DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN DEGRASSI!

CHAPTER 13

Emma woke up gradually and rolled over to put her arm around Sean. She was surprised to find herself alone and the spot where Sean had been sleeping empty. She sat up and looked at the alarm clock. It read 8:00am. She then realized she hadn't fed Hope in the middle of the night.

"Sean?" she yelled from her bed while starting to get out of it.

"Stay down there Em. I got a surprise for you." Sean yelled back from upstairs. She got back under the covers and waited for the surprise. Her stomach was growling so she hoped that his surprise involved food.

Sean made his way down the stairs a couple of minutes later with Hope and passed her to Emma. He kissed Emma good morning and headed back up the stairs to get her surprise. A minute later he emerged with a tray of breakfast. He had made all of her favorite breakfast food. He had even made her eggs heart shaped using her mom's heart shape mold.

"Aww….Sean. This is so sweet! Thank you!" she said as he put the tray over her lap. He took Hope back from her and sat beside her on the bed and watched her as she took her first bite. "Mmmmm….this is good."

"So what did you want to do today Em?" Sean asked. Her parents wouldn't be home until Sunday afternoon and it was possible that Manny wouldn't be home until then either. Emma looked forward to spending the day and part of tomorrow alone with Sean and Hope as a family.

Emma swallowed the food she had in her mouth and replied "Well I thought maybe we could go to the mall for a while. I'd like to start picking up a few Christmas gifts for Hope. After that I thought maybe we could watch a movie or something."

Emma finished her breakfast and headed to the bathroom to shower and get ready for the day. Sean headed back upstairs with the breakfast dishes in one hand and Hope in the other. He hadn't slept much as he had been up twice in the night to feed Hope. He didn't mind the lack of sleep though. He was happy that Emma got to sleep through the entire night for once.

About an hour later they were all ready and headed out to the mall. As it was still early the mall was fairly empty and they enjoyed being able to browse leisurely without the crowds. They stopped at the toy store first to pick out a couple of things they may want to buy Hope for Christmas. Emma looked at the learning activity toys while Sean had his eyes on other items. "Hey Em, why don't we get her this for her?" he asked pointing at a brand new Play Station 3.

"Very funny Sean. She's 4 months old. Ask me again in about 10 years, then we'll consider it." she said laughing.

"A guys gotta try right?" he said winking at her. They continued shopping at the toy store and then went on to some other stores. Emma picked up a couple small Christmas gifts for Hope and also a few for Jack. She was happy to be able to stay she had finally started her Christmas shopping.

After spending a couple of hours shopping they decided to leave the mall and head to "the Dot" for lunch before heading back to the house. They walked in and noticed that it was quite busy. They spotted an empty table in the back corner and headed for it not noticing that Jay and Alex were sitting a couple of tables away.

"Hey Sean. Hey Emma." Spinner said as he approached their table and took out his pad of paper to take their order.

"Hey Spin." Sean said back to him. "I think we're going to have a burger each and we'll share an order of fries. I'll have coke to drink with mine."

"And I'll have water. Oh and Spin, make my burger Vegetarian please." Emma added. Spinner wrote down their order and walked out back to give it to the cook. Hope started crying and Emma pulled the bottle out of the diaper bag that she had brought along with them to feed her.

"I can feed her Emma." Sean said and picked Hope up out of her stroller. She instantly stopped crying the second Sean picked her up. Emma smiled and handed him the bottle.

"Well what do we have here?" said a voice from behind them. They both looked up to see Jay standing there with a smirk on his face. "Cameron feeding a baby. Now I never thought I'd ever see that. Besides, I had money on the fact that you'd run back to Wasaga after I divulged the secret to you yesterday."

Sean handed Hope over to Emma and stood up from his seat and stood face to face with Jay. "I'm here to stay this time so you better get used to it. Nothing you can say or do will make me leave." Sean didn't yell at Jay. He didn't even raise his voice. He spoke confidently while trying to get his point across to him.

Jay took in the words Sean said and slowly nodded his head. Though Sean was speaking in a calm voice Jay was not. His voice was loud enough so everyone in the restaurant could here him. "If you think I'm just going to walk away from this Cameron, your wrong. That baby is possibly half mine and just because you've decided to step up and be a father doesn't mean I'm just going to stand here and let you. It's not over." Jay turned around and walked out the front door of the dot. Everyone in the restaurant stared at their table. Luckily Spinner saved the moment by turning on some music and after a few seconds everyone was back in to their previous conversations.

Spinner brought over their food and Emma and Sean ate in silence. Sean reached his hand across the table and put it on top of Emma's trying to reassure her that everything would be okay. A tear fell from Emma's eyes and Sean reached over and wiped it away. "Don't let him get to you Em. Don't let him get the best of you. We're going to make it through this. I promise." Sean said reassuring her again.

"Ok." That was all Emma could manage to say at this time. They finished their meal and headed back to her house.