The morning of the reunion was hectic. Sean and Manny kept running around the apartment, either looking for a shoe or a cell phone. Sean was in the middle of buttoning his dress shirt and trying to brush his teeth at the same time when Manny came running into the bathroom. She knocked right into him, spilling toothpaste all down his shirt. Sean looked down at his now stained shirt.

"Dammit." He said, grabbing a tissue from the holder. He wiped hard but it was no good, he would just have to change.

"Sean, I am so sorry!" Manny exclaimed, slapping her forehead in frustration. "Do you need any help?" Manny asked, taking another tissue from the box. She tried to hand it to him.

Sean held out his shirt in front of him and examined the stain. "No, that's okay. I'll just go change." He said, spitting out the rest of his toothpaste into the sink. He rinsed his mouth with water before going into his room to find another suitable shirt.

"God." Manny said, angry with herself. She picked up her eyeliner off of the counter and went back into her room to put on her dress. It was a black spaghetti strap dress, very low back, and had a very low cut swoop neckline. It was a little skimpy for a pregnant woman but it showed off her nice legs and it made Manny feel beautiful again. She grabbed a black pendant necklace off of her vanity and did the clasp around her neck.

Sean searched through his bag for another appropriate shirt. He found a light blue nice dress shirt and put it on quickly.

"Manny, we should probably go now!" Sean called to her from his room. He checked his watch again.

"Okay, I'll be right out!" Manny called as she bent awkwardly over to do the buckles of her strappy black heels. "Okay, I'm ready." Manny said, emerging from her room. Sean turned around and took a good look at her; Manny looked stunning. "Wow." Sean said. "You look amazing."

Manny smiled. "Thanks, but I look fat. No one can look good when their stomach sticks out this far." She said jokingly.

Sean snorted. "You don't look fat at all. You look like you're pregnant, which you are, so it is okay." He explained to her.

"Fat." Manny corrected him. She grabbed her coat off of the rack.

Sean laughed. "Haven't you ever heard that pregnancy is beautiful?" He followed her suit and grabbed his coat.

"Nope." Manny said simply. She laced her fingers around his and pulled him out the door.

"Wait a minute…" Sean said seductively. He kissed Manny…again…and again…

"Okay…we…really…need…to…leave!" Manny finally got out in-between smooches. Sean pulled her into a hug and they both laughed.

"Wow Manny, looks like you found a new guy!" Manny recognized his voice.

"Jimmy!" she squealed, letting go of Sean and embracing Jimmy.

"Hey girl, how are you?" Jimmy asked happily.

"Oh, I'm fine." Manny waved her hand. She didn't want to talk about her right now.

"That's great! Wow! You look amazing! I can't believe that you're having a baby." Jimmy said in an awed voice.

"Yeah, only a couple more weeks!" Manny replied, excited.

"So," Jimmy said, looking up at Sean, "who's your boyfriend? Introduce me!"

Sean smiled at being addressed. "You already know him." Sean said, coming closer. Jimmy stared hard, trying to recognize his face. Sean had pulled his shirt tail up and showed Jimmy his old shot wound. That should jog his memory, Sean thought.

Sean's smile reflected onto Jimmy. Grinning from ear to ear, Jimmy said, "Sean? Sean Cameron!" Sean nodded. "Man, how have you been?" Jimmy asked, practically bouncing.

"I've been good!" Sean replied, half laughing.

"I hope you've been taking good care of my girl here." Jimmy said to him, putting his arm around Manny. "Better than Sully at least. He was not good for her man. There were countless times when Manny came running to my parents place because he wasn't treating her right. Calling her nasty names and stuff like that."

"Jimmy." Manny said, backhanding him in the stomach.

"What?" Sean asked, looking at Manny.

Manny quickly changed the subject. "Sean, we should go. We're already late." She pulled away from Jimmy and put her hand gently on Sean's forearm.

"Oh, where are you guys heading?" Jimmy asked curiously.

"Ten-year reunion! So we will see you later, okay Jimmy. We'll hang out. Go to dinner or something." Manny said, taking Sean's hand in hers.

"Yeah, okay," Jimmy said, "I'll see you guys later." Jimmy walked past Sean and Manny to his parents' apartment.

While in the car, Manny was having some thoughts. Were she and Sean dating? They had not actually been on a real date so is that even possible? Had they gone straight past dating to a solid couple? He had admitted to loving her. That had to count for something. Were they moving too fast?

"Sean," she spoke up, "what are we? Like are we going to this as a couple or friends or people casually seeing each other?"

Sean contorted his face in thought. "I think that...we should keep it low key for now. You said that you didn't want people getting the wrong idea about you and the baby. But I guess if someone asks, we are a couple." He didn't really know how to answer that question without getting himself into trouble.

"Low key." Manny repeated. Did that mean that Sean was embarrassed to be seen with a pregnant unmarried woman? "Okay…"

"Manny," Sean said, interrupting her thoughts, "what was Jimmy talking about earlier? What did Sully do to you? You never told me any of this over the phone."

Manny's tone got a little nasty. There was ten years of resentment behind her answer. "Well I figured that it wouldn't matter to you, being so far away and all…I mean what were you going to do? Hop on a plane and come to my rescue? There was no point in worrying you."

That hit Sean hard. He tried to retaliate, "Manny, why would you think that I wouldn't care? How can you say that after everything we have been through over the years?"

Manny snapped back. "Well you didn't seem to care about what it did to me when you just took off and dropped all contact!"

Sean was surprised by her little outburst. "That's not true! I called you…"

"Yeah, like three years later! Sean, the damage had already been done."

"Manny…" Sean said, exasperated.

Manny cut him short. "I'm sorry. It's just when you think that you're friends with someone and that someone just takes off without one last word of goodbye to you…it hurts."

Sean shook his head. "Manny, I thought that you understood. I needed to leave. I was a stupid guy then anyway. The important thing now is that I'm here now. I promise, I'm not going anywhere anytime soon."

Manny smiled even though she was not thoroughly convinced.

Sean pulled into the parking lot of the Degrassi Community School. He felt old feelings rush back to him. They sat in the car, staring at the old front building.

"Sean? Sean are you ready?" Manny asked. Sean's face was set.

"Yeah, I'm ready…" he said, never taking his eyes from the building.