Chapter Three: It Was Your Best Line EVER

Ding dong. Sean got up from his living room, wondering who would be coming over this hour. His parents had moved back to Degrassi and were out on a date and he was really busy studying the moves of his biggest competitor. Jason Lake.

"Coming." Sean ran to the door and opened it to find himself face to face with Emma Nelson. "What are you doing here?"

"I was just seeing how you were. Since you've been back at Degrassi, you've been a stranger." She smiled, welcoming herself in.

"You weren't too warm when I came back so I didn't know that you cared." Sean answered, running his hands through his hair with a sigh. Emma Nelson now-a-days only meant trouble. And to think, he actually had real feelings for her.

"I know what you're thinking." Emma began, making herself comfortable on his couch and eating a couple of his chips that were laying on the table.

"When is she going to get the hell out of here?" Sean almost yelled as Emma put her legs up on the table.

"No. What can I do to get her back?" She smiled to herself, saying aloud what she thought Sean should be feeling. "I heard you were dating Kendra."

"Yeah. She's real genuine." Sean retorted. "So, what does it mean to you?"

"You don't have to pretend to like her because she's the closest thing you can get to me." Emma got up, circling around you.

"I'm not interested Emma. Kendra means more to me than you ever will." He shot back.

"Ouch." Emma pretended to be hurt. "Who says it's all about you anyway … You're getting a little too fat for me. And the sex wasn't that great anyway." She added, trying to cover up her own insecurities. "Maybe we should get Kendra's opinion on it." Sean looked away. "Oh you guys are waiting. How cute."

"Just get out of here before I say something I regret." Sean warned her.

"So Kendra is coming over here tonight." Emma smiled. "Maybe you should tell her to get lost … you know she might see something she doesn't want to." She continued.

"Look, Kendra isn't going to be here and you need to go." Sean gave in, opening the door.

"Thank you." Emma kissed Sean swiftly before walking out of the house triumphed. She and Ellie knew all they needed to institute their plan.

"Hey." Kendra smiled at Sean, surprising him as he opened the door surprised. This was his second interruption today, but he would prefer to see Kendra at his doorstep than Emma any day.

"Hey," Sean said letting her into the house as she hugged him tightly.

"Studying our opponents?" She wondered, sitting on the couch and looking at the video he had left running. "Wow, he's good."

"I know." Sean sighed, sitting beside her.

"But you can take him." Kendra added with a grin as Sean noticed that she had her hood on.

"Was it cold out there or something?" He wondered, pulling at the hood.

"No." Kendra giggled. "The real reason I came over here was because … I wanted to get your opinion on something." Kendra uncovered her once very long blonde hair was replaced by a short, deep red and black one.

"Oh my God." Sean whispered.

"Do you like it or … not?" Kendra wondered unsurely.

"It's a hell of a lot better than that blonde." Sean laughed. "It's perfect." He wrapped his arms around her taking in her scents and the beauty of just being with her. They hadn't made anything official yet, but being with Kendra was like a breath of fresh air after years of inhaling smoggy air. Actually, they'd been playing this game all along. The some times "friend" some times "dating" thing, but he had something that he really wanted to tell her. Kendra had been there for her and didn't treat him like some reject for coming back to Degrassi and when his relationship with Ellie crumbled to the ground, she was there to kick him in the ass so that he'd keep going.

"You hated the blonde?" Kendra wondered as Sean smiled in a day dream. "Why didn't you say anything?" She laughed. Her laughter was contagious. Everything about her was so … different from anything he'd ever had in the past. It was refreshing and worthwhile, which was why he wanted to tell her that … he loved her.

"I have something to say to you." He began out-of-the-blue.

"Uh-oh. Does it involve one of the exes?" Kendra shot back looking at Sean intensely.

"No. It's about me and you … Kendra, I think I lo--" His words were cut off by the sound of his house alarm going off.

"I'll go see what it is." Kendra stood up, heading to the kitchen before Sean could intervene. Immediately, she was forcefully hit in the head by a baseball bat and she fell to the ground with a thud.

"Kendra?" Sean saw her fall to the ground, also being hit once, but blocking the second hit.

In a fit of both chaos and confusion, Sean began to fight back against his attacker, going so far as to follow him outside as he continued to dodge baseball bat hits.

"I'll take care of it." Another attacker appeared, tripping Sean from behind and kicking him mercilessly, even as he crumbled into a ball. "That's for … all the shit you've put me through!" The voice yelled as the other attacker tried to get his accomplice to stop.

"What are you doing? Stick to the plan."

"Fuck the plan." Sean continued to be beaten until he could no longer fight back because he was no longer moving.

"Stop! Stop. I think he's dead." Silence followed as Emma pulled off her mask foolishly. "No he isn't." She muttered. "I'm not going to let that bastardget away with everything."

"He's gone." Ellie whispered, crumbling to the ground.

"No. I'm not done … I haven't gotten my revenge … I don't feel free." Emma started crying, reflecting on how she so stupidly ran back into Sean's arms when he'd returned to Degrassi. Since Ellie didn't want him anymore, she was a viable choice. And she so stupidly thought that sex was the way to prove her love to him so she lost both her virginity and a baby, to an abortion and thought about it everyday since. It was all because of him. "No." Emma whispered as Ellie held her tightly, trying to formulate a plan to get them out of this. She was not going to let them go down for something like this.

Knowing good and well that Sean wasn't dead, but merely unconscious, Ellie dragged his body back into the house, next to Kendra's doing the only thing that she could to make sure no evidence got traced back to the house.

"It was an accident." She whispered, watching the house go up in flames with a feeling of triumph. This is the exact freedom she had been looking for … no regret, no guilt, nothing …

(A/N: Just say something … I thought I had another chapter for you but I guess not. Review. –NL)

To come: a flaw in Ellie/Emma's plan, division among the two