Sean would still be on it!
A Million Pieces
So far, Maine was Emma's favorite state. She'd had been traveling with a group of college kids, biking around Canada and the US. Maine was beautiful, it was along the coast but also wooded. You could walk from the ocean, to a forest, drastically changing your environment. Seeing as it was June, the temperature was great. It was the type of weather where you could run around the beach plunging your feet into the sand with your hair blowing back. Just perfect. She had been biking with the group for three months now, and had gone through big chunks of her home country and three of the states.
She was becoming quite an icon among those interested in saving our environment. Her blog was wildly popular and she was having fun! Although she loved doing this, it wasn't earning her any money. The only income she had was from the companies that advertised on her website, which wasn't much. She was barely getting by on her savings. Moving from place to place meant a lot different surroundings. Sometimes she would be able to camp out in the woods, but other times there were expensive hotel bills.
From an outside view, her life was great. And it was…most of the time. But she would always get a little pang in her chest when she saw couples. Her relationship with Kelly had ended two months ago and it had hit her hard. She threw herself into the biking project, crowding herself with work so she wouldn't have time to think about how much pain she was feeling.
She and Kelly were together for awhile and she had just become accustomed to him always being there, by her side. She knew that in those last couple months she had taken him for granted and been bossy. She regretted it deeply. Kelly had been great to her and she had taken advantage of that, never appreciating him. He was the closest she had ever come to loving someone as much as…
EMMA POV
I was so lost in thought about everything, my life, my past and Kelly and hadn't even heard someone come up behind me.
"Aaaah!" I shouted and turned around to see my friend, and fellow biker, Audrey standing behind me.
"Oh my gosh, you nearly scared me half to death!" I said
"Sorry, Em, but some of the guys checked the weather and it's going to rain tonight. We just wanted to know if we should still sleep outside. A lot of us are running low on cash and probably couldn't afford a motel anyways, but I thought I'd ask." Audrey said nervously.
That is the problem with this whole project, the one fatal flaw, it didn't pay. We have already had five people drop out because it was taking too much from their bank accounts. Now we only have eleven bikers left and still had six months to go.
"We'll put up the tents and try to stay in a more woodsy area, that way maybe the trees will stop us from getting drenched." I said hopefully.
The next morning everyone awoke unhappy and slightly damp. Emma knew it was just a matter of time before the project fell apart. They decided to spend that day in the city. Being Maine, it was a small city, but still nice. And that night they went to a cozy small bar.
Emma decided to get totally wasted because she hated watching this great idea she had worked so hard on, fall apart in her hands. And then, it happened. While holding her fourth cranberry juice and vodka she saw the unimaginable. Thinking it was just a drunken hallucination she closed her eyes and counted to three. But he was still there.
"Sean Cameron" she whispered so quietly that she could barely hear it. And then their eyes met.
