Okay my fellow Degrassi fans. I would just like to say that I am sorry that I did not finish my two previous fics. They just weren't going anywhere and I couldn't think of any way to end them. But I absolutely promise that I will finish this one.
Disclaimer: I don't own Degrassi and I probably won't start owning Degrassi while I write this, so I'm only putting this once.
Manny opened her eyes groggily and stared at the alarm clock that was beeping in her ear.
"I know, I know," she said. "Time to rise and shine."
She stepped out of bed and sighed. Her husband's side of the bed was empty, as it had been for the past three months that he had been dead. Ever since her husband was hit by a drunk driver, she still could barely get herself to get out of bed each morning.
Wiping the sleep from her eyes, Manny walked toward the shower to get ready for her job at the bank.
Miles away, Emma was still sleeping peacefully when her eyes shot open as she heard a loud crash right by her ear.
"Mommy! Look I can play the drums!" Lindsey, her daughter, yelled as she crashed the pot lids together again.
"That's nice honey, but Mommy is very tired and needs a little bit more sleep." Emma rolled over on her side.
The little girl trotted away, just as the phone rang.
"Great...the world is against me today," Emma grumbled as she reached for the phone. She picked it up ad said hello in a tired voice.
"Hey, hon," J.T. said.
"James," Emma said, sitting up. Where had her husband been all night? "Honey where are you?"
"Still at the airport, the flight got cancelled due to the thunderstorm."
"Oh," Emma said, with sadness in her voice. "Well, do you want me to try and get you a cab?"
"No, I think I should be able to leave in about two hours. But honey, you will never guess who I ran into at the hotel."
"Who?"
"Ashley! You know from school? Yeah, she was with Jimmy, they were just going home from their honeymoon, the lovebirds. Anyways, she asked if I was going to the reunion. And I asked what she meant, and it turns out that there is a reunion coming up. Our ten year reunion, can you believe it?"
"Oh, yes, that reminds me," Emma said. "I got an invitation in the mail. Remind me to show it to you when you get home."
"Alright. Well, I better go. I love you, you know that?"
"I love you too."
Paige walked up the steps to the Corpset building, her business. It was booming, and she had done it all on her own. Paige smiled as she walked through the glass doors and greeted all her employees.
"Oh, Toby, there you are," Paige said, stopping him by the arm.
"Oh, Paige hi," Toby said. "Hey, I'm so sorry to hear about your divorce."
"Don't be. We were so wrong for each other, and if it weren't for my moms persisting for us to be together, Jason and I would have never gotten married."
Toby didn't really know what to say to that, so he just smiled.
"Anyways," Paige continued. "I was wondering if we got that shipment of periwinkle cloth in?"
"Yeah," Toby said. "But it set us back about two thousand dollars."
"And when I make it into those gowns, it will put us forward even more."
Paige smiled and walked down the hall and up the elevator to her office at the very top of the building. She loved Toby (as a brother) but he was a very nervous man. He did a great job as Paige's money manager and with all the computers, but he was more worried about money than the clothes that Paige would make with the cloth that the money was spent on. Paige glanced out of her window and sat down at her desk to start sketching her ideas.
Spinner Mason walked to Sean's house with Craig at his side. Sean really needed consoling after Ellie's suicide a few months back, and so they were having a boys night and watching the hockey game on T.V.
Spinner rang the doorbell, grinning as Sean pulled open the door to his apartment.
"Man, I have two words. Chips and dip," Spinner said as he walked past Sean.
"Hey," Craig said. "How are you?"
"Sick of people asking that question," Sean laughed weakly and let Craig in. He still hadn't told them that he planned to move from Degrassi in a few weeks. It just held too many memories. But there was no need to tell them this now. Tonight, was boys night, and there was nothing to spoil it.
"So are you guys going to the reunion?" Craig asked.
"Yep," Spinner said just as Sean said no.
"Why aren't you going?" Craig asked Sean.
"Because everyone there will be giving me the sympathy look, and I will go insane."
"Look," Spinner said, while chugging down a coke. "You come with us, and I promise that you will have the best time ever."
"Well," Sean said, then stopped, there was no point in arguing. "Fine."
Paige sorted through the mail on her desk and found a letter addressed from Degrassi.
"Who from Degrassi would send a letter all the way from New York?" she thought. She had lost contact with everyone there, except for Toby and Hazel.
Reading the letter, she squealed with excitement. A reunion! She would have to plan what she was going to wear immediately.
Manny walked to her car to head home. It had been a long day. Three men had hit on her, she had messed up someone's account, and had been warned again by her boss that unless she started to act more responsibly, she would have to leave the company.
She drove home and opened the mail box.
"Hmmmm," she said. "A reunion."
Manny was going to throw it in the trash, but then remembered what the therapist had told her, how she needed to start moving on.
"Degrassi, here I come," Manny said.