Emma slowly paced the halls of Degrassi, hoping the day would go by faster the slower she walked. She watched as the Lakehurst kids moved most of their items into the newly built lockers, some had to share with Degrassi students. Having more lockers built for the remaining students was above and beyond the school's budget, so they decided to have the students share with the freshmen and only a few seniors. Emma wasn't aware that she too would participate in the locker sharing until…
"Excuse me, what do you think you're doing?" The blonde asked as she watched a redhead, freckled face girl violently jiggle and pull at her lock. She caught the girl's attention.
"What does it look like, idiot? I'm trying to open the damn lock." She went back to pulling at the lock.
"Well you must be mistaken, because that's my locker and you have no business near it."
"Oh, and who decided that? You?" the girl shot back, placing a hand on her hip.
"As a matter of fact, yes. Now move." Emma demanded.
"Oh no, you're one of those prissy blondes that always gets her way, aren't you?"
"Excuse me," Emma folded her arms all defensively.
"I bet you think that this whole school belongs to you and you can do whatever the hell you want. Well I've got news for you, little girl. I'm here now, I'm the one that gets what she wants and I'm the one that will put your sorry ass in place. Now, you open the lock, or I'll scratch up that pretty face of yours." The girl's voice was cold and fierce, it definitely made Emma tremble. She had never been talked to like this, never.
"I'm not afraid of you," was all she could think to say.
"We'll see about that. Now, open the lock." She said, just as cold as before. Emma hesitated for a while, which led to an ongoing staring match between her and the redhead.
"Is everything alright, ladies?" Ms. H's voice came. The redhead's glare soon turned into a cheerful, white, pearly smile at the site of Hatzilakos.
"Oh just fine Ms. Hatzilakos, we were just trying to settled this whole locker situation. It's such a drag." The girl said.
"Okay. Emma, is everything okay?" Hatzilakos turned to the opposite blonde. Emma looked from the redhead to the principle.
"Yeah, everything's fine." She muttered.
"Emma was just opening the locker for me." The girl said. Emma inhaled and exhaled; she reached for the lock and turned the dial to the correct numbers. The lock popped open; the redhead pulled the locker open and placed her unneeded books inside. "Thanks," she said. "My name's Holly by the way." She walked off.
"Well, she seems like a nice girl. I think you've got the perfect locker buddy, Emma. See you later." Ms. Hatzilakos patted Emma on the shoulder and walked away.
"Yeah, nice." Emma said.
Later…
"Hey, what the hell are you doing here?" Toby shouted when he came to his locker. The bushy haired blonde kid that nearly beat him to a pulp and the buddy of J.T.'s killer stood rummaging through his locker. The boy looked at him and smiled.
"Oh check it out, it's the Degrassi Nerd. Don't I remember you from… beating the crap out of you?" he said sarcastically.
"Whatever, what the hell are you doing?" Toby repeated.
"Uh… me… locker… getting things for class, retard." Drey continued to rummage through the locker.
"But that's my locker, you can't just…"
"Correction, my locker. They assigned me here."
"That's a joke, right?"
"Apparently not." Drey slammed the locker shut. "See yah later, geek." He threw his fist into Toby's gut as he walked off. Toby's books fell from his arms as he clutched his stomach in pain.
"You alright?" Jimmy's voice came as he rolled up beside him moments later.
"Oh, just fine." Toby said, reaching for his books in pain.
"Here, let me help you with those." Jimmy knelt down in his chair and grabbed a few of Toby's books. He placed them in his lap until Toby was at full standing capacity. "Here you go." Jimmy said, handing them to the boy.
"Thanks."
"You gonna be alright?" Jimmy asked.
"I will when those idiots leave."
"Yeah well, just think one year to go and you'll be outta here."
"Yeah, one last year… with them." Toby began to open his lock.
"You'll get through it, just keep your head up and don't let them boss you around. Remember, this is your school, not there's." and with that Jimmy rolled off. Toby took in his words, he was right. This was his school, he wasn't gonna let Lakehurst come here and boss him around. They needed to go by his rules, not the other way around.