Background: This takes place just a few days after the episode, Secret, and the fallout that occurred after Emma and Jay's ravine incident. Everything leading up to that episode remains the same, but forget everything that happened after, as you watch my version unfold.
Emma was dragging her feet as she walked to school this morning. She was dreading going, because people were still talking about her and Jay and the gonorrhea outbreak, but her mother was making her go to school today because she knew Emma would have to face things sooner or later. While Emma was busy being mad at her mom and scared to step foot inside Degrassi, she barely even noticed the blaring music coming toward her. Yet, notice it, she did.
"Go away, Jay!" Emma spat.
Jay was driving alongside her in his orange civic. "Why don't you just let me drive you to school?"
"No! I don't want to be anywhere near you. Not now, and not ever!" she shouted.
Jay was not giving up that easily. "Come on, Nelson! You're gonna be late, if you don't let me drive you."
Emma looked down at her watch. Jay was right, she had been a little too good at delaying her return to school this morning and now there was no way she would make it on time by foot. The last thing she needed was Snake reporting her tardiness, on her first day back, to her mother later. So, she said, "Fine, but it's just a ride. I don't feel any differently about you."
Jay sighed heavily. "Ok, I get it, just get in already!"
As Jay and Emma pulled up to Degrassi, Emma was relieved to have gotten through the entire car ride without saying one word to Jay, until…
"Emma?" Jay asked, rather timidly.
"Yeah?" she asked back, hesitantly.
This was it. This was his one shot. "Could you meet me at the Dot after school today?"
"Why?" she asked, now extremely annoyed.
Trying to keep his cool, "I just thought we could talk…about everything."
Emma heard the bell ring and was so desperate to get out of that car and to class with minimal contact with other people that she finally just said, "Ok, fine, I'll meet you there after school. Now, we're going to be late, so bye." She ran to class trying not to notice the staring and the whispers.
Jay finished parking his car, then, casually walked to class smirking and feeling proud of himself. He actually got Emma to, at the least, hear him out. She was the one girl, out of all the ones he had ever hooked up with, for him to feel an actual connection with. Not even Alex had made him feel the way he did when he was around Emma.
I wrote this way back in 2006, but I just discovered this website a few weeks ago and decided to edit the story and share the new and improved version here. This is also the first time I am using actual story format (I am used to script format), so please bear with me, as I am still learning. I hope you like it so far! Please read and review!