Hey, kitties. Um someone asked me if J.T. ever called Liberty, "Libby Tibby". Yeah, he did, in some episode in season 4, haha. I thought it was funny so I just put it in. This is a strange chapter. I tried to do my best on it, but I think something's...not there. If you can figure out what that is, tell me. It's more Emma, Manny, and Toby than J.T. and Liberty. It's just...hmmm...there's no flow to it that's all. But I promise next chapter will be better.
My eyes search the room for a familiar face. Emma said it was just a small gathering, who the hell are all these people? There are kids jumping down the stairs, and doing all kinds of other crazy stunts! And what's that smell...alcohol? Does Emma know this is going on? I make my way through the crowded, dark living room to the kitchen, pushing through people and mumbling and apology here and there. Where are Emma and Manny, more importantly, where's J.T.? I haven't seen him in like, a week.
"Lib!" I hear someone call from the living room, now a makeshift dance floor. "Over here!" I walk towards the voice.
"Manny, hey!" I say, both her and Emma are jumping up and down, which I suppose is their definition of dancing. They seem totally fine with all of the chaos.
"Hey, Lib, come on, dance with us!" Emma says. I join the two of them, my body moving to some overplayed hip-hop song.
We catch up on things while we dance, suddenly I feel a pair of arms wrap around me, I smile and turn around.
"J.T.!" I exclaim, "Where were you? I haven't since you since forever!" I say, forgetting all about Emma and Manny.
"Yeah, I know, I missed you! Dance with me?" He offers.
"Sure," I say, "I'll see you guys around," I say to Emma and Manny, who roll their eyes.
We dance for a while, to more overplayed hip-hop songs. J.T.'s not exactly the greatest dancer, but we have fun. Especially when he imitated Heather Sinclaire trying to imitate Shakira, that was absolutely hilarious.
"So, J.T., how are things between you and Toby? I mean, you guys don't seem to be as close as you used to." I ask him once we retire to a quieter corner of the living room that's closer to the kitchen.
"Well, he's still upset about the whole Rick thing, he'll come around." He says.
"Yeah, it's only a matter of time," I comfort, giving him a consoling hug.
Before the both of us know it we're against the wall, making out. I can feel people staring at me, probably thinking, "Since when was that goody-two-shoes one for PDA?". Well, they can think whatever they want, I really don't care tonight.
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Emma and Manny sat at the dining room table in the kitchen of the Simpson-Nelson house. They had just danced for an hour straight and were completely exhausted. It was two weeks into their summer break when Spike and Snake had decided they should take a vacation to California, just the two of them. With Jack at Grandma Nelson's house, Emma had the house all to herself. Which of course could only mean one thing...PARTY!!!
At first she felt a bit guilty about throwing a party while her parents were away, but of course Manny had led her to believe that Spike and Archie actually wanted her to have a party. ("Emma, they're leaving their teenage daughter home alone for a week. They totally expect you to have a party, and I know how much you want to live up to your parents' expectations, don't you?") Of course, she didn't completely believe that. Or at all, for that matter, but after all that had happened this year, a party was just what she needed.
The two friends just sat there, watching all of the guests go about dancing, eating, mingling, and what not. Occasionally they would pass comments to each other about these guests, "Those two seem to be warming up to each other, don't you think?", "She's going home with HIM?", "Whoa, okay, did you see Heather Sinclaire totally flirt with that freshman? How desperate!"
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"Hey, have the two of you seen J.T. anywhere?" Toby hurried into the kitchen fixing a Coke for himself.
"J.T.? Haven't seen him since he got here." Manny responded.
"Oh, I see him. He's over there" Emma said, finding J.T. in the corner of the Simpson-Nelson living room with his girlfriend, Liberty.
"What's he doing, eating her face?" Toby remarked at the pair, there was a hint of bitterness evident in his voice. Although he'd never admit it, he envied J.T.. Everytime J.T. had a crush on any girl, he ended up going out with her. Toby was just that guy who the girls never even considered as boyfriend material.
"Aww, come on, Toby, you have to admit, they are one of Degrassi's cutest couples." Manny said. She and J.T. had dated a while back, he was sweet, but it was obvious she still had a thing for Craig. So seeing J.T. so happy with Liberty made her a lot less guilty for dumping J.T.. And Liberty was a good friend of hers, who had crushed on J.T. forever, naturally Manny was happy for her when she found out the feeling was mutual.
"Whatever, Manny. This is all just too weird. It seems like yesterday J.T was pretending to be gay just to avoid Liberty, and now he's in love with her or whatever? It's just so strange." Toby explained.
"Toby, I honestly think you should be happy for J.T. and Liberty. They're both your friends and if..." Emma's lecture was cut short, "WHAT THE, is that his hand in her back pocket?"
"Are you serious? Lemme see!...Wow, you know, I'd probably expect J.T. to do something like that. But the fact that Liberty seems completely fine with it, it's totally strange." Manny said, thinking about what this could mean.
"See, I told you, this whole situation is just totally insane. I'm happy that my friends are happy together, but can't they lay off each other just a little bit?" Toby whined.
"Hmmm...do you think that Liberty's fine with it because she's...let's say used to it? As in, maybe they've done it already?' Emma contemplated, completely ignoring Toby's outburst.
"Yeah right, Emma," Toby practically laughed, "Like Liberty would actually let J.T. go there with her. The fact that she's okay with him touching her is a total shocker."
"No, Toby, Emma might be right. I mean the way they act around each other is kind if a hint. And then he's touching her butt and she's okay with it? Which is completely unlike Liberty, I might add," Manny said, although she herself couldn't imagine Liberty letting J.T. go that far.
"Okay, you guys are totally making a big deal out of this. It's not like that between those two." Toby said indignantly, and left the kitchen.
"What's with him?" Manny thought aloud.
"I guess he's a little bit jealous of J.T.," Emma said, "I mean, Toby's life is just a mess right now, and J.T.'s totally in place. He doesn't want to think that it could get even better"
Manny thought for a moment, "Yeah, I guess so. But I'm so happy the two of them got together. We always knew they would," she said dreamily.
Emma grinned, "Well, if J.T. didn't ever realize that he's totally in love with Liberty, she'd probably write a ten page essay explaining the benefits he'd receive by dating her."
Manny laughed, "Em, that wouldn't be so funny if it weren't actually true."
After that they were quiet again. Emma was deep in thought, thinking about the time J.T. first admitted his "feelings" for Liberty.
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Emma and J.T. were walking home from school. Their conversation consisted of trivial topics: school, homework, the Spirit Squad, and of course, Heather Sinclaire. Emma felt ready to burst everytime she was around J.T., there was a question she had wanted to ask for so long, but she didn't exactly no how to word it without him denying it and clamming up.
All of a sudden she asked out of the blue the question she'd been waiting forever to ask, "Hey, do you like Liberty, more than as a friend?" she blurted out bluntly.
"Emma, how stupid do you have to be to ask that question?" he replied, totally dodging the question. But the small hint of pink in his cheek didn't fly past Emma.
"You do don't you!" She concluded happily, "I knew it, J.T., you make everything so obvious!"
His first instinct was to flatly deny what Emma had just said, but he thought better of it. "I guess those subliminal messages she'd been sending me worked, eh?" he joked. (a/n: Eh! hahahaha...eh...those crazy Canadians and their shenanigans...).
"I guess they did. So when do you plan to ask her out? Do it soon, and not by phone, in person." Emma was rambling,
"Em, I'm not asking her out, okay. She likes some other guy. Andrew Richards."
"Who's he?"
"Some junior that she told me she liked."
"She actually told you? Maybe she just didn't want you to know she still likes you. I mean she can't be completely over you..." Emma comforted.
"Thanks, Em, but I totally screwed up. I should have asked her when I had the chance, instead of being to obsessed with Manny."
"Whatever, J.T., but I'm warning you, when I'm right and you and Liberty are a happy couple, I will most definitely say 'I told you so'."
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"Well look who's getting some," Manny pointed out. Emma snapped out of her flashback and followed Manny's gaze. Liberty and J.T. were leaving the party, hand in hand. Liberty had that same expression on her face that Emma and Manny had seen many times that night.
"Liberty Van Zandt and J.T. Yorke, who would have thought?" Emma said.
"Hmmm...I don't know...everyone at Degrassi?" Manny said sarcastically.
Before J.T. and Liberty had reached the door, J.T. caught Emma's eye. She took this oppurtunity to mouth the words, "I told you so."
I don't like this chapter much. It was much different before, I took out a lot of stuff, added some, and did all kinds of changes to it. In fact the first and final copy probably only have about 3 sentences in common. With all that said, I would really appreciate your criticism for this segment. Hey! New season of Degrassi October 5th. After seeing "Rock This Town" I swore off all new episodes of Degrassi for life. But I really wanna see this season, it looks much darker than all of the other seasons. I'm so excited!!!!
Mina
