This is the revised version. Thanks to loving-rat-in-red for telling me my mistakes. You see, I need to order a new keyboard for my laptop because to actually space I'd have to press the space bar twice. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Ch. 2 Cloud of Confusion
Ellie...
Standing in the front entrance of the park I waited for Ash to show up. Continuing my nervous habit, I began pulling at the elastic ban around my wrist and letting it go, feeling it sting my wrist. Dave hated Ash, though he told me with slurred language and a beer bottle in his hand. I doubt he'd know who I was talking about if I asked him today.
It was times like these where I missed the good old days…with Sean. I must have e-mailed him millions of time and sadly hadn't gotten a single reply or a simple reply yet. He probably has millions of girls crawling all over him and I'm stuck here in Degrassi with Dave and his gang of hoodlum friends. I had a great future alright, a future of failure.
"Ellie…" A way too familiar voice whispered behind my back. My eyes widened in shock hearing that voice. I had so many dreams of that voice and I was scared that it wasn't him. "Sean…" I whispered back feeling tears stinging at the back of my eyes. It was as if I was frozen in place. I couldn't speak. I couldn't move, though the tears began flowing down.
"Ellie…look at me…" There it was again, the voice of my lost love.
"I can't Sean. I-I-I'm scared that once I turn around you won't be there anymore." I could hear dry leaves and dead twigs crunching under heavy feet. Then he came into my view. He was almost exactly as I remember him. His hair was short with slight blond coloring in it and still slightly taller than I was.
"That's never going to happen. Not again." In an instant his arms were wrapped around my cold body and I threw my arms up to encircle his neck. The feeling was just so right. I had dreamed about this moment every other night since he left. For some reason I couldn't shake the feeling that I was going to wake up the next minute, in my bed, to find that this all was a dream.
"Hey you, rift raft! Get your hands off my girl!" A cold voice yelled. I knew that voice too well. I pulled away from the tight embrace I had with Sean Cameron to turn to the source of the voice. Sean didn't move though. He tightly held me close to him at my waist. Dave was standing there, glaring with eyes of daggers at Sean and me.
"Leave me alone, Dave. We-we're through. We've been over for months now." It was something that would have never left my mouth ever, without Sean by my side. He gave me strength and I felt the barrier of ice that had froze my heart for the past year slowly melting away. Dave looked furious as he strolled closer with a smirk on his face. As he came closer I could feel Sean's hold on me tightened.
"You heard the girl," Sean said returning Dave's intense stare. "I suggest you leave us alone, Dave is it?" Sean spoke with the least amount of fear in his voice, and I envied him for that trait of emotionlessly speaking to the enemy.
Dave let out a cry of disgust. "Ellie, I saved you after that bastard over there left you in the dust and at first sight you go running back like a scared and help less little puppy? You're more pathetic than I thought. What gave you the idea that we were through? Baby, we were just getting started." He smirked arrogantly as he grabbed her arm forcefully.
Sean left go of me for the first time since the appearance of Dave and grabbed Dave's wrist tightly until his nails were digging into Dave's skin forcing him to let go of my arm. An angered Dave threw a punch at Sean, who evaded it and jabbed Dave right in the gut. Sean shoved Dave with an emotionless expression plastered on his face. Watching Dave fall to the ground was the most fun I've had in years.
Dave bounced right back tackling Sean to the ground as the two began to really fight. I felt so bad, frozen there, just watching like, in Dave's words, "a scared and helpless little puppy." It seems that after the many years of separation I lost my voice to speak up for myself; someone else did for me.
"Hey, what's going on here?" Craig and Jimmy came running and pulled the two off of each other. Dave shoved jimmy off of him before turning back to coldly glare at me. "I'll make your lives a living hell, count on it." With that threat Dave took off, walking out of the park and around the corner.
"Psycho jerk!" yelled Paige, who was outgoing and confident; traits I surely didn't have. "Come on guys let's get out of here."
"There's the party at my place tonight. We could go over there and set up since we're playing tonight," Jimmy offered shrugging.
"Well, then I'll just go…um, Dylan has a game tonight…and he'd so totally hate me if I didn't go. Bye, guys, see you early Monday morning, the first day of school," she rolled her eyes and slightly waved at the bunch before turning and walking away.
"Come on, Ash," Craig said throwing his arms around her shoulders. "We'll meet you guys there. Hey Paige, want a ride!" Craig yelled as they took off in the direction they last saw her walking. There was an awkward silence as the rest of the group watched Craig offer Paige a ride and it looked like she accepted by her smile. Ashley pouted walking along with them, as Sean remained with a dark cloud of confusion hanging over his head. "What's going on?"
"I'll explain. Come on," I said pulling at his shoulder. "Bye Guys." The voices choired in as Sean and I began walking away. "Hey remember to stop by later! It's going to be the party of the year!" Jimmy yelled as a smile slip onto my face hearing the happiness in his voice. He had come a long way from the shooting. Due to his will to live, physical therapy and, good friends, and a miracle, Jimmy was on his feet again.
"So fill me in on the latest Degrassi happenings," Sean smiled, knowing how goofy that sounded. I laughed at his way with words as we toured down the streets like it was just an ordinary day.
"Well, for one, Dylan doesn't have a game tonight, Marco told me. Tonight at Jimmy's End of Summer party Spinner's going to play drums and after their break up Paige and Spinner just have been fighting and dating losers just to try and make the other person jealous. Then Craig started writing songs with Paige. Ash was pissed and so was Spinner. Now when Downtown Sasquatch features Paige Spinner doesn't play and when Spinner plays Paige doesn't sing."
"Talk about controversy," Sean commented. "And is Craig falling for Paige or what?"
I
felt disturbed by the thought. That would not go over very well with
Ash. "What gave you that idea?"
"Didn't you see them
singing together? I mean it just looks like they're hooked up or
something." I shrugged and wanted to drop the subject. Ash was
still, to this day, my best friend and it was just weird talking
about her sort of boyfriend and other best friend, Paige, "hooking
up." Then we strolled across a familiar diner. "Hey look, it's
the Dot. Jeez, the place still looks exactly the same." I was glad
he changed the subject.
My face dropped as I saw who was inside. I could see Sean was stiffening at the sight of these familiar schoolmates. Great, this was going to be a very interesting time. As we entered the dinner they saw us and we saw them with confusion on their faces. Interesting. Very Interesting.
