Chapter 12- Explaining to Emily.
Daniel was just about to go and pick Emily up when she walked through the door. She had tears in her eyes. Gemma went to pack her stuff up. Daniel got in the car with Emily and all of his belongings in the boot. "Em, I'm so sorry I didn't come to get you Mr Jackson had to talk to me and Gemma because we've been suspended for telling people about the baby too soon. Gem is still getting her stuff and Malcolm has offered to give her a lift home." Emily was horrified.
"They can't do that can they?" She asked in amazement.
"Certainly looks like it." He replied shamefully. As they pulled up at home there was a very familiar looking blue car outside the house. Emily put her head in her hands and groaned loudly. Daniel looked at her.
"Mrs Fisher," she explained. "What did I do this time?" As they got out of the car Daniel was shaking. Had she heard about the suspension? Did she know what had happened? She came over and said:
"Aah, hello there Mr…"
"Call me Daniel," he interrupted.
"Ok Daniel… Can we talk please?" Emily barged through the door and went upstairs saying nothing. Daniel took Mrs Fisher into the living room. "I'm a bit worried about Emily, her diary was very touching but I think she's taking this a lot harder than she shows. She's bottling up her emotions and one day it's going to get too much for her, I would talk to her about her feelings if I were you." Mrs Fisher explained.
"Thanks for telling me that, I'd never have known. I'll talk to her." He said amazed. Mrs Fisher left and as soon as she heard the door close Emily came downstairs and said:
"What did the fish want?"
"Oh, nothing much, just to talk about your diary." He got up and said: "Well I'd better start dinner." He went to the kitchen. Fifteen minutes later Gemma walked in the living room, saw Emily's glum face and said:
"I guess he told you about the photo then." Emily was startled for a moment, paused for a couple of seconds before whispering:
"Photo? What photo?" Gemma was slightly taken aback by this reaction but continued:
"You know, the one of him naked on my whiteboard." She said in an innocent voice. Emily got up and ran into the kitchen, went up to Daniel and tearfully said:
"Early exposure of the baby? Yeah right." Daniel was mortified and angry at the same time as she ran upstairs in tears. Emily went into Daniel's room and took £25 out of his wallet. Then she saw the photo of her, Daniel and Gemma. She stole it, ripped her face off it, threw a few things into a bag and went downstairs.
As she stood by the front door, Emily could hear her dad shouting:
"How could you tell her Gem?" Emily yelled back:
"How could you lie to me like that?"
"Shut up Em!" He bellowed. This pushed her over the edge. She dropped the crumpled photo on the doorstep and left the house. Where she was going was another question.