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Silent Cries Covered Pain
Chapter Seven: Confrontations
Christina sat stiff on her bed she couldn't move and found it heard to breathe. Finally she took a deep breath and got up from her bed. Already dressed she walked over to her mirror and pulled up a chair. Staring at her face she could feel the stains that once belonged to tears still stained on her face. She could still feel and taste her brother's hand over her mouth, still feel the smothering kisses; the pain of her brother's weight pushing down on top of her only brought back fresh tears. She quickly wiped them away when she heard her doorknob turn. There was a silence as he buried his hands into his pockets knowing that if he had them out Christina would become frightened he knew a thing or two about how Christina felt really he knew how she felt first hand but he didn't know enough to know he had an on growing problem.
"Um....Chris" He started starting to walk over to her but seeing her tense up only made him stop he never wanted to keep hurting her like this and he knew it had to stop but if only he could make it stop
"Um....Chris about yesterday I'm really sorry it's just dad called and he was still looking for you, I had an argument at work........." Her brother started before Christina interrupted
"Please Jake don't okay just don't It's fine" Christina said feeling sicker hearing him make excuses for why he did it sounding more and more like their father but at least he was doing one good thing for her keeping her dad away from her was the best thing he could do
"Okay well there's this cute little Dark haired girl downstairs waiting for you" Jake said with a sparkle in his eyes Christina hadn't seen that look since they were little before all the drama came in when Jake was dating this before Filipino girl that looked like a twin of Manny's.
"What do you mean she's downstairs" Christina nervously she didn't want anyone to meet her brother or know any background information about her not dealing with schools, slowly most of the walls she had tried so hard to keep up were falling down. Manny was being a great person making her want to be friends with her now knowing where she lived, Sean had gotten under her skin and actually convince her to talk about her mom and brother even the little that she did say was too much.
"She's just downstairs" He said simply
Christina looked at her brother and he took the hint and walked down the stairs and after she was sure he had finally reached the bottom step she followed and sure enough it was Manny sitting on their couch.
"Manny what are you doing here" Christina asked as she watched her brother out the corner of her eye stare at Manny
"Um..... Sean called me last night and said he saw you walking in this direction and since I knew your last name was Smith I checked the name on the Mailbox and decided to give it a try" Manny said with a slight smile on her face as she returned Christina's brother stares
"Oh that's what you were doing I thought you were trying to steal or mail" Jake said with a Amazing smile on his face
Manny just giggled.
"Let's go Manny" Christina said pulling Manny's arm
"Wait Chris..." Jake started running towards her
"What?" Christina asked pushing Manny out the door
"You know I'm really sorry right"
"Yeah" Christina said turning to leave but Jake pulled her arm feeling the trembling that he had forced upon her
"Chris you're all I have"
"I know" Christina said lightly pulling away and closing the door
"Your Brother is really hot" Manny said looking back at the house
"Please don't make me throw up he's my brother" Christina said walking down the street along side Manny
"Yeah well he's really good looking how old is he by the way" Manny asked with a slight smirk on her face
"Too old" Christina said watching as the smile fell from Manny's face
"So you and Sean close friends" Christina asked trying to get off topic
"No not really he use to date my best-Friend Emma but they broke up I just you can say we're friends in a sense how about you two"
"Let's just say we won't be singing any duets any time soon, I don't like him he doesn't like me"
"Well that wasn't the impression he gave me on the phone"
"What are you talking about?"
"Never mind I'll tell you later I have to go speak to someone" Manny said now at the Degrassi steps running into the building
"Whatever" Christina said letting out a quiet sigh rubbing her wrist it was still sore and bright red
Christina looked at her watch and saw that she had an extra twenty minutes so she decided to go inside but before she did someone grabbed her by the shoulders which caused her to jump.
"Aren't we a little jumpy this morning?"
"Nice so you follow me him and now you try and give me a heart attack"
"I didn't follow you home I just wanted to make sure you got home alright but then I figured you could take care of yourself so I went back To Detention" Sean said with a bit of a smirk on his face
"Whatever what do you want"
"Well I forgot to ask why you got Detention anyway"
"Well it looks like your about to find out the reason is walking right towards us"
Manny walked slowly as she reached her destination Craig's locker where Spinner and Jimmy stood alongside him. Spinner and Craig had there backs towards her but Jimmy had already spotted it was motioning both of them to shut up.
"Hey Manny" Jimmy said studying her pink tank top under her lighter pink fishnet shirt going great with her somewhat tight pink jeans this was a huge tone down as far as Jimmy and the rest of the school saw she had went from Hot and Tempting to Mature and still Tempting even after the whole Craig Pregnancy thing. This would be the first time they've said something since the whole Abortion thing.
"Hey Jimmy" Manny said lightly still looking at Craig
"Yeah um....what do you want Manny we're kind of talking" Spinner said not matching Jimmy's friendliness
"Spin shut up she didn't come to see you" Jimmy said taking up for her
"Who did you come to see not Craig by any chance Manny he and Ashley are...." Spinner started
"Spin Please" Craig said cutting Spinner off
"What do you want Manny"
"To talk to you" Manny said looking around "Um alone"
"Manny we really don't have anything to talk about"
"Please Craig" Manny said looking into his brow eyes pleading
"Fine Jim, Spin I'll be back in a sec" Craig said much to the dismay of Spinner
"Um....Manny you look great" Craig said studying her
"Um...Thanks you do too"
"Who is your new friend?"
"You mean Christina"
"Yeah I think that's her name"
"It is she's one person that has treated me like a person with actual feelings since the whole..."
"Yeah but she doesn't know everything that's been going on"
"What do you mean?"
"I'm just saying maybe you should talk to her I mean yeah Ashley's is acting like a real snob but she doesn't know Ash well enough to just start being rude to her I know she's taking your friend and she's taking up for you but...."
"Wait Christina can make up her own mind I'm not a puppeteer and Christina is definitely is no puppet she can make up her own mind besides it's about time someone took up for me being as though no one else would"
"What are you trying to say" Craig said beginning to yell and catch a few students attention especially Jimmy and Spinner
"What I mean is that sure You never treated me like dirt but you sure as Hell didn't say Ashley leave Manny alone, Stop messing with Manny, You basically let her run all over me"
"Well did you expect me to say Ashley Yeah Manny stole me away from you got Pregnant with my child while we were dating don't be mad at her we thought we were in love"
"Yeah I thought we were too" Manny said pushing past him
Manny began to walk to her classroom when she heard an ear-shattering scream that sound like Christina.
When Manny ran out all she could see was this big crowd and Someone's hair with gum in it. As she reached the bottom steps she could she Christina with a blob of gum in her hair and she furiously trying to get to Ashley but Sean holding her back.
"Hey chill Hun it was a total accident I saw the whole thing" Manny overheard Paige saying as she pushed her way deeper into the crowd until she was right next to Sean and Christina"
"Christina are you okay"
"No look at my fucking hair" Christina said still trying to get out of Sean's grasp and tear Ashley to strides
"Stop over-exaggerating it was an....." Paige started
"You know what Paige shut up okay for once mind your own business and Shut up" Manny hissed at Paige looking at Christina's hair
"Hun I was just helping Ash don't let your new little friend get you kicked off the Spirit Squad"
"Like I was ever still on I was kicked off as soon as the Witch over here stuck her nails into you and talked to you into kicking me off the Squad. The Squad in which I had to prove myself harder than any other girl on the team because I was younger but you know I proved myself showed up to every Practice, performed in every game and every competition even when you put me on the bottom on the pyramid even Heather Sinclair with on top of even and she's the heaviest girl on the squad but I still tried my hardest and I did it. I proved that I was the best on the squad.
As Manny stepped into her face she finished.
"Hell I proved I was better than you"
"Please you could never be better than me" Paige said following up to Manny
"I was already better than you when I stepped to you and auditioned" Manny said letting her Filipino ascent come out
Christina finally got loose from Sean who was so wrapped up in Manny and Paige's argument that he loosened his grasp on Christina and allowed her to go free. When he realized that she had gotten loose he tried to grab her again but it was too late she was already in Ashley's face but she surprisingly didn't swing at her. She just stepped up closer until she was what looked like an inch away from her and dung into her book bag and pulled a pair on scissor there was whispers as to what she was going to do with it most thought she would cut Ashley's hair but they were all surprised when she turned the scissors on her own hair and chopped off the piece that had the blob of gum in it then proceeded onto making in even. When she finally stopped her hair was now just Shoulder length and mostly everyone was amazed when she had her hair down to her mid-black it always covered her face or fell in front of it covering her face. Now her face was out in the fresh and everyone could see she was quite beautiful. Her eye- brows were very thin but very dark giving an almost Hispanic look to her. Her face structure was thin but still strong. She had beautiful hazel eyes that shined in the sun.
Ashley didn't know how to react she had done this to embarrass her but instead she had done her a favor. She could even see how beautiful Christina was.
"Thanks I always thought about getting a hair-cut" Christina said dropping the hair and beginning to walk away when everyone was surprised by her actions she turned back around and punched Ashley square in the nose causing it to bleed
"Oh Manny Now I'm okay" Christina said with a slight smile on her face but as Christina stroked her now Shoulder-length hair it slowly faded away
"You sure you're okay Christina"
"Yeah I'm fine" Christina said forcing a smile as she saw Mrs. Kwan running down the steps she rolled her eyes knowing what to except
"What's going on" Christina could hear Mrs. Kwan voice echoing back to her
"Miss Smith" Mrs. Kwan yelled
"I know Dentition three o' clock"
"No but I'm sorry Miss Smith Striking another student violates the Degrassi Code of Conduct which results in a suspension" There were grasp throughout the crowd the ones who saw the whole thing thought that was totally wrong especially since Ashley started it
"Wait what I can't get suspended my brother......." Before Christina finished she stopped looking around at all the eyes now on her waiting to see what she was going to say
"Wait Mrs. Kwan it wasn't Christina's fault Ashley started it" Manny said noting Christina's hesitation
"Is that true Ashley"
"No she wasn't even here"
"Yeah but I was and it's true"
"Who said that" Mrs. Kwan yelled scanning the crowd
"I did"
"Sean Cameron"
"Yeah I saw it she just walked up to Christina and started yelling at her and stuck gum in her hair"
"Is this true" Mrs. Kwan asked addressing the whole crowd
"Yeah" Was the reply of everyone
"Okay well Ashley after we get you settled in the nurse's office we'll talk and as far you Miss Smith you're free to go now but I'll be wanting to talk to you" Mrs. Kwan said taking Ashley up the steps into the school and as Craig began to follow Manny ran up the steps and grabbed his arm turning him around
"Now do you think that your Perfect little Ashley can do no wrong?"
"Who's the one with the bloody nose don't you think that was a little uncalled for"
"I swear you're Impossible" Manny said turning away from Craig hearing him sigh feeling him glare at her then walk away
"A Yo' Cameron what's happening wanna take a ride" Christina turned to see three students that were labeled as "The bad crowd" in front of a blue car
Sean looked around the shrugged his shoulders and began to leap down the steps when Christina grabbed his arm.
"Hey wait"
"Yeah what"
"Thanks for getting me out of trouble"
"Whatever don't worry about it I know how it is just living with your brother" Sean said causing a reaction out of Christina wanting to yell at him because he didn't know how it was living with "Her" brother it was hell but instead she bit her tongue and ignored it
"Well I know how it is to hang with the bad crew who you know is just going to lead you in to trouble trust me been there done that"
"Nice tale Sweetie but Cameron has to get going" The lead boy said motioning Sean to come on
Sean stared at Christina desperately wanting to say he wouldn't go with them but a part of said he hardly knew this girl and she was one that would be really hard to get to know just stick with the friends you have. As Sean hopped in the car with him looking at Christina he knew he had made the wrong choice but the car had already pulled off.
"Looks like someone has a soft spot for Sean" Manny said in Christina's ear causing her to jump
"What........ I do not I was just....um Thanking him for taking up for me and thank you too"
"Sure you were and don't worry about it but I know one thing we have to worry about"
"What"
"Being late for Mr. Armstrong's class" Manny said pulling Christina's arm
Silent Cries Covered Pain
Chapter Seven: Confrontations
Christina sat stiff on her bed she couldn't move and found it heard to breathe. Finally she took a deep breath and got up from her bed. Already dressed she walked over to her mirror and pulled up a chair. Staring at her face she could feel the stains that once belonged to tears still stained on her face. She could still feel and taste her brother's hand over her mouth, still feel the smothering kisses; the pain of her brother's weight pushing down on top of her only brought back fresh tears. She quickly wiped them away when she heard her doorknob turn. There was a silence as he buried his hands into his pockets knowing that if he had them out Christina would become frightened he knew a thing or two about how Christina felt really he knew how she felt first hand but he didn't know enough to know he had an on growing problem.
"Um....Chris" He started starting to walk over to her but seeing her tense up only made him stop he never wanted to keep hurting her like this and he knew it had to stop but if only he could make it stop
"Um....Chris about yesterday I'm really sorry it's just dad called and he was still looking for you, I had an argument at work........." Her brother started before Christina interrupted
"Please Jake don't okay just don't It's fine" Christina said feeling sicker hearing him make excuses for why he did it sounding more and more like their father but at least he was doing one good thing for her keeping her dad away from her was the best thing he could do
"Okay well there's this cute little Dark haired girl downstairs waiting for you" Jake said with a sparkle in his eyes Christina hadn't seen that look since they were little before all the drama came in when Jake was dating this before Filipino girl that looked like a twin of Manny's.
"What do you mean she's downstairs" Christina nervously she didn't want anyone to meet her brother or know any background information about her not dealing with schools, slowly most of the walls she had tried so hard to keep up were falling down. Manny was being a great person making her want to be friends with her now knowing where she lived, Sean had gotten under her skin and actually convince her to talk about her mom and brother even the little that she did say was too much.
"She's just downstairs" He said simply
Christina looked at her brother and he took the hint and walked down the stairs and after she was sure he had finally reached the bottom step she followed and sure enough it was Manny sitting on their couch.
"Manny what are you doing here" Christina asked as she watched her brother out the corner of her eye stare at Manny
"Um..... Sean called me last night and said he saw you walking in this direction and since I knew your last name was Smith I checked the name on the Mailbox and decided to give it a try" Manny said with a slight smile on her face as she returned Christina's brother stares
"Oh that's what you were doing I thought you were trying to steal or mail" Jake said with a Amazing smile on his face
Manny just giggled.
"Let's go Manny" Christina said pulling Manny's arm
"Wait Chris..." Jake started running towards her
"What?" Christina asked pushing Manny out the door
"You know I'm really sorry right"
"Yeah" Christina said turning to leave but Jake pulled her arm feeling the trembling that he had forced upon her
"Chris you're all I have"
"I know" Christina said lightly pulling away and closing the door
"Your Brother is really hot" Manny said looking back at the house
"Please don't make me throw up he's my brother" Christina said walking down the street along side Manny
"Yeah well he's really good looking how old is he by the way" Manny asked with a slight smirk on her face
"Too old" Christina said watching as the smile fell from Manny's face
"So you and Sean close friends" Christina asked trying to get off topic
"No not really he use to date my best-Friend Emma but they broke up I just you can say we're friends in a sense how about you two"
"Let's just say we won't be singing any duets any time soon, I don't like him he doesn't like me"
"Well that wasn't the impression he gave me on the phone"
"What are you talking about?"
"Never mind I'll tell you later I have to go speak to someone" Manny said now at the Degrassi steps running into the building
"Whatever" Christina said letting out a quiet sigh rubbing her wrist it was still sore and bright red
Christina looked at her watch and saw that she had an extra twenty minutes so she decided to go inside but before she did someone grabbed her by the shoulders which caused her to jump.
"Aren't we a little jumpy this morning?"
"Nice so you follow me him and now you try and give me a heart attack"
"I didn't follow you home I just wanted to make sure you got home alright but then I figured you could take care of yourself so I went back To Detention" Sean said with a bit of a smirk on his face
"Whatever what do you want"
"Well I forgot to ask why you got Detention anyway"
"Well it looks like your about to find out the reason is walking right towards us"
Manny walked slowly as she reached her destination Craig's locker where Spinner and Jimmy stood alongside him. Spinner and Craig had there backs towards her but Jimmy had already spotted it was motioning both of them to shut up.
"Hey Manny" Jimmy said studying her pink tank top under her lighter pink fishnet shirt going great with her somewhat tight pink jeans this was a huge tone down as far as Jimmy and the rest of the school saw she had went from Hot and Tempting to Mature and still Tempting even after the whole Craig Pregnancy thing. This would be the first time they've said something since the whole Abortion thing.
"Hey Jimmy" Manny said lightly still looking at Craig
"Yeah um....what do you want Manny we're kind of talking" Spinner said not matching Jimmy's friendliness
"Spin shut up she didn't come to see you" Jimmy said taking up for her
"Who did you come to see not Craig by any chance Manny he and Ashley are...." Spinner started
"Spin Please" Craig said cutting Spinner off
"What do you want Manny"
"To talk to you" Manny said looking around "Um alone"
"Manny we really don't have anything to talk about"
"Please Craig" Manny said looking into his brow eyes pleading
"Fine Jim, Spin I'll be back in a sec" Craig said much to the dismay of Spinner
"Um....Manny you look great" Craig said studying her
"Um...Thanks you do too"
"Who is your new friend?"
"You mean Christina"
"Yeah I think that's her name"
"It is she's one person that has treated me like a person with actual feelings since the whole..."
"Yeah but she doesn't know everything that's been going on"
"What do you mean?"
"I'm just saying maybe you should talk to her I mean yeah Ashley's is acting like a real snob but she doesn't know Ash well enough to just start being rude to her I know she's taking your friend and she's taking up for you but...."
"Wait Christina can make up her own mind I'm not a puppeteer and Christina is definitely is no puppet she can make up her own mind besides it's about time someone took up for me being as though no one else would"
"What are you trying to say" Craig said beginning to yell and catch a few students attention especially Jimmy and Spinner
"What I mean is that sure You never treated me like dirt but you sure as Hell didn't say Ashley leave Manny alone, Stop messing with Manny, You basically let her run all over me"
"Well did you expect me to say Ashley Yeah Manny stole me away from you got Pregnant with my child while we were dating don't be mad at her we thought we were in love"
"Yeah I thought we were too" Manny said pushing past him
Manny began to walk to her classroom when she heard an ear-shattering scream that sound like Christina.
When Manny ran out all she could see was this big crowd and Someone's hair with gum in it. As she reached the bottom steps she could she Christina with a blob of gum in her hair and she furiously trying to get to Ashley but Sean holding her back.
"Hey chill Hun it was a total accident I saw the whole thing" Manny overheard Paige saying as she pushed her way deeper into the crowd until she was right next to Sean and Christina"
"Christina are you okay"
"No look at my fucking hair" Christina said still trying to get out of Sean's grasp and tear Ashley to strides
"Stop over-exaggerating it was an....." Paige started
"You know what Paige shut up okay for once mind your own business and Shut up" Manny hissed at Paige looking at Christina's hair
"Hun I was just helping Ash don't let your new little friend get you kicked off the Spirit Squad"
"Like I was ever still on I was kicked off as soon as the Witch over here stuck her nails into you and talked to you into kicking me off the Squad. The Squad in which I had to prove myself harder than any other girl on the team because I was younger but you know I proved myself showed up to every Practice, performed in every game and every competition even when you put me on the bottom on the pyramid even Heather Sinclair with on top of even and she's the heaviest girl on the squad but I still tried my hardest and I did it. I proved that I was the best on the squad.
As Manny stepped into her face she finished.
"Hell I proved I was better than you"
"Please you could never be better than me" Paige said following up to Manny
"I was already better than you when I stepped to you and auditioned" Manny said letting her Filipino ascent come out
Christina finally got loose from Sean who was so wrapped up in Manny and Paige's argument that he loosened his grasp on Christina and allowed her to go free. When he realized that she had gotten loose he tried to grab her again but it was too late she was already in Ashley's face but she surprisingly didn't swing at her. She just stepped up closer until she was what looked like an inch away from her and dung into her book bag and pulled a pair on scissor there was whispers as to what she was going to do with it most thought she would cut Ashley's hair but they were all surprised when she turned the scissors on her own hair and chopped off the piece that had the blob of gum in it then proceeded onto making in even. When she finally stopped her hair was now just Shoulder length and mostly everyone was amazed when she had her hair down to her mid-black it always covered her face or fell in front of it covering her face. Now her face was out in the fresh and everyone could see she was quite beautiful. Her eye- brows were very thin but very dark giving an almost Hispanic look to her. Her face structure was thin but still strong. She had beautiful hazel eyes that shined in the sun.
Ashley didn't know how to react she had done this to embarrass her but instead she had done her a favor. She could even see how beautiful Christina was.
"Thanks I always thought about getting a hair-cut" Christina said dropping the hair and beginning to walk away when everyone was surprised by her actions she turned back around and punched Ashley square in the nose causing it to bleed
"Oh Manny Now I'm okay" Christina said with a slight smile on her face but as Christina stroked her now Shoulder-length hair it slowly faded away
"You sure you're okay Christina"
"Yeah I'm fine" Christina said forcing a smile as she saw Mrs. Kwan running down the steps she rolled her eyes knowing what to except
"What's going on" Christina could hear Mrs. Kwan voice echoing back to her
"Miss Smith" Mrs. Kwan yelled
"I know Dentition three o' clock"
"No but I'm sorry Miss Smith Striking another student violates the Degrassi Code of Conduct which results in a suspension" There were grasp throughout the crowd the ones who saw the whole thing thought that was totally wrong especially since Ashley started it
"Wait what I can't get suspended my brother......." Before Christina finished she stopped looking around at all the eyes now on her waiting to see what she was going to say
"Wait Mrs. Kwan it wasn't Christina's fault Ashley started it" Manny said noting Christina's hesitation
"Is that true Ashley"
"No she wasn't even here"
"Yeah but I was and it's true"
"Who said that" Mrs. Kwan yelled scanning the crowd
"I did"
"Sean Cameron"
"Yeah I saw it she just walked up to Christina and started yelling at her and stuck gum in her hair"
"Is this true" Mrs. Kwan asked addressing the whole crowd
"Yeah" Was the reply of everyone
"Okay well Ashley after we get you settled in the nurse's office we'll talk and as far you Miss Smith you're free to go now but I'll be wanting to talk to you" Mrs. Kwan said taking Ashley up the steps into the school and as Craig began to follow Manny ran up the steps and grabbed his arm turning him around
"Now do you think that your Perfect little Ashley can do no wrong?"
"Who's the one with the bloody nose don't you think that was a little uncalled for"
"I swear you're Impossible" Manny said turning away from Craig hearing him sigh feeling him glare at her then walk away
"A Yo' Cameron what's happening wanna take a ride" Christina turned to see three students that were labeled as "The bad crowd" in front of a blue car
Sean looked around the shrugged his shoulders and began to leap down the steps when Christina grabbed his arm.
"Hey wait"
"Yeah what"
"Thanks for getting me out of trouble"
"Whatever don't worry about it I know how it is just living with your brother" Sean said causing a reaction out of Christina wanting to yell at him because he didn't know how it was living with "Her" brother it was hell but instead she bit her tongue and ignored it
"Well I know how it is to hang with the bad crew who you know is just going to lead you in to trouble trust me been there done that"
"Nice tale Sweetie but Cameron has to get going" The lead boy said motioning Sean to come on
Sean stared at Christina desperately wanting to say he wouldn't go with them but a part of said he hardly knew this girl and she was one that would be really hard to get to know just stick with the friends you have. As Sean hopped in the car with him looking at Christina he knew he had made the wrong choice but the car had already pulled off.
"Looks like someone has a soft spot for Sean" Manny said in Christina's ear causing her to jump
"What........ I do not I was just....um Thanking him for taking up for me and thank you too"
"Sure you were and don't worry about it but I know one thing we have to worry about"
"What"
"Being late for Mr. Armstrong's class" Manny said pulling Christina's arm
