Emma was devastated, and expected Jay would be too, but no. It was quite the opposite really. As the clock crept sneakily toward midnight, Jay had no plans to quieten down and start thinking about responsibility and being mature.

He sat on the sofa in his dark dingy house with Alex, her long legs stretched over his carelessly. He had one hand resting on her silky smooth leg and the other wrapped gently around her waist, coming to a stop on the small of her back. He made out with Alex to make himself forget his problems with Emma.

The more he thought about it, it made him feel sick. He was in way over his head. He pulled away from Alex suddenly and she looked at him in surprise. "Jay?" Alex echoed, smiling awkwardly in confusion.

"Sorry. Alex. It's not... I can't, right now." Jay stuttered sloppily.

"What?" Alex arched her eyebrows.

"Let's call it a night, OK?" Jay said lifting Alex's legs aside and jumping up uneasily. He walked towards his bedroom door. Alex jumped up off the sofa and followed him with a cheeky grin on her face.

"No, Alex. I meant alone." Jay pointed out. He put an arm across the doorway and blocked her out. "I'll see you at school."

"What?" Alex spat angrily. "You're ditching me?"

"Bye, Alex." Jay said turning wearily and falling forward onto his bed, letting the door slam in her face.

"You fucking idiot!" Alex called out as she stormed across the apartment, kicking the coffee table and headed out of the door leaving it wide open.

Jay volted angrily off his bed, ran across the room and slammed the door shut violently. He sank into the walls and let out a strangled, angry scream.

As the midnight hour approached in the Simpson-Nelson residence, Emma was wide-eyed too. She couldn't believe the situation she'd got herself into. It just wasn't like her. If anyone in Degrassi would get pregnant, it would be someone like Alex or Amy, girls who got around. No-one would ever think pretty little quiet Causegirl Emma would ever get knocked up. But these past couple of months had changed her. There were so many reminders of that fateful day of the shooting, like Jimmy wheeling around the halls of Degrassi every day at school. After seeing Rick die in Sean's arms, Emma's life had screwed up, and her way of coping with that was to go down to ravine and hook up with Jay. How it happened, she wasn't really sure, but it did, and now she regretted it so badly. She'd ruined her life, single handedly.

Emma lay awake in her bed, moonlight streaming in from the high window. She couldn't sleep, every time she closed her eyes she saw Jay's reaction burned into her line of vision.

The next day at school everyone carried on about their day as normal. Emma arrived on time, as usual, and took her place in homeroom next to Manny.

"Hey, Em." Manny greeted her friend brightly.

"Hi." Emma said glumly as she sat down.

"Woah, what happened to you? Why the long face?" Manny exclaimed as she noted Emma's tone of voice.

"Nothing." Emma waved a hand in front of her face and smiled reassuringly to her best friend. She looked nervously to her left and saw Jay saunter past the classroom window with his head down looking focused. "I'm just not a morning person at the minute."