CHAPTER FIVE: STILL WAITING
Title idea came from "Trent", as well as a few of the ideas, lol ) Happy reading!
Lunch finally rolled around and everyone started heading outside and in the cafeteria to
eat and meet with friends.
Trent and Trixie sat with Paige, Spinner, Jimmy, Hazel, Ashley, and Terri; every once in
awhile during the time, someone who'd met either of the twins would come up and say
hello to them. Sean and Ellie waved to Trixie and she waved back, of course.
"You know Sean?" Paige asked in a sort of shock.
"Kinda, he helped me out of a jam this morning," Trixie replied honestly.
"I'd advise not hanging around him too much, Trix, he's bad news," Paige said, trying to
keep her friend from getting in trouble.
"He's not all that bad," Ashley said in defense of Ellie's boyfriend.
"Ash, he steals from the school," Paige debated.
"I don't think it's really all him," Ashley said.
"Well it might not be, but it's his own fault for not choosing the right friends, ones that
won't keep getting him in trouble; besides, he did a pretty big heart-breaking number on
Emma, too..." Paige added.
"Emma and Sean were an item?" Trixie wondered.
Meanwhile, the guys were talking about more "guyly" things.
"Boy-crazy little women..." Spinner teased lightly, looking to his friends.
Jimmy laughed, "They're no more boy crazy than you are girl crazy."
"But I have a girlfriend, so that gives me a right to be girl crazy," Spinner tried to be
matter-of-fact about it, but only got the look from the other guys.
Trent sighed, "Besides, Jimmy, it's not so bad being girl crazy even when you DON'T have
a girlfriend, is it?"
Jimmy smiled, "Nah, I guess not," he checked to make sure Terri wasn't listening, "'cause
we ALL know what's up with you..."
Spinner looked ultimately confused, "Uh..."
Jimmy looked shocked, "You mean Paige didn't tell youabout Trent's crush?"
Spinner grinned, "Oh yeah, she did! Dude, does he know about...?"
At that time, Paige and Terri were whispering about Trent amongst themselves.
"So, you like him or what?" Paige asked her, a big grin on her face.
"I really don't know what to think... I mean, he seems nice and all, but so did..." Terrie
trailed off, knowing Paige would get what she meant.
Paige looked into her eyes and knew what she was thinking, "Yeah, but Trent's not...
creepy, you know?"
Terri looked a little hurt, "So you're basically trying to make me like him or something?"
"No! Ter, this is all up to you, whether you like him or not is your choice, but it just seemed
like you might," Paige corrected herself.
Terri sighed wistfully and looked into the distance at the more scenic part of the campus, "I
don't know really what I feel right now, Paige... you know, sometimes I still don't feel that
safe. I mean, I know Rick's at a private school and supposedly getting treatment at that
facility, but still..."
Paige understood her point completely; she'd felt the same way after she had been raped:
not safe. "Look... I'm sorry if this conversation upset you or anything, but I was just
wondering because it seemed like you MIGHT like him..."
The guys, Hazel, and Ashley were asking Trent about karate, and asking both twins
questions about Tennessee.
"Hey, how long have you been in karate?" Jimmy asked.
"Uhhh... If I get it here, in two months it'll be two years," Trent replied.
"Are you black belt?" Spinner wondered.
"No, first level brown belt," Trent answered.
"Ooh, impressive," Hazel said with a smile, nudging Ashley, who apparently thought the
same, for she blushed when Hazel nudged her.
"He's getting close to getting the blackbelt though, he'd been training quite a bit back
home," Trixie added.
Paige and Terri were now listening in, Paige watching Terri's reactions to anything said.
"Have you ever kicked anyone's ass?" Spinner asked with a grin, Paige whacking him
upside the head.
"Honeybee!"
"What, I was wondering!"
Trent laughed at their antics along with the others, "No, but I'm workin' on it!"
This caused everyone at the table to laugh; they started asking about Tennessee at that
time, while some very interesting things were going on at other places...
Toby, JT, Kendra, and Emma's table was, of course, lively with chatter.
"JT, just admit it, you like Trixie, okay?" Toby said.
JT just sighed, looking off in the distance and trying not to make it look like he was looking
at her; she was sitting with Paige and the rest like he usually did, but he didn't have the
courage to sit with them like he wanted to...
Kendra saw what direction he was looking in, however, and smirked, "JT, you're being
obvious; just ask her to the Beginning of School dance you know is coming up."
"They're making the announcement tomorrow Liberty said," Emma added with a smile, "so
that would be perfect!"
JT got up to throw away his trash and get away from them for a little while, "Just give it a
rest, will you?"
"What, JT?... Are you SCARED of her?" Toby asked, causing Kendra and Emma to
laugh.
That went under JT's skin a little, "Of course not... watch, I'll go over there and say hi to
her right now before I go to the library."
"OOh, what're you goin' to the library for?" Kendra asked.
"To get away from you guys for awhile," JT replied quite honestly.
Manny watched from the distance as JT went over to Trent's table to say hello to the girl
with red curls that glowed almost gold when sunlight hit them. Other than that, she didn't
look like anything THAT special... nothing that Craig could fall in love with any more than
he could've fallen in love with HER.
Liberty walked up to Manny when she saw where her gaze was, "It seems JT's taken a
fancy to her," she almost bitterly.
"Yeah... seems every boy in Degrassi might wind up doing that... I even saw Sean waving
at her," Manny replied distantly.
Liberty sighed, "She is pretty... but I'd have to meet her to actually know what she's like..."
she said in a once and for all sort of way, then walking away from Manny, leaving her
alone with her thoughts again.
The bell dismissing everyone to class once again rang and the students all filed inside the
school, going to their next class.
The class after lunch went on rather smoothly without a hitch, but the last class...
Jay was pissed off about Sean standing up for that little Farm Girl earlier, so it made his
day just a little bit better when he saw her brother sitting in the classroom, alone.
Trent was sitting at his desk waiting for Craig to come in; they were going to talk about him
coming over sometime to watch the band rehearse and see what he thought of them, but
when he looked up and saw that only Jay had come in, he just went back to waiting for
Craig.
Jay went carefully by his desk, casually knocking his books off of them, then looking down
at him with a look of mock sympathy, "Aww, did I knock the Farm Boy's books off his
desk? I am SO sorry..." he then smirked, going in the back to his own desk. It sort of
surprised him when he looked up from his headphones and saw Trent standing there.
"Look, I don't know what your problem is, but I don't appreciate what you've been doing
ever since me and my sister got here. And I don't appreciate what you did to her out in the
hall earlier, either; so I suggest you leave us alone or you WILL be sorry you didn't..."
Trent trailed, fire in his eyes as he was about to go back to his seat. What he'd wanted to
say had been said, so he felt no more purpose in being back there.
Jay got up from his desk, trying to get over the shock of someone standing up to HIM,
"Are you TRYING to pick a fight? 'Cause I can give you one, you know."
Trent turned back to him as other students started to come in, but stayed at the door,
sensing trouble, "No, I just want you to leave us the hell alone."
Jay made like he was going to go back to his seat, but then he pounced at Trent, someone
going to get a teacher right then and there.
For a moment, the boys scuffled with eachother, but Trent managd to throw Jay back
against the wall; when Jay came at him again, however, he flipped him all the way over his
own body, Jay landing on his back and not moving. He wasn't hurt, just in shock...
When the teacher arrived, the scene was just like this, Trent standing there panting and Jay
laying on the ground panting.
The teacher had heard what the students said, and came in to this, so he sent teh boys to
Mr. Raditch, the principal.
Meanwhile in Trixie's class, Jimmy came running in from the hall with Spinner and Marco,
Craig not far behind, "Trix, your brother just got into a fight with Jay!" Craig said.
Trixie's eyes went wide and her face took on a horrified look, "Oh my god, is he alright?"
"Oh, he's fine from what I could tell, just a scratch on his cheek; JAY, however, looked a
bit shaken up..." Marco replied with a smirk.
Trixie smiled and laughed, "I just hope he don't get into a lot of trouble... he don't need
something like this the first day."
Jimmy patted her shoulder reassuringly as Paige and Terri came in, "Not to worry, I think
he was trying to settle things with words first, so that might get him some extra points."
Trixie smiled and Craig waved to her as he left, saying, "Don't worry, I'll keep an eye out
on him for you," with a wink, then went out the door.
In Raditch's office, Trent explained his side of the story, then Jay did, and the witnesses did
as well; seeing that Trent had tried to do the right thing first, he didn't get any trouble, but a
warning. Jay got two days of after school detention and a restraining order against Trent.
At the end of the day when the twins got home, Trixie asked, "So, what's your opinion of
Degrassi?"
Trent only thought for a moment before he smiled and replied honestly, "I think I'm gonna
like it here."