"Take your seats." taunted Mr Armstrong at the front of detention. No one else was in the room besides some emo that sat in the corner.
Jay whistled a bit in amusement by how much black the kid could wear and Emma glared at the back of his head before sitting in the middle of the room, he went down two more seats to be in the back.
"Ok , you got an hour. I'm going to go do some marking and I'll be back." Mr Armstrong told the three and Emma took out her book to read.
Jay leaned back to get comfortable and possibly sleep from the lack of it he had lastnight due to a friends party, but as he caught a glimpse of Emma's book cover when he tilted his head at her, he chuckled loudly.
"The tree house." Jay mocked the title loudly.
Emma bit the end of her tounge but tried to continue to read.
He leaned forward on his desk, eyeing her back frame, "Even when you're finally quiet you're still crusading, huh Greenpeace?" Hm, he liked that. That'd be a keeper nickname.
Emma tossed over her shoulder, "And Even when you're still outspoken you're still a lost cause. It's called educating yourself."
"Well thanks so much for the lesson then GP." he confirmed with a smirk.
Emma scowled and tried to pretend to read again but he crawled under her skin. Jay's taunting smirk turned into a grin as he shook his head and then focused on the clock.
The hour was up and Mr Armstrong was in the room again, picking up his bag, "We're all free to leave." he confirmed as the emo kid shot up and hurried so fast that when Jay and Emma got up and went to go, he squished so fast by them that Emma actually stumbled and Jay caught her and eyed the little freak go.
"You'd think he was in a rush to go slit his wrists or something." Jay confirmed as Emma shrugged away from him.
She walked ahead and glared over her shoulder, "You're an ass." then again, the emo was a jerk too. Say excuse ME!
"Why?" Jay taunted, snorting and followed her out to the empty halls where everyone had left already, "Cause I tell it how it is?"
"You don't tell it how it is." Emma snapped, stopping at her locker, "You think you know but you're so.." she looked for the right word as she opened the door, "delusional, and just cause you think you are some bad ass rule breaking misfit, doesn't mean you beat any system or know more than us."
Emma looked up at him after shutting her locker door and he squinted his eyes almost hatefully at her, if she didn't try so hard, she might of cringed.
"So.." Jay drifted, stepping closer to her and she felt almost shrunk down by his cold stare, "Should I a straight A student? Face in the books, daddy's little girl? Will that make me know everything?" he almost sneered at her.
Emma exhaled deeply not knowing she held her breath when he turned to leave after giving her an almost digusted snicker. But then Jay turned back around, closer to her then before and she sucked that breath back in more deeply.
"You're a sheltered little brat, you may know numbers and letters and good for you!" Jay cheered ever so sarcastically that Emma even jumped a little, he went on, "But if you were left on the streets, you'd be dead in an instant."
His eyes were so cold and serious as they stared down into Emma's warm ones, even when she was mad or sad they'd always be warm eyes...yet his, so blue, could look so icy.
She watched his glare turn into something unreadable as he finally looked away from her and walked off, not turning back.
She blinked and tried to gather herself back up, looking back at the direction he left.
When she left the exit of school, she noticed Sean sitting on the stairs and she sighed in relief, "You waited."
He turned and smiled, "course I did. Your first detention." he said as if proud of her and she laughed a little to roll her eyes.
"Yeah, it was a blast." she said sarcastically putting her hand through his when he reached out and they began to walk home.
"Was Jay on his best behavior?" Sean asked curiously, hoping he was.
"Sure." Emma just muttered, looking the other way to check out some flowers.
"So my house or yours?" Sean asked, looking at her and seeing her out of it, "Em?" he asked and she blinked, looking over to him cluelessly. He chuckled, "you want to go to my house?"
Emma pouted, "Have to watch Jack today." she said and he sighed, she nodded ,"I know." she groaned, "I don't want to either. Help me.." she begged.
He sighed once more, rolling his head back annoyed but nodded. Took a REAL boyfriend to put up with having to hangout with his girlfriend with a baby all the time..
"Emma when you said help me, I didn't think you meant really help." Sean admitted, cringing when trying to clean Jack's diaper.
Emma jogged behind him holding the baby whipes and took over as he stepped back behind her, "It's not a hard job Sean." she sighed and nodded over her shoulder, "Could you go watch the pizza?" she asked.
He nodded and left as she changed Jack, she giggled at his spit bubbles and staring cross eyed at her.
"Whose a silly baby Jack, you? You are!" she pulled him up and into her arms, turning to see Sean back at the door, a not so happy look on his face.
"It's burnt." he grumpily said, watching her bring Jack to his crib.
"Well it's not the end of the world." Emma teased, putting her baby brother into his bed.
"It's the end of my starvation." Sean said, rolling his eyes, "I'm going to go meet Jay at the Dot to grab some food." he confirmed testily.
Emma was a little angry he was getting TOO angry over the burnt food, but then her blood boiled at the mention of Jay.
"Why? We'll just order pizza instead." she insisted, following him out of Jack's room and down the stairs of her house.
Sean stopped at her door, swinging the door open, "No I- I think you're busy tonight." he declared and was giving her a bitter look but softened and sighed, "I'll see you on Monday." he leaned in and kissed her cheek.
"Okay." she whispered, but looked down sadly and watched him go until she pushed the door closed behind him and leaned on it sadly.
If she could, she'd push all the responsibiltys she had away.. but she couldn't, they were obligations..and even thought Snake was feeling better from the Cancer treatment..they still needed help. Why did Sean always have to make her feel so horrible about it?
"You can't kiss him, he's your brother!" Manny exclaimed at the Tv later that weekend.
Emma wasn't even watching but stared at the screen in thought.
Manny sighed, looking to Emma," I don't get why we keep watching this soap." she threw a chip into her mouth, "It angers me to death."
"We've just always watched it." Emma said with a shrug.
Manny eyed her wierdly without Emma noticing and she sat up more, "Alright, vent time." she confirmed and Emma looked over, shrugging again and Manny rolled her eyes, "Come on, you've been acting funny since I got here, all out of it and coco."
"I'm not coco." Emma snapped then huffed, who was she kidding? And coco? Really? "Sean." was all she had to say.
"ooh." Manny sang while rolling her eyes and leaning back in the couch again, "Once again." she whispered.
"That's not fair, you know we have our differences." Emma said.
"He makes you upset more than he makes you happy." Manny said, annoyed, and sighed, "I like Sean as much as the rest of us, but you guys together? Kind of a chemical reaction."
"Chemical reactions are sometimes good though.."
"Not your guys'.. it's an explosion when one or the other reacts badly.. in most cases, Seans. He has quite the temper" as Manny spoke, she sadly watched her best friends face fall, "I'm just saying maybe it's not the best time to date, you have so much going on."
"Hey girls." Spike greeted, coming in from the front door as the two looked over their shoulders at her.
"Hi mom." mumbled Emma.
Snake carried Jack and came on in a bit breathless, "EM, can you watch him as me and your mom put groceries away?" he asked alreadly.
Emma looked down.. maybe Manny was right.
"Oh honey, just go lie down." Spike told him.
"You sure?" he asked and she nodded, taking Jack from him and as he went upstairs, Spike brought Jack over to Emma and sat him down between her and Manny.
When her parents left, Manny happily played with Jack but raised an eyebrow at Emma, "see what I mean?"
"I can't just break up with him." Emma exclaimed "It's Sean... and he didn't do anything."
"He doesn't make you happy."
"No, I don't make HIM happy." Emma snapped back to quickly and then shut her mouth, going red. OH wow.
Manny frowned deeply, knowing Emma didn't mean to say that out loud.