Let's talk this over
It's not like we're dead
Was it something I did?
Was it something I said?
Emma wouldn't leave her room the next few days she was too depressed. She had known that it probably come to this, but she at least thought she would be able to break it to her, not have her walk in on Craig and her.
She saw a photo beside her bedside of her, Manny and JT when they were still in elementary school. They had promised that they would never let anything get between them. Oh how wrong they all were.
JT, Emma, and Manny sat on the swings at their elementary. It was after school, but they didn't feel like going home quite yet.
"It's weird to think that in September we'll be in junior high," Manny said.
"I know, but it's kind of exciting," Emma replied, thinking of all she could do when she got there.
"I don't know about you two, but I planned on making sure all the babes know who I am," JT spoke up.
Both of their girls just laughed at him, not saying anything else.
"What?" he asked, not seeing what was so funny.
"It's just we really don't think that you're too smooth with your words, we kind of find it hard to think that all the girls will be falling for you," Emma said politely, trying not to start laughing again.
"You laugh now, but just wait until then. Then when I'm popular, I'll pretend that I don't even know you two," JT said, trying to convince them.
"Emma, what if once we get to junior high, something happens, and we're no longer friends?" Manny asked, worried that something would wreck their friendship.
"Manny, that's never going to happen because friendship is more important than anything else. I mean there's nothing I would want more than my friendship with you two," Emma said, hugging her.
"I agree, we'll all be best friends forever," JT replied, joining in on the hug.
Oh, how wrong had they all been. JT had left them to be with his girlfriend, who didn't like Manny and Emma. Leaving it just the two of them, and then Emma slept with Craig, beginning an affair. The only one who had stayed true to their pact was Manny.
Manny never deserved to have anything like this happen to her. She had been there for Emma whenever she had needed her, and all Emma did was stab her in the back.
"I'm so…sorry Manny," Emma cried.
Don't leave me hangin'
In a city so dead
Held up so high
On such a breakable thread
Craig sat upstairs with Adrian on his lap, he had tried all he could to get Emma to leave her room, but none of it would work. She refused, and told him to leave her alone. She was beginning to push him away.
He didn't want to lose her all over again, he had waited too long to be with his family again.
He needed to get out of the house, to clear his head. He grabbed the stroller and put Adrian in it, and headed outside, but not before leaving a note for Emma just in case she came upstairs to find them gone.
"Adrian, I hope you never have to go through any like this, because it's never fun," Craig stated.
Craig walked all the way to the Dot, but wasn't sure he even wanted to go in, knowing that most of his friends weren't happy with him right now. By now, they had probably heard of his son, Adrian, and the mystery girl being Emma. However, he was going to have to face them sometime, it was better to get over it now rather than later.
As he walked in, he felt like all eyes were starring at him. Adrian began crying, Craig knew he must be hungry, so he picked him up and then grabbed a bottle from the diaper bag.
Spinner was the first to come over, "Craig when did you get back?"
Craig couldn't believe he was actually talking to him, "Friday, haven't you talked to Manny?"
"No, Jimmy and I were away this weekend, we only got back a little while ago. We're waiting for the girls right now, why?" wondering why he asked.
"I didn't think you would talk to me if you knew."
"I'm guessing it's pretty bad then, is it worse than the whole other girl thing?"
Shaking his head, "Ye..ah."
"So tell me," Spinner said.
"Well if you haven't noticed in front of you, I have a child with me."
"I'm not blind, so he's yours," trying to get it all straight.
"Yeah, see he's mine and the mystery girl."
"So Manny knows? Is that's why she's mad?"
"Well the other night she walked in on us making out and…"
"What? What was she doing at your house anyways, she hates you."
"It wasn't my house, it was Emma's."
Spinner had a shock look on his face, as if he didn't believe that it was true, "Are we talking about the same Emma? The Emma that's Manny's best friend."
"Yes."
"It's all making sense now, no wonder she left town, she was pregnant. Man that girl is such a prude, what made you convince her to be not loyal to Manny."
"I didn't have to convince her, she wanted to something bad, something out of character last summer."
"Yeah, but what made you cheat on Manny I thought you loved her then."
"I don't know, when I was with Emma there was this rush, this thought that we might get caught. The same reason I got with Manny in the first place. However, the longer the affair went on the more that changed, I began to really tear down these walls I've had built around me for so long. She was so easy to share myself with, I just never felt like that with Manny or Ash. They never made me feel that I could do that, they never made me feel safe, it was always about them."
"Wow, I hope for your sake, and this little one that this time it lasts."
"What's that suppose to mean?" Craig said as he began to get a little livid.
"Well if you cheated twice on two different girls, then there are chances that it may happen again," being blunt.
"No, this time that won't happen because Emma is my true love. When I'm with her, it's as if no other girl is around me. She understands what I've been through, and she doesn't make me feel like I'm this horrible person every time I mess up. She went as so far to leave me, so that I could be with Manny because that's what she believed I wanted. If that's not real love, than I don't know what is."
"Okay if you say so," he said, even though he wasn't so easily convinced.
"I thought we were friends but I guess I was wrong because the way you're treating me isn't what real friends do," he got up, put Adrian back into his stroller and headed out the door.
Craig should be surprised, that's how knew other's would reacted, but he thought if they heard his side first maybe he wouldn't be so horrible. I mean Spinner had cheered him on the first time that he had two girls.
Life as he knew is was no longer the same. How was he going to face them all at school on Monday, with them all knowing the truth? Maybe Emma had it right the first time when she went to Vancouver, staying there would have been a whole lot easier.
You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be
"So I thought I would go and see Joey to help me find out who this girl was," Manny said to Paige.
"Hun, why can't you let this go?" wondering why should wouldn't go find a new man, a better one.
"Cause I needed to know. Just let me finish the story."
"Alright."
"Well I saw his car at Mr. Simpson's so I thought that now was my chance. When I got there, Angie answered the door; she thought I was there to see Emma."
"Why would she think that, I mean Emma doesn't even live here?" Paige stated.
"I was getting to that. I was happy to hear that, I knew she would know what to do about this. So I walked down to the basement where her room is to find her down there, but to my surprise she wasn't alone, she was making out with Craig."
"What?"
"I no longer need my answer because I found it out; Emma was Craig's mystery lady."
"Oh my, who would have ever thought that?"
"That's not it."
"There's more," not knowing what else there could possibly be.
"There with them was a little baby boy. It seems that is why Emma left was because she was pregnant, and didn't want anyone to figure out that it was Craig's."
"How can someone backstab a friend, let alone a best friend?"
"I don't know, but I'm going to make sure she pays for doing it," Manny sneered.
You were everything, everything
That I wanted
We were meant to be, suppose to be
But we lost it
Craig sat at the park thinking of what had just happened. He worried about how Adrian was going to be treated in all of this. It wasn't as if it was his fault or anything.
Everything had changed from a year ago; at that time, he thought that his true love was Manny. He could have never thought how that would change.
Craig was walking down the halls of Degrassi, with a bright smile on his face. Life was going so right for him. He had everything he wanted in life, and nothing was going to change that.
Manny came walking towards Craig, "Hey sweetie, how are you doing?"
"Great now that you're here," he said biting his lower lip. Giving her that sexy look that she loved.
Wrapping her arms around him, "Oh, is that so."
"Yeah," leaning down into a kiss.
Ellie walked by, rolling her eyes, "Will you two please get a room!" She still didn't like them after what they had done to Ashley, her best friend.
"I would have to agree on this one," Spinner said as he came and joined them by his locker.
"I got to go anyways; I'll see you after school, right?" Manny asked, right before leaving.
"Yeah." Turning to Spin, "What's the matter, you jealous?"
"No, it's just not everyone wants to see you two kissing all the time."
"I can't help it; I mean I love her so much. This is the girl I want to marry, I just can't help showing her," Craig boasted.
Emma walked up to the bench that he was seated at, and sat down beside him, "I thought I would find you here."
"What made you come?" wondering what had finally made her get out of that basement, or even the house for that case.
"I realized that nothing," grabbing his hand, "I mean nothing, is more important than you and Adrian. Abandoning you two would prove that I'm no better than what all Manny has to say about me."
Smiling at her, "I'm glad to hear that because everything I've done these last few months was for you. I know none of this will be easy on either of us, but if we stick together we'll get through this."
"I guess you're right," she said leaning on his shoulder.
All of our memories so close to me
Just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
Manny was walking through the park during school; she hadn't wanted to be in school at that moment, when she saw Emma walking down the path. Now was the moment in time to show her what she thought of her, to get what she deserved.
"Oh look, it's the backstabbing, boyfriend stealing, slut," Manny sneered as she walked closer to Emma.
Emma turned around to look at her, "I'm sorry I hurt you, I never meant for it to happen. But I'm not sorry it happened because if it didn't happen then I wouldn't have my little bundle of joy."
"Oh you mean that bastard of a kid."
Pointing her finger at Manny's face, "You can say all you want about me, but you will not ever say anything bad about Adrian."
"I'll say whatever I want. Your opinion stop counting the day I found you kissing Craig. That child of yours wasn't made out of love; it was made out of Craig being unable to keep his pants on. See that's the thing about him that I've learned he will always be a cheater, he doesn't know anything else. Once he's got the girl he wants after a while he gets bored of her does a little fooling around just before breaking their heart."
"Craig's not like that he just never knew what he wanted before now, he thought it was you but he was mistaken."
"Are you sure about that, are you sure that he doesn't already have another girl," she scoffed.
"Yes because he comes home to me every night. He comes and spends time with Adrian and me. With me, he has the family he's always wanted. Unlike you, I didn't take that away from him."
Manny freaked out at the mention of her abortion, and darted at Emma, putting her hands around her throat, "You bitch! I hate you, you ruin my life."
Emma tried to free herself from Manny's grip. She dug her nails into both of Manny's arms drawing blood.
"Ahhh," Manny screamed. She let go of Emma, this time punching her in the face. "Next time you'll think twice of messing with me," Manny left leaving Emma on the ground.
Emma slowly got up; she had a hard time at first the wind had been knocked out of her. Even though she had betrayed her, she didn't think Manny had the right to go this far.
You've got your dumb friends
I know what they say
They tell you I'm difficult
But so are they
Craig walked down the halls to see the spirit squad whisper as he past by. When he looked at them, all they did was giving him a horrible look. All he could think about that there was only one class left and then he could go home to his family.
"Oh Craig don't go getting anymore girls pregnant, the last thing we need is more of you running around," Darcy shouted out.
"Oh come on Darcy we know he's liable to get another pregnant, come on this is Craig, he doesn't seem to learn anything from his mistakes. I mean he seems to keep on doing it over and over again," Paige said, laughing.
That really hit Craig, yes, he had made some mistakes in the past, and yes, they had been the same mistake over and over, but this time he knew he had really changed. When he saw other girls, he didn't have the urge to look at them, he couldn't think of anyone better than Emma. She was it for him.
But they don't know me
Do they even know you?
All the things you hide from me
All the shit that you do
Emma walked through the back door; she didn't want her mother to see her face. She didn't feel like explaining what had happened.
As soon as she got down to her room, she looked at herself in the mirror. She had bruises of handprints around her neck, and a big black eye. She was hardly able to look out her left eye it had swelled up.
She was beginning to wish that Craig and she had stayed in Vancouver so that they didn't have to deal with this crap. This wasn't what she wanted Adrian to grow up in; she didn't want him to hear all the bad things everyone had to say about her and his dad.
However, she had to let Craig finish school at least; she would buck up until then. Somehow, she would hide these bruises so that he wouldn't notice. She really didn't want him to worry.
It's nice to know that you were there
Thanks for acting like you care
And making me feel like I was the only one
Spike sat down Craig one night after Emma had went downstairs to put Adrian down for bed. "These last few weeks I've noticed a change in my daughter, something's missing."
"I know, I've noticed to," Craig replied.
"I know this whole thing with all her friends hating her is hard, but it's like it's something more that is bothering her."
"I've asked her about it, and she says that it's nothing, and then changes the subject. I just drop it because some days I just don't want to start a fight."
"Maybe I can talk to her, maybe she'll tell me something."
"I hope so because I want Emma back."
It's nice to know we had it all
Thanks for watching as I fall
And Letting me know we were done
Emma pushed Adrian down the street in his stroller, when she spotted Manny. She turned around, and began walking the other way. There was no way she wanted to be anywhere near her after last time.
However, it was too late, Manny spotted her, "Oh is poor little Emma running away," she said pretending to pout.
"Why don't you just leave us alone?" Emma said as she continued to walk along.
Walking right in front of her so that she couldn't go any further, "And why would I do that?"
"Can't you see that I have my son with me?" Emma pleaded, hoping that she would go away.
"So, you're son needs to know who you really are, not the lie that you are going to tell him."
"You're the most horrible person I know to want a child to suffer," Emma shouted.
"Hey I'm only revealing the truth," Manny taunted.
"I had enough with your bull."
Emma was the one to dart at her this time, but Manny was to strong for her, and pushes him to the ground, and goes to kick on her side her when someone yells.
"Manny stop," Craig yelled.
Manny was startled by him, and just stood still.
Running to Emma's side, "What's wrong with you?"
"She had to be taught a lesson for betraying me," Manny replied.
"Yeah this was the real mature way to act, especially with Adrian here. You've lost it Manny. I guess you can't let things go, just leave us alone for once and all." Looking down at Emma concerned, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah."
Craig grabbed her hand and helped her up. She was shaking, "Oh Hun," wrapping his hands around her, "everything's going to be okay." She just cried in his arms. "Is there something you're not telling me?"
"Remember the night you found me in bed so early, and I said I was sick, and I wouldn't even look at you?"
"Yeah," wondering what this had to do with this.
"Well I saw Manny in the park and she attacked me, choking me and giving me a black eye."
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because I didn't want to get you upset or anything. I wanted this all to go to way."
Cupping her face, glazing into her eyes, "Hun you should have told me."
"I know that now," resting her head on his chest.
