CHAPTER FOUR: YOUR PRESENCE STILL LINGERS
The bell rang and Trixie headed for her next class, walking out with Ellie.
"Trixie is so sweet," Ashley commented to Paige.
"Yeah, you can tell she and her brother are related," Paige replied.
It was then that Trent was coming up the hall with Marco and Hazel.
Trixie was never happier to see her brother than at that moment and gave him a little hug,
"Hey! How's your first day going so far?"
"It's pretty good; this is Hazel and Marco," he introduced.
"And this is Ellie and Ashley, she was in our class first period," she introduced as well.
Ashley smiled shyly and waved, Ellie smiling and nodding.
Trent and Trixie told everyone what they had next and they all split off into various groups,
one of the twins going off with at least two people.
Trent caught up with Craig at their lockers and as soon as they started talking, a very
pretty girl with a beautifully tanned complexion, brown eyes and black hair came up.
"Hey Craig..." she said in a soft voice.
Craig swallowed, "Uh, hey Manny."
The girl wore a tank top and low-rider jeans; her ensemble had calmed down some since
before, but not quite...
She licked her lips, about to speak, but noticed Trent shutting his locker and coming up
beside him, "Who's your friend?"
Craig looked a little hesitant before he made introductions, "This is Trent Miller; Trent,
this is Manny Santos."
Trent nodded in regard, "Hello."
Oh his voice... it was so deep... and it had an accent, which was interesting... And brown
puppy dog eyes... Oh, so many things that would make any girl swoon!
Craig noticed the look in her eyes and said, "Well, we've got to be getting to class, see you
around!" and off they went.
Manny stared after them... Trent Miller huh? Hot new guy at Degrassi, meet Manuela
Santos...
Craig looked over at Trent and gave him the best piece of advice he could offer, "Trent,
that girl? She's bad news, okay, don't get involved. Friendly's good, but go beyond that
and then comes trouble."
"You've had experience with her before, then?" Trent asked.
Craig nodded hesitantly, "Yeah... just, trust me buddy, okay?"
Trent nodded, "Okay; well, I'm gonna get on to class, I'll see you later."
"Later," Craig replied, walking on, but not too far before he spotted a girl with flaming red
curls, 'Must be Trent's sister,' he mused, picking up his pace a little and catching up with
her.
Trixie was walking to her next class when she saw someone out of the corner of her eye
beside her.
"Hey," said a guy with thick, longish black hair, "I'm Craig Manning, you must be Trixie."
"Yep, that's me," Trixie replied in a soft, quiet voice.
"I met your brother, he's pretty cool; I had my last class with him and he was telling us
about you," Craig said.
"Really? Good things, I hope," she smiled.
She had a really pretty smile; her deep green eyes seemed to light up behind her glasses
when she did.
"Nothing bad, he made you sound pretty cool, too," Craig replied, then elbowed her, "just
live up to that and you'll be fine," he winked.
With a laugh and a nod, Trixie said, "I'll remember that."
She got to her class and was about to turn to Craig to tell him bye, but he as coming in
behind her.
"Oh hey cool, we're in the same class; small world, huh?" Craig asked with a smile.
"Yeah, really," Trixie replied with a small smile back.
"Come sit with us," he invited her; deciding it couldn't hurt, Trixie sat behind him, with a guy
beside her and a girl in front of that guy.
Jimmy saw the girl and knew it had to be Trent's sister; from the way she looked, it could
only be her.
"Guys, this is Trent's twin Trixie," Craig introduced, "Trix, Jimmy and Terri."
Trixie smiled and said hello, they doing the same.
"You look nothing like your brother," Jimmy said with a smile, "that's wild."
"They're fraternal twins," Terri explained.
"I know, but look at them, they look nothing alike," Jimmy gestured to the red haired girl.
"Well, now that you mention it..." Terri tilted her head to the side a little, "they don't."
"Only our expressions, I've been told," Trixie said, "especially when we're down we have
the same kinda expression."
"Whoa, freaky twin thing," Craig said with a smile, then the bell rang.
Before the teacher came in, Jimmy managed to say to Trixie, "I think Terri might kinda like
your brother," causing Terri to give him a slight look.
"Jimmy..." she was about to say, but the teacher came in at that moment and class began.
Toby and Emma sat together in their class and Emma giggled when she looked over to
Toby, "JT likes Trixie."
"Yeah, I could tell," Toby replied, obviously not surprised.
"Who's Trixie?" Liberty Van Zandt asked, who was sitting next to Emma.
"She's a new girl in Grade 11, he SO likes her," Emma replied with a grin.
"Go figure; JT likes any hot girl in Degrassi," Toby replied in monotone.
"So you're admitting she's hot?" Emma giggled.
"No no, nothing like that... you know what I mean!" Toby argued playfully.
"Yeah I know, I thought I was about to have to go tell Kendra something!" Emma joked.
Liberty sighed, "Any more, JT is so... superficial about his choice of women; can't he see
that it's the inside that counts, not out?"
"Well, Trixie IS pretty nice, most Grade 11's are NEVER that nice to us," Emma pointed
out, "she even walked through the hall with Toby!"
"What a shock; maybe she isn't so bad after all... I'd like to meet this girl, just to see what
the fuss is about," Liberty commented before going back to writing whatever she was
writing. Emma sighed, "She sounds jealous..."
"Tell me about it..." Toby agreed.
Then, Manny walked up.
"New girl? There's a new guy as well," she said to Toby and Emma.
Emma disregarded her presence for the moment, but Toby answered, "Yeah, she has a
twin, but apparently they're fraternal. I saw her walking down the hall with Crai - ow,
Emma!"
Manny blinked at hearing Craig's name, "Walking with Craig?"
Toby said not a word, for he could feel Emma's foot on his shin, just waiting to kick again.
Manny gave Emma a cold look and sauntered over to her seat.
Emma then looked to Toby scoldingly, "You ought to know better than that, Toby!"
"I wasn't thinking, alright! Good grief, remind me never to be kicked by you again..." Toby
mumbled, rubbing his sore leg.