So.another chapter completed! I got a burst of thoughts during the middle of the story.so all you Craig fans.don't hate me! I LOVE Craig, too.but something needed to get interesting. He's such a loser in my story.but DEFINITELY NOT repeat NOT on regular Degrassi. So that should stop most of the flamers.

So we were left with a getting back together Manny and Craig, and Sean was going a tad bit crazy over there.most likely to get Miss Emma's attention. But unfortunately, his plan didn't work and **Cough, cough* it backfired. So.

Ellie gave Sean a disgusted look and quickly walked away past him and "accidentally" bumping him. At first, Emma was in shock but then she broke down with muffled laughter. Sean groaned and rolled his eyes. Emma quickly recovered from laughing to see him walking away, irritated.

"Sean! No - wait!" She said. He turned around for a second and shook his head and kept walking. Finally, she chased after him and ran in front of him.

"Emma.this isn't a good time." He said and started walking around her. Unexpectedly, she jumped in front of him and embraced him.

"I'm sorry." She said truthfully. At that, Sean put his arms around her.

"I missed you."

M E A N W H I L E . . .

Back at Manny's house, Craig was leaning closer and closer to her. He bent over, and their lips touched. They kissed. The kiss wasn't anything like a Hollywood kiss or anything, but it was meaningful. After close to a minute, Manny pulled away and eyed Craig. Then she smiled mysteriously at him and walked inside. There, she smiled and jumped around and squealed like crazy. That is, until her parents and her little siblings came in and kept asking her about her "little date" as they called it. She just smiled and went upstairs to call Emma.

Craig, however, had a much different ending to the fairy tale. He walked home laughing and shaking his head. Once in the house, Joey was seated on the couch watching TV and his little half sister was in bed. (Angela is her name?)

"How was it?" Joey asked.

"Great." Craig smiled and then told Joey he was going to his room. Once inside, he dialed Spinner's number.

"Get any luck tonight, Craig?"

"Oh yeah. I kissed her."

"Man! Now I owe you twenty big ones!"

"You bet."

"So you really like this girl?" Spinner asked after a pause.

"Yeah. Yeah I do. But don't you ever tell anyone I bet you. I just need some extra cash. I spent all the stuff he gave me before I moved in with Joey."

"You spent 300 dollars!"

"Camera stuff. You know."

"Okay. Well, I gotta go. Jimmy's coming over."

"See ya." Craig sat on his bed, staring at the ceiling. "Everything is so perfect." He thought to himself. Well, that was until Monday came!

M O N D A Y A T S C H O O L . . .

Craig met up with Spinner and Jimmy on one of the picnic tables before school began.

"There's Craig! Tell him what happened Saturday!" Spinner said.

"Did you get some chick action?" Jimmy asked.

"Guys.chick? Come on. Don't call girls that."

"Oooo. Someone's turning into Mr. Sensitive." Spinner teased.

"Okay. Okay. Yeah I did." Craig said and smiled mischievously. "You got my twenty?"

"Yeah, yeah, I got it."

"So, man, what happened?"

"Well me and Manny were out in front of her house and I just kissed her. It was great." He paused. "Money?" He asked Spinner. Spinner dished out two tens from his pocket.

"Hey. New bet. If you go to second base with her, we'll give you 50." Spinner said, laughing. Suddenly a cold and angry voice arose from behind them.

"I can guarantee that won't happen."