BACK INSIDE THE HOUSE.
The girls came out, a bit in a rush and pushed through some people.
"Emma!" called a voice.
Emma just called over her shoulder, "Not right now." She went to run up the stairs but got pulled back, she held onto the railing and looked down at Jimmy Brookes.
"We need to talk." He said seriously.
Emma gave a wierd look but he pierced his lips together and lead her up the stairs to his room.
Emma awkwardly sat on his bed as he explained everything.
"You.. wrote this letter?" Emma asked, holding the dirty love letter in her hands on her lap.
He sat next to her and slowly nodded, staring at her, "Felt this way for years."
"Jimmy we barely talk." Emma admitted.
Jimmy rolled his eyes, "I was scared. It's the whole reason I broke up with Hazel! Just really wanted to tell you."
Emma got confused, "But.." she had an idea, "Okay. What's it say in this letter?" she tested him. She just.. didn't feel it.
Jimmy licked his lips nervously and sighed heavily before thinking, "Well, guess the main part if me telling you I'd take back anything if I ever hurt you." he clapped his hands together, "And that's what I meant by it, by the never talking to you thing." He slowly raised his hand to Emma's soft long hair and stoked it, "You're so beautiful."
Emma saddened, it had said that in the letter..so..Jimmy Brookes was in love with her? She was a little flattered by the beautiful comment but she was looking for more than that.. like he had said in the letter?
He moved in closer and Emma swallowed hard but let him kiss her softly.
BACK DOWNSTAIRS:
"Hit me." Manny begged Sean, now in the kitchen with the guys and in Spinners arms while she handed her shot glass out to Sean.
He poured his Jack Daniels into it and looked around, "Where's Emma?"
"Texting her now." Manny insisted, playing with her phone after she took her shot. She then squeeled happily, "She found him."
The two guys and even Jay gave another looks as Spinner asked curiously, "Found who?"
"Some guy wrote Emma a love letter." Manny explained, eyes still on her phone and texting, "We found it, it was someone mysterious, but she found him."
"What letter?" Jay asked, face looking completely confused.
Manny rolled her eyes, "Must I explain EVERYTHING to you dumb guys?" she took a deep breath, "Some letter that was meant for Emma telling her he loved her, saying she was smart, and all these other things, beyond beautiful yada yada yada." She looked back at her phone and gave a wierd look, "Oh."
"Oh what?" Sean asked quickly, wondering what Emma was texting Manny, Jay went back to binge drinking his vodka and Spinner carelessly started kissing Manny's neck til she pushed him off and was still confused.
"It was Jimmy Brookes?" she said a bit in shock but shrugged, "Love IS crazy." She informed.
Sean snickered bitterly, "Emma and Jimmy is CRAZY." He confirmed.
"Jealous are we?" Manny asked, hands on her hips as the couple actually came back down the stairs, they all looked..sept Jay, who moved onto a tequila bottle.
"He couldn't of written something so.." Spinner looked for the word as he watched Jimmy holding Emma's hand proudly, "Romantic." He said with a slight smirk, "He's not capable."
"No." Sean said with a deathly glare, "He isn't."
Manny gave Sean a closer look, "Sean did you...did you write the letter?" before he could answer the couple came over to them and Sean went over, shoving Jimmy away from Emma.
"Woah! What's your problem?" Jimmy snapped at Sean.
Emma's mouth dropped looking between them, oh god, last time she got between them she got shoved. She turned to Jay who rubbed his eyes tiredly, not caring for this right now. Come on! Wasn't he suppose to be the big bad ass!?
"Jay do something!" she yelled at him.
He snickered at that "Do..something?" he mocked her, connecting his eyes with her and giving her a bitter look.
Sean snapped back at Jimmy, "I know you, and you do NOT deserve Emma." He sneered.
"Sean!" Emma yelled, he had no say in this!
Sean gave her an insane look and tried to calm down, "I-I'm not jealous.. I'm just worried." He gave her a desperate look, "He isn't what you want, he can't handle you. I couldn't even handle you." he slightly joked then pointed at Jimmy, "This joke could not even write a real letter in English class."
Jimmy came out of nowhere and sucker punched Sean, Sean fell back onto his ass and blinked, wiping his bloody mouth, he went to crawl up to lung at Jimmy but before he could out of nowhere Jimmy was punched down even harder, landing on his stomach with a loud thud and groaning painfully.
Even Sean blinked and didn't move, Jay bent a bit down to Jimmy who laid on the ground, clenching his sore jaw and rubbing it with his hand as he sacredly looked up at Jay.
"Tell her exactly everything you put in that letter of yours, Jimmy!" he taunted loudly at him.
Emma blinked a few times confused and didn't understand what Jay was getting at. Was he ok? Must be famously drunk again, she should get him a ride home..
"Tell her how she's ambitions, and has brains, unlike any other girl in this forsaken fucking city." Jay nearly growled and Jimmy looked away, embarrassed.
It was now clear who had wrote this letter. Emma though, was too in shock trying to take it all in.
Wait..how..how DID Jay know what was in the letter? Emma looked at Jay who still wouldn't face her and looked doe eyed.
"Tell her how her eyes are brown but there it this beautiful splatter of green in them, almost like paint.." Jay said madly but drunkenly slurred off the paint part
Emma's heart stopped and she looked at Jay in a whole new light, and for once in her life she didn't know what to say or how to react and before she knew it he turned to her and walked off, shoving anyone in his way.
Emma's mouth was dropped and she tried to breath, she felt the butterflies, in her stomach, but they were starting to feel like bumble bees, stinging her for being so stupid and not seeing the obvious tension between her and Jay.
Emma turned and bolted after Jay. Jay had wrote the letter, wow.
Both Manny and Sean got that obvious fact as well and ran after them too.
"What? What just happened!?" Spinner asked cluelessly, looking at the rest of people in the room and down at Jimmy.
Jimmy bit the end of his tounge and held his sore stomach as he crawled up, "I didn't write that letter." He winced, "I heard Emma talking about in the bathroom to Manny." He said a bit sadly and cowardly.
Silence.
Around, people shook their head at him disgusted. He bowed his head and left slowly, limping. Jay really did a number on him.
The party was clearing out and Jimmy sat alone on the steps sipping a beer and just looking, dull.
"See yeah Jimbo." Waved Spinner, walking out with Marco.
Jimmy sadly looked up and just half assed waved and then looked down sadly again to quickly look up, Craig was leaving with Ashley, they looked like they got back together.. a-and Hazel walked behind them, his eyes lit seeing her and then he cringed, looking down for what he had done today.
She caught his eye and went to keep leaving, but stopped. She scoffed madly and went over to him.
"I deserve something from you." she said to him bitterly, trying to fight her tears, "I deserve an apology, a reason, anything!"
Jimmy felt horrible, a piece of shit. Couldn't even look her in the eye.
"I'm scared Hazel." He whispered.
Hazel paused and looked around nervously. She wasn't expecting that
Scared? Jimmy was never scared, of anything.
He sighed and slowly stood up, explaining, "I'm scared I'm going to be a loser in college." He shrugged and sniffered, "I'm scared you're going to do better in college, and go places, and figure out that I'm not good enough.. so I hurt you before you hurt me." He swallowed the lump in his throat.
Hazel looked pissed.
"You are a dumb ass." She sneered and he nodded, "You are a coward." She shoved his chest and he nodded again and she shook her head, "And you are defiantly wrong." Out of nowhere she cupped his face, "I love you.." she whispered and his eyes snapped to hers, "Don't ever do this to me again." She warned, letting a tear slip.
Light came back to his eyes and his heart jumped for joy as he grabbed Hazel into his arms, hugging her tight.
"I'll try to change Haze, I will..for you." he promised.