DEGRASSI: AFTERMATH - S08E11 - BE MY BABY

Disclaimer: I don´t own Degrassi or the characters from it.

1. Int. The Dot. Evening.

Chrissy is helping out by waitressing at The Dot. It´s pretty easy though, since Maya and Jay are her only customers left.

Maya:

So, movie star! You haven´t told me how the shoot went.

Chrissy:

In three words: Cold, boring and forgettable. The director was nice though. She said, that she might use me again, since I was such a "Brave Little Trooper", as she put it.

Maya:

Hey, I played plenty of dive bars back in the day. Sometimes you have to pay your dues.

Jay:

And you earned yourself a nice bit of pocket money.

Spinner comes in after turning the lights off in the kitchen.

Spinner:

Nope. They´re going into her college savings.

Chrissy:

Like I´ll ever make it to college!

Maya:

If you don´t, you get to spend it on what you want.

Chrissy smiles.

Chrissy:

I like that idea!

Spinner:

Don´t put ideas in her head. That´s it, Chrissy. Your work is done.

Chrissy:

Yay!

She gets her phone out and turns it on.

Maya:

I see, that you already know how to spend your hour of freedom, before bedtime.

Chrissy:

Jamie wanted to be the first one to send a text to my new phone.

Jay:

Doesn´t it transfer the old chats? It did on mine.

Chrissy:

Not when you forget to ask, if you can keep the number.

Spinner:

It was one mistake. So sue me!

Jay:

Doesn´t the phone company send you one right away`?

Maya:

It´s still a nice, romantic gesture.

Jay:

Have we gone two years back in time and I just didn´t notice?

Maya:

Don´t ruin this for her. Getting back with your ex, can be a great time in a girl´s life.

Spinner:

I suppose, you tried it?

Maya:

It happened a few times. How about you?

Spinner:

Only once. At that time, I had no idea, that I would be living with her, here 20 years later.

Chrissy makes a face, at the message she received.

Maya:

What is it?

Chrissy:

This message makes no sense at all!

Maya:

Can I see it?

Chrissy hands her the phone and she looks at it with same expression Chrissy had on.

Maya:

I´m at a loss too.

She hands the phone back to her. Spinner tries to sneak a peek, but Chrissy hides the phone away.

Chrissy:

A little privacy, please!

Spinner:

You had me curious for a moment.

Jay:

Forget it, Spin. Something happens, when we hit our age and we lose the ability to speak "Teenage Boy". She´ll need an interpreter, of his own kind.

Chrissy:

This is gonna bug the heck out of me!

She looks annoyed.

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2. Ext. Degrassi. Morning.

Lisa is reading the text on Chrissy´s phone, as they arrive for school. Julie is also with them.

Lisa:

What on earth does he mean by that?

Julie:

Let me see.

Lisa hands the phone to her.

Julie:

Ehm ... it could be a dirty text!

Chrissy:

How do you get anything dirty out of that?

Julie:

It was just a guess! How am I supposed to know, what he meant?

Chrissy:

He´s never sent me one before, so why would he now?

Lisa:

I mean, you´re older this time and your second relationship will no doubt be more, how should I say ... R-Rated, than the first time around.

Chrissy:

I still don´t see it. Plus, it´s not really a relationship until you´ve kissed again, is it?

Lisa:

I would call that a requirement!

Julie:

Just ask him, what he meant.

Chrissy:

I can´t now! He sent it to me yesterday afternoon, so he knows, that I saw it.

Lisa:

So what?

Chrissy:

So, he´ll be like "Chrissy, I sent you a text. Why didn´t you reply?" and I´ll be like, "I would, but I didn´t know what you meant", so he´ll be like, "I thought that was pretty obvious" and think that I´m an un-dateable moron!

The other two can´t help giggling.

Julie:

I really don´t see that happening.

Chrissy:

Urgh! Why does this have to be so complicated?

The frustration is written all over her face. The other two can´t help finding it a little funny.

3. Int. Class Room. Morning.

Jamie is sitting and staring out the window. Simon is sitting next to him.

Simon:

You couldn´t be further away, if you tried.

Jamie:

There´s still a next level, but I save it for the really boring classes. I think, Chrissy could be mad at me.

Simon:

Why?

Jamie:

I sent her a text and I thought, it was very nice, but she hasn´t replied.

Simon:

Nice how?

Jamie:

You know. The things girls like to hear.

Simon:

I´m still not getting it.

Jamie doesn´t see, that Simon is playing with him and leans in to whisper to him.

Jamie:

Like, "I really like you" or "I wish, I was holding you right now". She just got a new phone, so I wanted the first text she got, to be a very nice one from me.

Simon:

Oh, Jamie! I never knew, you felt that way!

Jamie sees that he was being played and feels foolish. Simon grins.

Simon:

Sorry, dude. I´m taken.

Jamie:

I can´t just go up to her and ask, can I? Wouldn´t that be too weird?

Simon:

It´s either that or wait for her to reply.

Jamie:

As much as I don´t like it, I´ll stick with option number 2! What if I completely mis-read the situation and she only wanted to be friends again?

Simon:

Then you have an awkward moment and you get over it! It´s not the end of the world!

Jamie:

Maybe not to you. I don´t want to mess this up with her. She´s too important for that.

Simon:

And drive yourself crazy, thinking about it? You straight people are weird!

He got a small smile out of Jamie.

Jamie:

You´re calling me weird? At least, I´m not wearing those clothes!

Simon:

It´s called having fashion sense! You should try it sometime.

Jamie:

Nope, I´ll be a jeans, sneakers and hoodie boy, until I die!

Simon:

Which means, you´ll be dressing like a 12 year old, until you die. That´s sure to make them flock to you!

They smile at each other.

4. Int. Jay and Maya´s Apartment. Day.

Maya is going over the apartment with great care. Jay finds it endearing.

Maya:

Honey, you´ve probably made this the most baby proof apartment in Toronto! Relax!

Maya turns to him and looks him in the eyes.

Maya:

Relax! Lola and Zoe are leaving their child, their most prized possession in the world in my hands! Not to mention, that they named her after me! It would look really bad, if the girl named after me, died in my care!

Jay:

If you don´t relax, you might end up involuntarily hurting her.

Maya:

Do you really think so? I´ll call them and say that we´re both sick or something!

She reaches for her phone, but Jay stops her.

Jay:

You´re not gonna call them. You´re gonna have a great day with that little rug-rat!

Maya:

I´m sorry, but I´ve never taken care of one for an entire day before! My previous record is around fifteen minutes.

Jay:

Which is the same for most parents. If we´re gonna have kids, before I´m too old, you´ll have to get over it.

He gives her a comforting kiss.

Jay:

Nature has put mothering qualities somewhere inside you. You´ll just have to tap into them.

Maya:

Easy for you to say!

The door buzzer sounds.

Jay:

Didn´t you order us a baby? I´m pretty sure, that it´s here.

Maya:

Ha, ha!

He leaves her and she tries to relax with some deep breaths.

5. Int. Hallway. Day.

Chrissy is hanging out with Lisa before the next class starts.

Chrissy:

I just know, that he´s been avoiding me!

Lisa:

The drama of the text continues to grow! Just ask him!

Chrissy:

It´s not that easy! The last one I send before that one, might have been seen as suggestive. I mean, we haven´t kissed or anything, even if we´ve had plenty of opportunities. It would be very embarrassing, if he only wants to be friends.

Lisa:

It wouldn´t be the first or the last time, you were embarrassed. I can ask him for you, if you want?

Chrissy:

So, he´ll know that I showed you his intimate messages to me?

Lisa:

Yeah, I don´t see that going down well either! This sure is a canundrum!

Chrissy:

Will you stop using that word all the time? It´s starting to get old!

Lisa:

I just love the feeling of it in my mouth, when I say it! CA-NUN-DRUM!

Chrissy:

Some help you are, "Canundrum girl!"

They head into the classroom. We see that Jamie was watching them from afar.

6. Int. Hallway. Day.

Jamie sees Allison walking towards him fast and stops to talk to her.

Jamie:

Hey.

Allison:

Whatever it is, it´ll have to be quick! I´m late for class.

Jamie:

Hypothetical question: If a guy sent you a romantic text message, would you A: Reply back. B ...

Allison:

A!

Jamie:

And if you didn´t?

Allison:

It would probably be, because I didn´t feel the same way. See ya!

She runs up the hallway. Jamie looks frustrated, as he heads to class.

7. Int. Maya and Jay´s Apartment. Day.

Maya is in the living room with baby Maya. They´re sitting on the couch and the older Maya watches the younger Maya like a hawk, as she plays with a toy.

Maya:

Do you know, how you got your name? Lola and Zoe said, that if I didn´t want it, then they would take it for you.

She can´t help smiling at the sight of the little wonder playing beside her.

Maya:

Why am I so afraid of having one like you? This is nice. I could get used to this. Of course, one day you will become a teenager and things will stop being easy. I should feel ready for it, right? I´m old enough, so it´s not that.

Baby Maya drops her toy and the pacifier falls out of her mouth, as she tries to get it.

Maya:

Oops! Let me help you there.

She gets the toy for baby Maya and puts the pacifier back in her mouth. Baby Maya happily continues playing, but Maya suddenly looks worried.

Maya:

I should have rinsed it off! What was I thinking!

She panics and picks up the baby. Jay comes in, clean from a shower.

Maya:

We have to take her to the hospital!

Jay:

What happened?

Maya:

She could have eaten dust!

Jay tries hard not to laugh.

Jay:

How much?

Maya:

I don´t know. Maybe as much as a gram!

Jay:

She´ll be fine.

Maya:

You don´t know that! Babies are very fragile and what if she´s allergic to dust or something? We don´t have any way of knowing.

Jay:

My parents were both smoking a pack a day, when I was growing up. I turned out fine, didn´t I?

Maya:

I guess so.

Jay:

It´s true, that they´re fragile, but they´re not that fragile!

Maya:

You´re sure? I can´t have anything bad happen to her.

Jay:

You´ve said that a million times, now try to relax.

She takes Baby Maya back to the couch and sits her down on it. They gaze at her in wonder.

Maya:

It´s so weird to think, that I was once one of those.

Jay:

We don´t have to have kids, if you don´t want to.

Maya:

Can you settle for a maybe for now?

Jay:

It´ll have to do.

They sit down, one on each side of her, to play with her.

8. Montage - Music: "Don´t You Want Me" by The Human League

We see Jamie coming up the hallway. He sees Chrissy with her friends coming towards him, but not having noticed him. He panics and runs into a classroom, feeling kind of foolish for doing so.

We see Chrissy looking at her phone before class starts and trying her best to make sense of his message. She´s almost about to reply back to him, but chickens out and deletes it.

We see Jamie peeking through the windows of The Dot, to see if Chrissy is working. She is and he smiles to himself at the sight of her. He doesn´t go in though and skates off down the street.

Inside Chrissy just gets a peek of him skating by and looking hurt, that he didn´t at least come in and say hi.

9. Int. Maya and Jay´s Apartment. Day.

Maya is again close to panicking, while Jay is holding Baby Maya and keeping a cooler head.

Maya:

Okay, we both knew the time would come!

Jay:

It´s just changing a diaper. What´s the big deal?

Maya:

I am not good with ... poop.

Jay laughs to himself.

Maya:

The smell of it and especially the sight of it.

Jay:

So, that´s why you don´t have any brown clothes!

Maya:

It´s not funny! Changing a diaper is the absolute minimum requirement for a mother. If I can´t do that, how pathetic am I then?

Jay:

So, do it.

Maya:

Can I watch you do it?

Jay:

Okay, but you have to do it next time. You´ve never seen a diaper being changed?

Maya:

I always found an excuse to leave the room.

Jay:

Alright. It´s hard to believe that for once, I´m the smart one!

They take Baby Maya over to a table and Jay very gently puts her down on it. He then tickles her a little to make her smile, before undoing her diaper.

Jay:

Now, it´s not that uncle Jay is some kind of pervert. But unlike his own dad, who would have had no idea how to do this, uncle Jay is trying to be a modern man. Plus, your aunt Maya is a complete dunce, when it comes to babies.

Maya:

She doesn´t need to know that!

Jay:

She doesn´t understand what I´m saying. It all about the tone of voice. Look.

He does his silliest voice imaginable for Baby Maya.

Jay:

You are just the ugliest little goblin, I have ever seen. You´re so ugly, that they should have left you outside the hospital with a note that said "she´s not grumpy, she´s just really ugly!"

Maya:

You can´t say that to her! That´s just mean!

Baby Maya smiles and coos.

Jay:

She doesn´t seem to mind, does she?

Maya:

No, not at all. It looks like she found it funny.

Jay:

Anyway, back to the diaper. First we open it completely ...

Maya immediately starts gagging and runs out of the room. Jay shakes his head at her.

Jay:

Honey, you´re not getting out of this!

Maya (off screen):

It´s in-human to ask of me!

Jay:

People have been doing it since the dawn of time. Now get back in here!

Maya comes back in with one hand covering her eyes and the other one holding her nose shut.

10. Int. Skate Park. Evening.

Jamie and Simon are taking a water break from their practice.

Jamie:

You wanna get in an extra hour?

Simon:

Don´t you think, I know, what you´re doing?

Jamie:

Explain it to me, Dr. Freud.

Simon:

When you´re skating, you can sulk and be in your own world. It´s an excuse to be alone, even when you´re among people.

Jamie:

So? I´ve got a lot on my mind.

Simon:

Let me guess. Sulking is all you´ve done, since school ended?

Jamie:

Pretty much, yeah.

Simon:

Do you think, that´s gonna get her back?

Jamie:

I never had her back in the first place. I can´t believe, I was so dumb!

Simon:

We still don´t know, if you are!

Jamie:

We´re now close to thirty hours, since I sent that text. The reality of things are becoming clearer by the minute!

Simon:

Deco´s going to see a band at Above The Dot. We can go, if you want. It might help, get her off your mind.

Jamie:

Do I have to talk?

Simon:

That´s the great thing about concerts. You can stand there and listen, not say a word and no one will think anything of it.

Jamie:

Sounds perfect! We´re there, dude!

They get up and head towards the exit.

11. Int. Above The Dot. Evening.

Spinner and Chrissy are closing down for the night.

Chrissy:

It won´t eat into our profits, that we close an hour early?

Spinner:

I´m so proud of you. Already responsible, when it comes to money! I didn´t learn that until my 20´s!

Chrissy:

I´m the oldest kid in the family. The others are too young to be responsible.

Spinner:

I appreciate it, but let the adults worry about the money side of things. Speaking of which.

He gets his wallet out and hands her a fifty dollar note. She makes huge eyes at it.

Spinner:

I know, you only helped out of the goodness of your heart, but it wouldn´t feel right to not pay you. You earned every cent of it. Just don´t tell the tax-man, because it´s illegal to pay you this way!

Chrissy smiles.

Chrissy:

Thanks, dad.

Spinner:

Will you let me treat you to a soda upstairs? I hear, that it´s a pretty good band, they´ve booked.

Chrissy:

Yeah, sure.

Spinner shuts the lights off and they leave.

12. Int. Maya and Jay´s Apartment. Evening.

Lola has come to pick the baby up. Maya happily hands her over to Lola.

Lola:

She hasn´t been fuzzy, has she?

Maya:

Not at all. She´s the easiest baby, I´ve met.

Lola:

I think, she´s inherited my temper.

Maya:

I hope so! We both remember what Zoe used to be like!

Lola:

So, you had a nice time?

Maya:

Most of the time. I found out, that I can´t be a mother, though.

Lola looks sursprised.

Lola:

Why not?

Maya:

I would be an absolute disaster! I worried way too much about her and when we had to change her diaper, it was like something out of a Marx Brothers movie!

Lola smiles to herself.

Lola:

How many billions or even trillions of women throughout time, do you think, have felt the exact same way, that you do?

Maya:

Some. I don´t know.

Lola:

Motherhood just kind of comes to you, when you have one. My great great grandmother was 13, when she became pregnant. You don´t think, she thought, she would be a disaster?

Maya:

Was she?

Lola:

Not from what I know. She had six of them, until she was killed, fighting in one of my country´s many revolutions.

Maya:

I guess, that´s a little comforting. Except for how it ended for her.

Lola:

There were a few centuries there, where it was how most of my ancestors ended their days! They just had to pick the losing side every time! Anyway, I´d better get down to Zoe. Thanks for babysitting.

Maya:

Any time!

Lola:

But, you just said ...

Maya:

I know, but if a 13 year old can learn, so can I! I´ll just have to buckle down and stick with it!

They smile at each other.

Lola:

Bye.

She leaves them and Jay comes out there. Maya turns to face him and he holds her in his arms.

Maya:

Were you eaves dropping on my private conversation?

Jay:

I might have. I told you, it wasn´t all that scary.

Maya:

I´m sticking to the pill for a while yet, though!

Jay:

I can wait.

Maya:

Even if you´ll be old and grey, by the time I´m ready?

Jay:

I´d rather that, than have them with someone else.

They kiss.

13. Int. Above The Dot. Evening.

Chrissy and Spinner are rocking out to a Ska Punk Band, who are playing a cover of "Badfish" by Sublime. They´re pretty good and both seem to be enjoying them. She almost wants to hide away though, when she sees Jamie and Simon coming in the door.

Chrissy:

Oh, God. He´s here!

Spinner:

Who?

Chrissy:

Jamie.

Spinner:

So, go and talk to him. I won´t leave without you.

Chrissy:

It´s complicated ...

Spinner:

What´s complicated about it?

Chrissy:

He sent me that text, that I couldn´t understand and I haven´t replied to it. Things were weird at school today and I think, he´s avoiding me.

Spinner:

Go over and ask him. I´m sure he´s just as puzzled at the situation, as you are.

Chrissy:

Are you sure?

Spinner:

Boys and girls may be different, but it´s not like you´re from separate planets! I´m just saying, that if I were him, I would be confused.

Chrissy looks resolved.

Chrissy:

Okay, I´m gonna go over there and ask him, head on!

Spinner:

Good luck, Sweetie.

She walks over to Jamie and Simon.

Simon:

Chrissy, what a surprise! I´m going to get a soda. You two have lots to talk about.

He leaves them.

Chrissy:

What was with the weird text you send me?

Jamie:

What was weird about it?

Chrissy:

"Bring two cucumbers, six tomatoes and a gallon of milk". How is that not a weird message to send to a girl, you´re currently flirting with?

Jamie looks like a light bulb went on above his head.

Jamie:

I´m pretty sure, I know, what the problem is. My cousin, who´s also named Christine, got a new number too and when I typed them in, I might have gotten the numbers mixed up.

Chrissy looks relieved.

Chrissy:

That was a shopping list?

Jamie:

Of things to bring. Her and her parents came over for dinner last night. It explains, why she looked at me weird all evening and didn´t bring any of it!

Chrissy can´t help laughing.

Chrissy:

I´m sorry, it´s just ...

Jamie starts laughing too.

Chrissy:

How old is she?

Jamie:

12. I´d better have a talk with her!

Chrissy:

You´re not mad at me or anything?

Jamie:

Why would I be mad at you? I´m crazy about you!

Chrissy:

You are?

Jamie:

Very.

They move in close and kiss. We see Spinner and Simon standing together and watching them for a second, before giving them their privacy and turning their attention to the concert. We end with a freeze frame of Chrissy and Jamie kissing.

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