A/N: READ THIS OR YOU WILL UNDERSTAND NOTHING!!!! LOL Craig and Ashley have a sixteen year old daughter named Alexia who is a junior and friends with Lindsay and Andrew!!! okay now on with the story......enjoy
"God dammit Ellie! Can't you do anything right?"
"Don't cuss! We have kids in this house!"
"I don't care. I'm going to work now and I'll be home late."
Lindsay groaned. Great, yet another start to the day with her parents fighting. She couldn't wait until she was out of there.
"Are mom and dad going to break up?" her fourteen year old sister Stacey asked standing in front of the bed.
"What? Of course not" she said not sure who she was really convincing.
"Lindsay?" her younger brother Tucker asked.
"Yeah?"
"Why do mom and dad fight so much?"
"I don't know"
"They shouldn't be married" Stacey said.
"Don't say that!" Lindsay scolded.
"Fine"
"Come on. Let's get ready for the first day of school!" Lindsay said trying to cheer everyone up.
Andrew Mason walked up the steps of Degrassi High for the start of his junior year of high school. He looked for his girlfriend, Lindsay Cameron. He saw her at her locker.
"Hey sweetie" he said wrapping his arms around her waist.
"Oh, hey Andrew" she said not even looking at him.
"What's wrong?" Andrew asked.
"My parents. The usual."
"I'm sorry. I'm sure they'll stop soon"
"How can you say that? You're not psychic are you?" she asked sarcastically rolling her eyes.
"Hey! Don't get mad at me for trying to make you feel better" he said looking hurt.
"I'm sorry. Really I am" she said hugging him.
"It's okay. I over reacted"
"No, I did"
"Hey Lindsay and Andrew!" someone greeted them. It was Ryan Yorke. He was the son of their parents' friends'.
"Hey Ryan" Andrew replied.
"Are you excited for your freshman year?" Lindsay asked.
"Yeah. Where's Stacey?" he asked referring to Lindsay's sister.
"I don't know sorry"
"That's okay. Bye"
"Bye!" Andrew and Lindsay said in unison.
"Hey love-birds" their friend Alexia Manning said smiling as she walked up to them.
"Hey Alexia" Lindsay and Andrew said in unison, holding hands.
"Oh how your cuteness overwhelms me" Alexia said rolling her eyes.
"Whatever. I have to go find Mike" Andrew said referring to his best friend.
"Bye" Lindsay and Alexia said (not in unison).
"Ready for junior year?" Lindsay asked Alexia.
"You've said that every year!" Alexia said laughing.
"Meanie" Lindsay teased.
"Oh my gosh! There's Randy, he has gotten so so much hotter since last year hasn't he?" Alexia gushed.
"He might have heard you" Lindsay informed her friend.
"Good" Alexia responded smiling.
"Sometimes I can't believe you" Lindsay said shaking her head.
"Well I'm sorry. I'm cute, he's hot! Why doesn't he just ask me out already? Alexia groaned.
"I can think of a million reasons" Lindsay responded seriously before walking away.
"Hey Stacey!" Melissa Brooks called after one of her good friends.
"Oh my gosh! Hey mel mel! Is Nicole here yet?" Stacey Cameron exclaimed hugging her friend.
"Hey I'm right here" a voice called behind them.
The three girls hugged and chatted away about their summer.
"Hey girls" their friend Ryan Yorke said walking up to them.
"Ryan! Your hair! It looks so....." Nicole started to say trying not to laugh.
"...long" Melissa finished for her laughing.
"Alexia! Hey!" Lindsay called after Alexia a few hours later.
"Guess what? He asked me out" Alexia said turning around and giving Lindsay a rude look.
"Randy?"
"Yeah. You know what, you were wrong. You're always wrong. Also it seems like every time I hang out with other people you get mad. Sometimes I want to hang out with people who like to have fun and those people are Randy and his friends" Alexia said before turning around and walking off.
"Alexia wait!" Lindsay said running after her friend.
"What does hanging out with other people have to do with Randy?"
"Last year I hung out with them remember? You got mad" Alexia explained.
"Oh so we can't be friends?"
"Lunch is about to start. I have to go meet my friends"
"Hey Alexia!" a voice called. It was Miranda Clifton one of the "popular" girls.
"Coming!" Alexia called back cheerfully giving Lindsay one last glance before walking with Miranda.
"Hey Stacey?" Ryan asked.
"Yeah?"
"Can I ask you something?"
"Anything"
"Remember when we were ten and we were watching a movie and the boy and the girl kissed? Well we promised each other we'd be each other's first kiss. Remember that?" he asked hopefully.
"I remember" she said nervously hoping he wasn't asking her out.
"Will you go out with me?" he asked leaning in.
"I- I. Well, um you see, is that Nicole calling me? I think it is" Stacey said nervously getting up and walking away.
Ellie was setting the table for dinner looking at Sean's chair. He was supposed to be home by now. This was the tenth time in two weeks he had been late. On top of that he wouldn't stop picking fights with her.
"Where's dad?" Tucker asked.
"Actually I don't know" Ellie answered forcing a half-smile. She was through with lying to her own children for her "husband". He'd lied before and he wasn't getting away with it again.
"What's for dinner?" Brandon asked bouncing a basketball.
"Chicken and salad. For the tenth time stop bouncing that ball in this house!" Ellie exclaimed as the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it" Lindsay shouted from some place in the house.
"Oh my goodness Ellie hun, I am so sorry!" Paige Michaelchuck exclaimed
"What is it?" Ellie asked.
"Well I don't know if I can say it in front of the kids" Paige whispered.
"Go to your rooms" Ellie told her sons and daughter.
"But mooooom" Tucker whined.
"Now!" Ellie ordered.
"What happened?" Ellie asked sitting down.
"Ashley and I. Well, we saw Sean with another woman and he was hugging her and kissing her. They looked comfortable" Paige quietly.
Ellie just shook her head and said I knew it I knew it over and over again. Paige hugged her as she cried.