Chapter One
She walked down the hall silently, oblivious to the chatter and noise surrounding her. There were moments when she was suddenly aware of where she was and would sometimes catch part of sentences of someone else's conversation. She suddenly noticed she was standing in front of her locker and she blinked, bringing her back to the present life. As she was opening her locker her books spilled out with a loud clatter to the floor. Near by students laughed and leaned against their own lockers while others looked at her with pity clearly showing in their eyes.
"Emma, come on! Hurry up; we've got to get going!"
Emma jumped as her best friend, Manny, suddenly came up behind her and kneeled down to help her pick up her books.
"Oh yeah sorry, where are we going again?"
She picked up the rest of her books and stuffed them back into her messy locker.
"Em, I told you you'll just have to wait and see. Come on, Spinner's driving us over there."
Manny turned, pulling Emma behind her by her arm. She tossed a smile to a girl who had absently waved at her and let go of Emma's arm as they were walking out the doors of DCS.
"I swear, Em, you are gonna love this place! Spin helped me find it.
"Manny, really, Spinner?"
"Yeah, well you know he'd do absolutely anything if I ask," She said waving her hand as a dismissal. "Plus, he thought it would be cool to do something for you, with everything and all."
"Yeah, well, let's just go." Emma said, not wanting to address the upcoming subject that was now playing at everyone's minds.
They approached the waiting car and the horn honked impatiently. Manny hurried to the passenger door and threw it open and carefully sat down and leaned over to receive a kiss, while Emma hopped in the back and just couldn't resist the urge to roll her eyes.
"Hey, Emma," Spinner said turning around in his seat, "Seatbelts everyone."
"Yes, Mr. Officer!" Emma said strapping her seatbelt over her slim waist as Manny laughed and strapped hers on as well.
"Hey, you know how much I spent on this car when it was damaged! No, you don't and let's just say it wasn't cheap, seatbelts on and let's go." Spinner said while Emma and Manny giggled silently.
The cars engine roared to life and they took off down the road. Barely twenty-minutes later they pulled up to a three story house with two teens sitting on the front porch swing. Emma got out of the car and followed Spinner and Paige to the front door with her hands in her back pockets, while she wore a confused look on her face.
"Hi! I'm Macy!" the teenage girl said holding out her hand to Emma.
"Hi?" she replied unsure of herself.
"And I'm Connor." introduced the other teen.
"Ok…" Emma said.
"Emma, this is a place for distressed teens." Manny explained.
"Everyone is welcome here, and I mean everything."
"So…," Emma stressed, "Why did you bring me here again?"
Connor raised his eyebrows at her tone of voice. Manny started to explain as Emma's anger rose every second.
"Em …"
"No," Emma held up a hand, "What you just think I'm some troubled kid who can't take care of themselves? Who has problems they can't handle? Like these people?" She swept her hand through the air at the Macy and Connor. Macy's bubbly smile downcast into a deep scowl.
"Em…"
"I don't want to hear it!"
"We were just trying to help you! You didn't even let us explain!" Spinner cut in.
"Shut up!" Emma yelled. Connor crossed his arms while Manny put a trembling hand over her mouth. Emma took a deep breath and backed away towards the steps.
"You know what, I don't need this. At least I know what you think of me now." And she turned and ran down the steps and towards the nearest bus station.
"Emma!" Manny yelled after her.
"Let her go." Spin said putting a hand on her arm.
Emma quickly wiped the streaming tears off her stained face. She did NOT need their help. There was nothing wrong with her. Right? She especially didn't need help from a home for disturbed teenagers. It's not like she was disturbed. Manny should be the one going. At least she didn't go around getting pregnant.
She climbed onto the bus and deposited her change. She took a seat at the back of the bus and stared out the window. She didn't bother to wipe her tears now, it was of no use. Emma heard snickers and turned her head, the giggling teens quickly looked away and smothered their laughter, unsuccessfully.
She scrambled off the bus when it stopped at DCS, and hurried up the stairs. They had only gone off for the lunch break and she wanted to get the day over as soon as possible. She just wanted to forget about the recent incident but she just couldn't make the stinging pain of emotion go away.
Emma crossed her arms with her head down, smothered cry's escaping her, and walked down the hall in a fast pace. In no more than a minute she was stumbling backwards and quickly steadied her self. She looked up to see none other than Jay Hogart glaring at her.
"Watch yourself, Greenpeace." He snapped, pushing past her.
Emma glared at his retreating back but only for a minute before she hurried into the girls' washroom, rushed into a stall, and burst into sobs that racked her body.
A/N-hey guy'z this is like my first fanfic so please go easy, but be honest. I really do want your opinions to help me with my writing! I tried writing one before, but it was crap so I abandoned it. please review!
-DCMMFAN
-I'm really a semma fan-totally-but right now I'm focusing on jemma-if you'd like me to write a semma ff simply ask!
