Starting Over...Again.
Sean Cameron looked out his window at the sky; it was a deep red color because the sun was just setting. It was a Thursday night and he was getting ready for the next day in which he would packing all of his things into his 1967 Chevy Firebird and heading back to his old life in Toronto. He rolled over to the other side of his bed and took a look at his room; everything was either in boxes or waiting to be put into a box. He picked up a small box containing a scrapbook; he opened the scrapbook and started to flip through it. Inside were many pictures of him and Emma, ranging from their first date to the picture Emma was supposed to have given him but instead crumpled it up and then flattened it out in the book. It was originally Emma's scrapbook but at the end of grade 9 when they were cleaning out their lockers he saw her toss it into a nearby garbage can. After school was let out and nobody was around, he went back to the garbage can and pulled it out and shoved it into his backpack. He looked at it the he had retrieved it, but not once did he look at it when he and Ellie were going out. Then when the shooting happened, when they finally were allowed to go home, he pulled it out of his closet and took it into the bathroom and looked through it, slowly wondering what would happen if they bullet would have hit Emma. He had to hide it quickly though after Ellie knocked on the door asking if he was okay. Then after the weekend was over and they returned to school the following Monday Sean realized that everyone was now regarding him as a 'hero'. Sure, he didn't mind at first, but as the day went on he started to have doubts about why he was being called a hero. He eventually ended up in Mr. Simpson's room where Mr. Simpson asked him the question that he himself had been wondering. "Are you letting yourself deal?" He was going to answer him but was interrupted by none other than Emma Nelson herself. She was crying when she walked in, because she said everyone was looking at her everywhere she went. She noticed Sean and then pulled him into a tight hug, thanking him for saving her life. He didn't expect it and didn't know what to do, so he just pushed her away. Later after he had seen the interview with his mom, he stalked out of the room and went straight for the car, answering Jay's remark with "Move over, I'm driving," then asking Emma if she was "Coming or what?" They were in Wasega Beach within two hours. Ellie asked Sean if he wanted to calm down but he simply told her "I've been driving for two hours, I'm calm." Then he proceeded to knock on the door of the house that he had parked the car in front of which happened to be his own. After a fairly loud conversation with his mom, they went to the beach, where Sean had an almost louder conversation with Tyler Bishop, a kid that Sean had deafened a few years previously. After that they rented some jet-skis and Sean almost lost his life after stupidly getting onto one without his life jacket and flipping it, then after apologizing to Emma for everything he put her through last year, they went back to Sean's house. He told his parents everything that had happened during the previous week, and then walked back out to Jay's car. After telling Ellie that he was staying and saying goodbye to Jay, they left, without giving Sean the chance to say goodbye to Emma. Ellie had sent him his things within the next couple of days and in the very last box she had sent was the scrapbook with a note from Ellie reading: Here, I found this under the bathroom sink. And that was the last time he had heard from anyone. Sean put the scrapbook back in the box and closed it and then proceeded to finish packing the rest of his things because within the next 48 hours he would be putting everything into his car and heading back to Toronto to face his past.
