Who's that girl, where's she from No she can't be the one That you want That has stolen my world
Manny sat in her room staring at the wall, as she had been doing a lot lately. She couldn't get what had made Craig cheat on her. She thought she was the perfect girlfriend; she gave him all he needed. What was it that he got from the girl that he hadn't gotten from her? This was when she really needed Emma here to make her feel better. Emma always knew the best thing to say to make her feel better.
Manny felt like she was in some alternate reality, that she was Ashley and this mystery girl was she. Everything that she had done this girl did. The only thing different was that Ashley found out who it was, and Manny didn't.
Just thinking about it made Manny rage with anger. When she found out whom this girl was she wouldn't know what was coming for her. Pounding her fist on her bed saying, "Nobody takes Manny's man and gets away with it."
Manny jumped off her bed, and headed for the door. She was going to find out whom this boyfriend stealer was, and she wasn't going to stop until she found out whom it was.
As Manny walked towards the front door, "Where are you going?" Mrs. Santos asked.
Rolling her eyes, "To the Dot."
"Alright see you later."
"Okay, bye," slamming the door behind her. Maybe I'll ask around, someone has to know something, she thought.
It's not real, it's not right It's not day, it's not night By the way Who's that girl Living my life
Emma and Craig walked with Adrian up to her house slowly. They were both a little nervous to find out Joey's reaction when he saw them. They were worried about Emma's parents since they already knew about it.
Emma called her parents last night to tell them that she was coming home, that she was ready to face everyone again. They were so happy to hear that, this was an answer to their prayers. She asked them to invite Joey and Caitlin over because she wanted to see them. However, the truth was she was going to surprise them with Craig and their grandchild, Adrian.
As they approached the door, Craig looked at Emma, "This is it." He took a deep breath, and then knocked on the door.
As she opened up the door, "Emma you don't have to knock." Spike had a surprised look on her face as she saw what was before her. She hadn't expected to see what she saw.
Emma looked at her mom funny, "Aren't you going to invite us in?"
"Of course dear," getting out of their way so they could make their way inside.
"Why…." Spike began to speak before she was interrupted.
As Angie came into the living room from the kitchen, "Spike is Emma….." she noticed someone, "Craig," and ran right into his arms.
Kneeling down by Angie, "I missed you too!"
"Why did you go in the first place? Daddy was real upset, but also so sad."
"That's why I'm here, to tell him. Where is he?"
"In the kitchen with Archie," Angie answered.
Looking at Emma, "Well I guess there's no time like the present."
"I'll go get them," Spike said, heading into the kitchen.
"Whose baby is that?" Angie asked.
Before any of them were able to answer that the adults returned, Joey came right over to Craig and hugged him, "Craig, you're back!" He still was angry with him, but was not the time to get into it.
"Yeah."
Then Joey noticed a baby in Emma's arms, "Am I missing something, whose baby is this?"
"Emma and mine," Craig said.
His eyes widened at that point, was he losing his mind or did he really hear what he think he did. "Excuse me."
"Emma and I started having an affair when Manny went away last summer. Once Emma found out she was pregnant she took off in hopes of not ruining my life, so that I could be with who she thought I loved."
"I can't believe this," he all of sudden felt dizzy. This was so much to take in one day. He would have never expected to hear this. How had they been all blind to not notice that something had been going on between the two? "So is this where you took off to without even telling me?" he said with a harsh tone.
"Yes…"
"Wait a minute," Archie said, "How did you find out where Emma was if Spike or I didn't give you the address?"
Feeling somewhat ashamed of how he did it, but he thought it was worth it though, "I…kind of sat here waiting by the house for the mail in hopes that Emma would leave her address on your mail. I told you guys that I was falling for her, there was no way I was going to sit here and not find her, especially when she was having my kid."
"We were just respecting Emma's wishes," Spike walked over to him, putting her hand on his arm, "But we're glad that you were able to get our daughter to come home. Speaking of children who may we be welcoming into the family?"
Emma unwrapped his blanket off him so everyone could see him fully him, "Meet Adrian Craig Manny." Looking down at Angie, "Meet your little nephew."
"Aw he's so cute," Angie replied as she walked a little closer to him.
Seems like everything's the same around me When I look again and everything has changed I'm not dreaming so I don't know why I don't know why I don't know why
Manny walked to the Dot, she wanted to know how her life did a complete 180 in a matter of months. She never would have seen the break up coming. To her everything seem so perfect, yeah he seemed a little distracted at times their last few months together, but she didn't think anything of it.
Manny and Craig were sitting in the garage after band practice. He was writing down stuff on his notepad, not listening to what Manny was telling him.
"Craig…Craig, are you listening?" Manny yelled, annoyed that he was not listening.
"Sorry, I was just writing a new song. I had an inspiration; I just had to get it down."
"Oh I'm glad that I inspire you so much," she gloated.
Craig rolled his eyes, knowing that this wasn't anything to do with her. Giving a fake smile, "Yes of course."
Getting off her seat, she went and sat on Craig's lap facing him. She took the notepad out of his hands and threw it across the room. "Now that's better, you can spend the rest of the night focused on me."
Shaking his head, "Is that so," acting like a smart ass.
"Yes of course," she grinned. She leaned in and began nibbling on his ear, making it hard for him to resist. He roamed his hands all over her body.
This is what he loved about being her boyfriend; she always gave him what he wanted. Then he began to think of Emma, and how she just left him. No, he couldn't think about that, she was gone and he had someone right in front of him who he loved.
"I should have seen the signs then, I just didn't want to," Manny said. "I hope this girl's ready for a fight because nobody makes a fool of me and gets away with it."
Who's that girl, where's she from? No she can't be the one That you want, that has stolen my world
"Craig what do you and Emma planned to do now," Joey asked. He wanted to know their plan since they got themselves in this mess.
"Well Emma's going to stay with her parent's for a while until I'm finished school and able to get a job. Right now I will help her out when I'm not at school."
"I just hope you two realize that this is going to be a hard at timed. Having a child isn't the easiest," Archie said.
"We know, but together we will be able to do it," Emma replied, squeezing Craig's hand.
"Have you two told Manny yet?" Spike asked.
"No," Emma said.
"Because it won't be long before she finds out and figure's it all out. I think it would be better for her to hear it from you two then someone else."
"Yeah I know, but I'm just afraid what she's going to think about me afterwards," Emma said, as tears ran down her face.
"I know Hunny, but it has to be done."
Looking at her lap, saying softly, "I know." She just remembers how much Manny had trusted her word when it came to anything, especially Craig.
Emma answered her phone, it was around 10pm. And she was sitting on her bed with Craig next to her. "Hello."
"Hey Emma," she said with a sad tone to her voice.
"What's wrong?"
"Oh, I thought Craig would call tonight, we had a little fight this afternoon. I tried phoning his house to apologize but he's not there. And Joey says he hasn't seen him all day. Do you think he just got Joey to say that because he never wants to talk to me again?"
"No Manny, he probably taking time to cool off, and even taking some time to figure out the perfect way to make it up to you," smiling at Craig beside her.
"You really think so?"
"Yes, come on Craig loves you."
"Thanks for making me feel better."
"You're welcome," putting down the phone. Turning to Craig, "Now where were we?"
Leaning in, "Right about here," he said kissing neck.
It's not real, it's not right It's not day, it's not night By the way, who's that girl Living my life
Emma and Craig walked down to the basement with Adrian in his car seat. Craig put him on the floor, jokingly said to him, pointing at the bed, "This is exactly where you were made."
Emma picked up a pillow and threw it at Craig, yelling, "Craig! You don't need to be telling our son that."
Laughing, "Oh come on, it's not like he can really understand." Giving her the puppy eyes, "Will you forgive me?"
Slowly walking over to him, "You know that I can't resist you, especially when you do that."
Raising both his brows, "I know," pulling her into his arms. Slowly leaning into her for a kiss, she leaned back causing them to fall to the bed without breaking their kiss.
Emma broke the kiss, "We really need to tell Manny."
"Yeah I know, but can't we wait a few hours until we're finished our little make out session since that's all we can do right now," he pleaded.
"Alright, but it has to be today," standing firm on the idea.
"Yes," he smiled, before leaning back into her.
I'm the one who made you laugh Who made you feel, who made you sad I'm not sorry For what we did, or who we were
Manny thought that maybe Joey would know something, when she noticed his car at the Simpson residents. "Perfect, today is my lucky day."
She walked up the path to the front door. She hesitated for a second, she felt a little rude coming to their house when she didn't want to talk to either them, but it had to be done if she was going to get to the bottom of this. Why hadn't she done this when she found out instead of wasting time?
Manny knocked only to have Angie answer the door, smiling away as she always did. "Hi Angie," she smiled.
"Hi Manny."
"Where's everyone?" curious to know why she answered the door to Simpson house.
"They're in the kitchen, having a big talk."
"Oh I guess I'll come back later," turning back to go out the door.
"Did you come to see Emma?"
"Emma, she's back!" stunned by her question, had she finally come back. Oh, she could defiantly help her out with this. She didn't' even wait for Angie's response she went straight towards Emma's room. She could hardly wait to see her!
Manny walked down the stairs, Craig and Emma were too much into their own little world to hear the stairs creek. As she reached the last step, she was greeted with a big surprise, a surprise of her best friend and her ex making out. Rage came upon her, "What the heck is going on?"
They both jumped apart at the sound of her voice. They couldn't believe that she was standing right before them. They didn't want her to find out this way.
"I'm going to ask again, what's going on?" she was hoping this was all a nightmare, it had to be Emma would never do this to her.
"We can explain," Emma said.
"No I don't think you can, because my real best friend would never do this to me," she sneered.
"We never meant for this to happen, it just started as a summer fling, but we just could stop. I never wanted you to find out."
"Then why did you come back," she yelled.
She caused Adrian to wake up and start screaming his lungs off. Emma went over to him, and picked him up, "Shhh, its okay Adrian."
Craig cut in, "She wasn't going to come back until I convinced her to."
"Oh so that you could be a happy little family," she mocked. "Looks like you got what you always wanted Craig, a perfect little family."
"It's not like we planned it this way," Emma said.
"Just like you never planned to seduce my boyfriend."
"Oh you're one to talk about that," Emma yelled.
"Yeah but at least Ashley wasn't my best friend. Well I hope you enjoy your time with Craig because before long he'll get bored with you and move on to another chick."
"That's enough you two," Craig yelled. "I'm sorry Manny I never meant to hurt you like this, like I've done to someone else in the past. However, with Emma, it's so much different, I've actually opened my whole self up to her, unlike my past relationships.
"Why my best friend, of all people?" she cried.
"I don't know there was just something about her that made me want to do it. I know I did it the wrong way and all. But I can't say that I regret it because otherwise I wouldn't have Adrian."
This was too much for Manny to take; she couldn't hear it any longer. This was worse than if the girl was anyone else. She ran up the stairs and right for the front door, slamming it shut right behind her, shaking the whole house.
I'm not sorry I'm not her Who's that girl, where's she from? No she can't be the one That you want, that has stolen my world
Manny ran down the street with tears running down her face. She should have expected this, it was somewhat funny that Emma all of sudden decided to leave without saying good-bye. All of it made sense now. The many times that Craig and Emma had spent together without her.
She and Craig had broken up months ago, yet she still hadn't gotten over the pain of the broken heart. It was like finding out about his betrayal all over again. Finding out that it was her best friend seemed to make the pain in her heart even worse. She didn't think she would be able to trust anyone ever again.
Emma had stolen everything right from underneath her. The life that Manny always imagined she would have with Craig. Yeah she knew a while ago that she and Craig weren't going to be together, but it still hurt to see this all being played out right in front of her.
It's not real, it's not right It's not day, it's not night By the way, who's that girl Living my life
Emma sat on the bed crying, she knew that this was going to happen, it was the whole reason she was scared to come back.
Craig hated to see her this way; it hadn't been all of her fault. He sat down right beside her, putting his arm around her, "Em I'm sorry."
Leaning into his chest, "What did I expect, for her to just except it and be happy for us? I must be living in some fairy tale or something."
"No you just didn't want to lose a best friend you've had since childhood. But we can't help who we fall in love with."
"I know, and now that I've been in love with you, I can't imagine life without it," she said trying to smile.
"I believe things will get better with time," he tried to convince her, not so convinced himself though.
"I hope you're right," putting her arms around him, pulling him into an embrace.
