After not updating for about two/three months.. cough I still have NO
idea where this is going. None. What-so-ever. -.-; Writer's block is a
bitch, what can I say?
So, yes. Once again if owned Degrassi, Aubrey Graham and Jake Epstein would be locked in my closet. Cough. Cough. Maybe Daniel Clark, too. HEHEHE.
Chapter Four: Love & Basketball.
"You shouldn't wake him up."
"Why's that?"
"Because, it's like. Waking the dead or something."
"How would you know what waking the dead is like, Marco?"
".. Shut up, Craig. You know what I mean."
"No, I don't. That's why I asked."
"You guys, shut up for once, eh?"
"Sean's right, amazingly enough. Besides, he's getting drool all over my seat. Wake him up, Ronnie."
"Me!? Why me?"
"Because you're a chick. He won't kill you."
"Yeah."
"... You guys suck." Ronnie gave Jimmy a look, who grinned innocently and held his hands up in defense. Craig, Sean, and Marco all snickered. The five (well, four. Jimmy was driving, since they all wanted to go and get something to eat) of them all then looked to Spinner, who was snoring lightly, his mouth wide open, and a little drool on his chin.
"Aww, do I have too? He looks so cute." Ronnie said, smirking, reaching out to pinch Spinner's cheek.
Marco snickered, "If you think polar bears are cute, sure."
"Ooo, Marco. I'm telling Dylan." Craig said, grinning as Marco rolled his eyes and smacked Craig's arm.
"Shut up."
"OW! That hurt!"
"It was supposed to."
"Ass."
"Takes one to know one, dillhole."
"You guys fight to much," Ronnie said, laughing, and continued to poke and pull at Spinner's face.
"But Mommy, I don't wanna go to school. Paige'll eat me alive," Spinner muttered, shifting his weight around while he slept.
Silence.
The car then burst into laughter, Ronnie clamping a hand over her mouth and singaling them to quiet down. Sean supressed his laughter, snickering loudly, as Craig and Marco continued to crack up. Jimmy was obviously trying to hold it in.
"Don't we have to wake him up to know what he wants to eat anyway?"
"Man, Sean, Spinner's a garbage disposel. He'll eat anything."
"That's nasty." Ronnie wrinkled her nose in disgust, and the guys laughed.
The escalade soon pulled into a McDonald's drive thru, and they all ordered, and ended up letting Jimmy pay "since it was his car," Craig had said smugly, and Sean added on the whole 'since he's sucha nice guy' comment, causing Jimmy to almost hit him, but didn't when Ronnie patted him on the knee and thanked him, sipping on her coke. Jimmy had muttered a reply, shrugged his shoulders and kept driving, ignoring the laughter from the back seat.
Soon they pulled into Degrassi street, and into Sean's drive way, and they all piled out of the car, food (or, what was left of it) in their hands. Ronnie had the pleasure of waking up Spinner, and groaned, reluctantly sitting in the passanger seat, poking and shaking Spinner, who just mummurred incoherantly and smacked at Ronnie's hands.
"What's his full name?" Ronnie yelled out, waiting for a response.
"Gavin Reginald Mason," Jimmy said, smirking smugly, leaning against his car, watching Craig, Sean and Marco take Ronnie's bags inside.
".. Why do you guys call him Spinner?" She asked, cocking her head to the side with a raised eyebrow.
"He spins like a top when he doesn't take his meds," Jimmy said, looking over to Ronnie who gave him a confused look. He snickered, "He has ADD."
"Ah. That explains a lot."
Jimmy couldn't help but laugh. This girl was pretty cute. Ok, she was a babe. He couldn't believe this charming, witty and beautiful girl was a Cameron. She seemed to be so opposite from her cousin -- Sean was cold, an asshole if you got on his bad side, but his cousin was a sweetheart. He glanced over to her, smiling to himself as he watched her continue to pull at Spinner's face.
"GAAAAAAAAVIN!" Ronnie yelled in Spinner's ear, shaking his shoulders. Spinner jumped, falling backwards, and looked to Ronnie, wide eyed with an eyebrow raised.
"What the hell!"
"Good morning, Sunshine." Ronnie said sweetly, patting his mop of out of control cave-man like hair, and Jimmy burst out laughing.
".. You guys got food?" Spinner said, hurt, staring at the McDonald's cup that was in Ronnie's hand.
"Yeah. The guys ordered stuff for you, man. Sean put it in the kitchen." Jimmy said, and before either he or Ronnie knew it, Spinner had climbed out of the car and was making a mad dash towards the inside, pushing Marco out of his way as he came through the door.
Jimmy and Ronnie looked to each other, and started to laugh.
"Emma. What the hell is that?"
"Sean's radio," Emma Nelson replied non-chalantly, as she watched her best friend, Manny Santos, grab a chair and look out the basement window.
"What are they doing over there?" Manny said, "I can't friggin see anything."
"Gee, Manny, since when are you so interested in Sean and what he does?" Emma asked, raising an eyebrow as she glanced over to her.
"I'm not. I'm just curi-- is that Craig? And Spinner? Marco, Jimmy -- who's the chick!"
Emma let curiousity get to her, as she grabbed another chair, standing next to Manny as the two tried to see out of the window. "How do you know that's them? One, I can't even hear them over that so called "music"," she paused from what she was saying to do the air quotes around music, "they have on, and two, you can only see there feet. How do you know there's a girl?"
"You only reason you think it's not music is because it's what Chris listens too."
"Manny!"
"What? It's true. Anyway," Manny started, slowly, "See those black vans? I bought those for Craig during our whole little "one big happy family" stage before the abortion. And I figure the others are there because, well, they go everywhere together. And the yellow converses? Besides the fact they are kind of tacky and were out of style months ago, I don't think anyone but a girl would wear that color of them," She said, matter-of-factly, and Emma gave her a look.
"Who would the girl be?" Emma asked aloud, instantly regretting it as Manny gave her a smug smile.
"Why, Emma, do I sense a bit of jealousy?" Manny batted her eyelashes, and Emma rolled her eyes.
"No!" Emma said, all too quickly, and cleared her throat, ignoring the smirk on Manny's face, "But if Sean's cheating on Ellie, I wanna catch him."
"You're so not over him," Manny said, and Emma shot her a look. "All right, all right. I take it back." She said, grinning as Emma rolled her eyes at her yet again.
"Come on," she said, jumping down from the chair and making her way towards the steps that exited her basement bedroom, "While I find out who that girl is, you can flirt with your precious Craiggy, since JT will never find out since he's still at camp."
Manny opened her mouth to protest, but smirked, hopping down from the chair and following Emma.
"Man, Cameron, your cousin is better at ball then you are!" Spinner shouted, and Sean simply gave him the finger while the other guys laughed.
The six of them sat on the edge of the side walk, drinking water, taking a short break from their game. Ronnie smiled smugly as Sean rolled his eyes, smirking. "I taught her all she knows! Of course she's good."
"Come down from the ego high, Seanie," Ronnie said, sticking her tongue out at Sean, sitting between Jimmy and Craig. "Should we do new teams? Since, you know, Spinner, Marco and I kicked all of ya'lls asses."
"You got lucky," Jimmy said, smirking as Craig nodded in agreement.
"So how about me, Ronnie.." Craig started, draping his arm around Ronnie's shoulder, "And Sean against Jimmy, Marco and Spin?"
Jimmy opened his mouth to say something, but Spinner jumped up, "You're on! Let's go, man. We'll kick your asses, even though we have a handicap." Spinner smirked, nodding towards Marco, who rolled his eyes.
"Uh, I think the game might have to wait, Spin." Marco stated.
"Why's that?"
"Because a certain blonde and brunette that our exes to Sean and Craig are making their way over here," He said, motioning behind Spinner.
The five of them raised their eyebrows, sure as hell seeing Manny and Emma walking towards them. Sean let out a groan, burrying his his face in his hands and Craig cleared his throat, slowly removing his arm from Ronnie's shoulders, who looked over to Sean giving him a confused look.
"Hi, Craig!" Manny chirped, and then raised an eyebrow, motioning to Ronnie, "Who's your new friend?"
Emma rolled her eyes at Manny, who elbowed her in response.
"She's my cousin," Sean said, glancing to Emma and then to Manny, "Veronica Cameron, Manny Santos and Emma Nelson. Emma, Manny, my cousin, Ronnie."
"Hi," Emma replied, dryly, and Manny waved slightly.
"Hey," Ronnie nodded upwards toward the two.
"So!" Spinner cleared his throat, trying to break the tension, "Nelson, Manny. You two up for some basketball? Manny can be with me, Jimmy and Marco and Emma can be with Ronnie, Craig and Sean."
"I don't think that's such a good id--" Emma started, but was elbowed by Manny, who was beaming from ear to ear.
"Sure, why not. Sounds like fun, right, Em?" She asked, looking over to the blonde, who shot her a look.
Sean gave Spinner a look, and so did Craig, but Spinner easily shrugged. Jimmy and Ronnie raised their eyebrows and looked on, and Marco just simply shook his head.
It was going to be a loooong, long night.
"Pass me the ball!" Manny yelled, jumping up and down, trying to get Marco's attention.
The basketball was knocked out of Marco's hand, and Craig took his shot, from half way on the court, and grinned ear to ear as the swish of the net was heard.
"That's game, right? So what do we do now?" Manny ran a hand through her hair, sweating, and gave Spinner a look.
Spinner smirked. He had to admit, this brilliant idea of his was actually brilliant for once. Sean was actually having a good time it seemed. Emma had loosend up and began to have fun, which suprised Spinner. Despite the fact Manny and Craig had last year's history, they were being civil towards each other. In a way, that is. Marco didn't seem to feel out of place. Jimmy, was being Jimmy, and was actually having a blast, and flirting with Ronnie, doing a graduatory lap around the drive way with her on his back if she made a good play. He had to pat himself on the back, he had done good. Did good. Whatever.
"Hello, earth to Spinner."
"Huh?" Spinner said, blinking. He looked over to Manny, his eyebrows raised, mostly at the look and the smile Manny had on her lips.
Wait.
What the hell.
Why am I looking at her lips?
"I said, what do we do now? Since this was your idea," She motioned to the rest of them. Craig and Marco were playing two on two with Emma and Marco. Jimmy and Ronnie were sitting on the curb, and both Spinner and Manny noticed Jimmy's hoodie that Ronnie was wearing, since it had gotten a bit cooler.
"I don't know. I'm not exactly sure what I was thinking in the first place." Spinner said, honestly, and ran a hand through his hair.
"I'm glad you did. You know, think of this."
"Oh? And why is that, Miss Santos?"
Manny grinned, "Well, just loook at them," she motioned over to Sean and Emma, "Emma and Sean are actually talking. I can't speak for Sean, but I know Emma has been like, totally heartbroken since they had that terrible break up. He hurt her, she hurt him. It's obvious that they need each other."
"What about Ellie?" Spinner asked, intrigued by Manny's whole analogy, glancing to Emma, who was laughing at something Sean had said, and Sean had a huge grin on his face.
"Ellie's been good for him, I'll admit that. But first loves are hard to get over," Manny stated, her gaze falling on Craig.
Spinner scoffed, following her gaze. "You're still hung up on Lord Stud, huh?"
"Maybe," she started, slowly, and bit down on her lip as her chocolate colored eyes burned into the back of Craig's head, "I mean, sure, I miss him sometimes. But, I have JT now. And it's good, really good." She took a deep breathe, looking back over to Spinner. "I'm over it."
"You're a horrible liar, Manny." His voice was emotionless, but he found it true. She was lying to herself, because everyone could see that lonely little girl Manny really was, and how much inlove with Craig Manning she had always been.
"Yeah, well. Sometimes lying is the only way."
Spinner simply nodded his head. The two were silent for a moment, and then the tune of "Girls" by Beastie Boys was heard, and Spinner pulled out his cell phone out of his pocket, looking to the ID. Paige. He was supposed to be with Paige. He silently cursed to himself as he saw Manny watching him, and opened the phone, putting it to his ear. "Hi, Honeybee."
Manny rolled her eyes.
"Where am I? I'm, uh." He paused, "At Craig's. We have to rehearse. Why? -- Because uhm, we might get a gig. Yeah, a real gig. Isn't it great-- no, I'm not lying. Where else would I be, sweet potato? Okay, I'll tell Marco to call Dylan. Hazel wants to talk to Jimmy? He's in the bathroom. Okay, love you too. Bye."
He shut the phone, and turned to Manny, his eyebrows raised at the smile, again, that was on her face. "What?"
"You lied."
"Huh?" He blinked.
"You lied to Paige. Why?"
Spinner never found Manny Santos attractive till her dramatic make over last year in grade nine. He had one in counter with her, and had knocked her over when he was in grade eight, made her cry, and he had never really been around her since. She was friends with Kendra, his little sister, and they had ice skating classes together, which Spinner would find himself watching her from time to time. But he was 100 for Paige. But he did encourage Craig's little fantasy of having two girlfriends at once, of him being 'Lord Stud', and saying Manny was "cute, adorable, like ice cream, but hot," and he was starting to realize that he, too, had found her attractive.
"Sometimes lying is the only way." He repeated her words, slowly, as she nodded her head in agreement, and found herself smiling up at him. He smiled back, and ran a hand through his messy hair.
"So how are things between you and Chris?" Sean had blurted out, as he and Emma stood on the drive way, shooting hoops together. Her face had fallen slightly at his question, and he stood, holding the ball, waiting for her response.
Being around Emma was awkard for Sean. One, he was use to her shooting him looks that could kill and ignoring him all together. That was she had done when he had been working on Mr. Simpson's car as of late. She was avoiding him, and he could tell, because everytime her parents had invited him inside for a soda or something to eat, she was nowhere to be found. He could hear the music blaring from the basement, or sometimes her voice talking on the phone, or the loud clacking of her finger tips hitting the keyboard. She always typed fast, furiously, he had noticed. Maybe it had to do with him being there.
The other reason he found it weird to be around Emma, was because he couldn't help but notice the fact that she had became goregous. He had always been that way to him when they were dating, but over the first month of the summer, her hair had grown longer, and she had bangs that were over her face, and he noticed the change in her wardorbe, which he figured Manny had something to do with that. Or she was dressing up for Chris. He rolled his eyes at the thought of Emma Nelson, the "prude princess" dating a wannabe DJ like Chris Sharpe.
"We broke up." She simply said, her eyes avoiding his, as the ball went through the net when he made a shot, and she passed it back to him.
"Oh," was all he could say. He started to dribble the ball back and forth, glancing into her eyes once in a while.
"What about you and Ellie?" She asked, and he couldn't help but notice how she had said his girlfriend's name - sharply and somewhat sarcasticly. She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, looking at him, and slowly crossed her arms across her chest.
"We're good." Sean said. And it was the truth. He loved being with Ellie -- his relationship with her was one of the only good things he had going for him after he and Emma split. "She seems to understand me," he found himself saying outloud, and winced yet again, seeing the blank expression on Emma's face.
"That's good. I'm glad you're happy."
You suck at lying, Emma. He said to himself, but decided not to call her on it. Instead, he nodded, and silence came over them yet again. He shot the ball and watched as it hit the rim, and bounced to Emma's feet. She picked it up, and stood next to him, throwing the ball into the hoop and through the net. He smirked, somewhat amused, watching her go and retrieve it. "Nice shot."
"I learned from the best," she said, and flashed him a small smile, and he chuckled.
Maybe things between them weren't so weird afterall.
"You guys want anything to drink? I'm suprised our fridge works, I didn't imagine Sean having half the place set up by the time I got here," Ronnie called as she made her way into the kitchen, Jimmy and Craig not too far behind.
"You got any soda?" Craig asked, as he sat down on one of the stools near the kitchen counter. Ronnie nodded her head, and swung open the fridge door, grabbing a coke and setting it on the counter.
"What about you, Jim?" Ronnie asked, leaning on the counter, and flashed him a small smile. Jimmy sat down next to Craig, and shrugged his shoulders, returning the grin.
"I don't know, suprise me."
"Soda it is," she laughed a bit, grabbing two more cans from the fridge and setting one down infront of Jimmy, taking her own and opening it, taking a sip. "So. Is this what it's like here during the summer? You all just hang out and play ball?"
"When there's not drama, yeah. Pretty much." Craig said, taking a sip of his soda as well, "That, and concerts, going to the beach.. that's pretty much it. And then back to the halls of Degrassi we go."
"Where drama is spawned and formed," Jimmy said, rolling his eyes, and Ronnie grinned.
"Is it that bad?"
"Nah, not really." Jimmy flashed another smile at her, and rolled his shoulders back. "Just be prepared for catty girls, fights between guys, cheating, lying, stealing and everything else you can imagine."
Ronnie let out a small laugh as she shook her head, "Sounds fun." Craig nodded his head as well, and they both watched Ronnie set her soda down and put her dirty blonde hair in a messy bun.
"So what else do you wanna do tonight, Miss Cameron?" Craig asked, wiggling his eyebrows.
Jimmy opened his mouth to say something, yet again, but this time was interupted by his cellphone playing the tune of "Jesus Walks" by Kayne West. Sighing, he dug through his pocket and pulled out the phone, reading the caller ID that had "Hazel" across the screen. "I gotta take this," he said, to Ronnie more than Craig, and walked down the hall, putting the phone to his ear. "Hey, babygirl."
"Jimmy? Where the hell are you? We had a date! And why are you whispering?" Hazel's voice yelled through the other line, and Jimmy winced, trying to think of an excuse that didn't involve 'hanging out with the guys, a hot girl and Emma and Manny.'
"I'm sorry, Haze. I'll make it up to you, all right?" He scratched the back of his neck, "The guys and are .. hanging out. Lost track of time. Forgive me?"
"Yeah, well. Just don't do it again." She said, slowly, "Call me later. I love you."
Jimmy raised his eyebrows, and cleared his throat, "Yeah. Later." He hung up, and put the phone back in his pocket. He made his way into the kitchen, and was suprised at the hurt, yet jealous expression that Ronnie had on her face. He sat back down on the stool next to Craig, and listened to the two start talking, noticing how Ronnie avoided looking at him.
She's jealous. He realized, and blinked. Jimmy watched as she laughed at one of Craig's corny jokes, and she touched his arm. Craig had that corny, dorky grin on his face, and Jimmy cursed silently to himself, taking another sip of his soda.
He needed to dump Hazel. And fast.
So, yes. Once again if owned Degrassi, Aubrey Graham and Jake Epstein would be locked in my closet. Cough. Cough. Maybe Daniel Clark, too. HEHEHE.
Chapter Four: Love & Basketball.
"You shouldn't wake him up."
"Why's that?"
"Because, it's like. Waking the dead or something."
"How would you know what waking the dead is like, Marco?"
".. Shut up, Craig. You know what I mean."
"No, I don't. That's why I asked."
"You guys, shut up for once, eh?"
"Sean's right, amazingly enough. Besides, he's getting drool all over my seat. Wake him up, Ronnie."
"Me!? Why me?"
"Because you're a chick. He won't kill you."
"Yeah."
"... You guys suck." Ronnie gave Jimmy a look, who grinned innocently and held his hands up in defense. Craig, Sean, and Marco all snickered. The five (well, four. Jimmy was driving, since they all wanted to go and get something to eat) of them all then looked to Spinner, who was snoring lightly, his mouth wide open, and a little drool on his chin.
"Aww, do I have too? He looks so cute." Ronnie said, smirking, reaching out to pinch Spinner's cheek.
Marco snickered, "If you think polar bears are cute, sure."
"Ooo, Marco. I'm telling Dylan." Craig said, grinning as Marco rolled his eyes and smacked Craig's arm.
"Shut up."
"OW! That hurt!"
"It was supposed to."
"Ass."
"Takes one to know one, dillhole."
"You guys fight to much," Ronnie said, laughing, and continued to poke and pull at Spinner's face.
"But Mommy, I don't wanna go to school. Paige'll eat me alive," Spinner muttered, shifting his weight around while he slept.
Silence.
The car then burst into laughter, Ronnie clamping a hand over her mouth and singaling them to quiet down. Sean supressed his laughter, snickering loudly, as Craig and Marco continued to crack up. Jimmy was obviously trying to hold it in.
"Don't we have to wake him up to know what he wants to eat anyway?"
"Man, Sean, Spinner's a garbage disposel. He'll eat anything."
"That's nasty." Ronnie wrinkled her nose in disgust, and the guys laughed.
The escalade soon pulled into a McDonald's drive thru, and they all ordered, and ended up letting Jimmy pay "since it was his car," Craig had said smugly, and Sean added on the whole 'since he's sucha nice guy' comment, causing Jimmy to almost hit him, but didn't when Ronnie patted him on the knee and thanked him, sipping on her coke. Jimmy had muttered a reply, shrugged his shoulders and kept driving, ignoring the laughter from the back seat.
Soon they pulled into Degrassi street, and into Sean's drive way, and they all piled out of the car, food (or, what was left of it) in their hands. Ronnie had the pleasure of waking up Spinner, and groaned, reluctantly sitting in the passanger seat, poking and shaking Spinner, who just mummurred incoherantly and smacked at Ronnie's hands.
"What's his full name?" Ronnie yelled out, waiting for a response.
"Gavin Reginald Mason," Jimmy said, smirking smugly, leaning against his car, watching Craig, Sean and Marco take Ronnie's bags inside.
".. Why do you guys call him Spinner?" She asked, cocking her head to the side with a raised eyebrow.
"He spins like a top when he doesn't take his meds," Jimmy said, looking over to Ronnie who gave him a confused look. He snickered, "He has ADD."
"Ah. That explains a lot."
Jimmy couldn't help but laugh. This girl was pretty cute. Ok, she was a babe. He couldn't believe this charming, witty and beautiful girl was a Cameron. She seemed to be so opposite from her cousin -- Sean was cold, an asshole if you got on his bad side, but his cousin was a sweetheart. He glanced over to her, smiling to himself as he watched her continue to pull at Spinner's face.
"GAAAAAAAAVIN!" Ronnie yelled in Spinner's ear, shaking his shoulders. Spinner jumped, falling backwards, and looked to Ronnie, wide eyed with an eyebrow raised.
"What the hell!"
"Good morning, Sunshine." Ronnie said sweetly, patting his mop of out of control cave-man like hair, and Jimmy burst out laughing.
".. You guys got food?" Spinner said, hurt, staring at the McDonald's cup that was in Ronnie's hand.
"Yeah. The guys ordered stuff for you, man. Sean put it in the kitchen." Jimmy said, and before either he or Ronnie knew it, Spinner had climbed out of the car and was making a mad dash towards the inside, pushing Marco out of his way as he came through the door.
Jimmy and Ronnie looked to each other, and started to laugh.
"Emma. What the hell is that?"
"Sean's radio," Emma Nelson replied non-chalantly, as she watched her best friend, Manny Santos, grab a chair and look out the basement window.
"What are they doing over there?" Manny said, "I can't friggin see anything."
"Gee, Manny, since when are you so interested in Sean and what he does?" Emma asked, raising an eyebrow as she glanced over to her.
"I'm not. I'm just curi-- is that Craig? And Spinner? Marco, Jimmy -- who's the chick!"
Emma let curiousity get to her, as she grabbed another chair, standing next to Manny as the two tried to see out of the window. "How do you know that's them? One, I can't even hear them over that so called "music"," she paused from what she was saying to do the air quotes around music, "they have on, and two, you can only see there feet. How do you know there's a girl?"
"You only reason you think it's not music is because it's what Chris listens too."
"Manny!"
"What? It's true. Anyway," Manny started, slowly, "See those black vans? I bought those for Craig during our whole little "one big happy family" stage before the abortion. And I figure the others are there because, well, they go everywhere together. And the yellow converses? Besides the fact they are kind of tacky and were out of style months ago, I don't think anyone but a girl would wear that color of them," She said, matter-of-factly, and Emma gave her a look.
"Who would the girl be?" Emma asked aloud, instantly regretting it as Manny gave her a smug smile.
"Why, Emma, do I sense a bit of jealousy?" Manny batted her eyelashes, and Emma rolled her eyes.
"No!" Emma said, all too quickly, and cleared her throat, ignoring the smirk on Manny's face, "But if Sean's cheating on Ellie, I wanna catch him."
"You're so not over him," Manny said, and Emma shot her a look. "All right, all right. I take it back." She said, grinning as Emma rolled her eyes at her yet again.
"Come on," she said, jumping down from the chair and making her way towards the steps that exited her basement bedroom, "While I find out who that girl is, you can flirt with your precious Craiggy, since JT will never find out since he's still at camp."
Manny opened her mouth to protest, but smirked, hopping down from the chair and following Emma.
"Man, Cameron, your cousin is better at ball then you are!" Spinner shouted, and Sean simply gave him the finger while the other guys laughed.
The six of them sat on the edge of the side walk, drinking water, taking a short break from their game. Ronnie smiled smugly as Sean rolled his eyes, smirking. "I taught her all she knows! Of course she's good."
"Come down from the ego high, Seanie," Ronnie said, sticking her tongue out at Sean, sitting between Jimmy and Craig. "Should we do new teams? Since, you know, Spinner, Marco and I kicked all of ya'lls asses."
"You got lucky," Jimmy said, smirking as Craig nodded in agreement.
"So how about me, Ronnie.." Craig started, draping his arm around Ronnie's shoulder, "And Sean against Jimmy, Marco and Spin?"
Jimmy opened his mouth to say something, but Spinner jumped up, "You're on! Let's go, man. We'll kick your asses, even though we have a handicap." Spinner smirked, nodding towards Marco, who rolled his eyes.
"Uh, I think the game might have to wait, Spin." Marco stated.
"Why's that?"
"Because a certain blonde and brunette that our exes to Sean and Craig are making their way over here," He said, motioning behind Spinner.
The five of them raised their eyebrows, sure as hell seeing Manny and Emma walking towards them. Sean let out a groan, burrying his his face in his hands and Craig cleared his throat, slowly removing his arm from Ronnie's shoulders, who looked over to Sean giving him a confused look.
"Hi, Craig!" Manny chirped, and then raised an eyebrow, motioning to Ronnie, "Who's your new friend?"
Emma rolled her eyes at Manny, who elbowed her in response.
"She's my cousin," Sean said, glancing to Emma and then to Manny, "Veronica Cameron, Manny Santos and Emma Nelson. Emma, Manny, my cousin, Ronnie."
"Hi," Emma replied, dryly, and Manny waved slightly.
"Hey," Ronnie nodded upwards toward the two.
"So!" Spinner cleared his throat, trying to break the tension, "Nelson, Manny. You two up for some basketball? Manny can be with me, Jimmy and Marco and Emma can be with Ronnie, Craig and Sean."
"I don't think that's such a good id--" Emma started, but was elbowed by Manny, who was beaming from ear to ear.
"Sure, why not. Sounds like fun, right, Em?" She asked, looking over to the blonde, who shot her a look.
Sean gave Spinner a look, and so did Craig, but Spinner easily shrugged. Jimmy and Ronnie raised their eyebrows and looked on, and Marco just simply shook his head.
It was going to be a loooong, long night.
"Pass me the ball!" Manny yelled, jumping up and down, trying to get Marco's attention.
The basketball was knocked out of Marco's hand, and Craig took his shot, from half way on the court, and grinned ear to ear as the swish of the net was heard.
"That's game, right? So what do we do now?" Manny ran a hand through her hair, sweating, and gave Spinner a look.
Spinner smirked. He had to admit, this brilliant idea of his was actually brilliant for once. Sean was actually having a good time it seemed. Emma had loosend up and began to have fun, which suprised Spinner. Despite the fact Manny and Craig had last year's history, they were being civil towards each other. In a way, that is. Marco didn't seem to feel out of place. Jimmy, was being Jimmy, and was actually having a blast, and flirting with Ronnie, doing a graduatory lap around the drive way with her on his back if she made a good play. He had to pat himself on the back, he had done good. Did good. Whatever.
"Hello, earth to Spinner."
"Huh?" Spinner said, blinking. He looked over to Manny, his eyebrows raised, mostly at the look and the smile Manny had on her lips.
Wait.
What the hell.
Why am I looking at her lips?
"I said, what do we do now? Since this was your idea," She motioned to the rest of them. Craig and Marco were playing two on two with Emma and Marco. Jimmy and Ronnie were sitting on the curb, and both Spinner and Manny noticed Jimmy's hoodie that Ronnie was wearing, since it had gotten a bit cooler.
"I don't know. I'm not exactly sure what I was thinking in the first place." Spinner said, honestly, and ran a hand through his hair.
"I'm glad you did. You know, think of this."
"Oh? And why is that, Miss Santos?"
Manny grinned, "Well, just loook at them," she motioned over to Sean and Emma, "Emma and Sean are actually talking. I can't speak for Sean, but I know Emma has been like, totally heartbroken since they had that terrible break up. He hurt her, she hurt him. It's obvious that they need each other."
"What about Ellie?" Spinner asked, intrigued by Manny's whole analogy, glancing to Emma, who was laughing at something Sean had said, and Sean had a huge grin on his face.
"Ellie's been good for him, I'll admit that. But first loves are hard to get over," Manny stated, her gaze falling on Craig.
Spinner scoffed, following her gaze. "You're still hung up on Lord Stud, huh?"
"Maybe," she started, slowly, and bit down on her lip as her chocolate colored eyes burned into the back of Craig's head, "I mean, sure, I miss him sometimes. But, I have JT now. And it's good, really good." She took a deep breathe, looking back over to Spinner. "I'm over it."
"You're a horrible liar, Manny." His voice was emotionless, but he found it true. She was lying to herself, because everyone could see that lonely little girl Manny really was, and how much inlove with Craig Manning she had always been.
"Yeah, well. Sometimes lying is the only way."
Spinner simply nodded his head. The two were silent for a moment, and then the tune of "Girls" by Beastie Boys was heard, and Spinner pulled out his cell phone out of his pocket, looking to the ID. Paige. He was supposed to be with Paige. He silently cursed to himself as he saw Manny watching him, and opened the phone, putting it to his ear. "Hi, Honeybee."
Manny rolled her eyes.
"Where am I? I'm, uh." He paused, "At Craig's. We have to rehearse. Why? -- Because uhm, we might get a gig. Yeah, a real gig. Isn't it great-- no, I'm not lying. Where else would I be, sweet potato? Okay, I'll tell Marco to call Dylan. Hazel wants to talk to Jimmy? He's in the bathroom. Okay, love you too. Bye."
He shut the phone, and turned to Manny, his eyebrows raised at the smile, again, that was on her face. "What?"
"You lied."
"Huh?" He blinked.
"You lied to Paige. Why?"
Spinner never found Manny Santos attractive till her dramatic make over last year in grade nine. He had one in counter with her, and had knocked her over when he was in grade eight, made her cry, and he had never really been around her since. She was friends with Kendra, his little sister, and they had ice skating classes together, which Spinner would find himself watching her from time to time. But he was 100 for Paige. But he did encourage Craig's little fantasy of having two girlfriends at once, of him being 'Lord Stud', and saying Manny was "cute, adorable, like ice cream, but hot," and he was starting to realize that he, too, had found her attractive.
"Sometimes lying is the only way." He repeated her words, slowly, as she nodded her head in agreement, and found herself smiling up at him. He smiled back, and ran a hand through his messy hair.
"So how are things between you and Chris?" Sean had blurted out, as he and Emma stood on the drive way, shooting hoops together. Her face had fallen slightly at his question, and he stood, holding the ball, waiting for her response.
Being around Emma was awkard for Sean. One, he was use to her shooting him looks that could kill and ignoring him all together. That was she had done when he had been working on Mr. Simpson's car as of late. She was avoiding him, and he could tell, because everytime her parents had invited him inside for a soda or something to eat, she was nowhere to be found. He could hear the music blaring from the basement, or sometimes her voice talking on the phone, or the loud clacking of her finger tips hitting the keyboard. She always typed fast, furiously, he had noticed. Maybe it had to do with him being there.
The other reason he found it weird to be around Emma, was because he couldn't help but notice the fact that she had became goregous. He had always been that way to him when they were dating, but over the first month of the summer, her hair had grown longer, and she had bangs that were over her face, and he noticed the change in her wardorbe, which he figured Manny had something to do with that. Or she was dressing up for Chris. He rolled his eyes at the thought of Emma Nelson, the "prude princess" dating a wannabe DJ like Chris Sharpe.
"We broke up." She simply said, her eyes avoiding his, as the ball went through the net when he made a shot, and she passed it back to him.
"Oh," was all he could say. He started to dribble the ball back and forth, glancing into her eyes once in a while.
"What about you and Ellie?" She asked, and he couldn't help but notice how she had said his girlfriend's name - sharply and somewhat sarcasticly. She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, looking at him, and slowly crossed her arms across her chest.
"We're good." Sean said. And it was the truth. He loved being with Ellie -- his relationship with her was one of the only good things he had going for him after he and Emma split. "She seems to understand me," he found himself saying outloud, and winced yet again, seeing the blank expression on Emma's face.
"That's good. I'm glad you're happy."
You suck at lying, Emma. He said to himself, but decided not to call her on it. Instead, he nodded, and silence came over them yet again. He shot the ball and watched as it hit the rim, and bounced to Emma's feet. She picked it up, and stood next to him, throwing the ball into the hoop and through the net. He smirked, somewhat amused, watching her go and retrieve it. "Nice shot."
"I learned from the best," she said, and flashed him a small smile, and he chuckled.
Maybe things between them weren't so weird afterall.
"You guys want anything to drink? I'm suprised our fridge works, I didn't imagine Sean having half the place set up by the time I got here," Ronnie called as she made her way into the kitchen, Jimmy and Craig not too far behind.
"You got any soda?" Craig asked, as he sat down on one of the stools near the kitchen counter. Ronnie nodded her head, and swung open the fridge door, grabbing a coke and setting it on the counter.
"What about you, Jim?" Ronnie asked, leaning on the counter, and flashed him a small smile. Jimmy sat down next to Craig, and shrugged his shoulders, returning the grin.
"I don't know, suprise me."
"Soda it is," she laughed a bit, grabbing two more cans from the fridge and setting one down infront of Jimmy, taking her own and opening it, taking a sip. "So. Is this what it's like here during the summer? You all just hang out and play ball?"
"When there's not drama, yeah. Pretty much." Craig said, taking a sip of his soda as well, "That, and concerts, going to the beach.. that's pretty much it. And then back to the halls of Degrassi we go."
"Where drama is spawned and formed," Jimmy said, rolling his eyes, and Ronnie grinned.
"Is it that bad?"
"Nah, not really." Jimmy flashed another smile at her, and rolled his shoulders back. "Just be prepared for catty girls, fights between guys, cheating, lying, stealing and everything else you can imagine."
Ronnie let out a small laugh as she shook her head, "Sounds fun." Craig nodded his head as well, and they both watched Ronnie set her soda down and put her dirty blonde hair in a messy bun.
"So what else do you wanna do tonight, Miss Cameron?" Craig asked, wiggling his eyebrows.
Jimmy opened his mouth to say something, yet again, but this time was interupted by his cellphone playing the tune of "Jesus Walks" by Kayne West. Sighing, he dug through his pocket and pulled out the phone, reading the caller ID that had "Hazel" across the screen. "I gotta take this," he said, to Ronnie more than Craig, and walked down the hall, putting the phone to his ear. "Hey, babygirl."
"Jimmy? Where the hell are you? We had a date! And why are you whispering?" Hazel's voice yelled through the other line, and Jimmy winced, trying to think of an excuse that didn't involve 'hanging out with the guys, a hot girl and Emma and Manny.'
"I'm sorry, Haze. I'll make it up to you, all right?" He scratched the back of his neck, "The guys and are .. hanging out. Lost track of time. Forgive me?"
"Yeah, well. Just don't do it again." She said, slowly, "Call me later. I love you."
Jimmy raised his eyebrows, and cleared his throat, "Yeah. Later." He hung up, and put the phone back in his pocket. He made his way into the kitchen, and was suprised at the hurt, yet jealous expression that Ronnie had on her face. He sat back down on the stool next to Craig, and listened to the two start talking, noticing how Ronnie avoided looking at him.
She's jealous. He realized, and blinked. Jimmy watched as she laughed at one of Craig's corny jokes, and she touched his arm. Craig had that corny, dorky grin on his face, and Jimmy cursed silently to himself, taking another sip of his soda.
He needed to dump Hazel. And fast.