Broken Hearts Cannot Be Mended
Written By Ally
Disclaimer: I do not own Degrassi or any part of it - however the idea of the story is my own.
AN: Not all Degrassi characters are used, and I am not promising that all that are used will play a main part in the story. I will work in as many plots as possible without loosing the grasp of the story.
Warning: Rated R for some sexual encounters and language in future chapters.
"Are they all here?" Paige asked Spinner who had come into the kitchen carrying the now empty bowl that once held chips.
"Yes, hunny-b. Everyone you invited is here - uh, plus a few extras."
"Extras?" Paige asked, looking confused.
"Yeah - well, you'll see. So are you going to come out back and tell us the great news you have?"
"I'll be there in a sec. Go check on everything for me, hunny-b?"
Spinner gave a tight smile to his girlfriend, whom for the past 30 minutes had had been following her every breathing request, and went back outside. Sitting in the backyard of the Michalchuk's house was a group of Degrassi's newest gradates, along with a few of Degrassi's newest senior class.
"Where is your girlfriend Spin?" Sean called out from his position next to his current girlfriend, Ellie.
"She'll be here soon," Spin responded, ignoring a majority of the group as he went to sit next to Marco. "I think Paige has finally lost it. I have no idea what any of this is about."
"You make it sound like she's about to send us all to our death, Spin." Marco said back.
"She might just do that."
Marco only rolled his eyes and turned looked away for Spin, his eyes darting across the whole backyard and into the windows of the Michalchuk house, hoping to grab any glimpse of his boyfriend, Dylan.
Everyone seemed pretty content. A month ago most of them had made the walk down the Degrassi gym, taking their diploma in hand as each graduated from high school. It was a happy day for all, especially for those like Spin who almost didn't pass because of one almost failing grade in math. Yet they all had made it, and spent the night celebrating and had not seen each other since, unless it was a random collision as the supermarket or the movie theatre. No one seemed to notice the already growing gap between all friendships. Well, no one except for Paige.
"Hey everyone!" Paige exclaimed, finally making her way outside.
"About time, lover girl," Jay said from where he sat next to Sean, "Are you going to tell us why we are here - well, why Ellie is here and Sean and I got dragged along?"
Paige pursed her lips together as she looked over at Jay, not exactly happy to see a few of the extra's there, but dealing with it. "Well, if you could all just keep quiet I can get on with it."
Nobody made a sound, but just glanced around at one another waiting for Paige to tell them what was up.
"Oh, well," Paige said, realizing she had fallen silent for a while, "I had been thinking, since most of us are now graduated and all, that we don't really see each other as much as we used to. And I thought that it was kind of sad, because we all have such great friendships here and soon we'll all being going off to our different colleges. And I love each and everyone of you and will miss you all so much when I go off to Riverndale University, especially my hunny-b"
"Cut to the point Paige," Ash interrupted.
"Oh, yes, well." Paige stumbled, "So I thought we should make this summer a memorable one and spend it all with each other. And so we're going on a road trip!"
The whole place erupted with different thoughts on the matter, everyone speaking at once. Paige stood rather uncomfortably on the back porch steps, trying to hear everyone at once and continue with what she was saying.
"A road trip? That's lame."
"Oh come on, our parents will never let us go."
"We can't all fit in one car."
"I think it would be kind of fun."
Spinner quickly got to his feet, his own thoughts of the idea pushed to the side as he rushed to save Paige from her discomfort.
"Hey, shut up!" he yelled, "Give her a chance to finish."
The backyard slowly fell into silence once again, as everyone once again put his or her attention back on Paige.
"Oh, thanks hunny-b." Paige said with a smile toward Spin before getting back to what she wanted to say. "Now to you all it doesn't seem very organized, but for the past week and a half I have been working on this idea and have everything worked out. We have transportation, money enough to take us wherever we please and stay in proper hotels, and permission. I talked to each and every one of your parents - well, except for our extras but feel free to come if you'd like, you'll just have to talk to your own parents - and they all said they thought the idea was great as long as we had a responsible elder with us. So, in light of that I got to come with us, my very own brot--"
"Hey guys," Dylan Michalchuk said as he walked through the door behind Paige, breaking her off her own sentence.
Marco instantly became alert and got to his feet, "Hey Dyl."
Ellie quickly flung her hand over Jay's mouth, prepared for the comment she was sure he was about to share with everyone.
Paige continued on. "Dylan, about time you got here. I was just about to tell everyone that I got you to come with us on our road trip and be our responsible adult." Paige beamed at everyone out in the yard. "So, what do you all think?"
No one quickly jumped to voice his or her opinion, but it could be seen that everyone liked the idea.
"Well Paige," Jimmy finally said, "It looks like you found a way to cure all our boredom over the summer."
Spinner, Craig, Jimmy, Hazel, Ashley, Ellie, Sean, Jay, Emma, Manny, Marco and Dylan all stared ahead of them at the Degrassi High bus that sat in front of them.
"Um, Hunny-b?" Spinner called out to Paige who was standing with pride in front of the bus, "Why is there a school bus in your driveway."
"It was her idea," Dylan muttered to Marco, who was looking up at Dylan with raised eyebrows.
"Because I bought it hunny-b. This is what we are going to be taking across country." Paige said with a grin.
"You're kidding, right?" Sean spoke up, "That bus can't take us anywhere. It's a piece of shit."
"Well .. that's why I was kind of hoping you'd help me fix it up a bit Sean," Paige said.
Sean only shook his head and mumbled something to Ellie who nodded her head in agreement.
"Oh come on guys! This will be great." Paige said to the many faces of doubt that looked at her. "It's the only thing that will fit us all. Anyway, I fixed up the inside and it's actually really cool. You at least have to look inside before putting it down."
And so they did, one by one they all entered the bus, and weren't disappointed at what they found. Paige had done a number on the bus, leaving on the first three rows of the actual bus seats in. The middle and back section of the bus was all an original idea. Behind the bus seats on the left side was a table bolted to the ground with two twirling chairs bolted next to it. Across from it sat a cabinet and a large ice bucket to hold all their food and drinks. Farther back on top of a newly furnished carpet ground was various types of comfortable chairs, such as bean bag chairs of different colors and inflatable chairs lined with velvet material and sitting on the very back was a mattress, set up as a bed and couch - all to add to the comfort of the bus. It wasn't just the added furniture that spiced the place up though. The walls and ceiling was painted a dark blue and hanging on the sides were various pictures of the group. There were also hanging lamps, a battery stereo system, and other various needs.
"Alright," Hazel said once everyone was out of the bus, "I have to admit that I like what you've done with the place Paige and I totally wouldn't mind driving around in that."
"I agree," Craig said, still shocked to see the sight inside the bus.
"Hunny-b," Spinner said as he took Paige in his arms, "I think you've finally outdid yourself."
"Well it's not done yet. All I need is to paint the outside, and get all the technical stuff fixed," Paige said, looking over at Sean.
"Fine, I'll fix it. But that means no one complains that Jay comes along." Sean said.
"It's a deal." Paige replied, her smile only growing bigger as she hugger herself to Spinner's side.
The day had finally come - they were all about to leave behind the town they all had grown to love and hate and set out on their own little adventure. They had made the decision together that they wanted to go out into the states and find their fun in the U.S. They wanted to hit the main places, like Hollywood, Las Vegas, Orlando, New York Ð and then many others on the way.
"Come on! Let's get this show on the road," Paige called out to everyone, after she had finished loading the last piece of luggage on the bottom compartments of the bus.
Everyone was busy saying their good-byes to their parents either on the phone or those few who had come to see their children off. Dylan was seated in the driver seat - Marco sitting behind him - and pressed the palm of his hand on the horn letting it blast through the air for awhile, calling everyone in.
"Bye Mum, I'll see you at the end of summer!
"Take care!"
"See you dudes and dudettes!"
"Later!"
After calling out quick goodbyes everyone climbed in the bus, taking a seat in the various areas, some people already starting to pop open a can of soda or opening up a bag of chips.
"Everyone in?" Paige asked, counting heads at the front of the bus.
"Emma's not here, I think she's inside," Manny called out getting to her feet, "I'll go get her."
"No, you stay here," Spinner said, jumping to his feet and getting in front of Manny with an awkward look in his face, "I'll get Emma."
Inside the house Emma sat on Paige's bed, a few tears escaping her eyes as she held her hand tight in a fist. She had escaped the group and went to use Paige's bathroom before they left. She had to check on something before she left. What she found out did not make her at all happy - her suspicions for the last couple of months had been true.
"Emma?" Spinner called through the house, "You in here? Emma?"
"I-I'm in here!" she croaked out.
Spinner soon blocked the light from the hallway as he stood in the door. "Hey, you okay?" he asked.
Emma shook her head slowly, more tears escaping her eyes, "No. We need to talk Spin."
The two never really had been so close, but over the past year the two had been forced to get to know each other when they both wound up in hours of detention because of stupid decisions they made that were against the school rules - oddly at the same time. Spinner had grown fond of the younger girl, and took her close under his wing like another younger sister.
Spinner sat next to Emma on the bed, "What is it?"
"Spin," Emma said quietly, "I'm pregnant."
If it had at all been doubted that one person could feel every emotion al one time in life, it had no longer been. Spin felt like everything fell quickly away with those few words from Emma. He quickly grabbed the smaller girl and hugged her to his side. Emma was pregnant - she was going to have a baby boy or girl - and Spinner had helped.
"Oh Emma," Spinner said as he held the now freely crying girl in his arms.
The two sat like that for a few minutes as Spin let Emma cry. They would have to leave soon, before the others got worried. Yet, Spinner couldn't pull himself from that spot. Slowly, Emma's heaving shoulders stopped and she soon sat up and wiped her eyes.
"We better go." She said quietly, getting to her feet, "Everyone's waiting for us."
Spinner nodded, "Okay."
Emma nodded back and moved to leave the room. When she reached the door she turned back and looked at Spinner. "Don't tell, please. Not yet."
Spinner nodded again. "I won't. I promise."
Emma smiled at him, and then turned again, leaving the room behind her and tucking the test from her hand deep in her pocket.
AN: Chapter one complete. Please review and tell me what you think. I haven't written a story in so long because of years and years of writers block so my writing is a bit blocky. Things will grow better as the story progresses - this was just to introduce everything that's happening. I could use any type of help - good or bad. However, if you do have something bad to say I'd rather you'd e-mail it to me please. Don't be too harsh - I do love to write and would hate for a harsh comment to send me back into more years of writers block.