AUTHORS NOTE: Hey everyone! I just wanted to say that I have this story done and saved on my laptop. I only update it every now and then between chapters because BEFORE I SUBMIT A NEW CHAPTER I WANT REVIEWS ON THE PREVIOUS ONE! The more reviews I get, the quicker I'll update! So its all in your guys' hands! Hehe! This is my first FF Ever, and I want your opinions. The more reviews equals quicker updatesâhehe :P
Once again I don't any of the Degrassi characters, just Callie and her family.
When Callie woke up the next morning, she threw on a light blue tshirt and gray sweatpants, and walked downstairs, in search of the phone. Aaron was home, sitting at the kitchen table, smoking.
"If your going to do that, go outside." Callie reached into the pantry and pulled out a box of cereal.
You don't need that. Your ass is fat enough already." Aaron laughed. He never meant for it to come out so offensively. He was just her stepbrother who just picked on her just to pick on her. But she always took it the wrong way. She threw the box on the ground, angrily.
"Give me the damn phone." She said, grabbing the cordless from Aaron's hand. She was calling Emma. They had become really good friends since Callie had joined the Environmental Club, and had gotten pretty close. She was a year younger, but still pretty cool.
"Emma? Did I wake you?"
"Not at all! I've been writing letters about Violations of the Clean Air Act for about half an hour."
"Can I ask you a question?"
"Go for it."
"What do you think about Craig Manning?"
Silence.
"Emma?,"
Callie breathed, "We almost - fooled around - in my room last
night, andâI think I love him. I know that's crazy but its true.
He's all I think about. But I can't help but want to strangle
him, because when I told him I loved him he"
"Didn't say
anything? How did I know. Look, Callie, I'm just looking out for
you when I say this. I know you may think you feel something but"
"But
what?"
"But, he's the biggest jerk at Degrassi and he"
Callie got defensive. She was really sick of always hearing people say that about him.
"He has a lot of secrets, Callie."
"Spit it out already."
"(sarcastically) ya know your good buddy Ashley?" Callie cringed at her name.
"Yeah, well he cheated on her with Manny and got her pregnant, but she had an abortion. He's a two timer." Callie's jaw dropped.
"No, not Craig. He wouldn't do that. Not my Craig." Silence. "I have to go Emma."
::click::
Maybe that's what the mysterious Instant Messages were about. Someone was looking out for herâright? She decided to sign online. Maybe SmileyGurl would be on. She needed to know if this person was right, and if they were just looking out for her.
CalBabie5: Why did you say those things 2 me?
SmileyGurl: b/c you needed to hear them Craig is scum, and a resident rapist
CalBabie5: rapist?? What?? Who? And how would you know?
SmileyGurl: yea, he raped some girl from North Park I'm only looking out 4 u, you should stay away from him- I'd hate to see you get hurt! Hes trouble! Ask him urself. I know b/c I've lived here my whole life, I know everything that happens. Believe me
CalBabie5: I think I'm gonna go over there right now. bye
Callie paced nervously around her house. She realized that she needed to talk to Craig. But she had some secrets of her own, that he didn't know about. Who was she to yell at him for not telling her? She tried to watch TV but soon realized that she just needed to see him again, and arrange her mixed feelings out. Somehow what Emma and SmileyGurl said changed her heavenly view of him. It was about 9 when she grabbed Craig's leather jacket and headed down the street.
Craig was lying on his bed, flipping through old photos that he had taken that were in a shoebox under his bed. These were the photos he looked at very rarely; some were in there he could barely look at. The first was of him and his mother – it broke his heart to look at. The next was of him and as dad. Than him and Ashley, followed by him and Manny. He stroked the pictures of him and his two former girlfriends. Then the same thoughts that he had pondered in the park with Spinner came rushing back. It was all a blur until the doorbell shook the house.
DING DONG. DINNNNG DONG. Craig walked down the stairs and shook off the knot in his stomach. He opened the door to find Manny standing before him, torn and battered.
"Oh my god!" He exclaimed. She had been clearly banged around, her hair was a wild mess and her low cut shirt was completely torn. She was streaming with tears down her face.
"Manny? What are you doing here? What's the matter?"
"Craig, I think I was..." She threw herself onto him, her small figure reaching up to his arms, crying hysterically. Craig put his arms around her uncomfortably with much uneasiness. Why would she pick me, OF ALL PEOPLE to come to with this? What do I do?
"Manny, I don't know what to say, I'm sorry." But Craig always knew Manny had alcohol problems, she could have been drunk when it happened, or just imagined it.
Callie approached closer to Craig's house until she stopped to really think about what she would say. 'Why didn't you tell me you got some chick pregnant and cheated on your girlfriend?' or 'Stay away from me you rapist – that's why you wouldn't say you loved me.' She got closer and rose her head slowly, taking the jacket off, even though no part of her wanted to give it up.
"Craig, I don't know who else to come to. It all happened so fast last night. And, andâCraig, I" Then Manny turned her head and saw Callie. Yes, this is working out perfectly, just as I expected, Manny thought. She turned her head back quickly, and before Craig knew it, Manny was thrusting her lips on top of his, causing his hands to naturally fall onto her butt because she was on her tippy toes.
But when Callie looked up, she felt her heart beating out of her chest. She couldn't help it. Emma was right. He was a jerk. For getting someone pregnant. For making her think she was in love with him. Emma was right. He is a two timer. Callie tore the coat off of herself and threw it on the ground, stepping on it with anger. I knew this was pointless. She turned the other direction and cried herself until she was home again. When she had slept in Craig's lap last night she had had a dream that he was whispering in her ear that he loved and cared deeply about her – that was her stupid inspiration for coming back over. But who was she to dream something that stupid.
Craig pulled away roughly. "MANNY, what the hell? You can't be here. This isn't right – not here with me. And you need to go to Ms. Soveigh or Paige. I can't"
But Manny pretended to be heartbroken and ran down the driveway. She went the opposite way of Callie, and saw her walking the other way crying. She smiled at the jacket on the ground, than to herself when she noticed that Craig spotted his leather jacket smashed on the ground with a footprint. Manny laughed satanically to herself and walked away.
Operation Win Craig Back has begun, Manny thought. After all, her plan was working. She was never really raped.
