As the trail comes Emma starts to become confused with whats going on. She's supposed to testify against both Rick and Toby. She knows that what they did was wrong. But she wants to let them go. Give them a second chance. "Em are you almost ready to go." Her mom calls down to her room.
" Yeah mom I'll be right up" she walks upstairs and kisses her baby brothers head. " Morning everyone. So is it normal for me to be nervous about this?"
" It's perfectly normal for someone your age to be nervous about testifying about one of you close friends, but you know that you have to do this right Em?" Snake asked
" Yeah I know I'm just a little scared that's all"
Everyone looks at the back door as someone knocks, they realized it was Sean he wanted to walk over to the courthouse with Emma and talk to her.
At Ashley's house Jimmy, Paige, Craig and Hazel are waiting for Ashley to come down Craig went up stairs and knocked on her door. "C Come, in" She said in a voice that sounded as though she just finished crying.
" Hey sweetie are you ready to go? You look really beautiful… I know this is hard" He goes over and sits on her bed beside her, and puts his arm on her back " but you have to testify against your stepbrother and Rick. We all know they did it but you heard him admit to it."
She wiped her eyes " ok lets go get this over with."
They both walk down stairs and they all walk out to Dylan's car and realize that they can't all fit. Marco and Dylan are already at the courthouse. Ashley said that she'd walk and Craig said he would too.
At the courthouse everyone was there, new reporters, Joey, Snake, Caitlyn, Spike, Emma, Ashley, Craig, Sean, Manny, Spinner, Hazel, Paige, Jimmy, and all the faculty of the school. As the door opens everyone looks over and out came, Toby and Rick and their attorney. They walked over to the table and sat down. Never once did they look up. Everyone stands up as the Judge walks in and everyone sits down after the judge is announced. The first one up to the stand was Rick as he tried to plead that he was mentally insane. Toby then went up and said that he was guilty of only wanting to have friends and that his friend had no stability. Once Em went up there. She started crying due to the fact that she was scared and didn't really want to be there. She told the truth and answered all of the questions. Then Ash went up there and told her story, she started crying because she didn't want to say bad things about Toby but she had too. She explained about what he had said that day, and told the judge of the past that Rick has had at Degrassi.
After about four hours the judge finally ruled that they we're both guilty and Toby sentenced to a year and a half of Juvi. And Rick was to attend at least fifty meetings with a physiologist after three years in jail. Then court was dismissed. Everyone got up and left not a whole lot was said in the court room.