A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed. Even the person who said that I should be ashamed of my story. Eh, different strokes for different folks, I guess.

Disclaimer: Once again, I don't own anything Degrassi, unless someone would like to get me a lock of Craig's hair.

Emma was walking down the halls of Degrassi when she heard someone shout at her.

"Hey baby! I'd like some fries to go with that shake!"

She turned around and saw who it was. Jay.

"Don't you have a car to go steal or something?" she retorted. "Why don't you just leave me alone?"

Jay scratched his head as if he were considering it,"yeah, but then I wouldn't get to see you all heated like this. Payback's a bitch, bitch."

She rolled her eyes,"So that's my payback for telling on you?"

"No. I'm just getting warmed up. And that's just for telling on me at the Dot. Don't forget about falsely accusing me of having stolen goods in my car."

"How do you even know I did it?"Emma questioned Jay."And besides, it's only a matter of time before you do something like that anyway"

Jay slowly ripped down a poster in front of Emma. A SITE poster that she'd designed.

"It's gonna be a long summer sweetheart."Jay whispered in her ear "Don't forget about me, cuz I sure won't forget about you"

Jay walked away from her, certain that he had scared her.

Thoughts reeled in Emma's head. If he was going to extract revenge on her, then she'd beat him to the punch.

Manny Santos and Liberty Van Zandt were talking by Manny's locker when they saw what appeared to be a heated argument between Emma and Jay. Knowing her former best friend, Manny assumed that it had to do something with the environment or sexism or something like that. Emma was always fighting those issues.

"Look at her" Manny whispered to Liberty," She's so self imposing, she thinks that she can even change Jay's point of view. She's so over confident"

But then Manny looked at Emma and realized that something was wrong.

"Liberty, meet me in class okay?"

Liberty mouthed "Sure."

Manny walked up to Emma."Hey."

Emma offered a shy "hey" back.

Manny realized how silly they'd been up to that point. Why couldn't they be friends again?

"Em, I know there's something going on with you and Jay. I know when you're in trouble. I know when you're feeling shaken."

Emma didn't know where this was heading.

"Do you have a point with this?" Emma asked.

"Yeah." Manny replied "My point is, I know this because I'm your best friend. Or, I was. And I want to be."

"It's not that easy. You can't just say, 'oh it's all water under the bridge now. we're best friends again!'"

Manny thought you could."Well, why not? It's water under the bridge. I said it. I'm sorry. I really am."

Emma couldn't really think of a reason why not. "Okay. Water under the bridge. I am sorry. I'm sorry I called you a slut. I'm sorry I said that you'd date anything with a pulse, I'm sorry I said you looked like a drag queen in that blue shirt you always wear"

Manny nudged Emma on her side."You never said those last two things."

"Well, not to your face."

"As long as we're being honest" Manny started "I'm sorry I told Jay I knew it was you who accused him of stealing the DVD player"

Emma thought that it was Manny."That's okay, I mean, he probably would have figured it out anyway."

"So if you don't mind me asking, why do you hate Jay so much, other than the fact that he's a pig?" Manny asked.

Emma filled her in on the details. The incident at the Dot, Jay pulling over and harassing her and Chris, Snakes laptop.

When she was finished the bell rang to start class. Emma and Manny were so busy making up that they didn't notice that the hallway was totally empty.

"We should get to class"Emma said. "See you when school lets out?"

"You can count on it" Manny promised. "And don't worry about Jay. We'll take care of him."

Please R&R! I have the whole story planned, but I am open to suggestions. Eventually all characters will be explored so if you tell me which ones you like the best, I'll try to write more about them.

Thanks again for your reviews.

-Jen