Sean was unpacking his light suitcase when Manny appeared in the doorway of his room.

"Hey." Sean said, acknowledging her presence.

"Hey. So how long exactly are you planning on staying?" Manny asked.

Sean stopped what he was doing and took a good look at her. Manny had a slight look of guilt about her. "Oh, don't worry, the day after the reunion I'll be on the next flight back to New Jersey." Sean turned his attention back to his personal items.

"Oh." Manny replied. Sean looked up again. There it was once again…that guilty look. Manny seemed to be thinking about what to say next. "Are you sure that you don't want to stay a little longer?"

Sean didn't really need time to think about that answer. "Well, no Manny, I don't want to be a bother. Why?"

"Nothing…it's just I was hoping that you might stay longer. You wouldn't be a bother, I like the company. But don't worry about it, it's no big deal." Manny said casually.

Sean thought about it. There really wasn't any rush to get back to his house. "Okay…like how much longer?" he asked as he unpacked Craig's old camera.

When no response came right away, Sean turned his gaze to her. She looked mildly embarrassed. "Manny?"

"Well," she struggled to get the words out, "I was thinking…more hoping, I guess, that you would stay until my baby is born. Of course you don't have to. I mean I don't want you to feel obligated or something because you shouldn't…it just would be nice to have someone there for me."

Sean now felt angry with himself that he had pushed her to tell him. Manny was right…he did feel obligated. But it wasn't really fair for her to ask that of him…especially when she just springs it on him like that. But Sean did not want to be rude and refuse. "Manny…"

Manny cut him off. By his tone she knew what was coming. "Sean, forget that I asked. Don't worry about it. I'll be fine by myself. I mean, I've done the whole pregnancy alone…so you don't have to stay for me."

Hearing her say that was a stab of guilt right in his heart. Sean picked up Craig's camera and started to fiddle with the zoom. He decided that something needed to be said, so Sean did the first thing that he could think of. Sean held the camera up to his eye and pointed it at Manny. "Smile!"

Right away Manny turned her back and started to walk away, waving her arms as she went. "No, Sean, not now, I look awful and fat!" Sean followed her across the apartment and got her cornered. He put his hands on her belly and felt the baby kick. He spoke softly to her.

"You look pregnant and beautiful." Manny liked the feeling of his hands on her stomach and was mildly disappointed when he took a step back. He held up the camera again. Sean captured a shot of Manny with both hands placed on her bulging belly. "Beautiful." He said aloud to himself. "Truly inspired."

"Hey, lets go out to dinner tonight!" Manny said. She seemed to have forgotten all about their previous talk. "You can tell me all about living in New Jersey."

"Okay great." Sean said, grabbing his jacket. They drove to a very nice Chinese restaurant.

"I'll have the vegetable delight." Manny said, handing her menu to the waitress.

"Yeah, so will I." Said Sean, following the suit.

Manny took a sip of her water. "So…what's it like living in New Jersey?"

"It's nice." Sean replied. "I like it a lot. I actually have myself a nice little cabin up in the country."

"Really?" Manny said, somewhat impressed, "I never would have taken you for a country type of guy!" Manny laughed.

Sean laughed too. "Well…what can I say…people change. You didn't expect me to be the same guy that I was in high school, right?" he looked over at her expectantly.

"Well," Manny didn't really know what to say to that, "I don't know I guess that I never thought about it really. I mean, the only Sean that I know was from high school. It's not like when you left that you really kept in contact with me. Besides this now I guess."

Sean looked down at his plate. She seemed to have a way of making him feel extremely guilty without even trying. But he needed to hear these things. Sean knew that he had hurt Manny and it needed to be acknowledged.

"Manny, I know that I didn't. I'm sorry about that. I just…I didn't want to have anything to do with Toronto or Degrassi anymore. I needed my space, I needed to forget about all the horrible things that happened there. Can you understand that?"

Manny nodded with every statement he made. "Yeah, Sean believe me, I know that it was hard for you but…what did I ever do to you? I mean, was I a part of that horrible history? I just don't think that I deserved to be cut off like that."

Sean breathed a sigh. She was good at countering him. "You're right. You never did anything to me. Manny, I'm sorry, I was a stupid kid alright? I mean I…"

Sean sentence faded off in Manny's mind. His lips were moving, but she could not hear a word. There was a slight twinge in her abdomen. She then heard him once again.

"Manny? Manny?"

"Yeah?" She replied, breaking her trance.

"Are you okay, you sort of look flushed."

Manny felt her cheeks…they were hot.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She waved it off.

There was something about that little twinge. As the dinner passed by and Manny continued to listen to Sean's overly repeated apology, the little twinge had turned into a frequent pain. Finally…

"Ahh…" Manny said, grasping her belly. Sean looked nervous.

"Uh…Manny? Manny are you alright?"

There is was again. "No." She replied through gritted teeth.

Sean jumped back in his chair. "Okay, time to leave now!" He hurried to Manny and helped her out of her chair. She had to be practically carried to the car by Sean.

"Are you doing okay?" Sean asked once they reached the car. He hurried around to the other side and hopped into the drivers seat.

"Drive!" was all that Manny said to him.

"Right!" Sean said frantically. Sean drove very fast to the hospital and was sure that he was breaking about fifty laws but he didn't care. The pain in Manny's stomach seemed to be growing.

They rushed Manny into the emergency room. Sean tried to accompany her, but seeing as he was neither the father or kin, he could not. Sean took a seat in the lobby.

Besides worrying about Manny, there were other things on Sean's mind. He had visited this hospital too many times and nothing good had ever come of it. Sean walked to the elevator and punched in the third floor. He walked down a very familiar hallway and stopped dead in front of a wooden door. He looked though the little glass window and saw a little blonde girl of maybe only ten lying in the bed. Sean traveled back in time fourteen years earlier to a day when he had been standing outside of this very door. That had been the last day that he saw Emma. A single tear glided down his cheek.