It was now Friday and Emma was somewhat relieved to be back at school, after missing two days. She was nervous about seeing Jay, however. She knew that she had to say just the right thing. What that was, though, had yet to be determined in her mind.

The bell to end the first class of the day rang and everyone entered the halls. In the midst of the mad rush of people, two grade niners were messing around, throwing something back and forth, when one of them accidently bumped Emma into someone else. Emma and the other innocent bystander fell into each other's arms and rammed up against a locker. Emma looked up to see who she had fallen into and found that it was Jay. He quickly looked around for the niners, with anger, but they were long gone. Jay, then, looked down and saw Emma pressed up against him. For a moment, they looked into each other's eyes and were completely still. Then, Emma realized nothing was pushing her against Jay anymore, blinked, and stepped back.

Emma sighed. "Hi."

Jay sighed back. "Hey. You alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." Emma confirmed.

Jay nodded his head in acknowledgement of her answer and then looked away, nervously. Emma could tell that the moment was awkward for the both of them. She searched for Jay's eyes with her own, and then spoke again, a bit shakily. "Umm, can w-we talk…a-after school?"

Jay looked back at her and sort of half smiled. "Sure. Where do you wanna meet?"

In an attempt to lighten the mood and remind Jay of good times, Emma used a coded phrase that they had started a while back to describe a certain bench in the park. "How about that place we went, that time, when we saw that thing?"

Jay sighed in recognition of what she was trying to do. "Okay, I'll see you there, later."

They began to stare at each other intensely, again, and then the bell rang. They both jumped a little and then went to their separate classes…Manny was in Emma's second period class.

"Hey, Em." Manny said.

Emma sat down next to Manny and smiled. "Hey!"

"What's up? You seem like you're in a better mood today."

"I just saw Jay." Emma blushed.

"And?(!)" Manny demanded more, eagerly.

"It was pretty awkward, but he did agree to meet up with me, later."

"Well, that's something."

"Yeah…Yeah, it is." Emma agreed in a dreamy state.

With that, Emma started to feel better about things, but she still had no idea what she was going to say to Jay in the park. She went through the rest of her classes in a daze as she tried to come up with something.


I loved writing that little moment between Emma and Jay! I hope you enjoyed reading it! More is coming soon!