Hungover
Not just that! Hungover, at school!
"I'm so sorry, Manny." Emma grumbled, her chin leaning on her palm as she leaned forward on her desk.
Manny giggled a bit, "It's okay, this makes up for it. No drinking for a while right?"
Emma nodded with pain in her eyes and rubbed her temples.
"Okay class!" Mr Amstrong spoke loudly to shush the class, clapping his hands together and Emma groaned, trying to shush him. Manny giggled furiously.
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"I was a complete idiot."
."Emma, he just looked worried, he didn't look mad." informed Manny at lunch, sitting outside in the day.
Darcy, Chantel and Liberty sat around the table, Liberty watching in amusement to what she was hearing, "glad I didn't go out.."
The sun beamed on them and Emma rubbed her arm with an unknowing shrug, "I'm too embarrassed to call him."
Darcy spoke up happily, "I use to think Jay was really gross and a major player but ugh, lastnight?" she leaned forward to Emma like a secret, "If he wasn't taken, I'd steal him from you. He was so mature, a-and protective, so caring.." she sighed as she looked up in lala land, "His arms picked you up so easily."
Emma almost looked jealous but just groaned again as her head throbbed.
"Seems like he came to you." Manny suddenly informed, nodding to the right of them and Emma turned her head.
There, in the parking lot stood Jay Hogart leaning on his famous, but so ugly, orange civic. He smirked a bit as she caught his eyes and she groaned, this time from feeling stupid. She pushed herself and went over as the girls tried to hide their giggling. They watched her go over.
"And by the look on your face.." Jay drifts to Emma as she got closer and smirked down at her, "She remembers it all."
"She was an idiot." Emma scoffed.
He gave a short laugh before crossing his arms and cleared his throat, "She flirted with me.."
"That bitch." Emma joked, smiling and blushing more as he grinned and leaned down, catching her lips in his.
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"They look really cute together." Manny admitted.
"Hot, they look hot together." Chantel corrected, watching the scene of the two new love birds making out.
Manny gave a look back and shared a small laugh with Liberty. "Who knew." joked Liberty.
Back with Jay and Emma...
"I wish you lived more dangerously," Jay joked, carressing her hair, "I'd say ditch last and come with me."
"We have a project to finish you know?" Emma reminded him and shook her head smiling, "Toby is already having a heart attack. He wants to get it finished so I promised him we'd meet at his house."
"Ugh right, that thing." Jay looked up, clenching his jaw. He and homework didn't go well together, neither did him and some dork who followed his girlfriend around.
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Emma and Manny were now closing their lockers for their next class before lunch and Manny groaned, "Emma I gotta admit, even I'm jealous." she stated, "I can't believe I'm jealous with for being with Jay."
"He's different.." Emma drifted surely, a small smile.
Manny's smile suddenly was whiped off her face and Emma in confusion, turned to see her staring over her shoulder.
A pissed off Sean stood behind her and she almost jumped with a gasp, "Sean don't do that!"
"You and Jay?!"
Emma's mouth fell. Oh. He saw that...
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"One hot chocolate, my good man." joked Jay to Spinner, now at the Dot. He slammed some quarters on the table from his ash tray in his car.
Spinner snickered and pushed the change back to Jay, "I don't want your crack change. But I'll get you the drink."
Jay chuckled, and happily grabbed the mug when Spinner was finished filling it and slid it down the counter to him.
"Where've you been lately?" asked Spinner while turning down the news. It was ALWAYS about Rick Murray still... it wouldn't die down until trail was over.
"In love, Spin." Jay declared with puppy eyes.
Spinner eyed him like he was crazy but had to laugh, "whose the unlucky girl?"
The Dot door slammed open, and Sean stood there. They turned and saw him ready to pounce on Jay, "Emma?! You're with Emma?!"
Spinner's mouth dropped, and Jays did too before shrugging innocently and trying to grin as he pointed to his hot chocolate, "Drinks on me?"
Sean slammed the door shut behind him, storming over. Jay stood up and pointed to his mug, "this is hot, Cameron. You want me accidentally pouring it on your precious little jealous face? Or do you actually want to TALK this out?"
"Fight me like a man." taunted Sean, careless about the hot mug.
Spinner coughed lightly and insisted, "Nobody's a 'man' just because he raises his fist."
Jay pointed at Spinner, insisting he raised a good point. He looked back at Sean before scoffing and put down the drink. "fine. Fine I'll fight if that's really what you want but just know, I don't feel bad."
That wasn't what Sean thought he was going to say, and his eyebrows furrowed in madness, and a little hurt his best friend would do this to him.
"She's not yours, Sean!" Jay snapped, "She can chose who she wants, and it's me. And I want her to... I have for a while."
Sean's shoulders fell, and he looked down.
Spinner insisted with a nod, pointing at Jay, "he said he loved her."
"Spin." snarled Jay, not ready for the world to know he was wrapped around Emma's finger just yet, or her mad ex.
Sean seemed to soften to that though, looking at Jay strangely, "You do?" he didn't know Jay was capable of that...but Emma wasn't stupid. If she saw good in Jay then maybe, maybe he was good for her.
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The end of the day was here, and Emma squished by all the students to meet Toby up by the front.
"Ready!" he asked, tugging at both his straps of his backpack.
Emma nodded and waved goodbye to Manny, "See yeah!"
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"so glad you two didn't go at it in my place of work." taunted Spinner, putting down two cokes for Jay and Sean on the counter.
The news was on and Sean turned his head from it, "Are they saying there might be a second guy to this? A partner?"
"Mhm." nodded Jay, eyes glued to the screen.
Spinner whipped his hands on his rag as he explained, "they said when Emma got away," he looked at Jay a bit sorry like for bringing this up about his own girlfriend, "that she locked Rick in her cell. So how'd he get out? Unless Paige.." he cringed, not liking to talk about Paige anymore than Jay did about Emma's past. He looked down sadly.
Sean clenched his jaw and looked to Sean, "Do they have any idea who could it be?"
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Emma opened the door to her house, smiling over her shoulder to Toby. "Mom and Snake are at Joeys today with baby JAck, so we have some peace and quiet." she went to her couch and sat on the floor, to put all her books on the coffee table. "For once!"
Toby gave an uneasy nod and nervous smile before he turned to close the door. His eyes darkened, and he locked it behind him.
No Manny, no parents, and no Jay to protect her now.
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Show me how it ends it's alright If you find your family, don't you cry You're so cold, but you feel alive
Show me how defenseless you really are
satisfied and empty inside
Well, that's alright, let's give this another try
In this land of make-believe, dead and dry
Lay your hand on me one last time
[so cold-Breaking Ben]