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: Thanks to the few of you that reviewed after the first chapter. I'm glad that I made some kind of impact for you to give me some feedback. Also, all questions asked will be answered in the story so I will not be giving any information out. All I will say is what they said is not necessarily the truth and everything will be answered in time. However, keep asking the questions, that way I can keep track of what un-answerable actions can be answered.
Warning: Rated R for some sexual encounters and language in future chapters.
Chapter 2: Don't Rain on My Parade
Part A: Room #1
The rain came pelting down on the window of the hotel room – brining no mercy to anyone who had hoped to be able to go out and enjoy the Hollywood streets for the first time. Emma sat curled up in a chair, staring blankly at the rain being probably the only one in the group who was glad that the rain postponed their adventure for this one night.
"Emma? Are you feeling all right? You don't look too good." Manny asked her.
"Hm? Yes, just fine." Emma responded, keeping her head aimed toward the window.
"Yeah Emma, you really haven't been looking to good, hun," Hazel said.
"I'm really just fine," Emma said again, but this time she closed her eyes, trying to keep in the tears that now filled her eyes.
She had been trying to deal with the news of her pregnancy as well as possible since she found out. Spinner had been a real big help, sitting with her on the bus and letting her fall asleep in his arms when they would spend the whole night driving instead of stopping in a place to rest. Paige never looked to happy about it, but Emma found that she really didn't care. She had no idea what she was going to do now that she was about to have herself her own kid. Her mother would be disappointed that she let this happen; Snake would defiantly look at her differently. And how were the rest of her friends going to react?
A hand settled down on Emma's shaking shoulders and she realized that she had started to cry. Looking up she found Manny standing behind her, and without saying a word she threw herself in her friend's arms and sobbed. Ellie and Hazel came over also, and the three girls surrounded Emma, whispering comforting nonsense to her while trying to get her to calm down.
When she finally stopped crying, she pulled away from Manny's arms and rubbed her eyes with the palm of her hands. "Sorry," Emma muttered.
"It's okay Em," Manny said softly, "Do you want to talk?"
Emma knew she could trust Manny as well as Hazel and Ellie. She didn't expect any of them to go blab off her news to the rest of the group. They all had learned their lessons back in school with telling other people's secrets. Then again, she was afraid to tell them – afraid they would hate her.
Without realizing it, Manny had led her over to a bed, and sat her down kneeling in front of her with a look of concern on her face. Emma couldn't resist it any longer. She had to tell someone – someone who wasn't Spinner. She had to tell her best friend.
"Manny, please don't hate me." Emma wailed.
"I won't Em, I won't." Manny replied, her concern only growing.
"But you will, once I tell you. You'll hate me."
"Em, I can never hate you. You are a great person and you have done so much for me as well as other people. There isn't anything you can say to me that will make you hate you. We all make mistakes, and we all learn from them. I should know." Manny replied, reaching up and taking Emma's hands in her own.
Emma nodded, and looked around to see that Hazel and Ellie were sitting on the edge of the other bed watching the two of them. Emma opened her mouth to tell them then, but shut it quickly. Her stomach felt rather queasy and the room started to spin around her.
"Em?"
That was all Emma heard before she got to her feet and rushed to the bathroom, all the food that she had consumed now pouring out into the toilet. Someone was holding her hair back while gently rubbing her back. Another person had grabbed one of the washcloths in the bathroom and was soaking it in water from the sink. Manny stood in the doorway, ready to go run off and find someone to help.
Emma lifted her head up and looked back at Ellie who was holding her head - Hazel gently whipped her mouth with the wet cloth. "I'm sorry guys; I don't know where that came from."
"Do you want me to go get Spinner?" Manny asked.
"Could you?" Emma replied, looking hopeful to see him again.
Manny nodded and quickly ran from the room while Ellie helped her to her feet and they all went back to the room.
A few minutes later the door opened again and Spinner came running in with Manny right behind him. He quickly found his way to Emma's side, and reached out for one of her hands. "Emma, you look like shit."
"Thanks Spin." Emma responded with a laugh.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I think so. I don't know where that came from. Must have eaten some bad food."
"Emma, I don't think it was the food," Spinner said, lowering his voice that only she could hear.
"I know." Emma responded, once again looking grave.
"Hunny-B?" Paige called out to Spinner who had just exited the room she was heading to - she was hoping to talk with Hazel about something that had happened early that day.
Spinner turned around to look at her, looking rather guilty. "Hey Paige."
"What were you doing in there hun?" Paige replied coldly.
"Just saying goodnight to Emma and the rest of them."
"Oh."
Silence fell between them then as both stood rather uncomfortably with about 10 feet in-between them. Spinner really had no reason to be feeling as guilty as he was. Emma was his friend, sure they were close, and sure they shared a secret between them, and sure things were a bit complicated between him and Emma but he was still with Paige. He was only showing Emma a little bit more compassion than he showed other girls, but Paige was still the one he was with. Paige on the other hand was feeling rather jealous. To her, Spinner was spending way too much time at little Emma's side and if she had to put her finger on it she would say that Spinner was cheating on her with Emma.
"Spin, are you and Emma doing it?" Paige asked bluntly.
"What?" Spinner said shocked, "No, of course not."
"Then why don't you sit with me on the bus? Why don't you come say goodnight to me? Why don't you care about me? I'm your girlfriend Spin!" Paige ranted.
"Paige, calm down."
"I will not calm down. Not when you make me think that there is nothing left between us. There is no spark anymore, is there Spin."
Spinner fell quiet. Paige was right in some way there – the spark between then had started to fail. He found himself questioning their relationship everyday. He was confused about many things in life – but he had never spoken a word of it to anyone.
"Yes, there is," Spinner lied, "There is always a spark between us."
Paige caught his eyes, tears building up in her own. "Then why did it take you so long to respond? I hate you Gavin Mason. I hate you."
With that she turned on her heel and fled back to her own room leaving Spinner to feel even more confused about everything that had been happening lately.
"I hate him, Ash, I hate him," Paige cried into her pillow once she got back from her little encounter with Spinner.
"Paige, hun, you don't hate him," Ash said, trying to calm her down.
"Yes I do. He doesn't care for me anymore. He just wants that little tramp Emma." Paige wailed louder.
"Oh come on Paige, that's not true and you know it. I'm sure everything between Spinner and Emma is innocent. It's probably like brother and sister, not boyfriend and girlfriend."
Paige turned around and faced Ashley, gripping the pillow in her hands, "Are you sure?"
"Of course I'm sure. Spinner is head over heels in love with you. The two of you have been together forever. You are meant to be."
"Then why did he hesitate?" Paige was close to tears again.
"Oh come on Paige, its Spinner. He was probably just thinking over what to say so it didn't come out wrong."
"I-I guess you're right." Paige let go of the pillow and sat up straight, brushing at her tear-stained cheeks. "But what is with him? He seemed so off – like there was something he was hiding. Not just from me but from everyone. What is wrong with my hunny-b?"
"Seriously Paige, shut up," Sean suddenly spoke up.
They were only able to get four rooms – three of which had two beds and one in which had one bed. Dylan was given that room so that he could sleep without any interruptions and be awake enough to drive the next day. But putting four people in each room it left over two guys and two girls. Sean and Jay were instantly chosen to be the two guys, and to save everyone from any uncomfortable nights, Ashley and Paige had decided to room with the two.
"Mind your own business, Sean," Paige snapped.
"Why? So that I can continue to hear you wallow in your own self-pity. It is rather annoying and I'd rather not hear it. That's why I'll give you my advice."
"Please, hun, don't. There is nothing you can say that would make anything better. I mean everyone can see how well your relationship with Ellie is going. Every time Emma is around you practically ignore her because you are so busy staring at Emma."
"I don't stare at Emma. I don't even like her anymore," Sean defended, "And things between Ellie and I are going just fine."
"Are you so sure about that?"
"Are you so sure about things with Spinner?"
Paige shut her mouth and glanced over at Ashley who shrugged.
"You might as well listen to what he has to say, and if it sucks just don't listen then." Ashley said to her.
Paige sighed, "Fine, speak away all mighty one."
"Thank you. First of all you are totally over-reacting with this whole Spinner and Emma thing. Every one can see that it is perfectly innocent and Emma is not the type to steal away someone boyfriend. Unless she turns out pregnant and harvesting Spinner's baby you have nothing to worry about." Sean started.
"Spinner said he wasn't sleeping with her," Paige said.
"Did you hear what I just said?" Sean replied, "I never said they were sleeping with each other, Emma's not the type. Anyway, the second thing you need to do is apologize to Spinner. By the sounds of what you told Ash, you cut him to pieces without giving him any chance to defend himself. Put yourself in his shoes. He had just left one room to say goodnight and was probably on his way over here to do the same thing. Instead you ask him if he's sleeping with Emma. You caught him off guard so of course he was going to hesitate to answer you about the spark still begin there. You just accused him of sleeping around."
"Oh, I never thought of it like that," Paige said suddenly feeling really bad.
"And I'm sure you also didn't think that he may be looking over his whole life right now. He just graduated from high school and now has to go off to college where a whole new world is awaiting him. He's probably re-evaluating his whole life."
Paige glanced over at Ashley again and then back to Sean, "Sorry about snapping at you earlier. I guess I really did over-react. I should go find Spinner and apologize."
"No, don't," Sean said before she could get up, "Give him the night to cool off, and then talk to him tomorrow morning."
Paige slowly nodded. "All right."
Sean, now glad that he wouldn't have to worry about hearing Paige complain all night, placed his headphones back on his ears and laid back down on the bed alone. Jay had fallen asleep on the chair in the room, listening to his own music, leaving Sean to have the bed alone, which he was extremely happy about. The light flicked off to which he figured that Ashley and Paige had decided to get some sleep also. Sean didn't go straight to sleep. Instead he stared out the window, watching the rain fall down on it, and let his mind wander to Emma. Were things really dying with Ellie? And was he actually starting to have feelings for Emma again?
AN: Chapter 2 completed. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope that I improved slightly on my writing style. It's amazing; I'm actually getting back into the whole writing thing. Instead of staring at the TV screen all I can think to do is continue this story – so I promise that the next chapter will come out soon. Again, if you can review and give me any feedback on how the story is going and what I can do to improve, it would be much appreciated.