I watched the walls around me crumble But its not like I won't build them up again So here's your last chance for redemption And take it while it lasts 'cause It will end

Paige couldn't get the fact that Craig was in the same town again. Why was this happening to her? Why did life have to remind her of what she was never going to have? She finally thought things were finally going right for her, and then this had to happen.

Dylan came into Paige's room to find her staring out the window, "Paige maybe him being here is a sign that you're suppose to be together."

"No, it's just life torturing me. I mean it's like it wants me to suffer." A tear began to run down her face, "How am I supposed to move on when I know he's so close?"

Dylan felt for his sister, he came and sat down besides her, putting his arm around her, "Don't give up, I'm telling you need to go after him. If you don't you will one day regret it, and by then it will be too late."

Paige took a deep breath; she didn't want to put her wants before Craig's wants. If he was happy with Emma, she didn't want to ruin that. "I can't Dylan; I'm not going to be the selfish girl that I once was."

"Okay, I'll drop it then," knowing that deep down it was hurting her to do that.

My tears are turning into time I've wasted trying to find A reason for goodbye

Craig couldn't help but think how beautiful Paige looked when he saw her earlier. From what he saw, it seem like she had really gotten her life together here. He wondered if she still thought of him, as he thought of her from time to time. "I miss you Paige," he whispered.

"Hey Craig," Emma said as she walked through the door of their apartment, with bags in hand.

"Did you have fun with your Cousin today?"

"Yeah, but you should have come with us, she said as she sat down next to him.

"Why, you know I don't like to shop."

"Yeah, I just thought it would be nice to spend the day together since you've been working a lot lately."

"Well maybe my next day off, we can make a day of it, and have your cousin take care of Adrian."

Smiling, "Yeah that would be nice. So what did you do today?"

"Took Adrian for a walk, and actually ran into Paige. She's living here now."

In a rude tone, "Oh so this is where she took off to. I find that kind of funny that she ends up exactly where we do!" She's probably following us so that she can finish Manny's plan, she thought to herself. She didn't really trust anyone that was associated with Manny; could you really blame her?

Getting up from the couch, "What's that suppose to mean?" he exclaimed, raising his voice.

"What do you think Craig?" she sputtered.

"Come on Emma, she's nothing like Manny. So just stop with these accusations, she's not going to bother us."

"How do you know that for certain?" Remembering the awful words, that Paige used to say to her, or the looks.

"Because I got to know her pretty well. Under that front she puts up there's a lonely girl who is crying to be loved."

"I…guess not." Emma slowly came over to him, putting her arms around his waist, "Sorry."

"I love you," he said, kissing her soft lips.

Emma grabbed his hand and led him to the bedroom. She wanted to make it up to him for overreacting. However, in truths was she really overreacting in some ways? What she didn't know was that he thought about Paige from time to time?

I can't live without you Can't breathe without you I'm dreaming 'bout you Honestly tell me that it's over

Paige couldn't get the talk that she had Dylan, out of her head. Maybe he was right, maybe this was her second chance to get her love back.

She wasn't watching here she was going as she walked through the door of the coffee shop. She ran smack into the person, causing them to spill their hot coffee all over her white tank top. "Ah," she screamed, moving a few steps back. She tried to wipe a bit of the coffee off with a napkin she had in her purse.

"Sorry," Craig said, wishing he had been watching where he was going.

Paige looked over at the sound of his voice, "It seems we keep on seeing each other around," she said grinning from cheek to cheek.

"Yeah I guess we do, are you okay?" wondering if the coffee burnt her?

"Yeah, I guess I'll just have to go back home and change," walking out of the shop, with Craig hot on her tracks.

"You live around here?"

"Yeah just around the corner. So what brings you here alone?" curious to know why every time she had seen him he had been without Emma.

"I was just heading home after a day of work."

"So how's Adrian doing?" she asked as they walked down the street.

"Good, he's gotten better with speaking, but now you can't get him to stop." Pausing for a second, looking at the ground, "He asks where you are sometimes."

"I think about him too, I miss him all the time!"

Craig was hoping that she would say she missed him too!

Cause if the world is spinning And I'm still living It won't be right if we're not in it together Tell me that it's over And I'll be the first to go

They walked into her apartment to find pictures of her days in Degrassi with the old gang. As he walked into the living room right beside the couch was a picture of the two of them. His heart warmed up at the thought that she still held him close to her heart.

Snap out of it, Craig yelled at himself. You can't think this way; you have Emma whom you love. However, is that love like it once was, he thought, or was it tainted when she didn't tell him about her fake death?

Paige came out of her room wearing a yellow strapless shirt, and a short pleaded blue skirt. Craig's eyes just stared at her. She looked hot, he thought. And he couldn't help but think she had a great body, especially her legs.

Paige noticed the look of lust in Craig's eyes. She began to bite her lower lip in delight. She was overjoyed because this meant she might still have a chance with him.

When he saw her biting her lip, making his hormones run wild. Why was this happening to him? He couldn't take it any longer; he scooped Paige into his arms, crushing his lips against hers. Sparks through their bodies as they continued kissing. Paige lightly bit Craig's upper lip, causing him to moan. Craig pushed her up against the closes wall, and began to trail kisses down her neck, sending chills down her spine.

Paige knew this was wrong when he was still with Emma, but she couldn't help how she felt, or how her body melted at his very touch. She had wanted this for so long.

Craig had one hand pining Paige's hand against the wall, and the other began to exploring her body, slowly moving up her skirt, up and down her inner thigh. He needed more control, he let go of her other hand, and lifted her by her butt.

She wrapped her legs around his waist tightly so he could get closer to him. She began to suck on his ear lobe. He couldn't take it any longer; it was as if she had a spell over him, "Paige I need you," he managed to spurt out.

"Me too!" she moaned.

Craig began to help her pull up her shirt when he returned to reality. His conscious began to kick in. He put Paige down, "I can't do this, it's wrong. I don't want to be known as a cheater," he said as he walked to the door.

"Fine walk away from something that's real. You know you feel it," she yelled, angry with him, angry with herself for being caught up in it too.

He couldn't listen to this he had to go. He just slammed the door, and left fore home.

Don't want to be the last to know I won't be the one to chase you But at the same time you're the heart That I call home

Craig walks through the door of his home to find Emma sitting on the floor of the living room, playing with Adrian. She looked so happy; he didn't want to wreck that by telling her of his indiscretions. It was nothing more than kissing, so why bring it up.

"Hey you two," he said putting up a fake frontage.

Emma stood up, "Hey," leaning up for a kiss.

Craig's stomach began to feel awful. He felt so guilty, especially since he enjoyed it so much, and in some ways wished it never ended. This was horrible; he had a family to think about, a family that he had fought to get back in the first place.

Em noticed that Craig seemed to be distracted, "Craig what's the matter?"

Slumping onto the couch, "I just had a horrible day at work," he lied. He couldn't even look into her eyes as he said that. He felt worse than he did when he cheated on Manny, because he actually loved Emma, and never wanted to do anything to hurt her.

"Tell me about it," wanting to know what had gotten him into this mood.

"I don't want to talk about it," trying to avoid it, because he knew he probably end up spilling his guts if he did.

"Come in Craig, it might help if you talk about it," worried a little, she hadn't seen him so distraught in a long time.

"I…"

"Daddy," Adrian said, as he began to climb onto his lap.

Craig was relieved that he got out of that without having to make up more lies, "Hey How's my boy?"

Adrian said nothing; he just put his arms around his dad, embracing him.

I'm always stuck with these emotions And the more I try to feel The less I'm whole My tears are turning into time I've wasted trying to find A reason for goodbye

"Come on pick up," Paige said to the phone as it rung.

"Hello," Marco answered.

"Is Dylan there?"

"Who may I ask is speaking?" knowing that Dylan didn't want to talk to his parents at the moment since they had some fight.

"His sister, Paige," annoyed that they felt the need to ask who it was.

Marco was amazed; he hadn't talk to her forever, well at least since high school. Strange you know, since he was dating her brother. "Hey how's it going?"

Paige felt dumb, she hadn't even recognized his voice, "Not good Marco, not good."

"Anything I can do to help?"

He didn't want anyone knowing this. She couldn't bare if people knew that she helped Craig cheat on Emma, especially after what she had put her through for the same thing. "No, only Dylan can help out on this one."

"Alright, just a sec." In the background, you could hear him call out Dylan's name.

"Hey sis, what can I do for you?"

"I saw Craig today."

"How was it?"

"Interesting!" that's the only word that she could think of to explain it.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well I came out and I saw he liked what he saw, before I knew it we were kissing."

"So what's the problem?" not seeing what could be so wrong with that.

"First he wants to have sex with me, and the next moment he's saying it's all a mistake."

Dylan was finally getting the picture, "Oh Paige, I'm so sorry."

"It's just not fair. I love him and I know he feels something deep for me, and yet we're not together."

"I bet within time he will realize that he's made a mistake and come back to you."

"How can you be so sure?"

"Because I saw how he looked at you the day we saw him in Vancouver."

"Really!" not so sure herself.

"I'm sure."

I can't live without you Can't breathe without you I'm dreaming 'bout you Honestly tell me that it's over

Craig just sat on the deck, gazing at the stars. It was a beautiful night. It had been a week since the incident. He tried to avoid going too close to her place, but that didn't stop him from thinking of her, and that kiss.

What was he doing with Emma, is she wasn't where his heart truly lies anymore. He wished it wasn't so, but it was reality.

He slowly rose from his chair and went inside where she was sitting, reading a book, and sat on the couch. "Could we talk?"

"Sure what about?"

"Us," he said softly.

That put a smile on her face, maybe he wanted them to get married sooner, she thought.

This was really hard thing for him to do, and he wishes he could avoid it. "I've been really analyzing our relationship a lot lately."

She was suddenly confused, "Why?"

"Because I just feel things haven't been the same since you came back."

This didn't sound good, that smile that once on her face was wiped off. "What do you mean?"

"Em, what we had was great and I thought that it would last forever. Then you vanished from my life."

"But you came back to me after that," she exclaimed.

"I know, I thought that nothing could change between us but the truth is I didn't really understand how you could leave without telling me, through that time away I changed, I'm not the same guy that I once was."

"But I love you," she cried, grabbing a hold of his hand.

"I love you too! I use to pray that you would come back to me when you were gone. I thought it would be perfect, and that we would sail off into the sunset. Life's not perfect, and we don't always have things turn out the way we want them to."

"Isn't there anything I can do?" she begged.

"Not unless you can turn back time," he smiled slightly, as tears ran down both of their faces. Breaking up never seemed so hard before this.

"I guess I should have seen this coming, since lately I have felt you drift away."

"I'm so sorry, I never meant for this to happen."

"Go, just go," she whimpered. She needed to be alone. All she could think of how all she been through had been for nothing.

Craig left just as she had requested. He only hoped that they could be friends, for Adrian's sake.

Cause if the world is spinning And I'm still living It won't be right if we're not in it together Tell me that it's over And I'll be the first to go

Paige was sitting on her deck when she heard a knock at her door. She didn't know who it could be she was expecting anyone.

She barely had the door open before Craig wisped her into his arms, and kissed her.

Paige was surprised; she just went with it, yet again. She had to stop him; she couldn't handle it if he was playing with her again, "What does this mean?"

Craig gazed into her eyes, "I'm yours, I'm here to stay."

"What?" surprised; was she dreaming again?

"Yeah, I broke it off with Emma; we're the same two people who were once in love with each other."

Paige beamed with ecstasy, "I can't believe this; I mean I've dreamt about this forever." Putting her hands on his face, bringing his face in for a kiss, "I love you."

Taking a hold of her hands, "I love you too!" he led her to her bedroom. This time he would make love to her and nothing would stop him. Tonight he would show her how he has been feeling since they got together a year ago.

Don't want to be the last to know Don't tell me that it's over Don't tell me that it's over

The End