Welcome to Toronto and Degrassi Community School

by Lexi1981

Take place during season one and is part of a series for my version of Degrassi TNG and Degrassi the next class. I add the characters of Bethany Abigail Sage, Elizabeth Eden Cortez, Nicholes Sage/Cameron, Gabriella Cardinal, Stephaine (Sage) and Carlos Cortez Bethany and Elizabeth parents. All the characters from season 1 and 3 in this one will appear at some point in fan fiction.

2. Chapter two: Moving on

Chapter two: Moving on

It has been a half hour since the award ceremony at the Canada junior national elite gymnastic championship ended. Emma, Ms. Nelson and Manny are waiting near the front doors of the arena for Bethany Sage, who is moving into Emma and Ms. Nelson's house this afternoon. Bethany walks over to Manny, Emma and Ms. Nelson and at the same time Manny, Emma and Ms. Nelson notice that Bethany has the bouquet of red roses in her arms and her gym bag is on her right shoulder. Ms. Nelson, Emma and Manny also notice that Bethany is now wearing a pair of white tennis shoes too and when Bethany reach Emma, Ms. Nelson and Manny, Ms. Nelson is the first to talk. In addition Ms. Nelson walks up beside Bethany and put her arm around her goddaughter, who look a little sad and this make Bethany smile.

"Are you ready to go, because it is a two-hour drive south to Toronto?"

"I just need to get my two duffel bags and two boxes out of the truck of my mom and stepfather SUV Ms. Nelson."

"Your stepfather, Emma, Manny and I already put your bags and boxes into my car."

"Then I am ready to go."

The four of them walk to the doors of the arena, Ms. Nelson open up one of the door and then walk out of the arena. A few moments later the four of them are walking over to Ms. Nelson black 1996 volkswagen golf GTI in the parking lot. Ms. Nelson open up the back hatch and Bethany set her gym bag and the bouquet of red roses into the back of the car. Ms. Nelson pick up the bouquet of red roses and puts then into a plastic vase that is set in a plastic storage box that has mostly hair supplies and two vases in it, so the roses do not get damaged on the ride home. A few minutes later Ms. Nelson is turning left out of the parking lot and then starts driving down the street. Manny and Emma are sitting in the back of the car, which has dark gray interior and Bethany is sitting on the passenger seat and she is looking out the windows watching the stores and the few restaurants pass by on the left side of the road and then start looking out the passengers' window at the bench. At the same time Manny leans between the two front seat and looks at Bethany.

"So Bethany's what have you been up to since you move to Wasaga Beach four years ago, which was the summer before your fourth grade year of school, so your mom could open up a gymnastic club there?"

"Not that much just school, doing gymnastics and I date a boy name Sean for a while, but we are no longer dating and sometimes I would go to the beach."

"That all you were doing?"

"There is not a lot to do in a small town."

Manny stops talking to think about what she wants to say next and at the same time Ms. Nelson drive by Wasaga Beach all star gymnastic club. Manny and Emma look at the building that Wasaga Beach all star gymnastic club is in and see on the window that is on the left side of the double doors is a blow up a picture of Bethany and the current senior national champion that also train there on the window. On the window that is on the right side of the double doors is a blow up a picture of Elizabeth with her mother on the day that the club open up. Manny start talking to Bethany again right after Ms. Nelson pass Wasaga Beach all star gymnastic club and the whole two hours ride to Toronto Manny keep asking Bethany question about her life in Wasaga Beach and about dating Sean Cameron. Bethany is happy when Ms. Nelson pulls her car up in front of the red brink two story apartment building that has two apartments on the first floor and two apartments on the second floor and the wooden staircase that lead to the balcony of the second floor is on the left side of the building if standing in front looking at the building. Once Ms. Nelson has put the car into parked, she gets out and then pull the driver seat forward since the car is a two door car and Manny is sitting behind the driver seat. Manny gets out of the car and smiles at Ms. Nelson.

"Thank you for letting me come with you and Emma today and yesterday."

"You are welcome Manny."

Manny walks up to the apartment building and then walks up the steps of the front porch. Then walks over to the door that is on the right side of the building and at the same time Manny pulls her key out of her right jean pocket. A few moments later Manny open up the door of the apartment she lives in. Ms. Nelson gets back into her car and four minutes later Ms. Nelson pulls up in front of a two story brick Victorian row house that had been painted green. A minute and half later Ms. Nelson is opening the back hatch of her car and once the hatch is opened, Bethany's grab her gym bag and put the strap of the gym bag on her right shoulder. Then Bethany grabs her large purple duffel bag and puts the strap of the bag onto her right shoulder with her gym bag. Bethany grabs a medium size purple duffel bag and put the strap of the bag onto her left shoulder. Bethany stacks the two cardboard boxes on top of each other and then picks up the cardboard boxes. Mrs. Nelson grabs the bouquet of red roses and then close the hatch of the car. At the same time Emma runs over to the front door of the house, which has a wooden frame that painted a deep blue, with two frosted glass windows on each side of the door and has a large frosted glass window that is full length of the door inset into the middle of the door. Emma unlocks the front door of the house and Bethany start walking toward the house and notices that the frame of the windows on the first and the second floor of the house is painted red and the thin frame around the door and the window above the door are painted red too. Bethany's walk up the steps of the small front porch and a few moments later walks onto the porch. Emma smiles back at her older half sister and hold the front door open for Bethany.

Bethany walks past Emma and then walks into the house, which entrance hall and small hallway leading into the kitchen walls are painted orange. The entryway to the living room is to the left and has been painted a dark green. The staircase to the second floor is against the wall on the right and across from the front door. Bethany looks up the stairs and sees the second floor hallway is painted orange too. Bethany looks into the living room and sees the wall at the front of the house is painted a lite green and so is the wall the entryway is on, the wall across from the door is painted a yellowish orange. Bethany then notices that the wall that the entryway to the kitchen is located on is painted orange, which is the far wall on the right if standing in the doorway for the living room that is off the entrance hall of the house. She notices by the front wall of the house there is a red comfortable looking armchair that is round and the armchair is in front of the bay window and there is a tan couch is in front of the wall across from entryway to the living room and the tv stand and tv is up against the center of the wall across from the couch and to the right side of the living room entryway from the entrance hall if standing in the entryway.

Bethany start walking through entrance hall and pass the staircase, then walk into the small hallway and toward the kitchen. Once in the kitchen she sees the walls are painted green and the windows trim have been painted yellow and there is a built-in china cabinet located on a small wall on the right-hand wall, which is painted a lite yellow if standing in the entryways. Bethany notices a round kitchen table and chairs that have been painted a lite green and are in front of the wall on the left side of the entryway from the living room and across from the kitchen table is a base cabinet with one drawer under the counter top and one cabinet under the drawer and there is a butcher block counter top, then there is a white stove and oven range and more base cabinets with five drawers and five cabinets with a butcher block counter top and in the center under the window is a metal double kitchen sink inset into the counter top and a white refrigerator and then the back door is on the right side of the refrigerator. Bethany notices that the trims of the back door and door itself have been painted yellow. Bethany also notices that there are upper cabinets on the left side of the window that is on the wall across from the hallway and living room entryways to the kitchen and the cabinets are on either side of the stove and oven range and above the range too. The upper cabinets and base cabinets have been painted yellow too, at the same time Mrs. Nelson and Emma walk up behind Bethany who is looking around the kitchen. Bethany stop looking around the kitchen and walk over to the door to the basement, which is on the wall across from the back door of the house, in addition the basement door is behind the built-in china cabinet and under the staircase to the second floor. At the same time Ms. Nelson grabs a glass flower vase from the china cabinet and walks over to the counter tops and she set the vase and roses by the kitchen sink and Emma runs over to the basement door.

Once at the basement door, Emma open up the door for Bethany and Bethany smiles at Emma. Bethany then walks through the door and onto the landing at the top of the basement staircase. She starts walking down the basement staircase and when she reaches the last step of the staircase, she steps off of the step into a small hallway. Emma and Mrs. Nelson walk up behind Bethany and Emma starts to talk.

"The pocket door to your right leads into the utility/laundry room and the hot water heater and furnace is under the staircase in that room. In addition the washer machine, dryer and the laundry room sink are on the wall across from the door and on the walls on either side of the door are counters to fold clothing on. The door across from the stairs leads to a guest bedroom and bathroom and your bedroom is the door at the end of the hallway that is on the left side and there is a connected bathroom too. The air conditioner unit is connected to the house outside and is on the left side of the back door if standing in front of the door and looking at the door."

"You did not need to finish the whole basement, Ms. Nelson."

"I have been meaning to do it for years now and it was no trouble at all Joey Jeremiah and Archibald Simpson help me do all this and Emma helped me pick out the paint colors for your bedroom and bathroom. Beside I know you would not want your bedroom to be open and shared with the utility and laundry area. Beside you need a bedroom and bathroom and Emma and I need a guest room, which mean Emma does not have to give up her bedroom when guest are staying with us."

"Thank you."

"You are welcome."

Emma runs over to the door that at the left end of the small hallway, if standing with your back to the staircase and open up the door. Bethany walks to her bedroom door and then walks into the bedroom to see that the wall across from the bedroom door is heirloom rose (a lite pink) and the rest of the walls are painted novel lilac, which are her two favorite colors. Bethany notices that on the wall across from the bedroom door on the left and right side of the wall by the corners that met up with the far left-hand wall and the far right-hand wall that there are two parts of the wall come out and there are four square units that are built into the two wall areas that are coming out and the part of the wall that comes out forms a frame around the full size captain bed that headboard is up against the center of the wall across from the bedroom door. The captain bed is white and has a bookcase headboard that has a rounded top with decorative molding and the captain bed has three large storage drawers on each side of the bed. The bookcase headboard has a long shelf on top and under the long shelf there is an area for tall items and on each side of the center are two rows of short small shelf and Bethany notice above the headboard of the bed is a black silhouette of a gymnast doing an aerial roundoff on the balance beam. Bethany then notices in the built in square units in the wall across from the bedroom door there are wicker baskets lined in a checked fabric that is pink and a lilac color that a little darker then the bedroom walls and the baskets are in the top and third units of each of wall areas that come out to form a frame around the bed.

Bethany start looking around her new bedroom and notices that in the center of the far left-hand wall if standing in the bedroom door is the door to the connected bathroom. Bethany looks over at the wall on the right side of the bedroom door and sees the double pocket doors of the closet. Then notice that on the far right-hand wall if standing in the bedroom door is a tall egress window and under the window is a restored antique 1770 Georgian fruitwood knee hole desk that has a wax patina with a cross banded top, which is over the top of two long beaded drawers and on each side of the desk are three short beaded drawers for a total of six short drawers and the drawers are fitted with brass plate handles. The key for all of the drawers is set on top of the desk in the top right corner of the desk if standing in front of the desk. In addition the desk has a shaped apron above the leg space and a recessed cupboard under the desk in the center, which the knees will be in front of when sitting at the desk and the desk is on shaped bracket feet. The height of the desk is twenty-nine inches, width is thirty-three inches and depth is twenty inches. There is also a restored antique 1770 chair made of solid fruitwood and the chair has a shape back, which means the center of the chair has a pierced back splat that has been cut into the back so there is no wood on either side and the outside frame of the back is an oval shape. At the top of the pierced back splat is rose shaped cut out. The legs of the chair are connected by a cross stretcher and are carved cabriole legs that end on ball and claw feet. In addition the seat of the chair has been upholstered in lilac and has pink, purple and red roses there was done in needlework on top of the seat.

Bethany then notices a white box with a picture of a new black dell inspiron laptop is set on top of the desk and set next to the laptop is a purple mouse and on top of the laptop box is a note. Bethany walks over to the desk and looks down at the note and start to read the note, which say Dear Bethany's I brought you this new laptop for you to use for school and homework and to keep in touch with Elizabeth and me. This laptop will be useful when you are away from home for competitions too. The laptop screen is fifteen inches and has 256MB of memory and window 98 operation system, An Intel Pentium 3 mobile processor with 850mhz speed, 40gb hard drive with a 1,44mb floppy driver 8000 that is locate on the front of the laptop on the left and a DVD-Rom drive on the left side of the laptop. In addition on the right side of the laptop is a phone plug in for internet access, there is an audio port for headphone, microphone and line-in. In addition there is VGA monitor out and S-video ports, Microsoft office 97, ATI radeon mobility m4 graphics, 2 PC card slots serial port enhanced parallel port and two USB ports and the USB ports are on the back on the left side. The A/C Power Adapter connects at the back of the laptop, I brought you a mouse so if you do not like the touch mouse pad with right and left click buttons under it, you can use the mouse that comes with a USB port that you put into the laptop, which connect the mouse to the laptop. I love you with all my heart Bethany and that is way I let you moved in with Emma and her mom because your happiest is what matter and you were not happy living with your stepfather and you should not have had to deal with your stepfather sexual abuse you for almost thirteen years, I am so sorry that it took me so long to make him stop and I wish that I could kick him out of the house, but right now I need him around to help me out because as you know I am having some serious health issues and he is help me through them. I should know more in a few days when the test results come in, when I find out what is wrong I will call you and let you know what is wrong with me, but whatever the tests results say you do not need to come back to Wasaga Beach because you are safe with Emma and her mom and do not worry about Elizabeth I am keeping an eye out to make sure Carlos keep his hand off of Elizabeth physical and sexual. You just need to keep the focus on your gymnastic and school when it starts back up next month. Love your mother. P.S. I drop the laptop off to Christine Nelson when I was in Toronto for medical tests that could not be done in Wasaga Beach. Love your mother.

Bethany walks over to the end of the bed and set the cardboard boxes down on the floor at the end of the bed, then set the duffel bags and gym bag down on the floor too. Bethany sits down on the side of the bed that is on the left-hand side of the bed, if standing at the end of the bed and Bethany notice the patch work quilt that is white and lilac and the matching pillowcases on the four pillows. Bethany starts to take her tennis shoes off and notice the hard wood floor have a medium oak stain that matches the floors on the first floor, staircases, the second floor hallway and bedrooms on the second floor and rest of the basement beside the utility/laundry room and the two bathrooms in the basement and the second floor bathroom, which all have white porcelain tile floors that match the bathroom floor on the second floors. Bethany looks through the open bathroom door, which is a pocket door that goes into the wall on the right side if standing in front of the door and looking at the door. Bethany sees that the bathtub and shower combination is up against the far right-hand wall if standing in the bathroom door and the walls around the bathtub has lilac porcelain subway tiles in a brick stack pattern that goes all the way up the wall and in the center of the far right-hand wall that is behind the bathtub there is an insert box for shampoo bottles, a soap dish et cetera, which is tiled in the same subway tiles. In addition there is a lilac shower curtain that is currently open. For the rest of the bathroom walls, the bottom half of the walls has lilac porcelain subway tiles with a thin white porcelain tile line above the lilac tiles and the top half of the walls is painted a shade of lilac that a shade lite then the subway tile, the white toilet is up against the wall across from the bathroom door and on the left side and the white square pedestal sink is between the toilet and the bathtub. Between the toilet and sink is a small plum bathroom trash can. Bethany notice on the back left side of the sink there is a lilac toothbrush stand that is round and can hold four toothbrush and on the back right side of the sink is a round lilac soap dispenser that has a polished silver chrome pump and accents and can hold up to fifteen ounces of liquid hand soap.

"I love the bedroom and bathroom Ms. Nelson and Emma."

"(Emma and Ms. Nelson) You are welcome."

"Emma let head upstairs and give Bethany sometime to herself to get settling in and take a shower if she wants to."

"That would be nice to have sometime to myself Ms. Nelson."

"Bethany's you can call me Christine or if you want too or you can call me Spike, which is the nickname your mom and the rest of my friends use when we were in school."

"I will go with Christine."

"But mom I want to spent time with Bethany."

"Emma's you have the rest of August too spent with your half sister, give her sometime to herself today to get settling in and visit some friends this afternoon."

"Fine mom."

Emma walks out of the bedroom first and then Christine Nelson walks out of the bedroom closes the bedroom door behind her and when the door is shut Bethany notice a full length mirror with a silver frame is attached to the inside of the bedroom door. Bethany finish taking off her shoes and at the same time in the kitchen Christine Nelson is putting the roses into a flower vase that she already put water in. Upstairs on the second floor Emma is sitting at her desk and has just turn on her computer and is waiting for the computer to start up, so she can get online to check her email.

A few minutes later in Bethany's bedroom, Bethany is taking off her lite blue velvet jacket. Bethany then walks over to the bedroom door and looks into the full length mirror thinking to herself what if my missed monthly and this month late monthly are not from training hard, but that I am pregnant from the night at the end of June when I and Sean had sex. Bethany turns so she is standing sideway in front of the mirror and notice that she has gain a little weight in July. Bethany turns again so she is facing the mirror and shakes her head, thinking this is stupid to think that I could be pregnant, I miss my monthly from training too hard is all. Bethany walks away from the mirror and start taking her clothing out of the duffle bags, she hangs her skirts, dress, blouses, dress pants and jeans in the closet and puts her tank top, shorts, tee shirts, bra underwear, socks and leotards in the drawers under her bed.

Twenty minutes later Bethany has finish unpacking the two duffel bags and grabs the two purple toiletry bags off of the bed. The large toiletry bag has her hair brush, toothpaste, a toothbrush and also has her bottles of mouthwash, body and face washes, shampoos and condition bottles and the five bottles are in plastic zip lock bags so if there open up the shampoo, condition, mouthwash, face wash and body wash do not get on her toothbrush or hair brush. The small toiletry bag is her makeup in the bag, Bethany walks into the bathroom and shut the bathroom door behind her. Bethany looks around the bathroom for a few moments to see if she missed anything when looking through the bathroom door and she sees that there is a built-in unit of shelves on the wall that is on the left side of the bathroom door. There are three shelves in the unit and the top shelf has lilac washcloth, the middle shelf has lilac hair towels and the bottom shelf has lilac body towels and under the bottom shelf is a wicker hamper that is lined in lilac. Bethany takes her makeup out of the toiletry bag it is in and puts the makeup onto the top shelf of the built-in wooden medicine cabinet that has been painted white and is above the white square pedestal sink. She then takes the toothbrush out of the other toiletry bag and put the toothbrush into the toothbrush holder. She takes the mouthwash out of the toiletry bag, then out of the plastic bag. Bethany's throw the plastic bag into the trash can and then set the mouthwash onto the bottle shelf of the medicine cabinet because that the only shelf with a tall space between the shelf to fit the mouthwash bottle.

Bethany stop unpacking her toiletry bags for a few moments and lean against the bathroom sink and think about the night of June twenty-ninth and then wish that night did not happen. Bethany push away from the sink and set the hair brush on the right side of the bathroom sink, then set the toothpaste on the second shelf of the medicine cabinet. Bethany close the medicine cabinet door, which has a mirror inset into the front of the door and then she puts the bottles of face wash, body wash, shampoo and the condition bottles out of the plastic bags and throw the plastic bags into the bathroom trash can. Bethany then set the bottles of face wash, body wash, shampoo and the condition bottles into the shower and notices the silver polished brass showerheads near the top of the wall and the elephant spout hand-held shower setting on a cradle, which is attach to the top of the faucet for the tub that is right above the tub and has porcelain lever handles for hot and cold water. The wall mounted shower head, the elephant spout hand-held showerhead and the faucet are all connected to each other and are on the wall across from the bathroom door. Bethany grabs a hair towel, body towel and a washcloth. Then put the towels on the polished silver chrome towel rail that is on the wall that is on the right-hand side of the bathroom door if standing in the bathroom door. At the same time Emma is opening up her email and sees that the boy she been emailing named Jordan has sent her an email. Emma open up the email and start to read it.

At two thirty-five in the afternoon Bethany is out of the shower and is standing sideway in front of the full length mirror and is wearing a pair of dark blue jean short and a white tank top with spaghetti straps and across the chest of the tank top in purple and writing in cursive it says International gymnastics camp, with a purple silhouette of the uneven bars and a gymnast doing a piked Tkatchev salto over the high bar. Bethany has her head turn toward the mirror and is starting at the reflection of herself in the mirror and notice now that she is not wearing a tight leotard and sport bra that her breasts are larger and that her strapless bra is tight then the last time she wore it and is thinking great I am going to have to buy a larger strapless bra. Bethany sets her right hand on the top of her stomach and her left hand under her stomach and notice that there is a very tiny bump, which she did not have a month ago and start to freak out. She walks away from the mirror and over to her bed. Bethany sits down on the bed and then lay back, at the same time she puts her hands over her eyes and is thinking this cannot be happening to me, I always said that I was not going to make the same mistakes my mother made in the seventh and eight grade and become pregnant. What will happen to my gymnastic career if I am pregnant? Please let me start my monthly shortly and that I do not miss it again this month. After laying on her bed for a few minutes' wishing that the bra was not so tight because it is hurting her breast, Bethany sits up and then stand up from the bed. Bethany walks back into the bathroom to comb her hair, which she just leaves down because her hair is still wet from the shower. A few minutes later Bethany walks out of the bathroom and grabs her black flip flop out of end shoe pocket on the right end of the gym bag. She put the flip flops on and then open up the top cardboard box and pulls out a small lavender purse. She unzips the front side pocket on her gym bag and pulls out her lilac wallet and also grabs her fast acting rescue inhaler for allergic induce asthma attack, which is a Ventolin albuterol inhaler that has a lite blue plastic case that the canister of asthma medication set in and the dark blue cap on the mouthpiece. She put the wallet and inhaler in her purse and then walks to her bedroom door.

A few minutes later Bethany is standing in front of Emma's bedroom door, which is the door to the left of the staircase if standing with your back to the staircase to the second floor and Emma's bedroom is at the front of the house and above the entrance hall and the living room. Bethany sees that the far left and right hand and the wall that the bedroom door is on had been painted a dark green. The top half of the wall across from the bedroom door is painted dark green, but the bottom half of the wall has wainscot that has been painted yellow and the wall areas around the dormer windows are painted orange with yellow trim around the windows. Bethany walks through the bedroom door and sees that the door frame and the door are painted yellow and that Emma has a full sized white cast iron bed, which headboard is up against the center of the far right-hand wall. Bethany also notices on the right side of the bed if standing at the end of the bed is two small wooden shelves, one shelf is above the other and there are books on the shelves. On the walls are posters and frame pictures and the wall across from the bed is a desk with a desk top computer on it and Bethany sees that Emma is sitting at the desk and her half sister is reading an email and has not notice that anyone has came into her bedroom. Bethany looks at the curtains on the windows and sees the curtains are quilt patch style and are green and blue square fabric pieces. Bethany walks up behind her half sister and sees that she is reading an email from a boy named Jordan and that he has sent Emma his picture. She then notices that Emma has starts to write back and has attached a picture of herself. Bethany walks up beside Emma on the right and lean over resting her elbows on the desk.

"Emma's I am going to go visit my friend Gabriella Cardinal. When I get home the two of us, will hang out in my bedroom and you can help me unpack my two boxes and tell me all about this boy you are email."

Emma jumps and when her butt hit the seat of the chair see turns to her right and see Bethany leaning over the desk with her elbows on the desk and resting her head in her hands and Bethany is smiling at her. Bethany sees that she scary Emma and stops smile and leaning on the desk and gives Emma a look that says I am sorry about making you jump off the chair. When Emma catches her breath, she turns toward Bethany with an upset look on her face and start yell.

"Haven't you heard of knocking before coming into someone bedrooms and that you should not read someone else personal mail or emails?"

"Yes but since your bedroom door was open I thought it would be ok for me to come into your bedroom and I did not read the email, I just notice the name of the person that sent the email and that he sent you a picture."

"Oh, sorry I yell at you Bethany. I am not use to you living here yet or you leaning beside me. It just surprises me is all, but I would love to tell you all about Jordan when you get back from your friend house."

Bethany and Elizabeth smile at each other and then Bethany walks out of Emma's bedroom and toward the staircase. Bethany sees Christine Nelson in her bedroom and that she is set a vase with the roses onto her vanity table. Bethany walks to the door of Christine Nelson's bedroom, which is across from the staircase and also across from the bathroom door, which is the first door on the right side of the staircase if your back is to the staircase and the bathroom window look out on the small front yard. Bethany looks into Christine's bedroom, which has lite green walls and notice the headboard of the bed is against the center of the far right-hand wall if standing in the bedroom door and the vanity is in the left corner of the bedroom and across from the bedroom door. Bethany then notices the curtains on the windows that looks out to the backyard are tan with orange leaves on them.

"I am going to visit my friend Gabriella for a while and then I will be home. Thank you for put the roses in your bedroom, that way the roses do not bother my allergy induced asthma."

"You are welcome and take you time visiting you friend Gabriella."

"I will."

Bethany turns away from the bedroom door and then walks away from the bedroom. She walks over to the staircase and head downstairs. A minute later Bethany is walking down the sidewalk and away from the Nelson's house. Five minutes later she walks up to the front porch of a semi detached red brick two story Victorian row house. Bethany walks up the steps of the front porch and to the house on the right side that has a bay window on the right-hand side if walking up the porch steps. When Bethany reaches the red front door she rings the door bell and a few moments later, Bethany sees a four and half your old girl with brown eyes, a fair olive complexion and dark brown hair that is to the center of her back in length and in pigtails come running to the door through the long thin glass windows on each side of the front door. Bethany also notices that the little girl who is named Grace is wearing a black dress that is to the ankle in length with cap sleeves and the dress has pink Polk dots on it and at the same time Grace open up the front door of the house, which open up into the living room of the house.

"You come, I do not believe Gabby that you would come to our house today."

"Why not I come by the hospital and see you and Gabby in July when both of you were get IV antibiotics and extra chest physical therapy for cystic fibrosis."

"Because I thought you would want to spent time with your half sister and unpack."

"I already unpack my clothing and only have two boxes that I need to unpack and I told your sister I would stop by today, so can I come into the house?"

"Hold on. I have to ask my mom."

Grace turns away from the front door and start to yell at the top of her lungs toward the back of the house and at the same time Bethany looks across the living room and through the glass French doors on the center of the wall across from the front door and see Mr. Cardinal is in his office and he is sitting at his desk. In addition Gabriella and Grace dad is type on his computer and he is wearing a long sleeved navy blue dress shirt and dark blue jeans. A few moments later Mrs. Cardinal comes, through the doorway on the right, wearing a pair of lite blue jeans and a red short sleeved blouse and smiles when she sees Bethany Sage standing on the porch.

"Grace let Bethany into the house and stop let bugs into the house."

"Ok Mommy."

Grace's step back from the door and Bethany walk into the house and looks around the living room that has beige walls, the dark gray sectional couch is in the center of the living room, with half of the back to the front window and front door and the other half of the sectional couch back is to the doorway that leads to the staircase to the second floor, the small hallway that lead to the half bath that is on the right across from the staircase and the kitchen at the back of the house and the dinning room at the front of the house and has a bay window. The tv stand and tv are up against the far left-hand wall, where the fireplace used to be located before being taking out, if standing in the front door and at the same time Grace close the front door of the house.

"Grace's you need to come into the kitchen with me because it is time to do you nebulizer Albuterol treatment, your hypertonic saline nebulizer treatment and then your Pulmozyne nebulizer treatment and then you have to do your vest."

"I do not want too."

"You need to do your treatments Grace."

"No mom, I am going to show Bethany upstairs and to Gabby's bedroom first then I will do my treatments maybe."

"Grace's your mom is right. You need to do your treatment to breathe better and to keep your lungs for getting worse. I have to take two puffs from an asthma inhaler every morning and at night to keep my lungs working there best because pollen, cat, dog and a butch of other things give me allergies induce asthma."

"Fine. I will do the treatment after show you to my sisters' bedroom."

"Thank you, Bethany."

"You are welcome Mrs. Cardinal."

Mrs. Cardinal and Bethany smile at each other and at the same time Grace grabs a hold of Bethany left hand and then pull Bethany out of the living room and through the doorway on the right. Once through the doorway Grace and Bethany turns to they left and both of they backs are to the dinning room. Grace pulls Bethany over to the staircase that is up against the left-hand wall if your back is to the dining room. Then the two of them start walking up the staircase. When the two of them reach the top of the staircase, Grace pulls Bethany onto the landing of the second floor and then past the first bedroom to the left of the staircase, which is the master suite. The bedroom part is over the living room, the sitting area is over the dinning room and the master bathroom is over the small hallway leading to the half bath and the kitchen and also over the half bath and staircase to the second floor. Then Grace pulls Bethany across the hall and by the bathroom on the right side if your back is to the staircase and then Bethany sees Grace's bedroom on the left across from the staircase and the master suite. Bethany takes a quick look through the door of Grace's bedroom and sees the walls are dark purple and are almost black. In addition on the center of the wall across from the bedroom door is a wooden daybed that has been painted white and has a roundish edge at the top of the back, foot and head end of the bed and there are white nightstands with three drawers beside each end of the daybed, in addition there are dark purple bedspread, sheets and pillowcases that are almost black on the daybed. But that all she gets to see of Grace room because Grace is now pulling Bethany up to the open bedroom door that is on the right-hand side of Grace's bedroom door and across from the staircase, which is Gabriella's bedroom. Bethany sees that her friends' bedroom walls are painted a lite teal color and have gold feathers painted on the walls too. Bethany also notices that the headboard of the gold cast iron bed is up against the center of the wall in between the two bedroom windows and across from the bedroom door. The headboard and footboard of the bed have a swirl pattern that is around the edges of the frame and up to the center of the frame where it changes to four feathers and there are black fitting sheet, unfitted sheet, pillowcases and a bedspread with gold feathers on them and there are on the full sized bed. In addition on each side of the bed are wooden nightstands that have been painted white and had gold lightly sponge painted over the white.

Sitting on the center of the bed is a teenage girl that is four feet four inches tall and has a lite olive skin complexion, lite brown eyes and roundish almond eye shape, soft angled eyebrow shape, round head shape, thin lips, a medium hero-shaped nose and an inverted triangle shape body type. In additions Gabriella's hair has been lightened and then dye a chestnut color, which is bring out red hues and that her hair comes to the bent of the elbows and is straight with a layer cut and Gabriella has no bang. Gabriella has three piecing in the lobe of her ear with silver hoop earrings in the holes. The bottom set of hoops is larger and the second set of hoops is a little smaller and the third set of hoops are a little smaller then the second set. Gabriella is wearing a tight pair of bootcut medium blue jeans and a medium teal tank top that the spaghetti straps tie at the top. Gabriella who was reading a book looks up when she hears her little sister comes into the room and see that Grace is pulling Bethany Sage into the bedroom. Gabriella also sees that Grace has a huge smile on her face, which is because showing Bethany upstairs is putting off doing her breathing treatments and that always makes the almost five-year-old happy. Gabriella close the book and then toss the book onto the bed. Then stand up and walks over to her sister and best friend, when she reaches Grace and Bethany, Gabriella pull Grace away from Bethany and then moves her little sister toward the bedroom door.

Meanwhile, Bethany notices that up against the wall on the right side of the bedroom door if standing in the door of the bedroom is a wooden desk that has been painted white and gold has been lightly sponge painted over the white and there is a matching desk chair that has a lite teal cushion on the seat of the chair and back of the chair. Bethany then notices that the closet is on the far left-hand wall if standing in the bedroom door and in the center of the far right-hand wall is a black double saucer chair and on the left and right side of the chair are wooden side tables that been painted white and then gold has lightly sponge painted over the white. On top of the side table on the left is a blue Pari Boy SX nebulizer that has a Pari LC sprint, which the handler and top half are blue and a long mouthpiece that is whitish and that is almost see through and that has a blue expiratory valve in the center of the mouthpiece. In addition the mouthpiece connects to the round nebulizer outlet that is in the center of the blue top and there is a clear nebulizer cup that is attached to the bottom with a clear tub that connects to the air intake at the base of Pari LC sprint to the nebulizer. The nebulizer is used for Colistin, Pulmozyne, Hypotonic Saline, et cetera and can hold up to 8 ml. On top of the side table that is on the right of the double saucer chair is a white vest airway clearance system Air pulse generator for the high frequency chest wall oscillation chest vest. The device has an easy to read display and at the top on the left side is the on button and the off button is on the right top side of the display. Under the display on the left is a button to control the frequency of hertz. In the center is a button to control the pressure and on the right is a button to set how long you want your treatment to be. Under the controls are the two round connections for the two air hoses of the vest. The two clear hoses for the vest are rolled up and under the side table and set on the center of the double saucer chair is a purple vest, which two hose connections on both side of the vest and the vest has four black buckles secure closure. In addition on the right side of the side table that on the right of the double saucer chair is a silver mini refrigerator, which is where Gabriella stores her Pulmozyne because it needs to be refrigeration until use and after the mini refrigerator is a small plastic gold bedroom trash can. Under the side table on the left side of the double saucer chair are three plastic storage bins. One of the bins is used to store boxes of the hypertonic saline vial and the second is use to store boxes of vials for sterile water for injection and nebulizer antibiotics Gabriella is on, which right now is inhalation Colistin for Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection and the third storage bin is for store boxes of alcohol wipes, boxes of syringes that are used to mixes the inhalation antibiotic.

"Gabby she is looking at your vest."

"That is fine Grace, she is just taking in the new look and layout of my bedroom."

"I have one of these vest too and it the same color and the Air pulse generator for my vest is yellow and has pink flowers on it. My vest only has two buckles secure closure. I also have a nebulizer and it looks like a ladybug and I use a face mask when I do my treatments."

At the same time Mrs. Cardinal appears at Gabriella's bedroom door and smiles at her two daughters and Bethany. Grace runs away from her older sister and runs over to her mom. Grace then jumps up into her mom arms. At the same time Mrs. Cardinal starts to talk.

"Gabby's do you want me to mix up your Colistin or are you going to do it?"

"I am going to wait to do my nebulizer treatments and vest until after Bethany leaves and I can do it myself."

"OK, but do not forget to take your last dose of Colistin tonight."

"I won't mom."

Mrs. Cardinal walks out of her oldest daughters' bedroom with Grace in her arms and Gabriella closed the bedroom door behind her mom. Gabriella then runs over to Bethany and the two teenage girls hug each other. Then the two girls go over to Gabriella's bed and sit down on the bed and Gabriella is the first to speak.

"Bethany's congratulation on becoming the Canada junior elite national gymnastic champion!"

"Thank you."

"Grace thinks that you were holding you breath after you got the roses during the award ceremony."

"Grace is right. I did not want to breathe in the pollen from the roses and end having an allergic induced asthma attack with all the people watching in the arena and on tv."

"Last year you would have had an asthma attack from just been a few feet from the roses, did you change medicines because you made it through the whole award ceremony?"

"Yes, I am taking two puffs of an advair inhaler at six o'clock in the morning and at six o'clock at night and using Ventolin albuterol inhalers for the reliever inhaler (recuse) when I do have an allergy induce asthma attack. The advair combination of Salmeterol Xinafoate and fluticasone prorionate seems to be working better then Serevent did, which was just Salmeterol Xinafoate and what I was on before I start taking advair as the controller. What has been going on in town since I was here at the start of June to try out for Degrassi gymnastic team for the 2001 and 2002 school year and when I visit you and your sister in the hospital in July, since will do not talk about what was going on in town during my visit in July?"

"Paige has a new best friend named Hazel Aden who moved here over the summer. You meet her at the gymnastic try out. Terri and Ashley are friends with Hazel too, I get along with her and hang out with Hazel if Paige, Terri and Ashley are around. But after Paige and Hazel come to see me in the hospital in July when I went in for my yearly summer work up for Cystic fibrosis, Hazel does not seem to want to be my friend. Paige says give her time and Hazel will come around."

"Sorry to here that about Hazel, it is Hazel lost if she does not want to be your friend."

"Thanks that what Paige, Terri and Ashley said too."

"Are Jimmy and Ashley still going out?"

"Yes and are you and Sean still dating?"

"No last week we break up, because I need to put all my attention into gymnastic and school not dating a boy and it would be too hard to date each other when we are living in different towns and not going to the same school, but we are still friends."

"Where is Sean going to school this year seeing that he cannot go back to Wasaga Beach middle school because of getting expelled for deafened Tyler Bishop in one ear?"

"I do not know because he and his parents are still trying to find a middle school to take him."

"Sean brother Scott Travis or Tracker as everyone calls him live in Toronto right?"

"Yes he does and I think Scott's apartment is in the Degrassi school district too."

"Maybe he will end up moving in with his brother and going to Degrassi Community school, then maybe the two of you could start dating again!"

"That not going to happen, I need to focus on my gymnastic and school this year and all the years leading up to the 2004 summer Olympic."

"Did something happen between you and Sean?"

"Yes, we had sexual intercourse at the end of June."

"Did he break up with you because he did not think you were good enough at making love to him?"

"No Gabby that is not the reason we break up, we both enjoy being together that night, but I realize having a boyfriend was taking my attention away from fucus on gymnastic when I was training because I was thinking about him and I knew that needing to change. But now I wish that I had waited to have sexual intercourse until I had reached my dream of going to the Olympic and compete for Canada in gymnastic."

"Bethany is something wrong, did Sean give you a STD or get you pregnant?"

"He does not have any STD's and I am not sure about the second part, but I missed my monthly last month and have not started my monthly yet this month."

"Have you brought a home pregnancy test or went to see a doctor?"

"No, I hope that my missed monthly last month and being late this month is just because I have been training so many hours and now that my gymnastic season is over until January, the training will slow down and with school starts up next month I will only be training two hours in the morning then a total of four after school, two with the school team if I make it and then two at the national training center during the week and only training eight hours on Saturday and Sunday during the school year and my monthly cycle will go back to normal."

"But what if it does not go back to normal?"

"Then I will have to buy a home pregnancy test or go sees a doctor."

"Maybe you should talk to your godmother Christine Nelson or call your mother."

"I can't talk to my mom about this right now because she going through health issues of her own and Christine Nelson would just call my mom and that would get my mom worried and she does not need that right now. All my mom needs to worry about is finding out what is making her sick and getting well that why she is there to take care of Elizabeth."

Gabriella looks over at Bethany and sees that her best friend is crying. Gabriella pulls Bethany into a hug and Bethany start resting her head on Gabriella right shoulder. Bethany cries onto her best friend shoulder, because she does not know what to do and is scary that she could really be pregnant with Sean Cameron's baby and what is going to happen if she is pregnant, would Christine Nelson kick her out and make her go home to her mom and stepfather in Wasaga Beach and the thought of that make her cry harder because she never wants to live in the same house as her stepfather again. Gabriella gives Bethany a few minutes to cry and think and then Gabriella starts to talk.

"Bethany's do you think that both of us will make Degrassi gymnastic team?"

"Sniffling, yes I think the two of us will make the team and so will Manny Santos and my half sister Emma."

"Here a good one Kate Kerwin Ashley mom has been dating a guy named Jeff Isaacs and the two of them are planing on getting marry and he and his son Toby are moving in with Kate and Ashley next weekend."

"That is a good one, how is Ashley handle having her moms' boyfriend and his kid coming to live with them?"

"All right, she is not happy about it and the four of them are going to family counseling to make the blend of the two families easy on everyone. She asked me what it is like to be a big sister and I told Ashley at times it is great being a big sister and doing stuff with Grace, but at other times I wish I did not have a sister. Then I told Ashley that I always go back to love the fact that I have a little sister in my life and that Grace looks up to me and that I have to make sure to be a good older sister."

"You told Ashley want she needed to hear and I am sure that once she gets use to having Toby around the two of them will get along fine."

Ten minutes later Bethany stops crying and Gabriella pulls a tissue out of the box that is on the nightstand on the right side of the bed if looking at the bedroom door and hand the tissue to Bethany. Bethany takes the tissue and wipes the tears off her face. When Bethany is finish wipe the tear off her face she throws the used tissue into the bedroom trash can and then looks at Gabriella who is sitting with her back against the headboard of the bed.

"Gabby how are you doing health wise?"

'"Health wise I am doing better and I feel a lot better then I was at the end of June and start of July. When I went into the hospital at the start of July, my lung function was down to eighty-five percent according to the pulmonary function test (PFT), which is low for me seeing that my PFT number is normally a hundred percent. When I left the hospital it was up to ninety-seven percent, my mom hope that when I go for my check up tomorrow my PFT will be back up to a hundred percent and that the PFT will stay that why throughout the whole school year. But I know that my lung function is likely to drop doing the school year because it always does and that why I end up spent time in the hospital during the summer to get the lung function up and improve my quality of life."

"That great that you lung function has went up and that you are feeling better too."

"Yeah it is, I wish that it was enough for my mom to get off my back and stop reminding me every half hour to remember to take all my medicine, antibiotics and do all my treatments on time and not to skip a dose of medicine or antibiotics or ask if I want her to prepare my antibiotic that need to be mix or get my nebulizer treatments ready, It like she think I am still Grace age and need to be reminding and help all the time. I am also tried of her try to keep me in a bubble and remind me to keep a six-foot distance from someone that is coughing or sneezing, to wash my hands before entering and leaving the CF clinic or a hospital room and after I coughing or sneezing, touching shared objects, after a pulmonary function test or my vest or to wear a surgical mask when I go to the hospital for CF clinic or outside of my hospital room or if I have to be around someone who is sick."

"She just being a mom, it is her job to worry about you and back sure you stay health."

"I know it just that I get tried of her acting like I am breakably, I know that I have cystic fibrosis but I can't let that stop me from living my life."

"She will always worry about you and want to keep you safe, which is a good thing Gabby. What is your father working on in his office?"

"He is working on a report about a clinical trail for a new drug to improve lung function that just finished the first phase of testing on people with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cystic fibrosis."

"Were you and Grace in the study?"

"No because of my dad run it, will could not take part in it."

"Would you have wanting to take part in the clinical trail?"

"Not really, I look at the information sheet for the clinical trail and I do not think that the drug would be useful for me because the drug is manly for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but people with CF are being included in the trail to see if it would help them."

"Did it help them?"

"I do not know, my father could not tell us to all the stages of the trail are done and the report is officially release to the public."

"That make sense."

Gabriella looks over at the alarm clock on the nightstand on the left side of the bed if you are facing the bedroom door and then looks at Bethany. Bethany looks at the alarm clock to check the time too, Bethany then looks at Gabriella and start to talk.

"I can't believe I have been over here for an hour all ready."

"What are you doing the rest of the day and can you stay for dinner?"

"I would love to stay for dinner, but I should head home and finish unpacking and I told Emma I will spend time with her today and she wants to tell me about a boy she has been email all summer."

"Do you think Emma has her first crush on a boy?"

"Yes I do. They have sent each other their pictures. For what little I saw of the email it looks like they talk about natural a lot."

"That sound like your half sister Emma, she always loved speed time in natural and protecting the planet too. In addition your half sister love watching Caitlin Ryan tv show Ryan's Planet. Sometime I think Emma is a mini Caitlin Ryan."

"Me too Gabby."

The two teenage girls start laughing and after laughing for ten minutes Gabriella starts coughing, Gabriella turns her head to the right away from Bethany and cover her mouth with her right elbow. When Gabriella stops coughing, she lays her head against the pillows on the right side of the bed, which she is sitting on because she is facing the bedroom door but if standing at the end of the bed with your back to the bedroom door it is the left side of the bed.

"I am going to leave Gabby and let you do your treatments."

"You do not have to go yet, I am fine and do not need to do the treatment yet!"

"I have things I still need to do today and I think I am going to swing by a drug store and grab a few home pregnancy tests just so I have them on hand to take if my monthly does not start soon."

"That sounds like a great idea, do you want me to come with you?"

"I think I should do it on my own."

"Ok, I will walk downstairs with you and see you out."

"Ok."

Bethany and Gabriella stand up from the bed and Bethany grabs her purse off of the bed, then the two teenage girls walk over to the bedroom door. A minute later Bethany and Gabriella are walking down the staircase, when Grace runs up to her older sister and Bethany. Grace start jumping up and down in front of Gabriella, so Gabriella picks up her little sister and carries her down the staircase and over to the front door of the house. Grace gives Bethany a sad look and start to talk.

"Are you leaving Bethany?"

"Yes, I have stuff that I that need to get down today."

"Ok, will you come back tomorrow."

"Maybe."

Gabriella open up the front door with her left hand seeing that she is holding Grace with her right arm and then Bethany walk out of the front door and Gabriella and Grace waves bye to Bethany. Bethany wave bye and then Gabriella close the front door of the house, at the same time Bethany start to walk down the sidewalk. Eight minutes later Bethany is walking down the sidewalk on the left side of Queen Street with her back to Degrassi Community school and it is the side of the street that the stores are on and across from the Dot, which is a small café that sale coffee and food. When Bethany reaches the glass door of Irvine Pharmacy, which is the fifth store if your back is to Degrassi Community school and the store right across from the Dot then Bethany looks around the street and then at the black door, which leads to a staircase to the apartment above the store and that is on the right side of the store glass door if standing in front of the store door looking at the building. Bethany looks up at the open sing above the pharmacy door and sees that there are open, she open up the door of the pharmacy then walks into Irvine Pharmacy. Bethany sees that the counter to drop off and pick up prescribes is at the back of the store and that the checkout counter is in front of the far right-hand wall if standing in the pharmacy door. Bethany sees there are four rows of shelves units counting the one up against the far left-hand row if standing in the door of the pharmacy, which has hair products on the shelves. Bethany start looking down the first row of shelves that is across from the checkout counter and that has over the counter medicine on the shelves. After looking around the pharmacy for a few minutes she sees the home pregnancy test in the second row of shelves units by the condoms. She walks past the condoms that are on the left and near the drop off and pick up counter for prescribing. She then starts to look at the home pregnancy test. She looks at a box that has a picture of a fetus in the womb and says is there a baby onboard on the front. She picks up the box and read the back and see it say the test is ninety-nine percent accurate and it is the midstream type of test where you urinate on a stick and wait six minutes to find out and that two pink lines mean pregnant and one line means not pregnant. She grabs a second box of baby onboard because has decided to get two of that one, but keep looking for a second test because she wants to buy four test two for each maker of home pregnancy tests. Bethany then sees a test called three steps pregnancy test, which is a cassette pregnancy test where you urinate into a plastic cup that comes with it and then use the plastic dropper that comes with the test to collect some urine out of the plastic cup and drop the urine into the little circle of the cassette and then wait six minutes for the test result if there is one red line at the top the test is negative, two line the test is positive and one line at the bottom then the test is invalid.

Bethany grabs two boxes of the three steps pregnancy tests from the shelf and then walks over to the checkout counter to pay for the home pregnancy tests. The female at the cash register is in her late teens and reading a magazine and does look up as she rings up the home pregnancy tests, which comes to a total of twenty-five dollars for all four tests and then the female at the cash register puts each of the home pregnancy tests into a brown paper bag that says Irvine Pharmacy on the front. Bethany gives the person at the cash register a twenty and a five and then take the paper bag from her. Bethany walks away from the checkout counter and over to the glass door of the pharmacy. A minute later she is walking down the side and toward the direction that the Nelson's house is and as she walks home Bethany notice the wind is blowing, which feels good when it hits her hot face and body, but does not think anything of being hot because it is eighty-five degrees outside.

Five and half minutes later Bethany open up the front door of the Nelson's house and smell eggplant parmesan come from the kitchen. Bethany close and locks the front door behind her and then start to walk through the entrance way and into the small hallway that leads to the kitchen. She does not stop in the kitchen to talk to her godmother or Emma who is sitting at the kitchen table, but heads right downstairs to the basement. Once in her bedroom she set the bag from Irvine Pharmacy on her bed and at the same time there is a knock on the open door frame of her bedroom. Bethany turns around to see Emma standing at the bedroom door.

"How did your visit with you friend Gabriella go?"

"It was a great visit and it was great to see her and her family again. What did you do when I was gone?"

"Help mom make the eggplant parmesan and what in the bag from Irvine Pharmacy?"

"A few personal items that I had to pick up from the pharmacy and it is nothing you need to worry about."

"Ok, let get unpacking your boxes."

"I take the box on top. You can unpack the bottom box Emma."

"That is fine."

Bethany lifts the top box off the second box and then walks over to the left side of the bed, if standing at the end of the bed and over to the units in the part of the wall that comes out. She set the cardboard box on the floor and then open up the box. She then pulls the wicker basket out of the third square unit and set the square basket onto her bed. At the same time Emma opens up the box she is unpacking and sees that is has gymnastic awards, room decoration and other items for Bethany bedroom and life in the box. Emma looks over at her half sisters and sees that she is putting six unopen boxes of unused Ventolin albuterol inhalers into the back of the basket on her bed. Emma then sees her half sister put six unopened boxes of unused Advair inhalers into the front of the basket and then set the current Advair inhaler she use in the morning and at night on top of the boxes and the inhaler has a purple plastic case that the canister the medicine in set in and there is also a lilac mouth cap over the mouthpiece of the inhaler. Bethany then set the bag from Irvine Pharmacy on top of the unopen boxes in the back of the basket. Then Bethany puts the basket back into the third unit and then looks over at Emma who is taking out a short thin plastic lavender storage bin from the top of the cardboard box and the storage bin has medals in it. Emma looks into the storage bin and sees two silvers and lots of gold that is more then she can count with them in the bin, but there are no third place medals, but Emma does notice the ribbons of the medals are pink, black, red, purple, lite blue, dark blue and that the medals all have gymnasts doing different skills on them. Bethany walks up beside Emma and put the gold medal she earned earlier in the day in the storage bin on top of the other medals and that the new medal is on a red ribbon and the medal itself is square and say 2001 Canada national championships. Emma who is on the right side of the bed if standing at the end of the bed walks over to the headboard of the bed and set the storage bin with the medals onto the long top shelf on the right side so one end against the side of the headboard of the bed. Emma then walks back to the end of the bed and pull three trophies out of the cardboard box. Emma walks over to the headboard of the bed and then lean over the bed and in the center area under the long shelf Emma set the first trophy on the left side of the bed and the trophy has a pink base and on top of the base is a round medium height column that is an opal color. On top of the column is a silver swirl then a silver circle with pink silhouettes of gymnasts doing cartwheels, back walkover and a front aerial walkover and there is another swirl on top of the circle. Emma set the second trophy in the center and this trophy has two lavender columns, one on each end of the black base and in the center there is a gold ball with the year 2000 in gold on top of the ball. On top of the two columns is another black base then there is a gold cup with a gold lid that has a gold gymnast doing a handstand with her legs in a spilt position and the trophy is a little tall then the one on the left side of the bed. Emma set the last trophy down on the right side of the one in the center and this trophy has a pink and purple swirled column in the center on a white base. On top of the column is a gold star that center is cut out and inside the center of the star is a gymnast doing a switch spilt leap and this trophy is the same height as the first trophy that is on the left side of the center trophy.

At the same time Bethany is pulling out same lite pink, lilac, lavender, plum, eggplant and black folders that can be hooked into a binder out of the bottom of the cardboard box she is unpacking and that was under the boxes of unopen inhalers and is also the last items in her box. Bethany walks over to the desk and set the school folders onto to the desk then walks back over to her bed and set down on the left side of the bed, as Emma set a silver six by nine picture frame that has gymnasts etched into the side of the frame. The top two gymnasts are during ring jumps, in the center the gymnasts are during layout salto and at the bottom the two gymnasts are doing tucked salto and the pictures in the frame is of Elizabeth and Bethany on the balance beam together and they are facing each other doing handstands with they legs bent and bodies ached and they are both wearing purple tank leotards with keyhole backs. Bethany takes the picture frame and set it on the long top shelf of the headboard of her bed on the left side of the storage bin of medals, if stand at the end of the bed looking at the headboard of the bed. Bethany then looks over at Emma and start to talk.

"So tell me about this boy you have been email?"

"His name is Jordan, he is sixteen-year-old and from Yellowknife and goes to high school. Jordan has started a petition to keep the polar wildlife refuge untouched. His class planned a trip to Toronto during the spring and the trip is happening next week and the two of us want to meet when he is in town. You saw the picture he sent me in the email, he is so handsome, do you think he is handsome Bethany?"

"He a little old for you Emma, you are only start seventh grade and he a sixteen-year-old in high school."

"He thinks that I am starting high school this year, because that what I told him."

"Emma does your mom know about Jordan?"

"No Bethany. But my mom will not mind because she was dating boys at my age."

"Emma's I think you should slow down because you have never met him and how did he get your email?"

"In a chat room for the polar wildlife refuge that is where I talk to him for the first time at the beginning of June and will have been email each other since that day."

"Do you know his last name?"

"No he never told me his last name, but I am sure when we meet each other next week he will tell me his full name."

"Emma's I do not think you should meet him alone. If you do meet him have Manny and some of your other friends come to and make sure that he brings friends along too so it is a group meeting in a public place."

"Ok I guess that will work. I am going too sent Jordan an email and see if he all right if it a group meeting in a public place."

Emma stops take items out of the box and runs out of her half sisters' bedroom and then runs all the way upstairs to her bedroom. Emma close her bedroom door behind her and then run over to her computer to email Jordan. At the same time downstairs in Bethany's basement bedroom, she has pulled a silver photo album out of the cardboard box that Emma only got half unpacked and the front of the album look like the picture frame Emma's take out of the cardboard box. The album has gymnasts etched on the side of the cover of and the top two gymnasts are during ring jumps, the center two gymnasts are during layout salto and the bottom the two gymnasts are doing tucked salto. The pictures in the center of the album cover is of Bethany and she is wearing a shine purple long sleeved leotard and doing a front aerial walkover on the beam at the junior elite test event to qualify as a junior elite gymnast. Bethany set the album down on her bed and then pulls three white frames out of the cardboard box. Bethany stands up from the bed and walks over to the wall on the right side of the bathroom door if standing in front of the bathroom door and looking at the door and sees the three wall hooks she asked Ms. Nelson to put on one of the bed walls. Bethany hangs the first frame up on the wall hook on her left, which is nearest to the bathroom door and in the frame there is a white silhouette of a female gymnast doing a handstand with her body ached and left leg bent toward her back with her toes pointed and right leg above and bent with toes pointed and the silhouette is on top of a pinkish purple background. Bethany hangs the second frame on the hook in the center and inside the frame is a white silhouette of a female gymnast doing a spilt leap and over the gymnast are the words the body achieves what the minds believes in purple and both are on top of a pink background. Bethany hangs the third frames up is on the right side if standing in front of the frames and the picture inside the frame is a white silhouette of the uneven bars and of a female gymnast doing a layout Jaeger salto with one and half twist over the high bar and the two white silhouettes are on top of a pinkish purple background. Bethany looks at the pictures in the frames for four minutes and keep repeats the saying on the center pictures over and over in her head.

Bethany walks back over to the cardboard box and pulls out a square decorative lavender pillow that has a plum silhouette of a female gymnast doing a sheep jump and over the silhouette is the word gymnastics in the color plum and there are gold stars in the background. Bethany set the decorative pillow in front of the four pillows that are already on the bed and then pick the photo album off the bed and set it on the top short shelf on the left side of the bed if standing at the end of the bed. Bethany then pulls out three more picture frames from the cardboard box that are the same frames as Emma pulled out of the cardboard box. The first frame Bethany set onto the long shelf of the headboard and set the frame on the left side of the picture of her and Elizabeth on doing handstands on a balance beam. The picture in the frame Bethany just set on the shelf is a picture taking in the lunch room of Degrassi junior high school at the end of December of 1989 and Shane McKay's is holding a baby Emma in his left arm and one-year-old Bethany is sitting on Shane McKay's right knee. She then set the next frame on the left side of the frame that has the picture her, Emma and they biology father and in this frame there is a picture of Bethany at age three, Emma and Elizabeth at age two and the three of them are sitting in toddler swings at Degrassi High school daycare. The last picture frame has a picture of Bethany, Elizabeth and they mom sitting on the beach in Wasaga Beach. Bethany walks over to the desk and set this frame down on the desk in the top left hand corner of the desk. Bethany walks back over to the cardboard box and pulls out five water bottles. Then open up her gym bag and tosses the water bottles into her gym. Bethany then pulls out a wooden jewelry box out of the bottom of the cardboard box and the jewelry box has roses carved into the lid. Bethany set the jewelry box onto the top short shelf of the headboard of the bed and on the right side of the bed if standing at the end of the bed. Then Bethany folds up the two empty cardboard boxes and walks out of her bedroom, she then heads upstairs to the kitchen. Christine Nelson takes the fold up cardboard boxes from Bethany and throws them into the trash can, which is on the right side of the back door to the house.

"Dinner will be ready in about twenty-five minutes. But I want to ask you what you want to do for your thirteenth birthday on August 29?"

"How about you, Emma and I have a vegetable lasagna for dinner and could you make a strawberry cake with a whip cream icing."

"If that is what you want for your birthday, then that is what we will do Bethany."

"That is what I want. I am going to go see what Emma is doing."

"That is fine I will call up the stairs for the two of you when dinning is ready."

"Ok."

Bethany walks out of the kitchen and into the small hallway and then walk over to the staircase to the second floor. A minute and half later Bethany is knocking on the door frame of Emma's open bedroom door. Emma who is sitting on her bed and is flip through a magazine look up and over at the door when she heard the knock.

"Have you heard back from Jordan yet?"

"Yes and he says he will think about doing a group meet up, but he would rather it just be the two of us, when we meet for the first time and not a group."

"If you really want to meet him and he will not agree with a group meet up, then meet him where there are other people around like the mall or the Dot or the park somewhere you are not alone and if he tries anything at all you can get away and find a phone to use and call your mom and have her come pick you up."

"Ok. I can live with that."

Bethany walks into her half sisters' bedroom and over to the desk and turns on the fan to the highest setting. The fan is set on the right end of the desk if standing in front of the desk and Bethany turns the fan so it pointing to the left side of the bed if standing at the end of the bed and also pulls the knob up so the fan cannot turn. Bethany then walks over to Emma bed and lie down on the left side of the bed, if standing at the end of the bed because Emma is sitting on the right side of the bed. Emma looks over at Bethany and sees that Bethany face looks flush and she is fanning herself off with both hand despite the fan point right at her and being on high. Emma put her right hand onto Bethany's forehead, but her forehead does not feel warm just really clammy. Emma takes her hand off of her half sisters' forehead and wipe her wet hand onto the bedspread, then Emma looks at her sister with a worry look on her face.

"Are you hot Bethany?"

"Yes I am burning up. The air must not be working."

"It not that warm in the house, the air condition is set at sixty-three and it is running."

Bethany close her eyes and let the cold air from the fan hit her, which is cooling her down some and the thought of baby, Sean baby, home pregnancy tests, missed and late monthly keeps going through her thought. At the same time the smell of the eggplant parmesan cooking downstairs in the kitchen has started to make her feel nauseous and at the same time Emma goes back to looking through the magazine. Bethany does not move an inch over the next twenty-two minutes, she does not even move when she hear Christine Nelson calling up the stairs because she is trying to block out how nauseous the smell of the food is making her and try to keep from thinking about maybe being pregnant with Sean's baby.

"Emma and Bethany dinner is ready come downstairs and into the kitchen."

"We are coming mom."

"Ok."

Emma hops off the bed and then she starts to walk to the bedroom door. When Emma gets to the bedroom door she stops walking and turns around to see Bethany still laying on the bed with her eyes closed and her hand resting on her stomach. Emma walks over to her desk and turns the fan off and that make Bethany sits up and looks around the room.

"Emma Nelson's turn the fan back on I am burning up and it was started to cool me down a little."

"It is time to go downstairs for dinner."

"I am not hunger."

"Bethany's when was the last time you eat?"

"At six 0'clock this morning, but I am not hunger."

"Then you need to come downstairs and have some eggplant parmesan and bread stick with cheese on them."

"Ok, I guesses eat some dinner can't hurt."

Bethany stands up from the bed and slowly walks over to her half sisters' bedroom door and at the same time start to yawn into her left hand, thinking it has been a long day and I can't wait for the day to end. A few minutes later Emma, Bethany and Christine Nelson are sitting at the kitchen table and are eating eggplant parmesan and bread sticks with cheese. Bethany is sitting on the chair in front of the window that look out to the small side yard on the left side of the house, if standing in front of the house. Emma is sitting on the chair that looks into the living room and Christine Nelson is sitting in the chair that is across from Bethany and Christine back is to the china cabinet. Ten minutes into dinner Christine look over at Bethany and notice that she ate the three bread sticks with cheese that were on the plate, but has only eaten five bites of the eggplant parmesan and is fanning herself off with both hands and is very flushed. Ms. Nelson stands up and walks over to the controls for the air conditioner and furnace that are on the wall on the right side of the kitchen entryway from the small hallway, she turns the air down to fifty-eight and then walk over to the kitchen table and sit down. Christine goes back to eating her dinner, but keeps looking over at Bethany every few second. Bethany notices that Christine is watching her, so she goes back to eating the eggplant parmesan and drinking her glass of ice water. But Bethany can only eat half of what is on her plate. Bethany sits the fork down on the plate and then yawns into her left hand. Emma looks over at her half sister and knows that Bethany is not feeling well by the way she looks and by how she is acting.

"Mom's I think Bethany needs to call it a night, she seems to be really tired and look really hot too. I think that she is coming down with a summer cold."

"I think you are right Emma."

"I am fine Christine and Emma I am just yawning..."

Christine Nelson takes a long look at Bethany who is still yawning into her hands and notice that Bethany is still flushed and she is slouch in the chair. Christine stands up from the chair and walks over to Bethany and put her left hand onto her goddaughters' forehead, which feels clammy but not warm. Christine takes her hand off of Bethany's forehead and gives her a worried look.

"Bethany how are you feeling?"

"Tried and I am nauseous too."

"I hope you do not have a stomach bug and that you did not share your germs with Gabriella."

"I felt fine when I went over to her house. I think it just the fact that today has been a really long day and the heat is getting to me, I have been up since five thirty in the morning gagging."

Bethany puts her right hand over her mouth and stands up from the chair and then run over to the kitchen sink because she knows she cannot make it any far. Bethany's lean over the sink and take her hand off her mouth and start throwing up what she ate for dinner. Ms. Nelson walks up behind Bethany and pulls her hair out of her goddaughters' face. A minute later Bethany stop throwing up and Christine lets go of Bethany hair. At the same time Bethany turns the water on to wash the vomited down the drain. When all the vomited has gone down the drain Bethany turns off the water and turn so her back is to the kitchen sink, then leans up against the sink with her arms wrapped around her stomach.

"I think I am going to go lie down in my bedroom and rest, if that is all right with you Christine?"

'That is fine Bethany, I will come down and check on you after I finished eating and have cleaned up the dishes from dinner."

"Ok."

Bethany walks over to the basement door and open up the door, then walks onto the landing of the staircase shutting the basement door behind her. Bethany slowly walks down the basement staircase with her arms warp around her stomach. A few minutes later Bethany close her bedroom door and then walks over to the basket that her asthma medications and the bag from Irvine Pharmacy are in and pulls the basket half way out, Bethany then pulls the bag from Irvine Pharmacy out of the basket and push the basket back into the square shelf unit in the wall. Bethany goes into the bathroom to take the two midstream home pregnancy tests and the two cassette home pregnancy tests, because she needs to know if she is pregnant. Two minutes later Bethany is laying on her bed with her hands on her stomach and her eyes keep going to the bathroom door and then looking at her alarm clock that is sitting on the bottom short shelf on the left side of the bed if laying on your back facing the bedroom door or right side of the bed if standing at the end of the bed looking at the headboard and the alarm clock is a round silver metal alarm clock with twin bells on top that rings when the alarm goes off. The inside background of the clock face is white with lite and dark pink circle behind the number and clock hands. In addition the clock is a mechanical wind analogue clock and take one battery to run the nightlight on the alarm clock, which on and off switches is on the back of the clock. Between the bells is a pill shape knob to push down to turn the alarm off.

The six minute wait for the results of the home pregnancy tests seems to take a very long time and when the six minutes are final up Bethany sit up in bed and then put her feet over the side off the bed. Bethany stands up and slowly walks into the bathroom and up to the white square pedestal sink and looks down at the two cassette home pregnancy tests that are set on the right side of the sink and see there are two lines on each of the tests, which means the tests are positive. Bethany then looks over at the two midstream home pregnancy tests that are set on the left side of the sink and sees two pink lines on each of the test and that means the tests are positive too and that she is pregnant with Sean Cameron's baby. Bethany's pick up the home pregnancy tests and then she tosses the tests into the bathroom trash can and runs out off the bathroom and into the bedroom. Bethany then runs over to her bed and flops down onto the bed and buries her head into the pillows. At the same time Bethany starts to cry and is thinking this can't be happening to me!

A half hour later Bethany is still crying into her pillows when Christine and Emma walk up to her closed bedroom door. Emma and Christine can hear Bethany crying through the door. Ms. Nelson knocks on the closed door and after the third knock Emma and Christine hears Bethany clearing her throat and then sniffle a few times.

"You can come in."

Christine Nelson open up the bedroom door and see Bethany is laying on her stomach with her head buried in the pillows and hears that Bethany has start crying again. Christine walks into the bedroom and over to the left side of the bed and sits down on the edge of the bed. Emma walks into the doorway, but does not go all the way into the bedroom. Christine rubs Bethany back and Bethany slowly stops crying and then rolls onto her side so she is facing Christine.

"Are you feeling any better Bethany?"

"No, I am still really hot and nauseous."

"It sounds like you have a stomach bug."

"I wish that was it, but it is not. I am pregnant, I take four home pregnancy test thirty-six minute ago and they were all positive. Do not make me go back to my mom and stepfather house, I will do anything you want if you let me stay here."

"Bethany's I will not kick you out of the house for being pregnant and I will not make you give the baby up, keep the baby or make you have an abortion, what you do about the pregnancy is up to you. But the first think we need to do is too make you a doctor appointment to see the obstetrics and gynecology that I use tomorrow when the office open up and then you can talk about your choices with the obstetrics and gynecology. In addition I will not call her mom and tell your mom, when you are ready you can let your mother know you are pregnant."

"Ok, I want to go to sleep but I am too hot to be comfortable enough to sleep."

"Emma's go get a fan and bring the fan down here for Bethany to use tonight."

"Sure mom."

Emma turns so her back is too her mom and half sisters then walks into the hallway. A few minutes later Emma has set the fan on the desk in Bethany's bedroom and has pointed the fan at Bethany and pull the knob up on the fan so it would stay pointed at Bethany the whole time.

"Bethany do you want the fan on low, medium or high?"

"High if I get cold I will get up and turn it down."

"Ok."

Emma turns the fan on high and then walks out of the bedroom and heads upstairs to the second floor to check her email. Christine sits with Bethany until she has stop crying and has started to cool off and relax, which take about fifteen minutes. Then Christine stands up from the bed and walks over to the bedroom door. Christine stops in front of the door and looks over at Bethany who is laying on her left side and facing the fan.

"Do you want me to close the bedroom door?"

"Yes, please."

Christine walks out of Bethany's bedroom and closes the bedroom door behind her. Christine then walks over to the staircase and is thinking about the day she find out she was pregnant with Emma in the eighth grade and know that Bethany is just as scary about be pregnant at thirteen as she was.