Update: I fixed some spelling errors...finally

Disclaimer: Sadly, I do not own Degrassi or any of the characters in this story. (Although I wish I did). And bring on the tears...now. Ok I'm done.

Chapter 1: What's Going On

Emma woke up from her dreary sleep to the annoyance of her alarm clock beeping endlessly. Slowly, she hit the SNOOZE button and sat up wiping her eyes of any sleep she may have had.

She was drained of any excitement she would usually have on a day like this.

It was a sunny Monday and there was a clear blue sky and sunny atmosphere outside. Without warning the basement window opened and in crawled Manny, but she wasn't drunk or anything. Not again. Quickly, Emma laid back down on her bed a pretended to be asleep, but Manny didn't even look her way. She came in, fell on her bed, and in a few minutes she was snoring, just like that. Emma tried to remember what happened last night but for some reason she couldn't. She tried to remember anything from the previous day but she couldn't. For a second she didn't even recognize Manny and that's why she pretended to be asleep. She knew she had school today but she couldn't remember what school she went to. She thought her surroundings looked familiar, the beds, the walls, the stairs. Stairs? Now that she didn't remember but she got out of her bed quietly and ascended them. Immediately she smelled breakfast that some woman over the stove was making.

"Uh, Mom?" Emma asked wondering if that was right and taking a seat at the table in the kitchen.

"Oh Emma, I didn't see you come in. How did you sleep?" She asked. It took Emma a second but then she realized her 'mom' was talking to her.

"Oh, um, I don't know. I mean I don't remember." She said. "Well that's okay, you will soon," her mother told her. Emma was wondering what that meant exactly when a plate of food was set in front of her.

"Thanks," she said to her mother and started to eat when a man came down from upstairs.

Emma was a little confused but when she saw him kiss her mother and the turn to kiss her on the cheek she faintly remember him to be either her father or step-father.

"Hey Emma. Remember me?" He asked her.

"Yeah, uh, Spike wasn't it?" she asked him.

"No, sweetie that's your moms' nickname and mine's Snake" he told her like he was talking to a five year old. All Emma did was nod her head.

"Oh look at the time you better start getting ready for school. Snake will take you." Spike told her and Emma rose from her seat and headed towards her basement/bedroom.

"Ah tell me What's going on in the world today I'd rather be dead Than turn
my head away We gotta first world vision to complete To lift our hands in
the air and cry for a switch "

-Nelly Furtado

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