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Chapter Four-Lucas's POV
"Jack, I need you to sweep the front room before you head home for the night." my boss and good friend Sean Cameron said to his brother-in-law, Jack Simpson.
"Oh yay, my favorite thing to do before I go home to a house filled with screaming." Jack said rolling his eyes and hopping down from the counter we were both sitting on.
"Jack," Sean said in a caring voice. Sean had married Jack's older and one of Mia's old friends, Emma Nelson a few years ago. Apparently they were off and on through most of their time at Degrassi. They were the good girl and bad boy couple that couldn't stay together to save their lives, yeah a lot like me and Mia. But Sean had enlisted when Emma was a senior and was shipped overseas a year later. I guess seeing all the shit go down that he did, made him realize what he wanted out of life. So he finished his tour, came home, found Emma at Smithdale Uni, finishing her last year, and three years later they were married. Two years after that he's living his dream since high school, married to Emma, with the whole picket fences thing, and owning his own shop.
I met them though Spinner a few months before their wedding and we've been good friends ever since. Sean first came to me about working in his shop when he got the final okay from the bank. There were only a few people that he trusted from the start and I was one of them. This was good for both of us. We both came from crappy homes and only let one girl into our hearts enough to know everything. We ran with the same types of crowds and everything we did was pretty much the same. Sean and I both took Jack under our wings when his home life went to hell too. Apparently Emma and Jack's parents were perfect for each other up until Emma's junior year at Degrassi, then his dad cheated on their mom and it's just gotten worse since then. Jack can't even stay at home some nights because his parents are screaming at each other. So he gets out and crashes at Emma and Sean's.
"I know, gotta respect them and all that crap." Jack mumbled under his breath while he grabbed the push broom from the closet.
"Emma said she's making open face turkey tonight, if you want to come over for dinner." Sean said as he sat down on a stool.
"With Homemade bread?" I asked.
"Of course and mashed potatoes." He says with a smile.
"How the hell does she do it man? She works more in a week then most people do in a month, and she still makes sure your ass has a home cooked meal waiting for you when you get home." I tell him standing up and stretching.
"I have no idea but I love it." Sean said with a smug smile.
"The reason she does it is because she's had to live with the fear of never seeing you again." Jack said as he put the broom away and the three of us walked into Sean's office. "She's terrified that every time the phone rings or there's a letter from the army, that it's the call or letter saying that you have to go back." the teenager said sitting in the chair next to me. "I may not remember a lot of stuff from the time you moved back to your parent's place and the first time you were shipped out, but I know it scared the hell out of Em. She would always asked if mom or dad heard anything while she was away at school. She never let anyone in on just how much she was scared, but there were nights that she would cry herself to sleep cause she was so worried about you." Jack said meeting Sean's eyes. It was times like this I was kinda lost cause I didn't know them when Sean moved back to his parents and I didn't know Emma when Sean was shipped out.
"I know." Sean said as the three of us walked out of the room and locked up the shop. "Jack please be good when you go home. If Spike and Snake are going at it when you get home then just go to your room and do your homework and get some sleep okay."
"Yep. Night guys." he said getting into his 2008 camaro, Bumble Bee Jr, as Sean and I named it in honor of the Transformers movies that we could not watch enough times as teenagers. Sean and I each got in our cars and drove to their house, I parked on the street then met Sean in the garage, The two of us walked into the kitchen to find Emma at the table placing the cups out for us.
"Hey Babe." Emma said walking over to greet Sean.
"Hi Baby." He greeted back wrapping his arms around her waist and giving her kiss hello.
"Oh Jane and Spinner are coming too. So can you grab two more plates and cups babe?" she asked stepping from his arms and started to walk towards me. "Lucas." she said hugging me.
"Emma." I said hugging her back. "Thanks for dinner tonight, this sure beats cold pizza." told her after we separated.
"Like I would let you go home to an empty house and cold pizza. Manny would kill me." she said laughing.
The next twenty minutes carried on like that and the three of us making small chat and getting the table set for tonight. Emma was setting her and Jane's wine on the table when the door bell went off. The chipper little blonde that she is, she pretty much skipped to the door. She got way to much out of these desperate housewives dinners that we had at least once a week, I laughed at the thought, only to have Emma turn to glare at me. "I know what you're thinking Lucas and it's so not true, so shove it. I just happen to love your sister more then you." she said then turned to open the door and let Spinner and my sister in. After hellos were exchanged we all sat down at the table and started to eat, Emma was telling us about a big case she got that day when the front door slammed open.
"EM!! Our parents fucking suck! Why don't they get over themselves and file the damn papers. My life would be a thousand times better if they did," Jack was yelling as he came into the dining room. He looked up to see us all there. "Sorry Spin, Jane, and Lucas." he said.
"It's fine man." Spinner said a few seconds late.
"Jack, sweetie." Emma said getting up and walking over to him. "Why don't you go cool down in your room then come down and join us for dinner." she said after she had him in her arms and stroked his head, calming him as only a big sibling can.
"Yeah, that's a good idea." he said after a few minutes of being held by his big sister.
"We can talk about it later if you to Jack." Sean said with a soft smile.
"Okay." he said then kissed Em's cheek and ran up the back set of stairs to his room.
Jane, Spinner, and I just sat in silence and watched. This happened more often then not so we knew just to let the three of them have a few minutes. Spinner once told Jane and I that neither Emma or Sean showed emotions in school and Jack was the only one that could get them to stop whatever they were doing and go running to him.
Jack's POV-
After saying good-bye to Lucas and Sean, I swung by the Dot to get something to eat, knowing that my parents would be to busy fighting to cook dinner, chances are my dad would end up leaving and going to his girlfriends house while mom called her boyfriend, I'm sorry her friend over. Whatever, I don't care. Emma may remember a time when we were a happy little family, but I can't. I can't think of any kid that wishes their parents would split up but I do. All they do is fight and try to put me against the other, if they won't do it for themselves, they should do it for me. Or at least take Em and Sean up on their offer to let me stay with them till my parents figured their shit out. After getting y beacon cheeseburger and fries I went home. "Who is she Snake?" was the first thing to greet me when i walked though the side door. Rolling my eyes i went down stairs and turned up my I-home.
"think about Jack, Spike." my dad yelled a few minutes later when they were in the kitchen. Yeah like that's what your doing. i thought to myself.
"I am, that's the only reason you're still here." my mom yelled. I gave up on staying home tonight. I grabbed my school books and ran upstairs with my bag and keys in hand.
"Why don't both of you think about me and get a damn divorce. It would be better then listening to this shit fifteen hours a day!" I yelled at both of them then stormed out.
Ten minutes later I pulled into Em and Sean's driveway and got out slamming my door. "EM!! Our parents fucking suck! Why don't they get over themselves and file the damn papers. My life would be a thousand times better if they did," I yelled and stormed though the house to the dinning room. Shit I forgot Sean invited Lucas to dinner and Jane's here with Spin. "Sorry Spin, Jane, and Lucas." I mumbled looking down, It's bad that they are use to this happening more often then not.
"It's fine man." Spinner said a few seconds late.
"Jack Sweetie." Emma said pulling me into a hug. I may be sixteen but sometimes it's nice having your big sister hold you in her arms. I can't get this at home so I'll take it from her. Sometimes she feels more like my mom then my sister anyway. "Why don't you go cool down in your room then come down and join us for dinner." she said rubbing my head like she's done forever.
"Yeah, that's a good idea." i said after I remembered I left my food at home.
"We can talk about it later if you to Jack." Sean said with a soft smile.
"Okay." I said then kissed Em's cheek and ran up the back set of stairs to my room.
Ten minutes later I was back down stairs sitting between Emma and Jane.
"So Luke I talked to Bella e other day." Jane said bringing up Lucas's fifteen year old daughter that was moving back to TO with her super hot, supermodel mom, Mia Jones.
"Yeah me too." he said back.
" I miss Bella, so much I can't wait to see her." Jane said with a big smile.
"How do you think i feel Jane." Lucas said then turned to me. "Jack, she's gonna be in your grade. I need you to look out for my baby. If a guy so much as breath on her, you need to tell me." he said pointing at me.
"Lucas I am not going to baby sit your kid. I'll show her around, be her friend, whatever that's cool. But I am not you babysitter," I smirked at him after finishing my drink.
The rest of the night went by fast and once Jane, Lucas, and Spinner left I told Emma and Sean about the fight that sent me here. Emma spent the rest of the night rubbing my back and hair as the three of us watched tv before I went to bed at eleven thirty.