Thoough the last bell had rung, school wasn't over for Sean. He had to spend half an hour in the M.I lab just to try and catch up to where the class was up to in the lesson plan. Half an hour wasn't enough time, but Mr. Simpson only had half an hour to attempt to review everything Sean had missed.

As Mr. Simpson waited for Sean to enter his classroom, Emma walked into class.

"Em, hey... I never got your essay." Mr. Simpson said calmly, in a good mood.

Emma put her backpack down, "Right...." Emma had completely forgotten to do it, "It's an essay on Media Immersion. Why don't you just quiz me right now, or i can just tell you my essay now." She tried to excuse her incomplete assignment.

Snake sat on his desk and folded his arms, "You didn't do it." He paused as he gave Emma a look, a teacher look, "You've had so much time to go out, and you haven't got the time to write a two page, double spaced essay on something you know extremely well." He was disappointed in her.

"On M.I... who really cares?" Emma didn't like the fact that he was being an authority figure over her, "dad."

"What's with the attittude? Maybe your mom can tolerate it, but I'm not. You have the assignment tomorrow, on my desk. And if there's anymore late assignments then your grounded." Snake retorted.

Just then Sean entered. Emma didn't notice since her back was to the door.

Emma rolled her eyes, "Fine." She paued, "I'll have it for you... tomororw, Mr. Simpson." She empasized the Mr. SImpson part as she spoke. Sean put his back in the seat next to him and Emma finally noticed she wasn't the only one in the classroom talking to Snake anymore.

Sean had no idea what was going on, and didn't really understand Emma's attitude, "Should I go?"

Snake got up from his desk, "No, your right on time. And you WILL be caught up with the rest of the class. If you fall behind, you can thank Emma."

"What?" Emma turned quickly to Snake.

"Emma, you'll be spending the next 45 minutes helping Sean on ever lesson he's missed since he left. I expect this to be good... you'll get some extra credit points for this, that way your grades don't fall to far down." Snake was annoyed, but he was an adult and he knew he had to stay calm.

Emma turned and looked at Sean sitting down at the first computer station. She slowly walked over to the seat next to him and sat down.

Sean turned to Emma and broke the silence, "Hey." He smiled. When he smiled, Emma couldn't help but smile back. There was this good energy coming from Sean. He was different. Maybe he wasn't completely different, but there was a content vribrant feel when you were around him.

Mr. Simpson glanced over at the two once, after he saw Emma smiling heleft the classroom to go to the faculty lounge. This was probably the first time he'd seen Emma truly smile in a long time.

30 Minutes passed by. Who would have known that Emma did spend her time teaching Sean all the things he missed instead of trying to catch up with each other.

Sean was bored of learning, "How are you?"

Emma took her eyes off the computer and looked down at her hands, "I'm fine." She looked up at Sean, "How are you?"

He nodded, "Fine." Sean looked at the computer, "You know I'm not going to remember half of this, right?" He smiled.

Emma laughed. They both began to laugh, "It's the truth." Sean laughed along with her.

Mr. Simpson entered the classroom again, "So... how's it going?"

"Emma's a genius." Sean said as he leaned back into his chair. Emma smiled as she watched him lean back.

Mr. Simpson smiled as he watched Emma focusing her attention on Sean. He could tell that she was happy. Maybe it was a temorary feeling, but for the first time in months, Emma looked normal again.

Mr. Simpson began to say something, "So Sean... what are your plans for today?"

Emma knew where he was getting at. She knew he was going to invite Sean to dinner. She couldn't let that happen, "I'm sure he's busy... and plus, I'm going over to JT's... he wanted help for the spring play. Since Dracula's done... you know."

Sean focused his eyes on Emma. He remembered the conversation he had just had with JT. JT said that he hasn't hung out, nor talked, to Emma in a very long time.... but WHY would Emma lie? He didn't want to read much into this because he didn't want to over-analyze the situation. There was a chance that JT could be wrong. But he could also be right, Sean thought.

Emma got up and left the room. Sean hurried to catch up with her. He came up from behind her and they were walking side by side. She turned her head to him and smiled.

"You've been a lot of attitude today." He said curiously. He felt like they were out of their awkward welcome back stage.

Emma stopped smiliing, "Yeah. Grades slipping. But lifes ok."

Sean looked at her, "You sure you're ok?"

Emma didn't know where Sean was trying to go in this convo, "What do you mean am I ok? I would know, right? I'm Emma...."

"Yeah." He wanted to change the subject, "Do you want to hang out?"

Emma stopped walking and looked at Sean.

Sean looked at her confused, "No strings...."

Emma didn't want to say no, "I can't. I'm going to JT's remember?"

Sean nodded in agreement. He wanted to believe her, but he didn't know what to think. He'd been at Degrassi two seconds and he had no idea whether rumors were true, or if it was just Degrassi making life more complicated than it had to be.

Later that night, Sean was sitting in his new apartment. His parents had it leased for him. They were on good terms now, but his parents stayed back at Wasega because it was their home. Degrassi had become Seans new home and they knew he belonged there. He wanted to be at Degrassi. He decided to go out for a walk... coincidentally he found himself at the Ravine. Sean knew what went on at the Ravine during the hours of the night, so this wasn't a surprise for him. He had actually come up here once, while he was dating Amy. Unfortanately that was the night Amy broke up with him. They didn't do anything in the Ravine - this was just her dumping place. Sean walked around not really knowing what he was looking for. He stood around the bonfire for a moment and then turned. He saw Jay coming out of a black van so he started to walk towards Jay. Jay didn't see Sean in sight anywhere, but he wasn't looking for him in the first place.

Jay came out ofthe van first. He looked around a bit before he completely opened the van door. He wasn't necessicarily trying to protect Emma, but he was trying to conceal her from anyone's eye because he knew if anyone found out then this rendevous with Emma wuld end. Emma came out of the van. Sean stopped walking towards them. He was in good distance from them, they could all see each other at this point - but the only one seeing anything was Sean. He stood shocked.

Jay and Emma were standing close to each other whispering something. Jay laughed, looking up and saw Sean. HIs smile vanished and Jay looked at Emma and back at Sean. Emma turned to see what Jay was looking at.

Sean wasn't 100 going to believe what he saw so he walked up slowly to the two.

Jay was the first to speak, "Cameron, hey."

Sean's eyes never came off of Emma's wrist. He saw the bracelet. Sean knew exactly what that meant. He looked at Jay and glared at him for a moment. He looked back down at the bracelet.

"Guess we're found out." Jay smirked.

Emma's face grew freightened by Jay's clamness about the situation. She quickly slid the bracelet as easily as she could, but it looked like she struggled a bit just to get it off. It fell to the ground. Jay stared at Emma in confusion.

Sean slowly turned in disappointment and anger all at once and began to walk away. He left speechless. Not one word. All that Emma and Jay were left with was the impact that Sean felt he made a mistake by coming back. Emma took a step towards him but she didn't know if she was allowed to follow him. Sean's pace grew faster and his strides grew longer. He didn't know how to feel. Emma wasn't his girlfriend, but she was still Emma. He didn't know if he could be angry, or if he should be hurt or what?

Jay tried to grab Emma's arm to talk her but she flinched as if it were the touch of death. Her eyes filled with tears and she didn't know what to do. She was horrified. Not only did she feel regretful, but she felt like she had taken the wrong turn and she had no way to get back. She was freightened beyond belief. She didn't even take one last look at Jay before she instantly ran. But after Sean? That was something none of them knew. Emma was running....that was all that mattered.

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