AN: Thank you for all the reviews!! Here's Chapter 12.

Lotsa love and R&R, degrassichick92

Chapter 12

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Emma sat on her porch swing, her foot propped up on the railing of the porch as she applied hot pink nail polish to her big toe.

"Hey Em," a deep voice said.

She looked up, "Go away Jay," she said and then went back to her toes.

"I wanted to bring you this..." he said holding out something.

Emma looked to see what it was, her purse.

"How'd you get that?"

"The police showed up at my house last night, brought it to me and my car, they caught the guy in Brantford," Jay said, clutching the purse and jogging up her porch steps.

"Thanks, just sit it right there," she said boredly, nodding her head towards the empty half of the bench.

Jay sat it down on the ground and sat down on the bench next to her, "Emma I'm really sorry about what you heard,"

"You would have rather had me never knowing what you put me through?" Emma asked, standing up.

Jay gulped.

"Go to hell Jay Hobart...go to hell," she said and grabbed her purse, stalking into the house and slamming the door behind her.

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"Hey Em," Manny greeted her on the phone.

"Hey Manny...you're not still telling Raditch are you?"

"Just give me one reason why I shouldn't?"

"Because I said so?"

"That's a great one..." Manny scoffed.

"Manny...just don't, besides it won't work without any evidence,"

Emma could feel Manny smirking on the other line, "Then we'll just have to make evidence,"

"Manny, no. You're not setting me up, sorry wrong number I won't,"

"Come on Nelson! Don't you want him to pay?"

"Of course I do, but not like this. Look, they're bigger problems I have right now other than Jordan,"

"Oh yeah? Like what? What is bigger than your rapist?"

Emma thought about Jay and Spinner, "Just things...I'll talk to you tomorrow,"

"Em-"

Click.

Emma leaned back on her bed and let out a long exasperated sigh.

Just then her phone rang again.

"Hello?" she answered.

"Hey Em," Hazel's chirpy voice said on the other line.

Emma wanted to cry...she knew she would crack if she talked to Hazel for long.

"H-hey, Haze," Emma stammered.

"You okay? You sound funny..."

"Oh, y-yeah...I'm fine,"

"Okay, so anyway, what are you up to?"

"Nothing, just the usual,"

"Can I ask you something?" Hazel asked.

"Sure..." Emma said, hoping she didn't ask about anything involving Spinner or Jay.

"Do you have a thing for Jay?"

Damn it.

"No!" Emma exclaimed.

"Okay, okay," Hazel laughed, "You guys just spend a lot of time together and today when he tried to talk to you, you acted really weird,"

"Because he's weird, it's like a reflex," Emma said, trying to keep her cool.

"He's kinda trouble Em, just wanted to warn you,"

"No reason to warn me, I know he's trouble," Emma said.

She could feel Hazel nodding on the other night, "Alright, just wanted to say..."

"I know," Emma responded.

"So, I guess I'll see you tomorrow then?"

"Yeah...see you tomorrow,"

"Alright, Paige or I will give you the wakeup call,"

"K, bye," Emma said and clicked off her phone.

It rang again.

"Damn it!" Emma exclaimed and picked it up, practically yelling into the receiver, "Hello?"

"Emma..." Jay's voice was on the other end.

"What?"

"I just wanted to-"

"If you so much as even think about apologizing to me again just forget it, it's not gonna work," Emma said and hung up on him and then unplugged her phone and turned off her cell phone.

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When Emma ran out to join her friends the next morning, she heard Matchbox 20's Bright Lights playing on the radio.

"Hey Em," Hazel greeted her from the passenger seat with a smile.

"Hey guys," Emma said climbing into the backseat.

"So, staying all day today?" Paige jokingly asked.

"Oh gee, no...I don't think it'll work," Emma joked and laughed along with her friends.

"So did you guys hear?" Paige asked.

"What?" both Emma and Hazel asked in unison.

"Well, Raditch knows that Rick didn't shoot Jimmy for no reason whatsoever, he knows he heard it from someone, and now he wants to get to the bottom of it...isn't that awesome?"

If Emma hadn't felt guilty before she sure as hell did now.

"That's great, don't you think so Em?" Hazel asked, turning to face Emma, "Em?"

"Hun, you're totally pale, you okay?" Paige asked, looking up at her through the rearview mirror.

"Em?" Hazel asked.

Next thing Emma knew, everything went black.

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"Emma?"

"Miss Nelson, are you alright?"

"She is gonna be okay right?"

Emma heard the murmurs of voices as her eyelids opened, she looked around, she was in the nurse's office at school.

"Thank god she's okay," Hazel said with a sigh of relief.

"Emma? How come you're not talking?" Paige asked.

"Is she okay?" Hazel asked.

"Emma?" The nurse asked.

"Spinner and Jay," Emma said quietly.

"What about them?" Hazel asked.

Emma stared at her with wide, saddened eyes, "Nothing,"

"Something," Hazel corrected.

"Rick... Jimmy ...shooting... Spinner ... Jay," all the words jumbled together.

Hazel's eyes widened as did Paige's.

"It was Spinner and Jay?" Paige asked.

Emma nodded warily.

"Oh my god," Hazel said, her hand clasping over her mouth.

"Mr. Raditch!" Paige called out, "Mr. Raditch!"

Emma placed her hand on her head: What have I done?

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"We have found the causers of last years shooting, the two are being taken away by the police and will remain in their custody until further notices..." Mr. Raditch's voice said over the intercom.

Emma felt horrible even though she shouldn't, she had told Raditch.

Paige, Hazel, Marco and especially Jimmy were telling her she did the right thing, but she felt awful...as if she had betrayed Jay.

Even if it was the other way around and he had betrayed her.

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"She told man, Nelson ratted us out!" Spinner whispered into Jay's ear from the police car.

Jay shushed him and stared ahead with wide eyes.

As they rode to the police station in silence, everything flew through Jay's head rapidly.

As soon as they stepped inside the police station one of the cops looked up at them, "You," he said, pointing to Jay, "go make your phone call, you only get one and you get three minutes," he said and jerked his thumb towards a phone sitting on a desk.

Jay stared at the phone for a minute before picking it up and knowing exactly who to call.
Emma Nelson.

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R&R! Lotsa love, degrassichick92