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1 year later
Craig parks his car in the car park. Another day at College he feels a push from behind.
"Jimmy man, quit doing that."
"Sorry dude, habit."
"Yeah, where's Hazel?"
"Here."
"Hey."
They engage in their usual morning conversations. Jimmy and Hazel had been together for ages and Hazel was good for Jimmy brought him out into the real world a bit more. Jimmy helped Hazel detach herself from Paige a little bit. And now here they were college. They had all managed to graduate from Degrassi. Ashley was in the same college as well. She and Craig had managed to be friends even though Craig knows that he hurt her a lot.
"Craig, first period, now, I'll see you guys at lunch 12 ok?"
"Yeah sure man, whatever."
Craig wanders off leaving Jimmy and Hazel to do the PDA thing that they happen to do every time they part. They sit down middle row of the enormous lecture hall. 100 other students sit around them they are all furiously taking notes. The thing about college was that the teachers didn't particularly care if you could keep up or not.
"Dude, Craig wake up."
Jimmy slaps him and Craig's face nearly hits the desk.
"What?"
"Class is over."
Craig glances around they are almost the last ones left.
"Let's go we have to meet Hazel and Ash."
Craig had always wondered if it was weird for Jimmy to be good friends with Ashley considering their history. And how close Hazel and Ashley had gotten once they were taken out of the Degrassi setting.
Hazel waves enthusiastically from their usual seat under a big tree in the middle of campus. The cafeteria was always too crowded and to have a conversation usually involved brining your own mega-phone.
"A la Ash"
Ashley declares as she pulls out four paper bags obviously from the fast food burger place across the road.
"You put so much effort into giving us a balanced diet."
Craig jokes as he and Jimmy sit down.
"You know I do!"
Ashley replies before rolling her eyes as Jimmy and Hazel lock lips, again.
"Do you think they even need air?"
Craig shakes his head.
"Drinks?"
"Vending machine over there."
Ashley points to the building on the other side of the road where a Coca-Cola machine is strategically placed.
"Gotcha, Sprite?"
Ashley nods as Craig head over. He is soon carrying 4 cans of soft-drink. And walking across the street. He reaches where they are sitting and places the soft-drinks on the ground but he doesn't sit down. His gaze is fixed somewhere past Ashley's head.
Jimmy and Hazel stop as they all turn around to see what he is looking at. In the distance there is a small figure with long brown hair. She wears low-rise jeans and singlet top. She brushes her hair away from her face nervously.
"Craig!"
She calls out. She is smiling. He doesn't know how to react his entire body feels numb. She walks towards him carefully as not to get her high heels stuck into the soft dirt beneath the grass. She reaches him still smiling.
"Remember me? You're getting harder to find you know that?"
"Eve..."
She steps closer to him.
"I promised."
"Craig I swear as soon as I'm ready I'll find you. All you have to do is wait for me."
Evette walks away from him, leaving him standing there on the San Francisco marina.
"You..."
"Craig, you may be good at music but you never could think up decent lyrics."
Evette says with a smile and before he can react she presses her lips against his. As she pulls away she gives him that smile. That smile that makes him feel like he is flying.
"Evette, I missed you."
She smiles again and wraps her arms around his waist and allows him to pull her closer to him as he remembers her scent.
"I love you."
He whispers almost afraid of her answer. She reaches up and brushes the beginnings of tears away from his eyes and kisses him again. Then she says it, the phrase that he has wanted to hear for so long.
"I love you Craig Manning."
Fin.
