The Good Kind
By: Nicole Lopez
Summary: Emma and Ellie have been bonding, more than ever since Sean has gone. But it hasn't made anything better, only worse. Emma becomes an outcast in her own house, while Ellie tries to cope with Sean leaving. But then Ellie has a brilliant idea … they could go down to Wasaga Beach and make Sean see what he is missing. Then maybe Ellie will be able to admit that she loves him. But, worse comes to worse when antisocial behavior takes over… bad summary, but r/r anyway
OOC
Chapter One: Do You Wanna
"He robbed me of everything I had, tortured my soul. Left me in the rain to suffer forever more." Ellie began, the first willing person to read her poetry assignment aloud to the class. "And as I lie in the dark waiting for someone, I knew that it was not over. It was just beginning because this robbery … this desperateness became all I was." Her voice began to break.
"It consumed me and took away everything. Until I was no more, until we meant nothing. But we do mean something …"
Emma raised her hand, sick of listening to Ellie's woe is me act.
"Yes, Ms. Nelson?" Mr. Brown asked, barely letting Ellie finish reading the end of her poem. "You have a comment about the poem?"
"Actually I wanted the bathroom pass." Emma yawned as a few kids behind her snickered. "But now that you mention it … I find her poem pathetic and meaningless. I mean who wants to hear about someone's depression? Get over it." Emma stared at Ellie, waiting for a response.
"If I were a made of plastic, I wouldn't feel anything either. Tell me, what's it like to have everything in your life fit into your perfect Barbie world?" Ellie mocked Emma, saying things that she'd always felt towards her, but knowing at the same time, that she was the only one who …
"It's great." Emma answered, picking up the bathroom pass and walking out of the door as a few heads turned in her direction. She had taken notes from Manny and learned how to control a room, how to make everything be about her, but most of all, how to forget about the empty feeling inside of her that was telling her that something was less than perfect.
"Hey!" Emma smiled at Chris, who was gawking so hard that his once ex-girlfriend Melinda was giving him evil looks. Emma continued smiling, making her way over to Ellie who was off again writing in some corner, back to wearing all black as if she were in mourning. "Guess who." She sat down beside Ellie who barely glanced up. "You know you are supposed to be tutoring me."
"Not in the middle of the school day." Ellie looked around, noticing that they were the only two out there. "I'm surprised that you have time to talk to me. Shouldn't you be studying?" Ellie wondered, a little bitter about what had happened this morning.
"No. I don't need to study. You know that." Emma declared as Ellie reluctantly shut her notebook.
"What do you want?"
"Oh, so you're still hurt about this morning?" Emma smiled. "Don't be so sensitive hon. It's not like I meant it. We've both been robbed, remember?"
"I thought your life was perfect." Ellie shot back as Emma pulled her in for a hug.
"You can't really believe that I believe that can you? Huh?" Emma took Ellie's face in her hands, forcing her to look Emma in the eye. "I didn't mean anything by it." Emma promised, air kissing Ellie's cheeks and slowly walking away. Ellie's dark cloud was starting to depress her.
"Ellie, is that you?" Ms. Nash wondered as Ellie tried to hide among the shadows in the darkened house.
"Yeah mom." She whispered, knowing that her mother had probably been in that same spot on the couch for days now. But, it wasn't normal for her to actually acknowledge Ellie's presence. Ever since news had come that her father was missing in action, Ms. Nash had poured herself back into a drunken stupor. The fact that she even knew right from left was nothing short of a—
"Get me a beer, will you?"
"I've got work." Ellie yelled back, rushing up the stairs, almost slamming the door behind her. Instantly, she picked up the phone and dialed Emma's number.
"Hey. Evidently, I'm too busy to pick up the phone right now. I may or may not get back to you. Just call back later." Emma's answering machine picked up as Emma slammed down the phone. "Great." A few moments later, she picked up the phone again and immediately redialed.
"You can leave now." Emma told Chris, who had honestly thought he had a chance with her.
"What?" Chris looked amazed, still under the covers with Emma's half-naked body.
"Did you actually think it meant something?" She pulled out a cigarette. "Oh. Poor baby." Emma sat up, immediately applying some lip gloss to her lips. Her rendezvous with Chris had been less than pleasing and she was still plagued by that feeling of emptiness.
"You serious then?"
"No, I'm kidding." Emma stared at Chris. "Now get the hell out." As Chris hurried to gather up his clothing, Emma's phone began to ring. Taking her time to search for it, Emma ran her hands along one of her old drawers. Sometimes when her mother called herself cleaning up, she put everything out of order.
"Gotcha." Emma muttered, lifting the phone off of an old framed picture of Sean.
"Emma." Ellie began, sobbing quietly.
"What is it?"
"I don't think I can …" Her voice trailed off as she dropped the phone and picked up the knife she had stored under the mattress in her bed, just in case. This time, she was going to actually use it.
(A/N: I know this is a little confusing, but I'm trying to make some Degrassi characters fit into a mold with a movie I like to make fun of. I think it's going to be a "thriller" and it will be a little odd, but stay tuned.-)
